[Found in here.]
What These Are For
[Found in here.]
Author: Bunk Strutts
Boogah Boogah.
Oneirocriticising Hot Links
Pressure Drop, Toots and the Maytals (live ska version 2004)
It’s a song about revenge, but in the form of karma: If you do bad things to innocent people, then bad things will happen to you. The title was a phrase I used to say. If someone done me wrong, rather than fight them like a warrior, I’d say: ‘The pressure’s going to drop on you.’— Frederick ‘Toots’ Hibbert
67.
First get a dead tree, then light it.
Impossible Maps [via Bits & Pieces].
Magic jacket [via Everlasting Blört].
David Byrne’s Reasons to be Cheerful.
Addams’ auditions [via Memo Of The Air].
Yeah, it’s stupid, but you’re gonna watch it anyway.
Killings, disappearances, arbitrary arrests and torture.
[Top image dates to June 2009, found here.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Saturday Matinee – Tom Waits, Masa Takumi & The Nimmo Brothers
From FB: Tom Waits on Everything and Nothing
In September 1988, fresh off the release of his concert film Big Time, Waits sat down with music journalist Chris Roberts in a London recording studio. Captured on a rare cassette recording amidst ambient studio noise, Waits takes us on a journey from Stonehenge and the streets of New York to a surreal Hawaiian nightmare.
Grammy winner Masa Takumi (a.k.a. Masanori Takumi) is a Japanese artist, composer, songwriter and producer. A self-taught multi-instrumentalist, he learned trumpet at 8 years old, and by high school was playing drums, guitar, bass and piano.
In 1995 guitarists Stevie Nimmo and his brother Alan formed The Nimmo Brothers band in Glasgow. Performing here with Matt Beable on bass and Craig Bacon on drums.
Hope everyone survived the New Year’s festivities. We didn’t have as many fireworks or sirens as in previous years, and I take that as a good omen.
Porch season starts tomorrow and I plan to attend, rain or shinola.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 936 – Snow Laps, The Great Puddle & Skate Skates
Have Another Year!
[Found here, and that’s not us.]
Happy New Year’s Eve 2025 – End of Year Playlist
The end of a long year deserves a playlist to bring in the new one, so here’s a compilation of tunes that tugged on my earballs in 2025. Each set is in chronological order by date of recording.
Set 1 – January, February, March & April
Set 2 – May, June, July & August
Set 3 – September, October, November & December
I omitted seasonal tunes from the Halloween and Christmas playlists. Last year’s playlist (2024) is here, and the 2023 EoY list is here.
And one more thing:
May You Have a Happy & Prosperous New Year!
[Caveat: I don’t own the copyrights to any of these recordings. They are presented here for entertainment purposes only.]
Wash Your Sticks
[Found here.]
Ethel’s Cafe 1969
Corvifobic Hot Links
Moonlight Serenade, The Volcanics (2013)
A warning from this blue-sweater-clad retro surf rock band from So Cal:
Squares beware, if you hang ten on their nose they’ll hang five in your face.
Van Wolfwinkle’s pet portraits.
Berry Bars [via Memo Of The Air].
The Boxing Day Tsunami of 2004.
Santa on the Interstate [via Everlasting Blört].
Stayin’ Alive in the 16th Century [via Memo Of The Air].
[Top image: Resting Schnabelperchta found here.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Saturday Matinee – The Detonics, Wolf Mail & Shinyribs
Founded in 2014, The Detonics won the Dutch Blues Challenge in 2016 and wound up representing Europe in the 2017 International Blues Challenge. That same year they were semi-finalists at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis.
Canadian-born guitarist, singer-songwriter Wolf Mail began playing at the age of fourteen and has recorded eight full-length internationally distributed albums and has toured in over twenty-six countries. Backing Wolf is John Rinkevich / bass, Alex Polovinkin / drums, and Alexei Sechkin / keyboards.
Based in Austin, Texas, and fronted by Kevin “Shinyribs” Russel,
Shinyribs “defies genres as a sonic melting pot of Texas Blues, New Orleans R&B funk, horn- driven Memphis Soul, country twang, border music, big band swing, and roots-rock.”
Whoa. What a week, and it’s not over yet. More food and visitors are on their way (along with more rain) but it’s all good. Porch might be crowded tomorrow but we’ve got spare benches. If we see you, we’ll see you.
Tacky Raccoons 