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Yodeling cat in a stocking cap will freak your ass out
12.08.2011
04:26 pm
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A commercial to haunt your dreams.

As if Walmart wasn’t scary enough.

This will be debuting on TV soon. Warn the children.
 

 
Via Copyranter

Posted by Marc Campbell
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12.08.2011
04:26 pm
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LA Punks: A TV News investigation from 1983
12.08.2011
03:06 pm
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In 1983, KTTV Channel 11 News aired a series of reports on Punk Rock and “punkers” in Los Angeles area. It’s a fascinating over-view of the West Coast Punk bands, people and fashions, though at times veers into self-parody, as reporter Chris Harris pitches his story with all the earnestness of an Alan Partridge, who thinks he’s uncovered a Pulitzer-winning scoop of teenage “violence, abuse and self-destruction”, only to find it’s all just a bit of fun.

Harris kicks off his 5-part investigation with a look at a riot in Mendiola’s Ballroom, explaining what happened and asking that always pertinent question:

“Did the police use excessive force?”

I think we know the answer to that. Three cheers then, for Harris as he states quite categorically that violence was the exception and not the norm with “punkers”.

Listening to some of these young people talk, one could almost imagine they were talking about current events and OWS, as they discuss hopes for change, and that “the world will get better.” Plus ca change…

The series includes rarely seen footage of many of LA’s punk bands, and has interviews the likes of Spit Stix and Lee Ving of Fear, Keith Morris of Circle Jerks, Nick Lamagna and Felix Alanis from RF7.
Also, look out for a young Flea, seen here just prior to his quitting Fear and joining the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
 

 
The whole of the KTTV Channel 11 News investigation of Punk, after the jump…
 

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Posted by Paul Gallagher
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12.08.2011
03:06 pm
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Dennis Hopper recites Kipling on ‘The Johnny Cash Show’ 1970
12.08.2011
01:45 pm
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At the height of his drug-fueled insanity, Dennis Hopper recites Rudyard Kipling’s “If” on The Johnny Cash Show, September 30, 1970. Can you imagine seeing such a thing on prime-time television today?

This can’t have been easy for him to do in the state of mind he was in back then!
 

 
Thank you, Leroy Chapman!

Posted by Richard Metzger
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12.08.2011
01:45 pm
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‘TV Party’: Punk rocks the cathode ray
12.07.2011
05:47 pm
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TV Party hosted by Glenn O’ Brian was a New York City cable TV show that ran from 1978 to 1982. It had zero production values but a shitload of manic energy and lo-fi charm. Among the many musical guests that wandered onto the program were Blondie, The Fleshtones, Klaus Nomi, Kid Creole, David Byrne, The Clash and many more. It was also a magnet for artists like Robert Mapplethorpe and Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Directed by downtown auteur Amos Poe, TV Party brought some of what was happening in Manhattan’s rock clubs into your living room. I used to watch it while bathing in the bathtub located in the kitchen of my third floor walk-up on 27th street. $185 a month with a toilet up the hall. I thought it was quite glamorous.
 

Posted by Marc Campbell
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12.07.2011
05:47 pm
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Twelve hours of white noise
12.06.2011
11:39 am
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Quite possibly the finest use of the Youtube I’ve come across yet. You’re welcome.
 

 
Thanks to the redoubtable Jimi Hey !

Posted by Brad Laner
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12.06.2011
11:39 am
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TV weirdness: Joe Strummer accepts music award from Bob Mould on behalf of Mick Jones!
12.06.2011
02:44 am
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Ron Reagan Jr. and Sandra Bernhard introduce Bob Mould who presents Big Audio Dynamite with a music award. Joe Strummer accepts!

1986. From the short-lived New Music Awards.

Another winner from Mick Stadium.
 

Posted by Marc Campbell
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12.06.2011
02:44 am
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Teenybopper goes down on a ‘Superstar’
12.05.2011
04:48 pm
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Peters on wheels. Phallic-shaped trucks deliver creamy treats to the eager masses.
 
