Archive for June, 2008
Give a Hoot, Read a Book
June 30th, 2008Entertainment Weekly continues their hallowed tradition of opening multiple cans of worms with its New Classics issue, subtitled “The 1000 Best Movies, TV Shows, Albums, Books & More of the Last 25 Years.” Equal parts cool and infuriating, EW has taken the “list” concept to its logical conclusion and made up an issue consisting entirely […]
Weekly Mishmash: June 22-28
June 29th, 2008The Apple (1980). Welcome to the future, where society is controlled by one giant record company. Will the earnest lady folksinger and her Will Ferrell-lookalike boyfriend get lured into stardom by the evil Mr. Boogalow? This was as horrible as it sounds, a wannabe Rocky Horror crammed with lots of unmemorable songs and beyond tacky […]
Bunnies, Comic #11
June 27th, 2008A new Two Bunnies and a Duck was posted today that deals somewhat with boredom. Although the comic is coming along nicely, I’m just not feeling terribly creative lately. I can’t even think of anything interesting to post about on Scrubbles. It’s probably a weather thing. I can’t think straight when it’s hot. It’ll probably […]
Pretty Stuff to Look At
June 25th, 2008I’m at awe of the intricate paper cutouts of British illustrator Rob Ryan. Via Drawn!, where it was posted last March. Yeah, I’m that far behind on my blog reading.
Weekly Mishmash: June 15-21
June 22nd, 2008The Adventurers (1970). Sitting through three hours of this Harold Robbins adaptation give me the burning need to have an “I survived The Adventurers” t-shirt made up. I was expecting something of a campy romp, but in actuality this movie is a fairly straight-faced chronicle of a young man (played by the obscure and charmless […]
Friday Challenge
June 20th, 2008“Hi, I’m Troy McClure. You might remember me from such films as Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die and Gladys, the Groovy Mule.” Know the work of everyone’s favorite animated has-been actor? Mental Floss invites you to take the quiz — Troy McClure film or actual terrible movie? (thanks to Max). I ended up getting […]
Puppet Organization
June 18th, 2008What’s happening today? Gay and lesbian couples got married in California and the world didn’t stop turning. Cyd Charisse died. After a week of knob turning and button pushing, I’m still trying to figure out Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
What else? I’m bored. How about amusing ourselves with the opening credits from Madame’s Place? This was […]
Ear Candy
June 16th, 2008Spent part of my sweltering Monday updating the musical selections at scrubbles.muxtape.com. This time I’ve got a dozen lesser-heard bubblegum tunes from 1968-72, including a quartet of songs at the end which can be classified as “bubblegum soul” (whoda thunk that Marcia Brady could sound so funky?). Break out your mint condition Partridge Family lunch […]
Weekly Mishmash: June 8-14
June 15th, 2008Warning — obtuse pontificating on obscure old Asian movies to follow:
Daughter of the Dragon (1931) and A Study In Scarlet (1933). Two films that show Asian American actress Anna May Wong’s uneasy transition to early sound. These are both clunky and formulaic programmers in which Miss Wong plays a supporting role to two legendary characters. […]
Bad Movie Alert
June 13th, 2008It is my civic duty to inform everybody of two intriguing bad movies coming up on Turner Classic Movies. Sure, you can always catch a screening of Lawrence of Arabia or the umpteenth showing of Father of the Bride, but how often does one get to see The Oscar (1966)? TCM will be showing it […]
Book Review: Leisurama Now
June 12th, 2008Doesn’t everyone yearn for a special little place that they can get away to, especially this time of year? With Leisurama Now: The Beach House for Everyone, writer/designer Paul Sahre explores a short-lived product of early ’60s consumer optimism which ties into that basic need — the affordable middle-class summer beach house.
Specifically, this book chronicles […]
Step, Pivot, Step
June 10th, 2008Remember the super-groovy title sequence to the 1972 TV movie Probe that I posted on YouTube last year? Just today some creative person took Dominic Frontiere’s evocative music from that sequence and synced it up with a Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers dance number. Too weird, but it actually matches up pretty well! I only hope that […]
Weekly Mishmash: June 1-7
June 8th, 2008The Dragon Painter (1919). We recorded and watched a lot of offerings from TCM’s Asian film fest this week — including this early silent with the first Asian-American movie idol, Sessue Hayakawa. In this brief melodrama, Hayakawa plays an artist/wild man who is crazed with visions of a phantom princess. The local master painter, aging […]
Summer Lovin’
June 6th, 2008Don’t know about you, but I associate summer with maneuvering into furnace-like cars, dealing with an AC that never makes the home truly comfortable, and mainlining cans of Diet Coke like there’s no tomorrow. Oh, and great music! Which brings me to the latest Scrubbles.net mix, creatively titled What I Found. The contents of this […]
Yves So Fine
June 3rd, 2008There have been a lot of high profile deaths in the news lately, but the passing of Yves Saint Laurent at 71 resonates the most in these quarters. Although he had a long and varied career, I always associate him with clean, crisp ’60s styles such as his iconic Mondrian print miniskirt. One of my […]
