io9 has posted a nice collection of vintage Halloween costume pictures.
Link
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Electra Woman and Dyna-Girl
I think that I may have posted a link to these episodes (in a different, perhaps higher quality) before but here is another chance for you to grab them again courtesy of the Crosseyed Cyclops.
Link
Monday, August 30, 2010
Morton Stevens Orchestra - Hawaii Five-0 - Television Soundtrack (1968)
This one should be pretty familiar to the older readers of this blog... Lots of great stuff here.
Link
The Munsters Comic Books
Another excellent post from our friends at The Crosseyed Cyclops. This one features issues 1-9 and 13 from the 1964 series.
Link
Car Wash OST (1976)
Let's step in the time machine and go all the way back to 1976 to enjoy some disco/funk goodness by way of the Car Wash soundtrack.
Link (posted at FORREALHEADZ)
Sunday, August 29, 2010
"The King of Kong" at US Big Lots Stores for $3!
If you haven't yet seen this movie (despite my earlier recommendations!) you may be able to find it at your local Big Lots for $3. It's kind of a crap shoot as to whether your local store will have it or not but based on many internet posts most stores do seem to have it. Watch as the somewhat normal Steve Weibe tries to beat ultra-creep Billy Mitchell's high score in Donkey Kong. I know, it sounds incredibly boring but it's absolutely not! My wife even enjoyed it and she hates video games!
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Queerosities - A Woman Ballplayer (!)
No sound but wow! Other titles in this series The Human Spider, Monkey Auto Race, and the most horrible of them all - A Negro Baptism!
Animated Commercials from the 1950's (Part 2)
Another round of one of my favorites - vintage animated commercials with great mascots and catchy tunes:
Hotpoint (1954)
Pepto-Bismol (1956)
Bactine (1956)
Kaiser Aluminum Foil (1957)
Hellman's Mayonnaise
EZ-Pop Popcorn
Friday, August 27, 2010
Star Wars Gangsta Rap
You know we at Cool-Mo-Dee love everything Star Wars and nothing rap. The song is really really bad but we all know that ANYTHING Star Wars is really really good, right?
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Conan O'Brien's Mario Backdrop
Is this why they cancelled his show? I think it was a secret plot by Microsoft or Sony...
The top image is the actual backdrop, the bottom is one that was 'finished' by some internet fanboy.
San Francisco & New York Fairs (1939)
I just finished reading this book and loved it! Highly recommended for World's Fair/New York City history buffs. A free preview is available on the Kindle (or any Kindle enabled device such as iPads and smartphones).
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
The People Clock
This one is pretty useless but it was a good idea I guess. Watch for a few seconds as the numbers change.
Link
Monday, August 23, 2010
THE PANORAMIC SOUND OF LENNON AND McCARTNEY by Cyril Stapleton His Choir and Orchestra
An album of easy listening Beatles covers. It's not that great but it's the Beatles... well, kind of!
Link
The Papy Potage Mixtapes
This won't be for everyone but I have really been enjoying Papy Potage's mixtape podcasts. There is lots of variety here (punk, 1960's Asian rock and pop, indie, and lots more) and he doesn't do any kind of regular schedule but if you enjoy discovering new music this should be a podcast that you will love.
Link (to podcasts and RSS feed)
Link (to the best of 2009 podcast)
Link (the Papy Potage blog)
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Night of the Living Dead 25th Anniversary Tribute Magazine
Who would have thought that this movie would still resonate with viewers nearly 45 years later? Certainly not the director George Romero or he wouldn't have let the copyright lapse!
The Crosseyed Cyclops has posted this nice tribute issue from 1993.
Link
Toon Crisis (Flash Game)
This game has you walking around the streets of New York blasting cartoon baddies to a Gogol Bordello soundtrack! It's fairly simple but it's the combination of things that made me recommend it.
Link
You Don't Know What You're Doin'! (1931)
This is a great early Merrie Melodies cartoon from the Harman-Ising studios and distributed by Warner Brothers.
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Manhattan Waterfront Travelogue by Van Beuren Studios
I found this interesting bit of history on archive.org. Van Beuren studios are perhaps more well known for their early work in animation.
The New Adventures of Batman (1977)
For some reason I couldn't get this cartoon out of my head this morning so here are a couple of complete episodes. I don't know how everyone feels about Batmite but I loved him when I was a kid.
