bela lugosi called.

he wants his toupee back.

I'm an old Tull freak. I also listen to a lot of Peter Gabriel and attendant musicians. I loved Yes and The Who. A lot of that music still stirs the soul . Now I have added goodies like Bela Fleck and Phil Keaggy (his instrumental stuff is of particular interest).

I find that the current music scene has been diluted in multiple ways (all bad) and I keep going back to the standbys that knew how to make music.

I'm glad your iPod is rockin'!



In reply to this comment by snoozedoctor:
Silver,
You and I need to sync our i-pods. On the other hand, they probably have the same songs.

Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) is a Universal Pictures pre-Code horror film loosely based on an Edgar Allan Poe short story. Bela Lugosi, one year after his legendary performance as Dracula, portrays a lunatic scientist who abducts women (one a prostitute played by Arlene Francis) and injects them with fresh blood from his vicious caged ape. The atmospheric cinematography by Karl Freund has been singled out by critics as superb, along with Robert Florey's direction. Thanks to Freund and Florey, the film has the look and feel of German expressionist films of the 1920s. However, some strongly violent scenes apparently prompted Universal executives to cut the film back to 61 minutes from what was originally an 80-minute running time. (Source: IMDB)

nah, necrosy sounds more like lugosi, pelosi, and, no disrepect to Bela or Hungarians, that was needed for the vampirical reference.....energy sucking..

Indeed, a decent video, but what the hell has this got to do with Bela Lugosi. That is not Bela Lugosi. Hell, it looks more like his Plan 9 From Outer Space co-star, Tor Johnson.

Am I crazy here?

Kept waiting for Bela to show up, even checked out the YouTube'r's other videos! It was weird when he said...right-wing conservatives way of dealing with things was to throw them out?!? If this is a hoax, I don't get it...

Hah!!! Everybody wants some melanin!!! Even cracker Hungarians!!! Bout time they shook that Dracula thing.....Bela's been dead for some time now......


Say it Proud, Say it Loud, Budapest Proud!!!

'By the 1954 Olympic Games apparatus and events for both men and women had been standardized in modern format, and uniform grading structures (including a point system from 1 to 10) had been agreed upon. At this time, Soviet gymnasts astounded the world with highly disciplined and difficult performances, setting a precedent that continues to inspire. The new medium of television helped publicize and initiate a modern age of gymnastics. Both men's and women's gymnastics now attract considerable international interest, and excellent gymnasts can be found on every continent.

Nadia Comaneci received the first perfect score, at the 1976 Olympic Games held in Montreal, Canada. She was coached by the famous Romanian, Bela Karolyi. According to "Sports Illustrated", Comaneci scored four of her perfect tens on the uneven bars, two on the balance beam and one in the floor exercise. Unfortunately, even with Nadia's perfect scores, the Romanians lost the gold medal to the Soviets. Nadia will always be remembered as "a fourteen year old, ponytailed little girl" who showed the world that perfection could be achieved.

In 2006, a new points system was put into play. Instead of being marked 1 to 10, the gymnast's start value depends on the difficulty rating of the exercise routine. Also, the deductions became higher: before the new point system developed, the deduction for a fall was 0.5, and now it is 0.8. The motivation for a new point system was to decrease the chance of gymnasts getting a perfect score.'

- from Wiki

BTW, brilliant video here of the aforementioned Nadia Comaneci...

http://www.videosift.com/video/14-Year-Old-Nadia-Comaneci-Makes-Olympic-Gymnasic-History

Freaks is in the public domain and the full movie is presented here.



Wikipedia sez:

Freaks is a Pre-Code 1932 horror film about sideshow performers, directed by Tod Browning.

The movie was adapted by Al Boasberg, Willis Goldbeck, Leon Gordon, and Edgar Allan Woolf from the short story Spurs by Tod Robbins. Browning, famed at the time for his collaborations with Lon Chaney and for directing Bela Lugosi in Dracula (1931), took the exceptional step of casting real people with deformities as the eponymous sideshow "freaks," rather than using costumes and makeup. Director Browning had been a member of a traveling circus in his early years, and much of the film was drawn from his personal experiences. He intended to portray the classic moral of how outer beauty does not necessarily equate to inner beauty. In the film, the physically deformed "freaks" are inherently trusting and honorable people, while the real monsters are two of the "normal" members of the circus who conspire to murder one of the performers to obtain his large inheritance.

From Wikipedia:

Barton Lee Hazlewood (born July 9, 1929 in Mannford, Oklahoma) is an American country singer, songwriter, and record producer....

Following discharge from the military, Hazlewood worked as a disc jockey whilst honing his songwriting skills. Among his early hits was The Fool recorded by rockabilly artist Sanford Clark. Hazlewood also worked with pioneering rock guitarist Duane Eddy.

Hazlewood is perhaps most famous for writing the Nancy Sinatra hit, "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'". However, his own output has also achieved a cult status in the underground rock scene, with songs covered by artists such as Lydia Lunch, Primal Scream, Einstürzende Neubauten, Nick Cave and Boyd Rice.

Hazlewood has a distinctive baritone voice that adds an ominous resonance to his music. Hazlewood's collaborations with Nancy Sinatra as well as his solo output in the late 1960s and early 1970s have been praised as an essential contribution to a sound often described as 'Cowboy Psychedelia' or 'Saccharine Underground'. In 2006 Lee sung for Bela B's first solo album "Bingo" the song "Lee Hazlewood und das erste Lied des Tages" ("Lee Hazlewood and the first song of the day").

In 2006 he was diagnosed with terminal renal cancer with a life expectancy of less than one year.

Will I be the only Japanophile???!! Commercials in english suck! And musicals must suck to for all the FAGOTTY Hollywood directors can't rub 2 braincells between their dicks to make, what??! Chicago??! FUUUUCK. At least Martin Landau won an oscar for Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood-Go with yer gut.

film classic

"Browning, famed at the time for directing Bela Lugosi in Dracula (1931), took the exceptional step of casting real people with deformities as the eponymous sideshow "freaks", rather than using costumes and makeup. Director Browning had been a member of a travelling circus in his early years, and much of the film was drawn from his personal experiences. He intended to portray the classic moral of how outer beauty does not necessarily equate to inner beauty. In the film, the physically deformed "freaks" are inherently trusting and honorable people, while the real monsters are two of the "normal" members of the circus who conspire to murder one of the performers to obtain his large inheritance.

Reaction to this film was so intense that Browning had trouble finding work afterwards, and this in effect brought his career to an early close. Because its deformed cast was shocking to moviegoers of the time, the film was banned in the United Kingdom for thirty years."
-wikipedia