This Australian commercial for an ice cream bar foregos subtext and heads right for the center of the peach-fuzzed meatpit of mortal delight, leaving this viewer with a slightly queasy feeling. The thrust of the thing is given an added bit of explicit creepiness when you consider that the Superstar bar is made by a company named “Peters.”

“You got to bite off the big strawberry points to get to the creamy vanilla center.”

Grab yourself a Superstar.
 

Posted by Marc Campbell
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12.05.2011
04:48 pm
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‘Mr Yuk is mean, Mr Yuk is green!’
12.05.2011
04:21 pm
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Mr. Yuk was the icon of an effective anti-poisoning campaign aimed at young children that was developed by the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. The Children’s Hospital opened the country’s first poison center in 1971 and also set up the first 24-hour poison hotline. The hospital helped spread this concept to other places, too, by producing generic TV commercials that could be customized with local telephone numbers and lurid, lime green Mr. Yuk stickers.

In 1971, there was really no such thing as today’s child safe packaging, and the hospital’s director, Dr. Richard Moriarty, saw a problem with the traditional “skull and crossbones” poison warning: As a resident of Pittsburgh and a fan of the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team, Moriarty saw how local children might come to think of this symbol as something to do with the Pirates—or pirates—and that it might indicate “fun” to them, and came up with the concept of Mr. Yuk to replace it.

If you grew up in the greater Pittsburgh area, for generations the Mr. Yuk song was drilled into your head, but it was well-known in other parts of the country, too. My mother had a half-used sheet of Mr Yuk stickers in a drawer in her kitchen for decades. It might still be there for all I know. The Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh has on online gift shop where you can purchase Mr Yuk stickers and more.

Dig the spooky Moog soundtrack and paranoiac visions of demonically possessed common household cleansers in the infamous Mr. Yuk TV spot. Note how the local branding is badly botched:
 

Posted by Richard Metzger
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12.05.2011
04:21 pm
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Lou Reed: Live at the Bottom Line, 1983
12.03.2011
07:14 pm
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Lou Reed. P.M. - Pre-Metallica. A Night with Lou Reed, his performance at the Bottom Line, New York, from 1983.

Track Listing:

01. “Sweet Jane”
02. “I’m Waiting for the Man”
03. “Martial Law”
04. “Don’t Talk to Me about Work”
05. “Women”
06. “Waves of Fear”
07. “Walk on the Wild Side”
08. “Turn Out the Light”
09. “New Age”
10. “Kill Your Sons”
11. “Satellite of Love”
12. “White Light/White Heat”
13. “Rock & Roll”

Look out for an air-guitaring front row fan around 51.48 - a portent of things to come A.M.? (After Metallica?)
 

 
Previously on Dangerous Minds

Lou Reed’s ‘Metal Machine Music’ and Me


 
A little more from Lou, after the jump….
 

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Posted by Paul Gallagher
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12.03.2011
07:14 pm
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‘Oscar’: Documentary on the importance of being Wilde
12.01.2011
08:00 pm
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Writer Michael Bracewell examines the importance of being Oscar Wilde, through the events and works of the great poet’s life.

Here, Wilde is compared to an Existential hero, a man who was brave enough to set an example for all of us - to relish in the essence of who we are.

Wilde was rarely modest, and best explained himself in a letter to his lover Alfred Douglas, Jan-Mar. 1897:

‘I was a man who stood in symbolic relations to the art and culture of my age…The gods had given me almost everything. I had genius, a distinguished name, high social position, brilliancy, intellectual daring: I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men and the colors of things: there was nothing I said or did that did not make people wonder.

I treated Art as the supreme reality, and life as a mere mode of fiction: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.’

First aired in 1997, this is a fascinating documentary explaining why Oscar Wilde still really matters, with contributions from Tom Stoppard, Stephen Fry, Neil Tennant and Ulick O’Connor.
 

 

Posted by Paul Gallagher
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12.01.2011
08:00 pm
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