NAVIDAD: Santa Comes to the Haunted House - Show # 65 - Dec 21 2015

The Haunted House @ KUSF - Show # 65 - "Christmas" - Dec 21 2015 by Casaencantada on Mixcloud

Dear Naughty Children,

Popoff and Your Ghost are ready to prove you that Christmas is not all about red-nose reindeers and crappy songs!

We have some great song presents for you faithful (and naughty) listeners! 

We can't wait to open these presents, so we are starting today!
(It's the advantage of receiving Santa through telepathy: you get the presents as early as you want, and the package is translucent anyway so you always know what you're getting)

2 SOLID HOURS OF CHRISTMAS MUSIC!
TODAY FROM 6:00 TO 8:00 PM!

Don't miss our Spider Eggnog, our Roasted Rat Rattatouille and our Bat Wing Tempura!

Song Selection:

Décimas de nacimiento — Los Jíbaros
Las Posadas — Beny Moré
Rumba En Navidad — Celio González & Sonora Matancera
Holiday Mambo — Machito and His Afro-Cubans

Una Plena en Navidad — Mon Rivera
Fat Daddy — Fat Daddy
When Was Jesus Born? — Heavenly Gospel Singers
Holiday Babe — Aaron Brown & Joe Green, Kelly Pace and Matthew Something
Christmas Is Coming — Lead Belly
Ride Your Pony — Lee Dorsey
Fille Du Pere noel — Jacques Dutronc
I Feel Merely Marvelous- Esquivel
Navidad Negra — Pedro Laza y sus Pelayeros
Presente de Natal — João Gilberto
First Snowfall — The Cocktails 
Seis Zapateao — Maso Rivera con el Conjunto Típico Ladi
Papa Ain’t No Santa Claus (and Mama Ain’t No Christmas Tree) – Butterbeans and Suzie
Si yo fuera rico — Chuíto
Tristeza en Navidad — Ramito
Christmas Eve Blues — Blind Lemon Jefferson
At the Christmas Ball — Bessie Smith

Christmas Time Is Coming (A Street Carol) — Stormy Weather
Amarga Navidad — José Alfredo Jiménez + Bambino
Rin Rin + Los Peces en el Río — Los Amaya
Toys for Tots — Peggy Lee, Nat King Cole and Nancy Wilson
Holiday Baby — Fat Daddy
Holiday for Strings — Sun Ra 
Fuego al Cañón — Dolores Vargas, La Terremoto
Caminos de Gloria — Lola Flores y Antonio González El Pescaílla
Old Christmas — Boyd Asher
Fiesta Navideña — El Gallito de Manatí
Auld Lang Syne (Adios From Esquivel!) — Esquivel

A little picture from Christmas Past at the House (Ghost Host is the guy squatting, second from the right on the front row, with no suit):

A scared kid is a happy kid:

Dear Child, Santa's got a little hangover today:

One of our favorite Christmas traditions: Spanking Santa!

Our Christmas Tree, still not fully decorated:

Popoff needed to do some Community Service this year:

Our great friends Clotho, Lachesis and Athropos, partying at the House last year:

the Ghost's Aunt always manages to embarrass us with some silly hat:

BORRACHOS: JOHN BARLEYCORN AND HIS PINK ELEPHANTS at the Haunted House - Show # 64 - Dec 11 2015

The Haunted House @ KUSF - Show # 64 - "Borrachos" - Dec 4 2015 by Casaencantada on Mixcloud

Dear Hiccuping Hicks of the Jury,

BEWARE THE RIVERS OF WHISKEY!
(There We Wept!)

HANG OVER THE VOICES IN YOUR HEAD!

ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER, AND BRING YOUR PINK ELEPHANTS!

For today, as the sun goes down and the final exams approach for so many students,
\we get drunk and high in spirits to celebrate the approaching Holidays and to beware
the innocent teetotalers of the terrible fate that awaits the drinker!

