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dog named brandon

Hutton Mount is in close proximity to Hutton and Shenfield railway station.

It is often described as feeling like a Liminal Space or like something out of a Silent Hill game.

can any essex ppl confirm

On August 24, 1991, they played the Splattering of Tribes Festival in the desert outside Indio, California, with such acts as Lead Corpse, the Rails, Liquid Jesus, Sort of Quartet, Pigmy Love Circus, Haunted Garage, the Stains, DC3, Suplex Slam, Porno Sponges, and Dead Corpse.

Anne Rice and Anneka Rice have the same birthday.

xpost i don't know any of those acts but just on naming that sounds like a pretty cool festival

it's either a porngrind festival or a jamband festival. or both

I did a GIS of the Essex (of '60s hit 'Easier Said than Done') and was puzzled as to why pretty much every image showed them in military uniform but whaddayaknow

Founding members Walter Vickers (guitar) and Rodney Taylor (drums) were members of the United States Marine Corps stationed in Okinawa, Japan.[1] After being transferred to Camp LeJeune in North Carolina, they enlisted fellow Marines Billy Hill (aka Billy Proctor) and Rudolph Johnson as group members.[1] Next they added a female lead singer, Anita Humes, another Marine.[2]

MC Skat Kat also featured in "Yakety Yak, Take It Back", an all-star public service music video produced by Warner Bros. in 1991 for the Take It Back Foundation. The music video featured appearances by numerous celebrities, for a new version of the song "Yakety Yak" with a message about recycling.[9]

(Sorry, cheating, this bit is from the Muppets Wiki but I needed more info on this latter day 'We Are The World')

Celebrity appearances include Dr. John as the voice of the animated Yakety Yak character, Bugs Bunny, Pat Benatar, Natalie Cole, Charlie Daniels, Lita Ford, Quincy Jones, B. B. King, Queen Latifah, Kenny Loggins, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, M.C. Skat Kat (from Paula Abdul's video "Opposites Attract"), Bette Midler, Randy Newman, Tibi, Tone Lōc, Ozzy Osbourne, Brenda Russell, Al B. Sure!, Ricky Van Shelton, Barry White and Stevie Wonder.

Don Airey was brought in to play keyboards on one song; however, in a 2020 interview, he claimed he also provided the bass parts through a Moog synthesizer, as Ian Hill was ill during the time of recording.[5] In fact, as early as 2012, Don told a Hungarian metal portal. ("Szóval a Painkiller minden dalában van billentyű. Mivel Ian Hill beteg volt a felvételekkor, én nyomtam fel a basszustémákat minden dalban, méghozzá szintetizátorral.") [6]

The story is based on a personal experience of Dane's. One of his former girlfriends, Patricia Candace Walsh,[4] ceased contact with him when she joined a religious group and was never heard from again,[5] and he began having nightmares of her crying out to him as she drowned.[citation needed] In actuality, Walsh and her husband Douglas Zyskowski were murdered by serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades in January 1990 while hitchhiking to a religious workshop in Georgia,[6] although Dane was initially unaware of this.

This version includes the original Japanese theatrical version, the original American English version from American International Pictures (running at 84 minutes), and the international version with the alternate giant octopus ending

with the alternate giant octopus ending

SO MANY movies would be improved by an alternate giant octopus ending.

Actually wait no, ALL movies should have a giant octopus ending. All other endings should be the alternate ending.

"Louis, this looks like the beginning of a beautiful friendship with a giant octopus."

"Forget it, Jake, it's a giant octopus."

"Well, nobody's perfect, even a giant octopus."

"The greatest trick a giant octopus ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist."

I don't think he did tbh

Porno Sponges kind of just sound like an average garage band, tho the solo in this track is pretty sick bro https://soundcloud.com/backbiter/hangingaround

Parsifal Katzenellenbogen (Tony Curtis) is an eccentric hypochondriac who has invented a laser skywriter. Parsifal invites businessmen to his castle in the hopes of selling his invention. Potential buyers include gangster Henry Board II (Erik Estrada) accompanied by has-been movie star Montague Chippendale (Peter Lawford), Scotsman Mackintosh (Donald Pleasence), and gypsy Klingsor (Orson Welles).

brb gonna rename my cat Scotsman Mackintosh

In 2007, house producers Cahill released a cover of the Agent Sumo Body & Seoul remix of "Trippin'", retitled as "Trippin' on You", featuring Nikki Belle. The song appeared on Clubland 12 that year and promos were released soon after. The song gained popularity and a music video was made for the song's full single release in 2008. The song was adopted by WAGs Abbey Clancy, Alex Curran, Coleen McLoughlin and Elen Rives as their signature track.

I want to name my cat Donald Pleasence

then what would it stroke?

Any treatment can constitute Chinese water torture, whether the process is sustained finally boils down to the subject's perceived intentions and motives of the perpetrator. This is even true for the severely potent variants, e.g. in relation to mock executions in which the victim never finds out it was actually a deception, as learned from a famous deadly story about a nasty student prank at a medical school in the 18th Century.[2]

This is the thread for unusual details in the narration of horror anthology 'host' characters.

then what would it stroke?

anything it wants

http://www.austinchronicle.com/binary/a1d1/WakeinFright.jpg

He's so good in that film.

The concert was well received, although an inebriated Chrissie Hynde who was in attendance, heckled throughout the performance

What's odd about this, you ask?

Wanyá Jermaine Morris (/wɑːnjeɪ/ WAHN-yay; born July 29, 1973) is an American singer, best known as a member of the R&B group Boyz II Men.

