The hunt for the perfect singal chain

I've selected the Manley Labs Vox Box on the side as one consideration. Basically i was too lazy to Photoslop a bunch of high end channel strips together! ~slurps Beer~

I really don't know which channel strip would be right for me but I've always liked the idea of a box simplifying the signal chain. I'd be more than happy to just hook a mic up to a box and strum my guitar and sing adding a little(okay a lot of )convolution reverb.

There are just so many channel strips out there. One claims theirs will do this another claims theirs can make toast etc etc. I'd almost have to A/B about 50 of them to really get a sense.

What are my needs? Besides the money to afford what I'm daydreaming about? My first need is a transparent signal chain that is musical as they say. What does that mean to me? Oh that was a good vintage. Really my ears should perk up like a German Sheppard. There should be good headroom. There should also be an almost aphrodisiac quality.

The compression must be pleasing....which reminds me do I even want compression? I was watching a video for a Chandler product that was based upon some EMI gear the Beatles/Pink Floyd used. They showed a drummer clean then compressed like he was in a trash compactor with C3P0 crying away. I hope that wasn't the minimal setting I thought. It sounded like a zit overdue for popping.

Being totally ignorant of recording music history but opinionated enough to form a decent theory I'm going to say the main reason music from the past had so much compression is it was being marketed over the radio and had to make sure they didn't blow up all the radios? Okay maybe that doesn't work but I do think the music and broadcast industry set certain standards that all music was going to be placed in a condom called compression. I do believe if they let some sounds go out of control with wild dynamic overtones it could damage the very small radios of the day.

Sometimes I guess I would seek heavy compression but for vocals and guitar I really need transparency. So would an Adl 660 Tube Limiter be the ticket? Anyone got $14,000?

For EQ keep it simple.

Dream Microphone Telefunken U-48

I think this one on paper sounds like the microphone for me. When I read the list of those who used the Neumann U-48 or even the U-47 I remember the songs and the immediate warm sound of the vocals. I'm not talking necessarily about how great the room they recorded in sounded but rather the coloring or spice that was added to the mix.

Tubes rule if anyone thinks they don't they're not very human. Yeah tubes wear out but the warmth and musicality they lend to the capturing of a performance are unparalleled.

When you listen to a song that used a classic tube microphone for the lead vocals you are hearing the microphone there can be no question of this. I'm speaking of pop music that tends to record vocals up close and personal.

everything I've read had great things to say about the Telefunken line in general. Why the figure 8 one though and not the cardioid one? Well the figure 8 is a little more versatile for capturing just a little bit of room noise or for creating a nice slap back effect if you set the microphone up next to a wall or reflective surface. Yes I follow no rules.

Oh I'm sure there are numerous other microphones out there I'd like better than my Blue Bluebird. I'll find something good in everything. I just seek something great. There are many other more affordable U-47 type remakes but to hell with that, this is my dream, 'member?

What would I even do with a U-48 Telefunken? Besides replacing my rubber ducky Saturday night? oh...I'm not one of those squeaky clean people....I like things a bit smoky....A U-48 would be used to record my Classical guitar that I tend to strum with my index finger and thumb during heavier passages and pluck with my finger nails during delicate passages. Mostly I enjoy rhythm movements that resemble or come across as a machine of sorts. Most of the compression I employ is with my fingers. Nylon strings do hip around a bit but that's okay. I tune down and there can be some buzzing that's okay...tone...if you want totally clean I hear Chinamart has some neat Casio keyboards on sale.

Then being one to go against the rules I like my vocals recorded with my guitar. You see the guitar can fade into the back ground a bit. I'll position it just right for balance but I really can record with 1 microphone and see absolutely nothing wrong with that. When I sit under a tree in the middle of Summer playing my guitar and singing I don't think hmmm why don't I play the guitar, stop, sing,and that way....You see it's unnatural to leave a singing guitarist without his acoustic instrument.

So the vocals need to have a large warm classic character. If they don't i'm going to overdub them again and sound like the Carpenter Beatles...err ants...Adam? There's nothing wrong with nakedness. Sometimes the less going on the better. Please say no to plaid.

