Please to enjoy this blistering rendition of “Sin City” as performed on The Midnight Special, November 24, 1978.
What On Earth!
Oscar-nominated animated short from 1966. Anybody seen it before? Seems like I have, but who the hell knows anymore.
Found!
Wonder if this will be covered in the new biopics?
How Paul McCartney’s bass was found: the history of his Hofner Bass 500/1. For years we thought his first Hofner bass was stolen in 1969 but only recently we learned the truth and in this video we’ll cover how Paul got the bass, what it was stolen, and how it was found.
Clockwork Orange Locations Today
This is as cool as it gets. We just watched the Kubrick classic again a couple of nights ago!
Shit
Ewen Macintosh, who played Big Keith on The Office, has hopped the twig, aged 50.
You Look Like You Could Use A Laugh
So here’s one of my favorite Laurel & Hardy shorts. It’s almost 100 years old and still hilarious!
Perfect Day is historically significant for being the first movie in which someone says “Oh, shit.” (It’s ad-libbed by Uncle Edgar as the dog is helped out of the car at around the 13 minute mark.) The censors completely missed it.
Fuck It … Thursday?
From the last QOTSA album I enjoyed. Lyrics courtesy of Lyric Genius.
Dead bull with the life from the low
I’ll be massive conquistador
Give me soul and show me the door
Metal heavy, soft at the core
Gimme Toro, gimme some more
Gimme Toro, gimme some more
Pressurize, neutralize
Deep-fried, gimme some moreOh
Space truckin’, four on the floor
Fortified with the liquor store
This one’s down, gimme some more
Gimme Toro, gimme some more
Gimme Toro, gimme some more
Gimme Toro, gimme some moreShrunken head I love to adore
B-movie, gimme some gore
Gimme Toro, gimme some more
B-movie, gimme some goreUh
Yow
Gimme Toro, gimme some more
Gimme Toro, gimme some more
Gimme Toro, gimme some more
Gimme Toro, gimme some more
Yeah
Why?
Why is a song I haven’t heard in 40 years stuck in my head today?
Shine A Light On Me
Did you bastards know there’s an official Midnight Special channel on YouTube releasing entire unedited episodes (as well as clips)? Holy shit, it’s a treasure trove!
Timestamped performances for this episode are here. I mostly just watched Sly and the Family Stone, obviously.
BONUS: Here’s another recently released episode with Mott the Hoople and The New York Dolls. Not sure who the guy is in the back playing the Thunderbird for the Dolls. Arthur Kane appears to be in a cast and is obviously miming …
Can You Tell Me How To Get
There’s an excellent HBO (excuse me, MAX) documentary called Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street that you bastards absolutely must check out. It’s a miracle the show ever happened, and the story is fascinating.
And the outtakes are hilarious.