Tag Archives: 1972

03/27/2017 · 1:37 pm

Signature Moves

Why is Walt Disney’s signature on Star Wars?

Look, kids! Vague, controllable versions of things you love! Signed by a corpse who had no part in any of it! BUY BUY BUY!!!

Not just his name; his signature. As though he was the architect of its design. Walt Disney created Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, right? Tinkerbell, sparkly glitter, and magic castles. Horrible TV-movies every Sunday. That’s Walt Disney. Around 1980, I was into Star Wars to get away from all that corny shit.

Now you’re telling me it’s Walt Disney’s property?

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Filed under Bad Influences, Don't Know Don't Care, Idiot's Delight, Movies You Missed, Nostalgic Obsessions, Saturday Movie Matinee, Unfairly Maligned

Tagged as 1940, 1940s, 1970s, 1972, 1977, 1980, 1980s, Attack of the Clones, Carrie Fisher, corporate crap, Disney, Ernie Fosselius, George Lucas, Hardware Wars, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Lemmings, Mark Hamill, Mickey Mouse, movies, Return of the Jedi, Revenge of the Sith, sellouts, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, The Matrix, The Phantom Menace

03/01/2017 · 12:13 pm

Meet The Musical Meddler Squad

Hey everybody! Remember this?

You didn’t think we were fooling around, did you?

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Filed under Comix Classic & Current, Magazine Rack, Nostalgic Obsessions, Thousand Listen Club

Tagged as 1972, 1973, 2017, Bands I Useta Like, books, Choose Your Own Adventure, coloring books, Denny Dias, Donald Fagen, J.P. Kittens, Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, marijuana, Mike the Pod, music, Musical Meddler Squad, Roger Nichols, Steely Dan, Walter Becker

12/01/2016 · 1:28 pm

No News Is Good News

Let me tell you one of the ways my beloved mother drove me up the wall when I was growing up.

She watched the 5 O’Clock News every day.

Bum bum BUM bum BUM!

I grew up in Jersey, part of the Tri-State Area, which includes New York, where I was born. In 1972. Otherwise known as The Year Everything Went Straight To Hell. Continue reading →

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Tagged as #fbf, 11 Alive, 1970s, 1972, 1980s, Faith No More, Family Guy, Halloween III: Season of the Witch, New Jersey, New York, NYC, SJWs, television, urban legends

07/29/2016 · 7:14 pm

DEVO: The Good, The Bad, And The Mutated

I have been a DEVO fan- a “DEVOtee”, if you will- for a very long time. 35 years ago, I was witnessing the video for “Whip It” for the first time, on the brand-new cable channel MTV. I knew a lot of spoiled kids.

When a good time turns around.

It’s not one of my favorite DEVO singles, but I appreciate its historical importance. Even today, it sounds truly weird. However, it came to be so closely linked with DEVO and their visual style, eventually it was the only song anyone brought up. Continue reading →

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Tagged as 1970s, 1972, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1980s, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1988, Akron Ohio, Alan Myers, alternative music, Bob Casale, Bob Mothersbaugh, Brian Eno, David Bowie, DEVO, Gerald V. Casale, Kent State, Mark Mothersbaugh, Murray the K, music, New Wave, nitrous oxide, punk, Ramones, Spazz Attack, Sun Ra

10/04/2015 · 5:17 pm

Animation Analysis: Fritz the Cat

In 1972, there was a schism in the world of “underground comix”. Its poster boy, Robert Crumb, had licensed his controversial Fritz the Cat to a pair of Saturday morning cartoon men, for a feature film production. Depending on whom you ask, the final result is either the fault of Crumb’s intransigence, the director’s dabbling, or the distributor’s trepidation about the content. The reality is that Fritz was never meant for franchising.

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