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Chaplin Does Cocaine in Modern Times.
When you think of drug movies, flicks like Easy Rider, Drugstore Cowboy and pretty much everything by Cheech and Chong might spring to mind. Add to this list Charlie Chaplin’s masterpiece Modern...
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Rod Taylor, Aussie Icon goes Unshirted.
Thanks to jinxx stone and Kitt Noir for the inspiration. Rod Taylor was born in 1930 in New South Wales and most of his life from the early 1950s onwards has been acting and Rod has been involved in...
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Who was the real “Black Betty?”
Amazingly despite the song, Black Betty being covered hundreds of times in the 70 or so years it has existed and it being the subject of academic study and debate, for almost as long, no one, anywhere...
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Leonard Cohen Guests on Miami Vice.
Leonard Cohen is the Canadian Bob Dylan. While best known perhaps as a singer-songwriter who penned the tune “Hallelujah” — which was covered by Jeff Buckley, John Cale and just about everyone else...
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Days Of Hot Metal.
by Rachel Holdsworth Last year we told you about Going Underground, a fascinating oral history documentary about the tube, made by primary schoolchildren and educational charity digital: works....
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The Intertype.
via youtube.com The Intertype which was the British knock-off of Mergenthaler’s Linotype was the backbone of the Old Guv’s production of Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) over many years. It was a hot...
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Monotype Keyboard.
A Monotype keyboard allows a keyboard operator to prepare a punched paper tape, called ribbon, that will direct the casting of type separately from its actual casting. The keyboard on which the...
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“Whole Lotta Love” by Winslow.
Ladies and gentlemen, we present Michael Winslow, the Man of 10,000 Sound Effects, singing Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love.” And by sing, we mean that he performs the lead vocals, and the...
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For Nerdy Guys Who Love the Blues.
aka The Wisconsin Chair Factory. In the 2001 movie “Ghost World,” 18-year-old Enid picks up the arm on her turntable, drops the needle in the groove, and plays a song yet another time. She can’t get...
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“Why did I marry a dickhead.”
Wonderful French TV advert showing just how essential paper is to the Human Race. For those Who Want to Learn Things A dickhead is a person who is an idiot and shows it all too well (English Version)....
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