Cultural Gutter: The Cosmic Crooner
Frank Sinatra wasn’t at the top of his game in 1980. He needed a hit. A sure thing. So he did what any aging icon would do: recorded the weirdest goddamn album of his career.
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Cultural Gutter: Where is All You Angels?
Mulcahy wanted to adapt Burroughs’ Wild Boys — a challenging project given that it’s about a collapsing society full of homosexual boys who spend their time killing, screwing, and masturbating.
Read moreThe Chances of Anything Coming from Mars
My parents were always willing to indulge a weird kid. One year for Christmas, they got me a bizarre amalgamation of rock opera and radio play, starring Richard Burton: Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds.
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