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The Greatest Sideshow Video Ever Made.
"The Greatest Sideshow Video Ever Made was shot at the Moore theater in Seattle in 1992. The oddball cousin of Seattle's grunge music scene, the Jim Rose Circus Sideshow mixed vintage sideshow acts with novel stunts never before seen. Previously available only on VHS tape or DVD, this mind-blowing collection of feats of human daring is now available online in six parts for your viewing pleasure:
1 2 3 4 5 6 As an added bonus, watch as
Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam participates." [via
mefi projects]
posted to MetaFilter by stet
at 5:39 PM on July 13, 2008
(21 comments)
Christiane F was a 1981 German film that portrayed the life of young heroin addicts growing up in 1970's Berlin. Notable for the collaboration of David Bowie, the film became
well known for its realistic portrayal of drug use.
posted to MetaFilter by panboi
at 5:01 AM on June 29, 2008
(28 comments)
George Carlin Dead at 71
Not sure if I really want to make a joke out of this one, but why not post your favorite quotes and routines of his.
posted to MetaFilter by Del Far
at 10:14 PM on June 22, 2008
(414 comments)
For those still wondering what the hell Joe Cocker was singing in 1969 at
Woodstock in his landmark version of "A Little Help From My Friends", this
hilarious video"transcription" (with some visuals added to the footage) should help. For purists, the original unedited version
here.
posted to MetaFilter by Seekerofsplendor
at 11:02 PM on June 20, 2008
(63 comments)
Stephen King has described The Dark Tower as his
"Jupiter." The epic series, inspired in part by Robert Browning's poem,
"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came", has spanned 22 years, 7 books and nearly 4000 pages. The first book in the series,
The Gunslinger, begins with a simple, memorable declaration, "The Man in Black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."
posted to MetaFilter by kbanas
at 8:56 AM on April 18, 2008
(160 comments)
If you had HBO in the 80's, you saw
this every night at 8pm. HBO put together a brief behind-the-scenes
featurette showing everything from the construction of the models to the composition of the music.
posted to MetaFilter by dr_dank
at 12:05 PM on March 15, 2008
(63 comments)
Corsets
- a
very comprehensive collection of information about foundation garments. The site is generously illustrated, so it may be NSFW.
posted to MetaFilter by tellurian
at 8:17 PM on March 10, 2008
(15 comments)
The man who runs
xkcd
has created the
LimerickDB.
Though often quite dirty
There are more that are nerdy;
If you check out
the best ones, you'll see.
posted to MetaFilter by kyleg
at 7:27 AM on February 5, 2008
(88 comments)
Those of us who were born in the 1970's have a number of indelibly permanent shared experiences. Relive a few of them with
3 hours of MTV from 1983.
posted to MetaFilter by Lord_Pall
at 12:55 AM on January 26, 2008
(56 comments)
For the past 50 years,
The British have made some of
the funniest Comedy TV Shows. Come inside for A Video Chronology of The History of British TV Comedy.
posted to MetaFilter by Foci for Analysis
at 1:38 AM on January 24, 2008
(96 comments)
The Muppet Show featuring performances: by
Johnny Cash (and
two more),
Steve Martin on banjo,
Elton John (and
two more),
Alice Cooper (also
some skits),
Debbie Harry (and
another), Liza Manelli
singing Copa Cabana,
REM,
Dizzy Gillespie,
Buddy Rich vs. Animal,
Rita Moreno vs. Animal,
Harry Belafonte (
vs. Animal),
Julie Andrews and
more,
Mac Davis,
Nureyev singing and tap dancing,
Sandy Duncan,
John Denver,
Paul Simon (on
lute!), and a somewhat freaky version of
The Gambler.
posted to MetaFilter by blahblahblah
at 11:56 PM on December 2, 2007
(49 comments)
This cheesy 1979 promo film
from the group,
Blackjack, offers a glimpse into the hard rock past of balladeer Michael Bolton, which also includes a co-writing credit for a
Top 40 hit by Kiss. Similarly, Bill Joel disavows the days when he
posed in medieval armor next to slabs of raw beef on the cover of the self-titled album by Joel's heavy metal duo,
Attila, although
Julian Cope is a fan of the album and its Deep Purplish vibes (check out
Holy Moses and
Wonder Woman). To round out the trifecta, we have Tori Amos who got marketed as the metal-chick frontwoman of
Y Kant Tori Read (check out the video for
The Big Picture). On the other hand, metalheads have the opposite problem of hiding their pop past. Examples include the industrial metal band Ministry's early days as a
new wave synth act and Tommy Iommi's brief tenure as a
member of Jethro Tull before becoming lead guitarist of Black Sabbath. Meanwhile,
Bon Scott, the late lead singer of AC/DC, is probably spinning in his grave over the YouTube footage of him as an
Australian teen idol and a
bearded hippie with a recorder.
posted to MetaFilter by jonp72
at 4:21 PM on November 26, 2007
(70 comments)
The Censored Eleven
[
IMDB] is a
group of Warner Brothers cartoons that have been withheld from syndication because of their racial stereotypes:
Hittin' the Trail to Hallelujah Land (1931;
info),
Sunday Go to Meetin' Time (1936;
info),
Clean Pastures (1937;
info),
Uncle Tom's Bungalow (1937),
Jungle Jitters (1938),
The Isle of Pingo Pongo (1938),
All This and Rabbit Stew (1941;
info),
Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs (1943;
info),
Tin Pan Alley Cats (1943;
info),
Angel Puss (1944), and
Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears (1944).
[more inside]
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha
at 7:01 AM on July 10, 2007
(65 comments)
In 1899, the core of downtown Seattle burned to the ground. While the shops quickly rebuilt & re-opened, the city itself took the opportunity to rebuild the streets some 36 feet higher than they previously had been (ostensibly to combat water pressure/sea level issues), meaning that pedestrians climbed ladders to go between street level and building entrances. Eventually, the city laid down sidewalks up on the new street level, and the underground
city was
all but forgotten. Today,
via a building in Pioneer Square, you can still tour what
remains of the
abandoned underground,
looking up at the
people above through the
opaque glass sidewalk.
posted to MetaFilter by jonson
at 10:54 AM on August 9, 2006
(45 comments)
Made most popular to many Americans as the closing song for the Grand Ole Opry programs, Will The Circle Be Unbroken was written in 1907 by Ada Habershon, an intensely religious young woman and acquaintance of
Dwight Moody and
Ira David Sankey. The music was "composed" by
Charles Gabriel, a popular songwriter and composer of the era who is often solely credited with the song, but while he may have put the notes down on paper, the tune itself already existed as the African-American spiritual Glory Glory / Since I Laid My Burden Down. [lots more inside]
posted to MetaFilter by luriete
at 6:10 PM on May 26, 2006
(18 comments)
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