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May 11, 2008

The Great Airplane Strike

raiders_pic.jpg I've been a big fan of the outstanding Funky 16 Corners weblog for several years now, so when Funky's proprietor, Larry, created a new 'blog called Iron Leg, dedicated to '60s rock and pop culture, I followed that too with great interest.

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]

April 25, 2008

Daleks Ueber Alles!

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EXTERMINATE!!!

April 21, 2008

How To Care For Your Monster

HowCareMonster.jpg HTC4.jpg The Drunken Severed Head and Frankesteinia take a nostalgic look at Norman Bridwell's classic childrens book.

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

March 17, 2008

Mad Monster Party?

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[Link: Little Tibia and the Fibias perform The Mummy]

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.

March 8, 2008

It's About Men in the Strangest Place

it's+about+time+comic.jpg It's About Time was a '60s television comedy I would've rather left in a pile of forgotten memories from my youth, but Classic Television Showbiz yanked it out of my subconscious, and embedded its ear-wormy theme song in my brain. Now, I feel as if I must pollute the minds of my collective readership as well (it's only fair that you all suffer with me).

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]

February 3, 2008

And Awaaaaaaay We Go!

Jackie Gleason takes LSD in prison and sees God (Groucho Marx), in Otto Preminger's Skidoo! Pow! Zoom! Straight to the Moon, Alice!

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

[Link: Jackie Gleason Trips on LSD]

January 17, 2008

Doin' the Space Girl Dance

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]

December 30, 2007

Monster Movie Music a' Go Go

monster_movie_music.jpg When The Essential Ghoul's Record Shelf went on an apparently permanent hiatus back in 2005, I wondered where I was going to get my regular fix of Incredibly Strange Music. So now, after 2 years of searching through the blogospheric wilderness, I'm happy to report that I've finally found something even better: Music From the Monster Movies, a weblog devoted to unearthing unearthly tunage from the golden age of psychotronic film.

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]

December 21, 2007

Model Citizen's Monster Model Reviews

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]

December 19, 2007

From the Darkest Depths of the Cinema Graveyard

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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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