Category Archives: Retro

A look back at the outdated styles, trends, people and kitch that defined past generations. Think “Fat Laces” and pinning your pants.

Ramona Lisa

A punk rock classic.

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Writing the music for Twin Peaks

From the 2007 Secrets from Another Place: Creating Twin Peaks special: film music composer Angelo Badalamenti describes how he and David Lynch came up with Laura Palmer’s Theme from Twin Peaks. This is probably one of the most beautiful and haunting pieces of film music I have ever heard. You can buy the soundtrack here.

In case you were wondering, Angelo Badalamenti is the “coffee spitting guy” from Mulholland Drive.
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Samuel L. Jackson’s role in the 1989 movie ‘Sea of Love’

Samuel L. Jackson’s role in the 1989 movie “Sea of Love.” He really did play a great “black guy.”

Samuel L. Jackson's role in the 1989 movie 'Sea of Love'
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Teenagers going on a date in 1957


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Married… with Children in other countries


Twenty-five years ago, the new Fox Network began airing their first prime time sitcom, Married… with Children. But just because the series went out of production in 1997 in the United States doesn’t mean it’s passé. The concept, characters, and even scripts from the original Fox series have been remade in countries all over the world. Here is what they look like.

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Argentina

Bulgaria

Chile

Columbia

Croatia

Germany

Hungary

Poland

Russia

Spain

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Black cat casting call

Owners with their black cats, waiting in line for audition in movie “Tales of Terror.” Photograph by Ralph Crane, Hollywood (1961).

Hollywood auditions for Black Cat, 1961

See more photos from this day here.

1956 Baseball Team Mascots

1956 Baseball Team Mascots
This art of baseball team mascots was spotted by Bethany Heck of the blog Eephus League of Baseball Minutiae and comes from the 1956 edition of the book Inside Baseball for Little Leaguers.

Album art so bad you can’t turn away – Part 3

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Album art so bad you can’t turn away
Album art so bad you can’t turn away
Album art so bad you can’t turn away
Album art so bad you can’t turn away
Album art so bad you can’t turn away
Album art so bad you can’t turn away
Album art so bad you can’t turn away

Related:
Album art so bad you can’t turn away – Part 1
Album art so bad you can’t turn away – Part 2

Brad Pitt age 14

Us Weekly just uncovered this hilarious photo of Brad Pitt at age 14 on his basketball team “The Rejects”, basically looking exactly like a He-Man girl.

Brad Pitt at age 14

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Monday Music Rewind: Fountains of Wayne

Fountains Of Wayne - Radiation Vibe

Fountains of Wayne is an American power pop band that formed in New York City in 1996. The band consists of members Chris Collingwood, Adam Schlesinger, Jody Porter and Brian Young.

Initially the band went by other names, including Are You My Mother? and Woolly Mammoth, before settling on Fountains of Wayne, taken from a lawn ornament store in Wayne, New Jersey. The store was located at the intersection of U.S. Route 46 and New Jersey Route 23,[3] not far from Montclair, New Jersey, the hometown of the band’s bassist and co-founder Adam Schlesinger. The store can be seen in The Sopranos episode “Another Toothpick” as well.

The store went out of business in 2009.

“Radiation Vibe” was the first single by Fountains of Wayne, from their debut album also titled Fountains of Wayne. It was released in 1996. It remains my favorite FOW song.

Buy this song here.

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