Thursday, March 26, 2009
my cathode youth vol. 5 1/2
My buddy Al Mundy's at it again. This time on a death flight where heedless scientists die on cue.
God, I totally remember seeing this as a kid.
John Colicos, whose misanthropic heavyosity has graced the likes of Star Trek and Battleship Galactica, comes on just a little lighter than usual to serve in the screenwriter's bully pulpit as a villain with a righteous cause.
Think of it as a kinda Malthusian/eco-terrorist rip of Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
framed by ruination
The ending scene of Andrei Tarkovsky's film, Nostalghia (courtesy lauraemarmor).
I doubt a spoiler alert is really necessary, tho' seeing the movie might lend meaning & context to the beauty being viewed.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
ruins for all
Being a sap for things lost & overlooked, had to mention the wide wide world of abandoned stuff that Noise Is Information found: Artificial Owl.
Aside from a giant train station in Detroit, the acoustic mirrors of Denge UK and the massively labelscarred concrete saucer of Bulgaria are something to behold.
No doubt, there's more.
Aside from a giant train station in Detroit, the acoustic mirrors of Denge UK and the massively labelscarred concrete saucer of Bulgaria are something to behold.
No doubt, there's more.
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Saturday, March 21, 2009
a piece of your own death
One of my favorite characters from one of my favorite movies.
Warning: mature language, surliness, cigarette smoking, humor . . .
Tho' different in many ways, he brings to mind an old acquaintance.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
my cathode youth vol. 5
Again with It Takes a Thief.
That old episode I remembered is now on Hulu. Marilyn McCoo and the whole damn 5th Dimension guest star.
Advice: beware of glass sculpture and duck behind the couch. Or that "One Less Bell to Answer" (with the tacked on space trumpet coda) will toll for thee . . .
Dedicated to an Al of my own acquaintance.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
my cathode youth vol. 4
Yet another Night Gallery segment I saw when I was young. This one with Sondra Locke very unwisely accessorizing.
Kinda ghoulish when seen back then, the big bad brooch seems implausible and funny. Now the creepier aspects lie in the psychology of the principal characters.
Monday, March 9, 2009
ye olde drug of choice
Dude, ice cream matters.
And those jonesing in a time years ago in the land of Hampton Roads could count on High's Ice Cream.
BrandlandUSA has a great ad for High's that harkens back.
Look at that quart of fudge ripple . . .
And those jonesing in a time years ago in the land of Hampton Roads could count on High's Ice Cream.
BrandlandUSA has a great ad for High's that harkens back.
Look at that quart of fudge ripple . . .
Saturday, March 7, 2009
my cathode youth vol. 3
Above is something from Night Gallery that I saw as a young kid. Now it's seem esp. twisted, but back then I thought nothing of it.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Halls of Anger
Saw this as a young kid with my mom and
And just now on This TV.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Friday, February 20, 2009
Monday, February 9, 2009
women kickin' butt
On the ever auspicious Friday the 13th, this one in February, Sarah Conner returns to fight Skynet. And Dollhouse, the new Joss Whedon show, premieres.
Friday generally being a dead night for television, this constitutes something of a resurrection.
Check it out . . .
Friday generally being a dead night for television, this constitutes something of a resurrection.
Check it out . . .
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
scenes from the banks of Denial
(courtesy tonnerrro)
Just saw the bad news on PCL LinkDump. But will say: Lux lives, dammit.
And present these as evidence.
(courtesy mambofable)
Monday, February 2, 2009
seeing the invisible
Invisible bikini, that is.
And the blue-screened ghost within.
The brand new 21st century version of UHF funkiness expands a bit more with This TV, a network chock full of movies.
Frankly, I haven't quite warmed up to This as much as RTV.
But broadcast was one great piece of '60s teenploitation, The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini. It seems to be one of Nancy Sinatra's first movies (or not), and maybe one of the last for Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff and the somewhat superannuated teen star Tommy Kirk. As promised by the title, a shapely ghost cavorts in her invisible bikini. Eric Von Zipper bikes in with his leather clad crew. And a few not-so-groovy ghoulies aside, poolside dudes play Vox instruments so the kids can dance.
As Brief Window just posted some transformation clips from The Incredible Hulk TV show, I might mention that RTV was broadcasting an episode featuring sci-fi mainstay Whit Bissell.
And a young Kim Cattrall as a Native American archeologist.
Long live the new UHF.
And the blue-screened ghost within.
The brand new 21st century version of UHF funkiness expands a bit more with This TV, a network chock full of movies.
Frankly, I haven't quite warmed up to This as much as RTV.
But broadcast was one great piece of '60s teenploitation, The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini. It seems to be one of Nancy Sinatra's first movies (or not), and maybe one of the last for Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff and the somewhat superannuated teen star Tommy Kirk. As promised by the title, a shapely ghost cavorts in her invisible bikini. Eric Von Zipper bikes in with his leather clad crew. And a few not-so-groovy ghoulies aside, poolside dudes play Vox instruments so the kids can dance.
