MOVIES ABOUT GLADIATORS

Oh man LESLIE NIELSEN is dead.
That makes him the third star of AIRPLANE!, one of the best movies ever made, to leave us this year, after Peter Graves and Barbara Billingsley.
So now I am concerned about LITTLE ROSSIE HARRIS. Yes, this kid:
Seventeen years later, this kid would become half of the duet responsible for this masterpiece:

ASK NO QUESTIONS, GET NO LIES

I'd never noticed before how much Ben Stiller looks like LOU REED.

YACHT SOUL

I'm going to travel today. If I had an iPod, this is the song I'd play during the trip. But I don't have one - which is why I keep posting youtubes instead of downloadables. I do however have a mental jukebox that never stops. Anyway pretty soon wifi will be in the air everywhere and we won't need to actually store mp3s no more.

REVISIONARY?

SPANISH ROSE

Great, another Krautrock-influenced band... I thought I would have had enough of these by now, but it turns out I don't. Lüger are good. They represent the Pan-European axis as they are from Spain. And the song is called "Swastika Sweetheart".The album this song is from is self-titled, it exists on vinyl, and it contains other great tracks - like "Bedlam in a Sugar Plum Fairy Reception".

IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS

The 1994 documentary CRUMB was about the famous cartoonist Robert Crumb. But the most interesting part (for me) was the other Crumb, Robert's brother Charles.