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Flesh And Blood: The Hammer Heritage Of Horror [2h30m] is a full retrospective of Hammer Studios, whose name came to be synonymous with horror cinema across the 20th Century.
But I don't have a thing to wear!
Do costumes during Spooky Season stress you out? Fear not! Here are three really gigantic lists of costume ideas, many of which start with things you may already have around the house. 77 LAST-MINUTE HALLOWEEN COSTUME IDEAS THAT YOU CAN DIY IN A SNAP from Best Products is full of springboards, often with shopping links that you could ignore. 76 Easy Last-Minute Halloween Costumes to DIY or Buy from Country Living also is full of creative ideas and several options to just buy a thing. Finally, 120 Best Last-Minute Halloween Costumes That Are Super Easy to DIY from The Pioneer Woman is yet another list of ideas. Many of these costumes regardless of model gender are entirely genderless. There are instruction links for many of these over 250 costume ideas, so scroll, click, and play dress up!
They used to have Spooky songs in the past
It's hard to find new music for Spooky Season. But it turns out, there's a century of tunes to turn to! 13 Halloween Songs from the 1920's & 1930's [40m] and Vintage Halloween Music [50s and 60s, 40m] are both probably full of songs you didn't know exist. For something a bit more modern, perhaps Spooky Swing - Electro Swing Halloween Mix 2020 🎃 😈 🌕 💀 [1h40m] will get you up and hopping.
Some kind of clever title about masks
Clever homemade spooky masks can run the gamut of difficulty. This simple mask use uses hot glue [and a UV light] for its effects. Here's a clever chalkboard mask that could be made with a simple base or custom per the instructions. A little more skill might be required to make this duct tape Batman mask. Real skills would be required for this Spawn Of Cthulhu creation. Nearly 60 mask projects with instructions await your perusal at Instructables.
Monster Chiller Horror Theater!
Get spooky with your television viewing with these classic horror classics: The House Of Cats! [6m], Whispers Of The Wolf! [8m], and most terrifying of all: the preternaturally early [by my calendar] Have Yourself A Scary Little Christmas! [4m]
Build Your Own Ghost House
Feeling the need for a bit of spooky decor, and feeling a bit crafty? Here's a paper craft Ghost House you can print out, cut apart, and glue together. House pages and instructions are in two separate PDF files. The same maker also has a fairly simple human skull, along with a whole catalog of interesting paper craft patterns.
Spooky Season Is Upon Us!
#SpookySeason We're entering that time of hauntings and horrors, and maybe you need some inspiration? Well, the 2013 documentary Halloween Home Haunts [1h25m] is a leisurely stroll through terrifying yards, gristly walk-through, and even some who graduated to professional level. Gain some insight, glean some techniques, and linger in the atmosphere that could lure you to creating your own home haunt!
Alright, alright, alright!
Making Dazed [45m] is a 2005 reunion/behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of the 1993 film Dazed And Confused. Ben Affleck, Matthew McConaughey, Parker Posey, Adam Goldberg, and more look back at the film that helped launch their careers.
It isn't lost and it isn't a masterpiece
Apparently back in 1975, Graham Chapman of Monty Python and Douglas Adams not quite yet of Hitchhiker's Guide wrote a television show. It's an incomprehensible mess that's entirely worth watching. Out Of The Trees [32m]
I'm going to need to get some quarters
Top 10 Arcades Games Every Year From 1980-1989 (100 Games) [25m] offers without commentary a list of each of the 100 games, showing gameplay and those delicious sound effects. Right away I was struck by "oh yeah, I'd forgotten about that one!"
It's 106 miles to Chicago, we have half a pack of cigarettes...
...it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses. The Stories Behind The Making Of The Blues Brothers [55m] is a 1998 documentary about the 1980 film that defined an era and the likes of which will likely never be made again.
Honestly, I was not expecting this
So, it's possible that one of my favorite albums of this year is by... Dr. Noah Drake? All I can do is ask that you check out the newest album from 74-year-old Rick Springfield, Automatic [YT Playlist ~1h total]. He talked to American Songwriter about this album, which blends dance hooks with punk rock. Here's the first single, title track Automatic. But please check out the full album.
