Jun 14
Emster comments: Genesis? I thought you said genie… Just spin L. Ron some futuristic mumbo-jumbo, it’ll be great.
Tag Wizard comments: Smirky McSmug makes an appearance on L. Ron Humpday!
Published 1988
(Average: 7.13 out of 10)
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(9.26 out of 10)
June 14th, 2023 at 12:10 pm
Big Trouble in Little Ankara.
June 14th, 2023 at 12:27 pm
sounds like Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Mike Rutherfood and Phil Collins are getting together for one last bash.
June 14th, 2023 at 1:28 pm
In this thrill-a-minute sequel to Black Narcissus, Kurt Russell, retired hitman and brother of Sister Ruth, travels incognito to Mopu, gunning for Mr Dean. This time, it’s personal.
June 14th, 2023 at 2:50 pm
The Sultan of Clothing finds himself in dire straights.
June 14th, 2023 at 3:29 pm
@fred: GSS!
You see a genie in the dark
It’s lightning in the park but meantime,
South of volcano, he’s doing his halo thing,
Aladdin’s blowing Dixie, double four time
With a giant technicolor kazoo
He is the sultan, the sultan of swing.
@Emster: GSS! Has the art direction also whitewashed Black Genie? Typical.
@Tor Mented: GSS! Hell, everyone GSS!
June 14th, 2023 at 4:29 pm
Oh blimey! Too many options.
Following Steve S and Fred, I could go Muso:
“Peter Gabriel’s 1974 version of Agadoo wasn’t as big a hit as the one ten years later.”
I could go Menk:
“All those photos of Neil Patrick Harris were a bluff – Russell T Davies has cast Nathan Fillon as the Celestial Toymaker.”
I could go Movie-Buff:
“Rudy Ray Moore’s remake of “Search for Spock” allowed Steven Segal too much leeway with his Klingon costume”
Or I could just ask if Louis Farrakhan thinks Cyprus really looks like that.
That’s more thought put into this than the author or artist did.
June 14th, 2023 at 5:50 pm
Biff didn’t have time to change after his meeting at the local Masonic Lodge before it was time to fight crime / blow dixie double four time, apparently.
June 14th, 2023 at 6:26 pm
The cover model is croaking “I’m hatman” at his intended victim as he whips out his weapon…
June 14th, 2023 at 6:53 pm
A black Genesis? Around here we call that a Megadrive…
June 14th, 2023 at 8:37 pm
Genie Boy employs his Magic Dustbuster™ to prove there’s nothing up his sleeve!
June 14th, 2023 at 11:10 pm
I was trying to remember if it was Tuesday or Wednesday and lo, it has been revealed.
So much GSS! but most especially to @Tor right off the bat. Everyone before me gets a GSS today.
(he’s the Xeeeenu of Swing!)
I’m feeling that this should be one of those 50s/60s Italian movies, you know the lot. He’s giving big Steve Reeves energy.
Also, ain’t no way the Magic Dustbuster™ fits under/in that jacket/sleeve without showing.
I give you another soundtrack song other than Dire Straits:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYn_6NjcopY
and the related:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO_tXzeiZAQ
June 15th, 2023 at 3:17 am
@GSSx-n (prev.):
Great songs.
I guess I’m stuck in the 80s, though. I saw the title and thought of this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bMM61Y5CEU
Bonus points for Shriekback using the word “parthenogenesis” in the lyrics….
June 15th, 2023 at 3:20 am
@GSSx-n (prev.):
Great songs!
More evidence I’m stuck in the 1980s. I saw the title and immediately thought of this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bMM61Y5CEU
Bonus points to Shriekback for using “parthenogenesis” in the lyrics….
June 15th, 2023 at 3:43 am
@Hammy: begs the question of whether he is a priest, a cannibal, or a prehistoric animal – or all 3.
Agreed on the bonus points for rhyming nemesis with parthenogenesis – they had to outdo Brian Eno: “but if you study the logistics and heuristics of the mystics you will find that their minds rarely move in a line” …
@GSSxN: Xenu of Swing: GSS! … even though I thought that was Benny Goodman.
June 15th, 2023 at 4:58 am
L. Ron Hubbard’s
ALADDIN
“You may have three wishes, mortal – as long as they are approved by the Church!”
June 15th, 2023 at 5:08 pm
Woo! GSS all!!!
@Hammy – thanks for the blast from the past. Shriekback opened for Simple Minds at Maple Leaf Gardens in ’85, and my nerdy little mind was blown.
(Woo!)
June 15th, 2023 at 11:02 pm
@Hammy: With a cover as goofy and stereotyped as this, I had to go for the novelty comedy songs, each of which fit the art and the previous comments.
June 16th, 2023 at 2:58 am
@GSSX-n (prev.):
Excellent choices, both. Ray Stevens is a treasure, regionally if not nationally. 🙂
Spot-on about the stereotyping, of course.
June 16th, 2023 at 6:58 pm
@Hammy: Ray *is* a national treasure. And he had some legit non-novelty hits, plus lots of gospel. But I always loved his comedy songs, and thought our younger members or non-Americans needed to hear the absolute perfect theme songs for this cover. Stereotypical kitsch for art of same.
He did a parody of Every Barry Manilow Song Ever in the late 70s, and since my mom was a big, big Manilow fan and we only had one TV, I watched Barry’s special. He had Ray on, singing it! I thought that was cool of both of them.
I still picture this cover guy talking and everyone’s lips don’t match the dubbing, because it’s an Italian “historical” movie.
@Tag Wiz: Is there also a “ridiculous hat” tag? Because that red feather, dangling in his peripheral vision all the time… eesh.