Look At Yourselves!

My primary trepidation is that when I post here, other PCLers will think, "Oh, Christ, that again. Where has he been!?!? Under a rock?!?!" But screw that- I'm doin' it anyway.



A guilty pleasure of mine for some time now has been Vice Magazine's DOs and DON'Ts.

For some, evidence of the end times. But they're jerks. Look away, if you can...



Acerbic, hateful, funny, deserving, respectful, puerile, stupid and apt commentary that accompanies each photo is as much motivation to visit as the pictures.

I Loves me some Funny Books...

Thanks

Hi gangsters.

I just would like to add big thanks to the new contributors, Andrew, Ange and Lex10 for making these pages come alive once more.

Great posts.

I baked you a cake just to show my gratitude.

Tårtan (The Cake in Swedish) added by erikbe99

And please visit their own blogs (click links above) to see what kind of wonderful, fun and nasty things they've got in store for you.

/Z aka mrdantefontana

Midnight Cowboy

Stills (screen caps) from the 1969 John Schlesinger movie masterpiece 'Midnight Cowboy' [IMDb] thanks to Nostalgia Party No. 2.

64 delicious jazz videos

Dianne Reeves - Lift Every Voice, is one of the 64 delicious jazz videos posted by youtuber sukapura

via bieslog

Kay Martin

"If it were not for the Internet, the works of Kay Martin, a one-time centerfold / nightclub entertainer / "party album" recording artist, would have been forever lost to the vinyl bins of America. Her six albums (that I know of) consistently sell on eBay for remarkable prices - including her most popular album: the 1962 Christmas album "I Know What He Wants For Christmas (but I don't know how to wrap it!)". ...
... This album compiles several of the studio recordings made inbetween nightclub dates and features a little bit of everything: Kay the straight singer (she reworks both "Folsom Prison Blues" and "Halleujah I Love Her So"), Kay the naughty singer (her sly numbers must be heard to be believed), as well as The Bodyguards singing and cutting up. ..."
The 365 Days project over at WFMU's Beware of the Blog gives us Kay Martin - At Las Vegas.

Note: "I Know What He Wants For Christmas (but I don't know how to wrap it!)" should still be available over at The Groove Grotto. Also available is s/t album "Kay Martin and Her Bodyguards"

Works by Cynthia Consentino

Cynthia Consentino... Flower Girl I (2004, clay, oils, brass). From Works by Cynthia Consentino. "...My sculptures utilize the human figure to explore gender, familial and societal roles, religious and cultural mores, and human perception. Metaphor and story are used to make connections, provide layers of meaning, and incorporate the universal within the personal. Objects and qualities from different worlds are juxtaposed and exaggeration, or distortion, is used to address dualities and apparent incongruities within human experience such as the beautiful with the ugly, the fantastical with the realistic, the whole with the fragmented, the tragic with the humorous, and the sacred with the worldly." From Omer Pesquer at LeWUB - dérivations dans les univers obliques.

Harry Partch

Part one of a half hour program produced in 1968 at KPBS in San Diego, featuring music and interviews with maverick composer Harry Partch.

Harry Partch is best known as a composer of music based upon a 43 tone musical scale. When conventional musical instruments became too limiting, he was compelled to modify and then create his own--which are works of art unto themselves. Partch once said, “I am not an instrument-builder, but a philosophic music-man seduced into carpentry.”

Sex Shooter

"Sex Shooter" by Apollonia 6:

Added by backporchvideo

The Chain

"This is not the concept for a modern dance troupe, or a drama like Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot”. If it was fiction, the concept, casting, costumes, and choreography would win top prizes. Yet, apparently, this is real.

Here’s the story:

700 psychiatric patients live chained together in pairs, and are forced to tend more than one million chickens at the largest chicken farm in Taiwan. Portraits of the players in this real yet surreal drama were photographed with kindness, respect and compassion by Magnum photographer Chien-Chi Chang. ..."

The Chain. Photographs by Chien-Chi Chang. (via Robot Action Boy, now at Wordpress)

Lucinda Devlin

Witness Room, Petosi Correctional Center, Petosi, Missouri, 1991

Lucinda Devlin - The Omega Suites (via Conscientious)

Ponderosa Party Time

Bonanza - Ponderosa Party Time from 1962, available thanks to Esther over at Stax o' Wax.

Maggie MacNeal

Maggie MacNeal (Sjoukje Smit) is a Dutch singer songwriter who started her career with Willem Duin as "Mouth and MacNeal", early seventies. They represented The Netherlands in 1974 at the Eurovision Songcontest. She's cute and she's good. See and hear her as solo artist and together with "Mouth":

http://www.splogman.com/splusp/labels/Maggie_MacNeal.html

In Search of Fiberglass Dinosaurs

Classic diners. Motels shaped like teepees. Bizarro fairy tale parks. Debra Jane Seltzer loves them all. Her website, agilitynut, boasts over 1000 pages of exceptional photos featuring funky roadside attractions, both past and present. I think her aim is to someday catalog them all—she’s contacted me through her Flickr account several times to ask the exact locations of some of my own roadside & vintage neon photos, sites which have somehow managed to elude her to this point.
I’d ask to tag along with her on her next adventure, but it appears she has several travel companions already riding shotgun.

