For an added sensory overload experience, watch the videos of some of these, like "Shakin'," "Words," or "Sledge Hammer."
See you Thursday, my compadre compilers!
Listen to these fab songs while playing mental hopscotch. Learn new ways to be wicked, while running in place and waiting out the Eighties.
How can I share my joy at listening to a wide variety of music? I guess by passing some of it along. You won’t find a theme otherwise.
01 - 45 Single - Suburban Reptiles - 1978 (1:48)
02 - Private Eye - Buddy Wilkins - 1960 (2:23)
03 - TH Queen (live) - Destroy All Monsters - 1995 (3:06)
04 - Echo Beach - Martha & the Muffins - 1979 (3:33)
05 - Floating Dream - Peanut Butter Conspiracy - 1967 (2:09)
06 - The Fool on the Hill (Major/Minor Swap) - The Beatles - The Evolution Control Committee - 1994 (2:58)
07 - LA Sleaze - CPC Gangbangs - 2008 (1:48)
08 - It Hurts to Be Sixteen - Andrea Carroll - 1963 (2:05)
09 - Ghost Rider - Suicide - 1976 (2:30)
10 - Back of My Hand - The Jags - 1979 (3:20)
11 - Do You Dream in Color? - Living Links - 1990 (3:34)
12 - Behind Those Eyes - The Diodes - 1977 (2:31)
13 - Nursery Rock - Judy & Joyce - 1958 (1:58)
14 - Television Addict - The Victims - 1979 (2:57)
15 - Disco Biscuit - Lung Leg - 1997 (2:17)
16 - She Got a Nose Job - The Dellwoods - 1962 (2:16)
17 - Fragile Beings - X-Teens - 1980 (2:13)
18 - Pop Star - Swoons - 1994 (2:13)
19 - Bloody Ice Cream - Bikini Kill - 1996 (1:21)
20 - What the World Needs Now Is Love - The Staple Singers - 1968 (2:44)
21 - Age of Corruption - Alan Klein - 1965 (3:31)
22 - Shot by Both Sides - Magazine - 1978 (4:03)
23 - Danger Signs - Penetration - 1979 (2:27)
24 - Magic Colors - Lesley Gore - 1967 (2:29)
25 - Don't Wake Me Up - Midnite Snaxxx - 2015 (1:32)
26 - Three Stars - Tommy Dee with Carol Kay and the Teen-Aires - 1959 (3:11)
27 - Love from Abbey Road - The Beatles - Sacred Cowboy - 2011 (7:34)
28 - Get Off the Radio - The Sharks - 1980 (2:57)
I’ve read a dozen or so books by Kevin J Anderson. I lo-oo-ove his Dan Shamble books. The only one of his many tie-ins I’ve read was his take on Superman’s origins, which did not impress me as to being sanguine with the “true” roots of Superman. Review here.
When we hosted Anderson in 2019 for SoonerCon 28, he was very friendly, witty, and insightful in person. I bought ALL of the Shamble books from him, and he signed each one.
And, I’m an original Kolchak Kid, having watched Darren McGavin as Carl Kolchak in 1972’s The Night Stalker and 1973’s The Night Strangler on ABC’s Movie of the Week. So when Anderson plugged this comics hardback, I immediately ordered.
Came to find out there is one comic-book tale of Kolchak and Dan Shamble in a crossover tale, several alternate covers, and two text pieces.
I am NOT disappointed with the art or storytelling. But the editing-proofreading of this project is VERY disappointing.
The first tale is the Kolchak-Shamble crossover comic story,
titled “Unnaturally Normal.” It’s a lot
of fun, although the basic plot and most of the characters are transferred from
a nearly identically plotted tale, “Wishful Thinking,” in Anderson’s 2018
collection of Shamble shorts, Services Rendered.
Read Shamble’s speech balloons circled here. Somebody repeated the same words in BOTH balloons. It’s a sure bet that in the script for this page, Shamble IS NOT saying the same thing twice!
The first text piece, featuring Kolchak, is called “On the Wrong Bigfoot,” written by Richard Dean Starr and Matthew Baugh. Everything seems OK with it. It’s a fun first-person piece in which our favorite reporter and the long-suffering Tony Vincenzo have some interesting encounters with several aspects of conspiracy culture.
The second text piece, called “Digital van Helsing – The
Fate Worse than Death,” is by Anderson and Guy Anthony De Marco. Like the other tales, it is fun to read. BUT … the presentation is amateurishly inept!
In several places we have what looks to be a rewording which
includes TWO word choices. The one above
can’t decide what to do concerning breakfast— to “think about” breakfast, or
“contemplate” it, so we got BOTH!
This happens ALL OVER this last story.
Don’t you HATE it with the medium ruins the message? Ta-ta, see you on Thursday.