You won't believe the dream I just had. Don't you want to hear about it?
Dr. Robert Hartley is having a really bad day. His dream last night of a strange little inn in Vermont seemed to last for years, and now he can't get anyone to take seriously how disturbing it was. I never even knew this existed! From 1991, The Bob Newhart Show: The 19th Anniversary Special [47m].
Pop Muzik
There once was a band called XTC. This is their story. This Is Pop [1h13m, 2017].
It doesn't seem like she's that excited by it.
I'm not always a fan of Drew Gooden's videos. His style is a bit irritating at times. But the video Buying the weirdest cat toys on the internet [20m] really made me laugh out loud a couple of times. Plus, it's about cats. And toys. Always a great combination.
Oh yeah, he's THAT guy!
It took three years for Colin Hay's band to rise from playing pubs to being the biggest band in the world. Three more years, and Men At Work was over, as was all the momentum for Colin Hay's career. Colin Hay: Waiting For My Real Life [1h24m, 2015] documents the rise, fall, and continuing lingering legacy of one of Australia's biggest musical heroes.
And we'll add that to our meat puzzle
There's something satisfying about watching a skilled person practice their craft. When you combine that with education, that's even better. A Visual Guide to the Cuts of Beef: Learn Where Every Cut Comes From! [1h16m] has The Bearded Butchers beginning with a full side of beef, disassembling it piece by piece and explaining how the cuts are released, and then reassembling the side of beef with all the cuts so you can see exactly where they come from.
She's the tall blonde one.
Cindy Wilson, one of The B-52s, has released her second solo album. Early single, Delirious, is a new wave synth soundscape, while Wait plays with sampled vocals, and Midnight is Eighties pop deliciousness. Yahoo Music has a lengthy write-up of the album and the artist, and you can find it all at Bandcamp.
It's like Cast Away, only with Patsy Stone*
In 1994, during the heyday of the run of Absolutely Fabulous [and well before Survivor], Joanna Lumley decided to do a a reality show where she was "stranded" on a desert island. Very early reality television, utterly breaking the fourth wall, and completely charming. Girl Friday [Wikipedia] Part 1, Part 2 [75m total]
Friar Park, Henley-On-Thames
Let's say you want to build yourself a fantasy home. What would it contain? A hedge maze? Formal gardens? A lake, surrounded by trees, upon which to row? Maybe greenhouses? Perhaps an alpine garden with a forced-perspective Matterhorn? How about secret caves? How about all this AND MORE? Friar Park: A Magical Journey Through George Harrison's Estate [1h5m] is a leisurely look at Sir Frank Crisp's [Wikipedia] wonderland [Wikipedia] which Harrison eventually purchased in 1970.
Logistically I still can't believe we pulled it off
How 'Weird: The Al Yankovic Story' Pulled Off the Cameo Filled Pool Scene [12m15s] is a look at the insanely celebrity-cameo-laden pool scene from the entirely accurate biopic. Everyone is so enthusiastic about the project, it's charming. It's a thing you'd enjoy if you enjoy this kind of thing.
White, a blank page or canvas, his favorite, so many possibilities
CUNY TV brings us Stephen Sondheim's Legacy, part of their Theater: All the Moving Parts series. It's an hour looking back at Sondheim, with the first half-hour in conversation with three Stephenstans [Sondheimistas?], and the second part with his official biographer and a CUNY music scholar.
I paid her $75 to call the police.
From just a few weeks ago, Maria Bamford – 28th Annual OCD Conference Keynote [44m] has Maria Bamford, um, giving the keynote address to the 28th Annual OCD Conference. She speaks at length about her intrusive voices and OCD, which sounds horrible but she makes funny.
Beato + Saliers = Great Interview
Rick Beato sat down with the Emily Saliers half of Indigo Girls for a conversation about her decades of making and recording music: In the Room with Indigo Girls’ Emily Saliers [50m]. It's a free-wheeling talk that I, as a long-time IG fan, felt was revelatory and insightful. And there's a lot of joy happening here, too! Includes solo performance of song Look Long.
