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DJ Psycho Mike spins Mash ups in Chicago, runs the Psychotronic Film Society at http://www.psychotronic.info
writes and directs film and theatre including the play and movie BETTIE PAGE UNCENSORED.
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Aug 27, 2008
Surf W/ SF May Ban Bikes!
SAN FRANCISCO: BIKES CAUSE TOO MUCH POLLUTION, HOOTERS IN CHINA?, SUNDOWN TOWNS, BUCK ROGERS FROM THE CHICAGO WORLD'S FAIR, JACKIE CHAN'S BIGGEST INFLUENCE: BUSTER KEATON!
The Velvet Underground and Nico on Italian TV, 1966!
Sundown Towns. Many are in Illinois. They are towns that did not allow Blacks after dark! The Illinois towns still set off their warning siren, one hopes they don't remember why!
New York is wooing cyclists with chartreuse bike lanes. Chicago is spending nearly $1 million for double-decker bicycle parking.
San Francisco can't even install new bike racks. ![[Rob Anderson]](http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/HC-GM549_Anders_20080819174551.gif)
Blame Rob Anderson. At a time when most other cities are encouraging biking as green transport, the 65-year-old local gadfly has stymied cycling-support efforts here by arguing that urban bicycle boosting could actually be bad for the environment. http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB121919354756955249.html
Now you can buy your own Preying Mantis eggs! From Surfer Richard Crowe whose other links follow in the same color
Did you know that Beijing has a HOOTERS??
Hooters is in fact creating quite a stir in Asia!
What was the Chicago police riot in 1968 and subsequent trial really about?
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
U.S. 11 as it runs between Birmingham and Bessemer, Alabama, is an outdoor vernacular art gallery that gives even my beloved Western Avenue in Chicago a run for its money. This page merely samples the great handmade typography on the stretch I traversed, while showing the best of the graphical images there.
Posted at 01:01 pm by Psychomike
Aug 26, 2008
OBAMA ASSASSINATION PLOT FOILED, LITTLE LEAGUE PLAYER FIGHTS BAN BECAUSE HE IS TOO GOOD!, THE DEXTER MINI- COW, STRAIGHT GIRLS KISSING FAD SWEEPS SCHOOLS: LESBIANS CONFUSED!
U.S police are investigating a possible plot to assassinate Barack Obama at democratic convention in Denver.
Parents are angry. There are lawyers involved. Conflicting and wild accusations are flying. The adults are fighting over the kids.Sounds like a nasty divorce, but it’s actually a fight between a youth baseball league, one of its coaches and some parents.
THE BRIDES OF GHOST HUNTER RICHARD CROWE is a unique take on the supernatural side of Chicago. Told from the point of view of the ghosts, the play covers the Eastland disaster, Anna Sage and John Dillinger, H.H. Holmes; America's first serial killer, the night the devil danced at Kaiser Hall in Bridgeport, the psychic who punished Al Capone for murder, the haunted Hooters and its ties to the prohibition era and many other tales of Chicago neighborhoods. And a surprise national ghost story.
The Dexter Cow is a mini cow as you can see:
It's the little cow with a big future. Rising supermarket prices are persuading hundreds of families to turn their back gardens into mini-ranches stocked with miniature cattle.
Registrations of the most popular breed, the Dexter, have doubled since the millennium and websites are sprouting up offering “the world’s most efficient, cutest and tastiest cows”. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4547604.ece
DJ Tiesto has conquered Ibiza- ALL SUMMER!
The girls of Ibiza 2008
 ! Let's see, Burning Man or Ibiza? I'll take Ibiza!
"Girls making out with each other to turn on guys is the latest craze at high school and college parties," according to the online magazine Salon.com.
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The Village Voice has run an article speculating on Obama's first term in office as President.
President Obama is forced to hit the ground running after it is announced that multinational forces have invaded Iran from Iraq to take out suspected "nuclear facilities," an attack secretly ordered by President Bush before his successor took the oath of office. John Woo, Douglas Feith, and other former government officials appear on television to explain the constitutionality of this action. General Petraeus is fired when he refuses Obama's countermand and is replaced by a recommissioned Wesley Clark. Obama labors around the clock to minimize the damage and to replace other officers who have resigned in protest, including all of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "TREASON!" headlines run in several U.S. papers. Obama is lynched in effigy. He sets up a meeting with Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad within the month. Senator Tom Coburn announces that he will introduce a bill of impeachment http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-08-19/news/the-harrowing-adventures-of-president-obama/
Posted at 10:26 am by Psychomike
Aug 24, 2008
Surf W/ WTC Mystery Solved!
