Saturday Matinee – Docteur Legume et Les Surfwerks, Marcus King w/ MonoNeon & Chris “Daddy” Dave, and The BluesBones

“This is a fine set of slightly disturbed surf-space-euro instrumentals. The writing is excellent, and the tone quite intense. Spaghetti, surf, sci-fi, and creativity!” -Phil Dirt, Reverb Central
Docteur Legume et Les Surfwerks is a mysterious retro surf space rock one-man band from Allessandria, Italy. Docteur Legume (aka Klänge, aka Modified Ambience) appears to be Massimiliano Bocchio.

Atomic Habitz is a jazz fusion funk rock supergroup trio consisting of Marcus King /guitar & vocals, MonoNeon / bass, and Chris”Daddy” Dave / drums. Amazing talents.

The BluesBones are a blues rock band from Belgium, founded by frontman Nico De Cock in 2011. They’ve won numerous awards, and are the only group to hit No. 1 on the UK Blues Charts three times in a row.

News of the Week: Iran is still being dickish. CNN, MS NOW and Politico threw tantrums for being told to stand in the corner. NBC released a report recommending that we keep refrigerator doors closed, and Xi Jinping chuckled at a picture of an autopen. A big nor’easter is pounding the northeast, while Hurricane Polo is headed for the Baja peninsula and Hurricane Nolo is about to whack Hawaii.

I probably missed some things, but we can cover those and more at Porch Time tomorrow. Be there or be equilateral rectangle.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 973 – Latte Acapella, A Happy Generator & Pinniped Rotation

[Found here, here and here.]

Garbage City


Manshiyat Naser district, Cairo, Egypt
It is famous for the Garbage City quarter, which is a slum settlement at the far southern end of Manshiyat Naser, at the base of Mokattam hills on the outskirts of Cairo. Being Cairo’s largest concentration of “Zabbaleen” garbage collectors, its economy revolves around the collection and recycling of the city’s garbage.

Although Manshiyat Naser has streets, shops, and apartments as other areas of the city, it lacks infrastructure and often has no running water, sewers, or electricity.

[Photo from 2009 found here.]

Five Bugs and a Snail

OH, wonder I much about what this book contains !
Can Insects talk and do they have brains ?
I always thought that these queer little things
Were made up entirely of legs, wings and stings.

[From Comic Insects by The Rev. F.A.S. Reid, illustrated by Berry F. Berry, London, 1872. Found via here; click for larger images. ]

Paranoia Street

Ophthalmology clinic, Tainan City, Taiwan, 1962. Wang Shuangquan photographer.

[Found here, colorized by Grok.]

PLASTICS!

Images from Servants of Modern Industry, Monsanto Plastics’ 1940 product data manual includes properties and applications of various plastics.

[Link found here.]

Helminthological Hot Links

Oh My Angel, Bertha Tillman (1962) “R&B singer Bertha Tillman was born in Texas, but moved to San Diego where her career started. She only recorded a few singles, including her cover of the oldies staple “Oh My Angel” and a song called “I Wish” (released as Bertha Tillman & The Killers), both appearing on Bob Shad‘s New York label Brent Records. She died in San Diego on May 31, 1993, at the age of 50.”

Mitts.

Pro tip.

Tiny nails.

Dance hard.

Pips & Nubs.

Fast food race.

Train engines.

CASRSPLASHART.

Harmonic morons.

Totem if ya gottem.

Lyncornis macrotis.

Melbourne’s bridges.

The Hat Toss of 2017.

St. Petersburg bridge.

A counter in the hood.
Another counter.

Pierogie & Scammer Payback.

“What happened to your arm?“

Flashed Face Distortion Effect.

Gov. Gavin & Jake T. went fishing.

Slinky heaven [via Everlasting Blört].

Pointer pointer [via Memo Of The Air].

Compound Pejorative Frequency Chart.

US-101 plays itself [via Thompson, blog].

A gated community [via this isn’t happiness].

[Top image: Sonny’s Discount Grocery, 1034 S. Main St., High Point, NC. In 2013, Sonny’s sold other things besides groceries, and it appears to be under new ownership. Found here.]

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Saturday Matinee – Big Daddy Wilson, Los Lonely Boys & Ryan Newman

Big Daddy Wilson (born Adam Wilson Blount in 1960) worked in the cotton and tobacco plantations of North Carolina during his childhood. He quit school at 16, and to escape poverty, enlisted in the US Army in 1979. While stationed in Germany he became interested in the blues, and having sung in gospel choirs he decided to pursue a career in music. [More details here.]

From San Angelo, Texas, Los Lonely Boys are brothers Henry (vocals, guitar), Jojo (bass, vocals) and Ringo Garza (drums). They’ve been performing Latino soul since 1996.

Guitar prodigy from Chester, Connecticut, Ryan Newman was eleven years old when he performed with blues great John Mayall, and not as a novelty act. Since then Newman has built a reputation across Southern New England and New York, and in 2021, the New England Music Hall of Fame awarded him their inaugural Best New Artist honor.

News of the Week: Iran is still effing around in the Strait of Hormuz, Greenland has agreed to allow new US military bases, and ugly women are upset with Sydney Sweeney’s looks. The Texas Big Bend border wall is starting construction, people are protesting the Kennedy Center repairs, and someone found a cat in Bolivia. The heat wave finally broke before our windows melted, and that means some time on the porch has been scheduled for tomorrow. See you at noon thirty o’clock.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 972 – Whap Whap Whiff Whiff, the Clappers & the BouncyCam

[Found here, here and here.]

Barfitecture

Tours Aillaud, Paris, built in 1976, designed by Architect Émile Aillaud.

“Without respect for the body as it is, social memory as it stands, there is no such thing as a workable or humane architecture. And that’s why a place like this – La Defence outside Paris, is experienced by everybody, including those who live in it, as a piece of social scar tissue, gimmicky, condescending alphaville modernism. Stick ‘em in concrete boxes and give them some concrete to play on, and then paint it all bright colours because that’s what the kiddies like, and if the kiddies don’t like it, they can write to the minister!”
Robert Hughes, art critic 1980.

[Found here.]