I came from a Halloween-friendly home. My dad, Spencer, was a U.S. Marine captain. But when it came to Halloween, my dad had a soft spot. He would take his three sons and friends on escapades on Halloween night.

The program is Jazz and Contemporary Music and the studio is designed with that in mind, ... It stays very busy. It's an ant bed as soon as school starts.

We've gotten a lot better over the last week or 10 days,

We have a lot of sophomores and some of them stepped up in that game.

We lost three seniors from last year's squad and we've got a good nucleus back.

My family was very Halloween-friendly, for all of the religion and whatever was going on.

When I grew up, there was still black and white TV. I was told to never get out of bed once you're put to bed. I'd sneak down the hallway, try to avoid the creaking floor boards and go in and watch the 'Midnight Movie.'

I come from a line of railroad men. My great-grandfather was a surveyor for the Burlington Railroad.

My grandfather and dad worked at General American Transportation Corp. in Chicago, a company that made tank cars and freight cars. We had a pragmatic, Republican, manufacturing, Illinois consciousness as far as employment went.

They're pretty extreme, but I loved the two 'Human Centipede' films from Tom Six. Those movies are fun because they're well-made. They're crazy and psychotic and perverted and twisted, but they're really well-made.