IS KIM JONG IL DEAD?, THE WORLD'S MOST OFFENSIVE PLANT, ST PAT'S WAS ORIGINALLY A CHRISTIAN PHALLIC PARTY!, LOST PICS OF 1967 MONTEREY POP FESTIVAL FOUND, LOST TRIBES OF THE WORLD
A Fond du Lac County woman is accused of using a large number of tomatoes to hit her husband in the face as the two fought. From surfer Lisa Kezios!
Newly Discovered Photos from the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival.
This unique collection contains World Famous Photograher Ken Marcus' never-before-seen images of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin,The Who, Simon & Garfunkle, Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones and others. Unknown photos that have been hidden away for 40 years.
"Shooting backstage at the Monterey Pop Festival was an amazing photographic experience. The film has been lost for almost 40 years. Recently, while remodeling my studio we found the box containing the negatives. We had long thought the images were lost." See them here: http://www.kenmarcusgallery.com/index.php?dir=music
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released its long-awaited report on the collapse of World Trade 7 following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. "Our take-home message today is that the reason for the collapse of World Trade Center 7 is no longer a mystery," NIST lead investigator Shyam Sunder told journalists at this morning's press conference in Gaithersburg, Md. "WTC 7 collapsed because of fires fueled by office furnishings. It did not collapse from explosives or from diesel fuel fires."
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/research/4278874.html
Britain is the worst country in the Western world in which to be a child, according to a recent UNICEF report. Ordinarily, I would not set much store by such a report; but in this case, I think it must be right—not because I know so much about childhood in all the other 20 countries examined but because the childhood that many British parents give to their offspring is so awful that it is hard to conceive of worse, at least on a mass scale. The two poles of contemporary British child rearing are neglect and overindulgence.
Consider one British parent, Fiona MacKeown, who in November 2007 went on a six-month vacation to Goa, India, with her boyfriend and eight of her nine children by five different fathers, none of whom ever contributed financially for long to the children's upkeep. (The child left behind—her eldest, at 19—was a drug addict.) She received $50,000 in welfare benefits a year, and doubtless decided—quite rationally, under the circumstances—that the money would go further, and that life would thus be more agreeable, in Goa than in her native Devon. http://www.city-journal.org/2008/18_3_otbie-british_children.html
 An incredible huge collection of images of Japan!
The Lost Tribe of Japan! Sent in by Surfer Richard Crowe, more links follow from him in the same color.
"Ainu" means "human." The Ainu people regard things useful to them or beyond their control as "kamuy"(gods). In daily life, they prayed to and performed various ceremonies for the gods. These gods include : "nature" gods, such as of fire, water, wind and thunder ; "animal" gods, such as of bears, foxes, spotted owls and gram-puses ; "plant" gods, such as of aconite, mush-room and mugwort ; "object" gods, such as of boats and pots ; and gods which protect houses, gods of mountains and gods of lakes. The word "Ainu" refers to the opposite of these gods.
The tribes of Taiwan!
Phallic celebrations occur all over the pagan world- but did you know that Easter was for many Christians, a phallic celebration?!? How does Surfer Richard Crowe find this stuff? Or that St. Pat's on March 17 was a lot wilder in the past?
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Is Kim Jong Il dead? Yes, North Korea's "Dear Leader" is no more, having passed away in the fall of 2003, writes Waseda University professor Toshimitsu Shigemura in Shukan Gendai (Aug 23-30).
A one-time Mainichi Shimbun journalist posted in Seoul, Shigemura is introduced by the magazine as a leading authority on the Korean Peninsula. His latest book, released this month, is titled "The True Character of Kim Jong Il."
If true, the implications are potentially vast. Among them: former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's summit partner during one or both of his landmark visits to Pyongyang in 2002 and 2004 was not Kim himself but a dummy—the stand-in Shigemura claims has been fooling the world for at least five years.
A dictator having one or multiple doubles is a familiar notion since Iraq's Saddam Hussein was shown to have deployed them. But Saddam was alive at the time. Kim, in Shigemura's scenario, was not manipulating a look-alike; he was replaced by one.