So if I had $8500, the Telefunken would be the Microphone I'd choose. So what if it has too much retro cool vibe going on....what's wrong with that? I do cringe when I see some of the people who can afford one....What do they do with it? Sing about love? Blahhhh

Corpseheads

This particular corpse head is a little bit special. Most of the texture is the result of a foam latex mask I had used several times before. So in a sense I entombed my former "alter ego" countenance for posterity. This is a particularly pleasing corpsehead. I went again with the hollowed out eyelid look which I think is far scarier than carousel horse eyes. Furthermore it is more realistic. Unless your eyes are glass they're the first things to rot.

I just know that Nancy Grace visits this page and makes lots of disturbing faces! lol

I love the flexible neck area if you will. There is something perverse about it. Of course the phallic tongue is now becoming a sort of trademark in the Billy Bogart line of corpseheads. I was also very pleased with the colorization.

Maybe I should go see if the local museum would show my works? Haaaaaaaa!!!!

Edgartown Yacht Club Regatta 1939 1st Prize "Fantasy" cup

You're viewing a 1939 Edgartown Yacht Club Regatta Trophy Cup awarded to the Yacht Fantasy of the Wianno Class/Senior Class.

The silverplate has worn away considerably on the inside but is for the most part intact on the exterior. There are a few dings.

However this is not being sold for it's silver content. The cup was manufactured by Poole Silver Company, Taunton, MA 2103.

The Yacht Fantasy was constructed in 1914. It now rests in the Mystic Seaport Museum. Edward or "Ted" Kennedy participated in the 46th Edgartown Yacht Club Regatta Friday afternoon, July 18 1969. That was of course the regatta he attended before the tragic event at Chappaquiddick.

According to a newspaper clipping from the Edgartown Gazette Fantasy(Jean Hinkle), W 3:59:38 Wianno Knockabouts 1st Division. Start 1:50 P.M. 8.75 miles. The article's title was "Regatta Provides Thrilling Finishes".

This trophy is for sale. However I consider this to be a historical item so serious inquirers only. The Yacht that won this regatta race rests in the Mystic Seaport Museum. The name Hinkle is a famous name in this particular sport. Why James Hinkle has a regatta named after him as he along with the Yacht Fantasy won numerous races in the early part of last century.

Tiger Woods OD'd!!!

So the truth finally comes out. You have to wonder how much he paid the cops off not to press charges? If anyone else did that they'd be charged with wreck less driving under the influence of a controlled substance. DUI!!!

Let's see Larry Johnson called someone a fag or homo and he was drawn and quartered. Why last night I heard Mark Knoppler from Dire Straits use the word fag in a famous song. Oh it was okay because the fag got rich? There seems to be a double standard in life.

So now your black simpson god has been tossed from the pedestal, what does that say about the products he pushed? Good enough for a drug addict? Let's come up with some headlines, shall we? "Tiger Woods on Dope", "Tiger Woods addicted to Pain Killers", "Tiger Woods no better than Anna Nicole Smith", "Tigerto go into drug counselling".

What if someone was walking behind his driveway at the time or near the hydrant? Look at the damage. Tiger was STONED! Let's stone him some more, shall we? Maybe we can get Woopie to walk off my set.

Why is 1 person selected to be THAT famous, that RICH? What did he do with the fame and money besides live in a tacky looking oversized house, go to strip clubs every night and run up a $1500 tab per visit? All the while the media defines him as being squeaky clean. Clean enough to make $100 mill a year pushing crappy products? Let me advertise for Gillette. Let's see...Oh you better not I might mention Gillette razors have been getting duller and duller so you have to buy more as they wear out during the first use.

Oh I see the whole thing, ILLUSION! You should see it to. People are not what they seem to be. Everyone has a hidden agenda. Everyone has skeletons. As long as you're going to suggest otherwise I am going to rip you a new one.

Madonna calls Paul McCartney boring

Madonna said:

“People have told me, ‘You could just go out there and play guitar and sing your songs like Paul McCartney,’ but I’d be too bored,” the New York Post quoted her as telling Rolling Stone.

“Most of the joy of the shows is the magic of creating them — theater. I’m a perfectionist. I like hard work. I like to sweat,” she added.

Paul responded:

“That’s the big wardrobe change of the night,” the Daily Express quoted him as telling the German crowd, baring a white shirt and black braces.

