Katarina Rankovic reads Angela Carter...with permission?
An interesting situation...here, one Katarina Rankovic reads an Angela Carter short story, "The Werewolf" (collected in Carter's The Bloody Chamber)...but is this OK with the Carter Estate, it being on...
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Tuesday's Overloooked Films and/or Other A/V: the (Western Xmas Eve) links:
This week's selections for (usually) unfairly overlooked or obscure audio/visual presentations at the links below...and the possibility of a few more to be added over the course of the day (even if we...
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David Hardy's Bhen (the BEM)
Happy Boxing Day!And a great year's end!(and considerate), but...Be careful...Have some fun!Safe travels...even stationary ones!David Hardy's siteGalactic Central, concentrator of cover imagery!
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December's Underappeciated Music: the links
Kirtsy MaColl and the PoguesThe monthly assembly of undervalued and often nearly "lost" music, or simply music the blogger in question wants to remind you reader/listeners of....Patti Abbott: Tuesday...
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Friday's "Forgotten" Books: a slightly abbreviated year's end edition
A 37th Anniversary...Patti Abbott and many of the regulars are taking this week off, but not all...never all! So, a shorter list than is usual, or than we're likely to see next week, when I'll host...
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Amazon stumped in theft of Bill Crider meme: the back cover of TRIALS OF...
If you bring up the Amazon page for this tie-in to the mid-'60s Peter Falk series (which had the ratings misfortune, in its only season, to be slotted against established fogey fave The Lawrence Welk...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and Other A/V: year's end edition: the links
Orphan BlackThis week's selections for (usually) unfairly overlooked or obscure audio/visual presentations at the links below...and the possibility of a few more to be added over the course of the day....
View Article"Wimoweh">"The Lion Sleeps Tonight": Saturday Music Club on 1 January">"Mbube">"Wimoweh">"The Lion Sleeps Tonight": Saturday Music Club on 1 January
Solomon Linda and the Evening Birds (1939): "Mbube"The Weavers (1954 Carnegie Hall recording): "Wimoweh" The 1952 (hit) studio recording, The Weavers with the Gordon Jenkins Orchestra and Chorus.The...
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Friday's "Forgotten" Books: the links--the New Year's edition
Below, links to reviews and citations of (usually, but not always) unfairly obscure or at least underappreciated books and other literature chosen by these folks for consideration this week; please let...
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Have you seen me? P. S. magazine, the nostalgia/pop culture/humor magazine...
I've been looking for reasonably priced copies for years...indices courtesy the FictionMags Index. If ever a magazine called out for a facsimile re-issue...P.S. [v1 #1, April 1966] ed. Edward L. Ferman...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links
ZenThis week's selections for (usually) unfairly overlooked or obscure audio/visual presentations at the links below...and the possibility of a few more to be added over the course of the day. As...
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FFB: Walt Kelly: The Life And Art of the Creator of Pogo by Thomas Andrae and...
Between the subjects of these two heavily-illustrated celebrations, most of the history of graphic storytelling...or comics, in newspaper strips, comic books and elsewhere...is at least touched on....
View ArticleSaturday Music Club: some Continental '60s rock television and other...
The Kinks in France, 1965:Beat Club (Germany): Pacific Gas & Electric, the Kinks, Chuck Berry (with a Very sober young woman giving background on Berry's career and importance), the Grateful Dead,...
View ArticleNeal Barrett, Jr., RIP
Locus magazine, unsurprisingly, emphasizes his fantasy and sf...he was, of course, also a brilliant writer of crime and western fiction. Neal Barrett, Jr. (1929-2014)— posted Monday 13 January 2014 @...
View ArticleTuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links--a slow build today.
Sorry for the delay, folks, but Everything Else has been more emergent today, so I will be collecting the links over the course of the day and building the post as I can...even more than usual...over...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and /or Other A/V on Wednesday...
Somewhere in the NightThe delayed collection of links to reviews and citations this week, and apologies for that delay, while we hope all goes well for Randy Johnson and all of the contributors and...
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FFB: CRIMES AND CHAOS by Avram Davidson (Regency 1962); GATEWAYS TO FOREVER:...
A considerable augmentation to a contents list at Goodreads; all the previously published work (with uniformly fiddled-with titles) had been published in one of Fawcett's men's sweat magazines...
View ArticleSaturday Music Club: some jazz vocalists (and organists, among others)
Jeanne Lee and Ran Blake (George Duvivier, bassist): "Evil Blues"Angélique Kidjo, Lizz Wright, Simone, Dianne Reeves and the Nina Simone Band: "Four Women"the full tribute concert videoSheila Jordan:...
View ArticleHappy King Day! (King Day Music Club)
Nina Simone: "Backlash Blues"Max Roach Quintet: "The Dream"; "It's Time"Louis Armstrong, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, Dave Brubeck, Joe Morello, Gene Wright: "They Say I Look Like God"American...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links
The Pit and the PendulumBelow: This week's slightly tardy, snowbound set of links to reviews and citations this week, and apologies for that delay. Thanks, as always, folks...and please let me know if...
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