Thank Jehovah for Kung Fu Bicycles and Priscilla Presley

Our friends at PBS give us the documentary Off the Charts, a look at the song poem monkey business.

Phwoar!

Journalist and BBC presenter Tony Livesey hosts a pair of BBC documentaries; first up is Crumpet! A Very British Sex Symbol which lovingly and leeringly looks at the 1970s lovelies of the Carry On, Bond and Hammer films as well as Page 3, pop music and TV.

Beefcake: A Very British Sex Symbol elevates masculine paragons of '70s British cinema and football from the likes of Jack Carter and George Best and in the end looks at the decline of these manly men.

Videograph fictions

This is something different.
"Videographs build strange worlds through graphs overlaying 80s pop videos.
Imagine Pacman Pasta meets the Dead Eaters via a Videograph."
Videograph fictions as created by Jason Nelson
Jason has also a digital poetry portal, Heliozoa.

Dumb Angel

Far-Out. Nice blog devoted to the pop/surf culture that thrived in the 1960's and the people who are working to preserve that culture.


"Here’s a business card from the Beat Generation coffeehouse once located at 860 South Pacific Coast Boulevard."


"Surf-era flyer for the Rendezvous Ballroom."


"The hidden gem of old Surf Route 101."

Pop Culture

Lifted from marriedtothesea
Inactivity due to my life being taken over by a statistics class for the past 8 weeks. Saw this gem and thought I'd post just to stay in touch

Ken Brown

Does America Have Any Culture?

" ... Here's what happened: I'm teaching a class on twentieth-century popular culture at the University of Leipzig. I don't know why the school asked me to do this, but it did. And it turns out that any seminar on U. S. consumer culture is extremely attractive to every non-American kid majoring in American studies, because ninety-six students signed up for the class in the span of three days. Due to the size of the classroom, I was forced to immediately reduce this number to twenty. I was unsure how to do that fairly, so I decided to give them a competitive online essay test before the first day of class. The question was this: "Who do you consider the most interesting twentieth-century American -- not necessarily the most historically important, but the individual you find most personally compelling?" The responses were well written, habitually understated, and devoid of any pattern whatsoever.
...
Since my arrival in Leipzig, I have continually been reminded about the way many Germans view American culture. They essentially feel it does not exist. One grad student only half jokingly told me that an entire semester of American cultural studies "should probably take about twenty-five minutes." But this, of course, is crazy. Now more than ever, I feel certain that the United States is as good at manufacturing culture as the rest of the world combined, probably because we often do so accidentally. A lack of culture is not our problem. The problem is we've become too effective at distributing that culture -- at the same time, in the same way, and with the same velocity. It all ends up feeling interchangeable, which makes it all marginally irrelevant. As it turns out, my initial question was beyond impossible. There are no interesting twentieth-century Americans. There can't be, because they all are."

Chuck Klosterman (for Esquire) goes to Germany to teach a class. His students teach him a lesson about how the world views us: Does America Have Any Culture? (via Unpop)

What's the title of the song I'm thinking of?

+ + + +

Updated: Whoops solved it first. Well done! :-)

A Can album + Twitch Jor-El a bit and you got Your + Pussy Galore + The half of Scooby-Doo is almost Do + put in a "the" on your own + Snoop Dogg

Here, kitty, kitty ...

Finally, the Comic Book That Has It All!

"Untamed Highway is THE underground, self published Comic Book that scratches the Underbelly of Vanished American Pop Culture. It is a Road Trip Freak Show Slapstick Mystery Cartoon Noir with Tiki Bars; Kreeps; Kustom Kulture; Cool Cars; a poisonous Drinking Bird and an uptight Sock Puppet; Freaks; Exotica; Film Noir; a secret Shriner like Society; Mini-Shriner Cars; Hypnotism; a guy in a Gorilla Mask; Tikis; Monsters; Roadside Attractions; Pin-Up Babes; Beatniks; Horror Show and Kiddie Show Hosts; Googie Architecture; Silent Movies; Coffee Shops and Drive-In Diners; and Tor!"

Untamed Highway

The Refer Man

Lex10 here. As a brand, spanking, (see? I'm a little dirtier already!) new contributor to PCL, I finally have an outlet for some stuff I wanted to refer, but had no solid venue to refer it in. My regular blog GlyphJockey is more a place where I generally show stuff I've personally archived, plus my art. I do refer there, but it's more a bandwagon/holidays/deaths things (BTW R.I.P. Bobby "Boris" Pickett! Now you're a graveyard smash!) as opposed to hard referring. Did I say "refer" enough?

Here's my first post: SIVUPOLUT Finnish Pin-ups. Or should I say Piinukka Uuppaa. The images are not that large, and I get the impression that it's tied to some store there, but the reason to take a look is the interpolation of the American Pin-up magazines and paperbacks by Finnish publishers.



There's also an assload of other hardboiled/racy/noir imagery there too. Perfect for PCL, no?


Puuhakas Puna Tukka, indeed!

PMSFWUYWIACOS (pretty much safe for work unless you work in a convent or something)

Lastly, less words in future. I promise. If you care to criticize or praise on a personal level, go HERE
Thanks to Dante for the warm welcome.

The Greatest Porkers In Pop Culture History

11. Pink Floyd Pig, 5. Miss Piggy

"... No matter how cute some of them may be, you can't deny the mouth watering goodness of bacon. But aside from their culinary contributions to society, it's time we honor their importance as pop culture icons. ..."
The Greatest Porkers In Pop Culture History according to retroCRUSH.

First post

My name is Sebastian and I run a Yahoo! Group named Pop Culture Links which partly is a directory of pop cultural links - partly a forum where I and my fellow members posts links to and discuss everything pop cultural. You can check out all the collected links at the group here! (You don't have to be a member to get your hands on them.)


This is my second try blogging. Let's see what happens...