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November 6th, 2024. Today I awoke with the Theme to Stowaway in the Sky in my head. If you’re unfamiliar with the composition, know that it is the where the melody from What the World Needs Now (Jackie De Shannon) comes from. And that’s exactly what the world needs now, love.

Mr. Snuffleupagus had a drug problem.

What you see above you is the original Mr. Snuffleupagus. Who knew, right? This is what debuted to television viewers across the world in 1971. Was Snuffleupagus hanging out with Jack Kerouac and the Beat Generation? I mean, look at the way Grover is looking at Snuffleupagus as if to say, “smoked all afternoon, again?” Surely someone had the foresight to realize that children would want these…

DISTRACTIONS…

Jack Dangers. Call Sign, Jack Dangers, San Francisco, California. I just discovered this track and now it’s on repeat. Perhaps this will get me back into the groove of writing. Let’s hope. “The Pulse of Life”…

Helado Negro

Helado Negro dropped a new album early last month. No doubt he is looking to improve upon the momentum he captured during the promotion of his last album, Private Energy. His latest output, entitled This Is How You Smile, is a departure from his previous work. Rather than layering his vocals and saddling them effects, his sings straight forward for a more intimate effect. Perhaps…

I SEE DEAD PEOPLE

You know, I already said this earlier today about Avengers: Endgame; “There will be some fighting. There will be some explosions. There will be some speeches. There will be some resurrections and perhaps a 10th of the people will remain dead, am I right?”

Oh look, there’s the dead people right there on the Chinese poster right now! Hmm. You know what? I hear Nicole Kidman’s take on Virginia…

Alfred Hitchcock and Jordan Peele

I don’t hate him for the statement, but apparently Jordan Peele had this to say:

Oops.

I mean, if you’re going to make a point like this publicly, I suppose it’s best to put it out there at the front of your career and let the chips fall where they may, right? And I entirely understand his FUBU point. The whole For Us, By Us Principal. Do people still…

Fridtjof Nansen

The internet is a wonderful, special place where you can have all those nagging questions that you never needed answered dropped right in front of your screen. While searching for images for my last post on Herman Makkink, I ran across a image that made me wonder why it was showing up under the results. Allow me to show you what I saw:

Google Search Results

Here we have…

Herman Makkink and The Rocking Machine

If you’ve ever seen the Stanly Kubrick 1971 film A Clockwork Orange and wondered who might have created phallic rocking sculptures displayed in the cat woman’s apartment, look no further. They were sculpted by Herman Makkink. Of note is the fact the pieces were constructed originally in 1969 and were formed in a series of six. Many point to A Clockwork…

Before the decades when television and internet took over how we consumed entertainment, books were the way many people found themselves captivated by fiction. Now days, it all seems to be a passive affair. Enter the channel number or click the website banner and prepare yourself to watch. I’m not implying that there is anything wrong with this, but there was a time when you had to take a more…

OVER THREE HOURS, HUH? NOPE!

The buzz that’s currently surrounding Avengers: Endgame is that this latest installment will clock somewhere over 3 hours. Can we all just agree that 3 hours of sitting in a seat is a long damn time, am I right? I can remember the first time I saw Titanic in a theater. Yes, the film was fine enough, but God did it seem to go on and on. The difference here is that with Titanic you were working…

Dennis MacFarlane

MacFarlane, Dennis, and Matt Lord. “Guitar Smash.” Rec. 2015. New Guitar New Mars. By Lordamercy. Vinyl recording. Dego, Matt Lord, 2015.

Guitar Smash

The distraction here is that in my last distraction I went off searching for other tracks by Lordamercy (Matt Lord). The above track was co-written with…

Seeing Jordan’s Peele’s Us this past weekend made me think about how past masters worked their magic on the screen. It goes without saying that Alfred Hitchcock was a great director. People always seem to point to his peak years between 1954 and 1964 as his golden area. Dial M for Murder, North by Northwest, Psycho and The Birds get bandied about quite a bit.

But did you realize that…

Lordamercy. “Death of Hercules.” New Guitar New Mars, Matt Lord, Australia, Sydney, 2015.

DJ Julian sends me constant distractions that take me down the rabbit hole in search of information. This morning I received a email with the title “This is Poppin!” Sure enough, it is. I can’t even lie. I always like properly cite the music I feature, so round and round the internet I went.

Appare…

A Perfect Angel Is About To Get A Bump From Us

Minnie Riperton in the studio perfecting her craft. Circa 1969.

Jordan Peele’s new horror-suspense film Us has quite a bit of critics and viewers debating what exactly the director has achieved with his follow-up to 2017’s breakout hit Get Out. Is it good? Does the screenplay match the lofty levels of his previous work? Does the science behind the story measure up to the expectations of the…

Funky Dogs and Video Games

Today was spent smelling funky dogs and watching video games…

  Watch in disbelief as a small plane takes out a set of traffic lights as it crashes right before a group of cars stopped at a light.  Watch the fiery flames ensue.  Watch the driver in the Toyota RAV4 hit the Nope Button and quickly book it out of there…

And rightly so…

Nope!

Thankfully there were no serious injuries.