A companion to your spooky playlist of issue four
You’ve never experienced a true early-2000s Canadian Halloween until you’ve known the anguish of having to wear your snowsuit over your costume. Even if you were lucky and your costume fit over your winter coat and snow pants, it just wasn’t the same. After a long day at school doing The Monster Mash and drinking that weird orange flavoured elixir out of a McDonald‘s cup at the school dance, you would come home already hopped up on Smarties and Coffee Crisp. You’d go out into the streets with your flashing pumpkin safety pin hoping to score full-sized chocolate bars, and you’d come back with a dollar store ghost sack full of yummy treats. Sure, every once in a while you’d find a house that was handing out toothbrushes and getting a good giggle out of it; and sure, sometimes you’d gets cans of pop (or worse: bottles of water) in your candy bag from a poor neighbour underprepared for the volume of kids; but your hard work knocking on doors and saying, “trick or treat” over and over again (as if your neighbours didn’t know why you were there) finally paid off when you could watch Zach and Cody’s “The Ghost of Suite 613” episode, eating Mars bars to your heart’s content… or at least until you fell asleep and your dad turned on Friday The 13th. This playlist completely encapsulates those good, spooky, nostalgic childhood vibes.