Tadanori Yokoo: 3 Animation Films, 1964-65

Tadanori Yokoo: 3 Animation Films, 1964-65. "...Tadanori Yokoo, born in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, in 1936, is one of Japan's most successful and internationally recognized graphic designers and artists. He began his career as a stage designer for avant garde theatre in Tokyo. His early work shows the influence of the New York based Push Pin Studio (Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast in particular) but Yokoo himself cites filmmaker Akira Kurosawa and writer Yukio Mishima as two of his most formative influences. In the late 1960s he became interested in mysticism and psychedelia, deepened by travels in India. Because his work was so attuned to 60's pop culture he has often been (unfairly) described as the 'Japanese Andy Warhol' or likened to psychedelic poster artist Peter Max, but Yokoo's complex and multi-layered imagery is intensly autobiographical and entirely original."

Sumo Cards

Sumo game cards, purchased at a flea market in Nagoya, Japan.

The Refer Man

Lex10 here. As a brand, spanking, (see? I'm a little dirtier already!) new contributor to PCL, I finally have an outlet for some stuff I wanted to refer, but had no solid venue to refer it in. My regular blog GlyphJockey is more a place where I generally show stuff I've personally archived, plus my art. I do refer there, but it's more a bandwagon/holidays/deaths things (BTW R.I.P. Bobby "Boris" Pickett! Now you're a graveyard smash!) as opposed to hard referring. Did I say "refer" enough?

Here's my first post: SIVUPOLUT Finnish Pin-ups. Or should I say Piinukka Uuppaa. The images are not that large, and I get the impression that it's tied to some store there, but the reason to take a look is the interpolation of the American Pin-up magazines and paperbacks by Finnish publishers.



There's also an assload of other hardboiled/racy/noir imagery there too. Perfect for PCL, no?


Puuhakas Puna Tukka, indeed!

PMSFWUYWIACOS (pretty much safe for work unless you work in a convent or something)

Lastly, less words in future. I promise. If you care to criticize or praise on a personal level, go HERE
Thanks to Dante for the warm welcome.

Lazhar Mansouri: Portraits of a Village

Lazhar Mansouri: Portraits of a Village at Westwood Gallery in New York, NY. "...a premiere U.S. exhibition of photographs by Lazhar Mansouri (1932-1985). Fifty five silver gelatin photographs represent a portion of over 100,000 portraits captured by this dedicated Algerian photographer. From 1950 through 1980, Mansouri photographed the inhabitants of Kabylie and Aïn Beïda, his home town in Northern Algeria.
When Mansouri was a child, he accompanied his grandmother to the local street market, a community meeting place and bazaar, where he met a photographer who had a studio in back of a grocery store. The photographer hired him and through an apprenticeship, Mansouri learned the craft of photography. Eventually, he left to open his own studio in the back of a barber shop, dedicated to portraiture. After years of documenting everyday people in the region, Mansouri inadvertently created a photographic archive, a legacy of images representing people and tribes rarely photographed. During this period, Algeria went through war and political turmoil as the country fought for independence from France; however the stability of Mansouri’s studio was evident in the thousands of people he captured."

Summer Jobs

Which summer job are you better qualified for.......

Mister Softee......or Wiener King?

Swingin' Jingles

If you think all those pesky pop music tunes just get in the way of your radio jingle listening pleasure, you can hear some groovin’ 1960’s radio jingles from WMCA in New York City, including the toe-tapping extended dance version of “Six Lively Guys”.

Or find out what’s happening in the current radio jingle industry on the April 2007 Jingle News podcast from the Jingle Network.

You'll Die Laughing

Funny or not... here they are - it's the
"You'll Die Laughing"-bubblegum cards! (via Josephzohn...)

(Also check out the Rock Stars bubblegum-series which includes outrageous groups like Village People and Kiss!)

Charles Peterson: Come As You Are - Seattle's Rock Legacy

Charles Peterson... Nirvana Stage Diver (UW Hub Ballroom, Seattle, 1990, Gelatin Silver Print Photograph). From Charles Peterson: Come As You Are - Seattle's Rock Legacy at Soulcatcher Studio in Santa Fe, NM. "...Soulcatcher Studio is very pleased to welcome guest artist Charles Peterson (born 1964) to our gallery for this exclusive exhibition, featuring a selection of previously unpublished images from his vast archive. Below you will find a retrospective exhibition of his documentation of the Seattle music scene in the late 1980s and 1990s, along with current pricing and print information. Peterson's photographs have appeared in publications and galleries throughout the world, most notably a one-man exhibition at The Chrysler Museum (curated by Brooks Johnson) February~May 2005."

It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's Nabil Fawzi!

ep.tc has added some 1960s Superman comics in Arabic to its stellar collection of "comics with problems", including vintage Alcoholics Anonymous, anti-drug and anti-abortion comic books.

There's a complete reprint of a 1970 article from Aramco (Arabian American Oil Company) World Magazine entitled It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's Nabil Fawzi!, including this depiction of what it sounds like when the Caped Crusader lands a punch in the Middle East.

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Race Films

“Race films” were low budget 1940s movies with all-black casts, meant for viewing by segregated audiences. R & B king Louis Jordan starred in a few of these, exceptional only for the moments when the dialogue stopped and the band took the stage. Here’s a sterling moment from the 1947 movie “Reet, Petite and Gone”.


Hollywood’s Attic looks like a good source of race movies available on video. It’s worth a visit for the reproductions of classic posters of all-black movies alone, including one for the cowboy star, the Bronze Buckaroo (who, I’m sure you will be interested to know, is one of the inductees of the National Cowboys of Color Hall of Fame ).

