A Nightmare on My Street!
Just a quickie for tonight! Here’s the long-thought-lost music video for A Nightmare on My Street, by DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince:
I’m sure I’ve run this before, but it deserves all the love it can get. The video was shockingly unearthed last year and, IMO, it lives up to all those years of hype.
Love this song, and so glad we finally have the legit music video to go along with it! The track has quite a history, too — here’s its Wikipedia entry if you wanna brush up!
The Elvira Show!
Our own Brew Berry reminded me that today is Elvira’s birthday! (Well, yesterday was, depending on when you read this.)
He suggested that I run this in celebration. Here’s the unaired pilot of The Elvira Show, from 1993. HOW have I never seen this?
Description, from YouTube: “CBS filmed a pilot for The Elvira Show hot off the heels of the movie, ‘Elvira, Mistress of the Dark’ — though the show’s plot has nothing to do with the movie. I was lucky enough to actually be at the taping of this pilot. The show starred Cassandra Peterson as Elvira and Katherine Helmond as Aunt Minerva. The writing is witty, and full of innuendoes and one-liners that are so bad they are great! Too bad it was never picked up.”
Wait, so it’s Elvira AND MONA?! Count me in. Happy birthday, Cass!
Disney’s Haunted Halloween!
Boy, I almost hate to “waste” this video on a Monday night when fewer people are around, but I can’t help myself. It’s too good:
Here’s Disney’s Haunted Halloween, an educational short from 1983. It’s dynamite.
Description, courtesy of the uploader: “Disney’s Haunted Halloween is a 1983 Disney educational animated short. It;s a montage piece telling children about the history of Halloween, hosted by Goofy and the pumpkin from Disney’s Halloween Treat. Intermixed throughout are numerous clips from many different Disney cartoons, plus footage of the Disney attraction The Haunted Mansion.”
I live for deep cuts like this! (No surprise there, given that today’s main page article was about Halloween decorations from 1994 that three people remember!)
The Ghoul Log!
Time for the GHOUL LOG, friends.
End your weekend with 90 minutes’ worth of spooky music and haunted noises, set against shots of fiery jack-o’-lanterns.
I love “background noise” videos like this. I’m usually on a desktop computer, and what I’ll do is drag the video into a new window, shrink it down as much as possible, and just let it hang on the upper-left corner of the screen while I go about my online business.
The video is cheesy as hell, but I think it’s a great way to slow things down on a Sunday night. (When you probably want time to move as slowly as possible, anyway.)
