Jazz Pulps

Make Your Own Goatee

A little over a year ago, Brantford had it's first annual jazz fest in the newly finished Harmony Square downtown. It was a great success and at the Brantford Arts Block we had a beatnik themed coffee house type of thing going on, I dj'd jazz and beat novelties, we had poetry readings and screened some films. My friend Robbie P. created some create your own goatee crafts for the kids. I tried putting these up back then but had a bunch of trouble with google and I only recently came across them again, so in the spirit of Halloween and beatnik costumes, here it is.

Ralph - Modern Canadian Beatnik

I wish I knew a little more about Ralph, you can watch some videos here.

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Head on over to The Record Collectors Hot Platters for some cool beatnik tunes and other cool stuff.

My Costume...?

Found over at Retrospace

Spooky, Spooky (Lend Me Your Tomb)

Spike spoofs Kookie on a halloween trip.

Beats On TV (Halloween Special) - The Munsters - Season 1 Episode 26 - Far Out Munsters

Now that Thanksgiving is good and finished here in Canada, I can focus on

Halloween, which is right around the corner, and where better to start than

with the first family of monster comedy. It was 1964 and some of the coolest

rock bands were turning up on tv shows everywhere to promote themselves.

In this episode of The Munsters, Eddie has discovered The Standells, slightly

before they grew their hair out and started singing about the dirty water

of the river Charles. The Standells are in town and are looking for a place to

stay, but they have a habit of wrecking hotel rooms and their reputation has

preceded them. Their manager manages to rent a house...the Munsters house

for them to stay in while they are in town. They proceed to throw a party that

all the local beatniks show up to and after a couple of songs, the poetry

readings start, about this time, the Munsters, fed up with their fancy digs at

a downtown hotel, return home and get into the act themselves.

Also features an appearance by Zalman King, who many might recognize from

such drive-in classics as Blue Sunshine and Trip With The Teacher.

"What would the neighbors think if the saw a bunch of strange looking people

living in our home ?"

Dragula

"Did you dig that crazy get-up? Man is that way out."

"Did you see the hair-do on the tall one? It's the greatest thing since...Carl Sandberg."

"Come on and ringo!"

"The Hermit's gonna groove us!"

"Let's here from the Jolly Green Giant!"

Beatnik Frankenstein

Well...sort of. I know Halloween is coming soon and everyone is pretty excited about it, but here in Canada, we have Thanksgiving first and I just can't get my headspace past that smoked Turkey that I will be tucking into on Monday. I've got some cool beatnik Halloween stuff planned but for now here's a picture of a beat looking Frankie from a Santo film.

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Like...Newsflash!

I know this is some short notice but I just got a message from a faithful

reader hipping me to some cool film screenings at Tiff Cinemateque at the

AGO in Toronto. The topic is Toronto on film and it's kicking off with

Julian Roffmans "The Bloody Brood", like...tomorrow! You can check out

their website or read the comments on this post for all the way out details.

So if you're in the GTA tomorrow and you're looking for something cool to

do, go support these guys...and tell 'em you read about it Like...Dreamsville!

Wanton Beatniks

My Daughter Is A Beatnik - Jean Carroll

Jean Carroll was a jewish comedienne born in Paris, France in 1911. She got

started early on in Vaudville routines and eventually became a well known

American stand up comic. Here she is riffing on beatniks from her 1960 album

"Girl In A Hot Steam Bath".