December 21, 1997

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year to one and all!! This cyber-greeting is designed to save trees, money, and back strain for your poor neighborhood letter carrier.

Here are some favorites encountered in 1997 (even they were created before then).

Aaron Caplan


MOVIES

Fast, Cheap and Out of Control

Lions, shrubbery, robots and hairless tunnel-dwelling rats teach us the meaning of life.
***DOUBLE YOUR MONEY BACK IF NOT SATISFIED***

City of Lost Children

Sweet, scary, and gorgeous all at once.

East Side Story

Singin' in the Wheat...the history of the Soviet bloc movie musicals.

Once Upon a Time in America (European version)

Jewish gangsters making money in speakeasies and spending it in opium dens. New York never looked better, maybe because it was filmed in Montreal.

Suture

The only plastic surgery identity swap movie you'll ever need, plus Tom Jones sings Johnny Cash on the soundtrack.


MUSIC

Various Artists: Planet Squeezebox

Three discs worth of accordions, concertinas, bandoneons, and musettes. It's not just for zydeco anymore!

Manfred Hubler and Siegfried Schwab: Sountrack to Vampyros Lesbos

From the press release: "Do not attempt to make any sense, meaning, or reason of this until the day-glo colors fade and the intoxicating haze clears from your headspace, brother."

Shooglenifty: Venus in Tweeds

Intricate, circular Scottish trances, with electric balalaikas instead of bagpipes.

The Prisonaires: Just Walkin' in the Rain

Recorded at Sun Studios while on furlough from the Tennessee State Penitentiary.

The Delcos: "Arabia" (available on Rhino's Doo Wop Box II)

Hoop, she-doop, hamma hamma bay bay.


HONORABLE MENTION

WFMU Catalogue of Curiosities

Home of the Shemp Meditation Tape, plus a whole lot more. See www.wfmu.org


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