Season's Greetings

The Iceman Cometh

With thanks to our CT correspondent.

Significant Otherness?

Lifted from a blog about circuses without permission.  Ew.

Meaning Maybe Romance

Take a close look.
Courtesy of Eastside Jack and an unknown genius.

Foodie Jesus Hath Risen

"Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese?"

With thanks to Feathers and RER. 

Fuck Your Lower East Side Terrarium

With thanks to S99 for moral support in dealing with the cockroach and for this.

Hieronymus Henson

The Garden of Earthly Delights suffers fuzzy apocrypha. 

With thanks to Feathers. 

Back to school!

Fantasy is reality

Troll, when are you going to be talented enough to make this animal?  

With thanks to Feathers.

Elfy finery, but where's the elf?

As dedicated followers know, I'm obsessed with both elfy finery and unexplained disapparation.  I don't know whether this scene on Ludlow St. was a breakup, a Middle-Earth dustup that spilled over into our world, or--dare I wonder--a trap laid for me.

Sparks 1969

Some other guy's taco

Commanding thusly from a gas station.

Gomez's Hamburger

What you eat when you're on the road with Hawkwind, no doubt.  Thanks to GLG.

Lost: pasties

These look kind of like giant spiders?  In all honesty, this summer is so gross, I can see why even pasties would feel like too much.  (I'm sure Stormy in his capacity as a busking consultant would concur.  Flaunt it if you got it, proud buskers of Walnut St.!)  Courtesy RER.

Modern Life...

..."Dinner with Barack" ad was beckoning while I listened to this. Now I'll have something to talk about with him.

New favorite song

It's the beginning of a new age

Merry troglodytes share their new age tape collections with tampon taxidermists.

Grab this one immediately: "The following words are repeated over and over behind the music -- unheard by your conscious mind, but perceived by your unconscious. “Sensual. Bonding. Seductive. Love. Sex. Union. Two into one. Arousal. Desire. Passion. Merge soul energy. Become one. Longing. Attain wholeness. Completeness. Love. Beloved. Whispered words. Whispered desires. Love. Passion. Melding. Merging. Intensity. Excitement. Love. Passion. Hunger. Thirst. Love. Craving. Carnal. Heat. Urgency. Love. Flesh. Tantalizing. Zeal. Stroking. Fondling. Love. Taste. Rhythm. Passion. Love. Satisfaction.”

I have made the acquaintance of Happy Myller (he arrives about 1:40):




I've found the one reviewer I can really trust:

I'M FUSSY TOO, RICHARD!

Just grab everything here too. Moroder here.

Pickle liberation redux

These pickles need to organize.  Solo emancipation seems to lead only to indignity and ruin.

Happy summer, y'all!

Foil Me Once

From the opening shots of the dancers' hand-on-boob shirts to the rampant eye patches, there is a lot of inspiration here.  Make sure you stick around for the Aladdin Sane-inspired sequence!  With extra cape!

With thanks to S99. 

Putting a price on happiness

Spotted in the Phoenix, AZ convention center.  Along with a lot of other shit.

Reading the prog distributor's new releases email...

I think I'll just make this a regular series. Some of the quotes come from press releases...unfortunately one person doesn't write all of this.

"about 3/5ths instrumental and 2/5ths vocal"

"possibly provides an answer to the question, 'Why didn't he join the Genesis reunion tour?'"

"This is for folks who like groups like Morglbl...but with an even crunchier vibe."

"a triple album telling in 22 songs and 30 instrumentals Darwin's life, concepts and works"

"a 34 minute suite of impassioned ferocity"

"Are you ready for Kalabalik!?!"

"although Fripp is not physically present on this recording"

"the aye-aye, the blue-footed booby, the magnapinna squid, the blobfish, the elephant shrew, the anglerfish, the solenodon, and the tardigrade"

"a daxophone, the glass armonica, the theremin, the stylophone, the claviola, and the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots."

"glowering, sepulchral brass undertows"

"If you like symphonic progressive, you probably will feel undernourished with this album"

"As Hot Casa explains"

"Force them to use only original instruments as mellotron, minimoog, hammond, theremin, fender rhodes."

"Everybody except Hildegard, who watches over Can and its work like the dragon over the gold of the Nibelungen and doesn’t allow forgetting."

"Each LP comes with a demon mask..."

Number one

 

From Sweden despite appearances

And then the strings come in

The Liverbirds

I seriously only checked the band out because I laughed so hard at a description that began "The Liverbirds (sometimes spelled Liver Birds)..."

Those teenagers look a little off because on account of they're German.