Of course it's fantastic—but in North Korea, says Shigemura, fantasy and reality are not mutually exclusive. http://www.japantoday.com/category/kuchikomi/view/north-koreas-kim-died-in-2003-and-was-replaced-by-lookalike-says-waseda-profesor
Posted at 10:00 am by Psychomike
Aug 22, 2008
CREEPY CREATURES OF IRELAND, CHINESE CHEERLEADERS, WHAT IS UP WITH OUR MONEY?, JODIE FOSTER'S LESBIAN REALTIONSHIP COULD COST HER $25 MILLION!, WHY VINCENT PRICE'S COOKBOOK IS CONSIDERED THE BEST!
Jodie Foster's high-profile split with Cydney Bernard - her partner of 14 years - may cost her $25 million. The Silence of the Lambs star separated from Cydney in May to start a relationship with writer Cynthia Mort, 51, and reports suggest she could lose a quarter of her estimated US$100 million in alimony payments. http://www.stuff.co.nz/4665410a1860.html?source=RSSentertainment_20080822
China has cheerleaders for almost all the sports! This from Surfer Richard Crowe, whose other links appear in the same color as this one!
The lore of supernatural beings in Ireland is unlike that of the rest of Europe in one very important respect: spirit powers in the Emerald Isle have been endowed with names and personalities.
Of all the unearthly phenomena associated with Erin, two of the most famous are the Leprechaun and the Banshee. http://www.irishcultureandcustoms.com/acalend/CreepyCreatures.html
Ireland abounds with tales of the supernatural. And it would seem that every county has a story. Even our literature is strewn with ghosts. James Joyce recalls the black dog, with eyes like carriage lamps, that patrolled the stairs of the Jesuit College in Kildare which Joyce attended. Oscar Wilde wrote with understanding about the problems of being paranormal in the Canteville Ghost. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu terrorized his readers with such frightful stories as The House by The Churchyard. Is there any truth to all these stories, or are they merely the products of over-active imaginations? We leave that up to our readers to decide...
http://www.irishcultureandcustoms.com/acalend/Ghosts_Regions.html
In a matter of weeks, the euro has been pounded into ground-chuck while the dollar has regained much of its former glory. What gives? The mighty greenback has surged 6 per cent in the last month alone. Apparently, the early reports of the dollar's demise have been greatly exaggerated. The euro is caught in the same recessionary downdraft that is buffeting a number of currencies, all of which are unwinding at the same time although unevenly.
http://bigozine2.com/feature/?p=18
Mitch O'Connell will be at "The Ghetto" (www.theghettotokyo.com) Thursday, September 4th for my first ever M.O'C gallery show in the exotic land of Japan!
The Ghetto is located @ 1-1-10 Hyakuninchou Shinjyukuku in the big city of TOKYO!
Crystal Morey, amazing publisher of the top notch japanese art/tattoo themed Gomineko Books (www.gominekobooks.com), has generously taken it upon herself to put this whole thing together!
Questions? Email Ghetto owner Ako-san @ info@theghettotokyo.com or phone 03-5287-6213.
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The creepy joy of cooking with Vincent Price! cookbook titled A Treasury of Great Recipes sounds innocuous. What's frightening about noodle casserole? Why, nothing ... except when it's cooked by Vincent Price.
 For those who know Price from classic 1950s horror films like The Fly and The House of Wax—or who were imprinted with his Batman cameos and Saturday-morning commercials for Stay Alive and Hangman—it's odd to discover that he and his wife, Mary, were also gourmets. Thanks to tutorial LPs from the 1970s, you can still find clips of Vincent discoursing upon Viennese stuffed eggs floating about online; and the inevitable Youtube mashup assures that you'll never hear the words chunky peanut butter the same way again. But the Prices' culinary fame rests primarily upon their 1965 collection, A Treasury of Great Recipes, which culled recipes and reproduced menus from top restaurants around the world. Everyone who owns this volume swears by it for one reason above all others: The Treasury is a shockingly (terrifyingly?) good example of 1960s cuisine. http://www.slate.com/id/2197533/pagenum/all/
Posted at 08:45 am by Psychomike
Aug 20, 2008
Surf W/Homeland Sec. Hijinks!
POLYGAMY LEADS TO LONGER MALE LIFESPANS, AMERICANS' ZANY SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS, WILDSTORM WITH TOM CRUISE, JAMES BOND WAS CREATED FROM OCCULT STORIES,
Why are most Americans so willing to have an essential part of their hearts sliced away and discarded? What's with this obsession with happiness?