“Madonna eat your heart out – or words to that effect. I’m wearing something simple, do you like it?” he added.

Now my response: Let me get this straight the venereal girl thinks that rolling on the floor like a $3 prostitute some how constitutes talent or hard work? Exactly what is she even known for? Rolling all over the floor like a $3 whore. She's part of that late 70's early 80's lamo New York theater culture. You didn't even have to go to broadway to see the painful performance of syncopated costumed rhythms. Every television show had some sort of dance reference. Why even rockers like Billy Squire started dancing around like he was in "cats".You might as well place a pendulum metronome on stage and call it hard work and sweat. All those lame 80's groups that perpetuated this crap into the 90's and beyond.

A dancer is a form of a prostitute, nothing more. They belong in the background.

Madonna of all people should know her place. Then again her elocution lessons have her thinking she's something other than a Rosie O'Donnell type. She has a long history of being ashed of where she came from. She sung "papa don't preach" and then became a pseudo-jew(as if the world didn't have enough of them). She made it a point to have her children raised in another culture. You can't polish a turd.

I remember Paul McCartney talking about he didn't want to spoil his children. He also didn't want them going to Eton and high browing him.

Paul is coming across here as being more down to earth and Madonna "plastic. Plastic soul baby. Truth is choreocrapped dance muzak has no soul...it's meant for idiots and other tasteless fuckfaces.

Tiger Woods shouldn't even matter

Golf? What the hell is that? A boring old sport where impotent men can get away from their nagging menopausing wives?

Look at all the advertisements too. It's all Cadillacs, Grey Goose and other so called "fancy things".

Like all sports I suspect where there's lots of money there are games to be played and will be played. That is to say there will be some tweaks. Someone should really investigate this. I believe with so much money riding on a shot the "games keeper" makes sure that ball heads towards the hole or away from it depending on the purposeful outcome.

Is that to say a golfer can't make the shot or shots? No but with so many zombies watching hypnotized into believing this is time well spent the last thing you want to do is have something go wrong. The greater idea is to distort reality so the average Joe believes in a tangible god. Up until recently Tiger Woods was that person.

How would they manipulate the ball? I think that's rather easy with magnetic force and or gyroscopes. Gyroscopes? Sure why not? The people who run this world will try and do anything to pull the wool over our eyes. So someone needs to dress up like Carl the assistant greenskeeper and start digging for golfers I mean gofers.

So they trumped up this so called "black man" named Tiger Woods. He happens to have a little cream in his coffee but they thought they could pawn him off as black. Okay he happens to look like Bart Simpson was left out in the sun too long but they figure why not say he's black.

Why promote a black man in an almost exclusively white activity? It's a form of distraction. Black people will simply look up and see some supposedly black guy(recently called his wife ghetto) doing well and think "We've arrived". Many wont be buying Grey Goose but they'll buy Nike products and Wheaties etc. It's purely a marketing gimmick. Since the 60's especially some white people(a great many) feel they owe the black man something. So they present to those white people a black man(highly dubious) not saying Yo every other sentence. They bow right down to him.

Now the shit hits the fan and Tiger is out clubbing and rubbing someone(some people rather) other than his wife who clawed his face and whacked him over the head with a golf club after confirming he cheated on her. This trumped up "sports star" who make over $100 million in advertising dollars catering to a wide spread demographic is now behaving like an NBA/NFL star.

What is next? DUI? Well he was on meds and hit a hydrant. Gun possession? He has been shooting his load. Racial slur? Well he did call his wife ghetto despite being the one "clubin' it".

I see him as a white man in a black (bart Simpson like) man's body and so ashamed of it he likes to spill his load in every white whore he can. Issues for tissues.

So much for your trumped up hero. I don't know why people are duped into thinking thos on pedestals are so perfect. It's like I said we're all a bunch of timid atheists making new gods every day so we can somehow make sense out of our mortality. We build them up and break them down just as quickly.

So without further adieu let the worship begin. I accept all major credit cards, checks, money orders and cash. I will also accept real estate, slaves, and farm animals.

I may try a corpse head the way others do it

Now over on the left there is an aged skull I did a few years back. Those Bucky skulls were some of the best 4th quality ones I've seen.

