"What do you know? How have you lived...to know...what's beautiful?" - Pat Ast, HEAT (1972)
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May 30, 2005: "Greetings cousins, will you come play with us? You will? I thought you would! Come be one of the family!"
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Artist | Track | Album | Comments |
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Handel | Suite #1 | Water Music | |
Hanatarash | We Are 0:00 | Hanatarash #5 | |
Siouxsie and the Banshees | There's a Planet In My Kitchen | Downside Up (box set) | |
How To Pick Up Girls | The Museum Pick Up | How To Pick Up Girls (circa 1975) | |
Gary Schneider | Green Tamborine | Just For Fun, Just For Friends | |
Man Parrish | Six Simple Synthesizers | Man Parrish | |
The Bee Gees | She's Leaving Home | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (movie soundtrack) | |
Larry London | I Love New York | Dial-a-Poem 7" | |
Let My People Come | I'm Gay | Let My People Come (musical soundtrack) | |
Cathi Stout | Believercise | Special Believercise | faith-based aerobics (circa 1980's) |
Who's Afraid Of Virgina Woolf? | (movie clips) | Elizabeth Taylor terrorizing everyone | dir: Mike Nichols, 1966, with Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal |
2004 Republican National Convention audience | chanting "flip flop!" | ||
The Grape Fall Lady | The Grape Fall | Audio of live local newscast blooper, then looped endlessly and mixed with... | |
The Columbus Academy School Band | Iroquois Lullaby | The Columbus Academy School Band Record (circa 1975) | |
Pino Donaggio | For The Last Time We'll Pray | Carrie (movie soundtrack) | |
John Carpenter | Halloween Theme | Halloween (movie soundtrack) | |
Star Wars Holiday Special | Wookies at home | clip from CBS' 1978 "Star Wars Holiday Special" | |
Allan Sherman | Automation | My Son, The Nut! Allan Sherman Sings Nutty Things, This Time With Strings | |
Mort Garson / Jacques Wilson | Leave The Driving To Us | The Wozard Of Iz | features uncredited vocals by Nancy Sinatra (pseudonym: Suzie Jane Hokom) |
Fahrenheit 451 | (movie clip) | Julie Christie believing she in a televised play | dir: Francois Truffaut, 1966, with Oskar Werner, Julie Christie |
Grover | The Monster In The Mirror | Sesame Street | |
SCTV | (tv clip) | "Merv Griffin Show - Special Edition" (SCTV season 3, DVD box set) | with Rick Moranis, John Candy, Dave Thomas |
2001: A Space Odyssey | Requiem For Soprano, Mezzo Soprano, 2 Mixed Choruses and Orchestra | 2001: A Space Odyssey (movie soundtrack) | interrupted due to unfortunate lack of contextual humor |
Ruth Gordon and William Burroughs... were they the SAME person? | (alternating vocal clips of each) | Clips from Gordon's role in "Harold and Maude" and Burroughs reading from "The Western Land" | WERE they the same person? They have the exact same vocal inflections, one high-pitched and one low... did you ever see the both of them in the same place? Hmm? Was Ruth Gordon really Burroughs in a wig, sucking on helium? |
MAD Magazine | Disco Suicide | MAD Disco (flexidisc) | (circa 1970's) |
Cristina | Disco Clone | Doll In The Box | |
Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory | (movie clips) | Veruca Salt getting her way, and singing "I Want It Now" | dir: Mel Stuart, 1971, Veruca was played by actress Julie Dawn Cole |
Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel | Anything (Viva!) | Nail | |
Georgia | (movie clips) | John Doe and a progressively OD-ing Jennifer Jason Leigh performing "I'll Be Your Mirror" at a wedding, and then Jennifer trying to get on an airplane without shoes | dir: Ulu Grosbard, 1995, with Jennifer Jason Leigh, John Doe |
explanation of "gunge" phenomenon | (audio of online video clip) | guy getting slowly covered with pie tins filled with colored shaving cream and being sprayed with silly string | go to http://www.malegunge.com for more |
Jerry Goldsmith | Love Shop | Logan's Run (movie soundtrack) | |
fun with drug PSA film | (re-edited audio) | "Narcotics: Pit Of Despair, Pt. II" | original film is directed by: Mel Marshal, 1967 - audio remixed on my computer, my first attempt! |
The Bugaloos | The Senses Of Our World | HR Pufnstuf And Other Sid & Marty Krofft Favorites | |
Gil Melle | Wildfire / Andromeda / Strobe Crystal Green | The Andromeda Strain (movie soundtrack) | |
Lloyd Chandler | A Conversation With Death | High Atmosphere (documentary film soundtrack) | |
E.C. Ball | Pretty Polly | High Atmosphere (documentary film soundtrack) | |
Roger Miller | My Uncle Used To Love Me But She Died | (K-Tel presents) Wacky Westerns | |
Tenko / Ikue Mori | Metal Dream | Death Praxis: Mystery | |
The University Of Iowa, Astronomy Dept. | plasma wave sounds at the solar wind termination shock, Earth multi-hop whistlers | deep-space sounds recorded with radar | I had a whole bunch lined up to play, but aliens secretly sent radiation waves to the studio mp3 player, causing it to konk out after playing only two. To hear more visit: http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/space-audio/ |
Brian Eno | Unfamiliar Wind | On Land | |
Bill Nelson | Sacrament | The Summer Of God's Piano | |
Flying Saucer Attack | Popul Vuh 1 | Flying Saucer Attack | |
Alain Goraguer | L'oiseau / La Cite des Hommes Libres / Attaque des Robots | La Planete Sauvage (movie soundtrack) |
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