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Hi,
I’ve been visiting jahsonic daily for a few years now and knowing your tastes and vast knowledge of film, I was wondering if you could help me find one.
(first: thanks for jahsonic, I admire this work of love)
About the movie : Robot 2000.
I saw it when a was 12 or so , in the second part of the seventies.
It was called “Robot 2000″ in the french version.
It was a SF movie where people (secrets agents ?) were fighting a kind of Bob Moranesque “Ombre Jaune” character who had an army of cyborgs he made by transforming ordinary human beings into amphibian zombies (with gills, palmed fingers and fish-like scaled skin). He would put you in a pod, submerge you in some kind of red gas and you’d ‘evolve’ in a monster.
The prospect of being put in such a pod regularly fueled my nightmares fo months after seeing this movie.
I haven’t been able to find anything remotely like that in online databases and since your tastes in film resonate pretty well with others connected movies (from Jess Franco to Tinto Brass), I thought that I could turn to you for an answer or some pointers.
Does it ring a bell ?
Thanks in advance.
Georgy
Hi Georgy,
Thanks for the compliments. Your movie does not ring a bell, but I am sure someone here will know. I have similar mystery movie, and the stupidest thing is that I found the title of it a couple of years ago but re-forgot it. Here is my description:
Update Feb. 2013: the film is called Circuito chiuso. –Jahsonic
Jahsonic,
I enjoy your work.
If you’ve any desire to write a piece for http://www.flickhead.com , please e-mail me.
Best regards,
Ray
flickhead @ comcast dot net
Came looking for some stuff about the Arcades project, enjoyed the postmodernism category very much, lots of things to explore, tangents to synthesize. good job!
Scof,
Glad you liked it. For a more encyclopedic version of the same, check here.
Jan
What a lovely lot of work you’ve done here. Thank you.
Redneckarts,
Thanks, I have a question for you, is this a painting or photo?
Jan
I read about Alan Dodd, DJ at 12 West, here. I was a good acquaintence of his and his brother was my roommate. I was wondering if you have any idea whatever happened to him? I was an avid goer back in the day.
Garrett
Garrett,
Check the comments on my Twelve West page or try contacting the peeps at DJhistory.com.
Jan
Came across your references to Stefan Themerson and Ralph Rumney. St and his wife Franciszka were both very interesting people http://www.themersonarchive.com/ has alot of info on them. Some of his writins have bee n reprinted by Dalkey Archive Press and in very small editions by Obscure Publications http://odin.indstate.edu/about/units/rbsc/obscure/obscure.html
Thanks Roger, I’ve put the Themerson/Rumney post on the semantics page over at Jahsonic.com
Yours
Jan
Hello:
A friend recently contacted me to tell that I had arrrived: An entry in Wikipedia under my name! Got a nice little charge out of it, which immediately turned to horror as the entire entry is a snippet about notorious pornographer Sam Roth from a piece I contributed to Sin-A-Rama (Feral House, 2005).
While I am appreciative for the nod, there is only one person on the face of the earth who should be referenced on anything concerning Sam Roth, and that is my good friend and colleague, Jay A. Gertzman (no relation; just bizarre coincidence), who also contributed to Sin-A-Rama.
Jay is the go-to guy on Roth, having written extensively about him in his excellent book, Booklegers and Smuthounds:The Trade in Erotica 1920-1940 (U. of Pennsylvania, 1999). Jay is now writing what will be the definitive biography of Roth, having recently gained the Roth family’s complete cooperation.
As it is my understanding that you (who are doing good work, by the way), are responsible for this miscarriage of scholastic justice, would you please be kind enough to correct this?
I will be pleased to be included in Wikipedia but only for, what I consider, a legitimate reason. One reason will be for my forthcoming book, DOPE MENACE, a social, cultural and bibliographical study of drug-themed paperbacks 1900-1975 (Feral House, Fall 2008), featuring over 250 full color reproductions of cover art during the period under review, many of which have only been seen by a handful of people. It will be the definitive book on the subject. I’m quite proud of it, and when the time comes will appreciate any notice of it you can provide.
But, please, I am really embarrassed by and concerned about the present entry in Wiki. People may gain the impression that I know more about Roth than I actually do.
Thank you for your attention to this matter, and any attention you may throw my way about subjects/people that I truly have devoted deep study to.
In the interim, keep up the good work.
Kind regards, Steve
Dear Stephen,
Please to meet you. My sincerest apologies. As much I want Artandpopularculture.com to be the Nobrow culture wiki, at this stage in its development it is still also a note-taking platform (and an excellent one at that).
Thanks very much for your contributions. Your newest entry reads thus. I have included the Dope Menace reference and I have incorporated the rest of your remarks in related pages.
Yours
Jan Geerinck
Hi Jahsonic
Unfortunately, this is the only way to contact you (unless I’ve overseen an e-mail indication).
