Audio / Video / Other Media

You know, a few years before I started doing the current incarnation of this Halloween section of my site, I did a Halloween section at my old site. I don't remember too much about it, except that I think it had several "rooms," and one of them must've had some Real Audio to listen to. Of course, the one thing that's the same then as now is that Repsacton the ghost was the guide through my little "haunted house." Or whatever it was. But anyway, now I'm thinking I should do a page on this newer site with some music (mp3s nowadays) and some video or whatever other sort of audio/visual fun I can think of....

Audio

Well let's see, some of the music I include here will be familiar and will make sense to you to find on a Halloween page. Let me talk about some other things. You may not know the Flash Girls, but they're awesome, and I think a song about a banshee is sort of Halloweeny, don't you? "Cry Little Sister" is of course from the vampire movie The Lost Boys. Not sure how Halloweeny "Moondance" is, but I think it's nice and Autumny, at the very least. "Youkai Sesshomaru" is an instrumental theme for the character Sesshomaru from the anime InuYasha. I think it's rather creepy. Also I'm adding "Bad Things," which is the theme song to the vampire show True Blood, and also sounds a bit dark, to me. And there's "Don't Blame the Moon" by Io Perry, which was used in an episode of Frankenhole, the ep being about a werewolf. Other than that, I think my choices are reasonably obvious.... If you'd like me to include any other songs here, please let me know.

As for the player I'm using, it's some code I found somewhere, and the first year I used it (2007, I guess), it was embedded in this here page, but I always wanted to find a pop-up player, so you could leave this page while still listening to the music. Well, I didn't find anything. And then in 2008, I did some more searching, and couldn't find anything I liked (at least nothing free), but it occurred to me to just use the code I started using last year, but put it on a separate page, and pop that up in a new window. Not the most elegant or attractive option, but it's simple, and it works. Maybe someday I'll get a real pop-up player, but for now, at least this is a step up from what I had here before....

Launch Player

Video

Update: 2010. A great many of the videos I had embedded here seem to be gone from YouTube, now. So I'm deleting the links. I had one for "Graveyard Jamboree" which is gone, and one Betty Boop cartoon which had a song that inspired that video. The Betty Boop one isn't gone yet, but without the other, I don't feel like keeping it, so I'm removing it from this page, myself. Then there was an AMV I made myself in 2006, using video from Avatar: The Last Airbender, set to "Bela Lugosi's Dead" by Bauhaus. That's not on YouTube, so it's still available, and of course I'm keeping it here. Because it's mine, dammit. (Copyright infringement be damned, it's mine. I made it.)

Free Video Hosting

More vids that have disappeared that I used to have here include "Heffalumps and Woozles," from Winnie the Pooh, "Day-O" by Harry Belafonte, "The Time Warp" from both Rocky Horror Picture Show and The Drew Carey Show, "Walking on Air" by Kerli, and "Horny in a Hearse" by Nekromantix. There was one of Vincent Price reading Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven," but when I checked in 2011, it was gone. I added a video of "The TIme Warp" from an episode of "Glee" in 2010, but when I checked in 2011, it was gone too. (I'd been thinking of adding a different video from Glee in 2011, even though it came from last season, but since the one I did add last year is gone, I won't even bother looking for the other one.)

So, there are just a few old vids still remaining, including Tim Burton's short film "Vincent" (narrated by Vincent Price), "I'm Your Boogie Man" by White Zombie, and an old Donald Duck cartoon. The latter was a link IM'd to me by a friend one year, so if anyone else wants to suggest vids for me to include here, please feel free to e-mail me.

Okay, so what else is there? You could read my Halloween TV movie reviews, I mention that alot in my Journal though. Also my scary movie reviews. You could read a comic I made at stripcretor.com in 2004. There's a link to that on the Halloween links page, under "Reading." (In fact, anything under that heading should be reasonably entertaining, and could just as easily be listed here, but whatever. Go. Click. Read. Enjoy.) Oh, and speaking of comics, in 2006 I posted a "Boondocks" comic in my Journal. I might as well stick that here, too, along with a "Tastes Like Chicken" comic from 2008. Also from 2008, I've added a picture a friend e-mailed of jack-o-lanterns, and a "Full Frontal Nerdity" comic. In 2009, another "Tastes Like Chicken" comic:

While I'm at it, maybe I'll just go ahead and take a couple "things I've written" off the front page ans stick links to them here, instead.

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year is a song parody I wrote some years ago.
The One That Won't Slow You Down is a story I wrote a long time ago, featuring one of my alternate "personalities," D'Ward von Helsing.