100,000 people line up to watch a parade of topless female bikers
Problem parents -- those who fail to monitor their children's school night activities, safeguard their prescription drugs, address the problem of drugs in their children's schools, and set good examples -- increase the risk that their 12- to 17-year old children will smoke, drink, and use illegal and prescription drugs, according to the National Survey of American Attitudes on Substance Abuse
BB King reportedly found his break with mainstream white audiences through Mike Bloomfield's Butterfield Blues Band. According to www.worldblues.com, "The new excitement generated by the band with guitar playing of Elvin Bishop and Mike Bloomfield created curiosity about the origins of their music. Countless times the were asked, 'Where did you learn to play that way?' Both guitarists answered honestly, 'By copying BB's licks.' People looked at them blankly, 'BB who?' 'The real monster,' Bishop and Bloomfield would reply, 'BB King.'"
Word of mouth is one thing but BB King followed up with a hit, the Roy Hawkins song, The Thrill Is Gone, in 1969. As www.worldblues.com said: "With all his new triumphs, the most symbolic was his appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1971. Playing on the Sullivan show was a sign that a new performer had arrived with the American public." Here he is live for 2 performances at the Filmore East- and he and his band were smoking hot!
In 2000, Paul Sereno of the University of Chicago went to the Sahara looking for dinosaur bones. Instead he found the largest known graveyard of Stone Age people. Here, Dr. Sereno is working to stabilize the skull of a woman of a nomadic culture knowns as the Tenerians, who lived in the area in Niger from 6,500 to 4,500 years ago, when rains fell and lakes dotted the Sahara. From Surfer Richard Crowe, more links he sent follow in the same color!
Cuba has a pirate museum!
Relive the adventures of Captains Kidd and Blackbeard, who roamed freely offshore plundering merchant ships. Participate in an educational, historically accurate and entertaining, live walking tour with a qualified guide who encourages student participation and questions. The tour starts in our artifacts room with authentic pirate treasures. Then you'll stroll through a colonial seaport, board a pirate ship, and explore an eighty foot cave, where you are sure to encounter some of those 17th century rascals face to face. Join us at the Pirate Museum to learn more about New England's adventurous sea-robbers. http://www.piratemuseum.com/pirate.html
My MySpace page has beome a gathering place for people into the nightlife culture- check out the vids on the site and make me a add to if you are on it! There are even a few celebs!
A Hello Kitty junkie finds the newest Sanrio products.
A Gulf War veteran and his wife say they've been unfairly placed on a federal list that limits their commercial flight access and threatens his job as a commercial pilot. To fight back, the couple, who are Muslim, filed a lawsuit today against a host of U.S. government agencies. "We don't know why they're on the list. They don't know why they're on the list. The government won't tell us why they're on the list," said Amy Foerster, an attorney with Saul Ewing, who is providing pro bono counsel and working with the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania and the Schuylkill County couple on the case, which was filed in U.S. district court.
(You know, there is a question no Presidential candidate, no politician will dare ask that maybe we should. Is Homeland Security the best we have to address security with? Is it effective? I guess they fear if we ask that about one agency, we'll ask it about all agencies....). http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2008/08/grounded_muslim_airline_pilot.html
My biggest influences in my world of entertainment are Flo Zeigfeld, Billy Rose and P.T. Barnum.
The Billy Rose Theatre Collection's photograph archive holds personalities, productions, theatre buildings, and production studios. It is organized into three series, grouped by size of photographic print: "A" for the smallest, less than 8 x 10 inches; "B" for approximately 8 x 10 inches and slightly larger; and "C" for oversize prints. This digital presentation offers the complete contents of the so-called "A" files, which are rich in 19th-century carte-de-visite and cabinet card portraits, as well as 20th-century portrait proofs, personal snapshots, and photographic postcards. The series also includes some early production photographs, and a section on theatres subdivided geographically. http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/explore/dgexplore.cfm?col_id=201
For the first time a poll reveals that in modern countries, belief in God is at an all time low! I wonder when politicians will court the atheist vote?!? http://www.yesnogod.com/index2.html
Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise is reportedly set to become a superhero in an adaptation of comic book classic Sleeper. The star is helping set up the movie as a project for Warner Brothers along with director Sam Raimi with an option of starring in the film himself, reports Hollywood.com. The movie will be adapted from the DC Comics' Wildstorm comic book that centres on a spy whose fusion with an alien artifact makes him immune to pain. http://sify.com/movies/hollywood/fullstory.php?id=14743066
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Surfer Richard Crowe sends us word on the wildest Ian Fleming/ James Bond book ever:
The Bond Code is the remarkable story of how Fleming's association with the occult world led him to create a masterful series of clever clues, ciphers, and codes within his books. Philip Gardiner finally unravels the secret of James Bond piece by piece from the novels and films used to create his aura of mystique. This book introduces not just new material, but radically reappraises everything we thought we knew about James Bond--and his creator.
