Taxi

Did I ever blogged this movie before? I don't think so, because it's so over the top gory that I hardly dared to watch it myself. This was a sleeper for some years on my hard disk until I remembered my one night stand with this blond Danish taxidermist - you bet I had mixed feelings, because I saw this film before the stand.

Taxidermy (Greek for "skin arrangement") is the art of mounting or reproducing animals for display (e.g. as hunting trophies) or for other sources of study. Taxidermy can be done on all species of animals including humans - and that's just what's happening in this movie.

This outtake is from Joe d'Amato's 1979 movie 'Beyond the Darkness'. The story is about a taxidermist who just lost his young wife. He digs her up, fresh from the grave, and tries to preserve her. His taxi skills are then spelled out in a long and gory scene. I warned you before - Joe d'Amato is a Sultan of Sleaze - but he is no fool. In this movie the female housekeeper is the accomplice and the poor young witness is delt with in an appropriate way.

The clip is about 33:00min. and comes in 4x80MB. parts
Beyond-the-Darkness.mpg.001
Beyond-the-Darkness.mpg.002
Beyond-the-Darkness.mpg.003
Beyond-the-Darkness.mpg.004

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Fight

Day Of The Fight, Stanley Kubrick, 1951

I promised you to post some more from this director when I found some. The 'Day Of The Fight' [1951] is a black-and-white movie about boxing. It's a short 16:00 minute film in docu stile by 23 yo. Stanly Kubrick, one of his early works.
You don't have to be a fan of Stanley to like this clip. It gives you an inside view in the way-of-life of American boxing. The movie comes in two 90MB.parts; .avi.001 and .avi.002.

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Time

NASA picture of Planet Earth

I was just thinking [nothing else to do] - what happened with time?
It just crossed my mind when I looked at my concert blog of Cyndi Lauper in Amsterdam. It's now four weeks ago, but it seems like ages. We had a long and great build-up for the concert, buying the tickets weeks before, spending a lot of bandwith with e-mails and exchanging songs, viewing her video's the night before and had a great concert at the evening. Within four to six hours after the concert the first tubes were online; we very much enjoyed the clips in the next couple of days. And then (poof) it was all gone and we were running for our next e-mail conversations and internet experiences.

I just want to stand stil for a moment and look back at this concert and the Time-After-Time song. Someone made these nice footages of the concert (clip #3 is the Time song);
Cyndi Lauper in concert, Amsterdam, November 2nd, 2008 (1)
Cyndi Lauper in concert, Amsterdam, November 2nd, 2008 (2)
Cyndi Lauper in concert, Amsterdam, November 2nd, 2008 (3)
Cyndi Lauper in concert, Amsterdam, November 2nd, 2008 (4)

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Stone

Joss Stone in concert 2004 (c) Debbie Vanstory

The smoking gun: my nephew picks his singers my their looks. With Joss Stone, he was right on her singing and her looks. Joss Stone is a multi-awarded, liberal, UK born [1987] soul and R&B singer-songwriter. There are also a lot of glamour pictures and interviews around - and that's not only the achievement of the paparazzi. Joss is now way in front of Amy.

On the other hand, I don't think my nephew likes her leftish liberal activities;

• She has done a lot of charity work, including environmental, animal, Aids and gay issues. In 2005 she was voted the World's Sexiest Vegetarian


• In 2008 she was asked personally by Barack Obama to write and record a song for his presidential campaign. The 'Governmentalist' song will appear on her fourth studio album, expected around April 2009


• The 'You Had Me' song was Stone's most successful single on the UK Singles Chart to date


• The '2007 AVO session in Basel' is a great live registration [RS, 125 MB, 11 tracks]

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Avocado

Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death [1989]

I have a favorite link in my browser on the very top of my movie tab. That means that is was one of the first movies that I liked. It is so crazy that it is coined Campy and Über Kult many times on the web.

Of course it depends on the critic and his story that makes you hunt for a movie. This guy had a great story about the movie. And they put a lot of effort into their great site too.

Maybe the hallark of intentionally campy movies, are the hillarious dialogues - you can find a lot of them here again

Avocado.part1.rar
Avocado.part2.rar
Avocado.part3.rar
Avocado.part4.rar
Avocado.part5.rar
Avocado.part6.rar
Avocado.part7.rar

As so many times, all credits go to Hartmut for finding the links.

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Georg

Georg Friedrich Händel [1685-1759] by Balthasar Denner [1727]

He is somewhat underestimated but he (after all) was Ludwig van Beethoven's rolemodel. GFH made some nice operas that were newly interpreted by Danielle De Niese. I just stumbled upon his Fireworks music that he made for some court festivity when he was at the service of the English king. This is just great and splattering baroque music.

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Tex

Rocky, Tex Tucker and Pedro

In the late 1950's I was on my belly under the table looking at this hypnotizing series [silly me]. You just have to see to believe. In the first episode Tex Tucker gets his magical self-shooting pistols from a Big Chief as a thank-you for taking care of a little indian boy. Tex is the good-guy, Pedro and Fernando are the the bad-guys [just in case you missed].

Among all puppet series, this was one of the first and one of the best; with the stupid-simple-clear-cut characters, the music, the suspense, the action and all. Notice the crazy English accent of 'Rocky' - Tex's horse. Very clever made. The credits at the end are a little joy on their own.

The first few episodes from the tube;
Four Feather Falls: Episode 1 - How It Began - Part 1
Four Feather Falls: Episode 1 - How It Began - Part 2
Four Feather Falls: Episode 2 - Trouble at Yellow Gulch - Part 1
Four Feather Falls: Episode 2 - Trouble at Yellow Gulch - Part 2
Four Feather Falls: Episode 3 - Frame Up - Part 1
Four Feather Falls: Episode 3 - Frame Up - Part 2
Four Feather Falls: Episode 4 - Pedro Has a Plan - Part 1
Four Feather Falls: Episode 4 - Pedro Has a Plan - Part 2
Four Feather Falls: Episode 5 - Sherrif For A Day - Part 1
Four Feather Falls: Episode 5 - Sherrif For A Day - Part 2

I'm sure you can find some other episodes.

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Music

The Royal Concertbuilding Orchestra [RCO, Amsterdam, conductor = Mariss Janssons] was just voted as the best orchestra in the world by UK 'Gramaphone' magazine.

The Berliner Philharmoniker [conductor = Simon Rattle] was second and The Wiener Philharmoniker [conductor = invited every year] were third. There were also a lot of USA orchestra's on the list.

The RCO is now celibrating their 120th anniversary and they put 10 downloadable symphonies on their website [after a free registration]. When you are into classical music, this is a must have.

The recordings are available until the 31st of December 2008.

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