As Brief Window just posted some transformation clips from The Incredible Hulk TV show, I might mention that RTV was broadcasting an episode featuring sci-fi mainstay Whit Bissell.
And a young Kim Cattrall as a Native American archeologist.
Long live the new UHF.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
how do I watch thee, let me count the ways
Soaked to the bone in a cathode sea where the furthest waters include reruns of Hawaiian Eye and Car 54, Where Are You?, I'm still swimming in anything broadcast or online hosting can slosh about.
In the Homerically Simpsonian way of a rosy-fingered dawn being found in some old test pattern, I see in digital TV's birth some fringe enjoyment.
Much like UHF channels that seemed constantly up for grabs (like the early nineties' incarnations of the Boston area channel 68--first as a flagship station for the Christian Science Monitor and then as a part of Boston University [WABU]), the spare lo-res digital channels seems another bit of culture in the margins.
The .2 SD channel of WJAR Channel 10, the NBC affiliate in Providence/New Bedford, was for a while just a weather channel with occasional feeds of local and national forecasts.
Now it's started running cool old reruns on what it calls the Retro Television Network (RTN).
Love the '80s? There's the A-Team & Magnum P.I.
Crave something older? There's The Rockford Files and Emergency!
Get back even further to Ironside, It Takes a Thief, Adam-12 and Dragnet. And awaiting in the still & distant waters of TV syndication are Wagon Train, Bachelor Father and Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
One can float in this for quite some time (esp. when trying to recover from a bad cold).
Being older shows they allow less ad time. And it's funky if oft repeated ads for Elvis and Johnny Cash gospel CDs or cheap hearing amplifiers. Or PSAs with Suze Orman speaking for the FDIC or Howie Mandel for Adult ADHD awareness.
In this time of HD/Surround saturation, who can resist all that?
Join the truly TV addicted, the Luddite and the shut-in.
Swim in that from whence all pixels flow.
In the Homerically Simpsonian way of a rosy-fingered dawn being found in some old test pattern, I see in digital TV's birth some fringe enjoyment.
Much like UHF channels that seemed constantly up for grabs (like the early nineties' incarnations of the Boston area channel 68--first as a flagship station for the Christian Science Monitor and then as a part of Boston University [WABU]), the spare lo-res digital channels seems another bit of culture in the margins.
The .2 SD channel of WJAR Channel 10, the NBC affiliate in Providence/New Bedford, was for a while just a weather channel with occasional feeds of local and national forecasts.
Now it's started running cool old reruns on what it calls the Retro Television Network (RTN).
Love the '80s? There's the A-Team & Magnum P.I.
Crave something older? There's The Rockford Files and Emergency!
Get back even further to Ironside, It Takes a Thief, Adam-12 and Dragnet. And awaiting in the still & distant waters of TV syndication are Wagon Train, Bachelor Father and Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
One can float in this for quite some time (esp. when trying to recover from a bad cold).
Being older shows they allow less ad time. And it's funky if oft repeated ads for Elvis and Johnny Cash gospel CDs or cheap hearing amplifiers. Or PSAs with Suze Orman speaking for the FDIC or Howie Mandel for Adult ADHD awareness.
In this time of HD/Surround saturation, who can resist all that?
Join the truly TV addicted, the Luddite and the shut-in.
Swim in that from whence all pixels flow.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Catherine Carter gives artist talk @ Opening Lines
Above is one of several artist talks presented last Sunday at the Opening Lines show at the New Art Center in Newton, MA.
There's more about the show here. A review in the Boston Globe.
And this video overview of the show from a MetroWest Daily News article:
clearly visible
Two new video favorites . . .
Paco Camino brings on the Lite Brite ad from the '70s.
FABULON takes it to the Top of the Pops with Martha and the Muffins doing "Echo Beach".
The song's signature chorused guitar riff I think I somewhat snagged in gut-bucket fashion here. Or not, who knows.
And meantime, I'm Learning To Share! is all about the groundhogs (who I fully expect to see--when the snow melts) and Spring of '62.
In lieu of anything not cold & white, one can follow the vintage breadcrumbs to reruns that may yet prove to be a powerful boost to the immune system.
Paco Camino brings on the Lite Brite ad from the '70s.
FABULON takes it to the Top of the Pops with Martha and the Muffins doing "Echo Beach".
The song's signature chorused guitar riff I think I somewhat snagged in gut-bucket fashion here. Or not, who knows.
And meantime, I'm Learning To Share! is all about the groundhogs (who I fully expect to see--when the snow melts) and Spring of '62.
In lieu of anything not cold & white, one can follow the vintage breadcrumbs to reruns that may yet prove to be a powerful boost to the immune system.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
speaking of green vegetables
The Yodelling Pickle, as linked on Mademoiselle Montana's Yodel Heaven (which was itself linked on Pathways to Unknown Worlds).
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