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This is why punk had to happen: Craptastic ‘Rolling Stone’ TV special, 1977
06.26.2012
12:42 pm
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This ridiculously literal Beatles tribute (guess what happens when the line “Woke up, got out of bed, dragged a comb across my head” is sung? Go on, take a guess…) is from a 1977 Rolling Stone magazine TV special.

Featuring Broadway’s original “Jesus Christ Superstar,” Ted Neeley , Yvonne Ellman (JCS’s “Mary Magdalene”), Richie Havens, Patti LaBelle and a dancing Nixon and Kissinger, this will make your flesh crawl after a while… and it goes on forever.

“A Day in the Decade” was a good title for this awfulness. The YouTube poster writes that he found this on an unlabeled Betamax tape at a flea market. Fitting!
 

 
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Posted by Richard Metzger
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06.26.2012
12:42 pm
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Knitted Pee-wee’s Playhouse
06.25.2012
02:10 pm
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Super knitter Allison Hoffman created this fun, fun, fun knitted Pee-wee’s Playhouse for the upcoming Sew Nerdy show from June 30 through August 11 in Lauderhill, Florida . She even went so far as to make a life-size working battery-operated Clocky. Holy cow!

All the pieces will be available to purchase online through Bear and Bird Gallery.

I’m lovin’ Miss Yvonne.
 

 

 

 
Previously on Dangerous Minds:
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Posted by Tara McGinley
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06.25.2012
02:10 pm
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Christians prove evolution is a lie, with help from the Loch Ness Monster


 
Via The Herald, Scotland (abridged):

Schoolchildren in Louisiana are to be taught that the Loch Ness monster is real in a bid by religious educators to disprove Darwin’s theory of evolution.

These private schools follow a fundamentalist curriculum including the Accelerated Christian Education (ACE) programme to teach controversial religious beliefs aimed at disproving evolution and proving creationism.

One tenet has it that if it can be proved that dinosaurs walked the earth at the same time as man then Darwinism is fatally flawed.

The textbooks in the series are alleged to teach young earth creationism; are hostile towards other religions and other sectors of Christianity, including Roman Catholicism; and present a biased version of history that is often factually incorrect.

One ACE textbook – Biology 1099, Accelerated Christian Education Inc – reads: “Are dinosaurs alive today? Scientists are becoming more convinced of their existence. Have you heard of the ‘Loch Ness Monster’ in Scotland? ‘Nessie’ for short has been recorded on sonar from a small submarine, described by eyewitnesses, and photographed by others. Nessie appears to be a plesiosaur.”

Another claim taught is that a Japanese whaling boat once caught a dinosaur. It’s unclear if the movie Godzilla was the inspiration for this lesson.

Well, If you believe in the existence of one mythical being, why not believe in them all?

Perhaps one day the popular BBC kids show The Family Ness will be revered as gospels:
 

Posted by Niall O'Conghaile
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06.25.2012
10:46 am
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‘Killing Time at Home’: A dark tale of our disposable world
06.22.2012
06:59 pm
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I greatly admire Neil Coslett‘s award-winning animation Killing Time at Home from 2003, it’s a dark little tale that stays with you long after viewing. Originally produced by Nicola Black as part of the Mesh scheme, which Blackwatch Media ran for Channel 4 television in 2000 and 2007, producing 27 new digital animations that were shown on TV and at film festivals. It would be good to see Black kick-start a scheme like this again, and hopefully have Coslett make a follow-up to his superb wee film.
 

 

Posted by Paul Gallagher
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06.22.2012
06:59 pm
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Star Trek: Gaseous Anomalies
06.22.2012
06:58 pm
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Because I’m not a fan, I had no idea that one of the recurring plot elements of the 726 Star Trek TV shows and 11 films are the numerous nebulas, ionic disturbances and gaseous anomalies encountered by the crew of the Starship Enterprise. In this totally silly clip, Vernon Wilmer digs deep into the existential pants of the men whose job it is to confront and monitor these often deadly vapors.

In the early 2290s, Starfleet were keen to investigate gaseous anomalies and equipped all starships with specialized probes that could monitor them. They also dispatched the USS Excelsior on a three-year mission to chart anomalies in the Beta Quadrant in 2290.

Normally I’d be too ashamed to share something like this with Dangerous Minds’ high class readership. But there is a narrative arc, some real tension and drama, in this video that can’t be denied. The memory of it still lingers in my pores like the insistent scent of a week-old omelet made of sulphuric acid, brussel sprouts and Limburger cheese.
 

