Return Of...Well, Me

After a few weeks away, here are the usual memes again. -M
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Part I: Friday's Feast
Friday's Feast for Friday, 26 October 2007:

Appetizer Name a great website you would recommend to others.
I Can Has Cheezburger? Silly stuff, always good for a laugh. There are some really creative (and/or warped) people out there.

Soup On a scale of 1-10 (with 10 as highest), how often do you dream at night?
It varies from time to time, but recently, I've been dreaming more nights than not. So I'll say around 7.

Salad Did you have a pet as a child? If so, what kind and what was its name?
I had a black lab named Manfred, named after Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog from the Captain Kangaroo show.

Obviously, my Manfred looked nothing like the one from the show.
She died when we were both 14. It was pretty traumatic at the time, but we had one of her puppies (Flop) for many years after that.

Main Course If you had the chance to star in a commercial, what would you choose to advertise?
There's already way too much advertising in the world; I wouldn't want any part of making more of it if I could help it. Sorry.
Edit: Lord Mhoram makes a good point. I'd be okay doing an ad for Firefox. And since it would likely decrease the number of people using Microsoft's Internet Exploder, you might even consider it a Public Service Announcement. :)

Dessert What is your favorite kind of hard candy?
Breath Savers Vanilla Mints. They've been notoriously hard to find, of late.

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Part II: Top 5 On Friday
Top 5 On Friday - Week 147 from The Music Memoirs:

Top 5 non-typical songs that get you into the Halloween spirit.
(In other words, no "Monster Mash".)

» "Moon Over Bourbon Street" by Sting (from the album The Dream of the Blue Turtles)
Sting's take on the archetypical Reluctant Vampire story makes for good Halloween listening.

» "Frankenstein Unbound" by Lana Lane (from the album Queen of the Ocean)
Pretty obvious on this one, I guess.

» "Home By the Sea" by Genesis (from the album Genesis)
A ghost story set to music, the mood is reinforced by the instrumental "Second Home By the Sea" that immediately follows.

» "Desperation Samba" by Jimmy Buffett (from the album Last Mango in Paris)
Subtitled "Halloween in Tijuana", it tells of a mysterious night in Mexico. Fun music for an All Hallows' Eve party.

» "Limbo" by Rush (From the album Test for Echo)
It opens with clanking chains and a bubbling cauldron, it just has kind of a spooky mood to it. Plus, if you listen really closely at the 2:53 mark, you can hear the faint words, "What ever happened to my Transylvania Twist?"