From the Back Cover
"Among the most enjoyable works on and around Bond is The Bond Code. It's a splendid piece...which asserts that the young Fleming plotted to create Bond 'as a great alchemical work to fulfill his own tumultuous and chaotic mind' while leaving 'a set of clues and codes for us to decipher.'"
--Daily Telegraph
http://www.amazon.com/Bond-Code-World-Fleming-James/dp/1601630042/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1219154072&sr=1-1 Posted at 09:17 am by Psychomike
Aug 17, 2008
SurfW/Night Natalie Wood Died
HELLO KITTY CRUCIFIX!, WELCOME TO WAL-MART JUNGLE FOR NEW GUNS AND ROSES?, COSPLAY AND ODD JAPANESE ITEMS , RARE PEARLS, AKUONUO ASTONISHING BEAUTY, THE CHINESE OLYMPICS MASCOT
For 27 years Robert Wagner, the Hollywood actor, has refused to discuss the night his wife and fellow film star Natalie Wood vanished from their yacht and drowned.
Now, at 78, Wagner break's his silence http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article4547321.ece
Sanrio has released the HELLO KITTY crucifix. Yep, it has HK on the cross. http://www.kittyhell.com/2008/08/15/hello-kitty-cross/#more-957
It isn't often that celebrities do something noble, but this story about Terry Gilliam's new movie and the act by JOHNNY DEPP, JUDE LAW and COLIN FARRELL is deeply moving.
http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/depp%20law%20farrells%20gift%20to%20ledgers%20daughter_1077613
Ronnie Drew, the legendary Irish folk singer and musician, has died, his family said.The 73-year-old founder of The Dubliners had been battling ill health for some time. http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5juTx-BY0_-RdrQQO5KGIcUwSZcKw
The June leak of nine allegedly "mastered, finished" tracks from Guns N' Roses' long-delayed "Chinese Democracy" spurred a renewed round of speculation about whether the Axl Rose-led band will finally release the 14-years-in-the-making album.
But some concrete signs are finally emerging that the album's release could be imminent. That's because, according to sources, negotiations are under way for "Chinese Democracy" to come out as an exclusive at one of the big-box retailers -- either Wal-Mart or Best Buy. http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN1529368720080816
David Carradine found the secret to eternal youth: younger women. "My oldest daughter said, 'Dad, how come you don't hang around with women your own age?' I said, 'Listen, women my age are usually a lot older than me"
http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/carradine%20finds%20eternal%20youth%20with%20younger%20women_1077639
IT'S the cuddly mascot that will be bought by thousands as a souvenir of the Beijing Olympics.
The Sun can reveal that workers who laboured to produce the doll at an Olympics-sanctioned Chinese factory experienced anything but the harmony the doll represents. From Surfer Richard Crowe,more of his links follow in the same color.
The story about the pink conch pearl- rare, beautiful and expensive
Large blister pearls. And I do mean large!
Akuonuo Khezhie is from a small area in India known as Nagaland. She has also been called one of the most beautiful women on the planet. Here she is:
A place to buy your Cosplay (and other wild Japanese items)
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Posted at 04:30 pm by Psychomike
Aug 15, 2008
SPECIAL THEME: IAN FLEMING'S 100TH BIRTHDAY, JAMES BOND FOREVER, WHY WOMEN REALLY LIKE DANIEL CRAIG AS BOND ( HINT: SWIMSUIT PIC DIDN'T HURT!), THE JOHNNY CASH THUNDERBALL THEME!
To celebrate the centenary of Ian Fleming's birth, Times Online have created an exclusive 100 year interactive Fleming and Bond timeline. Packed with articles and photography from the Times Archive and the original reviews of Bond novels and films, it shows how closely Bond's fictional life paralleled Fleming's
The trailer that started it all: DR. NO! Ska and reggae music, shot in Jamaica, AMAZING STILL!
Jonathan Ross is often called the UK version of David Letterman but this couldn't be more wrong. His documentaries on popular culture are the best ever made on the sunject of B films or Japanese pop culture. Unlike his U.S. counterparts, he does not interview people he doesn't care for or plug movies he doesn't like. The result is he wants to meet people he can have fun with. Here is his interview with Daniel Craig. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMUzN0ABW1c
Bond Lifestyle provides a stylish and clear online guide to products related to the world of the most suave secret agent, Bond... James Bond.
