links to Laurie

Pathway To Unknown World has a link to audio of an interview last fall with Laurie Anderson. It gets kind of distorted at times and glitchy toward the end, but is very interesting.

Here's a quote of hers from back in the day posted on The Music of Sound. One of several bits of sound advice.

And she's been spotted during a flyby of FABULON.

black light radiation

The Boat Lullabies serves up a video of a man singing & playing in a new, as yet unfilled 1/2 million gallon water tank. Like a vast piano with the sustain pedal weighed down--every note goes on forever.

Blind Pony Books leads us down to a vein of Merle Travis' buried verse.

And to keep it country while observing the rule of three, we'll stumble into Easter morning with the Man in Black:



(courtesy Carters01)

well contained

The Music of Sound shares images and sounds from some groovy art installations done inside freight containers.

In a similarly spatial way, A Journey Round My Skull brings us In the Grotto.

And whether they're entirely true, FABULON presents the images & statistics of various 1940s Hollywood hotties, er, um, glamor gals.

see y'all at the fair

Donna Lethal posts on PCL LinkDump about the fine poster making Yee-Haw folk. Gotta love their county fair poster.

Saving your dough for malt liquor on the midway, maybe hitch a ride.

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.

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.

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.

on the Moon since the '50s

Yet another favorite clip from Slacker.

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.

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.

my cathode youth vol. 4 1/2

Again with a Night Gallery segment, this one featuring Zsa Zsa Gabor on the wrong side of a mirror.

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.

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 . . .

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.

Halls of Anger

Saw this as a young kid with my mom and my sister my aunt perhaps in a downtown (pre-Urban Renewal) theatre.

And just now on This TV.

groovin' with Ironside

Can these kids' flower power match Ironside's glower power?

Storefront Hitchcock on Hulu

While it lasts . . .



And don't forget the talented & lovely Deni Bonet . . .

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 . . .

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)

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.