[Images found in our living room. Día de los Muertos archive here. ]
Día de los Muertos
[Images found in our living room. Día de los Muertos archive here. ]
Tag: art
Saturday Matinee Halloween Edition – The Ramones, Sally Cruikshank & Oingo Boingo
First recorded in 1976, The Ramones‘ I Don’t Wanna Go Down To The Basement is sort of appropriate.
Sally Cruikshank‘s animations are Betty Boop on acid.
Face like a Frog (1987) includes the Cab Calloway-esque song Don’t Go In The Basement (starts at 02:26 ). In 2017, Cruikshank herself added this to the YouTube comments:
“Danny Elfman composed the track for this film. Period. Copyright mine. Then a year or two later I gave his agents permission to include it on a compilation LP, I guess put out by [David] Geffen. Now they claim I got the music from the album or something. They’re wrong. My film came first. My husband’s going to get into it with Geffen.”
“I don’t always listen to Dead Man’s Party, but when I do so do the neighbors.” – YouTube comment
Oingo Boingo was a standout band of the 1980s, combining ska, punk, jazz & rock, and Dead Man’s Party became a Halloween party standard. According to Wikipedia:
The lyric, “I hear the chauffeur coming to my door / Says there’s room for maybe just one more,” is a reference to “The Bus-Conductor,” a short story by E. F. Benson about a hearse driver, first published in The Pall Mall Magazine in 1906.
Video is from the 1986 movie Back To School. Yeah, 34 years ago…
Happy Halloween, folks!
This year I’m gonna scare half the neighborhood by NOT wearing a mask. Hope you get all the tricks you deserve and all the treats that you don’t.
[Paranoia moons previously posted here. More Halloween-related posts in the archives.]
The .Gif Friday Post No. 656 – Smiley Fireus & The Ska-letones
[Flaming emoji found here. Don’t remember where I found the other guys.]
Siats Meekerorum
Humuhumunukunukuapua’a Hot Links
Hapa Haole Hula Girl (My Honolulu Hula Girl), Alfred Apaka with Danny Stewart’s Hawaiians (1951) Decca Records“Alfred Aloha Apaka (1919–1960) was one of the influential performers in the history of Hawaii’s popular music. Although he recorded for less than a decade, Apaka set the standards for modern Hawaiian music with his joyful, baritone vocals and highly entertaining performances.” (BTW, “hapa haole” doesn’t translate to “Honolulu,” and is also a style of music.)
NASA/NOAA prevented Global Cooling.
Binaural beats are considered auditory illusions.
“This is the best game of hide-and-seek ever.” [via]
Kiddie board games imagined as horror flicks. [h/t Nate L.]
Escaping through a predator’s butt can be a lifesaver [via].
[Top image: artwork by Derek Yaniger.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
Let’s Meat In The Park.
My WebEx Meeting Notes – August & September 2020
Pen on paper, 8-1/2 x 11, 6.25 square inches per meeting.
Business has slowed down for the folks I’ve been doing consulting work for and so has my participation in the daily phone convos. In fact, I’m looking for work, or some semblance of a cash flow. Other things are in the mix, and one of these days I might post about them. Or not.
Hopefully the ‘vid mongers stop this shut down insanity soon, but the big money is still skittish. The election poses more uncertainty, not so much for the outcome, but for the probability of more violent mayhem caused by the unshackled terrorists and a cesspool of governors and congressmen who sold their souls a long time ago.
Guess we wait and see…
[Previous WebEx meeting notes here.]
What to do with a degree in philosophy.
Nothing Much Happened Today.
[Found here.]
Tacky Raccoons 