No More Days Till Halloween, Silver Shamrock!

Hello everyone. I do apologize for being gone for so long, but I wanted to make sure that my computer problems earlier in the month wouldn't return (eventually, they stopped), but now that things are fine... I figured I would start a day early and put up an obscure but humorous Halloween tune. That's why I titled this blog in this fashion and referenced a movie and one of the most aggravating tunes ever created.

A little more than a month ago I stumbled across a Jimmy Castor Bunch song entitled Dracula, Part 1. It's very amusing, not to mention very catchy and funky. In case you don't know, Jimmy Castor has been around for a few decades and even today, still performs. You may know him best for songs like Troglodyte, It's Just Begun, or The Bertha Butt Boogie. If you didn't know, well, now you know. In this tune, Dracula is a ripoff artist (Dynomite!) and has a Hustler's Lean. Yet, he still needed blood. Yeah, there are two parts to this song, but I believe that Part 2 is mainly an instrumental.

Hopefully you'll enjoy it as much as I do, and I hope that everyone has or had a nice Halloween. 

I'll be back around this time next week, and I'll be lengthier in that entry.

Jimmy Castor Bunch-Dracula, Part 1 (4.73 MB, 128Kbits/second)

Oh, and tomorrow night I'll return and do a new post on my mashups blog.

Unfortunate News

As I've mentioned elsewhere, earlier today the computer I use at home went kaput. So, until I can get that fixed (either via having the tower fixed or getting a new one) I won't be online too much in the near future, and of course I won't be able to do this. So, I'll announce now that I'll be taking the rest of the month off and on November 1, I will return with a new post.

Internet Radio... Yay!

Instead of posting a new tune, I will mention another resource for you folks who enjoy listening to stations on the Internet.

It's been news as of late that there may be a resolution to the controversy concerning the idea that royalties from the songs played on sites such as Pandora would become so expensive that most of the sites would have to shut down. Let's all cross our fingers in the hope that it passes and all these services are able to stay alive.

Another site I discovered that plays streaming music for free is Deezer. I stumbled across it by happenstance while looking for something else. I signed up and for the most part I enjoy it. You can create playlists and from an incredible selection of tunes you can pick as many as you like and stick them in your playlist; the sound is almost CD-quality.

I wasn't thrilled when during one occasion the site crashed my Google Crome browser and, more frighteningly, another occasion I was given the warning that a page on the site contained malware, but I hope that was just unfortunate glitches, and by this point everything will be fine. You can try it for yourself and hopefully you'll experience no problems yourself.

I'll be back on Friday night the 10th, and this time I will have a new tune to post.