“Goebbels! One Night Only! Live From Hell!” by San Jose writer Scott Munson, directed by Jennifer Daly. Part of Three Wise Monkeys‘ 8th Annual Bay One Acts Festival. Remaining Dates: March 5 (tonight!) & 6 (Thu/Fri): 8 pm, March 8 (Sunday): 7 pm Location: the Eureka Theatre, 2...

Frank Henenlotter and John Zacherle on the set of Frankenhooker. For lovers of sleazy cult cinema, writer-director Frank Henenlotter is a god... and not merely for the six whacked out films he's made in the past three decades. I can say without hesitation that there's a ton of movies that I never wo...

Velvets Ephemera # 1: Before The Banana Above we see what could well be the earliest known photograph of The Velvet Underground, taken in 1965, before Mo Tucker joined, before Andy Warhol & co rescued them from the coffeehouse circuit. From L to R that’s Sterling Morrison, Lou Reed, John Cale and ...

So I had a really nice cultural weekend, punctuated by this massive late-winter snowstorm that shows few signs of abating too soon. I spent my time going to a concert and immersing myself in my favorite TV shows: "Mad Men," which is brilliant beyond belief, and "Big Love," which is getting so intens...

But how do you decide what “important” is? Sometimes the important stuff is nothing but a collection of individually unimportant things. Sometimes I have a hard time not caring about unimportant things. via How to Create Space and When You’re Always in a Rush | Zen Habits . Copyright ...

Punk 8-Tracks @ CollectorScum.com via Tim B. via tjb81's Bookmarks...

Punk 8-Tracks @ CollectorScum.com via Tim B. via tjb81's Bookmarks...

You've all doubtless already read about Nora Roberts' Inn Boonsboro, at which each guest room is decorated to evoke a famous pair of literary paramours. It's got my personal faves Lizzy and Darcy and Jane and Rochester (but no hints of Wickham, Caroline Bingley, St. John Rivers or psycho-Bertha to s...

At the Green Inaugural Ball honoring Barack Obama, designer Nancy Judd will be showing off a coat made from hundreds of Obama campaign posters, according to a story in the The Wall Street Journal (1-13-09). The Journal article, by Stephanie......

You are Number Six. Patrick McGoohan died Tuesday at the age of 80. No word on whether or not a bouncing latex ball was seen leaving the scene....