Huh?

I just unzipped my pants to pee and a little ballerina jumped out of my fly and started dancing on the back of the toilet. She sang a few verses of 'The Greatest Love of All' and my cat promptly ate her, but not before batting her back and forth across the floor like a dead mouse. She's gone now. Time for bed again, I guess.

Funny How It All Ended Up

I think this is my favorite one in terms of sheer production values. Other Spookshow In Your Pants stuff, recorded on a crappy four-track cassette recorder, knock it out of the park for sentimental reasons, but this is the one I'm most proud of in terms of studio prowess. My friend Bryan worked at a TV station and had access to the stuff relating to 9/11 you never got to see (bodies splattering on the pavement after jumping from the twin towers, etc.) and was planning to do a film of how media accessability accelerated from Pony Express times to September Eleventh. A great idea, but he never went through with it. This was the music I composed for that abandoned project...the tune builds from a place of quiet truth and accelerates into the frenzied hype-monster of media today (Christ, could I be any more pretensious?) Click the title to listen or DL.

Carl-Einar Häckner

This is my new favorite magician. A casual glimpse at his overall hotness combined with my love of the peculiar might tell you why.

Here's a link to his facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/#!/CarlEinarHackner

In addition to doing magic, he's also a musician. I know the type. Apparently, long-haired, magically-inclined Swedes are a recurring theme in my catalogue of desirable. (Hi, Tor.) Hit his facebook page, then scroll down and watch the video of him performing while dressed as Santa. I don't speak a word of Swedish but still found it vastly entertaining. I love you, Carl-Einar Häckner, I truly do.

Oh yeah, here's his website:

http://www.carleinarhackner.com

Oh Happy Shoegazing Day!

The UPS man just delivered the classic 1990 CD 'Nowhere' by the band Ride. I'll probably strap on the headphones and yank it. I'm a sucker for anything with fuzzed-out, overly echoed guitars and barely perceptible, mumbled vocals. That sound just touches me in my own personal, private happy place and sends the blood flowing to other parts of my body. My Bloody Valentine, Chapterhouse, Slowdive...yum yum yummy sonic goodness.

Okay, I just updated this post so that now if you click on the title you can hear Ride's great song 'Cool Your Boots.' (Again, Hi Tor.)

In The Hall of the Mountain King

This is the Spookshow In Your Pants take on the Edvard Grieg classic. I was nuts about ELO as a kid, so it was only natural this thing happened. Click the title to listen or download.

Fire, Walk With Me

Here's another story that's, again, mostly true. It's about my childhood fascination with things that explode. Click on the title if you wanna read it.

Disappearing Act (What The Funk Remix)

My friends Tor and Krista and I had a huge disagreement over some frozen waffles that resulted in us not speaking for the better part of a decade. During that time I tried to recreate the argument through music in a song called 'Disappearing Act.' While I think I might like the original a tad better, I did do a remix version few people have heard (not that Spookshow In Your Pants is in any wild demand.) Here it is, just click on the title to hear or download it.

A. C. Newman

This is one of the most gorgeous things I've ever heard. It's A. C. Newman's cover of the old A-Ha song, 'Take On Me.' What I dismissed (yet enjoyed) for years as bubblegum synth-pop turns out to be a stellar piece of songwriting--thanks to Mr. Newman's take on it. Moving, lush, wonderful. Click on the title to hear or download it.

Well Whaddya Know?

My nipples just split open and a couple of tongues came a lickin' out..I smell otters in the living room...I guess it's time for bed.

Cat People

Here's a story I wrote as "Daniel Huffman" (R.I.P.) that is mostly true. Again, click on the title if you want to download or open it.

Question for the penis gallery: Would you rather I put stories up in this format, that you can download and read at you leisure, or would you prefer I fill up the posts with pages of text you can read online?

The Squirrel Song

Perhaps the most crowd-pleasing of all the songs in the Spookshow In Your Pants catalogue. It certainly seemed that way when I did it on the Sandy Duncan Christmas Special in 1979. On the show, Gabe Kaplan and Martha Raye sang backup, but here is the original studio recording. Enjoy.

Oh. Just click the above title, 'The Squirrel Song' to hear it.

Wilkommen!

Hey, ChaCha Puddlewinks here. You may know me as Spook from Spookshow In Your Pants, a band, or Daniel Huffman when I write (named after a guy I went to high school with who croaked before he graduated due to autoerotic asphyxiation.) I have stuff to show and tell you, but right now I'm just getting this thing set up. I'm gonna have a look-see at it and I'll be back in a bit.