Bob and Janet King meet the new neighbors, Jim and Barb Emperor.
[Found here – some NSFW.]
Category: Retro & Vintage
Mae Questel’s Contribution to the World
You’ve seen her. You’ve heard her voice. She’s famous, yet you don’t know who Mae Questel was. [More below the break.]
Saturday Matinee – ZooBooks, Brazil + Brazil, Boop Meets Armstrong, Meatloaf & Thorogood
This edition of Saturday Matinee is sponsored in part by ZooBooks.
[Found here.]
Cool animation with a nice version of “Brazil.” performed by The Real Tuesday Weld with Nick Phelps and Geert Chatrou.
Darkly bizarre, “Brazil” is one of my favorite anti-bureaucracy movies. (Ever see Michael Palin as evil?) This movie succeeded in large part to Terry Gilliam’s insistance that it not be edited; that cost him a lot of promotional backing, but it became a hit in its own right. “Half a dream and half a nightmare” sums it up pretty well.
Flashback to 1932 – Louis Armstrong, fresh out of King Oliver’s band, provides the soundtrack (and more) to a typically creepy yet benign Betty Boop cartoon, “I’ll Be Glad When You’re Dead You Rascal You.” Maybe they’re in Brazil.
“…And Now I’m Praying For The End Of Time” is THE best punchline in the history of protopunkrock, courtesy of Mr. Loaf.
Let’s wrap this up with George Thorogood’s classic take on John Lee Hooker’s “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer.” Kinda sums up my attitude these days, En out de do’ ah went.
Help Us, Meatloaf!
Oh yeah. This is the guy you want to raise money for your organization. Humongous Rock Star of the Universe.
Actually, Meat was entertaining, given that he jumped up onto a sweaty stage commanded by disco, glam rockers and over-produced arena rock of the late 1970s. Mr. Loaf has my admiration, and had an amazing career. He was a punk as much as anyone, and he had Ellen Foley, too.
March is Meme Appreciation Month
Only Five. Not Four. Not Six.
1. Practice vapidity/mental vacuity while focusing on a red hair bow.
2. Wear red and ignore those who don’t.
3. Hide your hands from sight.
4. Visualize a dotted arc in space and pressure three children to admit that they see it also.
5. Learn telekinesis and hover a miniature plastic funnel over a red square with white dots.
[Image found here.]
Saturday Matinee – The Stones, Otis Redding and Bette Midler
Phil reminded me of this classic from “Some Girls,” one of my favorite Stones albums. We played that album so often that if you held it up to the light you could see through it. (It’s also a shame that our crack team of webminers had to go to a Russian website to find Мик Джаггер и Кит Ричардс из этого шоу субботу вечером, что было жить из Нью-Йорка.)
So why stop there? Here’s a more recent version of “Shattered” from the same album.
From the album “Tattoo You,” the song “Waiting on a Friend” goes back to 1970, and I’m not even gonna comment on what Mick is wearing.
Otis Redding couldn’t get no satisfaction, even with Steve Cropper, Duck Dunn and the Memphis Horns backing him up.
Bette Midler’s take on “Beast of Burden” was excellent.
Have a great weekend, folks.
Mouse Burr From Horse’s Tail
Saturday Matinee – Axe Cop, Roadtrip, Original Stairway to Heaven, Mumbles, YaYa and the Wall of Death
Whoever added the Boots Randolph sound track to this car chase gets our respect.
In 1964, The Beatles wrote “Stairway to Heaven.” [Found here.]
Clark Terry’s classic scat “Mumbles” [from M @ Blogmocracy].
Gotcha some Buckwheat Zydeco with a cover of Lee Dorsey’s “YaYa.”
Might have posted this before, but I like the song. Originally recorded by Richard and Linda Thompson, it still kicks. Have a great weekend, folks.
Oops.
While combing through my leftover posts, I found this image of a post-ignosecond from the early 1900s. Can’t make out the make of the vehicle, but apparently the mishap hap’d in Australia.
Given the price of a state-of-the-art vehicle at that time, this was a very expensive oops.
[Found here.]
Tacky Raccoons 