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…
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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…
Everything on the Internet is a LIE (except for this)
I reckon my pal Cris Shapan is a bonafide comedy genius. If he weren’t so dagblasted funny, then I honestly doubt I would laugh so…
When Quentin Tarantino played an Elvis Impersonator on ‘The Golden Girls’
In 1988, before Quentin Tarantino had sold his scripts for True Romance or Natural Born Killers, leading the way to secure a deal to direct…
Revealed: David Gilmour, Mark Knopfler, Lemmy can’t play without the little diagrams with the dots!
In 1991 the British comedy program French and Saunders showed an amusing sketch that involved several prominent British rock musicians, including David Gilmour of Pink…
How to make an acid house classic: British doc looks at the business of Happy Mondays’ ‘Bummed’
In 1993 Steve Albini published a memorable screed with the title “The Problem with Music,” in which he detailed–in excruciating detail–how the economics of making…