Regarding "Hum-Allah-Hum-Allah-Hum-Allah", Daniel Martin-McCormick, in a review for Pitchfork, commented: "By allowing soulful prettiness alongside more vicious passages, Sanders opens the album up, connecting the dots between joyful communion and unflinching catharsis. A squalling solo toward the end of the side sounds like a cry from the deepest, most tortured part of his soul, but it's supported by an unerringly mellow piano accompaniment... It's a moment of deep vulnerability in a genre can often devolve into macho blowing contests."

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Writing for Treblezine, Jeff Terich remarked: "Jewels of Thought... heightens the juxtaposition of Sanders' more mellifluous compositions against his most radical. Its first side, 'Hum-Allah-Hum-Allah-Hum-Allah,' begins with a plea for peace and a vocal delivery from Leon Thomas that's nearly as far-out as Sanders' saxophone is on its flipside. Yet ultimately this composition—a soulful call for understanding and love—is among Sanders' most hypnotic grooves, a breathtaking 15 minutes driven largely by Lonnie Liston Smith's stunning piano...."

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In a review for Aquarium Drunkard, M. Garner wrote: "Smith's playing is bright, easy, lyrical, and, perhaps most importantly given the level of questing going on around it, familiar. On... 'Hum-Allah-Hum-Allah-Hum-Allah,' he gives Sanders a spruced-up base from which to launch, but Sanders seems just as happy to follow his pianist. The two play around one another cheerfully, each occasionally departing to take a solo trip through the sky before returning to the ground. Around them, the song develops with the same natural grace. Even as Sanders trills and Roy Haynes and Idris Muhammad count out counter-rhythms, a feeling of mutual wonder permeates the playing."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewels_of_Thought

The Giant Spider Invasion (1975) is the subject of today's "monsterdon" viewing over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

• Just start watching Sunday, Dec 15, 2024 at 9pm ET / 8PM CT, which is 2am Monday UTC
• then follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live commentary

How to watch:

• youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvFqGG2BIqY
• also "tubi"? tubi is some kind of platform with ads tho
• someone claims they'll be streaming it on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time

The Giant Spider Invasion ... follows giant spiders that terrorize the town of Merrill, Wisconsin and its surrounding area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giant_Spider_Invasion

A fireman takes an unexpected course of action when a man whom he's been ordered to testify against, after being held up at a local convenience store, threatens him.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1925431/

Back in the 80s and 90s there was this cartoonist called Ace Backwords who would give out his cartoons so you could reprint them for free. He did a lot of them about counter-culture topics, so if you had a newsletter or zine and you needed content, a lot of times you'd put in an Ace Backwords cartoon. (this was just before the internet era, so you had a lot more newsletters and zines.)

Ace Backwords quit cartooning in the early 2000s. Now he "sleeps rough on the streets" in Berkeley (San Francisco area) and blogs about his feral cats, homelessness, and memories of living a counter-culture life.

I got this cartoon from his blog and cleaned up the contrast a bit, see the original here: https://acebackwords5.wordpress.com/2024/06/19/609/

Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_Backwords

As the youtube description explains, the first minute and a half of the video is from a different performance earlier that year.

"Ignorance is at an all time high!"

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXPe1B6nY_8
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Miles_and_Runnin%27_(song)

The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy is the subject of today's "monsterdon" viewing over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

• Just start watching Sunday, Dec 8, 2024 at 9pm ET / 8PM CT, which is 2am Monday UTC
• then follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live commentary

How to watch:

• youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNQWSJ570rg
• someone claims they'll be streaming it on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
• also "tubi"? I think tubi is some platform with ads tho
• is on archive.org though I try to give their servers a break: https://archive.org/details/TheRobotVs.TheAztecMummylaMomiaAztecaControElRobotHumano1958-

The evil Dr. Krupp (Luis Aceves Castañeda), a mad scientist also known as "the Bat", managed to escape the snake pit into which he was thrown by Popoca the Aztec Mummy (Ángel di Stefani) in the previous film and continues his efforts to steal a valuable Aztec treasure from Popoca's tomb. Krupp builds a robot with a human head and brain in it (which is thus, technically, a cyborg), planning to use it to destroy the mummy should he return to thwart his plans. Krupp's former colleague and original finder of the mummy, Dr. Eduardo Almada (Ramón Gay), his wife Flora, and his associate Pinacate, all work to stop the mad scientist from completing his plans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Robot_vs._the_Aztec_Mummy

This movie was covered a couple months ago. I'm re-posting because it is the subject of tomorrow's "monsterdon" viewing over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

• Just start watching Sunday, Dec 1, 2024 at 9pm ET / 8PM CT, which is 2am Monday UTC
• then follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live commentary that is both witty and wise.

How to watch:

• youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTkOud2MBso
• wikimedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Phantom_Planet.webm
• someone claim's they'll streaming it on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
• also "tubi"? not sure what tubi is.
• I'm pretty sure it's on archive.org as well, but I try to give their servers a break

It is 1980, and the United States Air Force's Space Exploration Wing has bases on the Moon and on the eve of a mission to Mars. When another of its two-member crewed Pegasus spacecraft mysteriously disappears, rumors begin circulating of space monsters and phantom planets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_Planet

A college freshman who trains in martial arts is beaten up at work by a racist gang. His co-worker, a Chinese cook, beats the gang up and trains the young man in kung fu. When a tournament is to be held, the teacher tells the student that he will not teach him for money. However, when the gang beats up the student's best friend, the student now must make the choice of entering the tournament or keeping the promise to his teacher.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0146571/

You know this movie. You've seen it a million times before a million different ways. But this one is campy in its very own way, which makes it special.

link from above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9XAwQHIEIA

A fictionalized account of a true story, it centers on the controversial 60 Minutes segment about Jeffrey Wigand, a whistleblower in the tobacco industry,[3] covering his and CBS producer Lowell Bergman's struggles as they defend his testimony against efforts to discredit and suppress it by CBS and Wigand's former employer.

Though not a box office success, The Insider received acclaim from critics, who praised Crowe's portrayal of Wigand and Mann's direction. It was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor in a Leading Role (for Russell Crowe).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Insider_(film)

Jonathan Shale is a Vietnam War veteran and mercenary. After a botched covert operation in Cuba in which three men from his platoon were killed, he returns home to Miami. He surprises his girlfriend, Jane Hetzko, at her apartment; she welcomes him warmly. Hetzko is a schoolteacher at inner-city Columbus High School, an institution with a considerable gang problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Substitute

• This movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35VTbozkY-o
• The sequel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhrlXhyH21o

There are a couple of cuss words blanked out the in the first couple minutes, but whoever was doing that got bored and quit doing it after a while. Also, the youtube comments say some of the violence was edited down.