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  • georgy // November 6, 2006 at 6:35 pm | Reply

    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

  • jahsonic // November 6, 2006 at 7:13 pm | Reply

    Hi Georgy,

    Thanks for the ultranice compliments. Your movie does not ring a bell, but I am sure someone here will know sometime. 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:

    There is an Italian movie in which the characters go to a cinema to see a western movie and one of the cowboys shoots a member of the audience, leaving a little hole in the screen. Can anyone remember the name of this movie?

  • Flickhead // December 25, 2006 at 2:09 pm | Reply

    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

  • Scof // January 14, 2007 at 1:33 am | Reply

    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!

  • jahsonic // January 14, 2007 at 8:30 am | Reply

    Scof,

    Glad you liked it. For a more encyclopedic version of the same, check here.

    Jan

  • redneckarts // January 15, 2007 at 1:45 pm | Reply

    What a lovely lot of work you’ve done here. Thank you.

  • jahsonic // January 15, 2007 at 5:51 pm | Reply

    Redneckarts,

    Thanks, I have a question for you, is this a painting or photo?

    Jan

  • Garrett // January 28, 2007 at 12:16 pm | Reply

    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

  • jahsonic // January 28, 2007 at 3:18 pm | Reply

    Garrett,

    Check the comments on my Twelve West page or try contacting the peeps at DJhistory.com.

    Jan

  • Roger Allen // February 13, 2007 at 5:34 pm | Reply

    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

  • jahsonic // February 14, 2007 at 6:11 pm | Reply

    Thanks Roger, I’ve put the Themerson/Rumney post on the semantics page over at Jahsonic.com

    Yours
    Jan

  • Sheakespare // June 1, 2007 at 5:58 pm | Reply

    From your Introduction page : “It is hard to define a site like Jahsonic.com, but if anything, it is a testament to the value of serendipity (wich means finding something unexpected and useful while searching for something else entirely).”

    Something unexpected I did find, useful ‘t was not.

    http://www.jahsonic.com/ShitRock.jpg

    Alas, what has become of true culture ?

  • Stephen J. Gertz // September 8, 2007 at 1:50 am | Reply

    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

  • jahsonic // September 8, 2007 at 9:54 am | Reply

    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

  • dancefloor_syndroma // December 25, 2007 at 11:53 pm | Reply

    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

  • jahsonic // December 26, 2007 at 8:25 am | Reply

    Dear Syndroma,

    Sadly I do not own a copy of that track.

    Good luck in finding it.

    Jan

  • antibothis // January 13, 2008 at 10:54 pm | Reply

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    best
    fernando
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  • jahsonic // January 14, 2008 at 8:54 pm | Reply

    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

  • bert.beyens // April 24, 2008 at 11:39 pm | Reply

    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

  • jahsonic // April 25, 2008 at 2:47 pm | Reply

    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

  • bert.beyens // April 25, 2008 at 11:13 pm | Reply

  • bert.beyens // April 27, 2008 at 1:04 am | Reply

    Uit 1992 dateert dit terminale video-werk dat kamera-kussen heet.

  • mark // May 25, 2009 at 7:30 pm | Reply

    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

    • jahsonic // May 26, 2009 at 8:05 am | Reply

      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

    • jim // May 26, 2009 at 10:17 pm | Reply

      mark, are you sure you’re not thinking about breakfast at tiffany’s?

  • stalkingtheprey // June 7, 2009 at 5:27 pm | Reply

    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?

  • jahsonic // June 7, 2009 at 7:12 pm | Reply

    1919

    http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:6a05628r.jpg

  • stalkingtheprey // June 7, 2009 at 10:40 pm | Reply

    thanks from boutte

  • Laurie Stieber // June 16, 2009 at 2:44 am | Reply

    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

  • Gary // June 26, 2009 at 2:19 am | Reply

    Nice work with the Art and Popular Culture site.

  • jahsonic // June 27, 2009 at 11:11 am | Reply

    Thank you.

  • jahsonic // June 27, 2009 at 11:55 am | Reply

    Laurie,

    Thanks for stopping by, welcome to the blog, and credit where credit due, always!

    Jan

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