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Actor Donald Glover and Existentialism and… Chevy Chase via Anomaly TeleVision

As recently mentioned over on my personal blog (SMiles Lewis dot com – August 2020), I’ve been trying to resume posting to my various websites. This site is an amalgamation of the remains of an old project with some friends called AnomalyTv.com which became AnomalyTelevision.com …

The video below I came across back in June 2020. I’ve been a fan of Donald Glover’s since becoming aware of him through his role in the 2009 flick, Mystery Team, and his stand-up comedy show, WEIRDO. Until the release of his This is America video in 2018, I was totally unaware of his musical career as Childish Gambino.

MORE AT… Source: Actor Donald Glover and Existentialism and… Chevy Chase | Anomaly TeleVision

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AusTex Flashback: CRUST (Live) “Bumblebee” via Weird Texas

As recently mentioned over on my personal blog (SMiles Lewis dot com – August 2020), I’ve been meaning to resume posting to my remaining websites. This site is an amalgamation of the remains …

Source: AusTex Flashback: CRUST (Live) “Bumblebee” | Weird Texas

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Austin, Music, Video

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Vocal Talent Ken Nordine Passes

Ken Nordine narrated this iconic Levi Jeans television ad from the year I was born.

And here is a tour of his studio…

Farewell fond voice of generations.

– SMiles

 

ETA (Edit To Add) … WOW! Two more (and another….) iconic Levi’s commercials that I recall from my youth that undoubtedly triggered my love for animation and CGI / video effects:

 

 

 

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Random Synchronicity: Amok Elephants 1/6/2019

 

Today I was reviewing the wikipedia entries for Running Amok phenomena and had noticed it included a “see also” listing about elephants who’ve run amok, specifically one 911-named pachyderm:

Osama bin Laden, named after the infamous elusive terrorist, was a rogue bull elephant responsible for at least 27 deaths and destruction of property in the jungled Sonitpur district of the Indian state of Assam. After a two-year rampage from 2004 to 2006, an elephant was eventually shot; but some were doubtful that the right animal was killed.

Within hours, my wife randomly selects a TV series available for streaming on Amazon Prime … the Independent Television (ITV) series, Vanity Fair. As far as I know, neither of us knows anything about this series. Within a few minutes of the show, a character brings up a story of him having witnessed an elephant “running amok” in India.

Thank you Synchronicity Matrix?

 

– SMiles Lewis

 

Here we go: Vanity Fair was certainly modern. The opening credits sequence showing the lead characters spinning round on a Victorian fairground ride to the sound of the famous Jimi Hendrix anthem All Along The Watchtower was a bit of a clue

“The opening credits sequence showing the lead characters spinning round on a Victorian fairground ride to All Along The Watchtower was a bit of a clue.”

Olivia Cooke seemed destined for stardom and Vanity Fair had some modern touches, by Jim Shelley | Daily Mail Online

 

 

 

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News, SMiles, SMiles Lewis, SynchroMystic, Video

“Telepathic Lady” – song inspired by legend of Maria Orsic and Nazi UFOs

“Telepathic Lady” – song inspired by legend of Maria Orsic and Nazi UFOs

​Mike Watt talks with his guest, Daniel of Dallas band “The Fumes,” about his song “Telepathic Lady” that was inspired by the legends of Maria Orsic, the “German UFO Specialist” from World War II. Discussion begins around the 1 hour 36 minute mark within the March 27th edition of TWFPS – The Watt From Pedro Show. A great episode with a wide variety of musical soundscapes.

Here is the song, Telepathic Lady. More informational links below…

TWFPS – The Watt From Pedro Show (podcast) for MARCH 27, 2018:

LISTEN NOW / VIEW PLAYLIST / MP3

FEATURING: ON-AIR GUEST DANIEL OF NEW FUMES FROM DALLAS, TX VIA SKYPE

“spiel from watt in between tunes he plays from his and his guests’ collections”

 

Maria Orsic (Orsitsch) (@AnomalyArchives.org)

Tim Callahan says:
January 20, 2018 at 5:53 pm

“Yeah, the Haunebu is part of an elaborate mythos to some degree created by Neo-Nazi groups, such as the Tempelhoffgesellschaft (“Temple Court Society”). This involves the assertion that the original Aryans came from a planet orbiting the star Aldeberan and that they established a colony on Earth — the Sumerians — who were the ancestors of the modern Germans.