Now all I did was stain it several times with 1 color and poly. The eyeballs were loose. I left the jaw on the spring and the calvarium cut was not glued.

Now take a good hard long look and you wont see much difference between that aged skull and the corpse heads people are selling with horse eyes for $80.

Let's look at the main differences and discuss what makes those skulls so much better.

Some of those $80 corpse skulls are 4th quality. So the calvarium cut was either glued and concealed or glued in the process of concealing with various things. I'm not exactly sure what they used but it could have just been some kind of adhesive that wouldn't create or leave a ring around the skull. Cotton balls or some sort of fabric could have easily been deployed. It's hard to say for sure what they used since I'd really have to hold one.

The next difference is the hardware is all removed and the jaw is set in place. Now it could have been glued(very weak and would eventually fall off even with liquid nails) . Or it could have been nailed or screwed on. Any method used would require concealment.

A carousel eye was used which is maybe $5-$10 tops.

Artificial skin was created either with liquid latex alone in layers and or liquid latex and a knee high stocking stretched over the skull, cut up and manipulated to look as if only a little skin was left on the corpse.

I admit when I make my own brand of Corpse Heads I perform a lot of concealing. I'm not exactly sure how little I would have to do to duplicate the recipe mentioned above but not much at all.

It takes me a few days to totally complete one from start to finish at a leisurely pace. On a sunny summer day and or with the aid of a heatgun/hair dryer I could probably complete one from start to finish "fresco" in 20-30 minutes.

To employ the minimal effort method I could probably complete one in 5-10 minutes with the aid of sun or heat to dry the latex.

It's not that I am bragging about my Corpse Heads or Corpse Skulls it's just I know my limitations and know they're few. My hands and evil mind are exceptional. What's more is I don't create necessarily for a living. I create because the process satisfies my carnal urges. Halloween is October 31st but Horror is 365 in my life.

HALLOWEEN-SKELETONS

Really in the mood for creating some Horror Rock

I guess what has prevented me from creating more timeless hits like "Meet Me in the Graveyard" is the fact I sold a lot of my equipment!

Let's see...I sold my Fender Highway 1 Jazz Bass(which wasn't bad even after some fuck head crushed it)to purchase my dog.

I sold my Ampeg Jet for a young French exchange student named...you didn't actually?

Umm I had an old effects processor I sold for beer..I mean food.

I NEED FUCKING NEW GEAR! I want to have a geargasm.

I'm thinking I can cheat until I get another bass by using either my keyboard(broke down) or pitch shifting. The former does allow me to access Rickenbacker, Fender Jazz, and Hofner. That's probably the ticket because I've yet to hear a pitch shifter that didn't make a guitar sound like E.T. masturbating.

I have cool drum samples..nice LUDWIGS! Add the lush convolution reverb and I'm all set...save for 1 thing?

AMP SIMULATOR AND FX!

GUITAR RIG 4 PRO is in my crosshairs. I want it and I want it now. I've downloaded free guitar amp simulators before but they tend to either bug out or sound like an Atari 2600 fart contest. Guitar Rig has the amps I want! It's got the cool effects too. What's best of all is it doesn't sound like crap!

I love to put effects on acoustic Guitars for a spacey sound. I also love the 60's garage type sounds or the heavy reverb treatment heard on Screaming Lord Sutch and the alike.

For my vocals I have that free convo...it works fine save for the delay but it's FREE.

I've written a lot of horror songs including satires and borderline parodies. I think I come across a hell of a lot better than death metalists who sound so insecure as they put on this video game voice. I swear sometimes I think they're saying "I'm Ganon Link and Zelda is my love muffin now bugger off before I stick a wooden sword torch up your gas laden arse"! They can't sing so they growl. They're not very tough naturally so they work out a lot and get lots of cheesy tatoos. I'm not about any of that. I'm a psychotic lyricist.

My new Corpse Heads

As you can plainly see I've improved my designs. Actually I always go for the death freeze old lady look! :P

Truthfully I did improve certain areas and made the process much quicker while still maintaining quality. I love making tongues! I used to just forsake them. The tongues really say a mouthful.

This corpse head and others are available on Ebay. I haven't set up a website yet. Money money money. www.corpseheads.com

$80-$95 for a Corpse Head?

