{"id":211,"date":"2007-10-07T12:09:27","date_gmt":"2007-10-07T18:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=211"},"modified":"2014-09-06T15:00:12","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T21:00:12","slug":"from-exotica-to-the-eclectic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=211","title":{"rendered":"From exotica to the &#8220;Eclectic&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">I&#8217;d like to talk up a pair of publications that I recently\u00a0worked on, both of which coincidentally hit the streets two weeks ago. One revels in cinema of the most obscure standing while the other shimmys\u00a0with glee in its\u00a0celebration of\u00a0an atomic culture gone by.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Second pleasure first, I was asked by local &#8220;retro&#8221; connoiseur <strong>Jason Croft<\/strong> to design the debut issue of <strong><u>Bachelor Pad Magazine<\/u><\/strong>. This quarterly will usher into print the interests of Croft&#8217;s <a title=\"Java's Bachelor Pad :: Home Page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.javasbachelorpad.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">similarly-named Web site<\/a> and radio program &#8211; primarily, all things invoking the Fifties and Sixties &#8220;bachelor lifestyle&#8221; including Hi-Fi lounge music, pattern-dependent threads, gorgeously buxom pin-ups, and fancy drinky-drinks meant to be sipped with sophistication, not chugged like a hooligan. <a title=\"Bachelor Pad magazine :: Home Page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bachelorpadmagazineonline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Go right here<\/a> for all your ordering information needs or pick up the real deal at <strong>Exile on Main Street<\/strong>, <strong>Furniture Lounge<\/strong>, or <strong>Skins-n-Tins Drum Shop<\/strong> in downtown Champaign. The next issue is scheduled for a December release.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Bachelor Pad Magazine (Jason Croft) and The Eclectic Screening Room (Dutch Angle Press)\" alt=\"Bachelor Pad Magazine (Jason Croft) and The Eclectic Screening Room (Dutch Angle Press)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/Images\/CUBlog%20Art\/cu_bachpad_eclecticVHS.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Elsewhere, I contributed photos and text for <strong><u>The Eclectic Screening Room<\/u><\/strong>, a Toronto-based\u00a0zine that attempts to answer\u00a0(in the new\u00a0issue 19) the burning question, &#8220;Is VHS really dead?&#8221; For the average point-of-purchase consumer, the response\u00a0<em>is<\/em> pretty obvious, but for those whom research and rummage\u00a0are part and parcel to unearthing the strange and forgotten, VHS cassettes might still be worth a rewind. My contribution recalls the mass\u00a0eviction of\u00a0half-inch from the shelves of\u00a0<strong>That&#8217;s Rentertainment<\/strong> in 2005. Contact editor <strong>Greg Woods<\/strong> for <a title=\"The Eclectic Screening Room :: Home Page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.screening-room.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">ordering info at this site<\/a>; rumor has it that each copy includes a bonus mystery VHS tape. Get &#8217;em while they last!<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your editor plays hooky from C-U Blogfidential to travel both forks down the publishing road, providing words + pix for &#8220;The Eclectic Screening Room&#8221; and the way-out layout for &#8220;Bachelor Pad Magazine.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jp-confidential"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}