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Saturday Music Club: a quick tour
"End of the Rope" is the token Hallowe'en song for this week!Harry Partch: Music Studio (1958)(Part 2)Deb Fox (and Ron Pellegrino): "Excerpt from Study 12"Macedonian polyphonyLight in Babylon:...
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Combo: FFB: The anthologies of Betty M. Owen; October's Underappreciated...
25th anniversary issue; source of "Ghost Hunt"Please see below for the "Tuesday's" A/V, October Underappreciated Music, and Friday's "Forgotten" Books posts in that order...thanks to all contributors...
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some Beatling; Saturday Music Club in Eastern Standard Time
Beatles covers. Fanny: "Hey Bulldog"Monsoon: "Tomorrow Never Knows"The Bangles/The Three O'Clock/the Rainy Day band et al.: "Taxman"The Bangles: "All Together Now"Kasey Lansdale and RAB4: "A Hard Day's...
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Vincent Price: dramatic readings, audio documentary (of several sorts), and...
I had included links to a couple of the Caedmon recordings in last week's Overlooked A/V...but Horror List member Jeff Swindoll pointing to The Sound of Vincent Price site on Monday, with a number of...
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FFB: HAWKSBILL STATION by Robert Silverberg (Doubleday 1968 et seq.); LOOKING...
These are the first two adult science fiction novels I read (unless we count Our Gang by Philip Roth, a mildly surreal and barely sfnal lampoon of the Nixon Admin, which I read when I was in 6th...
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The Night We Caught the Hallowe'en Show: guest post by Jeff Segal
I watched the documentary Halloweenville late Friday night, the 30th, taking notes on how enthusiastically Lambertville, NJ celebrates the holiday and which streets to visit. That exposure, plus what I...
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Tuesday's Overlooked A/V: the links to reviews, interviews and more...
Universal's 1931 Spanish-language production, Drácula Profound apologies to all you readers and all the contributors to this usually weekly roundelay; circumstances got beyond control, including quite...
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FFB: eI, 2003 Annual/December 2003, edited and largely written by Earl Kemp
Regency Books; cover by Leo and Diane DillonI started re-reading this issue of Earl Kemp's electronic personal fanzine, and running rough draft for his memoirs, and found myself needing to reread it...
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reBeatling: Saturday Music Club
More covers.Please also see:Some BeatlingSkinning the TicketSome Cover VersionsAn RAI (Italian television) documentary segment on Apple Corp. from 1968Miriam Makeba: "In My Life"The Pretenders: "In My...
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film: THE VIRGIN SPRING (Jungfrukällan) (1960, Sweden) A Criterion Blogathon...
My 1972 book, Ingmar Bergman Directs, begins with a long interview. After that, the first sentence runs: "Ingmar Bergman is, in my most carefully considered opinion, the greatest filmmaker the world...
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Thursday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links to reviews,...
Sonia Delaunay designsThis week's adventures in audio/visual materials that the reviewers think need at least another look (or, occasionally, actually deserve obscurity); thanks as always to everyone,...
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FFB, Winter Holiday Edition: ALL THE LIES THAT ARE MY LIFE (and SHATTERDAY,...
For the second week in a row, I found myself compelled to reread an item I hadn't intended to review, but even more than last week's, it turns out that Harlan Ellison's "All the Lies That Are My Life"...
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2 Fritz Leiber horror novels in the PDF forms of their "natural" habitats...
The links take you to the highlighted titles as they have been scanned online from their original magazine appearances.Novel Conjure Wife by Fritz Leiber, Jr., pp. 9-78 - PDFNovelNovelette No Greater...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links to reviews,...
Kansas City BomberThis week's adventures in audio/visual materials that the reviewers think need at least another look (or, occasionally, actually deserve obscurity); thanks as always to everyone, and...
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November's Underappreciated Music: the links
The 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: Music; Thanksgiving parodyBrian...
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FFB: CONJURE WIFE by Fritz Leiber (Street and Smith 1943)
While I've hardly been ignoring Fritz Leiber or even his first published novel (apparently his third long fiction to be completed, after the long-lost [in the author's files] novella "The Dealings of...
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On FaceBook, Elizabeth Hand noted:One of the things I love about reading & writing crime fiction is that highly improbable actions & coincidences are tolerated, even encouraged. Which inspired...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links to reviews,...
The AssassinThis week's adventures in audio/visual materials that the reviewers think need at least another look (or, occasionally, actually deserve obscurity), and in this week, not a few where the...
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FFB redux: Ed Gorman guest post: LEARNING TO KILL by Evan Hunter as Ed...
Two posts from 2011 that didn't get quite the number of eyetracks they could...particularly Ed's, posted after mine below....Friday, April 15, 2011FFBs: HRF Keating: CRIME & MYSTERY: THE 100 BEST...
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Billboard LP Charts, Week Ending 7 August 1965: Saturday Music Club on Monday
It was fifty years ago and some months change, and the week I had my first natal anniversary. (You'll find Part 2 here.)Pop Charts:1. Beatles VI2. Herman's Hermits On Tour3. The Sound of Music4. Mary...
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