Monday Classic Drive-In Porno Double Feature, thanks to Internet Archive
Historical NSFW content presented only for consenting adults to view in the privacy of wherever they deem to be private.
Alice in Wonderland: An X-Rated Musical Fantasy [Wikipedia] is a 1976 American erotic musical comedy film [1h18m, IA] loosely based on Lewis Carroll's 1865 book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Chatterbox [Wikipedia] is a 1977 American comedy film [1h13m, IA] about a woman with a talking vagina.
Alice in Wonderland: An X-Rated Musical Fantasy [Wikipedia] is a 1976 American erotic musical comedy film [1h18m, IA] loosely based on Lewis Carroll's 1865 book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Chatterbox [Wikipedia] is a 1977 American comedy film [1h13m, IA] about a woman with a talking vagina.
Now there are going to be complaints about this convention, but...
YouTube's Swell Entertainment [YouTube video page link] attends events. But she doesn't go to create glamour Instagram moments, she goes to review the actual experience of attending the event. An interesting comparison/contrast are her videos lunacy at the furry convention [33m] and Anime Expo feels unsafe [37m]. But it's not just conventions, here is i snuck into Renee Rapp's listening party [20m]. I think she's great, and doing a thing nobody else is doing, and doing it with an attitude I enjoy.
This will definitely be a death bed memory for me.
There are stand-up specials, and there are stand-up specials. Part Dmitri Martin, part Andy Kaufman, Kristen Schaal: Live at the Fillmore [2013, 1h] is hilarious, inventive, surprising, and, well, um... yeah. I'm still not entirely sure what I've seen, but I think that's part of the point. NSFW for subject matter, not visuals.
content warning: nuclear war
"The makers of The Atomic Cafe [1982, 1h26m] sifted through thousands of feet of Army films, newsreels, government propaganda films and old television broadcasts to come up with the material in their film, which is presented without any narration, as a record of some of the ways in which the bomb entered American folklore. There are songs, speeches by politicians, and frightening documentary footage of guinea-pig American troops shielding themselves from an atomic blast and then exposing themselves to radiation neither they nor their officers understood." - Roger Ebert
But this goes to eleven!
With Oppenheimer quickly becoming one of the biggest [heh] movies of all time, there has been a lot of discussion about film format floating around lately. Here with a complete explainer about film formats is Analogue Resurgence with 70mm: From Oklahoma to Oppenheimer (Or, How Very Big Film Was Used to Make Very Big Movies) [46m]. It's a romp across cinema through the lens of, well, the lenses. And the film stock.
Japanese Precision Walking Competition Group Action 2011
集団行動 group action 2011年 Japanese Precision Walking Competition [14m] I won't even pretend to understand much of what is going on here. The introduction is long, and the real action begins around 1m42s. There's a grace and skill and wit on display here, and if you're around for the very end, they execute some maneuvers that even to my amateur eye look VERY amazing, as if they hadn't done enough before.
Path open for HIV/AIDS cure
Gene splicing treatment cures Simian Immunodeficiency Virus in non-human primates, next will be HIV in humans. "Analyses showed that EBT-001 was broadly distributed, reaching tissues throughout the body, with evidence of gene editing of SIV proviral DNA in all significant viral reservoirs. Moreover, EBT-001 was well-tolerated at all dose levels, with no evidence of toxicity in clinical examination of the animals or following histopathological investigation." [Medical Express]
League Of Pigs
The Pig Racing Woodland Finals! [16m] was enough of a curious title that I had to click on it when YouTube put it in front of me. Apparently this is the finale of the NINTH season of pig racing, so it's a bit like starting with the final chapter, but it only made me want to go back and watch more. The League Of Pigs YouTube Page has over 100 videos of adorable piggy action for any others who might also be interested.
