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Hippies Go Bollywood: Pass The Chillum On The Left Hand Side
07.20.2010
11:27 pm
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This is my second piece on Bollywood and sixties pop culture. I love the collision of the highly moral and sexually restrained Hindi films with the free and swinging western culture of the time. When naivete meets go go decadence, we encounter the attraction of opposites. Although awash in Technicolor, Bollywood sees life as a black and white reality: good vs. evil, rich vs. poor, chastity vs. promiscuity.

Bollywood director Dev Anand explores a subject that was new to Hindi cinema in 1971’s Hare Rama Hare Krishna: hippies and drug culture. Despite being somewhat critical of the stoners in the film, director Anand depicts the “straights” in an even worse light: conventional, uptight and cruel.

Hare Rama Hare Krishna is the story of a young woman, portrayed by actress Zeenat Aman, who runs off to Katmandu to join a hippie commune. In this groovy clip, Zeenat lipsynchs “Dum Maro Dum” (take another puff) as a group of hippies follow her directions and start toking on some industrial-sized chillums.

The score is by one of Bollywood’s most prolific and highly regarded composers, R.D. Burman. The vocals are by Asha Bhosle, India’s go to girl for singing overdubs.
 

 

Posted by Marc Campbell
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07.20.2010
11:27 pm
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Glen Campbell sings Wichita Lineman
07.20.2010
10:29 pm
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A quick ode to a beautiful and enigmatic tune: Glen Campbell‘s hit version of Jimmy Webb‘s Wichita Lineman. Surely one of the most haunting and even creepy of all love songs and packed with unanswered questions. Has he gone mad, hearing voices in the static of the power lines or has he tapped her phone ?  When I hear this song I actually can picture myself up a lonely telephone pole on some bleak and empty highway somewhere, my heart full of longing. Plus: A tasty Fender VI solo !

 
Thanks Nicole Panter !

Posted by Brad Laner
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07.20.2010
10:29 pm
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‘tis a pity she’s a whore: Meet Memphis Blac and Smokahontas Jones
07.20.2010
10:29 pm
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Memphis Blac (aka Arapaho) and Smokahontas Jones

Calling a woman a “ho” has negative connotations, obviously, but it doesn’t seem to bother rappers Smokahontas Jones and Memphis Blac: It’s their day jobs! Yup, apparently they’re actual streetwalkers who rap on the side. Their song Got Dat Work has recently become a viral video hit on YouTube. From an interview at Street Carnage:

How do you feel about the response to Got Dat Work?

MEMPHIS BLAC: We really never expected so much attention from the video. But you know what I’m saying.… What I say, a lot of people don’t want to be heard. I will tell the truth and speak my mind. On the video we got a comment from some person and he said he was staying at the Loeb Hotel on Collins Avenue, he said that he had never seen anybody walking the streets or any prostitutes — but he couldn’t be any further from the truth because I was on Collins three weeks ago and it’s all good. I’ve got a lot of things to say … I’ve been out in the streets, I’ve been pimped, I’ve done everything there is, you know what I’m saying. I standing here on my own, I got a clear head, I ain’t dead. I thank god I don’t have AIDS.

What’s next for you two?

MEMPHIS BLAC: We are going to drop my first solo album and my new video. I just filmed Hoe Money — this is the one. Everybody talking shit that have something negative to say will see this video and won’t say shit.

SMOKAHONTAS: It’s quite frankly going to shut them the fuck up.

Video below featuring “celebrity crackhead” Dope Fiend Pimpin’ Jerry:
 

 
Interview with rapping street prostitutes (Street Carnage)

Follow Smokahontas on Twitter

Posted by Richard Metzger
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07.20.2010
10:29 pm
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Teabagging Tea Bag
07.20.2010
07:34 pm
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At your next Tea Party event impress your friends with the “Teabagging Tea Bag.” It’s made out of muslin (that’s muslin, not Muslim) and it’s reusable!  Available from The Cheeky.com

Posted by Marc Campbell
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07.20.2010
07:34 pm
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Houston, We Have A Problobum: Americans Not First Men On Moon
07.20.2010
04:16 pm
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Long suppressed film footage of what actually occurred during the moon landing finally released!

 
Teaser trailer from upcoming Hong Kong action comedy Mr. And Mrs. Incredible spoofs the lunar landing. It looks like the Incredibles got there first.
 
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Mr. And Mrs. Incredible,  directed by Vincent Kok, is scheduled for a 2011 release.

 

Posted by Marc Campbell
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07.20.2010
04:16 pm
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Your morning knockout: Down for The Count
07.20.2010
11:52 am
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I’m assuming this is an Anti-Twilight inspired piece by poopbear. BTW, Count von Count totally rules in my book! 
 
Down for the Count

Posted by Tara McGinley
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07.20.2010
11:52 am
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Hot Stink Of Fox:  53 Seconds That Will Alter Your Life Forever
07.20.2010
03:01 am
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with a sudden sharp hot stink of fox
It enters the dark hole of the head.

Ted Hughes

 

Posted by Marc Campbell
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07.20.2010
03:01 am
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Meet The Bollywood Beatles
07.20.2010
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Richard’s “Tokyo Beatles” piece inspired me to dig up a video from one of my favorite Bollywood films Janwar, which feature’s The Indian Beatles and stars Bollywood legend Shammi Kapoor. Shammi’s the cat with the moptop and the cheesy looking white Beatle jacket and black bowtie. Kapoor was known as the Elvis Presley of Hindi cinema, but in this clip, he looks more like Shep of the Three Stooges.

The song in the clip is Dekho Ab Tu  and the music and lyrics are credited to Shankar Jaikishan, Hasrat Jaipuri and Shailendra. But, you’d have to be deaf not to recognize it as I Want To Hold Your Hand.

 
While my sitar gently weeps…

READ ON
Posted by Marc Campbell
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07.20.2010
01:00 am
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Meet The Tokyo Beatles!
07.19.2010
11:13 pm
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Lots of Beatles on the blog of late, but that’s okay, you can never have enough Beatles, can you? Of course not!

The Tokyo Beatles were a cover band with a couple of twists (and shouts) that set them apart from other Beatles tribute acts. First off, they were, obviously, Japanese, and sang horribly mangled Japanglish versions of Lennon and McCartney’s compositions. There were also only three of them and their arrangements were kinda, almost jazzy, considering what they were setting out to do. I have a copy of their only album, Meet the Tokyo Beatles, which came out on RCA in 1964. I got it as a gift from Pizzicato Five’s Yasuharu Konishi back in 1994 when I was in Japan.

There is hardly any information on these guys anywhere, either in English or in Japanese. I found an old LIFE magazine article (from an amazing (for its vintage) “Youth in Japan” theme issue) that mentions them and has a pic, but the only real information it imparts is that the Tokyo Beatles were making only $85 dollars a month, in marked contrast to the incomes of the real Beatles and that they had more hair than talent! Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce to you, The Tokyo Beatles!!

Posted by Richard Metzger
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07.19.2010
11:13 pm
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A history of the Beatles as told by their hair
07.19.2010
10:37 pm
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Amusing Beatles drawing by mozzarellapoppy over at deviantART.
 
(via Daily What)

Posted by Tara McGinley
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07.19.2010
10:37 pm
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