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Musings On 20th Century Pop Culture by Psychotronic Paul

Saturday, July 30, 2011

Gadzooks - It's Another KFJC Psychotronix Film Festival (Saturday, August 6)!

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Besmirching the hallowed Room 5015 of Los Altos' Foothill College a week from today: the KFJC Psychotronix Film Festival . Will the s...
Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Found 15,000 Music Reviews By One Guy!

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Okay, I am exaggerating just a tad. The prolific music review writer I am referring to is Russian journalist George Starostin, author of ...
Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Born 75 Years Ago Today: 20th Century Music's Most Dangerous Man by Paul F. Etcheverry

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"My imagination is beyond the civilization in which we live." Albert Ayler (1936-1970) "To have heard Ayler in the f...
Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Another Newly Discovered Philosopher-Guru by Paul F. Etcheverry

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Found in the ruins, alongside ribald drawings and disgusting, unwashed rice bowls: crumpled, scrawled foolscap jam-packed with the folksy 6t...
Friday, July 08, 2011

Psychotronic Paul's Quote Of The Day

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"Some years ago I had a complete nervous breakdown, was dead broke and had to be put in a charity ward with 30 others. I was there 18 ...
Thursday, July 07, 2011

Laurel And Hardy On Hulu.com

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On Hulu , dependable source of classic movie and TV goodness (or badness and, even better, what Frank Zappa aptly termed cheepnis ), ten hi...
Monday, July 04, 2011

Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A July 4th Posting

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And here's to the great Americans responsible for the following songs:
Thursday, June 30, 2011

This Saturday At 9:00 A.M. PST: Bernard Herrmann Tribute On KFJC

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"In orchestrating the picture I avoided, as much as possible, the realistic sound of a large symphony orchestra. The motion picture so...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011

We Nominate Tinky Weisblat For Alzheimer's Advisory Council

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Today, your semi-intrepid correspondent breaks from his customary clip-laden tributes to mid-20th century movies/cartoons/music - or occasio...
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Monday, June 20, 2011

Burt Bacharach Day

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Since June 20 is the birthday of Brian Wilson, I'm posting the one clip available involving Brian (with or without The Beach Boys) cover...
Thursday, June 16, 2011

Saluting The Sultans Of Swing

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Today, the jazz-crazed author of Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog salutes The Sultans Of Swing. Let's start with this clip of Benny G...
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011

My Favorite Music Clip Ever a.k.a. The Clip Of The Day

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25 years ago today, the great bandleader/clarinetist Benny Goodman passed away at 77 years of age, pretty much the way we would all like t...
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Paul F. Etcheverry
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I'm a writer and film historian who has programmed classic film events in the San Francisco Bay Area for more than 30 years. These include the Pre-Code Follies at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum and the KFJC Psychotronix Film Festivals at Foothill College.
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