On your site http://www.geocities.com/jahsonic/1999.html , you list the following:
6. BLACK & WHITE BROS – EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE A DJ – DMB RECORDS
I’ve been looking for this for years now without any luck so I’m wondering whether you would sell me your copy or be so kind and make me an mp3 out of it (as this Basement Planet / DMB Records release is not available anywhere). You would make me such a big pleasure!
Thank you much for getting back to me & peace,
dfs
Dear Syndroma,
Sadly I do not own a copy of that track.
Good luck in finding it.
Jan
hi Jahsonic
i hope you find this interesting.
best
fernando
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Thanks for bringing this to my attention. Your publications have been added to
http://www.artandpopularculture.com/Antibothis
Feel free to further edit but do not include too many external links.
Thanks
Jan
Beste Jahsonic,
In Antwerpen loopt tot 15 juni een tentoonstelling over Jan Cox in het Museum op het zuid, KMSKA.
Over deze schilder maakten Pierre De Clercq en ik 20 jaar geleden de film Jan Cox A Painter’s Odyssey.
Deze film wordt tijdens de tentoonstelling elke zondag om drie uur vertoond in het Auditorium van het museum.
De film is ook op DVD verkrijgbaar in een heel mooie uitgave en wordt verkocht in de museumshop en via de website van de film: http://www.jancox.be
Via die website heb je ook tal van links in verband met de tentoonstelling.
Vriendelijke groet,
Bert Beyens
Een collega maakte me attent op het werk van Cox. En ik heb vervolgens ook jouw docu gevonden maar jammer genoeg niks op Youtube, ja, van de gelijknamige filosoof ja.
Ik woon naast het museum, doe mijn best om er te geraken, een bipolaire kunstenaar die zelfmoord pleegde weet me bijna altijd te boeien.
J
Uit 1992 dateert dit terminale video-werk dat kamera-kussen heet.
Hello,
I am searching for a movie which i watched back in the 60′s and have been dreaming of it and thinking about it over my developing years wondering if it is a dream or was it real.
The facts: I saw it on T.V. It was color. I don’t know the actor’s names only that they left an impression of Natalie Wood and Alan Arkin respectively. I have looked at what I believe to be all of Miss Woods movies and Mr. Arkins Movies and have not found anything remote to this movie I am talking about. The premise of the movie was a young man (Arkin) caught in the corporate world meets a young woman (Wood) supplanted in the subculture. She lives in a very cool pad that transcends the city and modern day living. She is not a hippy so much as a care free spirit who likes to help people live in the NOW.
The young man is skeptical but finds that the young lady has some value to what she says but more importantly lives it. One iconic scene is the young lady tells the young man that he must take off his wrist watch and get rid of it. If she is going to work with him he must not rely on time. He ends up falling in love with her and she stated that she is not about falling in love but helping others. He can’t understand this and continues to pursue love and not happiness.
Obviously the move follows the basic three acts of script writing so the movie has no twists that I can remember.
This is the bulk of what I can recall. I know it is a needle in the hay stack scenario but I was hoping you could lead me on a path.
Thank you,
MARK
Hi there Mark,
Does not ring a bell, but I loved the story! Patience, my dear friend, you will find your mystery movie one day, perhaps with the help of this blog.
Jan
mark, are you sure you’re not thinking about breakfast at tiffany’s?
At the top of the page is a panorama of New Orleans, I’m guessing circa 1935 or so. Any idea of the exact year?
1919
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:6a05628r.jpg
thanks from boutte
Thank you for your acknowledgment of HER PRIVATE DEVIL. The excerpt from the memoir that was published in “New York Magazine” was awarded notable mention, along with Arthur Miller and Norman Mailer, among others, in the 2000 edition of the annual series THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS. Please note, however, that it was an excerpt from a 230+ page manuscript of my memoir, HER PRIVATE DEVIL, which has been revised and is available for publication. Jerzy and I had an intimate relationship and later, a very close friendship prior to his tragic, untimely death by suicide.
I enjoy reading your posts.
All the best,
Laurie Stieber
Author of HER PRIVATE DEVIL
Member of The Dramatists Guild of America
Nice work with the Art and Popular Culture site.
Thank you.
Laurie,
Thanks for stopping by, welcome to the blog, and credit where credit due, always!
Jan
Hello There,
Did you per chance ever find the name of the Italian movie with the cowboy that shoots the audience? I’m looking for the origin of this scene or perhaps a similar scene from another work. Apparently, the scene shows the film being played back, and each time someone else gets shot, even a policeman who knows the shot is coming (and the on-screen cowboy adjusts his aim). Any help solving this mystery would be great.
Thanks,
Lou
Not as of yet, I’ll keep you posted when I find out. I’ve posted an article at my tumblr http://jahsonic.tumblr.com/post/971999210/mystery-film-question-there-is-an-italian-film
I was wondering if you have the text to the Woebot article on jazz, which you mentioned in your post, “Farewell Woebot 2003-2008)”. I can’t seem to find it anywhere online.. much appreciated!!