Saturday, May 23, 2009

Music Tom Waits

I just came across this one on another blog and had to give a 'heads up' to folks.

Gritty, raw and emotional are the perfect words for Tom. if you haven't heard him before hes got a mix of blues,rock,lounge and some r&b tunes but always they are gritty (hes got a deep grumbly voice - may be a acquired taste for some)

find it at whatsinmyipod here
enjoy

Bonus video (thanks Mark!)
Tom Waits on fernwood tonight (you tube)
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Movie : Hercules and the Captive Women (1961)

Classic sword and sandal flick.

A sleepy Hercules discovers that Queen Atlantis plans to use her superhuman warriors to take over the world.
Run time: 01:34:09
full screen version
avi - 700mbs cco_herculesandthecaptivewomen.avi

or
mp4 -392mbs
cco_herculesandthecaptivewomen_512kb.mp4

IMDB info
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Trailer : Jungle Book (1942)

classic film trailer
jungle_book.mpeg
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Comic: Whizzer and Chips 1979 annual

Here is another one from the brits

(large book)
download
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MOVIE: Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961)

Repost - now with a direct link

Campy monster fun in this Classic B flick.

Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961)

When a Carribean Island is engulfed by a revolution, one unscrupulous American mobster, Renzo Capeto plans to clean up with a get-rich-quick scheme. His diabolical plan is to provide refuge for the loyalists, and the contents of the government coffers, on his boat. He would then murder his passenger and escape with a fortune. Planning to blame their deaths on a mythical sea monster, no one is more surprised than Renzo, when the real monster appears with its own agenda.
Run time: 01:14:33
Director: Roger Corman
Audio/Visual: Mono, Black and White
1.9GB
CreatureFromTheHauntedSea.mpeg

Thanks to the Internet Archive
Enjoy

Comic: the Beano Book

More retro UK humor.

the 1975 special - the Beano Book
(180+pages)
Download
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Comic: Whoopee! annual 1975

More UK fun

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Comic: Beano #1 +

UK Comic (Newspaper style format)

Here are a couple more issues of the UK comic Beano - filled with several stories in each issue that have a variety of characters and topics. It's hard to find excellent copies of these (Because of the cheaper paper used at the times) but these are enjoyable despite the yellowing.

#1 july 30- 1938 Download

July 31- 1965 Download

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Comic: Genghis Grimtoad

From Marvel UK comes the graphic novel -the Chronicles of Genghis Grimtoad (1990)

Download
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Comic: Jack Randall western comics

B western star Jack Randall had many comics adaptations -1930s/40s- most were stories within larger comics/mags like popular comics and the funnies- heres a few .

(these only include the Jack strips)
JackRandallInDangerValley-The_comics_011__1939.cbr

JackRandallInWhereTheWestBegins-The_funnies_021.cbr

JackRandellInGunsmokeTrail-Popular_comics_033__1938.cbr

Now here are some with Jack and Tex Thorne who was created by Zane Grey
TexThorne-JackRandallInRidersInTheDawn-PopularComics41.cbr

TexThorne-JackRandallInstarsOverArizona-PopularComics42.cbr
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Friday, May 22, 2009

Comic: Tales of Wells Fargo

More TV western comics

WellsFargo-dellFourColourComic0968.cbr

WellsFargo-dellFourColourComic0876.cbr

WellsFargo-dellFourColourComic1215.cbr
#1215 art by Russ Heath
WyattEarp-dellFourColourComic0890.cbr

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MOVIE: Frankenstein (1910) Edison

I'm reposting this one.

Here is the first frankensein film by T Edison - we got history here folks!

original silent b/w
Download -mp4
Frankenstein1910_512kb.mp4

I Highly Recommend it

Movie: A Case of Spring Fever (1940)

Here is one of the AV Geek films i was planning on posting a few weeks back (Before Thor got sick) Finally getting around to it.Classic car film from Chevrolet

Handy (Jam) Org and Chevy
Gilbert Willoughby is punished for voicing Luddite ideas (complaining about pesky springs) by "Coily," an obnoxious, animated spring who subjects him to the hassles of a springless world.
mpeg -8+ minutes
CaseofSp1940.mpeg
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Comic: Song of Hiawatha

Henry Wadsworth Longfellows classic book retold
SongOfHiawathaLonfellowClassicsIllustrated057.cbr
Enjoy

Comic: Silvertip

Based on Max Brand's book
MaxBrandSilvertip1-dellFourColourComic0608.cbr

MaxBrand-Silvertip2-dellFourColourComic0898.cbr
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Comic: Wyatt Earp

More TV western comics from Dell - Wyatt Earp

2 issues with Russ Manning art
WyattEarp-dellFourColourComic0890.cbr

WyattEarp-dellFourColourComic0921.cbr
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and thanks again to the Internet archive for another tv western comic

Comic: Wanted Dead or Alive

Based on the Steve McQueen TV western

WantedDeadOrAlive-dellFourColourComic1102.cbr

thanks to the folks at the Internet Archive for this one.
Enjoy

Thursday, May 21, 2009

T.V. : Sugarfoot

Not your usual western tv show.

Sugarfoot is the title of a TV western that aired from 1957 to 1961. The series featured Will Hutchins as fledgling frontier lawyer Tom Brewster and Jack Elam as sidekick Toothy Thompson. Brewster was a correspondence-school graduate whose apparent lack of cowboy skills earned him the peculiar nickname "Sugarfoot". - wiki

I had never heard of this till last year when I found a comic version - after a couple episodes of the TV show I was hooked by this laidback unique western. A nice change of pace.

Episode 220 - Wolf
351 mbs - Avi
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