Pop Culture from an Alternate Dimension

I have a feeling very few people know about this movie. I only knew about it because my mother owned the soundtrack on LP. Two years after Anthony Newley was in the family musical Doctor Dolittle  he produced, directed and co-wrote this musical that was rated X when it was released in 1969. The full title is Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?  which is a very sixties title. In 1964 there was Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb as well as The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies . In 1967 there was  The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade . If you have seen the Monkees movie Head,  directed by Bob Rafaelson, you know the kind of surreal movies made in the late sixties. This is very surreal but it seems like Newley was basing it on personal experiences. This what-if is wh

  Some people that know me have been surprised by some of the bands I have included on my blog. Considering when I did the New Edition the only song I remembered by Bell Biv DeVoe was "Poison". Which brings me to today's post: Poison. Not a band I am associated with but thought deserving of a post. Most of the songs are from lead singer Bret Michael's solo album Songs of Life , primarily "Party Rock Band" where he reunites with C. C. DeVille. I chose two songs from Rikki Rockett's album Glitter 4 Your Soul , (which had fellow Poisoner Blues Saraceno) "Tear It Down" has Bret Michaels on lead vocals and "Life's a Gas" which has Rikki singing lead. To wrap up the album I put in "Something to Believe In #2" from Poison's 2003 album Best of Ballad's and Blues  which was mostly a collection of previous works but this song was a total reworking of a previous song ("Something to Believe In") with new lyrics and

  In the 1984 mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap , David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean) says he listens to classics on tape read by actors with the same last name as the authors. I designed what I thought the ones he mentioned would look like if they existed, plus I added one of my own.