The stop-motion cartoon of William S. Burroughs’ ‘Ah Pook Is Here’
The 1979 collection ‘Ah Pook Is Here and Other Texts’ William S. Burroughs envisaged Ah Pook Is Here, an extension of the comix serial The…
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Legendary R.E.M. performances captured before they were famous, 1981 (with a DM exclusive)
The band R.E.M. were a highly successful and respected indie act that went on to became one of the biggest bands of the late ‘80s…
The obscure teen film that inspired ‘Captain Midnight’ the infamous HBO hacker
During the early morning hours of April 27, 1986, a Florida man by the name of John R. MacDougall hacked into Home Box Office’s satellite…
Oliver Reed as a prototype Alex from ‘A Clockwork Orange’ in ‘These are the Damned’
At one point Ken Russell was the favored director for a movie version of A Clockwork Orange supposedly starring the Rolling Stones. What Russell would…
Growing Up in Wallace Berman’s World: An interview with Tosh Berman
This is a guest post from Matthew O’Shannessy Tosh Berman’s memoir Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman’s World documents a childhood immersed in West Coast…
Born To Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey
Cultural critic Mark Dery, whose erudite essays have appeared in the pages of the Atlantic Monthly, Washington Post, Village Voice and his own collections, The…
A Classic Ghost Story for Christmas: ‘Whistle and I’ll Come to You’
The sole object of a ghost story, wrote M. R. James, is to inspire “a pleasing terror in the reader”. James was an academic and…
The annual Dangerous Minds foolproof last minute shopping list for hard-to-buy-for rock snobs!!
Each year around this time, I compile a list of what I consider to be the best Christmas gifts for that difficult-to-buy-for rock snob in…
Not for the faint-hearted: Gruesome medical illustrations from the 19th-century (NSFW)
Surgery to correct strabismus, a misalignment of the eyes. The artist Francis Bacon spent many hours poring over illustrated medical books looking at surgical procedures…
Watching ‘The Prisoner’ with ‘Repo Man’ director Alex Cox
It turns out leaving your house still pays sometimes: if I hadn’t stepped into a bookstore last weekend, I would be unaware of Alex Cox’s…