We're all mutants; Teratology at it's finest.

Once upon a time, while being quite tired and zapping through a lot of 'oribble television channels, i stumbled upon this magnificent series on Discovery Channel, called "Human Mutants'.

The narrator, Armand Marie Leroi is also the writer of one of the best books in it's genre called 'Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body'. Unfortunately the television-series was limited to 3 episodes only; Discovery Networks doesn't allow one to embed the specific clip so one should look it up oneself. It's excellent researched, very respectful brought (don't expect a sideshow freak circus to enroll) and yet not stuffed with only the 'dry' facts and numbers.

An excerpt from the book:

'Why are most of us born with one nose, two legs, ten fingers and twenty-four ribs and some of us not? Why do most of us stop growing in our teens-while others just keep on growing? Why do some of us have heads of red hair and others no hair at all? The human genome, we are told, makes us what we are. But how?

In case you do live or about to visit these Dutch mountains, one can actually look up some of the museums which are visited in said tv series, the best being the Vrolik museum in Amsterdam. It's situated in the UVA, very worth while to take that gnarly trainride. Unfortunately the attached link is in dutch only, it's should give you an impression plus the address though.



Will post more about great museums with similar collections if time will let me.


Source weblink: uba.uva.nl
Source photo:atomicbooks.com

Weirdsville 2012 b.c.

Mark your calenders dearies for here's a suave party you don't wanna miss. You do have good taste, now don't ya?

Suavalicious, a must read.

Not only are the Midnight Archives a truly amazing series of wonderful subjects, the music that accompanies each volume is swell, too.
This episode is about a man, Paul Koudounaris who traveled quite some to do some fantastic research for his book called, yes, you've guessed it right: 'The Empire Of Death'. It is one of the higher priorities on my wishlist, not only for the amazing photo's and elaborate storytelling; it also gives one a great tour d'Europe-for-suavalicious-places-to-visit. Wanna tag along?

One of the best stompers, ever.

I walked into a record shop
They were playing number one
People rockin' up the place
And havin' so much fun
I heard this fellow talkin'
I heard this fellow say
Well, them cats are cool
And they're twice as gone
And they're a-rockin' all the way
Ain't that a dilly, ain't that a bird
Ain't that the coolest thing that you ever heard

Well, I love my baby
I'd climb the highest tree
I'd swim the widest ocean
If she'd just dance with me
So I called my baby on the phone
But she can't go tonight
She's got the mumps and the measles too
And she don't feel just right
Ain't that a dilly, ain't that a bird
Ain't that the coolest thing that you ever heard

Well, she's got me feelin' weary
She's a-got me feelin' blue
I think I'll write a song for her
And I'll record it too
I think I'll call it Chopin, Beethoven No. 2
Then I'll put it to a rockin' beat
And do it all for you
Ain't that a dilly, ain't that a bird
Ain't that the coolest thing that you ever heard

Cindy & Bert - Der Hund Von Baskerville

Here is a 1969/70 video of Cindy & Bert doing "Der Hun Von Baskerville"- a brilliant cover of Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" apparently with lyrics relating Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes mystery The Hounds of Baskerville. Features a bored looking Cindy and Bert, some bored looking German mod dancers and an extremeley bored looking pekingese.

Apparently it's next to impossible to get this little gem for a reasonable price but.. Of course it's on Ebay. The whole cd for just a measly 7 euros. Fair warning: comes with a lot of other erm, German songs, too.

Crazy Talk, number 42

*taps screen*

Brand new podcast from Mr. Weird-Oh himself: Thee Boss with the hot sauce. Enjoy!

Shazam; and Lock & Loll

Crazy. Been visiting & reading blogs for as long as there's internet, just never realized to start my own but well, here we are. Finally.
The intention is to write about what i consider great stuff as in films, music, food, books and of course photos among all other good things in life. No place for things easily found anywhere else, just the cream of the crap. Yes, that's intentionally written this way, for i'm not interested in the ordinary. Let's boogie!