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To avoid problems with European censors, Borkon cautioned Franju not to include too much blood (which would upset French censors), refrain from showing animals getting tortured (which would upset English censors) and leave out mad-scientist characters (which would upset German censors).

Vangelis fleadh (seandalai), Tuesday, 28 December 2021 22:51 (two years ago) link

In 2021, after complex work, Kilmer's voice was able to be re-created through AI technology using archival audio of his voice.

Maresn3st, Monday, 3 January 2022 15:17 (two years ago) link

On Guitar Slim, with no further explanation:

He got together with Muddy Waters in Los Angeles, California, for some lively playing.[10]

Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Monday, 3 January 2022 16:42 (two years ago) link

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(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Razor (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 3 January 2022 16:59 (two years ago) link

His childhood home was the Rosenbaum House designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. As a teenager, he attended The Putney School in Putney, Vermont, where his classmates included actor Wallace Shawn.[4]

(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Razor (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 3 January 2022 22:32 (two years ago) link

(More unusual details follow)

(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Razor (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 3 January 2022 22:32 (two years ago) link

Further novels in the Rennie Stride series are California Screamin': Murder at Monterey Pop (May 2009), Love Him Madly: Murder at the Whisky (March 2010), A Hard Slay's Night: Murder at the Royal Albert Hall (January 2011), Go Ask Malice: Murder at Woodstock (November 2012), and Scareway to Heaven: Murder at the Fillmore East (December 2014). The most recent in the series is Daydream Bereaver: Murder on the Good Ship Rock&Roll (published March 2016).

Maresn3st, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 18:07 (two years ago) link

LOL

Josefa, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 18:57 (two years ago) link

On French filmmaker Albert Lamorisse (The Red Balloon, White Mane:

He also invented the strategic board game Risk in 1957.

Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 19:57 (two years ago) link

damn!

nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 20:16 (two years ago) link

travelling back on the rennie stride clue-trial a bit carelessly i was briefly persuaded that these books are the work of the legendary PAT BAG formerly of THE BAGS -- which seemed genuinely like a bogdanoff twins arc tbh :(

mark s, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 20:42 (two years ago) link

The film was shot in Ireland to exploit tax breaks and local resources. [2] The film was also involved in a defamation suit between Dennis Hopper and Rip Torn where Hopper publicly stated Torn pulled a knife on him on the set of Easy Rider back in the 60s. Hopper's representatives tried to settle the defamation suit by floating the offer of a supporting role in Space Truckers which Torn's representatives refused.[3]

I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Monday, 10 January 2022 03:10 (two years ago) link

Torn missed out on meeting Stevolende!

dark end of the st. maud (sic), Monday, 10 January 2022 03:27 (two years ago) link

Loool! I had to look that one up. Is there only the one post?

The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 10 January 2022 13:59 (two years ago) link

The band were also affected by the death during the sessions of their friend Gram Parsons: on the day before Parsons' death, he and Richman had played miniature golf and discussed recording together.

bulb after bulb, Wednesday, 12 January 2022 14:05 (two years ago) link

!!!

A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 15:06 (two years ago) link

I knew about the connection but not about that very last part.

The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 15:16 (two years ago) link

What, the miniature golf or the recording together? I can't help but be more excited about the former tbh.

Someone left a space telescope out in the rain (Tom D.), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 15:32 (two years ago) link

Ha, both but really the first of those tbh.

The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 16:04 (two years ago) link

The music video was an unintended spoof of the music video for the single "Feel So Good" by rapper Mase,

I always thought the word spoof implied... intent?

Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 22:19 (two years ago) link

From the Bowie wiki regarding the Diamond Dogs tour, which apparently had an enormous theatrical production thing going on:

Other props worked as expected: for the song "Big Brother", Bowie sang while atop a multi-mirrored glass "asylum", emerging during the next song ("Time") sitting in the palm of a giant hand covered in small light bulbs.[1]

The show in Tampa, Florida, was performed without any of the stage props because the truck driver driving those components ended up in a highway ditch after being stung by a bee.[1]

flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, 13 January 2022 15:00 (two years ago) link

File under "Spinal Tap was too accurate to be funny"

nonsensei (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 13 January 2022 15:48 (two years ago) link

Everyone's a critic.

Someone left a space telescope out in the rain (Tom D.), Thursday, 13 January 2022 15:51 (two years ago) link

Austin Churton Fairman (15 November 1924 – 4 April 1997), who used the name Churton Fairman but was more widely known under the pseudonym Mike Raven in the 1960s and early 1970s, was a British radio disc jockey, actor, sculptor, sheep farmer, writer, TV presenter and producer, ballet dancer, flamenco guitarist and photographer.

This guy obviously could never make up his mind what to do with his life.

