Tiny Tim - The Ice Caps Are Melting

Whether you liked his music or not, there is no denying that Tiny Tim was a true original - honest, well-mannered, strange, an expert in early 20th century popular music, friends with the Beatles and Bob Dylan, worked in a circus...

Here is "The Ice Caps Are Melting", from some television program, sometime in the 1960's:



Is it just me, or is there more than a passing resemblance to Gene Wilder's portrayal of Willy Wonka here? Sure, the frizzy hair, and the similar facial features, and "fine" manner of dress...but also the sheer loopiness, the psychedelia, the dark humor, the not-so-hidden undercurrent of malevolence?

Not to mention the bewildered children.

Tiny Tim was SCARY COOL.

I Have No Words To Add...

Indian Version Of THRILLER

Good gosh - WHAT'S NOT TO LIKE?!? Mekhal Jashun = "Girdle Celebration"! Look around for Indian Superman, Indian Transformers, and Indian Matrix, too...You know, you can improve just about ALL the American video-tripe by adding catchy music, bright colors and a few great dance moves!

Some More Beatles

Here is some comedy from the BBC: Harry and Paul doing "The Beatles...Fifty years on". There are a handful of these out, some more than a year old - I only just found them, and thought I would share:



Another episode has the elder Beatles meeting up with the Oasis brothers, who keep calling the Fab Four "Knob'eds"...John gets them good by saying "They ought to call you fellows the Dung Beatles...because you're like the Beatles, but sh*t!"

B.S. Stars As B.S.

Here is the lovely Brooke Shields starring in "Brenda Starr".

This movie evidently was a big bomb when it came out in 1989...I don't know why. I think it is a great campy tribute to the long-running (only recently-ended) newspaper strip. The casting is absolutely dead-on. A few well-placed swear words toward the end of the movie are seemingly out of place in the context of the film, and therefore are even funnier than they might be otherwise (no swears in this clip, the first of nine).

There are plenty of funny/stupid things here to laugh at: "Donovan O'Shay" (Public enemy number three) is "Donovan Hochet" in the french subtitle..."Don't worry about me, boys...SHOOT!"...

My favorite part in this clip happens at about 8:15...

Incredible Puppet Production

The Narrative of Victor Karloch from Kevin McTurk on Vimeo.

Yow! A pretty far cry from Mr Roger's Land Of Make-Believe...


Looks terribly interesting - there's a bit more info about the project HERE.

"Empire Strikes Back" As Silent Film

Here we have a beautiful clip from "The Empire Strikes Back", remixed as a silent film, complete with tinkly piano score, missed frames, and title cards.

It certainly is amazing to see how much the feel of Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" comes through in this - his influence is still felt more than eighty years after that masterpiece...

Lordy, what's not to like? I'd love to see the whole original trilogy like this!

Here is "Anachronisme":