In other words, today we toast and raise our glasses to drunks, winos, drunkards,
dipsomaniacs, sots, topers, bibbers, guzzlers, soakers, sponges, tosspots,
barflies, souses and thirsty souls everywhere,

As we go on a binge, on a bender, and we raise awareness about the effects of John Barleycorn,
of any firewater, booze, rotgut or nectar, any broth, soup, hooch and white mule,
potion, sauce or moonshine,

We will discuss drinking and drunkenness:
why do people love that little brown jug?
we talk potation and libation,
imbibing and inebriation, bacchanals and dipsomania,

So come with us and get drunk as a skunk, as an owl;
get tipsy, intoxicated, cockeyed and inebriated,
shellacked, thoroughly soused and fried,

Come with us and take a dram, a draft or a sip, a nip or a sup, a pull, a swill, a gulp and a swig!

Popoff and Your Host, on Field Research for this Show:

All Parties at the Haunted House End Somewhat Like This:

Popoff gets carried away in his research and documenting for this show:

Your Host, on the other hand, always manages to keep his dignity somehow:

Yours,

Ghost HIC!
Tracklist (more or less):

1- Gonna Get Tight – The Sunshine Boys
2- Botellitas - Salvador Escudero
3- Drunk Drunk Drunk – Kidds
4- Let's Get Drunk Again - Bo Carter
5- Sloppy Drunk Blues - Sonny Boy Williamson
6- Drunken Maria – The Monks
7- More Whisky – Laurel Aitken & Duke Reed
8- If the River Was Whiskey - Charlie Poole
9- Fiesta con el Whiskey del Folclor — Meridian Brothers
10- Esperma y Ron - Guarachacos
11- Dirty Hangover Blues – W. Lee O’Daniel and his Hillbilly Boys
12- Three Nights Drunk - The Skillet Lickers
13- Wine-o Boogie – Don Tosti’s Pachuco Boogie Boys
14- I Ain’t Drunk – Lonnie the Cat
15- El Cigarrito - Hermanas Huerta
16 - Llegó Borracho el Borracho - José Alfredo Jiménez

CHASING SHADOWS at the Haunted House - Show # 63 - Dec 4 2015

Dear Creatures of the Night,

The Haunted House @ KUSF - Show # 63 - "Chasing Shadows" - Dec 4 2015 by Casaencantada on Mixcloud

Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?
The Shadow knows!

Beware the howls of night!
Listen to the voices of darkness!
Abandon all hope ye who enter here, and put on your eye shadow!

Today, as the Winter Solstice approaches and the odious days keep getting shorter and shorter, making (finally!) the nights longer and longer; tonight, in the best and longest nights of the year, at the time where we can finally bask in the moonlight and get our wonderful pale tan; tonight we celebrate the sun going down by chasing shadows at the Haunted House!

Beware the shady creatures that lurk in the Haunted Swimming Swamp!
Watch out for furtive movements in the perfect darkness of our souls!
We are fascinated by this concept, "shadow", which most of you creatures seem to cast. BEWARE!

    As I sd to my   

friend, because I am   

always talking,—Popoff, I

sd, which was not his   

name, the darkness sur-

rounds us, what

can we do against

    it...

Yours in Darkness,
The Shadow of a Ghost 

TRACKLIST:

Black Shadows – Johnny Hartman
Sombras – Chavela Vargas 
The Partisan – Leonard Cohen 
Herido de sombras – Los Zafiros 
Her Mistery Not of High Heels and Eye Shadow – Jonathan Richman 
Sundown – Don and the Galaxies 
Strolling After Dark – The Shades 
Right on for the Darkness – Curtis Mayfield 
Sunglasses after Dark – Dwight Pullen 
All Night Long Blues – Burnett and Rutherford 
Winter Lady – Leonard Cohen 
Long, Long Winter – The Impressions 
Cancion de Invierno – Meridian Brothers 
If the Light Has Gone Out In Your Soul – Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Quarter 
Dark Was the Night- Blind Willie Johnson

THANKS BUT NO THANKS from the Haunted House - Show # 62 - Nov 20 2015

The Haunted House @ KUSF - Show # 62 - "Thanks but no Thanks" - Nov 20 2015 by Casaencantada on Mixcloud

Dear Turkey Trotters,

Beware the hormones and the fat! 
Listen to the sizzling oil!  
Abandon all hope ye who enter here, and put on your aprons!

   Today at the Haunted House we celebrate Thanksgiving. We got to say, spirits and ghosts are not usually very thankful creatures, so this has been a difficult choice.
Once you see the inevitability of all actions and events in the cosmic gravy of eternity, it's not easy to properly "thank" anything that took part in that chain. It's not like it had any choice, is it?

