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For fans of ambient music... and Dr. Who:
Delia Derbyshire was born
in 1937 in Coventry, England. She spent her late teens schooling in Cambridge's
Girton College, and received a degree in music and mathematics.
In 1959 she applied at Decca Records and was informed that they did not hire
women to work in the recording studio, and then told she could get a job working
at their front desk or as a secretary. She gave them the finger, applied at
the BBC, and later got a job as a studio manager in the Radiophonic Workshop.
Delia felt she had found a private paradise where she could flirt with her interests
in music theory and sound perception, using modes and tunings, as well as communicating
moods using purely electronic sources.
Her first public work was a remix of Ron Grainer's original Doctor Who
theme, which soon became one of the most famous and recognizable TV theme songs
ever. She also created, and helped create, many of the sound effects later used
throughout the show's history.
For the next several years she composed dozens of award winning scores and theme
songs for British documentaries and TV shows.
She is known as "the unsung heroine of British electronic music" and
credited as an influence by Aphex Twin, The Chemical Brothers and Pink Floyd.
The following link is an edited version of a track from a 1966 documentary on Tuareg tribesmen. The only non-electronic source on this recording is her voice, though she used a cut-up / re-edit style.
Delia Derbyshire - Blue Veils & Golden Sands (edit) [a 4 Mb mp3 @ 160 Kbps]
Also, for fans of Dr. Who, this link is to a BBC website which has a "Dr. Who Theme Generator" which is a load of fun, and quite addictive. Try to hit the loops in the center first to create a backdrop, and then hit the sound effects in the outer-circle to create your own theme. Have fun!
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The hydrocephalic-looking
preacher Bob Larson began to exorcise "demons" out of people after
his ministry failed.
Instead of people realizing what loonies both Bob and his "patients"
are, it has helped him make a huge comeback.
Here are some clips of Bob's work...
Exorcism 1 (1.3 Mb @ 128Kbps)
Exorcism 2 (624 Kb @ 128Kbps)
Exorcism 3 (818 Kb @ 128Kbps)
Exorcism 4 (240 Kb @ 128Kbps)
Scientists and psychologists say that "demonic possession" is probably a mental compartmentalization of past traumas manifesting itself as multiple personality disorder, but try explaining that to Larson's bank account.
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The Chinese can't apparently translate English properly.
The above pic comes from the Chinese DVD of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.
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Public Service Announcements
(PSAs) are ads run by television stations, usually for free, to show that they
are committed to...
well, public service.
Some of them, though, can be just downright pretty creepy.
Anti-Speeding PSA from Denmark (5.1 Mb Quicktime video)
Anti-Suicide Bomber PSA from Jordan (2.6 Quicktime video)
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Kids say the darndest things,
and teenagers say the dumbest.
Sometimes it even gets caught on tape.
First, some history:
The year was 1988. I was 16 years old, and freshly kicked to the curb by my
folks onto the streets of Miami.
I moved in with a friend whose mom had gotten him his own apartment.
With no rent to pay, without work, and missing class almost daily (I was still
in high school at the time), I spent my time dropping LSD and fooling around
till the break of dawn.
On one occasion, I dropped a hit of acid around midnight, walked the neighborhood,
and then decided to do laundry. At 4:50am, and almost done with cleaning clothes,
I picked up a tape recorder and began talking nonsense. I unwittingly recorded
myself on the wrong speed, and thus produced a memory of an acid trip almost
as bad as a flashback. My girlfriend, ex-girlfriend and my best friend, of that
time, all copied it, and it was soon traded around their schools (American Patriot
Sr / South Miami Sr) and mine (Hialeah Miami Lakes Sr).
Out of all of this silliness was born a 15 minute slice of Miami underground
history that found its way to being bootlegged all around the Magic City, where
censored edits even aired on WVUM (90.5 FM) in the early 1990s, and are still
used today as drop-ins and air checks on the station.
While there are true moments of hilarity, I am also extremely crude, totally
rude, and downright stupid throughout.
You have been warned NOT to listen to...
The Michael Incense Hour (7.8 Mb mp3 @ 48 Kbps)
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It was Jerry Lewis' forty-first film, and it turned out to be one of the biggest
mistakes in cinematic history. Unreleased, and said by the few who've seen it
to be totally unwatchable, The Day the Clown Cried (1972) is a film about
an unhappy German circus clown, Helmut Doork, who is sent to a concentration
camp for drunkenly acting like Hitler, and is then forced to become a sort of
Pied-Piper, entertaining Jewish children as he leads them to the gas chambers.
It was supposed to be Jerry Lewis' first serious role as both an actor and a
director, though he was skeptical when he first read the script, though not
necessarily about the material itself. He later quoted himself when speaking
on being asked to play the part, "You're asking me if I'm prepared to deliver
helpless kids into a gas chamber. Ho-ho. Some laugh -- how do I pull it off?
What a horror ... It must be told."
The script had actually been written in 1961 by Joan O'Brien and Charles Denton,
and it attracted the attention of Milton Berle, Dick Van Dyke, and Bobby Darin
-- any one of whom would have been able to play the title role, but it was around
Lewis that the financing for filming coalesced.
Upon filming the shooting went to hell, backers fled, Jerry finished it with
his own money, and then it turned out that no one bought the rights to the story
from O'Brien and Denton. Only a rough-cut of it was finished, and it was placed
on a single videotape of which only Jerry Lewis has a copy of. He reportedly
keeps it in his office, protected from bootleggers in an unmarked briefcase.
Over the years, he
had screened it - or pieces of it - for a number of colleagues and only one
journalist.
The You Tube post below is of rare "behind-the-scenes" footage of
the filming.
If you have time on your
hands, and want to read the final script (written by Joan O'Brien, Charles Denton,
with added material from Jerry Lewis), click here.
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This map is designed to show the population of citizens per land mass ratio:
Click on image for larger view
Kind of scary, isn't it?
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