A young girl was found imprinting her face into velvet upholstery.
[Found here.]
Category: Cool
Panglossian Hot Links
The Caterpillar Crawl, Dick Dixon and the Roommates (1959)
Relatively unsuccessful cover of The Stranger’s hit. Flip side of the 45 is another instrumental, Be Good, Be Good, Be Good. I couldn’t find any details about the band.
Post Helene I .
Post Helene II .
Post Helene III.
Post Helene IV.
Dog training [via Bunkerville].
Stew noir [via Memo Of The Air].
The end of a beautiful relationship.
Recycling mannequins in Japan [via Mme. Jujujive].
[Top image: Moon pie found here.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Saturday Matinee – FRANK, Ronnie Baker Brooks, Eric Tessmer & Big Monti Amundson
FRANK is not a band that didn’t form in 2021 when singer/songwriter/guitarist Élise Lounici didn’t join up with Sébastien Gaschard (drums) or Colin Pradier (bass) or something. Their website is in French and I can’t decipher the story.
Chicago guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Ronnie Baker Brooks‘ cover of the Stones makes me smile. He is the son of multiple GRAMMY Award nominee and Blues Hall Of Famer Lonnie Brooks.
Eric James Tessmer is a guitar slinger out of Austin and cites Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix as inspirations. That’s no surprise – his guitarist dad named him after them. More about Tessmer here.
Big Monti Amundson backed by Bart Kamp (bass) and Henk Punter (drums). Amundson definitely has the Texas blues sound down.
What a week, especially with the continuous news of the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene. Prayers for the survivors that they not lose hope.
See you tomorrow.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 875 – A Big Laugh, Scrolling With Meat & The Reflooree
The Microwave Yawns
[Found here.]
Railroad Inspection Cars
[Click any image for enlarge. Background story and more found here.]
Le Chat Lego
Amtrak’s Best Mustelid Poll
I’m sorry to report that due to DNA analysis, skunks are now classified as mephitids and are no longer members of the mustilid family. That’s okay because honey badger is.
[Live Amtrak poll found here. More mustilid stuff here.]
BONUS: This is what a skunk sounds like.
Haptotropic Hot Links
Kometenmelodie 2, Kraftwerk (1975)
From the album Autobahn, Comet Melody 2 was released in August 1975, and was named after the appearance of Comet Kohoutek in March 1973. An earlier version of the song, Kohoutek-Kometenmelodie was released in December 1973.
Hurricane Helene:
The Aftermath.
Peachtree Creek.
In Defense of CSU’s Hurricane Forecasting.
A WARNING regarding electric vehicles and saltwater.
Decycling [via Bunkerville].
You can’t choose teal or turquoise.
“Toys for you boys, too!” [via The View From Lady Lake].
Screams Before Silence is a documentary of the October 7 atrocities. [Disturbing, NSFK]
Bill Moyers interviews mental patients in Any Place But Here (1979)
[via Memo Of The Air].
THE BEST old-school link dump site Everlasting Blört turned 24 this week, and Mme. Jujujive posted some Greatest Hits. Congrats.
[Top image: Frank Zappa’s basement More about the Z House here.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Saturday Matinee – Lurrie Bell & Billy Branch, Omar & The Howlers, The Andreas Diehlmann Band, and Playing For Change
Lurrie Bell and Billy Branch are two modern day blues masters. Branch is a roots blues promoter and historian with a direct link to Willie Dixon, while Bell is the son of harpslinger and Blues Hall of Fame inductee Carey Bell. In 1977, Bell and Branch were considered members of the “New Generation of Chicago Blues” and both have made significant contributions to the genre.
Omar and The Howlers features Kent “Omar” Dykes:
“He hails from McComb, MS, a town with the distinction of being home turf for Bo Diddley. Omar started playing guitar at twelve where he took to hanging out in edge-of-town juke joints playing with Wakefield Coney and other authentic blues greats in the middle of the night when his parents were asleep.”
The Andreas Diehlmann Band is a German power trio who crank out Texas blues ala ZZ Top, with vocals to match. Diehlmann is backed by Jörg Sebald on bass and Tom Bonn on drums.
Playing For Change: Legendary multi-instrumentalist John Paul Jones, accompanied by Stephen Perkins, Susan Tedeschi & Derek Trucks, and over 20 musicians and dancers from seven different countries perform a rework of the 1929 original release by Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy about the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, the most destructive river flooding in U.S. history.
Prayers to those who lost loved ones and were otherwise affected by Hurricane Helene, one of the largest to hit the US in recent history. The cleanup effort required is mind boggling.
Porch time begins at porch time. See you tomorrow.
Tacky Raccoons 