Posted by Marc Campbell
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06.22.2012
06:58 pm
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‘Wire’ actor protests NYPD stop and frisk policy: ‘Hey, haven’t I arrested you before?’
06.20.2012
03:39 pm
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Actor J.D. Williams is well-known for his role as a drug dealer “Bodie” Broadus on The Wire, but fame can often be a double-edged sword, especially when NYPD officers approach the young actor—who’s also been in Oz, The Sopranos and Homicide: Life on the Street—as if they’ve seen him someplace before… or arrested him in the past!

Perception is everything, isn’t it? Williams spoke out about the NYPD’s “stop-and-frisk” policy while participating in the “Silent March” in Manhattan on Monday:
 

 
Via Cynical C

Posted by Richard Metzger
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06.20.2012
03:39 pm
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Behind-the-Scenes: Alfred Hitchcock Directs ‘Frenzy’ in 1972
06.19.2012
07:02 pm
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Incredible behind-the-scenes footage of Alfred Hitchcock directing Frenzy from 1972.

Frenzy was greatly undervalued on its initial cinematic release - considered by many as too dark, unnecessarily seedy, and not worthy of Hitchcock’s talents, but I always thought it a superbly suspenseful and complex film that captured the lonely heart at the center of our everyday world. Taken form the novel by Arthur La Bern, Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square (which is worth reading), it was Hitchcock’s last great film, and contained some exceptionally fine characterizations by Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Anna Massey, Billie Whitelaw and in particular Alec McCowen as Chief Inspector Oxford.

The sound quality is non-existent, but just enjoy the pictures.
 

 
With thanks to Nellym
 

Posted by Paul Gallagher
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06.19.2012
07:02 pm
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‘La cabina’: A short film on the terror at the end of the line, from 1972
06.19.2012
10:33 am
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Made during the last year’s of General Franco’s right-wing dictatorship in Spain, La cabina (The Telephone Box or Phone Booth) is a disturbing little movie, which critiques the insidious potential of technology, and the mass indifference of the public to the plight of the individual.

Originally produced for Spanish television, La cabina was a highly regarded film on its release and deservedly won an Emmy in 1973 for Best Fiction. Directed by Antonio Mercero, who also made the award-winning films Planta 4ª (The 4th Floor) and La hora de los valientes (A Time for Defiance), La cabina contains a superb central performance by José Luis López Vázquez (star of Travels With My Aunt with Maggie Smith), as the hapless victim of a series of increasingly sinister misfortunes.
 

 
With thanks to Neil McDonald
 

Posted by Paul Gallagher
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06.19.2012
10:33 am
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Legendary footage of Brian Wilson performing ‘Surf’s Up,’ 1966
06.16.2012
05:38 pm
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Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks in the studio, 1966

Beach Boy Brian Wilson performing “Surf’s Up” (for my money, his single greatest song) from the then “upcoming” Smile album in 1966. If you’re a big Beach Boys fan, this clip might bring tears to your eyes.

This is an excerpt from Leonard Bernstein’s landmark CBS-TV documentary special, Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution, which aired the following year on April 25, 1967. Bernstein’s film also featured Graham Nash and Frank Zappa and was one of the very first serious documentaries about rock music—Bernstein took the then-unusual approach of treating pop as a legitimate art form—produced for American television.
 

Posted by Richard Metzger
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06.16.2012
05:38 pm
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CEEFAX: A brief introduction to the BBC’s original teletext service, from 1972
06.15.2012
06:22 pm
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Before 24-hour rolling news, satellite TV and the internet, CEEFAX was how most people accessed breaking news stories, sports results, weather reports, TV listings and even horoscopes.

CEEFAX was the first teletext facility in the world, enabling television viewers to ‘see facts’ on their TV screens. Launched in 1974, CEEFAX was originally developed by BBC engineers in the late 1960s, who utilized ‘the little gaps in the signal….the little bits of frequency not being used’ that came into TV sets.

This year marks the end of CEEFAX, as the popular info service will not be replaced once the analog signal is switched off in Britain, on October 24th - almost exactly 40-years since the idea was first introduced to the public in this short clip from October 1972.
 

 
With thanks to nellym
 

Posted by Paul Gallagher
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06.15.2012
06:22 pm
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