I can't help myself. Thanks to the magic of the iTunes shuffle mode, I heard the tune "Dead Man's Party" last night. On a whim, I downloaded the whole album to my iPod. Since then, I've had a combination of "Dead Man's Party," "No One Lives Forever," and "Weird Science" running around in my head for the past 24 hours.

I first became familiar with this cd during my stint in Columbus where an importunate co-worker force-fed the shop a steady diet of 80's New Wave music. This cd was on a more or less continuous loop during Halloween.

Seriously, the saxophone riff from "No One Lives Forever" has been a particularly nasty earworm today. Since I'm already hooked, I'm temporarily giving my ears over to the genius of Danny Elfman by putting this one into heavy rotation.