No way, seriously?
What's the most implausible but true story about you?
What's the most implausible but true story about you?
AskMe recommends movies, books and places that are bad, weird, or fun: Most obscure bad movies?
Tragic sad-ending movies, that you would willingly watch again?
Truly singular unique movies and tv shows?
Weirdest book in the history of English?
Places with unique events, festivals, attractions?
Normally-bustling places that have predictable moments when they're totally deserted?
Two more weeks left in this month's theme posting event, KeepMefiWeird!
Enjoy all the great weird posts so far, and break out your best obscure weird stuff for a post this month.
A polyphony of music past recently in the blue:
11+ documentaries on the history of electronic music; Larry Chung talks about and plays a 1934 Gibson L-5; A three-hour mixtape of Goth history, nearly 50 tracks of early-to-mid eighties Goth classics; Pitchfork's 200 Best Songs of the 1980s; Anton Karas plays the Theme from the Third Man, on zither; Using Spotify plays to quantify how old music has stood the test-of-time; "massive chords of intemperate savagery" – the strange story of Jón Leifs' Organ Concerto; great highlights from This is Tom Jones, a variety show that ran from 1969-1971; "Old Weird America", you say? I got some right here for ya
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