In the wake of Woodstock, huge outdoor concerts were all the rage. The Rolling Stones show at Altamont was the anti-Woodstock, free love, peace, and all that hippie shit were in short supply there. It didn’t help matters that the Hell’s Angels did security there; sort of like giving an arsonist a can of gasoline. Anyhoo, here’s the Maylses Brothers’ classic Altamont documentary, Gimme Shelter: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Gimme Shelter
Here’s the former Beatles’ 1971 visit to the Dick Cavett Show in its entirety, with Yoko in tow. You gotta take the bitter with the sweet: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: John Lennon On The Dick Cavett Show
I can’t seem to let go off my need to mock Willard Mittbot Romney. It’s a sickness, I tell ya. Here’s how SNL depicted the agony of Romney defeat the Saturday after the election: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Willard’s Lament
The fabulous folks at TPM have compiled this swell highlight reel featuring Willard Mittbot Romney: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: The Best Of Mittbot
If you haven’t seen Argo yet, go today, it’s terrific even if the ending is Hollywoodized. In the flick, John Goodman plays real life makeup artist John Chambers. This episode of Hollywood Treasure (a show featuring movie collectible dealer and auctioneer Joe Maddalena) shows what happened to some of Chambers’ finest work. I only hope his heir isn’t kicking himself for not waiting to go to auction until after Argo’s release. Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Chamber of Secrets
I’ve developed a lethal addiction to some of the SyFy channel’s reality shows. This is an episode of Monster Man wherein a zany make-up artiste does some work for new wave legends, Devo: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Devoman vs. Clevezilla
I saw Muddy Waters and Johnny Winter perform together on several occasions. It was visually exciting to see a tall Albino dude in a cowboy hat onstage with the King of the Delta Blues, McKinley Morganfield. Here’s an episode of Soundstage from back in the day. It’s really more of a Muddy set than a joint appearance but it still rocks. Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Muddy Waters and Johnny Winter Live In 1974
Mr. Peabody liked puns. So do I: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Peabody and Sherman meet Beethoven
Here’s Gabriel’s brilliant set from the final show of the Conspiracy of Hope tour at Giants Stadium in Joisey: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Peter Gabriel Live in 1986
Genuine weirdness via Josh Marshall. Dig her big hair: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Jennifer Granholm On The Dating Game
It’s great that length is no longer an issue at YouTube. That’s why today’s SMV is one of the best concert films evah; big suit and all: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Stop Making Sense
Chaplin and Hitler had more in common than a toothbrush mustache. Here’s a swell hour long documentary from the great Kevin Brownlow on that very subject: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: The Tramp and the Dictator
Here’s an hour of awesomeness featuring Todd Rundgren and Utopia live in Detroit in 1981: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Utopia Live
My friend Michael Homan likes to make a short film every summer. He has struck again. He is, in fact, a bonda fide academic bible dude so this subject is natural fodder for his quirky pastime. I’m not even embarrassed to admit that I know everyone in the flick. I should be but I’m not. Here’s Homan’s description of The Theologians: The Theologians, Drs. Michael Homan (Alpha) and Mark Gstohl (Omega), drive around New Orleans in a white Catalina verifying miracles. In this premiere episode (entitled Gumbo Madonna), the Cherub sells out some Babylonian Tiamat-worshipping Satanists for a trinity of … Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: The Theologians
Adrastos trivia time: I am obsessed with Harry Houdini, the greatest magician of all time and one of the founders of modern show biz. Here’s a clip from a documentary about spiritualism discussing Houdini’s efforts to debunk that bunkum. Why? Because it was bunk, not to be confused with Bunk Moreland: Whilst looking for a Houdini video, I learned that Aaron Sorkin is writing the book for a musical about the handcuff king due to open on Broadway next year: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Houdini and Spiritualism
One of my favorite scenes from one of my favorite films, The Maltese Falcon: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Sam Spade meets the Fat Man
Here’s an episode of the camp classic Batman teevee series with the shamelessly hammy Frank Gorshin as the Riddler: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: The Ring Of Wax
This is a very cool story from the first episode of the current season of History Detectives: Watch Frank Zappa’s Lost Collage on PBS. See more from History Detectives. Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: The Lost Zappa Collage
I considered posting this Python episode before the Wimbeldon finals last week about the fictional Scotsman who won it but didn’t want to jinx Andy Murray. He lost so here it is: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: The Blancmanges v. The Scotsmen
Here’s Clapton from a long run at the Royal Albert Hall in London during the Journeyman tour. I saw this band in NOLA and they kicked some serious ass. The opener, Pretending, is one of my favorite EC tunes: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Eric Clapton Live In 1990
I usually don’t post anything political on Sunday morning but this opening bit from Rachel Maddow on Thursday is both amusing and informative. I considered calling it Exhuming Pete Wilson but decided not to: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: The Roots of Self-deportation
I know I’m not the only person suffering from Mad Men withdrawal symptoms. Here’s a wee antidote: the cast on Inside The Actors Srudio: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: James Lipton meets Don Draper
The star of my current favorite show, Mad Men, raps to the theme music of one of my all-time favorite shows, Taxi. You haven’t lived until you hear Hamm do his Iggy impression: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Jon Hamm’s Taxi rap
Dr. A and I went to a party at a friend’s hunting and fishing camp yesterday. It’s only 50 miles from Adrastos World HQ but seems like another world to a city boy like me. It had all the comforts of home and we essentially ate all afternoon. The only way we roughed it was traveling on a gravel road. Hence, this week’s SMV: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: True Love Travels On A Gravel Road
During the filming of Let It Be, the Beatles famously had a guerilla rooftop concert; part of which was in the theatrical film release. Here’s the whole sequence including some hilarious man on the street reactions from toffs in bowlers: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Rooftop Concert- The Beatles
Vidal week continues with this 2008 British teevee show: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Gore Vidal on The South Bank Show
Here’s the complete MST3K classic with Joe Don Baker being mocked relentlessly by Joel and the bots: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Mitchell
Music geeks like me have been known to obsess out in listening to our favorite artists. Rodney Crowell provided the soundtrack for my Katrina exile and this time it was Jethro Tull. I was already in the midst of that obsession so why the hell not? Longtime reader and commenter Joejoejoe recently said that he thought that a Tull 8-track provides the soundtrack for the Crack Van. Since I missed the van and its tacky shag rug, here’s a bit of live Brickfeaturing a classic intro by Ian Anderson. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll rock: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Thick As A Brick
Freddie, Brian and the boys were one of the greatest live bands of all time. Here’s their world shaking, benefit dominating set at 1985’s Live Aid concert in its entirety: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Queen at Live Aid
Dr. Johnny Fever plays a Dr. Johh tune at the start of the episode and then gets a call from Les’s fan. Hilarity ensues: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: WKRP- Les’s Groupie