Part of this mythos involves Maria Orsitch and the Vril Society, supposedly the evil geniuses behind Hitler’s rise to power. Though Maria and the Vril Society were the creations of Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier in their 1960 book “The Morning of the Magicians,” the so-called History Channel ran a documentary about the centrality of the Vril Society and their influence of Heinrich Himmler.

In point of fact, the only historical basis for the Vril Society was a passing reference in a 1949 article by Willy Ley titled “Pseudoscience in Naziland”, to a society in pre-WW II Germany that was searching for vril (a supposed source of great psychic power invented by Bulwer Lytton in his novel “The Coming Race”). Maria Orsitch (also spelled Orsic) seems to have been invented out of whole cloth by Pauwels and Bergier.”

 

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Saw José González and Bedouine at the Long Center last night

Saw José González and Bedouine at the Long Center last night!

Bedouine was great! Hadn’t heard her before…

José G is a fantastic acoustic guitar player… He didn’t say much between songs but acknowledged “Doomsday people cults” as inspiration for one of his songs. He played some great tunes and closed out his encore with Teardrop.

“Where José’s previous albums, “Veneer” and “In Our Nature,” might have sounded sparse and barren in parts, “Vestiges & Claws” has an altogether new feeling to it, at once warmer and darker than before. He talks about how he’s found inspiration in sprawling ’70s Brazilian productions, American folk rock and West African desert blues this time. And how he’s decided to waive the principle of having everything on the album reproducible in a live context.

Bedouine | The Long Center for the Performing ArtsOpening for José González is the Syrian musician Bedouine, touring to promote the release of her eponymous debut—sixties folk meets seventies country-funk with a glimmer of bossa nova cool. Sweeping and hypnotic with a nomadic heart, the music of L.A.-based Bedouine is impressionistic, with careful words and striking, cultural conviction.”

The Long Center and KUTX present José González plus Bedouine, Saturday, February 3 in Dell Hall. Read More ›

Source: José González – Long Center

 

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Need-A-Mashup: Cass McCombs’ Bum Bum Bum / The Cars’ Drive

There is a tiny part of this song that always reminds me of the The Cars’ song, Drive.

Cass McCombs – Bum Bum Bum

 

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UFOs: Reframing the Debate

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UFOs: Reframing the Debate – Edited by Robbie Graham

Available in Paperback & eBook Formats from White Crow Books

Featuring Over a Dozen Contributors including…

 

UFOs: Reframing The Debate Book Trailer

 

 

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This is indeed a disturbing universe

This is indeed a disturbing universe

Written by SMiles Lewis

on June 18, 2015

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TelePresence Doorways

TelePresence Doorways

Interactive Telepresence Advertising…
I’m not actually 100% sure of the “telepresence” factor but some of these are definitely interactive and “live.”
In Paris have doors to other European cities

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz8L4MJMXgQ

Which reminds me of these bus stop ad campaigns…


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go9rf9GmYpM

… or this …


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko5gceVuxA8

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Zombiethon 2014

Zombiethon 2014

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Watched before our arrival:

  • Space Dandy (Anime series – Zombie episode)
  • Army of Darkness

Friday Night:

  • King of the Zombies
  • Space Dandy (Anime series – Zombie episode)
  • Night of the Living … RiffTrax

Saturday:

  • Swamp of the Ravens … RiffTrax (was on as I woke – only saw brief part)
  • Nightmare city
  • Evil Dead 2
  • Cemetery Man
  • Dawn of the Dead
  • Sugar Hill
  • Rec
  • Let sleeping corpses lie
  • Return of the living dead

Sunday:

  • Day of the dead (was on as I woke – only saw last third but have seen it a million times)

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Scary Western Woman

This image was one of many in the weird Wild West themed living room Casa Rio de Colores where friends recently held two beautiful marriage ceremonies. Practically every inch of wall space was covered with kitchy and cool weird imagery and psychedelic Americana.

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I highly recommend the venue:

http://www.casariodecolores.com

Here are some videos of the amazing twinkling “lights” (actually hanging reflectors) on all the trees…

 

And here is a selfie from that evening.

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