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@haywirejeff.bsky.social

old music, old films, old ephemera... odd music, odd films, odd ephemera... ...stuff that makes me happy in a world gone mad

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Yesterday was Jack Kirby's birthday, born back in 1917 on Essex St. in NYC.
Go clobber something.

#jackkirby #theking #fantasticfour

29.08.2025 13:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy Birthday to Otto Messmer, animator and artist on Felix The Cat cartoons and comic strips (1892- 1983)
#ottomessmer #felixthecat

16.08.2025 15:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy Birthday to the Bowery Thrush...
Huntz Hall!
#huntzhall #boweryboys

15.08.2025 12:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I miss scavenger hunts
#superman

14.08.2025 12:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"After The Wizard of Oz, I was typecast as a lion, and there aren't all that many parts for lions."

Happy Birthday to Bert Lahr

14.08.2025 03:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy Birthday to Alfred Hitchcock

...the premiere of Psycho at the DeMille Theater on 47th Street and Seventh Avenue, NYC)
#alfredhitchcock

14.08.2025 03:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Neville Brand and Jessica Jones in the McCloud episode-
"Fifth Man in a String Quartet" (1972)

14.08.2025 02:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy Birthday to one of the kings of comedy...
... Lou Costello

06.03.2025 20:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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But is it art?

06.03.2025 20:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Monday...

03.03.2025 21:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me) (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Chrysalis Records Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me) (Official Music Video)

Some songs make you smile...
... Remembering Steve Harley on his birthday, gone too soon last year
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAoa...

27.02.2025 13:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The basis of Jules Dassin's 1949 film, Thieves' Highway.

Bezzerides' book, The Long Haul, was adapted into the 1940 film, They Drive by Night. He also wrote the script for Kiss Me Deadly (1955).

23.02.2025 16:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I love maps...

21.02.2025 15:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Remembering Bryan Gregory of the Cramps on his birthday.

21.02.2025 02:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Dead Fingers Talk - Electric City
YouTube video by Jo Freddie (Rev. Dr.) Dead Fingers Talk - Electric City

As the world burns, I've found myself returning to the music of my youth. Well, if "youth" is eighteen years old. Somehow, I was able to buy a lot of import records on my supermarket clerk salary, such as this one, name checking William Burroughs, produced by Mick Ronson.

youtu.be/xP0NwJ3aMrk?...

21.02.2025 01:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Read books, stay smart

06.02.2025 01:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I keep trying to get going here, a little help from Waldo and Ferdy...

06.02.2025 01:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy Birthday to creepy and kooky
VICTOR BUONO
born February 3, 1938 in San Diego, California
...died way too young at the age of 43

04.02.2025 03:07 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I'm still following my pandemic practice of cutting my own hair (what's left of it...)

22.01.2025 12:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sounds familiar...
... Jules Feiffer, RIP
(January 26, 1929- January 20, 2025)

21.01.2025 14:03 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy Birthday to GEORGE ZUCCO
born January 11, 1886 in Manchester, UK (1886- 1960)

11.01.2025 19:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Weird Adventures #10- 1951

11.01.2025 19:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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He was great in everything from Kansas City Confidential (1952) to It Conquered The World (1956) to The Tin Star (1957) to The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) to Escape From New York (1981)...

Happy Birthday to LEE VAN CLEEF
born January 9, 1925 in Somerville, New Jersey (1925- 1989)

11.01.2025 18:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy Birthday to WILBERT HARRISON
born on January 5, 1929 in Charlotte, North Carolina (1929- 1994)

11.01.2025 18:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy Birthday to "Ol' Lonely"...
JESSE WHITE
born January 3, 1917 in Buffalo, NY (1917- 1997)

11.01.2025 18:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy Birthday to ANYA TARANDA
born on January 1, 1915 in New York, New York (1915- 1970)

One of the original Breck Shampoo models, her films included Moonlight and Pretzels (1933), Murder at the Vanities (1934), Top Hat (1935), Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935) and Strike Me Pink (1936).
1w

11.01.2025 18:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Happy Birthday to DANA ANDREWS
born January 1, 1909 in Covington County, Mississippi (1909- 1992)

11.01.2025 18:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy Birthday to VIKKI DOUGAN
born January 1, 1929 in Brooklyn, New York

Known to millions as "The Back", due to the backless dresses that she was often seen wearing, the Limeliters (yeah, the Limeliters) wrote a song titled "Vikki Dougan", in which they sing of her 'callipygian cleft'...

11.01.2025 18:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0