Some YoYo Stuff: An observation of the observations of Don Van Vliet

"Don van Vliet, alias "Captain Beefheart", is one of the most influential, misunderstood, talked about, admired, copied, treasured, loved and quoted musicians and yet he is still an obscure and mysterious artist. His quite abrupt artistic transformation from working with a microphone to a paintbrush in 1982 and his consequent move from the desert to the ocean meant even less direct contact with the outside world than before. Subsequently there is very little information about Don from this time onwards and this short black-and-white film made in 1993 is an unique opportunity to see and hear this unique man. The film is approximately 13 minutes long, directed and photographed in black and white"

UbuWeb has Some YoYo Stuff: An observation of the observations of Don Van Vliet by Anton Corbijn up for viewing. Or just download the .avi video here. Nice. (via WFMU's Beware of the Blog)

Check out The Don Van Vliet Paintings Gallery at The Captain Beefheart Radar Station.

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The Graffiti Project at Kelburn Castle

The Graffiti Project at Kelburn Castle, starting May 12, 2007. "...We are bringing together four of the world’s leading graffiti artists from Brazil, Os Gemeos, Nina Pandolfo and Nunca to work alongside Scottish talent, to create a unique burst of colour, embracing the walls and turrets of the south side of Kelburn Castle.
The project will involve the artists and organizers living together in the Castle for approximately one month, documented by various forms of media. The artists will have time to share and explore new ideas culminating in a one-off, giant piece of collaborative art."

Pop Drek

I implore you, unless you have horrible musical taste (as I do) and truly adore the drekkiest of the drek pop music do NOT follow the link to 45blog to download the song “Salambo Part 1” by the Salambos. The melody sounds like a 70s theme song for the most laid back game show imaginable, followed by an off-key bridge belted out by a “song-stylist” who, with much hard work, can only hope to, one day, work her way up to having a tin ear. It WILL stick to your brain like melted bubblegum, and you too may wake up, as I did this morning, with this little ditty bidding a fond good morning.

I fear the only way to remove this from my consciousness will be a visit to Disneyworld to the “It’s a Small World” exhibit, until that insidious song has replaced it in my brain.

Christian Women vs. Muslim Women: 1-1

Johnny is wondering why it's so hard for the Muslim and the Christian world to come together when they've got so much in common.

Reports say the game was really good and hard despite the fact that the referee had problems localizing the ball as had most of the players.

Hell broke lose after the game when the team manager for the "Muslims" filed a protest against the "Christian" team claiming that they probably were male professional football players disguised as ladies.

"Christian" snipers were of another opinion. All of a sudden some of the "Muslim" women started to blow up.

And that was the end of it.

On a Rainbow Quest

Pete Seeger hosted a regional tv show in the US mid 60s called 'Rainbow Quest'. 38 episodes were produced. Folk- and country music legends were guests at the show discussing music and jamming some songs.

All the clips here under go to YouTube clips.

Rainbow Quest Episode 3:

-Rosa Valentin and Rafael Martinez
-Pete Seeger - Guantanamera
-Elizabeth Cotten - Mama, Your Papa Loves You
-Elizabeth Cotten - Wilson Rag
-Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train


Elizabeth Cotten and Pete Seeger.

Rainbow Quest Episode 5:

-Pete Seeger, Bernice Reagon, and Jean Ritchie - O Mary, Don't You Weep
-Bernice Johnson Reagon - Come and Go with Me to that Land
-Bernice Johnson Reagon - Will the Circle Be Unbroken
-Bernice Johnson Reagon - Titanic Blues
-Jean Ritchie & Pete Seeger - Jenny Jenkins
-Jean Ritchie - Shady Grove
-Jean Ritchie - Skip to my Lou

Rainbow Quest Episode 6:

-Malvina Reynolds - No Hole in My Head
-Malvina Reynolds - The Little Red Hen
-Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Pete Seeger, & Malvina Reynolds - Woody's Rag
-Ramblin' Jack Elliott - Talking Merchant Marine

Rainbow Quest Episode 7:

-Bessie Jones and Children from the Downtown Community School - I'm gonna lay down my life for my Lord
-Bessie Jones and Children from the Downtown Community School - Little Johnny Brown
-More with Bessie Jones and Children from the Downtown Community School
-More with Bessie Jones and Children from the Downtown Community School

Rainbow Quest Episode 9:

-The Beers Family - The Connaughtman's Rambles
-The Beers Family - Dumbarton's Drums
-The Beers Family - In My Garden Grew Plenty of Thyme
-The Beers Family - Lamplighter's Hornpipe
-The Beers Family - Walkie in the Parlor

Rainbow Quest Episode 12:

-Pete Seeger, Doc Watson, Clint Howard, and Fred Price - Careless Love
-Doc Watson, Clint Howard, and Fred Price - Cackling Hen

Rainbow Quest Episode 16:

-Mimi and Richard Fariña - Bold Marauder
-Mimi and Richard Fariña - House Un-American Blues Activity Dream
-Mimi and Richard Fariña - Pack Up Your Sorrows
-Mimi and Richard Farinã - Joy 'Round My Brain

Rainbow Quest Episode 17:

-Roscoe Holcomb - Graveyard Blues
-Roscoe Holcomb - Little Birdie
-Roscoe Holcomb - Little Gray Mule


Pete and Roscoe Holcomb

Rainbow Quest Episode 18:

-Cousin Emmy - You Are My Sunshine
-Dr. Ralph Stanley - The Clinch Mountain Backstep
-Stanley Brothers and the Clinch Mountain Boys

Rainbow Quest Episode 19:

-Sonia Malkine

Rainbow Quest Episode 21:

-Patrick Sky, Separation Blues
-The Pennywhistlers
-The Pennywhistlers - Portland Town
-Pete Seeger, Pat Sky, and the Pennywhistlers - No Sir No

Rainbow Quest Episode 23:

-Reverend Gary Davis - Oh Glory, How Happy I Am
-Reverend Gary Davis - Children of Zion
-Donovan and Shawn Phillips - Guinevere

Rainbow Quest Episode 25:

-Pete Seeger shows how to play "Skip to my Lou" on the banjo
-Mamou Cajun Band
-More with the The Cajun Band

Rainbow Quest Episode 34:

-Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Down by the Riverside
-Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Key to the Highway
-Pete Seeger with Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Cindy / Rock Island Line
-Pete Seeger with Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - In the Evening
-Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Easy Rider
-Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - I Couldn't Believe My Eyes
-Pete Seeger with Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Hootin' the Blues / When the Saints Go Marchin' In

Rainbow Quest Episode 36:

-Mississippi John Hurt - John Henry
-Mississippi John Hurt - Goodnight Irene
-Mississippi John Hurt - Lonesome Valley Blues

Rainbow Quest Episode 37:

-Kim Loy Wong and the Hi-Landers Steel Band
-Herbert Levy

Rainbow Quest Episode 38:

-Buffy Sainte-Marie - Welcome, Welcome Emigrante
-Buffy Sainte-Marie - My Country 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying
-Buffy Sainte-Marie - Little Wheel Spin and Spin
-Buffy Sainte-Marie demonstrates the mouth bow
-Buffy Sainte-Marie & Pete Seeger - Cindy

Almost all the clips above labelled with correct episode number was uploaded by peglegsam. Nice Work.

Clips from episodes:

-Pete Seeger - Had I a Golden Thread
-June Carter and Johnny Cash with Pete Seeger -It Takes a Worried Man
-Johnny Cash - I am a Pilgrim
-Johnny Cash with June Carter and Pete Seeger -As Long as the Grass Shall Grow
-June Carter with Johnny Cash and Pete Seeger - I Am Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes


Johnny Cash's boots.

-Tom Paxton and Pete Seeger -Ramblin' Boy
-Tom Paxton - Buy A Gun For Your Son
-Tom Paxton - Beau John

-Judy Collins - Bob Dylans Dream
-Judy Collins - Turn Turn Turn
-Judy Collins - Russian Love Song
-Judy Collins - Will You Go Lassie Go
-Judy Collins - Daddy You've Been On My Mind

Clip added by BanjoMatthew

-Stanley Brothers - Single Girl, Married Girl (the embedded video above)

The Stooges

"The reason I was really in it was to try to create a type of music that could explode me like a rocket out of the type of life that was planned for me."

The Stooges - The Weirdness, an online documentary. (via The Cartoonist)

Dance Fever!

The 70's were so weird. You could be a chubby middle-aged lady like Doris Roberts, and still get to judge a Disco contest, and say things like "I think they're full of ZEST! Very sexy!" You could have a last name like "Walmsley" and still be famous. And if you were Frank Zappa, you could give the worst dancers a 98, just because you're such a nice guy.

(Shamelessly cribbed from Beware of the Blog)

Nuts To You

Most kids have memories of pressing an ear to their bedroom door to try to catch the forbidden sounds of a “grown-ups” party. Maybe your (grand)parents were hip enough to own some raunchy party records, like Doug Clark & the Hot Nuts. They probably kept them hidden in the same place Dad kept his stag magazines--can’t have an album cover of Doug Clark flipping off the audience co-mingling with Lawrence Welk’s Christmas album and Alvin and the Chipmunks, now can we?

Naughty numbers such as “My Ding-a-ling” and “Ring Dang Doo” can barely command a PG rating anymore, but this stuff was pretty saucy, back in the day.

You can find more info about Doug Clark & the Hot Nuts, as well as downloads, here.

Having A Wonderful Time

Most postcards depict Chamber of Commerce-approved sights designed to entice potential travelers to exotic locales. Postkarten vom Franz provides fair warning of parts of the globe you may want to avoid. When Franz sends greetings, they’re from what appears to be a Turkish camel autopsy. Or a holiday panorama from a Dutch strip mall, where the sinister Sint Nicolaas and his leering henchman can only make Christmas nightmares come true.

Anyone up for a road trip?

Catching the Music

Catching the Music - a film by Jackson Frost and Stephen Wade (1987, 54 minutes, Color). "...Written in 1987 by Stephen Wade, creator of the long-running stage show Banjo Dancing, and produced by WETA’s Jackson Frost, Catching the Music explores a family of musicians tied together not by lines of kinship but by a continuing engagement with the music of the Southern five-string banjo. It begins with Wade who, early on, was drawn to its myriad sounds and its traditional repertory. He learned first from Fleming Brown, a teacher at Chicago’s Old Town School of Folk Music. From the start, Brown advised Wade to concentrate on great performances, advising him, above all, to 'find the people who know how to play the music.' This led Wade to Brown’s teacher, Doc Hopkins, an old-time WLS radio singer from Eastern Kentucky. In tracing Hopkins’ and Brown’s influences and inspirations, the film comes to explore other forebears, other practitioners who also share in the music. Their lessons, set in historical and cultural contexts, lie at the heart of this film."

the Last Days of Sodom and Gomorrah

the Big Fake

Thanks For Letting Me Speak

Blessings can happen every day--as depicted in this Mexican ex-voto, thanking Guadalupe for restoring a lost voice, frightened away by alien visitation.

