http://popdoctor.com Just another WorldBlogosphere.com blog Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:05:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://popdoctor.com/269/music/how-bizarre-how-bizarre/ http://popdoctor.com/269/music/how-bizarre-how-bizarre/#comments Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:05:34 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=269 When it comes to the bizarre – the 70s seemed to have a stranglehold on performing artists crying out for some kind – in fact any kind of help. Take Englebert Humperdink. Granted he had enduring talent which to this day has earned him milliions – but at what point did his manager decide that [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/269/music/how-bizarre-how-bizarre/feed/ 0 http://popdoctor.com/266/pop-culture/elo-and-jeff-lynne-personifying-pop-music/ http://popdoctor.com/266/pop-culture/elo-and-jeff-lynne-personifying-pop-music/#comments Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:57:37 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=266 What do you get when you combine cellos, violins, woodwinds, horns and classical overtones to a stirring rock agenda? Modern Opera? Well kinda. ELO – or for the puritans – The Electric Light Orchestra. Hugely contemporary with unabashed lashings of everything from baroque to renaissance – Jeff Lynne and his wandering band of mistrals defied [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/266/pop-culture/elo-and-jeff-lynne-personifying-pop-music/feed/ 0 http://popdoctor.com/261/pop-culture/kiss-more-than-just-lip-service-to-rock/ http://popdoctor.com/261/pop-culture/kiss-more-than-just-lip-service-to-rock/#comments Mon, 31 May 2010 10:07:00 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=261 Regarded as one of the most influential rock and roll bands of all-time KISS holds honors as one of America’s top gold record champions, recording 36 albums over 32 years selling over 75 million albums worldwide. Performing at everything from the Super Bowl to the 2002 Winter Olympics , the KISS legacy continues to grow, [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/261/pop-culture/kiss-more-than-just-lip-service-to-rock/feed/ 0 http://popdoctor.com/252/movies/what-are-your-five-iconic-70s-films/ http://popdoctor.com/252/movies/what-are-your-five-iconic-70s-films/#comments Fri, 21 May 2010 00:31:56 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=252 From a Joe Ordinary’s point of view, there have been some amazing movies made. Some bizarre, some remarkable and some which simply fall into the iconic class. While every decade had them – the 70′s had a proliferation of all genre’s (at least to this Joe Ordinary’s mind anyway). From Butch Cassidy and the Sundance [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/252/movies/what-are-your-five-iconic-70s-films/feed/ 1 http://popdoctor.com/249/television/tv-hottest-actresses/ http://popdoctor.com/249/television/tv-hottest-actresses/#comments Mon, 10 May 2010 03:05:24 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=249 A recent on-line poll of the world’s sexiest female TV stars of the last 40 years turned up some surprising results. Some of them I agree with, some I find questionable and some, well . . . . Those who made the list 11- 20 include: 20. Batman’s Julie Newmar. 19. Christina Applegate 18. The [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/249/television/tv-hottest-actresses/feed/ 0 http://popdoctor.com/244/television/whats-your-favourite-childhood-cartoon/ http://popdoctor.com/244/television/whats-your-favourite-childhood-cartoon/#comments Fri, 07 May 2010 05:48:11 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=244 Colour and movement – it’s the whole basis behind our existence really – but brought down to its simpliest form – it has been making millions of kids (and adults) laugh for decades – through that most elegant of genre’s – The Cartoon. From the most unpretentious of beginnings such as Walt Disney’s “Steamboat Willie” [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/244/television/whats-your-favourite-childhood-cartoon/feed/ 2 http://popdoctor.com/233/pop-culture/24-hours-who-would-you-hang-with/ http://popdoctor.com/233/pop-culture/24-hours-who-would-you-hang-with/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:43:29 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=233 Given the choice of one person – living or dead – who would you choose to ‘hang’ with for 24 hours? Einstein? Julius Cesear? Shakespeare? Al Gore Perplexing? I won’t taint your thinking with my answer – but given how today has started in the Pop Doc’s surgery – I could probably do with 24 [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/233/pop-culture/24-hours-who-would-you-hang-with/feed/ 0 http://popdoctor.com/230/television/who-is-the-worlds-coolest-cat/ http://popdoctor.com/230/television/who-is-the-worlds-coolest-cat/#comments Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:08:07 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=230 Can you believe it – go home the other night to find the Pop Doctor  clan transfixed by of all things – Felix The Cat – which somehow managed to find its way onto the tube. Without thinking – Felix’s hypnotic presence was enough to plant me in my seat for the next 10 mins – [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/230/television/who-is-the-worlds-coolest-cat/feed/ 2 http://popdoctor.com/211/television/heeyyyyyyy/ http://popdoctor.com/211/television/heeyyyyyyy/#comments Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:44:34 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=211 What was it about the sitcom – Happy Days – that made it sooooo ‘cool’. Let’s face it – when you look at the sum of its parts, the show had little going for it. Imagine going to television executives (in an era when Mannix, The Streets of San Francisco, Kojak and Kung Fu were [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/211/television/heeyyyyyyy/feed/ 1 http://popdoctor.com/207/movies/so-just-who-won-the-war-anyway/ http://popdoctor.com/207/movies/so-just-who-won-the-war-anyway/#comments Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:27:51 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=207 There’s so many things the Japanese have brought to the world’s cultural table. Origami, bonsai and duster slippers for cats. But has there been any more significant gift to the western world than 60’s television animination? Sure – we had our Charlie Brown’s, our Yogi Bear’s and our Bugs Bunny’s – but could anything really [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/207/movies/so-just-who-won-the-war-anyway/feed/ 0 http://popdoctor.com/204/television/nerd-and-geek-hall-of-famers/ http://popdoctor.com/204/television/nerd-and-geek-hall-of-famers/#comments Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:25:36 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=204 Nerds! As much as we probably all admit to being way too cool to ever be considered one – we all have a soft side for them. But who are your favourite nerds? While in real life – Bill Gates would probably rank right up there – on the small screen at least I’ve compiled [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/204/television/nerd-and-geek-hall-of-famers/feed/ 1 http://popdoctor.com/201/television/its-culture-jim-but-not-as-we-know-it/ http://popdoctor.com/201/television/its-culture-jim-but-not-as-we-know-it/#comments Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:10:45 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=201 60’s and 70’s television culture – does it get any better? Let’s face it – cheese sells. How else do you account for season after season of The Munsters – or Lost in Space. How in today’s currency could you even contemplate running series after series of The Brady Bunch or put up with the [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/201/television/its-culture-jim-but-not-as-we-know-it/feed/ 0 http://popdoctor.com/198/pop-culture/meatloaf-and-one-hell-of-an-album/ http://popdoctor.com/198/pop-culture/meatloaf-and-one-hell-of-an-album/#comments Mon, 20 Jul 2009 06:38:53 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=198 ‘The sirens are screaming and the fires are howling Way down in the valley tonight . . . ‘ Could it be that the unmistakable melodic prose of Jim Steinman mixed with the bombastic style of one Marvin Lee Aday – better known to us all as ‘Meatloaf’ – afforded the world one of the [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/198/pop-culture/meatloaf-and-one-hell-of-an-album/feed/ 0 http://popdoctor.com/191/movies/american-graffiti/ http://popdoctor.com/191/movies/american-graffiti/#comments Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:16:40 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=191 “Rock ‘n roll’s been going downhill ever since Buddy Holly died.” Hardly the definitive piece of historic movie dialogue but  . . .  salient in it’s context none-the-less. . . . Happy Days, Grease, Sha-na-na, Laverne and Shirley, Back to The Future Part 1 . . .  there’s little doubt that for the latter part [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/191/movies/american-graffiti/feed/ 0 http://popdoctor.com/176/pop-culture/songs-that-you-cant-get-out-of-your-head/ http://popdoctor.com/176/pop-culture/songs-that-you-cant-get-out-of-your-head/#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:37:12 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=176 They say that music matters most when you’re a teenager. Apparently (as reported in an article appearing the in the SMH back in 2004) it is a ‘social lubricant and signifier in your 20s and represents the person you remember you were (and wish you were still) when you’re in your 30s and 40s’. “Along [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/176/pop-culture/songs-that-you-cant-get-out-of-your-head/feed/ 2 http://popdoctor.com/173/television/classic-tv/favourite-tv-families/ http://popdoctor.com/173/television/classic-tv/favourite-tv-families/#comments Sun, 21 Jun 2009 08:05:12 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=173 Remember the Huxtables  from The Cosby show – and how cool they were? Or how about the Brady’s? Perhaps The Taylors from Home Improvement or better still maybe The Cunningham’s from Happy Days. Just about all of us had a favourite TV Family – that we longed to be a part of – for whatever reason. Ok, [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/173/television/classic-tv/favourite-tv-families/feed/ 0 http://popdoctor.com/170/movies/who-would-play-your-life-on-film/ http://popdoctor.com/170/movies/who-would-play-your-life-on-film/#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:38:37 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=170 If Hollywood made a movie about your life, whom would you like to see play the lead role as you? Would is be one of the pretty boys like Pitt or a glamour like Lauren Bacall? Would Humphrey Bogart get your nod of approval or would Drew Barrymore be your first choice? Perhaps you’re more [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/170/movies/who-would-play-your-life-on-film/feed/ 0 http://popdoctor.com/157/pop-culture/which-decade-was-cooler-60s-vs-the-70s/ http://popdoctor.com/157/pop-culture/which-decade-was-cooler-60s-vs-the-70s/#comments Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:51:12 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=157 Damn – that’s a tough one! Conversation turned to this at a party held in the confines of the Doctor’s palatial residence recently – and the jury was still out 2 hours after the topic was raised. Jimmy Hendrix vs Elton John, The Beatles v the Bee Gees, the Moon Landing vs Star Wars – the lists [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/157/pop-culture/which-decade-was-cooler-60s-vs-the-70s/feed/ 2 http://popdoctor.com/154/television/tv-homes-i-would-choose-to-live-in/ http://popdoctor.com/154/television/tv-homes-i-would-choose-to-live-in/#comments Sat, 06 Jun 2009 20:10:45 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=154 From time to time – as you do – I dragged out a copy of the old Happy Days TV series the other day – complete with Richie, The Fonz, Ralph Malph, Potsie and the gang – just to lighten the mood around the palatial Pop Doctor estate. The sugary sweet, ‘twee’ nature of the [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/154/television/tv-homes-i-would-choose-to-live-in/feed/ 4 http://popdoctor.com/151/pop-culture/air-guitar-fans-unite/ http://popdoctor.com/151/pop-culture/air-guitar-fans-unite/#comments Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:34:24 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=151 What is it about 70’s music that evokes seemingly mature men to spontaneously adopt a Fender air guitar stance amidst normally civil (yet like-minded) individuals – and women to shun their inhabitations and regail in either the Nut-Bush or encouraging their girlfriends to join them on the dance floor – simply because “I love this [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/151/pop-culture/air-guitar-fans-unite/feed/ 0