From the gadgets he uses in the James Bond movies, the clothes he wears, the cars he drives to the locations he travels and the casinos he gambles in. Find inspiration to improve your style, complete your 007 collection, get ideas for your James Bond 007 theme party, or identify that shirt that you saw in the latest Bond movie Casino Royale. Read the news updates about Quantum of Solace products. Bond Lifestyle is being updated daily and will offer more and more products and information, so be sure to check in regularly.
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"... it's time to revisit essential flourishes of Bond style: www.jamesbondlifestyle.com is akin to an online butler guiding you through the wardrobe ... and travel destinations..."
- The Times Online
http://www.jamesbondlifestyle.com/
Daniel Craig certainly has a big, ummmm, watch on his wrist!
There is absolutely no question that Daniel Craig has captured the largest female fandom of any actor to play James Bond. Here two girls with a huge crush on Daniel Craig gush. The modern version of a fan scrapbook! And actually kind of sweet. By the way ladies, if you didn't see CASINO ROYALE you missed a hell of a film!
http://www.dedicatedtodaniel.com/
Here is the news story that first drew attention to Daniel's, um, how shall I put this, form in a swimsuit that helped draw one of the largest female audiences to a Bond film. The funny thing is, the Bond films lost thier way by trying to be politically correct. In one film, Bond had even turned down a beautiful woman to sleep with! I mean, come on! This film returned to the sadistic, imperialistic, sexist that was in the books. And women came out in droves!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDfaUACzJWk
Believe it or not, Johnny Cash did a Bond song! It wasn't used, but here a Bond/ Cash fan matches up the music with the opening. THUNDERBALL by Johnny Cash? I dig it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3rqS98seNA&feature=related
The gaming industry is just about dead even in the profit margin with the movie industry, but adults don't tend to notice. Take a look at this Bond game ad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxrMTdsTLes&NR=1
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While I do not agree with all the choices, I have to admit this is the most thought out Top 10 list of James Bond movies I've ever seen.
http://blog.mctimages.com/mct_images/2007/04/top_ten_james_b.html Posted at 12:41 am by Psychomike
Aug 14, 2008
Surf W/Cool Spots, Guilty Fun!
SPECIAL THEME: SECRET COOL SPOTS OF CHICAGO, MIKE'S GUILTY PLEASURES!
The Joynt has on Wednesday nights Shirley King, B.B. King's daughter, who holds sway with borderline "blue" or naughty humor, terrific singing ability, a smoking hot band and guests who pop in to play and sing. The night I was there Melody, who is known to jam with Kendall Lewis' Trio and other jazz artists around town popped up to sing the blues and the unrehearsed jam session that followed was the kind of music excitement this town rarely sees, but was once a staple of Chicago's jazz scene. Did I mention there is no cover on Wednesday night? SECRET COOL SPOT!
Yep, I know I am going to get heat for this, but it is my TV guilty pleasure so I have to fess up: I love GOSSIP GIRL!
Photo's like this are why the press has called GOSSIP GIRL "every parent's worse nightmare"!
Not a secret cool spot to rockabilly fans, The Big C Jamboree is a night of drinking, dancing, socializing, networking and non-stop music since 1991. For die hard rockabilly devotees and civilian music fans. Over the last decade, this highly organized vibrant jam session, held the first Thursday of every month at Martyrs', has become rockabilly central for many of the musicians & fans of Chicago's American roots scene. Although the monthly jam is devoted to rockabilly, the Big C Jamboree has also offered the span of '40's-'50's Amereicn roots music from Hillbilly Boogie to Western Swing, Jump Blues and 1st generation Rock-n-Roll. The night is run swiftly and simply: a host band performs a short set, followed by a myriad of roots musicians who do 3 songs each. The party like atmosphere includes socializing, drinking & dancing galore while the rotating line-up onstage usually features the raucous sounds of pompadoured rockabilly musicians wailing away on upright basses and hallow-bodied electric guitars; and there's NEVER a cover! http://www.myspace.com/bigcjamboree
Not so GUILTY PLEASURE,
I don't even remember anymore who took me to The Shamrock Club on Kinzie across from the Merchandise Mart the first time, but the person told me we should drink there before going to the House Of Blues. I couldn't imagine a cheap place to drink in the loop, but here it is! A cool secret spot! http://www.yelp.com/biz/shamrock-club-chicago
The LaSalle Bank Movie Theater was such a cool place that when Bank Of America announced it was taking it over many worried the film choices would change. Happy to announce they are still really cool. With $5 admission, free parking, $2 popcorn and $1 soda this remains the best deal on a Saturday night. A cool secret spot! http://lasalle.filmteknik.com/
The Green Mill history is rich and pure Chicago. From Al Capone's favorite booth (facing the door, not the stage so he could see who was entering the bar) it is also the place where every Thursday Alan Gresik's Swing Shift Orchestra takes the stage with up to 20 musicians playing the hiots of the 30's and 40's. Many of the younger patrons show up with plenty of tattoos, vintage clothes, and they can dance! Admission? $6. One of the best entertainment deals in the city. A very cool spot!
