3b) Mel's Record Request Reprise

3a) Birth of the Cool

 

4a) Daily Zen

4a1) Metal Fingers "Black Snake Root," Special Herbs Vol. 5 & 6

 

4a2) Boz Scaggs "Lowdown," Silk Degrees

5a) A Tale of Two Bills

 

5a1) Brain Dead (1990) trailer

5a2) Where else can you get two Bills for the price of one? Not to mention, Bud Cort and George Kennedy as a bonus gift! Although, by the end, you may have buyer's remorse. Caveat emptor!

3a) Daily Zen

3a1) The Eye of Silence Max Ernst (1943)

3a2) Ernst was one of the first artists to apply The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud to investigate his deep psyche in order to explore the source of his own creativity. The pervading artistic strategy in Max Ernst's oeuvre is to recycle visual material and combine it into new imageries. While turning inwards unto himself, Ernst was also tapping into the universal unconscious with its common dream imagery.

www.max-ernst.com

3a) See You Space Cowboy...

3a1) Art by Maarten Donders for Billy Strings.

3a2) Also see Doctor Bionic cover below

5a) Daily Zen

5a) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar vs Bruce Lee, Game Of Death (1978)

4a) Chiefdom Records

4a1) Grimez The Holy Realm

4a2) Doctor Bionic The Invisible Hand 

4a3) Excellent B-movie exotica beat instrumentals from this Cincinnati collective. Oft imitated, but rarely perfected, shadows of Doom and RZA loom over the stag film scuzz. Dark alleys full of glimmering switch blades, gold-toothed grins, and fishnet flesh―the world of the rain and slime soaked concrete jungle. The dark and dangerous world the tourists never see. Listen and thank god it's only on wax.

5a) Hip to It, Daddy-O!

5a1) Vera-Ellen and Gene Kelly in Words and Music (1948)

 

5a2) Original Theatrical Trailer

5a3) Full Dance Sequence from Slaughter on 10th Avenue, Words and Music (1948)

4a) Emancipation

4a) Take Five (x2): Emancipation
Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit
Nina Simone - Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair
Aretha Franklin - Young, Gifted And Black
Roberta Flack - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Alice Coltrane - Going Home
Sonny Sharrock - Black Woman
Gil Scott-Heron - Comment #1
Eugene McDaniels - Love Letter To America
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Old Rugged Cross
Last Poets - Panther

7a) To #1 Dads Everywhere

7a) I don't know how official these rankings really are...