Click the snake... if you DARE!
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
ザ・ジャガーズ
The 1968 hit 君に会いたい by ザ・ジャガーズ. Though surely showing a strong influence by ザタイガース, the band laid the groundwork for such future bands such as GSメドレー and 色つきの女でいてくれよ.
OK, you know I don't have any idea what I'm talking about here, I'm just fuckin' with ya.
Last Streak of the Summer
As the summer draws to a close, let's think about one last kind and gentle act of civil disobedience, and go streaking. Go on, you first, I swear I'm RIGHT behind you. Probe is Turning-On the People has the soundtrack.
Mazef's Collection
Whole big bunches of vintage Indonesian pop music to be found here, from vinyl and cassette, with their lovely splashy covers.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Check Ignition and May God's Love Be With You.
Illustrator extraordinaire Andrew Kolb has created a children's book version of David Bowie's "Space Oddity." It's available for free on his website in convenient PDF form. Sadly, we do not learn whose shirts he wears.
Monday, August 29, 2011
Shammi-Wow
Media Funhouse has a loving remembrance of Bollywood dancer Shammi Kapoor, with lotsa great clips & info. Double bonus--here he is with Helen, below.
Obsessed with PCL?
Ale Siniestro
'martin trobin'
Click for larger view at source.
Ale Siniestro: Collage & Video Loops.
(Via Meathaüs)
Supermarket Full of Cans
The Welsh band The Eyes of Blue sing "Can't find love like ours, in a supermarket full of cans".....did they remember to look next to the creamed corn?
Listen to the Percy Trout hour
the Percy Trout hour
Monday Night (8-29-11)
8pm to 10pm EST-USA
WRFL 88.1fm
Lexington, KY
LISTEN ONLINE
Back when entertainment was entertaining
Dean Martin, Buddy Ebsen, Lee J. Cobb, Charles Nelson Reilly, and Jackie Vernon taps and are longing for girls - and they all get lucky in the end.
(Thanks to Anthony Vitamia)
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Hurricane Fun - or not
Heard a thud last night - looked out - couldn't see anything......until today.
MASSIVE TREE
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| Swing and a miss |
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| My neighbor contemplates her non-demise from her bedroom window. |
I'll spare you the plumbing backups and flooding commencing during the tornado warning, that everybody had. I will tell you, there was one of the few deaths only a mile from here, a young woman who was afraid, and drove to be with her boyfriend, and drove into 15 feet of water, and managed to call him during it. they found her car 150 feet from where it went into the water. Friggin' tragic stuff, love, sometimes....
"Go home to your wife and family; sit down by the fireside bright."
Bruceploitation
'Bruce Lee Fights Back From the Grave' (starring Bruce Lee impersonator Jun Chong aka Bruce K.L. Lea) and 'The Real Bruce Lee' (which incl. Lee impersonators Bruce Li as well as Dragon Lee). Both were made available for your entertainment by Internet Archive.
Bruce Lee Fights Back From the Grave - Opening scene where Bruce Lee jumps up from his grave. Ta Da!
The Revengers
The Revengers with some decent chunka-chunka-chunk.
Our Man Flint
Lifted at: Unearthed In the Atomic Attic
Our Man Flint
Lifted at: Unearthed In the Atomic Attic
Best O' Dreamland: Music from John Waters' Films
Here are "three entries with music from the great John Waters' early features. By no means every track, as there are tons, but a good selection for those of you who either love Dreamland's productions, rock 'n' roll, doo wop or 50's novelty records. ..."
These compilations were posted some months ago, but are still available. And they are of course great!
Best O' Dreamland: Music from John Waters' Films Pt.1 - Pt. 2 & Pt. 3. Compiled and shared by Retro-Teque.
Tre Colonne Sonore Italiane
Nobody, nobody, I tell ya nobody does soundtrack sleaze like the Italians. Because we invented it! We're the best! Capische?
Soundtracks by Piero Umiliani, Carlo Savina and Gianfranco and Gian Piero Reverberi
Le malizie di venere
28 minuti per 3 milioni di dollari
Hypnos - Follia di un massacro
28 minuti per 3 milioni di dollari
Hypnos - Follia di un massacro
Saturday, August 27, 2011
The Scale of the Universe
Douglas Adams mentioned in the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that "Space... is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is..." and "If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion…"
This flash animation is safer than being plugged into a piece of fairy cake. (From chapter 11 of the Hitchhiker's guide.)
