Category: Bizarre

Tautophonic Hot Links

Who’s Been Talking, Howlin’ Wolf (1970) Sometimes mistitled Cause Of It All, Chester Burnett’s recording from the The London Howlin’ Wolf Sessions (Chess 1971) is a classic. Backing musicians for this track included   Eric Clapton, Lafayette Leake, Hubert Sumlin, Steve Winwood, Charlie Watts, and Bill Wyman.

Robotics.

This is The End.

Earthmover artistry.

Meanwhile in the belfry.

If true, this is disturbing news.

Hoogerbrugge’s Hotel was awesome.

What an honor! Thanks Mme. Jujujive!

Pelican trying to eat a capybara [via Bunkerville].

Church puzzled by low attendance at men’s conference.

[Top image: Still from After the Storm.]

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.

Saturday Matinee – Bobby Banas, Booker T. & the M.G.s, Zontar Venus, and MonoNeon w/ Davey Nathan,

He was 30 years old when he ripped up The Judy Garland Show in 1964. From the Utoobage comments:
“The ‘Best Boy Dancer’ happened to be the choreographer for this dance. His name is Bobby Banas. He also played Joyboy in Westside story.”
I’d say the girl did a bang up job but she got no credit.

Al Jackson Jr., Steve Cropper, Duck Dunn, Booker T. Jones,
aka Booker T. & the M.G’s, groovin’ in 1971.

Zontar Venus. You’re on you’re own with this one. [h/t Gord S.]

Modern soulfunkgroove (with some serious technical music skills embedded).
MonoNeon: lead vocal, background vocals, guitar, bass;
Davy Nathan: keyboards, drum programming.

Guess that’ll do for now. Hope the summer heat is cooling down to a  more tolerable level for y’all, and remember: it ain’t the heat, it’s the humanity. See you back here tomorrow.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 743 – Kirksmack, Eclectrical Meter & Gullbox

[Found here, here and 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

Copyright 1917.  Come and get me, S. E. Clark.

[Found here.]

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.

Live Bat cams.

Alpine football [via].

Charming the worms.

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.

The .Gif Post No. 742 – Labradork, Cruisin’ With Froggie & Horse Rockers

[Found here, here and 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.

Pagophagial Hot Links

Funbar, Deerpeople (2013) I heard this song years ago (on Atomic Flash Deluxe Hi-Fi Radio) but didn’t know the title or the band name until recently. Formed in 2012 in Stillwater, Oklahoma, Deerpeople were described as psychedelic folk rockers. One day they just stopped performing and recording for no particular reason, but reunited to officially disband in 2019.

Chorizo In Space.

Checkpoint Jumbo.
[h/t Bunkerville]

Magnetic vibrations.
[via Memo of the Air]

Catch the Chameleon. Great soundtrack.

Watch out for pedestrians.

The War of Human Cats by Festus Pragnell.

98 year old found out how old he is. [NSFW]

“In America if it is worth doing it is worth overdoing.”
Here’s proof.

It’s a multipart saga about earplugs in space: Surprise Visit (Part I).

[Top image found here.]

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.