Rock n’ Roll Spy Dudeness: Johnny Rivers’ Secret Asian Man.
Here are a few others you may or may not recobanize:
Paranoia on free broadcast analog TV. The intro to “The Prisoner” starring Patrick McGoohan was the best of the best. Explained everything you needed to know to understand this excellent series… sorta.
Before we get to our main feature, I found this at the last minute. For those of you that think the “Summer of Love” was all hippies and beads and tie-dye and bell bottoms and pot, check this out:
IT’S 1967 AND PITTSBURGH ROCKS!
(Note that the Dickies covered “Nobody Like Me” in 1983, George Thorogood covered it in 1982, which had been covered by the Human Beinz in 1967, originally recorded in 1962 by the Isley Brothers. As if you didn’t know.)
Ry Cooder is considered the greatest slide guitarist of the last 30 years. Here’s his version of “Jesus on the Mainline.”
The great Bonnie Raitt (also considered the greatest slide guitarist of the last 30 years) sleazes it up with the great John Lee Hooker (considered to be the greatest slide guitarist of the last 1,000 years) on “I’m in the Mood.”
Nice slide from Rory Block with her cover of Robert Johnson‘s “Terraplane Blues.”
Hannes Coetzee: No bottleneck git-fiddle here, just a soup spoon. [If it doesn’t play, try here.]
Who doesn’t like the B-52s, especially a catchy song with no rhymes at all? [Found here with lyrics.]
I’ve seen them all my life, but no one ever believed me. Magnetic fields are visible. <snork>
This is why the earth isn’t covered with lizard carcases.
“READ THE WORD! ARRRGH!”
Cheap thrills (until yer hair gets caught).
Speaking of Cheap Thrills: These guys were so ahead of their time they had to go retro, and still didn’t get a hit. Here’s Ruben & The Jets.
These guys couldn’t get a hit either, so they covered Ruben & the Jets. Here’s The Persuasions‘ great a capella version.
Speaking of The Persuasions, this cd is a must-have in Bunk’s opinion, so here’s another cover:
[Magnetic Movie found via Neatorama, Gecko here, Mr. T here, Spinnergirl here. Others found via serendipitous cosmic debris]
Jake Shimabukuro makes his Uke Weep. Amazing.
Kaje. Nice hat. Nice Uke.
Nice animation. Nice Uke.
Nice hair, no Ukes, but wait ’til you see their cantalopes. (Found it on this guy‘s website. The B-52’s are always cool.)
Not sure where these folks are from, but I’d love to hear ’em play this:
Todd Rundgren’s ska more than makes up for last week’s lack of Saturday Matinee offerings. (Here’s Bad Manners’ take on “Bang the Drum All Day.” Unfortunately, no video, but Linerider rocks out here.)
[Image of headbangers via email from Grampa Strutts. More Ukelele here.]
“Germany’s Funniest Home Videos?” [Via Phils Phun.]
Politically ignorant animation, but Bunk finds it funny (coupla entirely unnecessary F-bombs, though). [Via Kitty’s Saloon.]
“Smoke Smoke Smoke.” Here’s Tex Williams’ original deal. (Tell me that rap didn’t start in 1947.)
Commander Cody’s 1973 take… Here’s to Dolph for those two.
Commander Cody & the Lost Planet Airmen: Excellent cover of Phil Harris’ “Hot Rod Lincoln.” (Video cuts off that last “Hot-Rod-Lincoln” with the coda. That’s just not right.)
What a slick prank. [Via Bits & Pieces.]
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These folks ain’t got NOTHIN’ on the Lunch Lady, and they’ve got all the food color groups covered, too.
“Please, sir, may I have some urchins?”
“If you don’t eat yer snails, you can’t have any urchins! How can you have any urchins if you don’t eat yer snails?!”
[Bigger images can be salivated upon here. Kinda sorta related posts here, here and here.]
The management at Tacky Raccoons is proud to announce that the lovely and talented Jen of Casual Slack fame has whelped a new blog: Retro Tavern.
PhotoBlog of derelict/abandoned Insane Asylums (Asylae?) here.
Richard Thompson does a great cover of a not so great song here. His “Wall of Death” (originally recorded with future ex-wife Linda) is classic.
Please “Do Not” look at this link.
Brief summary of the basics of the Retroencabulator in layman’s terms, a veritable primer on Advanced Tublication, here. All it needs is a Buettner variable switch on the barraic capacitor.
It’s really not THAT complicated. Cool B&W photos of US teenagers and their woe-quotes here via here.
Obnoxious TV show from the UK (heh) featuring “Bunny Boiler.” (Kinda PG-sumpm.)
Live sidewalk cover of the Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star” by The Wrong Trousers. And they’ve got a studio version here.
The Idiot Test. Not here, there.
Russia likes Tacky Racoons (and some of you folks on our blogroll, too). The translation for TR reads, “New Resource. It is interesting.” Good enough for me. Here’s the list.
Looking for new humorz? Diesel has 819 sites listed (with a mysterious rating system based on flux) at Humor-Blogs. Bunky is very pleased to be stirring up flatulence within the 90th percentile (but not enough to be dancing around in his chonis). Sign up as a member if you haven’t already.
[Previous Hot Links here.]
Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.
Today I am multitasking. (For some bizarre reason that I can’t explain, the name of Ray Nagin, Mayor of New Orleans, keeps popping up).
I had an idea for a bifurcated double-decker bus designed to drive in large drainage tunnels, spiraling all the way through. Although it would definitely need driver and passenger harnesses, who wouldn’t want to go to school in this?
I patted myself on the back for coming up with such a novel and absurd idea.
Then, while doing a Patent search prior to filing one, I found that another smartass beat me to it, and now I’m out of excuses for not mowing the lawn.
[Original undoctored image from somewhere in here.]
How many wrong predictions about the future of the internest can you find in this Newsweek article from 1995? (Note that someone updated the post in 31 January 2008… what did it say before?)
Quick! Call 911!
Fail. You. Here.
Things that spill from trucks.
Dogs in cars. Nothing else.
Cats in cars. Just to be fair.
Lots of really RED things.
Urban mythbuster SNOPES deBunked.
The worst “50 Greatest Bands” compilation I’ve ever seen; all the wrong ones, and all out of order.
Aussies have always had my respect, but they’ve also puzzled me, until I read this. Now I’m just confused.
Someone else besides me knows who the Stoop Down man is. It’s Chick Willis. Here he is rockin’ out to the sitting dead.
When someone axes me what station I listen to online, I tell ’em either Jango or Seeqpod, depending on my mood. Both are cool. Seeqpod (beta) has a lot of mislabeled and dead links, but doesn’t pester you to sign up like Jango does. They both do the same thing, different ways.
Long tongues. Really.
Did we mention the Popularity Dialer? I thought it was clever, but the FCC shut it down while appeals are being filed.
Forget Waldo. Where’s LEON? He’s here.
[Letterman “whoa” .gif from here.]
Seattle, WA (Strutts News Services) – Global Warming was blamed for the ocean currents that transported several thousand air-tight packages of Doritos to the coast of Washington, leaving thousands of minorities without the addictive snack food. A total of three white people recobanized the profits to be had after a cargo bin spilled off of a cargo bin carrier ship during a nasty storm during which the cargo ship dropped its cargo. The word spread up and down the coast:
“DORITOS! DON’T TELL THE BLACKS AND THE ASIANS!”
A cargo ship that finds itself in seas that causes it to drop its cargo is not funny at all. Ask someone who has been there and done that. But only white people comb the beaches for Doritos.
[Images and story from Truck Spills, a nice collection of things spilled from trucks.]
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