Listening to: Swinging Wake

From The Haunted Mansion ride.  A short little instrumental motif to the tune of Grim Grinning Ghosts. YouTube incorrectly credits Xavier Atencio as the artist, but he was the lyricist to G.G.G.  Buddy Baker was the composer for the ride's score (this song included).

Listen below

Playful Pumpkin Girl

By @si_ot_drawing

Listening to: Nightlife

By Street Cleaner. I first heard this song back in 2019 at Halloween Horror Nights, and now will forever associate it with retro horror vibes!

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UPDATE: New Job!

You'll have to forgive my absence from the blog the past couple weeks. I've been very busy with my new job! 

I've been hired on as an artistic fabricator with a fabrication company in Orlando. I can't share the name of which one I work for due to privacy and non-disclosure concerns.  They are one of several companies that offer scenery and prop fabrication for some big names in the themed entertainment industry. Those companies provide designs and we're the ones that build it!

We're currently tied up with several big projects that I can't talk about, but I'm hoping we are able to do some work regarding a certain unnamed large-scale Halloween event in Orlando (*wink wink*).  My company has made things for it in previous years, so fingers crossed.  All in all, I'm super excited to be working for them. I plan on working with them for at least a year, but could be longer (or shorter). 

Unfortunately, working here poses some problems for my own personal projects, namely my yearly yard haunt. This job is currently requiring most of my time throughout the week, and it is exhausting. To get an idea of just how exhausting and time consuming it's been, this is the third day in a row I've tried to write this post because I keep passing out as soon as I get home. 

I definitely have plans for this year's haunt, but it will be a week or two before I can confidently say whether or not I'm going to execute on those plans.  I'll be sure to give an update then.

Send those Halloween vibes my way.  Fingers crossed for a 2023 yard haunt!

A Ghostly Memory

Picture by @12monthsofoctober. The kind of picture that gets me through the dog days of Summer. 

New Original Song: Mile-long Reminder

For best listening experience:  Get drunk. Real drunk. 

Put on your coat and stumble out of your house at dusk.  Look up at the darkening sky, and start walking.  Let your inebriated mind guide your thoughts (and your feet).  Think about the past, even though you know you shouldn't.  Walk until you don't recognize the houses, and then walk a little more. Realize it's getting late, and you should probably head back. Stumble inside and head to the kitchen.  Pour yourself one more drink.  Whiskey, most likely.  Sip and remember, then sip until you forget...

At 20 minutes, it's a much longer track than I normally make, but I wanted to make something pensive and melancholic that you can get lost in.  I think I achieved that effect just fine.

Click below to listen on YouTube:

Listening to: The Facility

By Simon Stålenhag. Music for his art book The Labyrinth.

Click below to listen - (Fixed the link!)

Art by Simon Stålenhag

Halfway to Halloween

May 1st means we're over the hump!  Better get cracking on those Halloween plans, it won't be long now... 

Give a comment if you'd like to share some projects you've already started, I'd love to hear about them!

Here's some fun art by @joekeinberger_art. I'd like to imagine this fella as a Halloween hobo, just passin' through on his way to October Country.