Category: Cool

Embrocated Hot Links

In My Gremlin, The Rave-Ups (1985) The Rave-Ups formed in 1979 at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After some lineup changes and a relocation to Los Angeles, they hit the indie rock scene of the 1980s with some success. Their appearance in the 1986 movie Pretty In Pink gave them nationwide exposure, but problems with record company promotion and distribution stifled their career.

Puphole.

The Match.

The Message.

Parrot people.

Heinz’ New Cap.

Norty Blues No. 53.

A buncha old trains.

Rotating waterslide?!

Solar Eclipse Inflation.

King Ludwig II’s Castle.

Brian Eno’s Turntable II.

You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere.

Roy Sullivan, Spark Ranger.

“Willy’s Chocolate Experience”

When a rebound is not a rebound.

Slug vs. Venus Flytrap [via Bunkerville].

The Snore Dog Song [via Memo Of The Air].

William Yeldell Cosper [via The Feral Irishman].

{Top image: Mystery Movement. Congrats to Ms. Donna /  My OBT on her 10 year blogiversary.]

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

Saturday Matinee – Don Bryant & The Bo-Keys, Caffeinated Rock&Roll, and The Guy Forsyth Blues Band

Don Bryant & The Bo-Keys. In 1998, bassist Scott Bomar wanted to preserve the Memphis Sound and formed the Bo-Keys. The group’s name is a hat-tip to the session groups The Bar-Kays and The Mar-Keys.

Caffeinated Rock&Roll is a one-man band and  skateboarder from Buchs, Switzerland, with very little info available online aside from his Utoobage channel.

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.

Not sure where all the days are going, and I’m about to rip up my calendar for lying. Have a great weekend, see you back here tomorrow for some uncomplicated porch time.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 843 – Hidden Strength, Insult Response Face & Heeere’s Donny!

[Found here, here and here.]

VW Microbrrrr

One of many ice sculptures at the Glacier Ice Bar and Lounge, Lake George,  Bolton Landing, New York. Or maybe it’s at the Glacier Ice Bar and Lounge in Rockport, Maine.

[Image found here.]

The Amazing 1951 Hoffman

“There’s something to be said about a car company that after 73 years, 100% of its cars are still running today.”

The Hoffman was a German three-wheeled microcar created by Michael Hoffman, a shop foreman from Munich. It features an aluminum body with asymmetrical roof/windshield, rear wheel drive and steering, a pivoting single-cylinder 6.5 hp engine, and many more questionable design flaws.
Only one exists: the only one ever built.

Images (and more) found here, test drive video via Road & Track.

What.

[Found here.]

Dentiloquent Hot Links

Fans watch Elvis Presley perform at the Sam Houston Coliseum, Houston. Texas, October 13, 1956.

Radioactive Flesh, Los Sinners (1964) From the nightclub scene in Luis Buñuel’s film Simón del Desierto (1965). St. Simon Stylites is sitting at a table with the Devil and asks “her” for the name of the dance. The Devil replies, “Radioactive Flesh.”
[Scene begins at 41:18.]

Yay Timmy!

Camperage.

The Dumb Ages.

My new ringtone.

Ozzy is not based.

Norty Blues No. 52.

Animaux en papier.

Grandma’s pierogis.

Dance of the Cruise Ships.

This video AND those comments.

Crêpe [via Mme. Jujujive]. Sound up.

Useful inventions [via Bunkerville].

“Mercy on us!” [via The View From Lady Lake].

Miss Frozen Rabbit Meat [via Memo Of The Air].

Decommissioned nuclear reactor guts [h/t Paul Y.]

[Top image: Houston Elvis fans, story here.]

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

 

Saturday Matinee – Wendy Saddington & Copperwine, Dutch Tilders & The Blues Club, and The Lachy Doley Group

Wendy Saddington with Jeff St. John & Copperwine ca. 1971. From the Utoobage comments: “I dislike it when people say that she was ‘Australia’s Janis’ or ‘Australia’s Aretha’ – she was Wendy, a one of a kind and no imitation of an imported product.”

Matthew ‘Dutch’ Tilders, dubbed the Godfather of Australian Blues, was born in the Netherlands in 1941. His family moved to Oz in 1955 when he was 14, just in time for the rock and roll era and the resurgence of American blues. Self-taught on guitar, by 1960 he was playing original songs in the local coffee houses.

Lachy Doley channels Jimi Hendrix on his Hammond C3.

All Australian blues for this edition of the Saturday Matinee [h/t Archie]. It’s a mystery to me why these musicians got so little exposure in the US.

Time is getting compressed and the days are speeding past again, at least for me. Have a great weekend – we have some serious porch sitting to do tomorrow.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 842 – Dancing The Radioactive Flesh, Vintage Tagger & Jake Blues’ Brows

[Found here, here and I messed with Joliet Jake’s mugshots just because.]

More about the top one: From Mexican surrealist producer Luis Buñuel’s film Simón del Desierto (1965), the final scene in a nightclub (Café Milleti). Saint Simon Stylites is present, and so is the Devil. St. Simon asks “her” for the name of the dance, and the Devil replies, “Radioactive Flesh.”
The band is Los Sinners. [Scene starts at 41:18.]

Stuff I Do When I’m Bored

[Update:  Re-arranged gallery, added Shut Up Helmet. All images previously posted elsewhere, click for larger.]