We Are the Mutants
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items: You Can Only Watch 20 Films for the Rest of Your Life
items: Kool Kelly’s Place: True Confessions of an ’80s Bedroom
items: Ain’t No Golden Age: On the Banality of Nostalgia Memes
items: “An Important Place in Their Lives”: Musicland Sales Brochure, 1978
items: Tubular Terrors: ‘The Possessed’
items: Alien Renaissance: An Interview with Illustrator Bob Fowke
items: Truckin’ for Souls: Explo ’72 and the Jesus Revolution
items: “No Glue or Glass Bottles”: The Gateshead Music Collective
items: Tubular Terrors: ‘The Norliss Tapes’
items: You Weren’t Supposed to Be Spooky: Non-Halloween Songs for Halloween

You Can Only Watch 20 Films for the Rest of Your Life
type: item
creator: K.E. Roberts
date: 2025-08-14T04:17:35Z
subject: Film & TV
subject: Features
description: By The Mutants Think about the list strategically. It’s for the rest of your life! What will you watch when you’re sad? When you’re high? When the holidays roll around? When you’ve got the flu? When you need to believe that goodness prevails?
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Kool Kelly’s Place: True Confessions of an ’80s Bedroom
type: item
creator: K.E. Roberts
date: 2024-12-17T17:10:30Z
subject: Old World Culture
subject: Features
subject: Recollections
description: By The Mutants A few months ago my dad sent me a whole bunch of pictures on a flash drive. This was one of them. It's my bedroom in 1987. I’m 15...
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Ain’t No Golden Age: On the Banality of Nostalgia Memes
type: item
creator: K.E. Roberts
date: 2024-11-27T19:05:04Z
subject: Computers, Science & Technology
subject: Features
description: By The Mutants The image is important because it captures something desperately tragic about where we're at and how we see ourselves...
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“An Important Place in Their Lives”: Musicland Sales Brochure, 1978
type: item
creator: K.E. Roberts
date: 2024-11-12T19:43:06Z
subject: Music & Sound
subject: Features
subject: Recollections
description: By The Mutants How do you describe to someone who hasn’t experienced it before exactly how it felt to walk into the record store before the internet? When music was your life.
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Tubular Terrors: ‘The Possessed’
type: item
creator: Richard McKenna
date: 2024-10-25T16:50:11Z
subject: Film & TV
subject: Features
subject: Reviews
subject: Tubular Terrors
description: By Richard McKenna Blatantly trying to ride the audience numbers of 1973's The Exorcist, the same year's Satan's School for Girls, and 1976's The Omen and Carrie, The Possessed is, predictably, imbued with the whole period's ubiquitous post-Watergate feeling of gloom...
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Alien Renaissance: An Interview with Illustrator Bob Fowke
type: item
creator: Richard McKenna
date: 2024-05-06T01:03:24Z
subject: Art & Illustration
subject: Features
description: By Richard McKenna Of all the visionary artists to emerge from the illustration boom of the '60s and '70s, Bob Fowke must be one of the most unfairly neglected...
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Truckin’ for Souls: Explo ’72 and the Jesus Revolution
type: item
creator: Michael Grasso
date: 2024-02-21T16:47:09Z
subject: History & Politics
subject: Features
description: By Michael Grasso Near the end of Richard Nixon's first term, the forces of conservatism and reaction were in the ascendancy in America. This public resurgence of “traditional values” was itself a counter-revolution against the turmoil unleashed by the young...
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“No Glue or Glass Bottles”: The Gateshead Music Collective
type: item
creator: Richard McKenna
date: 2023-11-27T15:57:32Z
subject: Music & Sound
subject: Features
subject: Reviews
description: By Richard McKenna An oral history of the Gateshead Music Collective (or GMC) in the words of the young people who started it, ran it, and frequented it in the 1980s...
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Tubular Terrors: ‘The Norliss Tapes’
type: item
creator: Michael Grasso
date: 2023-10-31T16:59:39Z
subject: Film & TV
subject: Features
subject: Tubular Terrors
description: By Michael Grasso This Halloween, I decided to give another of Kolchak producer Dan Curtis's horror TV movies a try. The Norliss Tapes, which aired on NBC in February of 1973, features another favorite of genre sci-fi and horror TV, Roy Thinnes, in the lead role...
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You Weren’t Supposed to Be Spooky: Non-Halloween Songs for Halloween
type: item
creator: Richard McKenna
date: 2023-10-30T14:57:01Z
subject: Music & Sound
subject: Features
description: By The Mutants So read on to discover the songs that, despite having no actual connection to the 31st of October, yet produce a frisson of seasonal alarm in the paranormally persecuted inhabitants of mutant mansions...
encoded: Features / October 30, 2023 <img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-41123" data-attachment-id="41123" data-permalink="https://wearethemutants.com/2023/10/30/you-werent-supposed-to-be-spooky-non-halloween-songs-for-halloween/screen-shot-2023-09-30-at-13-22-02/" data-orig-file="https://wearethemutants.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/screen-shot-2023-09-30-at-13.22.02.png" data-orig-size="791,596" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Screen Shot 2023-09-30 at 13.22.02" data-image-description="" data-image-caption=" Photo: Teesside Gazette " data-medium-file="https://wearethemutants.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/screen-shot-2023-09-30-at-13.22.02.png?w=300" data-large-file="https://wearethemutants.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/screen-shot-2023-09-30-at-13.22.02.png?w=700" loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-41123" src="https://wearethemutants.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/screen-shot-2023-09-30-at-13.22.02.png" alt="Screen Shot 2023-09-30 at 13.22.02" width="791" height="596" srcset="https://wearethemutants.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/screen-shot-2023-09-30-at-13.22.02.png 791w, https://wearethemutants.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/screen-shot-2023-09-30-at-13.22.02.png?w=150&h=113 150w, https://wearethemutants.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/screen-shot-2023-09-30-at-13.22.02.png?w=300&h=226 300w, https://wearethemutants.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/screen-shot-2023-09-30-at-13.22.02.png?w=768&h=579 768w" sizes="(max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px" /> Photo: Teesside Gazette Ever tried carving a turnip? Attempting to prise out chunks of the cold, iron-hard flesh is about as gratifying as it sounds, and yet, pumpkins still being an outré foreign exoticism in the crepuscular 1970s, turnips were what they gave us kids of the UK, when they gave us anything at al…