MA-133 - It Erupted from the 1980s

More experimental, temperamental 1980s music.  Some New Wave, some punkish, some … well, you decide:

01 - New Wave Robot - The Wives - 1980   (3:14)

02 - New LP - Chuck Clearwater - 1983   (1:43)

03 - I'm Tired - M n' Ms - 1983   (1:52)

04 - Just Friends - Dogmatic Element - 1982   (3:01)

05 - Naked Kiss - F-Systems - 1980   (3:49)

06 - You Can't Do That - Tahnee Cain and Tryanglz - 1984   (3:22)

07 - Easy Way Out - Single Mary - 1987   (2:11)

08 - 80 MPH - KAO4S - 1980   (2:48)

09 - Everything I Say Is a Lie - Bone Symphony - 1983   (3:54)

10 - I Don't Wanna Cry - The Keys - 1981   (2:48)

11 - Watching Their Eyes - Kissing the Pink - 1982   (3:13)

12 - Weekend Love - The Stripes - 1980   (2:11)

13 - (I'm Gonna) Punch You (in the Face) - The Child Molesters - 1989   (1:59)

14 - Promises (She Isn't in Love) - The Uptights - 1981   (2:19)

15 - Special to You - Noël and the Red Wedge - 1982   (3:18)

16 - 1984 - Desperate Measures - 1982   (2:51)

17 - It Shows in Your Face - The Gas - 1981   (2:36)

18 - Blind Man's Bluff - Eve Moon - 1981   (3:14)

19 - Running in the Shadows - Neo Boy - 1980   (2:46)

20 - Runaway - The Passions - 1981   (3:00)

21 - I Don't Dream Anymore - Perfect Zebras - 1982   (4:14)

22 - Anything Real - Beyond Words - 1984   (4:31)

23 - Crash into the Heaven's Door - Bluttat - 1986   (2:50)

24 - Romantic - The Employees - 1982   (3:22)

25 - Only the Stones Remain - The Soft Boys - 1981   (3:05)

26 - Synthetic World - The Twins - 1981   (4:16)

Gotta have that "New LP," even if I'm a "New Wave Robot"!  Don't tell me we're "Just Friends" -- "You Can't Do That" to me!  I want to be "Special to You," but "Everything I Say Is a Lie."  I know you're confused, "It Shows in Your Face."  "I Don't Dream Anymore," I want "Anything Real."

https://www.filefactory.com/file/6prmiy1emyya/MA-133.rar
You may always tell me your opinion of the assemblage.  See you on Monday!
 

Welcome to the Musical Month of May! with MA-146 - One Word 80s Too

This hyar compilation is a sequel of sorts to One Word 80s, shared on January 21st of this year.

Each song, besides being a boffo embodiment of the silliness, seriousness, innovation, and formulae of the 80s music scene, is also distinguished by having a one-word title.

01 - Popstar - Afraid of Mice - 1981  (2:31)

02 - Paradise - Sophie and Peter Johnston - 1983  (3:52)

03 - Alive - Sandii and the Sunsetz - 1981  (4:29)

04 - Meaningless - Gary Myrick & the Figures - 1980  (3:07)

05 - Shuffle - Fictions - 1980  (2:42)

06 - Fool - The Tearjerkers - 1982  (3:07)

07 - Savage - The Nuns - 1981  (2:16)

08 - Vertigo - Standing Waves - 1981  (3:56)

09 - Photoplay - Tahnee Cain and Tryanglz - 1984  (3:31)

10 - Media - The Verdix - 1981  (3:02)

11 - Warm - Family Fodder - 1980  (3:46)

12 - Subliminal - Drinking Electricity - 1981  (4:07)

13 - Time - Pauline Murray - 1989  (4:38)

14 - Unwind - UK Decay - 1981  (3:27)

15 - Darkness - This Eternal Waiting - 1987  (4:10)

16 - Opposite - Chandra - 1980  (3:51)

17 - Prams - Vital Disorders - 1981  (2:16)

18 - Danceability - National Euphoria - 1983  (2:53)

19 - Shame - Trigger and the Thrill Kings - 1984  (4:09)

20 - Fire - Occult Chemistry - 1980  (2:09)

21 - BOYS - Unit 3 with Venus - 1981  (2:25)

22 - Monotone - Les Anglaises - 1985  (3:15)

23 - Video - Jeff Lynne - 1984  (3:24)

So, get to it, friends!  Listen and marvel … or laugh … or sigh ...

https://www.filefactory.com/file/pg8hkhoj4ie/MA-146.rar

See you once more this Thursday with a new comp!