That's a laugh. Upon further review it would appear that they're made from 4th quality Bucky Skulls. I'm not seeing the calvarium cut but I see the 3 missing teeth. I also see the grey interior. 1st & 2nd quality 2 piece skulls are bone white.

Just last year 4th Quality Bucky skulls were only $6 or so. Now they're $8-$9. They're not made as well as they used to be. Probably the most ugly trait is the very square jaw. Why the sudden jump in price last winter? Perhaps to fend off anyone trying to duplicate these very simple $80-$95 skulls? Also I think certain resellers are still getting these for $6 as an incentive to create corpse heads for their store.

Let's assume the price is still $6 for them. You get 1 eyeball(probably worth $2-$3), limited skin buildup, stain, maybe some horns...$80-$95?

To think I almost had 4 of those for $46 but the Ebay seller turned out to be a crook like most people connected with the Utah pedophile brigade. I figured maybe I would resell them for $25, maybe.

I wonder how many of those things they sold? I can't imagine many. Let's 4 to some fat schmuck in NY...ummm not many more.

I have an Eye Ball wishlist

Nothing like a nice exotic eyeball in a corpse head. It has visions of Karl Von Cosel remedying the problem of his graveyard companion's sunken stare.

I really love the idea of using exotic beasts and mountain dwelling animals of prey and to be preyed instead of either the empty socket look or the bouncing ball look.

Yes Santa all I want for xmas is some more eye balls. Everytime I use real eyes they rot. Half the time they're ruined when I removed them from a person's skull. They need to come out with a pair if Vicegrips that wont crush the extracted beauty.

Can't wait to start creating some ghoulish things. After all xmas is just around the corner when the great Corpsa Claus delivers corpseheads to all the bad little girls & boys, as well as St. Corpsehead Day, etc etc...

The love of horror also includes the love of life

I see gardening as being very much related to horror. Take last year when i lost all my potatoes and tomatoes to late blight. That fungal disease killed a good many of my people in Ireland some 150+ years ago. It was unbelievably horrible to have an entire country starving at once whilst food was shipped out to England.

One story I recall concerned a reporter or something that wanted to see what the fuss was about. You see back then communication was very limited in a throughly rural country. So she ventured to Ireland. 2 men took her in a boat to an island. she then remarked how nice and healthy the dogs were upon the banks. The 2 men just looked at each other mortified. The dogs were feasting upon an entire village that was dead.

I face my own potato famine last year and no one came to my aid. I went hungry quite a bit. I started selling things on ebay including skeletons just to feed me. I remember my bike falling into severe disrepair and I could no longer travel about to look for things to sell(that was before selling skeletons). I looked towards my other bike with a bad bottom bracket but to me it was a loss. I made a painful ride over to a bike shop. I had to stop every 5 seconds because the crank tightened up. When I got to the bike shop they didn't take trade ins. I wound up purchasing a bike(plastic) and leaving the other there for repairs. I rode the new bike home in the rain. since then I've just been trying to survive selling skeletons.

My garden beds have all been put to rest. Each one is either covered with winter rye or leaves. I'd like to build a polycarbonate green house to start seedling for next year. The future is very uncertain as more rains pour down.

I lost my food this year. 250 potato plants 75 tomato plants. Who knows what happens next year. Maybe someone will prevent me from selling skeletons? I guess that is when I become a Mollie.

The rich are the only ones who need order

Why would they want change? Everything is like clock work for them. That is everything was until a new kid arrive in Halloween town. Well too fucking bad. I don't watch the "apprentice". I can't be fired. I can fire back though.

People have been fucking with my Ebay affairs since August. Someone is not telling the truth out there. I get the impression someone or some people take me for a fool. Fool me once...then you have an enemy.

I'm for the customers. I am not for business competitors. If you think I'm going to stand by while someone undercuts me and not do or say something about it you're one ignorant fuck. I didn't start the price wars they existed long before I tried to sell anything. If you sell a similar item that is being advertised as the same I am going to make a point of pointing out the differences.

That upsets people. People want the waters to remain calm as they live comfortably. I don't live comfortably. I'm fighting for scraps. There is no limit to my resolve. I'm a sleeping dog most wise people have decided to leave alone. I'm hard liquor not boone's farm.