The Corruption Of Lindsey Graham
Like many, I've surmised that the reason Lindsey Graham went from Never Trump to Trump's Biggest Champion was because Donny had some kompromat on him. But after listening to the podcast from The Bulwark's Will Saletan, The Corruption Of Lindsey Graham [Bulwark link, podcast overview, individual episode pages are full of ancillary material, no listening links], I'm not so sure. He might have just sold his soul on principle. Here's Episode 1 of 7 "Graham's Moral Clarity" on YouTube [26m], with the full YouTube Playlist [annoyingly not in order] and the PDF book The Corruption Of Lindsey Graham by Will Saletan, upon which the podcast is based. The rest of the episodes on YouTube are listed below the fold.
I'd say he's like a grumpy pop culture protege of James Burke
I'd really only known Rich Hall [Wikipedia] from his appearances on BBC panel shows. It turns out, he has a whole career doing documentaries trying to explain the United States to a UK audience steeped in US mass media. Rich Hall's Red Menace [2019, 1h30m] begins with an atom bomb and follows the Cold War conflict between the US and the USSR as depicted in cinema and contrasting that with actual history. But he's done so many more!
What if people did know there was a worship song written by a drag queen
Flamy Grant responds to Sean Feucht [who?] on TikTok and rallies the troops. [TikTok, 4m11s] Paste Magazine lays it all out from a couple of weeks ago. Drag Queen Flamy Grant Tops the iTunes Christian Charts Fast forward, this past week, Good Day landed on the Billboard Christian Digital Sales Chart at #20 [Billboard]. Also: Christian drag queen Flamy Grant's No. 1 album is battle cry against 'terrible theology' of religious bigots [Entertainment Weekly] The song in question: Good Day [audio only, 5m, and oh goodness!]
Let your body move to the music
Serving as a tour for both her mammoth Like A Prayer album and her Dick Tracy/I'm Breathless project, Madonna's 1990 Blond Ambition Tour ended in Nice, France on August 5 [1h53m]. It's like a Broadway Musical Tone Poem, with gigantic set pieces, a loose storyline across a 4-act structure, and some of the best concert performances and pop choreography ever put before an audience.
Garry Shandling: Stand Up Comedian... And Shep
Garry Shandling only ever filmed two stand-up specials. Alone In Vegas [50m] was released in 1984 for Showtime and along with his guest hosting on The Tonight Show helped springboard him into his Showtime series It's Garry Shandling's Show [Theme Song]. His second was Stand Up [52m] in 1991, now for HBO, released shortly before his HBO series The Larry Sanders Show [Theme Song] began airing. Please read below:
There Is No Game
If you don't want any spoilers at all, here's the Steam link for There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension [$13]. This Guardian review has mild spoilers, and Wikipedia has even more spoilers. But I found real delight in watching these two nerds at Animators VS Gamers do a full play through [3h43m]. Their joy was infectious, and I solved some puzzles before they did which made me feel smart.
The franchise has always managed to balance CGI with real stunts
The 20 Year Evolution of Fast and Furious Car Chases [1h11m, CineFix/IGN] was released before Fast X, but there's still plenty of material there. If you like this kind of thing, you'll like this.
Playing with video games
YouTuber Any Austin has a quirky approach to his presenting, and to his subject matter. My favorite I've seen is Snow! (this is about video games) [16m30s]. He also explores "unexpected and odd places" in several games, including Star Wars: Battlefront 2 (2005) [14m], Skyrim [14m], even Mario Kart 8 [13m]. Here's the first part of a series on breath holding for different characters [13m]. One of his unemployment surveys of video game towns [Castle Town, Twilight Princess, 18m]. His YouTube page lists many more.
The Learning Channel
I'm going to post these in the order that Billiam posted them, but I think, for an old like me, they should really be watched in reverse order because that's chronological rather than working backward from modern outrage to historical corruption. Anyway: 1: TLC'S Biggest Lies [26m] 2: The TLC Iceberg [44m] 3: When TLC Killed “The Learning Channel” [29m]. I remember The Learning Channel, and 3 was like being reminded of watching my favorite pub burning down.
