Month: November 2024

Cepivorous Hot Links

Hymn to Nikal, unkown Hurrian composer (ca. 1400 bc)
This hymn is the oldest known musical melody. The ancient musical fragment dates to 1400 BC and was discovered in the 1950’s in Ugarit, Syria. [Performed by Michael Levy on the lyre.]

10,946

Delusions.

ALL PLAID.

Marketing.

10 Reasons.

Chrome logos.

In the year 3129.

The crushed legacy.

Remember The Time.

Change just one word.

Dachshund swim class.

Norty Blues Episode 89.

100 years of chasing cars.

Mission Temple Fireworks Stand.

The Gunfighter [via Memo Of The Air].

Extreme droning [via Mme. Jujujive].

The Great Ovine Flood [via Bunkerville].

Meth mouse, danger chicken, sky raisin, and more.

The Third-Term Panic of 1874 [via The View From Lady Lake].

[Top image:  Urartu Sphinx, 9th-6th century BC, found here.]

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.

Saturday Matinee – Mitch Woods, The Bruce Katz Band & Tas Cru

Born in Brooklyn in 1951, Mitch Woods began playing classical piano at eleven, but his real initiation into blues and boogie piano had already been assured at age eight. “My mom would hire this superintendent of the building, a black man, Mr. Brown, to take me to school, and we stopped off at his cousin’s house, where somebody was playing boogie-woogie piano. It really hit me.”

Mitch Woods (without his Rocket 88s) makes it look easy on the streets of New York.

The Bruce Katz Band features Bruce Katz on Hammond B3, Aaron Lieberman on guitar and drummer Liviu Pop (whose snare mic got disconnected in this song).

Singer, songwriter and guitarist Tas Cru is an eclectic, performing original songs that mix roots rock, blues and gospel. Good stuff.

Some interesting historical events transpired this week, and now we’re in the danger zone – a lot can happen between now and January 20.

Good news on the home front. I attended a laser show that lasted two minutes, cost me a few clams, and now my left eye can spot a red tail hawk before it spots me. The porch will be open for business tomorrow as usual, see you there.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 879 – Feeding the Snout, Training the FNG & Icelandic Clouds

[Found here and here, and the 3rd was created from photos of polar stratospheric clouds over Iceland found here, h/t Paul Y.]

Art du Shart

“The LAM museum in the Netherlands had artist Alexandre Lavet’s beer can sculptures on display on the floor, when it was accidentally thrown in the trash by a staff member.

The work, titled All The Good Times We Spent Together, was being exhibited at the LAM museum in the Netherlands. The piece looks like two empty and crushed beer cans that carelessly been left behind. However, upon closer inspection, they are actually tiny sculptures that have been meticulously hand-painted with acrylics.”

[Images and caption found here.]

Here it comes.

School Colour Palettes of Britain 1930

Illustrations from The Function of Colour in Factories, Schools & Hospitals, Jenson & Nicholson Ltd., 1930, found here.

Elinguated Hot Links

She’s Gone, GA-20 (2021)
Cover of Hound Dog Taylor & The House Rockers. Great authentic electric blues with respect.

Runners.

Smile *click*

Irish mussels.

Some bad days.

The Hand (1966).

Trains and trains.

Product placement.

Ricky G, influencer.

R.I.P. Peanut & Fred.
(There’s more to the story.)

Little Shop de Brujerias.

Norty Blues Episode 88.

World’s longest experiment.

Moving plates [via Memo Of The Air].

1965 Polaris Sno Traveler Super Pacer.

Cabbie shelters of old London [via Mme. Jujujive].

Everyone knows what he had for lunch [via Bunkerville].

[Top image: Electronic artwork found here.]

From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.

Saturday Matinee – The Errol Linton Band, Aynsley Lister & Gary Clark Jr.

The Errol Linton Band plays a cool ska to reggae blues mashup, described as “funky stuff, blues with a reggae tinge and jazz flavours, Black British music with roots in Mississippi and New Orleans, Kingston and London.“

Self-taught guitarist from the UK, Aynsley Lister learned by copying the sounds of Peter Green, Albert King, Eric Clapton and Paul Kossoff. (I hear some Robyn Trower in there too).

Gary Clark Jr.‘s  influences and collaborations range from B.B. King, The Jackson 5 and Muddy Waters to Alicia Keys, Dave Grohl and Childish Gambino, and there are good reasons why he’s a four-time Grammy winner.

Only three days until The Great Election, and I expect fireworks regardless of the outcome – and not the good kind either…
In any case, the porch will be open for business as usual. See you there.

¡Feliz Día de Los Muertos!

[Skeletons going “Huzzah” .gif found here.]