  

Plastino Plagiarizes Personally Proprietary Poses

            The legendary Superman artist Al Plastino (1921-2013) worked for DC Comics from 1948 until the 1970s, even contributing to the 1996 Superman’s Wedding Album.  He drew Supergirl’s origin story in Action #252.

            His style is distinctive, but more “cartoony” Curt Swan or Wayne Boring.

            Our topic today is Plastino’s penchant for self-plagiarization.  You see, he liked to repeat himself.



            Take for instance, two issues of Action Comics.

            Action #306 is cover-dated November, 1963.  While this fine cover art is by Curt Swan, the story inside is drawn by Al Plastino.

          Action #340, cover-dated August, 1966, introduced DC villain, the Parasite.   This time the cover art is by Plastino.



            For my argument, I’ll let the graphics do the convincing.

            Above:  From “The Great Superman Impersonation!” page 3, panel 4.

            Above:  From “Power of the Parasite!” page 12, panel 3.



            Another pair of images:

            “The Great Superman Impersonation!” page 3, panel 5.

            “Power of the Parasite!” page 14, panel 2.

            Let’s rotate the image for extra sarcasm:

            Pair number three:

            “The Great Superman Impersonation!” page 11, panel 3.

            “Power of the Parasite!” page 9, panel 1.

            Your honors, I rest my case.  Mr Plastino retraced his own art sometimes.  A crime?  No.  Something funny to notice?  Heck yeah!

            And this wraps up April Foolishness – 2019 Edition, campers.  Thanks for stopping by.  Please come back on Monday, May 6, for the beginning of the musical Month of May, which will feature a new music compilation every Monday and Thursday!
  

More Adventures in Proofreading

            As a nitpicker from way back, I can’t help but notice typos or misspellings which have slipped past human or computronic watchers.

            The above is from the May 27, 1973 New York Times.  Some might call it Freudian to misspell “movement” as “movemeat.”

            This misspelling is not evident in the original article’s headline.  It’s only “entertianment” online.

           Speaking of lines (on and head), the wizardly Cal Thomas misstepped in October, 2018.  Although boats or other things may be towed with a line (rope), the phrase is figuratively referring to a footrace.  When the contestants are getting ready to run, they line their feet up at the starting line.  Everybody toes the line.

            In the 2014 book Marketing the Moon, we have the deplorable confusion of “pour” and “pore.”  You POUR (decant) a glass of water.  You PORE over (study or intensely scrutinize) something important.



            The last example is a case of “headline blindness.”  It’s not uncommon to notice a howler of a typo or misspelling in a headline.  You wonder, “How in the WORLD did somebody miss that?”  I think there’s some kind of switch in the proofreading mind which isn’t tripped when the font is big enough.

             Yes, in this frame-up of the ne’er-do-well James Ray, James Johnson wasn’t referring to NBA basketball player Nick Collison or to NBA basketball player Darren Collison.  Nope, it’s just a boneheaded misspelling of “collision.”

            As you can see from this screen caption from January 2019, typos never end!



            Feel free to parse the Super Blog for misspellings I may have made, until next Monday, our next installment in April Foolishness – 2019 Edition!
 

Acrostics, Dune, and Stranger in a Strange Land

            My college years were like most peoples’ in many ways.  I entered brief, intense friendships which now have cooled; I skipped a lot of sleep; I discovered friends who still influence my life today; I met my life’s mate.

            A less-common circumstance involves my roommate, Curt Gebert.  I’ll always be thankful for that farm kid’s accepting frinedship for this long-haired, introverted loudmouth.

             I took this Polaroid snapshot on the afternoon of Sunday, August 24, 1975, in the room I shared with Curt.  Left-to-right are Curt, his wife-to-be Sherri Vasey, and OCU law student Ray McMahon.

            By the Spring semester of 1976, Sherri was falling behind on some schoolwork.  And so it happened that I perpetrated my only act of scholarly fraud:

            I wrote a paper for Sherri, about the concepts of water and religion in Dune and Stranger in a Strange Land.

            These are the paperback editions we read at the time, the mid-1970s.

            And here is the scandalous script.

At least Sherri got Honors Credit for it!

            You may ask, “Why is this worthy of an APRIL FOOLISHNESS mention?”

            Because as a bit of fun, I wrote the thing so that the first letters of each sentence spelled out something wonderful.

           That’s right, just for fun I made the first letters spell M-A-R-K  A-N-D  J-O-Y-C-E.

           And now you know the rest of the story.

            See you next Monday for more April Foolishness!