If ‘Get Out’ and ‘Logan’ and ‘Stranger Things’ existed as VHS tapes in the 1980s
It seems like yesterday, but it was actually more than two years ago that we presented readers with some recent TV and movie hits done…
Television
That time Neil from ‘The Young Ones’ released his ‘Heavy Concept Album’
Hippies make the best capitalists. They are the passive-aggressive masters who use their artificial sense of moral superiority to sell you shit you don’t need.…
Everybody–even Dick Clark–knows that the bird is the word: The Trashmen on ‘American Bandstand’
While it may be a stretch to say that the Trashmen invented punk rock, with 1963’s “Surfin’ Bird” they were very clearly one of the…
That time the FBI investigated the alleged murder of Trent Reznor
Other than the fact that the FBI, the Michigan State Police and Chicago’s finest all believed that Nine Inch Nails vocalist Trent Reznor was dead,…
Inside the Batcave: A 1983 news report on the legendary London goth club
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…
Acid Mothers Temple’s cover of eerie ‘Twin Peaks’ song to be released next week
The whole world is waiting impatiently for the return of Twin Peaks later this month on Showtime. The original run of Twin Peaks on ABC…
‘Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown’: Future ‘Simpsons’ director turns ‘Peanuts’ into a bloodbath
In the mid-1980s, Jim Reardon was at the highly regarded Character Animation program at the California Institute of the Arts, and one of his student…
Steven Spielberg predicts the psycho-delic future of today in 1971’s ‘Los Angeles: A.D. 2017’!
I had heard about this impossible-to-see episode of The Name of the Game–a cutting edge television show that ran for seventy-six 90-minute episodes from 1968…
Think Pink: Drool over vintage automotive marvel the ‘Pink Panthermobile’
An ad by auction house Robson Kay for ‘The Pink Panther Car’ credited to auto builder and designer Jay Ohrberg. Before I decided to go…
A musical tour of Osaka’s Expo ’70: Beautiful time capsule of futuristic design
Osaka Show 1970 was a hour-long musical produced by Valerio Lazarov for TVE (the national television station in Spain). It featured its countries biggest pop…