I expect some bad news soon. If and when I'd receive it I'd hate to be anyone who has adversely effected my life. I'd hate to be someone who lied to me or sought to do me harm. Even if the harm was just imagined or fantasized I feel everything.

There will be those who take comfort in my absence but I am not easily stopped. Why I don't see anything that can stop me from what I am doing. I on the other hand am extremely vindictive. No law no filthy make believe god can save someone from my resolve.

People are so greedy it makes me sick. I am the rock upon the waters of that society.

The creative mind is synonymous with control

I think I'll re approach an old idea and see if I can't acquire some of that creative control. Eliminating the middleman and especially China is my main goal. I will create a streamline operation that is based on a simple concept; Craftsman/customer.

Picture is an alien embryo I'm trying to bring back to life.

looking for work in all the wrong places

Some day I'll record that satire.

It would seem that in todays messed up society emotion and the related outpour are decreed a sign of weakness. as the WHO once sung "Young man aint got nothing in the world". People go around and watch ameriKan politicians and some howget the impression their passive almost sedated style is a sign of power. Power is an ax thrust through the back of their neck for all the trouble they have cause.

Really we are a medicated society where a man is no longer allowed to get angry. This MAN will express his anger whenever and where ever he pleases. If a person has a problem with that be prepared to meet me at the stroke of 12.

People I observe are meant or expected to bow down to trumped up authority figures when they should instead hurl comb over one out a 100 story window.

What is it you call someone who speaks from their heart and doesn't require happy pills? Passionate? Honest? I'm sure that is not the norm to refer to someone in this day and age as those things.

Instead you're labelled psychopath, bipolar, immature etc...Where did society go so wrong? Did too many people sympathize with Frued's insatiable appetite for his mother?

In any case this world has gone astray. People are not what they seem. Everyone seems to have a hidden agenda. I may sometime wind up burning the candle from both ends but LOOK OUT! When I counter punch it will be decisive.

WE ARE HORROR EVERYONE ELSE SUCKS

We are horror everyone else sucks. I've never seen or read such hypocrisy in my life with regards to the love of horror.

To actually suggest because some crooked nose mother fudder doesn't pay your weekly time slot somehow makes you less of a horror host compared with some contrived production with crooked nose backing.

Trouble is they follow their hero who could never see the forest for the trees. She could never leave her boudoir for a minute. She clung to a fight with Elvira instead of turning the other cheek(she did want to become an evangelistic). Hmmm maybe they're commonly hypocritical as they try to preach to others even though according to the religion they supposedly represent they are sinners. It's not their job to judge. Everybody rips somebody sometime. Isn't that what Dean Martin sung? Vampira's favorite horror host sat in a rocking chair. Surely she could have taken up that job in the 80's? Oh let me guess that was beneath her? This is a person who confessed to having ripped off Charles Addams and numerous others to create her character.

Now along comes her merry band of drunx who think they're the very last word in horror but watch out for the *. It's amusing how they have slut of the month awards for people who clearly rip off the looks of others. No remakes they scream yet they'll add a couple disclaimers and return to the land of hypocrisy from which they were born. Spill blood not booze yet they seem to fund the same types of people they preach against by purchasing mass produced REMAKES of various beverages(mostly beer). These horror drunx also deface public property. They remind me of the half breed skateboarders in my area. Then after they've promoted excessive drunkenness they'll speak about evils of drink.

So they step on those who just want to have fun and dress up and maybe present something on say youtube. It's bad to be resourceful is what I gather? They've invented rules. They're so ignorant and artless it is not even funny. I come from the inclusive school of art that says anyone can have a go. It doesn't mean you have to like them but dont knock them for exercising their freedom of speech you dim witted mexican.

I know the people they are talking about. Why should they even care about them?

I doubt they'd include me but maybe they do.

This year marks my 20th year of conducting a Halloween Yard Haunt. I indeed believe it is as much of a show as any tramp in a slit dress. Okay so what if this year I had a slit dress on. The bottom line is I have a tradition and I feel I have an obligation to present Halloween entertainment every year and often times more than 1 day out of every year. I take part in the art of corpsifying props and have instructed others to join in on the fun. So what if I wasn't on your nazi TV stations. I don't need permission to perform I am always on stage. That is the difference between the likes of you and me. I am art and you just care about someone else's life instead of finding a personality of your own.

