YOU ARE UNDER HIS POWER

From Marshall Sylver Teaches You Self-Hypnosis (1990)

Marshall Sylver is a motivational speaker, author and hypnotist. A self-styled 'Millionaire Maker', he claims to be able to give anyone who attends his seminars the power to be a success. In 2003, he was sued by nine unhappy, presumably poor customers but managed somehow to persuade the judge and jury that there was no case to answer. 

WALLY BRANDO

The new series of Twin Peaks is so much better than I could have even hoped. Eighteen episodes is not really enough, but gives Lynch just enough time to include some diversions, such as the wonderful scene with Wally Brando. Spin off, please.  

INBETWEENERS

More just before and right after frames from Hanna Barbera, this time from The New Scooby Doo Movies (1972), a pretty average show in which Mystery Inc. team up with such luminaries as The Three Stooges, Laurel & Hardy, Sonny and Cher, Batman and Robin, the Addams Family, the Harlem Globetrotters, Davy Jones from The Monkees and Mama Cass. Yep, really. 

Why is everything so purple? Well, because Scooby Doo adventures mainly take place at night, that's when the fake ghosts come out. 

EVERYBODY'S GOING TO THE RAPTURE

I'LL MEET YOU THERE (2017)

OPTICAL ART

 

As a child, all Kenyan artist Cyrus Kabiru wanted was a pair of glasses, but his strict Dad forbade him from wearing them. Now he rootles through the rubbish tips of Nairobi, looking for chunks of metal and strips of wire he can use to sculpt unique spectacles that wouldn't look out of place on the incredible Sun Ra, the thinking and feeling person's Elton John.

I've been wearing glasses since I was nine, as of today, a mere forty years. I've clearly been doing it wrong.

SCI FI OF OLD TIMES

A RÉGI IDÖK SCI-FIJE is a 1982 Hungarian television tribute to the golden age of Science Fiction, soundtracked by music from the Human League and Kraftwerk amongst others. It gets quite trippy, but that's outer space for you. 

INCREASE YOUR EFFECTIVENESS

From Video Hypnotics: Mood Elevation (1987)

ACQUIRING NEW TARGET

SMOOTH OPERATOR

From Jangal Mein Mangal, the Professor gets his swerve on. With an opening gambit like that, how can he fail?

IN THE JUNGLE, AUSPICIOUS

I am always fascinated and delighted by Bollywood films, they do things so differently there. Jangal Mein Mangal is a strange film, a light romantic comedy punctuated by murders committed by an unstoppable zombie. Here, some cheeky girls use their hair, hips, lips and chests to terrorise a bunch of scared old men, sorry, eligible bachelors.

The title of the film is, apparently, somewhat ambiguous, even in Hindi. It is literally translated as 'in the jungle, auspicious', but is actually more like a proverb about good things coming out of chaos. In keeping with the slightly risque themes highlighted in the above clip, it can also mean 'a vacuum can be filled', perhaps the closest Bollywood gets to smut.