I’m really good at the Internet. I find awesome videos. I share some of my favorites with you. It’s a nice change from posting MP3s and waxin’ on why they’re awesome/not awesome.
The Cube is an early surrealist teleplay written and directed by none other than Jim Henson. It was broadcast only once, late at night probably, as part of NBC’s Experiment in Television in 1969. You can sort of feel a whimsical, exaggerative undertone to the film that remains congruent to his latter work. The Cube is also certainly evocative of Eugene Ionesco’s absurdist theater piece The Chairs. The original film ran about an hour, and unfortunately, is no longer available online. Here’s a Cliff’s Notes version, though, which provides the basic gist of The Cube.
And one more from Henson. This one is Limbo, The Organized Mind, with music by Raymond Scott . He, somehow, managed to get this short piece on the Tonight Show.
I have absolutely no information concerning the origin of this rare Cream television appearance. Lana Montana discovered it not too long ago. It’s just strange, totally weird, brain melting, fuct tape. EC looks either pissed or tweaked on uppers. Or both. What an insane way to promote your new album on TV.
And finally, Harry Smith’s Early Abstractions, Part 3. Get shattered.