http://www.greenmilljazz.com/phpBB2/calendar.php
You would never know it from the outside, but on Friday and Saturday nights The Liar's Club has a packed dance floor (after 10:30) and everyone is obviously having fun. A very cool secret spot!
The Liar's Club was the first bar in Chicago to play mashups, has an insane video collection, and is the home for my favorite bar band, THE BEER NUTS. Did I mentioon the upstairs bar is haunted?
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
The L&L Tavern. I have met lovers, broken up with a few, had terrific fun at this bar. There was the time a stripper took me upstairs and banged my brains out, getting drunk on shots of Aqwa ( drink made from cocaine leaves!), drinking my first (but not last) Pabst Blue Ribbon in years- when no other bar in the city was carrying it!. For regulars, the L&L Tavern is a part of our life. A really cool secret spot.
Don't even try to outcool or pull attitude on the staff. You are outgunned! http://www.yelp.com/biz/l-and-l-tavern-chicago
Posted at 11:55 am by Psychomike
Aug 12, 2008
THE CHICAGO LEOPOLD AND LOEB TRIAL, HELL BANK NOTES, THE TROLLS AMONG US, THE RETURN OF DEAD BABY PHOTOGRAPHY, GOODBYE ISAAC HAYES AND BERNIE MAC, DUFFY AT COACHELLA!
TERROR IN THE AISLES is coming August 16, 2008- and it will also be the Chicago premier of THE MACHINE GIRL!
Noon - Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
1:45pm - The Listening Dead (voted best short film by Rue Morgue Magazine!)
2:00pm - The Tingler (The Vincent Price Classic!)
3:30pm - Slumber Party Massacre (Check Your Sleeping Bag!)
5:00pm - The Demonology of Desire (Rue Morgue Magazine's new short film!)
5:30pm - The Hills Have Eyes (The original 70's sickness!)
7:30pm - The Deadly Spawn (with director Douglas McKeown in Person!)
9:30pm - Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (with John McNaughton in Person!)
11:30pm - The Machine Girl (The new Japanese Horror Sensation!)
$13 presale $17 @ the door
Plus Dealer Tables, A live tribute to William Castle with many fun surprises!
We'll be screening classic horror trailers! Rusty Nails will host with guest
host Aaron "Dr AC" Christensen, a live charity auction, prizes and surprizes!
http://www.myspace.com/moviesidefilmfestival
One of the newest, and most unexpected, outlets for original animation nowadays appears be newspaper websites. For the past year or so, the NY Times has been commissioning beautiful animated pieces by animators like Jeff Scher and Gary Leib, and now the Chicago Tribune is getting into the act with a new politically-oriented series Animated Chicago by illustrator and animator Joe Fournier. I'm not sure if they're planning to do more of these, but the first episode can be viewed on the Tribune's website http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/olympics/chi-fournier-htmlstory,0,6662255.htmlstory
Britney Spears is all set to turn herself into an aggressive lesbian stripper, but only in reel life. Renowned filmmaker Quentin Tarantino of Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill fame, has zeroed in on this defamed pop star to play the role of Varla, a mentally troubled striptease dancer in his remake of Faster Pussycat!Kill!Kill! that had hit the box offices way back in 1965. http://www.celebguru.org/entry/britney-spears-grabs-the-role-of-a-violent-lesbian-stripper/
The word Hell was introduced to China, my friend's parents told me, by Christian missionaries who claimed that non-converted Chinese folks were all "going to Hell" when they died -- and the Chinese, thinking "Hell" was the proper English term for the afterlife, adopted the word. Thus, Hell Bank Notes are simply Afterlife Monetary Offerings or Spirit Money.
