Music new releases Feb. 12, 2013: Bryan Ferry; Joni Mitchell; Jimmy Reed; Big Joe Turner, more!

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The Jazz Age by Bryan Ferry


Studio Albums 1968 - 1979 by Joni Mitchell


Ain't That Loving You Baby - Singles As & Bs 1953-1961 by Jimmy Reed


The Best Of the Classic Capitol Singles by Wanda Jackson


Ten Years Of Hits - The Singles As & Bs 1951-1960 by Big Joe Turner

DVD and Blu-ray new releases Feb. 12, 2013: Skyfall; Weeds season 8; Hardy Boys season 3; Doctor Who Reign of Terror; The Man with the Iron Fists; Bonanza season 5, more!

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Skyfall


Weeds: Season Eight


The Hardy Boys: Season 3


Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror


The Man with the Iron Fists


Bonanza: The Official Complete Fifth Season


Roger Moore Ultimate 007 James Bond Edition, Volume 1


Roger Moore Collection 007 James Bond Ultimate Edition, Volume 2


Jedi Junkies


A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman


Pop artifact: Vintage Corgi Green Hornet "Black Beauty" car



Pop culture roundup: Jaime Hernandez; Hot Toys Black Widow; Ringo Starr;

Pretty nice: A gallery of Jaime Hernandez illustrations for the New Yorker.

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Hot Toys has unveiled another of its uncannily realistic action figures: An Avengers movie version of Black Widow. It's kinda creepy how accurate these things look.

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Ringo Starr will voice a role and sing a song on a new Powerpuff Girls cartoon series.
Very interestingly, former Beatle Ringo Starr will appear in the episode and perform an original song titled “I Wish I Was A Powerpuff Girl.” He’ll also play “Townsville’s most famous flamboyant mathematician Fibonacci Sequins.”
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This rare Beatles turntable from 1964 sold for $12,200 on eBay.

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Turns out Dr. Seuss was a cat in the hat, himself.
...the real Dr. Seuss, Theodor Seuss Geisel, was a hat lover himself. He collected hundreds of them, plumed, beribboned and spiked, and kept them in a closet hidden behind a bookcase in his home in the La Jolla section of San Diego. He incorporated them into his personal paintings, his advertising work and his books. He even insisted that guests to his home don the most elaborate ones he could find.

Vintage comic book ad: Remember the Monster-size Frankenstein?



Video find: Ray Davies documentary

This needs to come out on a U.S. DVD so I don't have to watch it all on my computer.

Via Dangerous Minds:


Upcoming flick is a Monty Python reunion of sorts

The surviving members of Monty Python are reunited for an upcoming live action/CGI film, reports Variety.

Members of Monty Python's Flying Circus are reteaming for "Absolutely Anything," a sci-fi farce combining CGI and live action, with Terry Jones to direct and Mike Medavoy to produce.

Plans are for filming to begin in the U.K. this spring, with the Pythons voicing key roles as a a group of aliens who endow an earthling with the power to do "absolutely anything" to see what a mess he'll make of things -- which is precisely what happens. There's also a talking dog named Dennis who seems to understand more about the mayhem that ensues than anyone else does. Robin Williams will voice the character.

Gibson reproduces "Lucy": Guitar associated with George Harrison and Eric Clapton

I'd take one of these...

Gibson Guitars is producing a new model Les Paul electric guitar based on "Lucy," an instrument owned and played by both Eric Clapton and George Harrison.

Info:
Proceeds from the sale of each guitar will benefit Clapton’s Crossroads Centre in Antigua, which was created to provide treatment and education to chemically dependent people.
 
At the invitation of Harrison, Clapton played the cherry red Les Paul on the 1968 Beatles song “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.” The guitar also can be seen in the Beatles' Let It Be movie and in the 1968 promo film for "Revolution," which you can see below. Clapton played the guitar at his comeback Rainbow Concert in 1973.
 
The guitar — originally a 1957 Gold Top, refinished by Gibson in 1967 in “cherry red” — was measured and inspected by Gibson Custom in 2012, from which a stunning replica was made. A lightweight mahogany body, unusually slim '50s neck (thanks to the refinishing in 1967) and PAF humbuckers make this a great-playing Les Paul. The offset seam on the maple top along with screw holes for the previously removed Bigsby vibrato and “Custom” truss rod cover are among the details.
 
This guitar will be a limited edition of 100 worldwide, available in America through Guitar Center in March/April, coinciding with the 2013 Eric Clapton Crossroads Guitar Festival. The Gibson Harrison Clapton Les Paul will retail for $14,999 MSRP.
 
Each replica will include:
• A Certificate of Authenticity signed by Clapton
• A DVD featuring an interview with Clapton discussing his fabled history with Les Paul guitars and inspecting the first “Harrison-Clapton” prototype
• An audiophile remastered, 180gm vinyl edition of the Beatles' White Album
• A reproduction hard‐shell case


BBC Radio this week: Brian Aldiss sci-fi; Doctor Who; The Goon Show; Sir Henry at Rawlinson End; Howlin' Wolf

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Brian Aldiss Presents: Beef plus Sole Solution The sci-fi author's own meaty tale, and Eric Frank Russell's story of scientific creation.

Doctor Who: To the Death The Time Lord calls on friends, family and the Meddling Monk to help overthrow the Daleks.

The Goon Show: Who is Pink Oboe? Cowardly Captain Seagoon is at war. With Peter Sellers on leave, Graham Stark is enlisted.

Sir Henry at Rawlinson End: Sir Henry Entertains Surreal saga of a dynasty delicately balanced on the edge of sanity. From December 1996.

Howlin' Wolf Bruce Dickinson presents a profile of blues giant Howlin' Wolf, aka Chester Burnett.

Vintage photos of Clark Gable