jueves, 22 de mayo de 2014

This movie really, really freaked me out when I was a kid

This weird 1969 film was made by the same gang that years later would give us the Space 1999 TV series.

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This is from the film's unusually long and detailed Wikipedia entry:

Doppelgänger is a 1969 British science-fiction film directed by Robert Parrish and starring Roy ThinnesIan HendryLynn Loring and Patrick Wymark. Outside Europe, it is known as Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, which is now the more popular title.[1][2] In the film, a joint European-NASAmission to investigate a planet in a position parallel to Earth, behind the Sun, ends in disaster with the death of one of the astronauts (Hendry). His colleague (Thinnes) discovers that the planet is a mirror image of Earth.



martes, 20 de mayo de 2014

Manfred Mann's Earth Band Tribal Statistics - Somewhere In Afrika



March 26 2014 / 26 de marzo 2014

I love this song! It is featured in Manfred Mann's Earth Band's somewhat underrated 1983 album Somewhere in Afrika. Side one of this LP featured the top 40 hit Runner. The entire side two is one single musical concept: a cry of protest against the universally despised apartheid regime in Mann's natal country South Africa. Years before Artists United Against Apartheid's album and song Sun City and Paul Simon's super hit album Graceland, Mann's band was already calling out apartheid.

"Tribal Statistics" is my favorite piece from this album. It sounds like A Flock of Seagulls, but with a political conscience. It was written by Andy Qunta, who would later join Icehouse.


¡Me encanta esta canción! Es parte de Somewhere in Afrika, un disco un tanto subestimado que Manfred Mann's Earth Band sacó en 1983. El lado 1 de este elepé tiene la canción "Runner", que llegó a la lista Top 40 de Estados Unidos. El lado 2 entero tiene varias piezas unificadas por un concepto: protesta y repudio contra el universalmente detestado régimen racista apartheid en Suráfrica, país natal de Manfred Mann. Años antes de Artistas Unidos contra el Apartheid y su disco Sun City y antes del super exitoso disco Graceland de Paul Simon, ya Mann y su banda estaban condenando públicamente al apartheid.

"Tribal Statistics" es mi pieza favorita de este disco. Suena como una especie de Flock of Seagulls con conciencia política. Fue compuesta por Andy Qunta, quien luego se uniría a la banda Icehouse.

lunes, 19 de mayo de 2014

jueves, 15 de mayo de 2014

Marc Maron on The Dinner Party podcast

http://www.dinnerpartydownload.org/episodes/252/

Episode 252: Marc Maron, Philippe Petit, and Soylent

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This Week: Marc Maron gives etiquette AND time-travel advice… Graphic novelist Mimi Pond lists criminals, spies, and other bohemians … “Man On Wire” tightrope-walker Philippe Petit explores creative chaos…  “The Descendants” author Kaui Hart Hemmings tells a new tale… load up on Kleenex ’cause here comes SADvertising… the history of the least respected trophy in sports… and Rico tastes Soylent: the pasty beige future of food.  PLUS: Our listeners sound off about mouths and sounds.

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"Expensive Seats" - Marc Maron

Comedian Marc Maron with a joke about a woman with a good excuse for not using her Super Bowl ticket.

KANSAS - People of the South Wind



April 27 2014

This may be my all time favorite Kansas song. From the very underrated 1979 album Monolith, which I bought when I was 13.

miércoles, 14 de mayo de 2014

Bruce Woolley & The Camera Club - Video Killed The Radio Star



19 de abril 2014

"Video Killed The Radio Star", una de las canciones más emblemáticas del "boom" de la música new wave de fines de los años 70, es recordada como obra del dúo The Buggles. Pero si se fijan en los créditos, la canción tiene TRES compositores, no solamente Trevor Horn y Geoff Downes de The Buggles. El tercer compositor es Bruce Woolley. Los tres escribieron la canción "Baby Blue" para Dusty Springfield, la cual llegó a las listas de éxitos radiales en 1979. Acto seguido, los tres formaron The Buggles y compusieron "Video Killed the Radio Star", pero Woolley no estaba realmente interesado en el proyecto y se rajó, formando su propio conjunto, llamado The Camera Club. 

El grupo de Woolley sacó su primer disco apenas unas semanas antes que los Buggles, por lo que se puede considerar que la suya técnicamente es la versión ORIGINAL de "Video Killed the Radio Star". El tecladista de The Camera Club era nada menos que Thomas Dolby.