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some folk-rock (and antecedents)
Some previously posted, some not.Johnny Cash: "Hey, Porter"Buddy Holly: "Learning the Game"The Springfields: "Silver Threads and Golden Needles"Jackie DeShannon: "Needles and Pins"Mimi and Richard...
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FFB: FANTASTIC STORIES: TALES OF THE WEIRD AND WONDROUS ed. Martin H....
Fantastic, as a magazine, for most of its 28 years and some months of existence (from launch in 1952, early absorption of its predecessor Fantastic Adventures in 1954, and folding into companion title...
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FFB: THE BEST FROM FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION, 20th Series, edited by Edward...
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 20 ed. Edward L. Ferman (Doubleday, 1973, hc)· Shaffery Among the Immortals · Frederik Pohl · ss F&SF Jul ’72· A Different Drummer · Raylyn Moore · ss...
View ArticleSaturday Music Club returns, still tardy, now
Jawbox: "Apollo Amateur"Thievery Corporation: "All That We Perceive"Ana Tijoux (con Jorge Drexler): "Sacar la voz"http://www.halftheskymovement.org/30-songs-30-daysNina Simone: "Backlash Blues"Ion...
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Carmen McRae with Brubeck, Morello and Wright: "Oh So Blue" Diahann Carroll and the Modern Jazz Quartet: "La Cantatrice"Jeanne Lee and Ran Blake: "All About Ronnie"Abbey Lincoln: "Love Has Gone...
View ArticleSaturday Music Club, Music Savings Time edition: Better 1? Better 2?
Betty Everett: "You're No Good"Dee Dee Warwick: "You're No Good"Dinah Washington: "Soulville"Aretha Franklin: "Soulville"Fairport Convention: "Si Tu Dois Partir"Bob Dylan: "If You Gotta Go, Go Now"The...
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Friday's Not Too Forgotten Book Guest Post: Mildred Perkins on 11/22/63 by...
Mildred reported on her reading the King novel to the Horror List at Indiana University:I finished reading this book, and though the content is only marginally horror, the author can stand a little...
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Thelonious Monk, Charlie Rouse, Larry Gales, Ben Riley: "Round Midnight"The Duke Ellington Orchestra: Night Creature Second Movement: "Stalking Monster"The Charles Mingus Band: "Wednesday Night Prayer...
View ArticleTV notes: MOZART IN THE JUNGLE, NIGHTMARE IN CHICAGO, MAN IN A SUITCASE,...
Capsule reviews of some of what I've liked a lot over the last few months:Mozart in the Jungle: a sitcom based on oboist Blair Tindall's memoir, has charmed me, for the most part, and while it didn't...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links
Mozart in the JungleAnne Billson: The 10 Most Undervalued Crime Movies of the 1990sBill Crider: Wag the Dog; John Wick [trailer]Brian Arnold: Scrooge (1935 film)Brian Busby: EarthboundBV Lawson: Media...
View ArticleSaturday Music Club on Monday: some rather funny songs
Maggie and Terre Roche (featuring the Oak Ridge Boys): "If You Emptied Out All Your Pockets You Could Not Make the Change"Karen Kilgariff: "Couldn't Love You More"Tom Smothers: "Mediocre Fred"Fairport...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links
The IPCRESS FileBack again, for a second week running (!), and featuring at least two Ida Lupino films among other items of at least some interest, and usually some very great interest indeed, at least...
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Friday's "Forgotten" Books: MONAD Number Two, March 1992, edited by Damon...
Paperback edition above, hc below.As noted here previously, Damon Knight's Monad, as a periodical book (subscriptions available) was sadly short-lived, producing only three issues/volumes before the...
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March (and some more) Underappreciated Music: the links
The (finally returned) 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: One-Hit...
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The Parts Left Out: THE REALIST and the Larger Culture
The beginnings of an entry in Earl Kemp and Luis Ortiz's Cult Magazines that I didn't have the wherewithal to put in the form I'd be comfortable with.Of course, The Realist Archive, which would've...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links
Teresa: The Story of a BrideAnne Billson: Dragons in film; Night of the EagleBill Crider: Red Eye [trailer]Brian Arnold: ElvesBrian Greene: The Big HeatBV Lawson: Media MurderComedy Film Nerds: CJ...
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FFB: WHO KILLED SCIENCE FICTION? (SAFARI ANNUAL #1, 1960) edited by Earl Kemp
Cover illustration by Ed EmshwillerIn 2006, Earl Kemp decided to post the assorted contents of his original SaFari Annual amateur press association (APA) publication, essentially subtitled Who Killed...
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Saturday Music Club: SFnal Jazz
Gil Mellé Band: "Weird Valley" (1956)Sun Ra and His Myth Science Arkestra: "Plutonian Nights" (1959)George Russell Orchestra featuring Bill Evans: "Waltz from Outer Space" (1960)Dinah Washington with...
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supplement to the context-setting for WHO KILLED SCIENCE FICTION?--short sf...
Among the anthologies that have mined the increasing post-WW2 sophistication in sf and fantasy magazines (and related media the magazine writers would publish with), one of the most impressive series...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V; the links
The MiddleManThis week's selection of (mostly) recommendations of (and a few warnings about) insufficiently-appreciated or simply obscure film, television, radio, audio recordings, and more...thanks,...
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