Tag: American television series
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Acid Sesame
Sesame Street was always a little surreal and psychedelic early on, but did Sesame Street have a tripped out LSD for kids episode in 1969? Reason I ask is I’ve just found in the first series they covered The Beatles ‘Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds’ which despite the band’s protestations is definitely lysergic. According…
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Happy Birthday Sesame Street!
50 years ago today a kid’s program debuted in the United States which was to change the lives of millions of children worldwide – Sesame Street. A mix of muppets and modern educational psychology, the idea was to reach urban kids and those who weren’t getting good early schooling with basic lessons to give them…
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There’s No Vibration But Wait; or how I got into psychedelic music
Strange how conversations go, a discussion about early DJ Fresh (my how he’s changed, from breakbeat drum and bass to aping like the Cataracts or LMFAO?) to Aphrodite with Shiggi which then lead me to ‘Aphrodite, in her see through nightie…‘ which as well as probably being a Pete Seeger lift, is by the Edgar…
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Darth Vader in a kilt on a unicycle – isn’t that normal?
Welcome to the real Portlandia…another random WTF video, then again I hope it balances out recent more disturbing yet important posts…
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Rave Wars II: The Hardcore Strikes Back
I was going to post that you needed to get your skates on to get one of 500 Balkan Vinyl’s ‘Rave Wars II’ 7″s with Mark Archer (of Altern-8 fame) and HrdVision doing acid/rave Star Wars related tracks – but just checked and it’s already sold out. You snooze you lose I guess although I…