Author: Oliver Hall

via Pinterest When you’ve worn out The Purple Knif Show, do not cry. Just keep adjusting the dial until you tune in to Radio Cramps…

EC’s ‘Crime SuspenStories‘ No. 22, May 1954 In the hard “g” Los Angeles of the fifties, Confidential File was the name of Paul Coates’ column…

Liori Patterson at the Batcave, photo by Pierre Terrasson (via Pinterest) In 1983, the London Weekend Television series Reporting London paid a visit to the…

Orson Welles by Jean Cocteau (from the frontispiece of André Bazin’s book on Welles) Orson Welles and Jean Cocteau first met at a performance of…

The cover of ‘The Beginning,’ courtesy of JimmyPage.com One of the limbs of Osiris could turn up in your mailbox soon. On April 30, Jimmy…

People used to approach me about my Eraserhead T-shirt in the nineties; I suppose that was part of the reason for owning an Eraserhead T-shirt.…

Imagine, if you can, a country starkly divided by wealth inequality, where a small number of rich people lead lives of extravagant luxury and everyone…

In honor of what would have been Lou Reed’s 75th birthday, here’s the Yardbirds covering the Velvet Underground in 1968. You may recall that Michelangelo…

Someday I hope to see Luis Buñuel’s 1930 short film Menjant garotes (Eating Sea Urchins). Discovered in a biscuit tin that belonged to Salvador Dalí’s…

Jack Jones sang the theme song to The Love Boat from 1977 until 1985. Love was life’s sweetest reward; all was right with the world.…