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

A low-cost napkin for the mazzes

An Indian Inventor Disrupts The Period Industry

In the first paragraph: "Fashioning his own menstruating uterus by filling a bladder with goat's blood..."

Henry Cow

This one embodies everything good about everything:



This one has their names:

Inspiration for the shortest days of the year

Make no mistake: this post is a not-veiled threat to Troll. If he doesn't resume participation in Le Taxi', I will happily expose his egg-bathing past.

Side-effects of modernity

"A physician in South Dakota reported that he sent a mass e-mail one night, full of foul language, to many friends and family inviting them to go on vacation to Mexico."

Courtesy RER.

Patron Saints of Snoot Snout: This thing

Ghost of Thanksgiving Future

Seriously, you bitches, why have we been celebrating our holidays apart? Something to think about when you're getting hammered on vodka on Xmas.

Life, A Senseless Terror

Accompaniment for a grim December weekend...

Proper feather strut

No, Stormy, you're not the only one. What I wouldn't give for this hairdo and similar elfy feathery fineries.

Scarved and feathered

Am I the only one waiting for O.D. to strike it rich so she can strut proper?

All tomorrow's hoagies

(Image)

Declared the “official sandwich of Philadelphia” by Mayor Ed Rendell in 1992 as part of the first Wawa Hoagie Day—now celebrated during Wawa Welcome America! Fourth of July festivities—the hoagie is a built-to-order sandwich on a long Italian roll, typically filled with deli meat and cheese, garnished with fresh lettuce, tomatoes and onions, and finished with a drizzle of oregano-vinegar dressing. Accounts of the hoagie’s origin vary greatly, and scholars are still debating exactly where and when the sandwich was conceived. Here’s a look at some of the colorful competing stories that continue to circulate:

The Hokie:
According to a 1967 article in American Speech, the word “hoagie” was first used in the late 19th or early 20th century among the Italian community in South Philadelphia. In those days, “On the hoke” was a slang term for a poor person. Deli owners would give away meat and cheese scraps on a long roll called a “hokie,” but Italian immigrants pronounced it “hoagie.”

The Hokey:
The Philadelphia Almanac and Citizen’s Manual tells of late 19th-century street vendors named “hokey-pokey men,” who sold antipasto salad, meats and cookies. When Gilbert and Sullivan’s opera Pinafore opened in Philadelphia in 1879, bakeries produced a long loaf called the pinafore, and the enterprising hokey-pokey men sliced it in half, filled it with antipasto and sold it as a “hokey,” a name that evolved into “hoagie.”

Late Night Hoagie:
In 1925, a Chester couple opened the A. DiCostanza grocery store, which stayed open past midnight to accommodate gamblers from the nearby Palermo’s bar. One night, a hungry card player walked to the back of the store when Catherine DiCostanza was cooking peppers and asked if she would make him a sandwich. She asked what kind of meat he wanted and he waved to the deli counter, and said, “Put everything you have in the case in it.” She took a loaf of Vienna bread and sliced it open and stuffed it. He asked her to put some of her peppers in, too. He left, and an hour later, the place was full of hungry gamblers asking for the same kind of sandwich, which would later be known as the hoagie.

Hoggies:
Italian immigrants working on the Hog Island shipyard during World War I (1914-1918) would bring giant sandwiches filled with cold cuts, spices and vegetables for their lunches. The workers were nicknamed “hoggies,” and over time, the name, with a different spelling, came to be attached to the sandwiches.

Hogans:
In another version, Italian workers at Hog Island brought these same type of sandwiches to lunch, and an Irish worker looked enviously at his Italian friend and offered to buy one if his wife would make two. The Italian man went home and said, “Tomorrow, make two sandwiches, one for me and one for Hogan.” Thereafter, everyone started to call the sandwiches “Hogans,” later shortened to hoagie.

King of the Hoggies:
During the Depression (1929-1939), an unemployed Philadelphian named Al DePalma went to Hog Island to find work on the shipyard. When he saw workers on their lunch breaks eating giant sandwiches, his first thought was “Those fellas look like a bunch of hogs.” Instead of applying for a job, he decided to open up his own luncheonette and listed the sandwiches on his menu as “hoggies.” During the late 1930s, DePalma joined forces with Buccelli’s Bakery and developed the perfect 8-inch roll. Later, during World War II, he turned the back room of the restaurant into a factory to supply sandwiches for the shipyard workers, thus earning him the nickname as “The King of the Hoggies.” Because customers kept calling them “hoagies,” he eventually changed the name.

I can feel you crawling in my hair tonight

"symmetrical phil collins"

Victorian Hair Workers International

Tampon Taxidermy Destinations:

Leila's Hair Museum

via Victorian Hair Workers International

Then the devil sang

While we're on the subject, I'd like to point out that Dennis Parker was by no means the biggest ecstatic freak strutting around midtown in the 70s. What these guys may lack in exquisite teeth they make up in...every other goddamn thing.