Music
Christmas on Mars
Is there a better "mainstream" weird band than the Flaming Lips? Possibly not. And surely their long-awaited feature film Christmas on Mars will be excessively weird as well.Here's the trailer. Despite the allusion therein to a 2003 release, the delayed film has not yet appeared, although it will have a showing this Halloween in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Oct 26, 2008 -
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Category: Holidays, Movies, Music, Performance Art, Surrealism
Don Dixon’s “Praying Mantis”
Talk of bugs that eat their mates automatically reminded me of Don Dixon's one hit, the great "Praying Mantis." If you click here, you should be able to hear the song for free. Warning for those at work or in a quiet zone of some sort: it will start playing automatically.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 23, 2008 -
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Category: Death, Insects and Spiders, Music, Sexuality
The Killer Robots
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 21, 2008 -
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Category: Costumes and Masks, Music, Robots
Girls Together Outrageously
A rock band composed entirely of famous groupies? Such were the GTO's, an acronym for Girls Together Outrageously, and brainchild of Frank Zappa. Unlike, say, the Pussycat Dolls, at least they were honest about their pasts.Here's their song "The Ghost Chained To The Past, Present and Future (Shock Treatment)," delivered over a series of stills.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 16, 2008 -
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Category: Music, Sex Symbols, 1960s, Women
Follies of the Mad Men #33
I insist on having my next new car delivered by magical flaming meteor!
Posted By: Paul - Sat Oct 04, 2008 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Fashion, Music, 1960s, Cars
Playing for you, Madam
Theory 1) The woman has passed out drunk and the musicians are her hallucination.Theory 2) She's dead and the musicians are ghosts.
Theory 3) The musicians have broken into her apartment, drugged her, and are now performing a weird fetishistic ritual with her.
(via LP Cover Lover)
Posted By: Alex - Tue Sep 30, 2008 -
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Category: Music
The Tiger Lillies
Witness the weirdness that is the Tiger Lillies.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Sep 28, 2008 -
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Category: Art, Pop Art, Surrealism, Eccentrics, Fashion, Humor, Parody, Music, Theater and Stage, Body Painting
Master Jack
For no discernible reason, I had this song running through my head yesterday. I'm thinking of polling Alex and Chuck to see if we can make it the official theme song of WEIRD UNIVERSE.Read about 4 Jacks and a Jill here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Sep 15, 2008 -
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Category: Music, Weird Universe, Hair Styling, 1960s
George Clinton’s Art
Posted By: Paul - Mon Sep 15, 2008 -
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Category: Art, Pop Art, Surrealism, Celebrities, Entertainment, Music
Sonseed
Sonseed never achieved much fame when they were playing together twenty-five years ago, but now they're attracting quite a following on the internet. Once you've seen them perform "Jesus is a friend of mine" you may understand why. TheDougsploitation blog recently tracked down the lead singer, Sal Polichetti, and interviewed him.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Sep 15, 2008 -
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Category: Music, Video, 1980s
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