It's counter-intuitive, but too much Disney might be killing Disney
YouTuber Poseidon Entertainment, who spends a lot of time examining dead amusement park rides and has been more increasingly critiquing amusement parks, has a thesis: Disney Brand Fatigue Is Damaging Its Parks [35m]. His experience looking back at things that have ceased to be gives him some insight into how modern attraction development might be creating a future trap for Disney. It's an interesting perspective that maybe Iger needs to listen to.
Blessed Are The Noisemakers
DJ Food has opened for Art Of Noise twice, once in 2018 and again in 2023. In each occasion, he created a sound collage of work from across the AON spectrum. The individual members are prolific on their own, so while the mixes stray far from AON sources, the journey of each of these mixes is surprising and engaging and remains true to the original group. Blessed Are The Noisemakers - Before, Behind & Beyond The Art of Noise [1h36m, 2018] and Blessed Are The Noisemakers (Diversion 2) [1h34m, 2023] are both posted to Mixcloud.
Art & ACT -- the remnants of Art Of Noise
In 1985 , after one album using new technology and generating a market-changing single, three-fifths of Art Of Noise departed the ZTT music label for greener pastures. The remaining duo, Trevor Horn and Paul Morley vowed to continue at ZTT but didn't. The Art & ACT project's [Facebook post about history] manifesto remains yet to be found, but Life's A Barrel Of Laughs [YT playlist ~20m, linktree to various sources], the audio component has finally been released. This is mostly of interest to AON completionists, but it is of interest nonetheless.
More of these games should have ended with the monkey hugging the dog
YouTuber oddheader recruited his wife Mrs. odd to review and rank nearly 60 Barbie video games. I played Every Barbie game. HELP ME. (Ft. Mrs Odd) [1h16m] presents them in low-to-high ranking, so it jumps around in time, but grows in quality as it goes on. It's a fascinating and insightful look through the prism that is current rampant Barbie commentary. It's also much less pink than you're expecting.
Quentin Crisp, a life in film
It's hard to believe, perhaps even astonishing, that The Naked Civil Servant [1h17m] was shown on British television in 1975. John Hurt's brilliant portrayal of Quentin Crisp in an unflinching film about being nonbinary homosexual in Britain, based on Crisp's 1968 autobiography, propelled both men into immediate fame. Hurt revisited the role 34 years later in 2009 , after Crisp's 1999 death, for An Englishman In New York [1h14m], based on the broad sweep of Crisp's later life in America.
That made me go into hiding in my house, that's when the pills started
She isn't to everybody's taste, but Kathy Griffin has a lot to share. After the Trump Photo Incident* her career stopped cold. She's finally back with sold-out shows in Vegas and a new book. In her conversation with Jen Taub for the Booked Up podcast [1h6m, podcast page link], Kathy shares much about her career and life, including addiction and recovery and struggling to rebuild her career. It's an open and frank and very Kathy Griffin conversation that I greatly appreciated. CW: suicide discussion
Earl Scruggs: His Family and Friends
Earl Scruggs [Wikipedia], the renowned banjo player and bluegrass pioneer, began exploring collaborations with musicians from other genres, ... artists like The Byrds, Bob Dylan, and Joan Baez. This was a bold move for Scruggs, who was known for his traditional bluegrass roots. ... The result of Scruggs' quest to collaborate with these artists was [David Hoffman's] 90 minute primetime television documentary "Earl Scruggs: His Family and Friends," which aired in 1972. It showcased Earl Scruggs playing banjo with well-known musicians such as The Byrds, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Doc Watson and many others.
Jay Leno on Neal Brennan's The Blocks
Neal Brennan's interesting, introspective podcast The Blocks recently had Jay Leno as a guest [1h23m]. Brennan's podcast is focussed around discussing what the guests feel are things that have blocked them, held them back. I found this to be full of insights about Jay Leno that ran really counter to my assumed attitudes toward him, and I appreciated it.
All you have to do is keep your hand on the truck
Maybe you heard the This American Life episode about it. Maybe you saw the Broadway musical about it. Well, the 1997 documentary Hands On A Hardbody [1h37m, Wikipedia] can be viewed on YouTube! Explore humanity through watching people slowly lose their minds as they stay awake for days on end trying to win a truck.