“Collectors like Hollister, left, and Porter Hovey, sisters with an appetite for late 19th-century relics like apothecary cabinets and dressmakers dummies, are turning their homes into pastiches of the past.”
New York Times 29 July 2009
[Found here.]
[Descriptions and more in here.]
Blitzed, The Raveonettes (2007)
Indie retro post-punk noise rock duo from Denmark channel Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound.
Zhdun.
Zhdun piggy bank.
Zhdun piggy bank in action.
The Future was a long time ago.
GarE Maxton’s puzzles (with video).
FUTUREAMA [via Memo Of The Air].
Angela LOVES crashing into bollards.
The Carpentopod [via Mme. Jujujive].
Musical Quintracycle [via Bunkerville].
1948 Norman Timbs Special [via Bits & Pieces].
Fall begins today, 22 September 2024, at 02:43:12 PM.
[Top image: Photo of the sunset as projected from a vent in the west wall, through the roof trusses, and onto the east wall of our garage. It’s a giant pinhole camera; our own little Stonehenge.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
The Black Hole (UK, 2008) is a short film starring Napoleon Ryan and a hole, directed by Phil Sampson and Olly Williams (Phil and Olly) who may or may not have been fans of Warner Bros. cartoons.
“Carolyn Wonderland describes herself as ‘a guitarist in a roomful of singers and a singer in a roomful of guitarists,’ was recently called ‘one of Texas’ finest Americana guitar-slingers’ by her hometown newspaper, The Austin American-Statesman.” – Alligator Records
The Henrik Freischlader Trio plays some damn good funkified blues. Freischlader is a German blues guitarist, singer-songwriter, producer, and self-taught multi-instrumentalist from Wuppertal, Germany.
Gary Hoey was in diapers when the Chantays recorded their 1962 classic, and he rips it up with respect.
Way too much happened this past week. I think some of the sensory overload is intentional and unnecessary, but we’ll cope.
Porch. Tomorrow. Noonish.
[Found here.]
Miscellaneous strays from my desktop, most previously posted elsewhere.
Chat-N-Chew Cafe, 203 Main Street, Wing, North Dakota.
They don’t have a website that I could find, but they’re on Facebook.
[Images found here and on Google Maps.]
Blue Star, The Shadows (1961) Pre-Beatles instrumental group The Shadows had 69 UK chart singles from the 1950s to the 2000s, 35 as The Shadows and 34 as Cliff Richard and The Shadows.
“Nice magazine. Want to sell it?“
The Chelsea Hotel doors auction.
Typhoon Yagi & a cashless society.
The worst movie death scene ever.
Steampunk river town [via Memo Of The Air].
Tomorrow’s kitchen of yesterday [via Bunkerville].
[Top image: Semyon and Anna Zhimulevsky with their domestic gravity carp. Vadim Solovyov 2024.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Tacky Raccoons 