Rap with gas over at 365Days.
That darn soul been bothering you again? Doctor Superhelga prescribes these 29 tracks of auditory goodness, featuring Unpleasant.org favorite Myrna March. For internal use only.
Attack of the Killer Singing Dolls from Beyond the Uncanny Valley!
From the movie Thunderbirds are GO (1966.) This is the famous marionette work of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson that was the inspiration for Team America: World Police. The lips move in time with the actors’ voices via electromagnets hidden in the puppets’ bodies. Link via The World of Kane.
Woah. Who knew that Derrick Bostrom, former drummer for The Meat Puppets (a band that helped shepherd me through my teen angst years,) has a blog, or that he collects fab things like the Ford Motor Company’s late 60’s corporate lap-dog lackey-rock explosion The Going Thing, or that he’s generous enough to make all three of their albums available for download? The Going Thing was an attempt by Ford to make good ole’-fashioned Capitalism look hip and happening, or as Derrick himself says:
They are a classic example of how the “youth market” was packaged to non-youths of the late 60s. The group offers all the energy and sex appeal of “the in sound” with none of the messy commitment. The records are packed with rock and roll medleys as soothing to the over-the-hill crowd as they are insulting to rock fans. They’ve got hits of the day with new lyrics written especially for Ford Motors employees. They’ve got trite jokes about this crazy loud music all the kids are listening to these days. The whole affair is served up with the kind of infectious super-square showbiz glitz that I’m always on the lookout for.
Just one thing, though… what is Julianne Moore doing playing tambourine for these dweebs?
Yours truly (and a bunch of other people) interviewed by Mr Dante Fontata over at PCL Linkdump on the scent of vinyl.
OMG, I just discovered that the theme song to proto-homo 60’s TV show “The Odd Couple” has lyrics:
No matter where they go
They are known as the couple.
They’re never seen alone
So they’re known as the couple.As I’ve indicated
They are never quite separated,
They are peas in a pod.
Don’t you think that it’s odd.Their habits, I confess
None can guess with the couple.
If one says no it’s yes
more or less, with the couple.But they’re laugh provoking;
Yet they really don’t know they’re joking.
Don’t you find
When love is blind
It’s kind of odd.
But remember kids– they’re not gay, they’re just (as my Grandma liked to say) “good friends.”
I just learned that the Association of International Glaucoma Societies has a theme song, namely the rousing “Glaucoma Hymn.” Picture yourself slowly losing your sight, amidst a luxurious wash of horns and angelic choruses:
Glaucoma, Glaucoma, Glaucoma
Constricting vision slowly
Halted by progress of science
Vision of a world united
Beyond all science knowing
But remember that Glaucoma is no laughing matter, kids! Listen to the “Glaucoma Hymn” here.