Over a century ago, people would dress up their dead baby for a photograph. That practice is now back, thanks to the internet! http://www.missingangel.org/
Living in Chicago breeds a taste for crime that derives from one of the city's richest traditions. In what other place, after all, is Valentine's Day associated with a massacre? Every generation or so a maniac killer pops up within city limits: a college student who kills and dismembers a 6-year old girl; a free-lance wacko who murders eight Filipina nurses; a householder who slays boys and inters them in his bungalow's basement. Such acts of hideous violence relieve the tedium of city officials regularly caught with their hands up to their elbows in the public till.
But no crime has ever come close to stirring public interest in Chicago as did the 1924 murder of a 14-year-old boy named Bobby Franks by two students at the University of Chicago. The killers were 18-year-old Richard Loeb and 19-year-old Nathan Leopold Jr. The cold-bloodedness of their crime riveted the city and the nation. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121815198274522367.html?mod=2_1167_1
It's important to remember, in all that we'll discuss, that Bobby Franks never got to be twenty. He never got to be forty. He never got to vote for Nixon and maybe regret it. He never got to send sons to Vietnam. He never got to have patio cook-outs, or be scandalized by Jacqueline Suzanne, or see a man walk on the moon. You didn't read his obituary in 1998, noting over your morning coffee the curious incident of how he survived a bizarre 1924 kidnapping in Chicago and recounted the incident to a swelling number of grandchildren throughout his reasonably fulfilled life.
None of those things happened – nor the infinity of alternate things that could have happened in their place – because Bobby Franks died in 1924 before he was even fifteen years old. And it wasn't leukemia or a runaway truck that killed him – he died because he had the top of his head was pried open with a chisel, and when he cried out, he had a rag stuffed down his throat. And these things weren't done by some interrupted robber in the heat of the moment; they were coldly planned and carefully enacted by two other boys, wealthy Chicago teenagers http://openlettersmonthly.com/issue/june08-getting-off/
Uh oh: Cheney: "Russian aggression must not go unanswered, and that its continuation would have serious consequences for its relations with the United States, as well as the broader international community."
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j3b6xoPSXQAc5AoJwqPQit9OtitgD92FOPP00
One Bad Cat is about the transformative role art plays in the tumultuous life of Reverend Wagner who has been a lightening rod for controversy his entire life. Racism, ego and lust led him to the brink of ruin. Miraculously, he was inspired by God to paint, 'God and art saved the Reverend Albert.
Duffy singing live from Coachella. Hard to believe this little tiny singer has such an incredible voice!
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
Friday, August 22, 2008
7:30 p.m.
Jay Pritzker Pavilion at Millennium Park
The Adler Planetarium and Chicago Sinfonietta present an encore presentation of Gustav Holst's The Planets on Chicago's most spectacular outdoor stage.
Adler astronomer Dr. Jose Francisco Salgado's breathtaking video suite is projected on a giant screen while the orchestra performs Holst's masterpiece. Immerse yourself in this unforgettable pageant of sight and sound.
The concert is free and open to the public.
Adler telescope volunteers will be stationed at the southeast corner of the Great Lawn (by the entrance to the BP Bridge) from 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. to facilitate free telescope-viewing.
Kay: Overture to the Theater Set
Ginastera: Estancia Dances
Holst: The Planets http://www.adlerplanetarium.org/special/
Posted at 12:13 am by Psychomike
Aug 10, 2008
Surf W/ Top 10 Worst Films!
SNOOP DOGG GOES BOLLYWOOD, BOUND FEET OF CHINA, DUFFY SINGS TO US AGAIN, X-RAY ART, WORLD'S LARGEST PAINTING, HOW TO COSPLAY!
Movie theaters in England have begun removing popcorn machines.
US rapper Snoop Dogg has made his debut in a Bollywood film which is being released on Friday.
Dogg, whose real name is Cordozar Calvin Broadus, sings and acts in a romantic comedy called Singh is Kinng.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7549301.stm
A same-sex couple who were married in Fresno County on June 27 -- just 10 days after county clerks in California started issuing marriage licenses for gay and lesbian couples -- has filed for divorce. http://www.fresnobee.com/263/story/785854.html
James Whistler is famous for his Moonlight rooms and of course, Whistler's Mother, less well known is that he was a Weseterner who thought of himself as Japanese! From Surfer Richard Crowe
Here is Duffy singing again, this time the song ROCKFERRY
Dutch artist Ben Kruisdijk uses x-ray photos to draw upon.
Posted at 01:29 pm by Psychomike
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