Mr. Dante Fontana, PCL curator, might not have the heavenly wardrobe, nor a penchant for having his image appear magically in tortillas or the overpass of Chicago expressways as does Ms. Guadalupe—but I thank him nevertheless for giving me the opportunity for my adnoidal Midwestern twang to join the other voices of one of my favorite blogs.

Please visit me sometime at my office, where I dispense controlled doses of Schadenfreudian Therapy , by sublingual administration or injection.

LP Cover Lover

Click album covers to view them at source.

LP Cover Lover - LP album covers, 45s too.

A blog dedicated to LP and EP cover art. Lovely!

And with nifty categories such as Big Heads, Heaven and Hell, Monsters, Planes Trains Automobiles, and Real People with Real Problems! Just to mention a few.

(thanks to KD over at Pop Culture Links)

Swinging Matchbooks

Mom doesn't like these in the house...

Greetings from gmtPlus9 (-15)

Hi...
Andrew Abb of gmtPlus9 (-15) here.
I've accepted an invitation to contribute to PCL LinkDump.
As a means of introduction, here are the first 5 songs off my iPod in shuffle mode tonight...

UFO by ESG (A South Bronx Story).
Living Style by Yabby U & King Tubby (Heavyweight Sound: A Blood and Fire Sampler).
Rosie Lets Get Cozy by Dave Rich (That'll Flat Git It! Vol.1).
African Space by Creation Rebel (Psychotic Jonkanoo).
Atlantis by Les Baxter (Ultra-Lounge Volume One: Mondo Exotica).

Looking forward to posting here.
Cheers,

Pardners

Brainwerk says: "... Because the record labels or movie studios would never put this CD out, I had to take it upon myself. These guys are my favorite movie/comic buddies of all time. In my opinion at least, nobody comes close. Here are my favorite songs performed in their movies. Most are duets but a few are solos. ..."
Check The Cool Wax presents: Pardners :: The Best of Dean & Jerry At The Movies.

With Carmen Miranda in"San Domingo / The Bongo Bingo" from 'Scared Stiff'[IMDb]:

Added by LadyKnight72

Olé!

Anyone?

I just wonder if anyone is interested in joining the PCL team.
We need more power. More good stuff.

If you're an avid reader of these pages you know what good stuff is made of.
And you know this space is for pop culture - high and low.

Try it out for a week if you like. If you haven't published any blog of your own this is a good chance trying it out. Perhaps you'll enjoy the experience.

If you already are a blogger, then perhaps you like to have some more readers for a while (or less if you're a Big Shot).

Dump some links. Write some trash. Have a laugh.

Contact me at this address (yep, the ususal one) if you're interested.

/Z aka mrdantefontana

Updated: Sorry, we have enough people now to throw a decent party. Maybe later!

Dollar Store Celebrity Hoochies

GlyphJockey has created a masterpiece slideshow with a camera, some Anthon Berg candies and some Barbie/"Britney"/"Paris Hilton" dolls: Dollar Store Celebrity Hoochies.

Note: No crotch or other bald parts shots. Sorry.

The Hunch

April 18, now also known as The Hunch day.

8 X 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements

Directed by Jean Cocteau and Hans Richter in 1957 [IMDb].
Starring Cocteau, Paul Bowles, Jean Arp, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst and several others. (70 min) (via Videos with Bibi)

Updated: phantomoftheradio alerts us about another Hans Richter masterpiece from 1928 "Ghost before breakfast". Thanks!

Henriette Valium

'Der Überlebende'
Click image for better view at source.

"Henriette Valium (born May 4, 1959), whose real name is Patrick Henley, is a comic book artist and painter based in Montréal, Québec. Although Valium did gain substantial recognition from the underground comics scene in Europe and North-America since his beginnings in the early eighties, his provocative and hallucinogenic style has kept him well away from the mainstream comic book industry. ..." [Quoted from Wikipedia entry]

Henriette Valium, fascinating art works and brilliant comic pages. (via Hugo Strikes Back! )

Russell Lee

'Couple looking at car showroom', Turin, Italy, 1960
Click image for better view at source.

Russell Lee, featured in The Digital Journalist. Here's the gallery and its thumbs. (via RaShOmoN)

Catherine Servel

Catherine Servel, photographer. Soft and cozy colors with an "ageing photo" touch. (via fluffy Lychees)

Sifting vintage video

vintage.VideoSift at VideoSift. All sorts of old video/tv/movie clips (as well as a few full movies) collected at one place. (via Biggest part of my life is me, which is, btw, the new home for Frank, the Peanut Butter Sandwich Man)

You can find a lot of fun and good stuff browsing this site. Like this one:

'Swamp Women' (1955) [Poster], directed by Roger Corman:

Rhythm and Blues Revue

Rhythm and Blues Revue (1955) [IMDb] is in Public Domain and is according to Internet Archive a "Musical variety show filmed at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem, New York City featuring a cast of popular African-American performers: Willie Bryant, Freddie Robinson, Lionel Hampton, Count Basie, Faye Adams, Bill Bailey, Herb Jeffries, Amos Milburn, Sarah Vaughan, Nipsey Russell, Big Joe Turner, Martha Davis, Little Buck, Nat 'King' Cole, Mantan Moreland, Cab Calloway and Ruth Brown."

