Year: 1992
Original Format: cassette
This blog is now 1 year old, having launched last Halloween with Fear of a Black Cat. Of all the goofy little projects I do this is probably the most pure fun, and also the least-viewed, with four regular readers that I know of. Hi, Bob. Hi, Christian. Hi, Jim. Hi, Sam. Happy Halloween!
Continue reading “Children of the Night, Side B”
Year: 1992
Original Format: cassette
28 years ago tonight, Halloween Eve 1992, I was driving around leaving copies of this tape on my friends’ doorsteps. Now all I have to do is click this here Publish button, and whoosh, out it goes to the world at large. Is that better? Well, it’s easier, anyway.
Continue reading “Children of the Night, Side A”
Year: 2019
Original Format: MP3
“The cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see. He is the soul of antique Aegyptus, and bearer of tales from forgotten cities in Meroë and Ophir. He is the kin of the jungle’s lords, and heir to the secrets of hoary and sinister Africa. The Sphinx is his cousin, and he speaks her language; but he is more ancient than the Sphinx, and remembers that which she hath forgotten.”
–H.P. Lovecraft, “The Cats of Ulthar,” 1920
Playlist after the jump.
Year: 2019
Original Format: MP3
Because they are attached to an actual date in the real world, Halloween mixes always end up being a mad scramble. But in a fun way. One year I went so far as to drive around late on the 30th delivering cassettes to people’s doorsteps.
This year I decided, for no particular reason, to pretend I was making an old-school mixtape — two sides, no more than 45 minutes each. Here’s Side 1. Playlist after the jump.