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A look back at the outdated styles, trends, people and kitch that defined past generations.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.

Monday Music Rewind: Fury in the Slaughterhouse

Posted on March 12, 2012 | Comments Off

Fury in the Slaughterhouse was a German rock band founded in 1987 and broke up in 2008. In 1993, the band had its first international success with the hit Every Generation got its own Disease from the album Mono. This is one of the great lost songs from the 1990s. The haunting undertones and lyrics are still relevant today. You can buy the song and the album here.

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Posted in Books Music Movies & Entertainment, Retro

Tagged 1993, Bands and Artists, Every Generation got its own Disease, Fury in the Slaughterhouse, German rock, Mono, Music, music from the 90s, retro music, Rock music

Paradise City – The sign that inspired the song

Posted on March 9, 2012 | 1 comment

Take me down to the Paradise City where the music was good and not as shitty. I miss the 80s. Listen to the Guns N’ Roses song here.

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Posted in Books Music Movies & Entertainment, Funny Pictures & Videos, Retro

Tagged 80s music, Axl, funny music sign, glam rock, GNR, hair bands, Music, Paradise City, Paradise City Guns and Roses, Paradise City MP3

1928 Tommy Gun in a violin case

Posted on March 8, 2012 | 1 comment

Here is a 1928 Tommy Gun in a violin case. Proof that gangsters where clearly more sophisticated in the 1920s.

(via Reddit)

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Posted in New Products & Gadgets, Random Stuff, Retro

Tagged 1920s, 1928 Tommy Gun in a violin case, crime, gangsters, guns, mob, Tommy Gun, violin case

CIA Whistleblower talks about Heart Attack gun

Posted on March 8, 2012 | 1 comment

During Senate testimony in 1975 into illegal activities by the CIA, it was revealed that the agency had developed a dart gun capable of causing a heart attack. The dart from this weapon can penetrate clothing and leave nothing but a tiny red dot on the skin. Apparently the poisonous dart completely disintegrates upon entering the target. Watch her testimony below.

Conspiracy theorists are speculating that Andrew Breitbart may have been the victim of assassination recently. Many suggest that Mark Pittman, a reporter who predicted the financial crisis and exposed Federal Reserve misdoings may have been assassinated with a similar CIA weapon.

It all seems pretty far-fetched and more like a movie plot, but who knows. What do you think?

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Posted in New Products & Gadgets, Politics & Religion, Retro, Weird News Crazy Videos and Conspiracy

Tagged Andrew Breitbart, assassination, Breitbart, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, CIA whistleblower, conspiracy, conspiracy theory, government, Heart Attack gun, Mark Pittman, poison dart, spy tools, Spycraft

Monday Music Rewind: Imperial Drag “Boy or a Girl”

Posted on March 5, 2012 | 9 comments

Imperial Drag was an American rock band, active from 1994 to 1997. The group, formed after the breakup of Jellyfish, released one album and scored one rock hit single in the U.S. before disbanding. The group’s glam rock-influenced image, however, failed to win fans over in the wake of the grunge era. I remember discovering them in July of 1996 at the Taste of Minnesota. The show was still one of the best live shows I have seen. I still enjoy the album to this day and urge you to rediscover them yourself.

The lead singer, Eric Dover, auditioned as lead vocalist for the first solo album by Slash of Guns N’ Roses. Dover recorded vocals on the Slash’s Snakepit album It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere before rejoining keyboardist Roger Manning (Jellyfish) in the Imperial Drag. Dover has also been a session musician for Alice Cooper. He now fronts a band called Sextus.

Buy the song Boy or a Girl here.

Visit the Imperial Drag fan site here.

Monday Music Rewind: Grant Lee Buffalo (duckduckgrayduck.com)
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Posted in Books Music Movies & Entertainment, Minnesota, Retro

Tagged 1996 music, Eric Dover, Imperial Drag, Imperial Drag Boy or a Girl, Jellyfish, retro music, Roger Manning, Sextus, Slash's Snakepit, Taste of Minnesota

The most coveted G.I. Joe toy ever

Posted on March 2, 2012 | 1 comment

This picture shows one of the toys I always wanted as a kid and never got. Not sure I’m totally over it. Hail the G.I. Joe’s U.S.S. Flagg Playset – the envy of every Gen X boy.

(I’m Remembering)

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Tagged 80s toys, childhood, G.I. Joe’s U.S.S. Flagg Playset, Gen X toys, GI JOE, retro toys

New Video of Challenger Disaster Surfaces After 24 Years

Posted on February 28, 2012 | Comments Off

On a chilly January morning in 1986, Corydon optometrist Jack Moss raised his new video camera to the sky over central Florida and captured one of the darkest moments in American space exploration the explosion of the shuttle Challenger.

I have chills. I remember watching this in my 4th grade classroom and not fully grasping the tradgedy I had just witnessed.