Vampira riseth, NOT

I was hoping that one good thing would have come from the death of Maila Nurmi "Vampira" that more footage from her show would surface. I figured that if any material existed people would be reluctant to release it during her lifetime because of the legal hoops to get through. I guess the absence of any new footage means no one has any more footage.

There is one other possibility though. Imagine if you did have footage, you might think of it as some sort of sex magic to be bottled up and only released to the few and not the masses. You would feel special. You might even believe that Vampira is your show or your generation. That is to say you don't think todays person would appreciate a live 1950's show.

I did encounter a lot of greed surrounding what little footage exists of her. I really found it amazing how some people would say they OWN her show. The show was broadcast over so called public airwaves don't the people own her show? Oh that's right TV is dead now. This is the cable generation. Still though a few minutes?

After i found her footage I predicted people were going to try and stretch that footage till it snapped like an overextended elastic. I found a dvd being sold on a website doing just that. He had the intro and outro and the film she hosted for the KABC sales promotion is public domain. So he tried to reconstruct what was lost. Is that her show though? Doesn't that cheapen it? Why wasn't it released when she was alive? How come she had no money for a funeral?

Lot of shady characters surrounding Vampira. It's pretty amazing to considering she didn't exactly have a long film career. Most humans never even seen her show. You have to wonder if there's more to this story. I've heard everything from a film maker taking the footage to Elvira snatching it up. I have to believe KABC might have aired around the time of Elvira if they had it. Until the Misfits wrote a song about Vampira, how many people since 1955 even mentioned her name?

until someone shows me ashes I think someone has footage they aren't sharing.

Halloween has come and gone again...

I'm still selling skulls and i think I should be creating a set. I start to create a set then I run out of money and sell props off. I'm thinking now of stream lining things. Introduce a neutral background that contrasts well with black, add maybe a chair, candelabra, side table for a drink perhaps and me!

I keep thinking that I need to create some Tales from the Crypt type set. I think I should just start out simple and let destiny or the future decide whether I can expand.

I do know this in a matter of a few days I can easily create some ghoulish props! I'm going to sell my corpses to clean off my credit cards. I feel no loss because with them being static objects just for show I know the art was what I did not necessarily what I would up with. Now that's not to say everyone else has to feel the same way. To the contrary, they are free to purchase my creations so that i may attend to my creation fix once again.

I do think I should not stick to one character. That i think would be boring. However I do think in character creation certain elements should be included. Grotesque, androgyny, macabre sense of humor. I really see nothing special about the "stunt man" stars that have been created since Halloween. In that first movie the music was the star not Michael Myers yet all these years later people refer to him by first name along with the other dope Jason. I'd even argue that the atmosphere of Camp Crystal Lake was the star and not the Hockey player carrying a machete.

What's so intimidating about the obvious? Now take a character that's a little more sinister, a little more diabolical who would prefer to slowly torture his victims than run them through with one blow and you have a more interesting dynamic. Combine images of masculinity and femininity and you have confusion. It's confusion that scares you. You know things that go bump in the night? If Jason is coming after you you're probably not going to get turned on in any sort of a way. Despite his slow menacing pace you wont find anything to confuse your emotions. In all those slasher films you never get the sense he's the bad guy. He's just there. The reasons given for his presence are ridiculous. A kids watches his sister dress and accidentally murders her with an onslaught of psycho phallic blows sending him into catatonia. The other dope accidentally drowns so he comes back to murder all camp visitors?

I want people to say WTF! I want them to see my makeup and think Grotesque, then see my legs and get confused! I want them to hate me so much they have to tune in. After a while they'll begin to love my brand of Creature Double Feature. anything new takes getting used to.

LITTLE TIBIA & THE FIBIAS HALLOWEEN PROP!

This is my interpetation of Little Tibia and the Fibias from the Halloween animation classic Mad Monster Party! Tibia comes with a wig and glass eyes(flat). I decided to leave the eyes loose in case you wanted the hollow orb look or wished to use another kind of eye. They will drop out though unless you either glue them on. Tibia stands about 5' tall and is made out of hollow plastic. Tibia can be adapted to play the part of a witch, zombie, or as her original role as lead singer in a Rock n' Rol Band! She will be supplied with a hanging string(not pictured). Tibia wont last long at this price so get her before someone else gobbles her up! She is a one-of-a-kind Halloween Prop that will not be available in the department stores or online.

