1970s
“Fanta, you’re fantasizing!”
Hausu is an interesting film from 1970s Japan directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi. This film is beyond bizarre with a flying lamp shade that kills and a piano that devours it's prey. I had the chance to watch this with a group of friends when it aired on IFC in April and we had a blast. The movie almost makes no sense, but is a great experience. From what I've heard, the director got the idea from a dream his daughter had, which makes sense. The effects in the film are actually pretty cool for the time period.More in extended >>
Posted By: mdb777 - Sat May 09, 2009 -
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Category: Movies, 1970s, Asia
Float On
Barry White, they ain't!
Posted By: Paul - Sun May 03, 2009 -
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Category: Music, Sex Symbols, 1970s
Annual MIT Piano Drop
The event of this post's title occured a few days ago.However, because the drop is now an anticipated, regular event, it cannot possibly compare with the excitement of the very first one!
Posted By: Paul - Sun Apr 26, 2009 -
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Category: Destruction, Education, 1970s
Follies of the Mad Men #62
Please parse the logic here for me. We'll use feminism to sell ugly shoes for men? I just don't get it....
Posted By: Paul - Mon Apr 06, 2009 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Fashion, Shoes, Feminism, 1970s
Follies of the Mad Men #61
Oh, yeah, a belt your Dad would wear back in 1971 could trigger all that groovy hippie stuff. Note the sign that uses Frank Zappa's name for cachet. Did he sue, I wonder?
Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 31, 2009 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Fashion, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1970s
Follies of the Mad Men #59
What exactly was the name of that toy again?
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 20, 2009 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Toys, 1970s
THE MASTER TOUCH Car Chase
Enjoy this battle between Detroit and European steel from Kirk Douglas's THE MASTER TOUCH.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 11, 2009 -
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Category: Destruction, Movies, 1970s, Cars
Lotti Golden
In Look magazine for September 9 1969, there's an article about an aspiring young singer named Lotti Golden, who wanted to be just like Dylan. Never having heard of her before, I got curious and did some research.She did go on to release a couple of albums. This blogger discusses her career and offers a compressed audio file of one whole album. This fellow does the same.
But overall, poor Lotti is so obscure she doesn't even have a Wikipedia entry, and her records never made it to CD.
In 1982, she tried again with a group called Warp 9, purveyors of "new wave funk." You can hear two samples of their stuff here.
If you listen to the clip below, you might see why she never made it big. This song is like five different disparate songs jammed into one.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 03, 2009 -
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Category: Music, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s
Pat Paulsen in Blackface
As you might expect, this segment never made it to the airwaves.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Feb 10, 2009 -
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Category: Political Correctness, Stereotypes and Cliches, Television, 1970s
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