The big new Tim Burton retrospective opens at MOMA on November 22nd.  Consisting of both a gallery exhibition and a film series, the show considers:

Burton’s career as a director, producer, writer, and concept artist for live-action and animated films, along with his work as a fiction writer, photographer and illustrator.  Following the current of his visual imagination from early childhood drawings through his mature work, the exhibition presents artwork generated during the conception and production of his films, and highlights a number of unrealized projects and never-before-seen pieces, as well as student art, his earliest non-professional films, and examples of his work as a storyteller and graphic artist for non-film projects.

The opposing themes of adolescence and adulthood, and the elements of sentiment, cynicism, and humor inform his work in a variety of mediums?

 
The below clip of William Burroughs showing off his weaponry was shot, presumably, for non-American television.  “So, if you had a razor-sharp, double-edged knife, you could whip it out and cut someone’s throat before he knew what was happening.”  Umm…yes, sir! 

 
Meet Alysa Stanton, Judaism?

 
What the hell happend to Missing Persons lead singer, Dale Bozzio? TMZ posted this horrific mug shot today. TMZ says:

Dale Bozzio, the lead singer from the ‘80s band Missing Persons, has turned herself in to a New Hampshire jail yesterday to serve her time for an animal cruelty conviction.

Last year, Bozzio was charged with the crime after authorities found loads of sick and dead cats inside of her home. After the gruesome discovery, 12 cats were euthanized and Bozzio was forced to pay the $2700 bill.

Bozzio—who was lead vocals on that song “Walking in L.A.”—was also sentenced to 90 days behind bars and 250 hours of community service.

 
(via D-listed and TMZ)

 
Don Draper would have a shit-fit over this omgwhatweretheythinking 7-Up ad campaign from 1955:

By the way, Mom, when it comes to toddlers—if they like to be coaxed to drink their milk, try this: Add 7-Up to the milk in equal parts pouring the 7-Up gently into the milk. It’s a wholesome combination—and it works!

(via J-Walk Blog)

 
Here’s a hysterical animation about Major League Baseball player Dock Ellis and his infamous 1970 no-hitter game against the San Diego Padres while under the influence of LSD.

In celebration of the greatest athletic achievement by a man on a psychedelic journey, No Mas and artist James Blagden proudly present the animated tale of Dock Ellis’ legendary LSD no-hitter. In the past few years weve heard all too much about performance enhancing drugs from greenies to tetrahydrogestrinone, and not enough about performance inhibiting drugs. If our evaluation of the records of athletes like Mark McGwire, Roger Clemens, Marion Jones, and Barry Bonds needs to be revised downwards with an asterisk, we submit that that Dock Ellis record deserves a giant exclamation point. Of the 263 no-hitters ever thrown in the Big Leagues, we can only guess how many were aided by steroids, but we can say without question that only one was ever thrown on acid.

 
(via Nerdcore)

 
Yesterday I had a conversation where I was obliged to bring up the name “Kathryn Kuhlman.” Kathryn Kuhlman! I hadn’t thought of her name in years and years and doubt I ever would have again, if it weren’t for this conversation. Kathryn Kuhlman was born in 1907 and became a Pentecostal evangelical preacher at the age of 16. She made a lucrative career for herself as a faith healer running “crusades” for Jesus from the 1940s to the late 1960s across the globe and at her 2000 seat Kuhlman Revival Tabernacle in Pittsburgh. For a while a scandal having to do with her husband sullied her reputation and she had to rebuild her career. Eventually she got her own TV show, which is when I became aware of her as a small child in the 70s. If I woke up early on Sundays, I had to sit through her show before the cartoons came on. I thought she seemed really strange then and looking at video of her today, yep, I was right, she was really strange.

 
Benny Hinn copped all her moves—he wrote a book about her—even the way he moves his mouth sometimes.

 
Bonus: Benny Hinn: Let the Bodies Hit the Floor

I’m just going to leave this here without much of an explanation. I don’t know if there’s anything I can say to do proper justice to it. In short, a guy freestyles about his near-death experience and what he found on the Other Side. Just watch it, and become enlightened.

Ross Rosenberg at Coilhouse dug up these hilarious waterbed commercials from the 80s featuring Tom LaBrie, a truly suave gentleman. Click the link at the bottom for a full roundup of Mr. LaBrie’s output. Ross says:

Tom LaBrie is a man?

 
Just in time for the upcoming Runaways biopic—directed by Floria Sigismondi and starring Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning—the Mattel toy company is unveiling its “Ladies of the ‘80s” collection’s Joan Jett Barbie. The collection also features Debbie Harry and Cyndi Lauper dolls, available in December.

Although I wholeheartedly approve of this, the first thing that came to mind was: What, no Annie Lennox or Siouxsie Sioux dolls? No Pat Benatar? No Lydia Lunch? Give ‘em time; the nostalgia machine will eventually crank ‘em all out.

(Note: There is also a Barbra Streisand Pink Label Barbie, but it’s ‘60s Barbara, not “Yentl”-era Babs.)

Below, Joan Jett and the Runaways perform Cherry Bomb in Tokyo in 1977:
 

 
Cross posting this from Brand X