Here's a wild and fun clip from the film with an exciting exotica vibe,
Lionel Hampton - Bongo Interlude:

Clip added by weirdovideos

Bonus: Don't forget to pick up the 1951 8-track LP "Here's Gates" with Lionel Hampton ('Bongo Interlude' is one of the tracks) posted and shared by Brad over at MoodieToonz last year. It's still there. And it's still swingin'!

Interesting book cover scans

'Crackpot' - John Waters, 'The Penguin Private Eye' and Clifford Simak - 'Shakespeare's Planet'
Click images for better view at source.

Nice set of book cover scans uploaded by scorzonera.
And check it out! "The Mortal Trio" (cover art for Playing Around - Peter Bennett) (via comment at Percy Trout)

100% Other People's Memories

Image above found in folder for 'Social and Family Life'

100% recuerdos ajenos / 100% Other People's Memories - Found photographs. (via gmtPlus9 (-15))

"Hunting High ... ... and Low"

I remeber the first year of this site. I changed and tweaked the design more often than I changed underwear. Well, not really. But almost. I had forgotten how much time I spent with my nose in the template.
Then, suddenly - out of the blue! - I found it. I found the guys! For the first time I thought the page looked ok all over. It was in August 2005. I haven't changed much of the design since.

Now, when I decided to try to create a new logo and let the guys get some rest I had almost forgot about the template and where to put code and stuff.

I posted about the new logo and "the mortal trio" yesterday and thought I had finished it. But I had just started...
Anyway. Now, I think I have it.

Hope you feel at home anyway. It's not the song - it's the singer.

/Z aka mrdantefontana (Peyton, Curtis and Leyla say -It's Good to be here. Now, let us have some privacy will You!)

Rock-it to stardom with The Legendary Stardust Cowboy

elsebasto brings us The Legendary Stardust Cowboy - Rock-it to stardom. Wow!

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Download another show from the Archives
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Richard Colman

'Collection of Gentlemen' & 'Orange Bell'

Richard Colman - Gallery (via Wooster Collective)

Six best buys in home computers... in 1982

"... One thing about computers— they’re all going to fail, sooner or later. .."
Allright! They knew the truth already back in 1982.

Popular Mechanics Compares 6 Top Computers in January 1982 at Modern Mechanix.

The Guys Are Dead - Long Live The Mortal Trio!

The new logo/masthead has arrived. This mortal trio have been playing around for years - now it's time for the big showdown.

Peyton is 19 years old. She enjoys painting, sewing, tiki drinks and rough games of monopoly. She is unemployed for the moment. But she's really creative and something of a computer wizard so something will probably turn up pretty soon.

Curtis is 39 years old. He enjoys thrift shopping, rifle shooting and good ole' country music. For the moment he works as a handy man at an IKEA warehouse for a very modest sallery. He hates his job, but he's a survivor.

Leyla is 24 years old. She likes sex and jazz standards (though secretly she's kind of into Kylie Minogue). She works as a stripper. She's doing good money.

Peyton, Curtis and Leyla. Together this mortal trio form ... well of course! ... - PCL





I'm not sure if this is the thing. But I'll use it for a while.
The guys are not really dead. They are just sleeping. You know, tired of standing there all on their own in the hot spotlights.
I've tucked them in properly under silk sheets in their waterbed.
Maybe I'll wake them up if I miss their company.

/Z aka mrdantefontana

House on the Lake

Rosanne Cash - House on the Lake:

Video added by devilboy77 (via Sonic)

Yesterday's news. Today's news: Boycott Bee Gees!!!

Skateboard Kings

"'Skateboard Kings' is a news documentary that was made by a British program called "The World About Us". This episode is about the Skateboard Kings of Southern California, and in particular riders such as the World Champion Tony Alva are featured in their daily lives and exploits in and around DOGTOWN. Ray Flores, Billy Yeron, Paul Constantineau, Jerry Valdez, Shogo Kubo, Kent Senatore, Ellen O'neil, Bob Mohr, Elen Berryman, Kim Cespedes and others. Russ Howell and Stacy Peralta are featured in a bizzare freestyle and safety demonstration. La Costa segment with Henry Hester, Bob Skolberg and John Hutson. There's visits to SkateBoarder Magazine, a few empty pools, a new skatepark, typical DogTown house party, demo's, a visit to the infamous Arizona Pipes, and a skate board manufacturer. "

(via del.icio.us/orangette_coleman)

Blue Hipster Vinyl Sharing

Blue Hipster is not just an exraordinary retro inpired illustrator. He is also doing a great job sharing out-of-print albums.
Blue Hipster Vinyl Sharing (via Exotica)

More Great 50s Playboy Cartoonists

"And this one we wear in the morning, upon arising."
By Jack Davis. Click image for better view at source.

Stephen Worth of ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Project Blog continues his posts spotlighting Playboy cartoonists with a blend of late 50s artists (Jack Cole, Jack Davis, Charles W. Miller and Al Stine)

Blue Hipster

'The Tielman Brothers': "Part of the series Dutch Pop History 50's - 70's"

Blue Hipster - Artwork For The Hip'n'Cool

Bonus: the complete & uncut Dutch tv broadcast with The Tielman Brothers (live recorded at the Concordia, Bussum-Holland january 23, 1960), at the Bintang Theatr:

Video uploaded by bintangtheater

The Singing Sisters

Hear and see Marry and Thea Verhey at splusp. In the sixties they were the most wellknown duo among all the Dutch religious singing sisters with guitar and ukelele.

See also dezingendezusjes.nl and De Zingende Zusjes at Showcase

Do women and horror movies mix?

