Network Awesome - Mon, Nov 6 A surprisngly great day of vaguely "nightmare" oriented stuff!

Live Music Show - Night Music

Incredible performances and mind-warping collaborations from the highly adventurous (and short-lived) late night US television show

Curated by The Sadnesses

Total Runtime: 1:06:30

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Sunday Night, later named Night Music, was a late-night television show which aired for two seasons between 1988 and 1990 as a showcase for jazz and eclectic musical artists. It was hosted by Jools Holland and David Sanborn, and featured Marcus Miller as musical director. Guests included acts such as Sonny Rollins, Shinehead, Sister Carol, Sonic Youth, Joe Sample, Slim Gaillard, Pere Ubu,Pharoah Sanders, and many others. In addition, vintage clips of jazz legends like Thelonious Monk, Dave Brubeck, and Billie Holiday were also featured. The show also featured a house band of Omar Hakim (drums), Marcus Miller (bass), Philippe Saisse (keys), David Sanborn (sax),Hiram Bullock (guitar), and Jools Holland (piano). The show often allowed its guests ample time to explain the origins of their sound, meaning of songs, etc. It also provided a national audience for lesser known acts (like Arto Lindsay's band The Ambitious Lovers). Hal Willner was the music coordinator, responsible for the interesting musical mix-and-matching that took place on the show.

Bongwater, Bob Weir & Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Al Green
Charlie Haden
Christian Marclay
Pixies
Nick Cave
Ivo Papasov and his Wedding Band
Curtis Mayfield with Taylor Dayne & David Lindley
Tim Berne
Miles Davis
Conway Twitty & The Residents
Sun Ra

Collection - Sacha Baron Cohen on Late Night TV

Sometimes himself, sometimes his characters, always extremely funny

Curated by Jason Forrest

Total Runtime: 0:34:52

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Sacha Noam Baron Cohen^[3] (born 13 October 1971) is an English stand-up comedian, writer, actor, and voice actor. A graduate of Cambridge University,^[4]Baron Cohen is most widely known for writing and playing four fictional characters: Ali G, Borat Sagdiyev, Brüno Gehard, and Admiral General Aladeen. In most of his routines, Baron Cohen's characters interact with unsuspecting people who do not realise they are being set up for comic situations and self-revealing ridicule.

Baron Cohen was named Best Newcomer at the 1999 British Comedy Awards for The 11 O'Clock Show, and since then, his work has been further recognised with two BAFTA Awards for Da Ali G Show, several Emmy nominations, a nomination for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay, and a Golden Globe forBest Actor for his work in the feature film Borat. After the release of Borat, Baron Cohen stated that because the public had become too familiar with the characters, he would retire Borat and Ali G.^[5] Similarly, after the release of Brüno, Baron Cohen stated he would also retire the title character.^[6] At the 2012 British Comedy Awards, Baron Cohen received the Outstanding Achievement Award. He accepted the award while reprising his Ali G character.^[7]

Art - The Wormwood Star (Marjorie Cameron & Curtis Harrington)

Amazing portrait of cosmic left-path artist sort of in the vein of Kenneth Anger.

Curated by Jason Forrest

Total Runtime: 0:10:00

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Curtis Harrington told Cameron biographer Spencer Kansa in his book, Wormwood Star: The Magickal Life of Marjorie Cameron:

Before I made the film I’d heard from Renate [referring here to painter Renate Druks] that Cameron had spent some time in the desert trying, through magical means, to conceive a child by the spirit of Jack Parsons without success. Cameron never spoke of Jack directly, but I do remember feeling sometimes when I talked to her, of her going off into a realm that I didn’t understand at all. It was sort of an apocalyptic thing and it’s there in her poetry.

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Talkshow - Day at Night: Ray Bradbury

James Day interview the great Sci-Fi writer

Curated by Markus Fiedler

Total Runtime: 0:29:05

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CUNY TV is proud to re-broadcast newly digitized episodes of DAY AT NIGHT, the popular public television series hosted by the late James Day. Day was a true pioneer of public television: co-founder of KQED in San Francisco, president of WNET upon the merger of National Educational Television (NET) and television station WNDT/Channel 13, and most recently, Chairman of the CUNY TV Advisory Board. The series features fascinating interviews with notable cultural and political figures conducted in the mid 1970's.

Youtube comment:
I met him at 1992 at a book signing at Harper College in Palatine, IL. Being younger, I was starstruck. I've read him since I was 10. Seeing him was almost as important meeting one of The Beatles. "I can tell by the size of your smile that you are a fan," he said when I handed him a copy of Fahrenheit 451. As he was signing it, I told I loved his work and will continue to read as long as he continued to write. He stood, shook my hand and thanked me. He was openly friendly.

Doc - "A.K." (Chris Marker, 1985)

Fantastic doc about the great Japanese director.

Curated by Jason Forrest

Total Runtime: 1:11:23

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A.K. is a 1985 French documentary film directed by Chris Marker about the Japanese director Akira Kurosawa. Though it was filmed while Kurosawa was working on Ran, the film focuses more on Kurosawa's remote but polite personality than on the making of the film. The film is sometimes seen as being reflective of Marker's fascination with Japanese culture, which he also drew on for one of his best-known films, Sans Soleil.^[1] The film was screened in the Un Certain Regardsection at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival.^[2]

Kermit The Frog guest hosts The Tonight Show (1979)

Curated by Markus Fiedler

Total Runtime: 1:28:21