[Found in here.]
The Red Toenail
[Found in here.]
A Never Completed Film: The House at the Last Lantern
The House at the Last Lantern
“Doing some research, I happened to come across a rare cache of stills from a never completed film by Hans Richter [1888-1976] which is possibly the only example of an actual dadaist horror film. It seems the film was a parody of sorts of Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther, but is ostensibly a tale of the life of Gustav Meyrink. The title of the film was to be ‘The House at the Last Lantern’.” – Lanny Quarles
Date of the movie stills unknown, possibly late 1920s. More images with story here.
[Via this isn’t happiness.]
National Tuna
“What.”
Neotenical Hot Links
Brazil, Geoff & Maria Muldaur (1970) In 1939, Ary Barroso was stuck in his house during a rainstorm, so he wrote Aquarela do Brasil. Three decades later, multi-talented musician Geoff Muldaur and his wife Maria (nee D’Amato) recorded it as Brazil. In 1985, Terry Gilliam adopted the song for his cinematic vision of a retro-future dystopia, and now it’s immediately recognizable as the Theme to Brazil.
Pre-WWII smoke screen.
[h/t Bunkerville]
Mr. Hitler, Leadbelly (1942).
Rocket cats from the 16th century.
[via Mme. Jujujive]
It’s legal in Brazil to kill motorcycle thieves.
“I have turned into Moira Rose, Queen of the Crows.”
[Top image: László Löwenstein, aka Peter Lorre, in promo for movie Crime and Punishment, 1935.
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
Saturday Matinee – Salut Salon, Trix ‘O’ Treat & 1000mods
Antonio Vivaldi’s “Sommer” wird zum Schauplatz eines musikalischen Wettkampfs. Salut Salon fechten ihn akrobatisch aus, und mit viel Humor – ein Klassiker des Hamburger Quartetts. Ein Konzertmitschnitt aus dem Film “Salut Salon. Der Film” von Regisseur Ralf Pleger.
“We are Rockabilly & Country & Rock ‘n’ Roll band of Thailand.”
Bangkok’s Trix ‘O’ Treat has a cool mix of retro flavors with a bit of punk thrown in, and Billy Move is now my favorite song so far today. [Nice shirt at 1:09].
“Dude’s bass is lower than my parents’ expectations for me.”
– Youtube comment
Wikipedia describes 1000mods as “a stoner metal band from Chiliomodi, Greece, formed in 2006. [..] The name of the group is a pun linked to the village in which they were formed, as ‘a thousand’ is pronounced ‘chillia’ in Greek.”
Have a great weekend, see you back here tomorrow for no reason at all.
The .Gif Post No. 742 – Labradork, Cruisin’ With Froggie & Horse Rockers
Nothing Much Happened Today.
[Found in here.]
Stuff I Do When I’m Bored
Some of these are dated, and yeah, that was our experience with The Omigodmicron. The one at bottom right was an experiment – I took an arbitrary section of my recent WebEx Meeting Notes, ran it through a photo-morph and the alien from Planet of the Mufflers appeared.
Frogger
[Found here.]
Suddenly realized something was missing from this blog – a Frog Stuff archive – and the shameful oversight has been remedied.
Tacky Raccoons 