This Busta Rhymes/Cookie Monster video is what America needs right now
YouTube user Mylo the Cat aka isthishowyougoviral aka Adam Schleichkorn brings us the Muppets-rap mashup we didn’t know we’ve been waiting for–a lengthy montage of…
Author: Martin Schneider
‘The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook’: Useful guide to your white lines is the most ’70s thing ever
The heyday of cocaine in our nation’s history was arguably the late 1970s through the early 1980s. In the summer of 1980 Richard Pryor set…
Beetleboards: Volkswagen bugs used as advertising billboards in the 1970s
The Volkswagen Bug is one of the most familiar cars ever designed. More than 20 million have been produced, making it the most-manufactured car of…
The haunting photographic tarot deck, with an unexpected nod from Bruce Springsteen
Imagine deciding to execute your own tarot deck using the photographic arts. Not just the 22 cards of the Major Arcana, mind you, but the…
Patti Smith would have been stoked to pose nude in Playboy
Patti never made the Playboy scene, but she was a CREEM Dream at some point in the late 70s Bebe Buell was one of the…
This mouth-watering Instagram is dedicated to real-life re-creations of food from Miyazaki movies
It’s been noted that all of Hayao Miyazaki’s movies, in addition to being a feast for the eyes, are positively obsessed with food. There’s always…
Buy your very own Andy Warhol Campbell’s Soup can chess set
According to Hans Ree’s book The Human Comedy of Chess, there was an occasion in the mid-1960s when Marcel Duchamp played a game of chess…
You too can own a promotional Ramones ‘switchblade’ from 1977!
In January 1977 the Ramones released album number two, entitled Leave Home. It was another high-quality slab of straight-ahead punk in the acknowledged Ramones style.…
‘Read-Along Record Book’ of ‘John Carpenter’s The Thing’
This might be a perfect diversion if you’re a parent overseeing a party of tweens on Halloween. It’s a multimedia adaptation of John Carpenter’s The…
Blistering Nick Cave & The Birthday Party sets in ‘Pleasure Heads Must Burn’ 1982/1983
The Birthday Party played the legendary Haçienda Club in Manchester once in 1982 and once in 1983, and, per Haçienda policy, both shows were videotaped…