The workshop of Petr Válek. He makes music and ringtones too.
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The workshop of Petr Válek. He makes music and ringtones too.
Author: Bunk Strutts
Boogah Boogah.
Rupicoline Hot Links
Millionaire Hobo, The Fantastics (1959) Formerly known as The Pharaohs, The Holidays and The Passions, they became The Fantastics when RCA Victor discovered that the other names were taken. (This is not the same group that began as The Velours and moved to the UK.)
“Normally it’s pretty simple.”
Nosmo King [via Memo Of The Air].
Clay in Italy [via Everlasting Blört].
Portsmouth Man [via The Feral Irishman].
9 minutes and 32 seconds of Steven Wright.
“AITA for ‘voodooing’ my neighbors?” [via Bored Panda].
Update 1. Update 2. Epilogue.
Hitchcock’s Rear Window opening scene.
Hitchcock’s Rear Window screencaps [via Thompson, blog].
[Top image: Colorized ad for 1957 Blaupunkt Palma 2435 radio. The seven-tube set retailed for 390 Deutschmarks, and tuned both the longwave and mediumwave broadcast bands, FM (up to 100 MHz), and shortwave. Caption on original ad translates to “Uschi Siebert, Kulenkampff’s charming assistant, and Gerti Daub, Miss Germany 1957, also love the good BLAUPUNKT tone.”
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago
Saturday Matinee – Alastair Greene, Eric Johanson & Katarina Pejak; Nikki Hill Band, Anthony Rosano & The Conqueroos, and Cam Cole
Ruf’s Blues Caravan 2024 featured Alastair Greene, Eric Johanson & Katarina Pejak.
Nikki Hill Band:
“If Tina Turner and Little Richard had a daughter and raised her with the help of uncles James Brown and Chuck Berry, she’d be like Nikki Hill.”
— Minneapolis Star Tribune
Anthony Rosano & The Conqueroos mixes Delta blues, NOLA second line funk and 60’s jams with classic rock. No self-indulgent wheedly-wheedly solos with these guys.
Cam Cole, busker, bluesman, rocker, recording artist, and the most impressive one-man band you will ever see.
Looks like the west coast is in for rain, the midwest is in for winter, and the porch has a roof with a live weather watch. See you tomorrow, rain, mud, sleet or snow.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 929 – Hooper Rex, Sakura Yosozumi & Dizzy Donuts
Stuff I Do When I’m Bored
Edna
In April 1958 Harry and Edna took a cruise from San Francisco to Hawaii on the SS Matsonia. Photographer Jeff Phillips found a ton of Kodachrome slides and is searching for Harry and Edna’s family.
[Story and more photos here.]
Veterans Day
Armistice Day – Remembrance Day -Veterans Day
[Previous Armistice Day / Remembrance Day / Veterans Day posts here.]
Nothing Much Happened Today.
[Found in here.]
Demephitised Hot Links
Lazy Onions, The Lachy Doley Group (2016) Mashup of Deep Purple’s Lazy with Booker T. & The M.G.s’ Green Onions by Australian musician, singer and songwriter Lachlan R. “Lachy” Doley, best known for playing the Hammond organ and whammy clavinet.
A 60 second Dark Mirror episode?
Restoring a 1950 Hohner Seductora.
Song of the Car Alarm [via Memo Of The Air].
The deadliest natural disaster in US history.
No one else called it that [via The Feral Irishman].
Lived-Experience Advocates [via Thompson, blog].
Portable emergency subwoofer [via Everlasting Blört].
[Top image found here. “Шедеврум” is a Russian AI art generation application.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Saturday Matinee – The Lemonheads, Evan Johns & Charlie Burton, and The Guy Forsyth Blues Band
Alt-rock punk band The Lemonheads was formed in Boston in 1986 by Evan Dando, Ben Deily, and Jesse Peretz. There’s an obvious Ramones influence on their 1992 cover of Simon and Garfunkel‘s Mrs. Robinson (recorded in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the move The Graduate).
Evan Johns and Charlie Burton on Art Fein’s Poker Party, 1993.
Charlie Burton on vocal and rhythm guitar, seated is Grammy nominated Evan Johns (Evan Johns and the H-Bombs) on lead guitar, Dave Robel (Shithook) on drums, C. Buggs Coombs on bass. Johns passed away in 2017 at the age of 60; Burton passed on in 2024, age 73.
The Guy Forsyth Blues Band out of Austin, Texas, sounds a bit like early Fabulous Thunderbirds to me, and I like it. Forsyth’s earlier collaborations include The Asylum Street Spankers and The Hot Nut Riveters.
Cold weather moving down south, wind and water for us folks in the west, and a great big storm of stupid just passed through much of the nation. There’s some good news out there if you know where to look, and a good place to start is on the porch tomorrow. See you then and there.
Tacky Raccoons 