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Brendan Behan’s Dublin from 1966
The idea of Brendan Behan eventually became greater than the man himself. No one knew this better than the roaring boy himself, who played up to the image of “a drinker with a writing problem”. By the early sixties he was the toast of the West End, the toast of Broadway, the toast of every-fecking-where, but his best works, The Quare Fellow, The Hostage, and his biography Borstal Boy, were behind him, and his confidence had been battered through working with the firebrand director, Joan Littlewood, who had turned the English version of The Hostage into a “Knees Up Mrs Brown”. Unable to stay focussed long enough to put pen to paper, Behan was forced to record his last works (rambling travelogs of New York and Dublin, the disastrous Richard’s Cork Leg) onto tape-recorder for others to transcribe. It was a terrible waste, and of course there’ll be those who’ll say a lesson of sorts, but so what, as his fall form grace didn’t stop the great man’s legend form soaring.
Two years after the Behan’s death, Irish producer / director Norman Cohen (later best known the film version of Spike Milligan‘s Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall and the Confessions of…. comedy porn series) made Brendan Behan’s Dublin, a travelog of the Irish capital based on the playwright’s memoirs, anecdotes and writing of the city by Carolyn Swift, and narrated by Ray McAnally as Behan. The Dubliners supplied the soundtrack.
Previously on Dangerous Minds
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A young Jon Stewart in mosh pit at Dead Kennedys show
The Daily Show’s future host Jon Stewart (then known as William and Mary student Jon Leibowitz) snapped in the mosh pit at a Dead Kennedys/Front Line show in Richmond, Virginia sometime in the early 1980s.
Fantastic!
Via Filthy Pit/Henry Baum!
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8-Bit version of Slint’s ‘Good Morning, Captain’
If you’re a fan of Slint, you’re either going to love or hate this 8-bit version of ” Good Morning, Captain.”
The Nintendo-style version of the Spiderland album cover is a nice touch, too.
YouTuber methodairmoshpit admits, “I’m a nerd with too much time on my hands.”
Thank you Jeff Albers!
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Atom Heart Mother: Pink Floyd live in Saint Tropez, 1970
1970 Pink Floyd set from French television program, Pop 2. The band was shot live at the “Saint Tropez Festival de Musique” on August 8th, 1970.
Le set list:
Atom Heart Mother
The Embryo
Green is the Colour
Careful with that Axe, Eugene
Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
Nick Mason is really, really amazing in this set. He’s on fire here.
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Fat Tony the Tiger figure by Ron English
A rather rotund rendition of Tony the Tiger by Ron English. Inspired by his cereal box hack, Fat Tony will be making appearances at local toy stores soon. You can pre-order one at Big Bad Toy Store.
Fat Tony will be sold in limited quantities.
Via Laughing Squid
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Sexist retro-futurist ad from 1968
As Copyranter points out, Lestoil is bound to enjoy a huge resurgence in popularity when it “becomes the official all-purpose cleaner on Newton.”
(“Newton” is the name of the lunar colony Newt Gingrich wants to build on the Moon).
Via Copyranter
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Apparently if you slow down Bobby McFerrin’s ‘Don’t Worry, Be Happy’ you get André the Giant
YouTuber Bfarn says, “I slowed down Bobby McFerrin by 25% and uncovered this…..gem?”
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Rush Limbaugh in his own words: No vast liberal media conspiracy
There’s little to no leftie fodder to mock on his radio show, according to Rush. Just “two shows or three shows” on MSNBC.
Here’s what the conservative radio blowhard had to say on November 9, 2011, in a rant about how America will continue to decline unless the GOP establishment embraces conservative ideology.
Transcript taken from his own website:
If it weren’t for MSNBC we wouldn’t have any liberal sound bites. I’ve told Cookie I’m sick of it, ban MSNBC, and we can’t, ‘cause there’s no other place to get liberal sound bites. There isn’t any other place. I mean CNN is just insane over there. They emphasize their hosts, they have guests, but just roll tape on ‘em and it’s so boring. It’s not worth putting anything from CNN on the air.
If it weren’t for MSNBC there wouldn’t be any liberal sound bites. Now, that has to mean something. That has to mean that they’re rare, that they’re not everywhere. They may be everywhere in print, but, you know, left-wingers on the radio, genuine cuckoo’s nest. You wouldn’t even want to go there. I wouldn’t play that stuff. MSNBC’s it, and it’s two shows or three shows. It’s it is morning thing with Scarborough, it’s the Larry O’Donnell show at night, and maybe occasionally something from Reverend Sharpton. (interruption) Well, yeah, sometimes Sergeant Schultz. Sergeant Schultz is out there walking amongst abandoned railroad cars looking for the future of America. I know there’s Al Gore’s channel, but that’s nothing worth highlighting. It really says something. MSNBC is the only place in the media to get these liberals.
There it is. He done let the cat out of the bag.
Curiously he left Rachel Maddow out of these comments, but maybe not so curiously because she’s generally so circumspect and fact-based in the arguments she makes on air as to be impervious to attacks from Limbaugh on a regular basis.
Ed Schultz, Rev. Al Sharpton and Lawrence O’Donnell, with their more bombastic (and yes, male) styles I can see providing easy targets for Limbaugh (a service he provides for them, too, of course) but I think his instincts to perhaps stay away from commenting too much on Maddow is a smart one on his part.
Via Daily Kos
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