Speaking of Cool and Strange Music, my former editor, Dana Countryman, just sent me a link to the video from his latest collaboration with electropop pioneer, Jean Jacques Perrey, "Funky Little Spacegirl", from their latest album, "Destination Space". It's a very catchy tune, and a fun little CGI romp. Jean Jacques (who just turned 80) looks like he's having a blast.

[Link: Funky Little Spacegirl (YouTube clip)]
[Link: Funky Little Spacegirl Official Website (broadcast-quality clip)]

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A couple of readers might remember this ancient post I made about Tuscon's Magic Carpet miniature-golf course, with it's animated pooping monkey and 25-ton concrete Easter Island head with an observation deck on top. The course closed a year ago, and to their everlasting credit, the fine citizens of Tuscon chipped in to rescue the Moai rather than let it succumb to the developers' bulldozers. Roadside America and Tiki Central were there to document the Moai's move to its new habitat outside a nightclub called The Hut, where hopefully, it will be rediscovered someday in the far-flung future by archaeologists who will wonder how the natives managed to move it from it's original location, using only their primitive technology.

[Link: New Home for Tuscon Tiki Head]
[Link: Giant Tiki in Tuscon Moving Next Week]

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Happy New Year, Goof readers!

For my first post of 2009, I decided to unveil a gallery of screencaps featuring the title cards from incredibly strange films like the 3 shown below. I started saving them a while back, and I'm up to 100 or so. I'll be adding more as time goes on, so be sure to come back and visit occasionally to see what's new. Enjoy!

[Link: Psychotronic Titles Gallery]

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