Archive for June, 2006
A B C Delicious
June 30th, 2006I love cereal. Dan Goodsell of the wonderful A Sampler Of Things shared some vintage boxes of Alpha Bits from 1961-72. Yum. Alpha Bits has always been one of my long time favorites, but Post doesn’t seem to stock them in stores anymore. My local Safeway carries many inferior Post cereal brands (like the super-sweet […]
Frosting in a Can?
June 29th, 2006I don’t know why, but I’m attracted to this Betty Crocker frosting commercial featuring a pre-Knots Landing Joan Van Ark. It’s very 1973 housewifey. The person who uploaded this to YouTube, Larynxa, has a bunch of other ’70s commercials and groovy early Sesame Street segments there for all to enjoy.
Tales from the Hundred Crayon Wood
June 27th, 2006The Storybook Series: Winnie The Pooh is a current L.A. art show that I’d so love to see in person. Children’s drawings of scenes from a Winnie the Pooh story were hung alongside interpretations of those drawings by adult artists. The results are both funny and whimsical, although it’s interesting how the Disneyfied Pooh characters […]
Beautiful Boxes
June 26th, 2006The folks at Criterion designed a nifty package for their edition of the low budget monster movie Equinox. At first I thought Charles Burns drew the art, but it looks like it was appropriated off the movie’s poster art (or maybe a bitchin’ back issue of Famous Monsters of Filmland). The type treatment is very […]
I’ll Plant My Own Tree
June 25th, 2006My reviews of the Valley of the Dolls and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls DVDs have been posted at Mindjack Film. The writeup is my happening and it freaks me out.
Since doing that I’ve become sort of obsessed with Dory and Andre Previn’s song “I’ll Plant My Own Tree”, which Susan Hayward memorably performed […]
Love, Peace and Op Art Minis
June 24th, 2006I came across a couple of deliciously mod music performances from YouTube to share here. First off, how groovy are The 5th Dimenion doing “Paper Cup”? Bedazzled uploaded this video a few months back. Love the choreography and their vivid red, white and blue outfits. This Jimmy Webb tune peaked at #34 in late 1967.
Our […]
Blah Blah Blah
June 22nd, 2006Got a few chuckles reading through the a.v. club’s 15 People You Meet Listening To DVD Commentaries. I especially recognize the Scholar, the Narrator, and (having attempted not one but two Vincent Sherman yak tracks) the Doddering Old Man.
Gruesome Twosome: Back Door Brill Edition
June 21st, 2006Eydie Gorme: “Don’t Try to Fight It Baby”
Columbia Records single, 1963
Andy Williams: “Wrong For Each Other”
Columbia Records single, 1964 | BUY
Wanna know about the brilliance of the Brill Building Era? Even the relatively obscure songs from that special time and place serve as gems of melody and rhythm. These two singles were written for performers […]
Mom Always Said Not to Share Music in the House
June 20th, 2006Mondo Daddykin comes through again, offering just about everything The Brady Bunch ever recorded for download. This includes the Sunshine Day CD comp, all four studio albums, and various solo and TV-only recordings. I said it here before and I’ll say it again — their Phonographic Album LP from 1973 is a pretty darn great […]
Above and Beyond the Valley
June 19th, 2006File it under the Kitsch A-Go-Go department: 20th Century Fox recently sent me their deluxe DVDs of Valley of the Dolls and its non-sequel, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. I’ll be posting a more complete review of these at Mindjack Film pretty soon, but overall I think Fox did an excellent job for a […]
Give Me Back My Name
June 18th, 2006When I started this weblog nearly six years ago, I never thought anybody else would ever use the name “scrubbles” for anything — it’s too strange. Guess I was too naïve. Meet the new bane of my existence: a videogame called Scrubbles. Not to be confused with Scrubbles Cleaning and Restoration in lovely Noblesville, Indiana. […]
Hated It Then, Totally Dig It Now
June 15th, 2006Fess-up time. I just finished compiling a mix CD called Hit Factory: The Stock Aitken Waterman Years, 18 songs by the most critically derided dance-pop production team that ever was. SAW were huge in the UK (not so much in the US) around 1987-90. The trio is best known for sugary, synth-heavy confections produced for […]
Computers and Books and Toys, Oh My
June 14th, 2006I’ve been asked to contribute to the spiffy new group weblog On My Desk, in which creative professionals share photos of their workspaces. Here’s my entry. Not very fancy or high tech, but it suits me OK.
Auntie Meme
June 13th, 2006Christopher tagged me with a meme. I won’t tag it forward, but here are the results for the date of October 8.
The instructions:
1. Go to Wikipedia.
2. In the search box, type your birth month and day (but not year).
3. List three events that happened on your birthday.
4. List two important birthdays and one interesting death.
5. […]
TV Boneyard
June 12th, 2006I get jazzed whenever I find out about forgotten clips from not-so-classic old TV shows, as two of my favorite pop culture bloggers have recently done. Jaime Weinman of Something Old, Nothing New wrote about the opening credits of a short-lived 1979 sitcom called Out of the Blue. The sequence is very ABC sitcommy with […]
