Author: Oliver Hall

via oicVintage CRIME fans rejoice! San Francisco’s first and only rock and roll band starred in a never-released movie filmed during June of 1978, and…

Bill Murray, Ken Kesey, and the video crew at the First Perennial Poetic Hoo-Haw, 1976 (photo by Clyde Keller) “Everybody with his fucking hand out,”…

Olivier Mosset, ‘Untitled,’ 1968 (via Contemporary Art Daily) Fun and Games for Everyone is the second of three films the French director Serge Bard made…

The Portuguese release of ‘Walk on the Wild Side’ (via Discogs) In 1993, the BBC documentary series Arena devoted four episodes to “Tales of Rock…

For 1993’s Technodon, Yellow Magic Orchestra acquired vocal tracks from cyberpunk novelist William Gibson, dolphin-dosing scientist John C. Lilly, and Naked Lunch author William S.…

Ray Nelson’s short story “Eight O’Clock in the Morning,” on which John Carpenter based They Live, was first published in the November 1963 issue of…

via Sunset Gunshots I thought I had long ago digested every crumb of gossip about the Beach Boys-Manson family connection, but one of the Charlie…

Echo number four (via Discogs) One of the nice people I met at the Revolting Cocks and Meat Beat Manifesto show last weekend kept telling…

Lakota ghost shirt (via ndstudies.gov) Gary Snyder’s “Passage to More than India” ends with “the chorus of a Cheynne Indian Ghost dance song—hi-niswa’ vita’ki’ni—’We shall…

Jon Pertwee starred in the reruns of Doctor Who my local PBS affiliate started airing in the Eighties; perhaps the station decided to start with…