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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links
Below, today's set of reviews and citations of audiovisual works and related matter, with the posts at the links...as always, thanks to all the contributors and to all you readers for your...
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Some unfortunate attempts to sex up classical music album covers: Saturday...
 ***Some probably NSFW imagery here, as you might expect... Sometimes, a cover photo concept, whether high or low, just doesn't come off... The tiny composer portrait clearly disapproves...And one...
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FFB: INSIDE SCIENCE FICTION #53: The F&SF Parody Issue (1958)
The 53rd issue of the ambitious and rather impressive fanzine Inside Science Fiction was given over in part to a parody of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (and to some extent its...
View ArticleSaturday Music Club: the next two minutes
Aretha Franklin: "Take It Like You Give It"Â The Zombies: "What More Can I Do?"The Zombies: "Sometimes"Â Fairport Convetion: "Reno, Nevada"Â The Kinks: "Village Green"Â The Kinks: "I Need You"The Who: "I...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links
BorgenBelow, today's set of reviews and citations of audiovisual works and related matter, with the posts at the links, and including no fewer than two films from the short-film series about Boston...
View ArticleJuly's Underappreciated Music: new links
Miriam Makeba: Ye tintu tiz alegn (aka Yetentu Tizaleny)Patti Abbott: Tuesday Night Music; Friday Night Music; Saturday Night MusicBrian Arnold: Barbara Lewis Bill Crider: Song of the DaySean Coleman:...
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Friday's Forgotten Books, Emergency Backup Links, and: E PLURIBUS UNICORN by...
***Please see the end of the post for Emergency Backup Links to the other posts for this week's FFB.FFB bonus:Â Robert Bloch, 1979: Leigh Brackett, J. Francis McComas and Eric Frank Russell in...
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Saturday Music Club: Lost LOVE: The Zombies' best album, I LOVE YOU (1966)...
Below, the Varese Sarabande version (with six bonus tracks added: 13-18) of I Love You by the Zombies, an album Decca put together solely for their Japanese and Dutch divisions, made up (as were such...
View ArticlePaul Desmond on CBC-TV, 1976; GLAD TO BE UNHAPPY the album
Takes the interlocutors two minutes of bibble to get to the Desmond interview. Recorded not long before his death in 1977.1963 album: Glad to Be UnhappyDesmond, alto sax; Jim Hall, guitar; Gene Wright,...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links
The WhistlerBelow, today's set of reviews and citations of audiovisual works and related matter, with the posts at the links...as always, thanks to all the contributors and to all you readers for your...
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Friday's Forgotten Books: new links
Below you'll find the links to the text of reviews, citations, and a "lost" Erle Stanley Gardner story among our "forgotten" and sometimes all too forgotten books and shorter works today; also, at...
View ArticleLarge bands, third steam...Monk, Akiyoshi, Brubeck, Evans, Roach, Gillespie,...
Thelonious Monk Big Band at Town HallPart 2Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey, Sonny Stitt, Kai Winding, Al McKibben 1971Toshiko Akiyoshi/Lew Tabackin Big Band: Sumie (possibly my favorite...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links
"The Deep End"Below, today's set of reviews and citations of audiovisual works and related matter (only two prominently featuring sharks...non-metaphorical ones, anyway), with the posts at the...
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Jack/John Holbrook Vance FFB: THE DOGTOWN TOURIST AGENCY by Jack Vance (1975)
This, my review of Jack Vance's short novel/long novella The Dogtown Tourist Agency, first published in the bugcrushing all-original-publication anthology Epoch, edited by Robert Silverberg and Roger...
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the first records I purchased for myself: Saturday Music Club on Monday
The first recordings I purchased for myself...all the albums were cut-outs when not discount items initially (Pickwick). I had only so many $2/3 allotments in the early/mid 1970s.The flipside of this...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links
Theatre of BloodBelow, today's set of reviews and citations of audiovisual works and related matter, with the posts at the links...as always, thanks to all the contributors and to all you readers for...
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FFB: LAUGHING MATTERS: A CELEBRATION OF AMERICAN HUMOR edited by (of all...
Gene Shalit had a long but not all that distinguished career as a film (and to a lesser extent book) reviewer for television, usually the NBC morning series Today, before retiring in 2010. He has been...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links
The Panic in Needle ParkElmore Leonard...nothing left to prove. Rest in Glory.Below, today's set of reviews and citations of audiovisual works and related matter, with the posts at the links...as...
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FFB: edited by Avram Davidson: THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION...
Donald Westlake, Mack Reynolds, Damon Knight, Edward Wellen, Allen Kim Lang's possibly best story, part of Fritz Leiber and Avram Davidson's longterm argument about the merits of H.P. Lovecraft's...
View ArticleJohn Cale: Saturday Music Club on Sunday
John Cale performing an excerpt from Erik Satie's "Vexations" as part of his appearance on I've Got a Secret (1963)The Dream Syndicate: "Day of Niagara" (hint: this is the first of two to skip if you...
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