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Hawkwind - Orgone Accumulator (1973)
This song references Wilhelm Reich, the inventor of the Orgone Energy Accumulator, a wooden cupboard about the size of a telephone booth, lined with metal and insulated with steel wool.
Reich considered his orgone accumulator an almost magical device that could improve its users' "orgastic potency" and, by extension, their general, and above all mental, health.
Woody Allen famously parodied it in Sleeper (1973), giving it the immortal nickname the "Orgasmatron".
Jim White - Handcuffed to a Fence in Mississippi (2001)
Things is always better than they seem.
The Crucifixion Of Holy Saint Adolf by Adolf Wölfli (1864 - 1930)
The artist had a traumatic and violent childhood, and was committed to a mental asylum in his 20s, where he spent the rest of his life. It was during his incarceration that he started drawing, eventually producing over 1500 works and a 25,000 page illustrated 'biography' of Saint Adolf.
Does anyone out there actually like Mackie's crisps?
They seem to be on sale everywhere in Scotland, but I think they're the worst crisps I've ever tasted. I bought some the other day because I fancied some crisps with my sandwich and they were the only brand the cafe had. They went in a bin about 10 minutes later. Just awful, like eating compressed dust.