‘Mah Nà Mah Nà’: The song famous by The Muppets was originally from a 1968 Italian softcore sex film
‘Mah Nà Mah Nà’ was written for an Italian sexploitation film.
Television
Punk rockers, Bad Brains, and CBGB: Revisit a charming local news segment on hardcore, 1982
Bad Brains at CBGBs, baffled anchors, and all.
‘Crackerbox Palace’: George Harrison’s charming short directed by Monty Python’s Eric Idle
“The world is a very serious and at times very sad place”.
Zsa Zsa Gabor, The Beatles, and the acid-soaked origin of ‘She Said She Said’
A night of 1960s extravagance when acid met celebrity in Gabor’s living room.
Behind the scenes of ‘Cry-Baby’ with John Waters, Johnny Depp, Iggy Pop and Traci Lords
“There’s puke in it, you’ll be happy to know.”
Unauthorized, unhinged, unforgettable: The ‘Charlie’s Angels’ TV trash that still slaps
Campy, sleazy, but undeniably entertaining.
What if Derek Raymond’s violent, bleak crime novels were made into a 1970s TV show?
Author and filmmaker Adam Scovell–whose second novel How Pale the Winter Has Made Us was published earlier this year to great acclaim–sent me this wonderful trailer…
EXP-TV: Freaktastic new video channel will rip your face off and eat your brain
There are certain things you don’t know you’re missing in life until you’re exposed to them, right? EXP TV just might be one of those…
The Montauk Project: The idiotic conspiracy theory that inspired ‘Stranger Things’
This is a segment from my Disinformation TV series that originally aired late nights on UK television’s Channel Four network in 2000 and 2001. This…