Best remembered for its spacy, intriguing Stevie Wonder soundtrack, the 1979 documentary The Secret Life of Plants explores the possibility that plants may be sentient life forms.
Based on Peter Thompkins and Christopher Bird’s 1973 book of the same title, Secret Life contains a great deal of amazing time-lapse photography of plants growing and metamorphosing. The [...]
This is quite possibly the best live auction cable access show ever to come out of the great state of Oklahoma.
…you only discover that your roommate and next-door neighbor have spray-painted a giant burger and pizza outside your closet window when you see it on your neighbor’s blog.
As a remedy for the insanity that is the last workday before a holiday weekend, I recommend this clip of Donovan and Bobbie Gentry performing “There is a Mountain” together on Bobbie’s TV show.
Donovan needs no introduction, of course, but Ms. Gentry deserves credit for more than her best-known hit, “Ode to Billy Joe.” Born [...]
Hi, I’m Sara Pedal, and I would like to inaugurate my posting here at the Salon with possibly the greatest song ever written, Lou Christie’s “Chuckie Wagon.” Behold:
“Chuckie Wagon” was issued on Christie’s 1971 opus, the lushly orchestrated and delightfully bubblegummy Paint America Love. This undeservedly obscure album was produced by “I Think I Love [...]