"Do women and horror movies mix? Are women excited by being scared to death and watching the bodies pile up? ...

... Psychologists have long believed that our attraction to horror films is that they allow us to explore and experiment with fears and emotions, but there are suggestions that women respond to fear in a way that men don't. "Fear can facilitate sexual responsiveness in women, whereas it inhibits it in men," says Dr Glenn Wilson, a psychologist at King's College London. Isn't that a little close to the myth that women have rape fantasies? "No," he says. "It has to be in a safe, controlled environment, so watching a horror film is a good example. I'm not saying this is the only reason for watching. Horror films, for men and women, are about learning to cope with emotions that would threaten to overwhelm us if they happened in reality." I ask Sarah if The Hills Have Eyes 2 turned her on. She laughs. "No, it was a mixture of boredom and feeling a bit sick. Which isn't sexy." ...

... What I hear again and again is that there just aren't enough female directors in any genre, but especially in horror. One effort to change this has come from the low-budget film studio Warp X, which is running Darklight, an initiative to encourage female horror directors. Ten were chosen and they have been taking part in workshops; at least two of the films to come out of it will be made. "We are focusing on horror because the genre is becoming more popular," says Caroline Cooper Charles, head of creative development. "Horror is a very well-trodden genre with clear tropes and it could do with an injection of something different, something new to make it more exciting. The idea of bringing a female perspective, to see whether those women will come up with anything different, was really interesting." ... "

'Everything but the ghoul', article in Guardian Unlimited Film Features. (via del.icio.us/thgroh)

1940's Paperback Mysteries

"The Dell Mysteries had the juicy cover art and a 'crime map' on the back cover to aid the reader in tracking clues and postulating their 'whodunnit' theories. I love the little 'eye in the keyhole' logo, too.
Most of the Dells in this set are from the first half of the '40's. Towards the end there's also a few Popular Library covers from the same period, with cover art in a very similar style. ..."
Cover Gallery: 1940's Paperback Mysteries, set at Flickr uploaded by jl.incrowd (via I'm Learning To Share!)

Update: Farmirin D. Dell tells us: "These books are most commonly referred to as the "Dell Mapbacks." A full history of the series is in "Putting Dell on the Map" by William Lyles. If you really love these, though, get a copy of Piet Schreuders "Dell Mapbacks," which was printed as a 1998 diary and features wonderful reproductions of the front and back covers of 52 titles. Or, if you want to see more Mapbacks (all of them, I think!) go here."

Russia in the early 80s

"These are some illustrations from the book “The Russians” by Alexandr Kalion ...
These are Russian people of early 80s, right before the collapse of USSR."
Some great photos from Russia Early 80s at English Russia. (via LinkFilter)

Note Brasklapp: I know these photos are probably not representative for Russian life in the early 80s. These are great photos nevertheless!

Daisy Van Heyden Dune Dancing

This is beautifull but pretty much NSFW!

posted at www.123video.nl

Black Satin / White Satin

Stax o' Wax is offering 2 great albums by George Shearing Quintet and Orchestra:

Black Satin and White Satin.

Listen up girls!

"Even after permanent attachments have been formed and a young couple begin "going steady," it is well for them to join others in wholesome fun."
Yes, Ladies. These sticks are safe. Barbara!!! Don't put it that close to Sam's mouth, You crude woman!

Some "wise" words from 1951 On Becoming A Woman. (And for heaven's sake: Beware of getting it on in the shower with your girlfriends! 'Cause as you of course know "Homosexual tendencies usually occur in persons who are otherwise poorly adjusted in life.") (via MonkeyFilter)

Children of all ages! Listen up!

Easter is over. Get your intestines back in shape in no time with Castoria. It's got the magic WOW! touch.
(via Do What Now? )

The Golden Earring - When The Lady Smiles

One of the best Dutch videoclips ever. It was a bit controversial round that time (apr. 1983) because of the raping of a nun. Personally I was more shocked by the lobotomy when I first saw it. There are some known Dutch guest stars appearing like Hans Van Den Burg and actor Huub Stapel, from the cult classic De Lift, about a killer elevator, which was directed by Dick Maas who is also the director of this clip.

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Paul Chatem

'Real Gone'

The art of Paul Chatem (via RaShOmoN)

Name that hair-metal band!

I only got one wrong. How about that!
Name that hair-metal band! (via Sonic)

Nat Finkelstein

'Self-portrait' and 'Amber laughing' (both from 'Portraits')


'Dylan screen test' found in THE FACTORY YEARS: 1964 - 1967 / Duchamp to Dylan

Nat Finkelstein, photographer: Photojournalism - Andy Warhol - Factory - Velvet Underground - A Tale of One City (A photographic Trip throughthe Rock & Roll Underground) - Erotica [NSFW] - Americana - Girlfriends 1980s-90s [NSFW] - Portraits (via The Cartoonist)

Wes Montgomery, Johnny Griffin - Blue Monk

Monk's "Blue Monk" as played by Wes Montgomery and Johnny Griffin in Hamburg 1965.

Lineup:
Wes Montgomery (guitar) Hans Koller (alto saxophone) Johnny Griffin & Ronnie Scott (tenor saxophones) Ronnie Ross (baritone saxophone) Martial Solal (piano) Michel Gaudry [Edit: in French] (bass) Ronnie Stephenson (drums)

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Buena Vista Social Club

Screen caps from 'Buena Vista Social Club' [IMDb] posted at Nostalgia No. 2.