Germany 1981

I figured it looked and sounded like this

Put another foot up

"scenes of The Cramps show in the Napa State Mental Hospital"

The Hep Stars

The cute one

The girl

Steve Gunn

The herps

The drummer

 "The chances are that, had ABBA never come along making Benny Andersson (and his three partners in the group) into an international pop-rock star, no one outside of Sweden would ever have heard of the Hep Stars. They were the hottest rock band of the middle-to-late '60s in Sweden, however, considered by some to be that country's answer to the Beatles. The Hep Stars also charted 20 singles in their own country and had hits in the Netherlands, as well as building a following in Germany — and their CDs are exported around the world as a result of the ABBA connection."

Have I Sinned?

 

I love the dance at the end of this one:  

 

From just a few years earlier (I wish time still moved this quickly):  

 

He's from Glenwillard Pennsylvania  

 

and The Tammys were his back-up group (as you can hear in Have I Sinned)  

We Love Our Queen

Thanks, Stormy, for inspiration.  

Reading the prog distributor's new releases email...

...is one of my favorite activities


"this is pretty great for fans of drummerless chamber rock"

"this would have blown my mind had I actually heard it in 1981"

"It's a heady mixture of pub rock..."

"Included here are Aqua, Epsilon In Malaysian Pale, Ages, Stuntman and Pinnacles plus..."

"The Minimoog playing of Benoit Widemann is what really makes this for me"

"shuttling between jazz and rock with furious instrumentals with lots of flute and violin"

"pretty utterly fantastic big band Zeuhl album"

"In Kabbalah the samech represents the infinite power of the Ein Sof, G-d’s infinite light."

"this is not a skronk disc"

"sometimes festive and sometimes tortured"

"Think of the great, under-recognized early 70s trio Back Door brought completely and utterly up to date as a jazz/rock outfit."

"terminally unhip but great stringed instruments"

"an amusing undercurrent of reggae and rock rhythms"

"the song St Pancake uses a local press report about the appearance of the Virgin Mary in a pancake!"

"Romantic ballads, ambient soundscapes and hardcore intensity!"

"Some really great synthesizer work here, plus it's nice to see Kaske not abandon the flute"

And yes, I'm buying some of these albums. The seller really knows his clientele.

Shuper Man and Shuper Lady

Why I never stop by Stormy & Peter's place unannounced

On Civil and Social Disobedience

Thoreau also wore a neck-beard for many years, which he insisted many women found attractive.^[20] However, Louisa May Alcott mentioned to Ralph Waldo Emerson that Thoreau's facial hair "will most assuredly deflect amorous advances and preserve the man's virtue in perpetuity."^[20]

Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson judged Thoreau's endorsement of living alone and apart from modern society in natural simplicity to be a mark of "unmanly" effeminacy and "womanish solitude", while deeming him a self-indulgent "skulker."^[79]

Come in Tommy

Start at 00:58. I think I was meant to do this vocal commentary. In fact, I do it to Peter every day. This video makes me uncontrollably happy. (I almost spelled that "untrollably.")

Masculinity as preferred conduct: Hot Rocks edition

For and by Delphina.

And then he pulled out his well-lathered dulaa...

*** Lemmy ***

via

Tea Party

I've been keeping this one to myself for too long

He just dropped her

 

Was everyone such a good sport?

In Beauty and the Beast, we had a hard time with Klaus Kinski. Susan Sarandon played Beauty, and at one point, he was walking down the hallway carrying her for a scene, and Roger Vadim, our director, yelled "cut," and he just dropped her. It was really tense between them. Later, when he turns into a prince, he brought in Thomas Gainsborough's painting "Blue Boy," and said he wanted to look exactly like that. We brought in rubber bands to pull his skin back to make him look . . . more princely. We're filming and we do this effect where he turns from the beast into the prince and Susan Sarandon's line is, "Are such miracles possible?" She couldn't say the line without cracking up. He was getting angrier and angrier and the bands holding his skin back started popping.

Can't see the forest for the...

With profound ,,thanks,, to JTL.

The Things They Carried

Do you see what I see? I'm not imagining the perversion of this painter, am I?

Makin' Bacon

Denmark is the only country in the world that has more pigs than people.

Polymer Prince treasure trail

many, many more photos

Insane maracas torture

Ok, sorry guys, these are *really* gonna hurt your brains, but you have to watch both, all the way through. Non-negotiable.

Life and death are just things you do when you're bored

It is the evening of the hey hey hey

Wait for it.

from the wild and pervy world of... knitting?

All in the game yo, all in the game.

In this short-lived ABC drama, cops discuss their feelings after a hard day on the beat.  Part One of a continuing series!

Delphina n' Tina

A note of encouragement from Delphina n' Tina: Keep up those New Year's resolutions. Also, could you go out and pick us up a pack of cigarettes, thanks.

Oh My God! I think I'm becoming the man I wanted to marry

Trés Bonne Année