   But let's not digress. We have made our favorite delicatessens for you. Ghosts don't eat things that cast a shadow, so that limits the options.
Still, we have our classic Roasted Bat, out secret recipe and very famous Black Widow Sauce, our wonderful Mashed Mosquitoes and our special well-known Chrysanthemums on the Cob.

   We have found out that apparently the Turkey theme was a kind of soft erotica for our elders, because what could be more arousing than a scantily clad lady about to strangle an innocent creature to death and then roast it? Nothing, that's what.
   And thus we get these centerfolds from magazines like the Puritanical Playboy and newspapers like the Salem Witch Burner:

And we celebrate the birthday of THE THING! Not to miss!

Popoff, Are You Ready or Not?

OUR SAUCES AND GRAVIES:

1-    Danke Schoen – Wayne Newton

2-    I’m Thankful – Fat Man Matthews

3-    Pilgrim of Sorrow – Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers

4-    A Testimony – The Upsetter Pilgrims

5-    Thankful n’ Thoughtful – Sly and the Family Stone

6-    Gibble Gobble – Willie Wright

7-    Carve that Possum – Uncle Dave Macon

8-    Mashed Potatoes – James Brown

9-    Mashed Potato Time – Ronettes

10-What’s That Tastes Like Gravy – King David’s Jug Band

11-Hot Corn – Martin and Robbins

12-Sweet Virginia – Rolling Stones

13-Sa Alouni Annais (The People Asked Me)- Fairuz

14-La Pollera Colorá – Corraleros de Majagual

GOIN' DOWN SOUTH with The Haunted House - Show # 61 - Nov 6 2015

The Haunted House @ KUSF - Show # 61 - "Goin' South" - Nov 6 2015 by Casaencantada on Mixcloud

Dear Corporeal Presences, Come listen to us today if you dare, for we are travelling far away...

   Yes, the Haunted House is moving SOUTH! We are GOING DOWN, babies! It is going to be difficult to move. What with all the 4th Dimensional creatures that are not included in any moving company insurance, not to mention the impossibility of moving THE THING...

   But we are confident and optimistic. We have emptied the Spook Dancehall, we have already packed all our dungeons (balls and chains not included) and we are finishing loading the Goblins into their Goblin Trip Carriers. We have unscrewed the dark matter lightbulbs and we have covered the multidimensional mirrors. WE ARE READY TO GO!
   We are moving to "one of those Southern states where the governor's a crook". Oh we can't wait to spook them! Oh, the places we'll see, oh, the people we'll meet...

Georgia Native and Future Neighbor Barbecue Bob

A String Band from Georgia

Peg Leg Howell and Friends

R L Burnside from Mississippi

    So far, the Surreal State Agents have been showing us some new locations for our House. It's not easy to find a place swampy enough, dismal yet completely untouched by sunlight, and with a graveyard on the backyard...

These are some places they showed us. This is, by far, our favorite:

But you can't deny the charm of this affordable yet convenient condo, very close to the Alligator routes and the bat migration stops: 

 

And then there's the neighbors:

TRACKLIST:

1 - Goin’ Down South — R L Burnside
2- Down Yonder (We Go Ballin’) — Smiley Lewis
3 - Southbound Rag — Blind Blake
4- South Side of Soul Street — Johnny Adams
5- Oooh-wee Baby — Art Neville
6- I Feel Good — Shirley and Lee
7- Don’t Blame It On Me — Fats Domino
8- Little Liza Jane — Huey Piano Smith
9- Little Liza Jane — Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys
10- Georgia Crawl — Henry Williams and Eddie Anthony
11- Georgia Mule — Hokum Boys
12- Barbecue Blues — Barbecue Bob
13- Georgia on my Mind — Django Reinhardt and the Quintette Hot Club
14- Dear Old Southland — Oscar Alemán
16- Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik — Outkast

Some Extra Songs for Your Consideration:
Lonesome Road Blues — W. Lee O’Daniel & His Hillbilly Boys
Down South Blues — Muddy Waters
Down South Blues — Dock Boggs
Dear Old Sunny South by the Sea — Jimmie Rodgers

Well, let's get this party started...

DOUBLE HALLOWEEN WHAMMY at The Haunted House - Shows #59 and # 60 - Oct 23 and 30th 2015

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