Monthly Archives: July 2009

Spider-Man 1967, Episode 17

”The Terrible Triumph of Dr. Octopus”: Spider-Man fails to prevent Dr. Octopus from stealing Dr. Smarter’s nullifier. Afer some investigation, Spider-Man tracks down Dr. Octopus, but the evil villain has a devious trap waiting for the webslinger. ”Magic Malice”: The … Continue reading

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The Company Store

Image credit: L’Hibou’s “Le Wal-Mart de la rue Karl-Marx” While talking with my neighbor Kent Ippolito a few weeks ago, the conversation somehow found its way to a fascinating fact I had never heard before, namely that Wal-Mart has for … Continue reading

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The bava clip show

Martin Weller will be happy to know I am officially seeking therapy after watching the bava clipshow he put together over on The Ed Techie. What can I say? I mean this video is not only a Jim Groom film … Continue reading

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Hoodoo Gurus “What’s my scene?”

Say what you will hippies, but I owned their LP (was their more than one?), and upon re-watching this video I’m amazed at how prescient it is. I mean it prefigures the whole logic of that other Australian phenomenon The … Continue reading

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Auto-tune the news

Over at the Play-List blog, Brad Efford linked to this crazy re-mix/auto-tuning of the news. Hysterical.

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The end of movies reconsidered

I had previously written about the end of film in regards to the Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men, but after reading John Kenneth Muir’s brilliant “The Five Most Ludicrous Musical Numbers in Movie History” I now know I … Continue reading

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The 1,000th Post on the bava

Here’s the tale of the tape: That little snapshot with numbers, percentages, and figures can’t begin to suggest how both liberating and tormenting this space has been for me. Not sure I have 1,000 more in me, but there is … Continue reading

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Capricorn One

“There’s only one small catch, it never happened—it’s all a lie, a fantastic $30 billion hoax.”

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Not enough car chases

I spent the day at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History: The Kenneth E Behring Center (the last bit of the name after the colon is new and is ostensibly the name of their biggest donor, reinforcing that the … Continue reading

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Back to Life

Re-posted from Play-list blog because I like what’s going on here. Soul II Soul “Back to Life” http://kissatlanta.com/music/102507/Back%20to%20Life%20acapella%20intro.mp3 The a cappella intro is breathtaking, and the beat addictive and hypnotic. But more than that, another masterpiece by them (“Keep on … Continue reading

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