Oh, just the fact that it's the only mention of the multiplatinum act he performed with, as the bulk of his Wikipedia page is about his tenure on Dancing With the Stars.

I can't remember what other page I was on recently, but it was the same thing of completely blowing past the legit career that made the person in question famous and was almost exclusively about their post-peak reality show appearances.

In 2010, it was announced Calvert and a number of other prominent metal musicians were supposed to make an appearance on the first album of an AC/DC tribute band formed by Bay Area veteran vocalist Steve "Zetro" Souza called AC/DZ, but the album has yet to be released. This is probably due to the fact that he is dead.[2]

The writer of Wise Guys and Midnight Run is an accomplished painter in the style of the Pennsylvania Impressionists. In 1990, he won the coveted Arts for the Parks award, and has had three one-man exhibitions in New York City.

Jackie and the Golden Harvest team employ some researchers to come up with background for this story about pirates in Hong Kong and are not really concerned at all about depicting the film in the exact era. Bey Logan coined regarding historical heroes and stories like Wong Fei Hong: if you choose between the truth and the legend, you print the legend because if you pick the truth, you won't have for example, having items, vehicles and certain historical figures if you are shooting it in a time where certain things would or would not have existed, unless it's made as a documentary.

Pithy

unfortunately I searched Bey Logan afterwards

Clarence "Poochie" Osborne still runs the adjoining tire shop, Osborne's Tire Repair, and a stop there to chew the fat with Poochie and/or his top tire man, Samuel "Sammie" Bassett is as unique an experience as a visit with Jimmy "Duck" Holmes at the historic Blue Front Café.),[8][9]

From the (actor) James Mason's wikipedia page:

Family: Belinda Carlisle (daughter-in-law)

Am I the only person in the world that didn't know this?

*raises hand*

woah, weird

She hasn't lived in the USA since 1994! (Provence from 1994-2017 and now Bangkok since 2017):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNRP9VPQwYE

Ooh heaven is a place in Thailand

I was reading up on Don McLean, and I learned this about his (other) number one hit "Vincent:"

The song was a particular favorite of the rapper and actor Tupac Shakur, and was played to him in the hospital just before he died.

bloody bloody niiiight

Centuries ago, physicians tasted their patients' feces, to better judge their state and condition.[4]

Also in 2008, Carr released his first book, The Origami Crow, Journey Into Japan, World Cup Summer 2002, a book that is at once a travel log about his journey to Japan, a poetry collection, an homage to Japanese poet Basho, heralded by many as the creator of Haiku, and also has some sports commentary thrown in.

The Buckwheat Boyz were an American novelty group founded by Marcus Bowens and Jermaine Fuller, with the later addition of J.J. O'Neal and Dougy Williams. The Buckwheat Boyz were signed by Koch Records, and recorded their first and only full-length record. The song "Peanut Butter Jelly Time" from this self-titled debut album became a popular internet meme after a Flash-animated music video featuring a dancing banana garnered attention online. The popularity of the song increased as it was featured on television series such as The Proud Family and Family Guy, and fellow Flash-animated series including Super Mario Bros. Z.

Disbandment
On August 13, 2002, founding member and vocalist Jermaine Fuller shot a police officer non-fatally in the head and chest, then barricaded himself in a Las Vegas apartment, taking two men hostage. The hostages escaped unharmed. A recording was played over the phone of Fuller's brother-in-law, Snoop Dogg, attempting to convince him to surrender to no avail. After an 11-hour standoff, Fuller was found dead in the apartment's bathroom, holding a handgun in his right hand, with a gunshot wound to his right temple. The police stated that no officer had fired. Fuller's death directly led to the disbandment of the group.

wow

not sure if this is a bombshell or a smear

Douglas Smith (writer)

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CIA stooge

Douglas Smith is an American writer, historian and translator best known for his books about the history of Russia.

In 2008, an anonymous employee of the stricken financial company Anglo Irish Bank made lewd comments about *Dickie Rock on this Wikipedia page. The bank launched an investigation into how this had happened and the incident was reported in the Irish media some months later. Rock himself commented on the incident.[5]

(*great real names)

I posted this in the Jethro Tull thread re: the prog-flamenco band Carmen:

David Clark Allen continued to pursue a music career after Carmen disbanded. He played guitar on Michelle Phillip's solo album produced by Jack Nitzsche and was managed by Herb Cohen during the late 70s. He wrote two songs (Shame and Stay) for Agnetha's solo album, Wrap Your Arms Around Me - produced by Mike Chapman and a single release by Swedish band Katz - Heart Beats Stronger. David was diagnosed with thyroid/throat cancer in the early 80s. After a successful operation and radioactive therapy, he changed his name to Housk Randall - and became a sexual anthropologist/photographer. As Housk he had 5 books published in 4 languages: Revelations, Rituals of Love, The Customised Body, Piercing, Radical Desire and Bizarre Rubber - a photographic fantasy catalogue for fetish designers DeMask. In 1996 he married, changed his name to David Randall-Goddard and established a successful family photographic studio Family Portraits.

Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, (Jackie) Gleason enjoyed a prominent secondary music career, producing a series of best-selling "mood music" albums. His first album, Music for Lovers Only, still holds the record for the longest stay on the Billboard Top Ten Charts (153 weeks), and his first 10 albums sold over a million copies each.

Didn’t he help break some color line by hiring jazz musicians?

I actually had no previous knowledge of his (apparently extensive) musical career, let alone the fact that he still holds a Billboard longevity record.