time trippin'

JJ Pierce sent me an amusing Gene Autry serial, the first installment of the Phantom Empire – unconstrained by genre boundaries, it combines science fiction, the Western, cheesy heroics, radio miracles, and Gene Autry pickin' and singin', when he's not after mad scientists and aliens from the center of the Earth --

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEbTWHpuXsU

Released in 1935.  The same year, coincidentally, as a favorite Woody Guthrie song – "So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh" – which was the first song I ever learned, maybe fifteen years later.

Joe