About the most insane musical moment on Saturday Night Live ever. This may top the Beastie Boys and Elvis Costello doing “Radio, Radio” or Natalie Portman’s rap. Punk.
Read moreA Repo Chick gets INTO tense situations
I was sent a link to iO9’s write-up of Alex Cox’s recent Non-Sequel to his classic Repo Man film today by my nickname: Rebel cohort Michael Keegan. It was too early in the day to absorb. This was the first I had heard of any such sort...
Read moreGumby Discovers that the Blockheads never read Silent Spring
This is the video I was looking for a few days ago. A lesson for me in not relying on YouTube. Gumby puts the kibosh on the blockheads latest evil scheme, a pesticide protection racket, that has the worms up in arms and gasmasks, even. Available...
Read moreArt Clokey was fucking awesome
I couldn’t find any clips on YouTube that really fit with what I would have liked to have shown in memory of the great Art Clokey, creator of Gumby and Davey and Goliath, so I picked this video of Lightning Bolt’s 13 Monsters by Paper...
Read moreThe Day My Kid Went Punk
Holiday Cartoon Mindwarp Part 2: Doctor Snuggles
Now some 30 years old, Doctor Snuggles, in it’s 13 episodes, doesn’t hold up so great. The animation is maybe comparable to the Smurfs cartoons of the same era; and, it ups the surrealism quotient up by about a power of 10 from those...
Read moreHoliday Cartoon Mindwarp Part 1: The Clangers
A little over a year ago, Oliver Postgate passed on at age 83. He left an astounding legacy, in just a few short series, that have had a lasting impact on generations of children. Despite only ever making thirteen episodes of Bagpuss, it remains...
Read moreThe Power of Nightmares
I know it’s no A Christmas Story, and I’m a little late noticing that this documentary by Adam Curtis is available on Archive.org. But this has been my Christmas Eve viewing. I’ve been assaulted this year with endless idiocy...
Read moreHappy Winter Solstice from the Kissing Pigs
Power Animals @ Bruce High Quality
Power Animals @ Bruce High Quality for Barefoot in the Head from Jason Martin on Vimeo. part of barefoot in the head: a futurological porety reading
Read moreThanksgiving Treat: Power Animals at NYU
Recorded at NYU Open Studios, November 21, 2009.
Read moreCaptain Beefheart – Sugar’N’Spikes (Famicom flavor)
The hits keep coming! Third in the series of Captain Beefheart classics, rendered in 80s video game soundtrack style, from Japan’s mysterious barismanco. I so want to hear an entire NES style Beefheart record. If you need a US label for...
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