This Filmation show ran for one year (1977) but was re-aired many times as part of various other packages - The Batman/Tarzan Adventure Hour, Batman and the Super 7, et. al.
Episode 2: The Moonman
Episode 3: Trouble Identity
Thriller (the 1960's Boris Karloff horror anthology series) is finally headed to dvd!
The price is a bit steep ($150 MSRP, Amazon has it up for pre-order for $109 though) but it is a 14 disc set and a nice early horror tv series. I have so many unwatched dvd's though so I am not going to pull the trigger just yet...
Friday, August 20, 2010
Is Anyone Still Playing Farmville?
Farmville spam invades Cool-Mo-Dee! I am sorry for this slight intrusion but this stupid little game rewards you for spamming everyone (which is why I should probably not be playing it!). If any of my readers are playing and need more neighbors, add me as a facebook friend (AdamGott) and then send me a Farville neighbor request. Thanks!
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Billy the Kid's Old Timey Oddities (Comic Review)
It seems that melding any genre with horror is still a growing craze in comics (and beyond) and I do enjoy most attempts at this mixed genre work but I really enjoyed this 2006 mini-series from Dark Horse Comics. Kyle Hotz's artwork was absolutely beautiful. The story involved a wild west version of Dr. Frankenstein, lots and lots of monsters, and Billy the Kid working with a bunch of carnival sideshow performers. How could you go wrong with that? Well, you can't!
The graphic novel is available on Amazon (and lots of other sources) for less than six bucks (USED) and is highly recommended.
Vintage Playground Equipment
I think that this one fits in quite nicely with the earlier post from this week detailing 70s interiors. Plaid Stallions presents the fifth installment in this continuing series. The image above was hand picked by me to illustrate the differences between then and now - namely that if you had something like this in your yard today you would eventually get sued by every ambulance chasing lawyer in town!
Link
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Small Wonder Season 1
Oh how I hated this show! And I don't think that it has gotten any better with age. To me this was the beginning of the end of the American sitcom - poorly overacted, stupid laugh track and totally inane plots - but I know that there were many fans so I present Cosmobells link in which he has posted the entire first season in DIVX format.
Link
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Monday, August 16, 2010
The Dark Vault of Public Domain
Here is a preview for episode 19 of season 2:
Visit their website (link) if you are interested in more (and you should be!). Now they just need to figure out a way for all of us to watch the show and not just those of you in the Brooeme County, New York area.
Visit their website (link) if you are interested in more (and you should be!). Now they just need to figure out a way for all of us to watch the show and not just those of you in the Brooeme County, New York area.
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Gumbasia (1953)
Art Clokey's (Gumby) earliest public work featured a nice jazzy beatnik theme with a lot of surreal claymation.
70's Homes Decorated
Retrospace has posted a bunch of catalog scans depicting the 70s at their most excessive - in our homes. It was hard to pick a picture with which to highlight the site because they were all as equally disturbing!
Link
Saturday, August 14, 2010
It's Gumby Dammit!
According to wikipedia, Gumby was featured in 233 episodes (and this is NOT counting any of the Eddie Murphy "episodes" on Saturday Night Live) over a 35 year period! I had no idea! Gumby was created by Art Clokey in the early 1950's. Two runs of Gumby episodes could be considered the golden years of Gumby - 1955-59 and 1961-68. The animation in the early episodes is fairly primitive by today's standards but I do remember enjoying this one as a child, perhaps because it was usually aired on Sunday mornings and there was nothing better to watch (?). In today's post I tried to emphasize the evolution of Gumby from the 1950's to the 1980's by presenting the first episode of each series. Enjoy!
Gumby on the Moon (1955)
The Zoops (1962)
Gold Rush Gumby (1969)
Gumby Adventures - Music Ball (1980)
A Colour Box - Trippy Early Hand Colored Animation
The soundtrack is some old jazz tune but the animation is trippy!
Friday, August 13, 2010
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Gomer Pyle Comics
The Crosseyed Cyclops has posted a couple issues based on this 1960's tv show (a spinoff from the Andy Griffith Show).
Link
Gōjin Ishihara Illustrations for Japanese Children's Books
These books would definitely give my daughter nightmares but to my adult eyes they are absolutely fabulous.
Link
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