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October 2009
51 posts
You may have missed Bob Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour: Halloween episode, which originally aired three years ago, but Sirius XM are planning to rebroadcast the show early next week and there are plenty of deets on the Internet for us to enjoy in the meantime.
Here’s Bob Dylan’s Halloween playlist (via Not Dark Yet) with links to stream every song, save for two that are not online:
“Born Under A Bad Sign” - Albert King, (1967)
“Black Cat” - Tommy Collins, (1960)
“Castin’ My Spell” - Johnny Otis, (1959)
“Beware Of The Vampire” - Denzel Laing, (1978)
“I Put A Spell On You” - Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, (1956)
“Skeletons In The Closet” - Nat Gonella & His Georgians, (1937)
“Look Out, There’s A Monster” - Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, (1967)
“Hoo-Doo Say” - Sly Fox, (1954)
“Superstition” - Stevie Wonder, (1972)
“Morgus The Magnificent” - Dr. John, (1959)
“That Old Black Magic” - Louis Prima & Keely Smith, (1958)
“Mr. Ghost Goes To Town” - Zeke Manners & His Swingbillies, (1936)
“Zombie Jamboree” - The Charmer (Louis Farrakhan), (1953)
“Monster Mash” - Bobby Boris Pickett, (1962)
“Dead” - The Poets, (196?)
“Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead” - June Christy, (1960)
The Millions on the latest volume of The Paris Review Interviews: http://tinyurl.com/ylpyew6 RT @PicadorUSA
I support @AtomicIndy in Indiana’s top 50 blog contest http://bit.ly/phXD2
Font Wars! Designers imagine a better looking web http://bit.ly/CoDds via @legalnomads
Is there room for long-form narrative in our click-and-skim world? [I think so] http://bit.ly/30RvBd via @vpostrel
RT: @legalnomads Using #Flickr as a paintbrush to map the colours of geo-located pictures. Really cool. http://bit.ly/xuznr
The “Long Tail” - Boon or bane for artists, writers, creators? http://post.ly/AlN5
Brilliant! RT @kottke: Get ahead by living in the past http://bit.ly/zd6vy
Time travelers will need a bigger boat RT @Richard_Dawkins: New fossil find makes pliosaur biggest predator [ever] http://is.gd/4F2fu
For a small number of people this will be an offer of intense interest RT @kottke: Free Philip Glass mp3s http://bit.ly/dUUTA
NYT on “Electric Literature” - fiction in (nearly) all media http://post.ly/AaWj (via @MaudNewton)
The liberal arts make you very adaptable! - @sarita reports that tech mogul Caterina Fake http://bit.ly/13lR6N was an English major
“Ancient Chinese Bluegrass”? Intriguing http://bit.ly/1FmZal
Interesting post about the Prince of Wales as a gifted landscape architect http://bit.ly/12cLyX (via @twiliteprincess)
Support clever contrarian content! RT @spikedonline: we need to raise £20,000 by the end of the year http://bit.ly/sXuyP
You don’t hear about design in the healthcare debate, but the way a hospital is planned may affect the way you heal: http://bit.ly/40zRqZ
TWA’s “Rocket to the Moon” and other features of 1955’s vision of “Tomorrowland” http://bit.ly/4vmnD1 (follow @paleofuture for more)
Fascinating… the neuroscience of reading stories RT @lkblackburne: Narrative and the brain http://bit.ly/3Mq0hL
via youtube.com
A refreshing and fascinating thinker who speaks with candor and clarity. [Hat tip: Alan Charles Kors, via Facebook]