A feature on the original web location is the flash that creates Randomly generated sizes! That just wrong, man! and may make Uranus the size of Planck's length. And a Swirley Version for you relativists.
Geek on...
American Scary
Help!
The Quebec version of Mrs. Miller.
If you're a real masochist, there's more here: WFMU Beware of the Blog
If you're a real masochist, there's more here: WFMU Beware of the Blog
Chano Pozo & Arsenio Rodriguez
Chano Pozo & Arsenio Rodríguez with Machito and his Orchestra - Legendary Sessions. Available thanks to Global Groove.
The many faces of PCL
First header ever. Used Aug - Sept 2004.
2nd header. The first guest designer. Magnus Sandberg of the fantastic vinyl sharity site (now defunct) Bellybongo made this and it was used between Sept - Nov 2004.
Watch it on Wayback Machine.
Used between Nov 2004 - Jan 2005.
Watch it on Wayback Machine.
In use Jan - March 2005.
Watch it on Wayback Machine.
The Guys. The longest in service.
From approximately June 2005 until April 2007. (Here is the Christmas edition!).
Watch it on Wayback Machine.
April 2007 - May 2008.
Watch it on Wayback Machine.
Designed by Lex 10.
From May 2008 - Autumn 2009.
Designed by Lex10. From Autumn 2009-Winter 2009/2010
Watch it on Wayback Machine.
Also a Lex10 production. In use Winter 2009/2010-June 2010.
Watch it on Wayback Machine.
From June 2010-June 2011.
Designed by Simon Nograbat aka Ping Pong Junior.
Watch it on Wayback Machine.
The design was a collaboration between jayKayEss and mrdantefontana. From June 2011- August 2011.
Note: Some shortlived headers have been lost. I especially remember the header we used between March - June 2005. The site had a green touch and the header was greenish with the guys from Thore Callmars dance orchestra.
Friday, August 26, 2011
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Great Moments in 19th Century Journalism.
Would you believe in a race of bat-people living on the Moon? What about unicorns and beavers that walked upright like humans? According to New York Sun, it was all true!
On this date in 1835, the Sun embarked on of the great episodes of old timey journalism. The fledgling paper published the first of a series of six articles about the incredible discoveries about the Moon made by Sir John Herschel, one of the most famous astronomers of the time, with his new high-powered telescope in South Africa. Hershcel and his telescope were real (he used it to catalog hundreds of stars and name several of the moons of Saturn and Uranus) but all the fabulous tales of lunar life were completely fabricated by the Sun. But people believed it enough to boost the paper's circulation and for the stories to be picked up and reprinted in newspapers around the world.
You can read more details about the hoax at Wikipedia, the Museum of Hoaxes or HistoryBuff.com.
And what about the New York Sun? With the boost in publicity from the Great Moon Hoax, it would go on to become one of the leading papers in the United States. It would publish a few other hoaxes, most notably Edgar Allan Poe's "balloon hoax," but it was also the home of Francis Church's famous "Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus" editorial. The Sun hired one of the first full-time female editors in the industry and eventually won several Pulitzers. One of its city editors even gave us the famous journalism dictum about men biting dogs. The paper folded in 1966.
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Bang Zoom... Straight To The Moon!
SPACE FLIGHT
The Coming Exploration Of The Universe
For all you space cowboys, I have scanned and uploaded the entire book here.
But you PCL fans get these EVEN BIGGER scans as an exclusive gesture of love on my part! Grab, make a PDF and drool over the vintage art and dated information!
Golden Library of Knowledge
by Lester Del Rey
Illustrated by John Polgreen
Golden Press-New York
1961
The Key To Fun
The Addams Family Card Game
1965 Filmways TV Productions and Milton Bradley.
It's always nice when someone else does the hi-rez scans of something you already own! Just as I got my original box out of the Addams Family Card Game to scan and post, I found these posted on line. Nothing creepy or kooky about it!
Thanks to this guy over at flikr.
Thanks to this guy over at flikr.
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