The 1960 film, La Nave de los Monstruos (AKA: Ship of Monsters), has pretty much everything a Mexican scifi/horror/kiddie film should have: the ultra-hot Lorena Velazquez playing a bloodsucking babe from Venus, a Martian with a giant, pulsating rubber brain, a Cyclops named Ook, a really lame talking skeleton puppet, and their fabulously cheesy robot, Tor, who in this touching scene at the movie’s finale, flies back into outer space in his rocket ship while crooning a romantic duet with his newfound love, a cantina jukebox!

Man, they just don’t make ‘em like this anymore.

[Link: Tor and the Jukebox]
[Link: Film review]

Heino und Jerry im Über Space presents the ridiculously silly psychedelic song stylings of The National Gallery’s 1968 LP, Performing musical interpretations of the paintings of Paul Klee.

Oddy enough, I reviewed this album for the 2001 Edition of Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader:

“Four beatnik musicians from Cleveland tried to introduce hippies to the works of this German Expressionist painter by performing “rock-art” song versions of his paintings. Complete with nonsensical acid-drenched lyrics like “Boy with toys, alone in the Attic/Choking his hobby horse, thinking of his mother.” Special bonus: musical arrangements by Chuck Mangione!”

[Link: The National Gallery]