Someone left a space telescope out in the rain (Tom D.), Friday, 14 January 2022 21:19 (two years ago) link

sculptor:
http://www.bodminmoor.co.uk/churtonfairman/jacob.gif

(could be worse)

mark s, Friday, 14 January 2022 21:27 (two years ago) link

And you should see his sheep.

Someone left a space telescope out in the rain (Tom D.), Friday, 14 January 2022 21:33 (two years ago) link

Chris Willman of Entertainment Weekly felt that the album didn't live up to what it should be because it is too loud, but some songs on the album are good.[10]

Tracer Hand, Friday, 14 January 2022 23:17 (two years ago) link

totally addicted to this, thanks forks

Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 20 January 2022 11:48 (two years ago) link

yeah this is cool

Ste, Thursday, 20 January 2022 12:01 (two years ago) link

although got to dispute "Gigabyte Technology - Electronics Company" being created in the year 789 !

Ste, Thursday, 20 January 2022 13:09 (two years ago) link

lol i complained about that specific example on the Spelling Bee thread

I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 20 January 2022 13:20 (two years ago) link

I consistently underrate how old banks and companies are

Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 20 January 2022 16:29 (two years ago) link

The other day I started with

"Gothic art - Style of Medieval art developed in Northern France" dated 1530.

The next card was "The Cure - English rock band" dated 1976.

I lol'd at the juxtaposition

umami dearest (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 20 January 2022 17:16 (two years ago) link

the amount of detail going into Kreayshawn's attempts at completing high school always caught me as "who asked?"

At the age of 13, Natassia enrolled at MetWest High School, which she described as a "new alternative type of high school". Instead of having the usual classes, such as English and mathematics, she had to take an internship at a local radio station three days a week. She was dissatisfied with the lack of work and wanted to go to a normal high school, so she switched to Oakland High School. However, according to Kreayshawn, she "went to none of her classes, ever" at her new school, which led to her finishing the term with a 0.0 grade point average and getting expelled for truancy. After taking a short break, she went to Alameda High School but after a few months she was expelled. After the incident, she then enrolled in the continuation high school, Island High, where she then completed her second year. While attending, she again began skipping school for weeks on end. After two weeks, she returned to find out the school moved to a different location. Since she had no address or any contact with the school she was unable to find the new location and never went back.

Western® with Bacon Flavor, Thursday, 20 January 2022 17:32 (two years ago) link

1530 is hella late and wrong for Gothic art

Johnny Mathis der Maler (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 20 January 2022 17:45 (two years ago) link

Lol at “my school moved and I can’t find it”

Johnny Mathis der Maler (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 20 January 2022 17:47 (two years ago) link

i had that Gothic date in a game, it was for when it "ended" FWIW. why that particular year, i have no idea. picking "ends" to styles silly to begin with of course.

I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 20 January 2022 20:20 (two years ago) link

that is legendary!! i mean her parents were probably flipping but wow

Tracer Hand, Thursday, 20 January 2022 20:24 (two years ago) link

Their last performance, on a Monsters of Rock cruise in October 2016, ended with several dozen mostly middle-aged women dancing wildly to the song "Girlschool".

peace, man, Friday, 21 January 2022 17:09 (two years ago) link

The Snopes.com website debunks the rumor of an Our Gang curse, stating that there was no pattern of unusual deaths when taking all of the major Our Gang stars into account, despite the deaths of a select few.[51]

Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 19:05 (two years ago) link

oh well in that case

i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 00:22 (two years ago) link

Initially, the band went out on tour in December 2003 under the name "The Jon Oliva Project", but this was later changed to "'Tage Mahal". The band's name was changed after discovering the blues musician Taj Mahal.

.....

they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 02:24 (two years ago) link

Soft and gentle vocalists such as Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Dooley Wilson, Pat Boone, Bobby Darin, Jackie Gleason, Wayne Newton, Louis Prima, Sam Butera and Bobby Vinton are notable examples of lounge music.

Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 04:03 (two years ago) link

Gonna drift off to sleep tonight with the soft and gentle sounds of Louis Prima and Sam Butera

Josefa, Wednesday, 26 January 2022 04:13 (two years ago) link

That's one of the sub-Borgesian lists of different things that are not quite alike.

Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 04:25 (two years ago) link

André dated actress Rosario Dawson from 2016 to 2017.[19] In March 2021, André revealed he was in a relationship with a woman that he met at a farmer's market and that she did not know he was famous until after they started dating.[20]

they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Thursday, 27 January 2022 03:26 (two years ago) link

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FKCDR7HWYAEKWLM?format=jpg&name=large

calzino, Thursday, 27 January 2022 08:17 (two years ago) link

space jam dvd
space jam dvd
space jam dvd
space jam dvd

Tracer Hand, Thursday, 27 January 2022 08:21 (two years ago) link

"let me present you with this link to my highly exclusive + bespoke spotify playlist.."

calzino, Thursday, 27 January 2022 08:33 (two years ago) link


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