Category Archives: bava Summer of Love 2010

Summer of Love: “Ahhh, los gringos otra vez”

Posted on June 9, 2010 by Reverend

The best scene from a movie ever? I don’t know, but there can be no question that this little bit of magic from Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch (1969) would have to enter the conversation. I mean this film has … Continue reading →

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Summer of Love: Evil Meatballs vs. Cat

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Reverend

While cruising around Plaid Stallions late at night, as I am wont to do, I discovered a feature of a new retro toy blog Evil Meatballs vs. Cat (I love their blog theme) they were running that is kind of … Continue reading →

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Summer of Love: Monsieur Klein (1976)

Posted on June 7, 2010 by Reverend

Joseph Losey fascinates me, from his early masterpiece The Boy with Green Hair (1948) to his work with Harold Pinter in the 60s on adaptations like The Servant (1963) to his slumming with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in Boom!, … Continue reading →

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Summer of Love: Yacht Rock

Posted on June 6, 2010 by Reverend

A couple of years back Brian Lamb turned me on to what might be the funniest set of videos I’ve yet to see on the internet: a 12 episode Rockumentary titled Yacht Rock. It’s a brilliantly conceived spoof on the … Continue reading →

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Summer of Love: Don’t Dance her Down

Posted on June 6, 2010 by Reverend

I love The Fiery Furnaces “Don’t Dance Her Down” tune which I discovered via Brad Efford. Which in turn reminds me of how much I loved Brad’s Daily inTune posts, as well as his Play-List experiment on UMW Blogs. In … Continue reading →

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Summer of Love: The Village map

Posted on June 5, 2010 by Reverend

I love that I’ve consistently been able to find and download a map of The Village from the 1960s TV series The Prisoner since 1995.

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Summer of Love: Yie Ar Kung-Fu

Posted on June 5, 2010 by Reverend

A Perfect Game on Yie Ar Kung-FuI’ve been in the emulator zone as of late after playing around with Dragon’s Lair, so it’s not too surprising the 80s arcade love abounds. And after playing a host of games on MAME … Continue reading →

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Summer of Love: Dragon’s Lair

Posted on June 4, 2010 by Reverend

I don’t know why the Summer of Love has taken me deep into 1980s video games, but over time I’ve learned to embrace, rather than fight, nostalgia. A few days ago, right after my last post, I started thinking about … Continue reading →

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Summer of Love: Blades of Steel

Posted on May 31, 2010 by Reverend

https://files.bavatuesdays.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/blades_of_steel_theme.mp3 Blades of Steel Theme Song I love Blades of Steel, it still stands as one of the greatest console games of the 1980s, and I’ve been waiting for a DJ to discover and remix all the sound effects into … Continue reading →

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Summer of Love: Luke Waltzer

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Reverend

I love Luke Waltzer’s new blog Bloviate. More specifically, I love that Luke Waltzer is finally blogging at a steady clip in his own space. Luke and I came up as instructional technologists at CUNY (long before Boone even knew … Continue reading →

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