Buena Vista Social Club - Chan Chan:

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Our Reverend Tom Frost

Madman blogger and musician Reverend Tom Frost has a new page on MyRockin'Rollin'Space.

Tune in to listen to 2 new haunting demo songs and 2 "old" snake charmers.

"KKK Beauty Pageant"

Click image if you want a closer look.

The poster of this image over at vintagephoto titles this "KKK Beauty Pageant".
Hm. I don't know... As a matter of fact I'm quite sure I don't want to know!
Just... take it off!!

Keith Snorted His Dad

"LONDON (Reuters) - Rolling Stones guitarist
Keith Richards said in an interview published on Tuesday that he once snorted his father's ashes mixed with cocaine. ..."

Ah! That is indeed recycling!

Read more bout this at Yahoo News.

Dr. Manta

Mantagraphics - The home of Dr. Manta.
Art, design and illustrations.



Dr. Manta is one of the masterminds behind the best Swedish Spirou site, Spirou enligt Franquin (In Swedish). An impressive site all aspects considered.

Dr. Manta is also known for his insightful comments here at PCL.
Yes, a man of great taste and high standards!

Kuryakin, cute life sized pin-up

Life sized Illya (David McCallum from The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) pin-up. (via This Is Pop Culture)

Lobby cards for 'Anita, Swedish Nymphet'

Lobby cards for Anita, Swedish Nymphet, starring Christina Lindberg (and Stellan Skarsgård, not shown above).
Thanks to Percy Trout! Click images for a little bit of enlargement.

Cultural Revolution-Era 10" Records

The Socialist Road Is The Broadest Of All:
Song titles include: "Celebrating The Founding Of The Emancipated Serfs Association" — "The People's Communes Are Really Good" — "Carrying Manure Up The Mountainside" — "Young Intellectuals Come To The Home Of The Yi People"

"Carrying Manure Up The Mountainside", isn't that a song written by Dolly Parton? And haven't I heard "Young Intellectuals Come To The Home Of The Yi People"? Hm. Was it Beck's latest album? Or was it Momus 3:rd? I'm not sure.

"7" and 10" EPs released by China Records between 1965 and 1978."
Cultural Revolution-Era 10" Records, a small but wonderful set at Flickr uploaded by Oldtasty. (via Urban Retro Lifestyle)

Trailer Club 70

Trailer Club 70 - Trailers of strange films from the seventies and beyond
Now Showing: Raiders of Atlantis - Sugar Hill - Star Crash - The Dark - The Pom Pom Girls and Matango.
Yep, cool stuff. (via MonkeyFilter)

Showgirls

"No other icon epitomizes Las Vegas like the showgirl. While Las Vegas has become known primarily as a gambling resort, in fact its entertainment is as important to its tourist industry as gambling. Las Vegas has, in a sense, lived up to its self-promotion as the entertainment capital of the world. From a venue for New York nightclub shows in the first strip hotels—in which the entertainment director took precedence over the casino boss—Las Vegas has developed a unique and distinctive genre of adult entertainment perhaps most associated with the "Frenchified" showgirl of the Las Vegas shows Lido de Paris and Folies-Bergère, and their spin-offs of headliners, standup comics, and magicians.
The Las Vegas Showgirl, and the shows which exemplified them, have a history all their own. From the distinct theatrical traditions of burlesque, vaudeville, dance and music halls, the French cancan, comic opera and operetta, Broadway, speakeasies and nightclubs, and movies, came a cosmopolitan adult entertainment popular in New York, Hollywood, Paris, Miami Beach, Rio, and ultimately Las Vegas, where it seemed to become a permanent fixture of this town’s almost timeless firmament of entertainment. The Showgirl and The Las Vegas Show survive only in Las Vegas, that time-warp museum of popular culture. ..."
(quoted from the 'about' section of the exhibition)

"Frank Sinatra with the Copa Girls during rehearsal"
(Found in 'Jack Entratter and the Copa Girls')
Click image for much better view at source.

"Dancers in front of "Panache" sign"
(Found in 'Lido at the Stardust')
Click image for much better view at source.

Showgirls

Photographs of Black Los Angeles from the Walter Gordon Collection

"Billie Holiday stands with LAPD Detective Gosline in front of a courtroom while awaiting trial in the early 1950s. Holiday was singing “Strange Fruit” (a song about the lynching of African-Americans) in a West Hollywood club, when a member of the audience proceeded to heckle her. She left the stage midway through the song, allegedly slashed the heckler with a knife, and resumed singing. She was charged with assault and battery but the case was dismissed when the victim, under cross-examination by Walter Gordon, refused to give his name and address."

Life As He Knew It - Photographs of Black Los Angeles from the Walter Gordon Collection

Photos from the archives of The Cryptic Corporation

'John Crawfish, George Crawfish, Paul McCrawfish and Ringo Starfish'
Found in folder for Promotional > Crawfish >


Promo card from 1977
Found in folder for Promotional >

The Residents - Photos from the archives of The Cryptic Corporation. (via The Residents BOG)

Body of Evidence

"In daily life as well as in the arts - both traditional and contemporary - the human body is a primary canvas for self-expression. 'Body of Evidence', a changing exhibition drawn from the museum collection, considers how African contemporary artists use the body to communicate meaning ..." (Excerpt from the introduction)


Godfried Donkor's 'From Slave To Champ I'

Body of Evidence

Alberto Cerriteño

'Kong-fly'

Alberto Cerriteño: artworks and designs. His blog is here. (via Urban Retro Lifestyle)