Author: Bunk Strutts

Boogah Boogah.

Nothing Much Happened Today.

[Found here.]

Saturday Matinee – The Quantum Creep (2007), G.E. Smith, Ally Venable w/ Buddy Guy, and Lonnie Brooks & Sugar Blue w/ the Nicholas Tremulis Orchestra

This is the work of  Billy Blob.
Sundance Film Festival award-winning short Bumble Beeing Part 1 – The Butterfly Effect (2002) has the back story, and Mr. Butterfly later agreed to do a Special Commentary interview.

“I started playing around the age of four, and started getting good at seven.” G.E. Smith is an unpretentious and underrated guitar player with an impressive resume, best known as the pony-tailed bandleader for The Saturday Night Live Band. The song is a cover of Robert Johnson’s 1936 recording of 32-20 Blues, which itself is a remake of Skip Jame’s 22-20 Blues.(1931).

Buddy Guy with Ally Venable (and vice versa) is a killer match up. From Venable’s studio album Real Gone (2023).

Chicago legends Lonnie Brooks and James “Sugar Blue” Whiting jammed with the Nicholas Tremulis Orchestra in 1999.

And that’ll do it for this installment. Have a great weekend and we’ll have a sit down on the back porch tomorrow.

The Friday Post No. 797 – Motel Madness, Rollerburgers & Postcard Beach

[Found here and here, and the motel kinda sorta came from here.]

R.I.P. Al Jaffe (1921-2023)

Al Jaffe in 2011. Stephen Morton/AP Photo

Long time writer and comic artist for Mad Magazine, Al Jaffe’s cartoons were some of the most recognizable in the business. Jaffe passed away on 10 April at the age of 102. Full story here.

Al Jaffe & Will Elder, future cartoonists for Mad Magazine, early 1940s.

A.I.-Generated Translucent Robot Animals

[Found here.]

Parrot Happens.

[Found here.]

Quadrumanous Hot Links

Running Around, Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs (1961) Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs were best known for their classic 1960 hit Stay, the shortest recorded number one hit in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 chart (US).

Taco Spin.

The Rewind Museum.

On Southern Heritage.

Norwegian bicycle lift.

An Aperiodic Monotile.

Always save the receipt.

U.S. Marines tested DARPA AI.

Silent Props [via Nag on the Lake].

Whanganui men [via Memo Of The Air].

The Flight of the Helivector [via Bunkerville].

Infra-Red, In Situ (IRIS) Inspection of Silicon.

Don’t let the dandelion horn die [via Mme. Jujujive].

[Top image was posted by somewhere on Twitter, misplaced the linky. It appears to be a pissed-off Short-eared Owl making a big scary face with its wings.]

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

Easter

Saturday Matinee – Propellerheads w/ Shirley Bassey, Harry & The Howlers, and (the other) Roy Rogers

Propellerheads, with Shirley Bassey, the Welsh vocalist known for her renditions of themes to three James Bond movies.

“Propellerheads were a British big beat music band, formed in 1995, from Bath made up of electronic producers Will White and Alex Gifford. The term ‘Propellerhead’ is Californian slang for a computer nerd, and when Gifford and White heard a friend from California drop this into conversation, they thought it the perfect name for their band.”

From Birmingham, UK, Harry & The Howlers features what Harry (Haley) Jordan calls “sleaze-fuelled rock and roll.”

Roy Rogers is one of those guitslingers who doesn’t need a backup band to sound good, but give him one and the results are amazing.

Have a blessed Easter.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 796 – Three Gasholes

[All three .gifs stolen from Bitter Ben.]