Jerry Seinfeld tries to get his head around Genesis P-Orridge’s Pandrogeny Project
File under “two celebrity names you wouldn’t expect to hear uttered in the same sentence,” but here we are. This is fascinating simply because you’d…
Author: Christopher Bickel
This dog’s butt looks just like the Ikea monkey
Remember Darwin the macaque monkey who achieved worldwide Internet celebrity four years ago when he was photographed running amok, dashingly suited in a shearling coat,…
Glamtastic footage of AC/DC *before* Bon Scott
As someone who considers himself something of a music scholar, who has worked in record shops most of his life, and writes about music professionally,…
‘Female Convict Scorpion’: The Japanese women-in-prison movie that elevated exploitation to high art
Most days if you ask me to name my favorite actress, I’m going to answer Meiko Kaji. The Japanese singer and star of dozens of…
‘Get High On Yourself’: Robert Evans’ coke-bust community service mega-turd TV special
Robert Evans, the wunderkind Hollywood studio executive best known for his work on Rosemary’s Baby, Love Story, The Godfather and Chinatown had gotten himself into…
Infamous serial killers do portraits of Charles Manson
Charles Manson portrait by John Wayne Gacy “Murderabilia” is a term used to describe collectibles related to murders or murderers. During the 1990s, which seemed…
KISS, with the vocals half a step out of key, sound like drunk frat boys at a karaoke bar
Post delivers. Here’s KISS doing their 1979 hit off the Dynasty album, “I Was Made For Loving You” — remixed, sounding something like your favorite…
Imaginary pinball machines of Hawkwind, The Stooges, Jim Jones, and more
If you’re as much of a pinball nut as I am, you’ll flip over these fantasy back glass illustrations by Charlie Fogel. Illustrator/cartoonist, Fogel has…
When Hawkwind went all new-wave
The Hawklords, live in 1978 This week one of my favorite music writers, Stephen Thomas Erlewine, published an article at Cuepoint titled “Paul Plays Synths:…
Killer silhouettes of 80s VHS horror movie box art
The excellent recent documentary The Nightmare examines the topic of sleep paralysis, a condition which causes terrifying waking hallucinations in its victims. Many of the…