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Spider Skeleton

Skeleton Spider. Talk about creepy! An 8 legged plastic spider made up of human bones including a skeleton head. 14 1/4" x 11 1/2" x 5 1/2".

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HAUNTED WURLITZER PIPE ORGAN!!! HALLOWEEN PROP!

This is my latest prop creation! A heavily distressed Haunted Wurlitzer Pipe Organ! The cart is not included. It was employed to wheel this heavy organ into place. This is a heavy object and way to big to ship. This is pick up only. It is not recommended one try to plug this thing in now since I froze most of the keys and potentially introduced liquid into the inner workings. This is designed to just sit in your haunted attraction whether it be an advanced yard haunt or a full scale haunted theme park. You will need either a pick uptruck or delivery/moving truck to move this due to the height. The back is currently open. This prop is perfect for themed sequences that incorporate organ scary music into a pass by or chamber. This is one of a kind. You will not find this anywhere else. Halloween-Skeletons

Bargain Basement Barney Skeleton

Bargain Basement Barney is a life-size, hollow plastic skeleton. This skeleton prop can be used for your Halloween displays as is or you can easily corpsify one to look even more ghastly! You will not find a more realistic yet affordable skeleton on the market. The suggested retail price is $92.99.

After corpsifying my first Barney I can say they're much easier to do than a Bucky and look just as good in effect. I'd like to elaborate on why The Barney is easier to work with. Weight weight weight! A Bucky is about 17 lbs. The Barney is about 5 lbs. When you are constantly moving a skeleton as you corpsify it the lighter model is much less of a burden. Then when you display it that's where light weight is your friend. How many times have you been trying to reach up to a hook or something to display your bucky and felt considerable strain as your body leans out from a tall ladder? I often hang a bucky from the gallows. Since I live in a high crime area I would have to take it down every night Oct. 1st-Oct 31st. What a tedious task to climb a ladder on an uneven lawn. The Barney would be easy. Crevices...Bucky had ones I'm only now just discovering. Barney was much easier to corpsify along the spine since he doesn't have all those rubber cartilage things. Sometimes you have to dump excessive amounts of stain down a Bucky making drying time just in time for New Year's! About the only draw back I've found which could be corrected is the absence of a hanging hook. His head is held on by screws. I think you could easily drill his head and add a fixture. Then you'd cross bolt the metal stem running through his head. I will try this on my next corpsification and try to get a video up. The hardware store is our friend. There is something there to adapt him. I just think a hook is better so you can dry him without disturbing your corpsification. I also like the idea of being able to grasp his spine hold my hand out to hook him up for Halloween display. Another benefit is Barney is smaller and uses less materials than a Bucky would. If I were to shellac a Bucky I'd use one pint and be sponging up the very last bit. Barney will leave about an inch or more on the bottom. Remember a dry corpse is a happy corpse. Also go light on stain. If you go heavy it will take forever to dry. Although I didn't have any half round eyes I could see how Barney's lack of eyeball cavity would make adding eyes much easier. Bucky's eyes would require a lot of fill to accept taxidermy quality eyes. Corpsification is fun but like all painting it's fun at first but 12 hours later you have a headache, you're covering in paint/stain, your brush is ruined,and you never want to paint again. My first Barney only took me 5-6 hours to complete. That was much easier to digest. I just worked a deliberate pace. As a result I spent less than $10 to corpsify him. Go look at my other ad. and see for yourself. I really believe that Bargain Basement Barney Skeletons make fine Halloween displays that YOU can easily corpsify with stuff you probably already have around your home. This is Billy from Halloween-Skeletons

Welcome to my blog!!!

I am Billy Bogart!

I run a website called Halloween-Skeletons

There you will find Skeletons, Skulls and other Halloween Props.

Every Halloween I entertain my neighborhood with a creepy Halloween Display. I've been doing this since I was a teen.

I also have plans to start hosting some public domain films on Youtube with a character I'm trying to create. I'm still in the planning stages and set design. You can bet it wil be freaky!