Month: December 2024

Saturday Matinee – Keb’ Mo’, The Mavericks, Skatune Network, & Gwen Stefani / No Doubt

Keb’ Mo’ breaks it down and throws it back.

The Mavericks are Raúl Malo / vocals, guitar; Paul Deakin / drums; Jerry Dale McFadden / keyboards, vocals; Eddie Perez / guitar. Early jump blues piano style that morphed into ska.

One man ska band JER / Skatune Network covers Otis Redding‘s cover of Charles Brown‘s 1947 hit. The guy’s amazing.

In 2003, Gwen Stefani & No Doubt spread the Oi of the season with their cover of the Vandals.

Lemme see. Christmas Eve isn’t until Tuesday, so I still have tomorrow’s porch time to make a list and check it twice, and Monday for shopping. No sweat. Stop by tomorrow and we’ll compare lists.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 885 – An AI Christmas

[All created while playing with the DeepAI Video Generator.]

Soft. Poseable.

[Found here.]

Russian Parking Lot 2012

Via Google Translate:
“Hit of the season – winter 2024
I present to you a game that is very relevant this winter. It is called: “Find your car” 🙂 I think you also faced such a problem this winter.”

[Found here.]

A Public Service Announcement

[Found here.]

The RenuLife Violet Ray ca.1917

James Henry Eastman, a Detroit inventor who held several patents for violet ray machines, established the RenuLife Electric Co., in Detroit, in 1917. The device was a hand-held Tesla coil with glass tubes to (theoretically) protect the user:

“Treatment with a violet ray machine involved attaching one of a various set of evacuated glass tubes to a handle, holding it to whatever part of your body was troublesome, and then switching it on. This caused a high voltage, high frequency, low electrical current to run through the body. Similar technology is actually still used today in TENS machines that zap low currents into a targeted area of the body to relieve pain through nerve stimulation, though modern machines are safer and their use is monitored by trained professionals who use them only for specific types of pain. A violet ray machine, on the other hand, was capable of creating a powerful electric arc that could cause serious skin burns.”

[History and images found here.]

Marcescent Hot Links

Misfits & Freaks, The Courettes (2022)Dubbed “The World’s Greatest Two-Person Rock ‘N’ Roll Ensemble,” Flavia & Martin Couri, aka The Fabulous Courettes, are proof that Phil Spector lives.

Trains!

5th Place.

Gompotheres.

We’re doomed.

Make it teensy.

Doppelgängers.

Skinny Legs Bar.

Crystal Magnum.

What is surveillance?

Slow down, Kathleen.

Silent Running (trailer).

Norty Blues Episode 94.

2-1/2 hours of prog rock.

Which clown are you?
Who are your Disney parents?

Huffy Radiobike [via Bunkerville].

The pyramids of Giza have eight sides.

Xmas Tree People of yore [via Mme. Jujujive].

Louis Vuitton Crack House [via Nag on the Lake].

Berens Old Fashioned Brandy Fruit Cake [h/t John McL.].

Mawson, Ninnis & Mertz [and others, via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image found here.]

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

Saturday Matinee – Linda Teränen / RelaxTrio, The Nick Moss Band, and Shakura S’Aida

The girl pounds bass. Finnish band RelaxTrio is (was?)
Linda Teränen (Vocals & double bass)
Oskari Nieminen (Vocals & guitar)
Vilho Voutilainen (Drums & backing vocals)

The Nick Moss Band gives a tribute to the late great Hubert Sumlin in fine Chicago style.

Great smoker by Shakura S’Aida, backed by Donna Grantis (guitar), Lance Anderson (B3), Roger Williams (bass) and Tony Rabalao (drums).

While posting this, an internest outage almost forced me to watch television. Fortunately it came back just in time so I could announce that tomorrow’s porch time shall commence promptly at whenever o’clock. See you then.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 884 – Doglights, Cage Splash & Space Bimbos Attack

[Found here and here, and I lost the link to the 3rd.]

SYDN Shop

Truth in advertising, unfortunately it’s AI.
[Found here.]