1960s
“Funeral Parade of Roses” by Matsumoto Toshio
Trying to explain the pleasures of such a scrambled impressionistic piece as Funeral Parade of Roses in plot terms is a pretty fruitless exercise, although the disjointed narrative does reach fever pitch in the latter moments, with developments inspired by the ancient legend of Oedipus Rex. The story really remains only a ruse for a work that is best seen as a fascinating reflection of a long-vanished place and time, caught in a cross-current of international pop-cultural styles and influences and not dissimilar to what was going on in similar circles in other far-flung parts of the world.
His Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Mar 01, 2021 -
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Category: Movies, Sexuality, Violence, Avant Garde, 1960s, Asia
The Clairol Beauty Game
This is a game which promotes learning about perms and hair styling.
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Posted By: Paul - Sun Feb 28, 2021 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Games, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1960s, Hair and Hairstyling
The Mersey Monsters
Posted By: Paul - Sat Feb 27, 2021 -
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Category: Costumes and Masks, Horror, Music, Pop Art, 1960s, Fictional Monsters
The Cure
Posted By: Paul - Tue Feb 23, 2021 -
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Category: Music, Television, 1960s, Diseases, Love & Romance
Kirby’s Flying Ballet
This is the apparatus that famously caused Mary Martin to fly as Peter Pan.
Wikipedia page for Peter Foy.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Feb 18, 2021 -
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Category: Technology, Theater and Stage, Special Effects, 1950s, 1960s
The Waffle Party
With all this talk of rogue Republicans forming a new party, I hope they choose a name as evocative as that of Canada's The Waffle.
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Posted By: Paul - Fri Feb 12, 2021 -
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Category: Odd Names, Politics, 1960s, 1970s, North America
The Punched Tape of Life
The first 70 seconds are abstract, but then come visuals that--tell a story?View six more of his films here.
His Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Feb 09, 2021 -
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Category: Movies, Music, Avant Garde, 1960s, Europe
The Sympowwowsium
In October [1969], several prominent figures within the counterculture and festival scene, including Ken Kesey and Woodstock promoter Michael Lang, gathered in New Mexico for a socalled “Sympowwowsium.” Robert Santelli, author of Aquarius Rising: The Rock Festival Years,
claims that, with the explosive popularity of summer music festivals, and fresh off Woodstock,
those gathered sought an answer to the burning question within the counterculture: “What Comes
After Woodstock?” Santelli writes, “The group was unanimous in its feeling that the rock festival was a potent force in the continuation of the counterculture and should be used to further advocate alternative life-styles, aside from presenting the newest sounds in rock music.”39 These
gathered individuals, as well as hundreds of thousands of countercultural youth spread throughout the country, were eager to bring the Nation back together once again
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Apparently, ROLLING STONE #49 had a piece on this historic conference, but I can't find digital access to it. I'd love to know more about this conference of hippie movers and shakers.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Feb 08, 2021 -
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Category: Music, Conferences, Conventions, Meetings and Symposia, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1960s
Avakoum Zahov, the Soviet James Bond
Avakoum Zahov was a fictional secret agent who featured in the novels of the Bulgarian writer Andrei Gulyashki. Zahov made his first appearance in the 1959 novel The Zakhov Mission. He returned in the 1966 novel Avakoum Zahov versus 07 — in which he battles and defeats a British agent known as '07'.
image source: pulp curry
There have been persistent rumors that Gulyashki created Zahov at the behest of the KGB in an attempt to produce a Soviet James Bond. Details from an article by Andrew Nette:
It is not clear where McCormick got his information, but others have since picked up the claim and run with it. The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory states that Gulyashki ‘was invited by the KGB to refurbish the image of Soviet espionage which had been tarnished by the success of James Bond’. Likewise, Wesley Britton claims in Beyond Bond: Spies in Fiction and Film that, in 1966, the Bulgarian novelist was hired by the Soviet press to create a communist agent to stand against the British spy ‘because of Russian fears that 007 was in fact an effective propaganda tool for the West’.
"My name is Zahov, Avakoum Zahov" just doesn't have the same ring as "Bond, James Bond".
Posted By: Alex - Sat Feb 06, 2021 -
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Category: Literature, Books, Spies and Intelligence Services, 1960s
Carousel Kitchen
Did anyone ever actually want this, or build it, outside of the ad man's imagination?
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Posted By: Paul - Sat Feb 06, 2021 -
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Category: Domestic, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Advertising, 1960s
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