Today's entry comes to you courtesy of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Often derided as popstar buffoons attired in silly Revolutionary War outfits, the Raiders actually kicked ass on several levels, and this tune, The Great Airplane Strike, proves it by dropping a super-heavy slab of fuzzed-out guitar stomp right on our pointy, little heads.

There was a reason why the Sex Pistols covered these guys.

[Link: The Great Airplane Strike]

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EXTERMINATE!!!

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[Link: How To Care For Your Monster, Part I, Part II][via Exclamation Mark]

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Last week, I finally got around to watching the restored DVD version of Rankin/Bass' stop-action Halloween classic, Mad Monster Party?, and was it ever great!

I never got a chance to see it when I was a youngster, because I was living in Denmark back in 1969, and believe it or not, the Danish government rated this innocent kiddie film, Forbudt For Børn (Forbidden for Children), so I got screwed out of a quintessential childhood cinematic experience by those prudish Danes. Thanks for nothing, you nation of butter-cookie eating wusses!

Featuring great characters designed by artist Jack Davis (of Mad Magazine fame), classic celebrity voice talent (Phyllis Diller and Boris Karloff), and a really nifty monster-jazz/lounge/garage-rock soundtrack, it's a mystery to me why it tanked on its initial release to theaters. Hopefully, with this DVD release, it will finally take its rightful place alongside other towering classics of the scary kiddie-film oeuvre.

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IAT had an incredibly thin premise: 2 astronauts stranded in time with a bunch of cavemen who talk like this:

"What Gronk say?"
"Him say, 'If Gronk become chief, nobody hunt sabertooth tiger."

As you can imagine, a half-hour of this is about 29 1/2 minutes too much. Nevertheless, I felt compelled to watch a couple of episodes due to the talented cast who were caught slumming in this Sherwood Schwartz steamer: Bob Denver, Joe E. Ross, and Imogene Coca, among others.

[Link: It's About Time]

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Be grateful I didn't post the clip of Carol Channing doing a striptease.

[Link: Jackie Gleason Trips on LSD]

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While you await my return from Down Under, please to enjoy this video of Raquel Welch dancing sexifully in scanty space lingerie.

UPDATE: thanks to the astute bOINGbOING readers who pointed out that the bizarre sculptures featured in the video were part of the Ruta de la Amistad public sculpture project at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, and that this clip came from Raquel's eponymous 1970 television special.

[Link: Raquel Welch: Space-Girl Dance][via: the NTF'ers]

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There's a whole lot of great music here, including a few gems I've been trying to find for a long, long time, like the Del-Aires Zombie Stomp, from the drive-in classic, Horror of Party Beach, so if you're a fan of cool and strange music, you owe it to yourself to click on over for an extended browse.

[Link: Monster Movie Music]

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Speaking of public access, one of my old partners in community-televised crime, Rob Mattison, kept at it long after Chester's Chillers folded, and began producing a show called, Model Citizen, devoted to the care and feeding of resin- and plastic-models like the Monarch Nosferatu kit featured in this clip from the online version of the show. By the way, Rob just sold his first comic story, a classy little number in the Toxic Avenger graphic novel, called Toxic Avenger Vs. Rectum [Link]. Way to go, Rob!

[Link: Monster Model Review]

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Be-fezzed mad scientist, Uncle Pete, and his Lucha-masked sidekick, El Vato, bring you a World of Twisted and Absurd Audiovisual Oddities and The Forgotten Children of the Silver Screen in every online episode of The Dark Vault of Public Domain [Link]. They get mega-bonus points for playing a clip from my favorite Japanese New Wave band, The Plastics [Link].

Watching these clips reminded me of my own foray into public-access horror-hosting back in the early '90s, Chester's Chillers [Link]. I'll have to check into getting some episodes up on YouScrewed.

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