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  • For $4,000, This Hilux Is Just Supra, Thanks For Asking


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    Just so there’s no confusion, today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Hilux is a pickup that’s white over black, while a Hydrox is a cream-filled cookie that’s black over white. See the difference? Read more...        
    4 days ago

  • Larry Mac, Jahmai, Ani, + Ridim live; Bay Area Reggae Musicians Special, May 19th 1980 Midnight Dread #20 -complete show-


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    Nor Cal legends Ridim play three live tracks from The Catalyst & Keystone Berkeley in MD #20 Parts 1 & 2. Two of Ridim’s principals, yardies Larry MacDonald & Jahmai, speak along with Virgin Islander Ani on the history of roots reggae & Jamaican musicians living in the San Francisco Bay Area in the ...
    5 days ago

  • Throbbing Gristle | Hot On The Heels Of Love


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    Throbbing Gristle | Hot On The Heels Of Love
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  • Illustration by Todd Schorr, 1979 (by MewDeep)


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    Illustration by Todd Schorr, 1979 (by MewDeep )
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  • Here is a 1979 Tom Waits Special from Austrian TV


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    [via Open Culture] This was shot on April 19, 1979 by filmmakers Rudi Dolezal and Hannes Rossacher for Austrian TV. According to Rossacher, Waits didn’t want to do an interview but did want to tell stories which turns out to be even better than an interview. The post Here is a 1979 Tom Waits Special from Austrian ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Christian Caryl: 1979 and the Birth of the Chinese Economic Miracle


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    Christian Caryl, the editor of Democracy Lab, is a senior fellow at the Legatum Institute and a contributing editor at Foreign Policy . He is also the author of a new book, Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century , to be published in May. It is inevitable, perhaps, that we tend to focus on ...
    2 weeks ago

  • 1979: Rahim Ali Khorram and Habib Elghanian, millionaire businessmen


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    Iranian Revolution firing squads claimed seven lives on this date in 1979, including two multimillionaire businessmen. One of the businessmen was Rahim Ali Khorram , “an immensely rich contractor who built roads and airports for the government, and sometimes used his 2,000-man work force as a political shock force ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Readers Diary #999- Douglas Adams: The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy


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    A roommate from my university days was obsessed with Douglas Adamss Hitch-Hiker series. Of course, and though I didnt realize it at the time, that roommate was one of millions of Hitch-hikers fanatics. In the sci-fi world it seems to rank up there with Star Trek and Dr. Who . So, I finally had to see for myself ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Stephen reviews: Galaxy Express 999 (1979)


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    Galaxy Express 999 [銀河鉄道９９９ Ginga Tetsudo 999] (1979) AKA Bonjour Galaxy Express 999 Starring Masako Nozawa, Masako Ikeda, Hidekatsu Shibata, Kaneta Kimotsuki, Youko Asagami, Kei Tomiyama, Makio Inoue, Reiko Tajima Directed by Rintaro Say, did you know there was anime before 1980? It’s true. ...
    2 weeks ago

  • 1979: Twenty-one by revolutionary courts of the Iranian Revolution


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    At 5 a.m. today, 21 people were shot in Tehran by sentence of the previous day’s revolutionary court — the largest mass-execution since the Iranian Revolution three months prior. “Revolutionary courts consolidate the gains of the revolution,” exulted an official newspaper . While the bulk of this morning’s ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Model Kits of the Week: VINCent and Maximillian from The Black Hole (1979; MPC)


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    [IMG: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KqvOL8DjpOU/UYJ8MeF5GoI/AAAAAAAAdfI/CjzU3coN1H0/s640/max1.jpg][IMG: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SogsYp2fcvg/UYJ8MX0rSeI/AAAAAAAAdfE/9iwyj2jW4Uw/s640/max2.jpg]
    2 weeks ago

  • Margaret Thatcher Will Not Be Airbrushed, Says Republican Senator


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    Billy Bragg, post-punk troubadour of protest songs and paeans to the working class, took to the stage at Town Hall last week and, almost instantly, danced on Margaret Thatchers grave. An audience filled largely with Americans who never voted for Margaret Thatcher, who served as prime minister of Britain from 1979 to ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Before & After: Album Art 7


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    Before - Andy Warhols Exposures (1979/1980) After - The Psychedelic Furs Talk Talk Talk (1981)
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  • Prince of Dub Augustus Pablo Tribute with Lance Linares on 5/5/80 Midnight Dread #18


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    It’s Sunday Midnight & time to become dreader than dread with a crucial overview of The Dub Organizer Horace Swaby aka Augustus Pablo. Joining Doug Wendt this week is Lance Linares, Pablo devotee & reggae radio pioneer who hosted his Friday night very popular prime time “Roots Rock Reggae” Pataphysical ...
    2 weeks ago

  • This House, or when whips served the Party


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    I went to see “This House” earlier today. It’s the story of the Labour Whips who kept the Wilson and Callaghan government in power for 4½ years, without a majority for much of the time, from 1974 to 1979. It brought back many memories as I had joined the Labour Party in 74 and of course much of my politics ...
    2 weeks ago

  • I cant remember my childrens names, but I can remember the starting lineup of the 1979 Cleveland Indians


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    Look, I have no idea why  it is I know this, I just do: Exactly 26 years ago today, on May 2, 1987, I took the SATs at Charles F. Brush High School in Lyndhurst, Ohio. There is no practical reason for me to retain this information. In fact, I would just as soon it move out of my brain so I have room for more ...
    3 weeks ago

  • It was 33 years ago today: New Yorks lost new wave radio station, PIX 102, signs off the air


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    Starting with a one minute commercial for the long gone Soho record store, Rocks In Your Head, check out this incredible video comp of station IDs and commercials for a short lived (but loved by those who listened & remember) New York City radio station, PIX 102, located at 101.9 on your FM dial. An idea that was ...
    3 weeks ago

  • Spring Rush!


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    Editorial photographed by Norman Seeff and styled by Judith Dan Madison for Playgirl , April 1979.
    3 weeks ago

  • Collectible of the Week: The Black Hole “Assortment of Fun” (Western Publishing Company, Inc; 1979)


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    Theyear 1979 was one of my favorites in childhood, no doubt because it saw therelease of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Buck Rogers in the 25 th Century,Alien, Moonraker , and last but not least, Disney’s The Black Hole .  I collected toys, magazines, model-kits,comic-books, novelizations and more from each ...
    3 weeks ago

  • Change Of Views In Iran


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    Iran-Israel RelationsMohammad Rezā Shāh Pahlavī of Iran [1919-1980], U.S. President Kennedy, and U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.at the White House, Cabinet Room, April 13, 1962. During his tenure as leader, Mohammad Reza established good relations with both Israel and the United States; he ruled as a ...
    3 weeks ago

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