Link
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Top Board Game Video Games
UGO.com has posted a nice list of the top video games that are based on board games. There are certainly a lot of crappy ones (anyone remember the Trivial Pursuit arcade game?) but there are lots of good ones. I tend to shy away from the total 'luck based' popular American board games but they are not all bad and they are usually decent plays with the younger kids.
Link
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Bride of Frankenstein Movie Poster Collection
Wrong Side of the Art has posted a nice collection of ten BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN movie posters (one of the best classic horror movies in my opinion).
Link
Uncle Eerie's Shiver Show
Here are the hosting segments from a May 2010 show that featured THE LAST MAN ON EARTH.
Monday, June 28, 2010
John, Paul, George, Ringo and... Bert! - Original Cast Recording
How about the original cast recording to the 1974 Beatles themed musical?
From wikipedia
John, Paul, George, Ringo...& Bert is a 1974 play by Willy Russell based on the story of The Beatles. It premiered at the Everyman Theater in Liverpool in May 1974 where it ran for eight weeks and later moved to the Lyric Theatre in London in August 1974, where it ran for a year and was later named "Best Musical of 1974" by the Evening Standard and London Critics' awards.[1] It featured the music of the Beatles performed by Barbara Dickson. It also briefly ran in the United States in 1985.[2]
According to an interview with Creem magazine, George Harrison stated that he saw the play with Derek Taylor and greatly disliked it.[3], he walked out while attending the London premiere and withdrew his permission to use his song "Here Comes The Sun".[4] It was replaced with "Good Day Sunshine".[5]
Link (posted at The World Is Only One)
Various Artists - Novelty Fesival Vol. 2
I am a sucker for a good novelty record so I couldn't pass sharing this link to a bunch of great rare tunes from the 50's
Link (posted at Music You Won't Possibly Hear Anyplace Else)
Sunday, June 27, 2010
World Cup (USA loses to Ghana)
I have to apologize for the rather sporadic posting lately. I have been on vacation for two weeks but a couple of things have drawn my attention away from the blogosphere. The World Cup has kept my attention for the past couple of weeks (at nearly 6 hours per day for the round robin part of the tournament). THe US lost to Ghana (AGAIN!) so now I have to find someone else to root for I guess...
I am also restoring an old arcade cabinet (with MAME) and that project is almost finished - and, oh yeah, it kicks some serious ass! It's an old 2 player Spider-Man cabinet with two joysticks and two buttons for each player and all of this is wired to my computer (via USB port) which is mounted in the cabinet. The cabinet in the youtube video is not mine but I just wanted to give everyone an idea of what you can achieve for a relatively small amount. I had the old computer laying around and I found a free cabinet so I only had to buy a monitor (22 inch LCD for $130) and a few small parts. Cool!
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Top Ten Cartoon Bands
I found a list of the top ten cartoon bands on Listverse recently so I thought that would be a great idea for my own top ten list. I tried to stay away from bands that actually existed in the real world but I did include a couple of bands that existed because of the tv show. I thought that the number one band would be a no-brainer for me but as I listened to some of these bands I almost changed my mind.
10. Alvin and the Chipmunks - Rock and Roll
9. The Brady Kids - Opening Theme
8. The Partridge Family 2200 A.D. - Gypsy Girl
7. Jabberjaw - The Neptunes - The Mountain of Time
6. Josie and the Pussycats - Inside, Outside, Upside Down
5. Cattanooga Cats - Birthday Suit
4. The Archies - Catchin' Up On Fun With the Hamburger Hop
3. The Banana Splits - I'm Gonna Find a Cave
2. Groovy Goolies - 1-2-3
1. Fat Albert - Playin' Hookey
Friday, June 25, 2010
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Star Wars Around the World
The Swedish Bed has '30s a great collection of foreign Star Wars ripoffs available for our viewing and reading pleasure.
Link
Brazilian Star Wars
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Monday, June 21, 2010
Geoff Love's Big Disco Sound - Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Other Disco Galactic Themes
Meco wasn't the only disco guy cashing in on the late 70's science fiction movie theme as disco hit craze!
01 Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
02 Logans Run
03 Princess Leia's Theme
04 Flight Fantastic
05 The Time Machine
06 Main title and Cantina Band from Star Wars
07 Blake's Seven
08 The Omega Man
09 Solar Sailor
10 Space Patrol1
Link (posted at Lounge Legends)
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Spinoff Movies from Saturday Night Live
We all know of the legend of SNL spinoff movies. Some are great and some are not.. or even worse than that.
Rotten Tomatoes has a countdown of all ELEVEN (I could have sworn that there were many more than this!) including video clips.
Link
1980's Animated Commercials
Another set of commercials for products that still exist. I was kind of surprised to find how dated most of these felt to me.
Kentucky Fried Chicken
Toshiba
Super Sugar Crisp
Crest Toothpaste
Star-Kist Tuna
Friday, June 18, 2010
USA v England (World Cup in Lego)
I don't know if any of you are watching the World Cup but there have been a lot of great matches so far and the US is set to kick off against Slovenia in about a half an hour.
Soccer Balls (a Flash game)
The graphics are pretty bland and the gameplay is ultra simple but the levels do get challenging after you play for a while. Despite the aforementioned, I keep finding myself strangely attracted to this game and then I can't quit...
Link
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Doc Savage Music Video (1975)
Is this movie as bad as everyone says that it is? It's been a long time but I remember enjoying it. I am presently making my way through the recently released volume 1 of classic DC comics reprints. They are kind of silly but a lot of fun.
I have also subscribed to the latest DC comics series but I haven't started reading it yet (I think that they are on issue two so it's not too late to jump on). Reviews on the net seem to be mostly negative for this one though.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Gumball Machine Treasures
I bookmarked this link a long time ago but never got around to exploring it until now. Wow! Truly a treasure trove of vintage gumball machines!
Link
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
The 1974 Kenner Fun Catalog
The Magic Whistle has posted a complete scanned copy of the 1974 Kenner Toy catalog. I remember peronally owning lots of these including those great SST cars with the rip cord that made them go!
Link
Search For Tomorrow - September 5, 1960
One doesn't get to see many vintage soap operas so here is one from archive.org:
Monday, June 14, 2010
Bobby Paunetto - Commit To Memory (1976)
This is a pretty trippy album from the golden age of science fiction meets synth.
Link (posted at Oufar Khan)
Huckleberry Hound Tells the Story of Uncle Remus
Apparently the Disney company wasn't the only studio brave enough to tell this story. Yowp has posted this 1965 album for all of us to enjoy. The album is mostly focused on the story but there are a few 'rock' songs as well.
Link
Nightmare - Great Balls of Fire/Witch Woman
I should have saved this one for the upcoming Halloween Countdown just for the cover art but I didn't want to wait that long to post this gem. The cover of GREAT BALLS OF FIRE is an imaginative look at this classic rocker.
Link (posted at variete underground)
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Saturday, June 12, 2010
1970's Animated Commercials
Another batch of vintage commercials for products that still exist. This time we take our time machine back to the groovy 70's.
Shasta
7-Up
Cocoa Krispies
Tin-Man Eat Healthy PSA
Corn Flakes
Tang
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