Category: Halloween

Moschiferous Hot Links

Graveyard Queen, Zombie Ghost Train (2006)
Also known as ZGT, their music is categorized as gothabilly and/or hellbilly. One reviewer called them”Australia’s best kept secret. . . These mortuary musicians are the best thing psychobilly has seen since The Cramps.”

Spaceballs.

George Carl.

Camperocity.

Grip the Raven.

Jonco’s Journal.

Prove that T = H.

Trotify your bike.

Hollywood Canteen.

 The corpse in the well.

Norty Blues Episode 87.

Obnoxious Bicyclist Part I.
Obnoxious Bicyclist Part II.

Look behind you [via IDHMGO].

Play with a spherical Voroni diagram.

Dog’s favorite chew toy comes to life.

Phone theft deterrent [via Bunkerville].

Rearranged junkyards [via Memo Of The Air].

This City Eats People Alive [via Feral Irishman].

Shark spotted in Mexican floodwaters [via Mme. Jujujive].

[Top image found here.]

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Saturday Matinee Pre-Halloween Edition – The Interrupters, Messer Chups, The Creepshow & Tom Waits

The Interrupters: Aimee Interrupter & the Bivona brothers sing an ode to a poor bony soul.

From St. Petersburg, Russia,  Messer Chups is listed under vampire space zombie surf rock. “Messer” is German for “knife” and “Chups” is from Chupa Chups lollipops.

The Creepshow has been blasting psychopunkabilly for a while. Zombies Ate Her Brain was from their debut album, Sell Your Soul (2006).

Who needs Halloween music when you got Tom Waits with his Olds 88 and the devil on a leash.

Been a busy week taking care of busy-ness and dodging busybodies. Tomorrow we’ll porch. See you at the crack of noon.

Fremescent Hot Links

Here Comes Mary, The Raveonettes (2005)
The ghosts of Don and Phil Everly echo from the velvet basement of the haunted mansion.

Exrayna.

Noodlin’.

Wheelson.

Leah’s oils.

Hello ‘Ween!

Conker cheater.

Speed yodelling.

Conflicted  toads.

Everything is fine.

How to dance Goth.

A bone-chilling uptick.

Norty Blues Episode 86.

Beware the Ankle Biters.

Birdbreath [via Bunkerville}.

Reviewing The Replacements.

Spontaneous synchronization.

The Grateful [via Mme. Jujujive].

Ed and Ralph do the Hucklebuck.

Pigeonhead [via Memo Of The Air].

2024 Kids Mullet Contest finalists.

Sonny Boy tells his story (and it’s true).

The Horror of Hanson (and the town’s reponse).

[Top image found here.]

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Hand Car Wash

11514 Ventura Blvd., Studio City CA.

[Top image found here; more impressive than Google Maps street view.]

¡Feliz Día de Los Muertos!

Día de Los Muertos, Merengue Urbano (2021)

[Skulls found in our living room and on the front door stoop.
Día de los Muertos archive here. ]

Halloween – Best Of Show

[Images found scattered across the internest.]

Halloween in the UK 1930s

“An early reference to wearing costumes at Halloween comes from Scotland in 1585, but they may pre-date this. […] By the 1930s costumes based on characters in mass media such as film, literature, and radio were popular.”

[Images are from the UK Mirror, October 2017.]

Habilatory Hot Links

Do The Zombie, M.R. Baseman & The Symbols (1963) This song was the B-side of a 45rpm recorded on the Graphic Arts label, the A-side being a cover of the Devotions’ Rip Van Winkel, recorded by “Marty & The Symbols.” Very little is known about this group except they may have been from Astoria, Queens, NY. No relation to the 1960s UK pop band The Symbols.

Blorp.

Meow.

Retroman.

Honest Jaws.

Camper World.

Erasing US History.

Yabba Dabba Duplex?

Dancing with Michael.

Hating the Monstermash.

The original version is the best.

Izuna Fair [via Memo Of The Air].

Mr. Bone’s Pizza [via Mme. Jujujive].

The Earth is leaking [via Bunkerville].

The Book of Hallowe’en Ruth Edna Kelley (1919)
[also via Memo Of The Air].

Frankencamper [via The View From Lady Lake].

Cool but impractical shelter [via Feral Irishman].

Tired of the lies? Here’s The True Story of Hushpuppies.

[Top image: Detail from The Reward of Cruelty, William Hogarth (1751) found here.]

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Saturday Matinee – The Creepshow, Messer Chups, Paulie Martin & Blues Confidential, and The Reverend Horton Heat

The Creepshow has been blasting psychopunkabilly for a while. Zombies Ate Her Brain was from their debut album, Sell Your Soul (2006).

From St. Petersburg, Russia,  Messer Chups is listed under vampire space zombie surf rock. “Messer” is German for “knife” and “Chups” is from Chupa Chups lollipops.

Decent cover of Freddie King‘s classic Boogie Man performed by Paulie Martin & Blues Confidential of Ireland. According to the band’s website, Martin has moved on to other ventures..

Gretchmaster The Reverend Horton Heat has a tailgater to deal with.

Just a few days to go before the little spooky ones come a-knockin’.  We had maybe a half dozen last year, and that includes the one who showed up twice. In any case, pumpkin vivisection is scheduled for Monday.

See you tomorrow, you know where to find me.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 825 – Mechanical Dracula, Bony Peeper, Octo Creepo & Boop’s Jack o’ Lanterns

[Found here, here, here and here. Dracula h/t Gord S.]