StarWars excreta. May the farce be with you.
[Source.]
R2D2 Craps Pepper in Your Salad
StarWars excreta. May the farce be with you.
[Source.]
Category: Retro & Vintage
Danger, danger, danger
WEEKENDER is one of my favorite Sunday newspaper glossy parchment inserts, complete with advertisements for gaudy porcelain figurines of unicorns and mermaids with dolphins, Elvis commemorative plates, weight loss testimonials, uncirculated overpriced coins, specious gossip about famous people that I don’t know and don’t care about. It usually has articles on high blood pressure, prostate cancer, senility and mammograms to give you something to discuss with your family over breakfast.
I lost my original copy of this November 2006 issue, but itch one of the best, in this Bunk’s opinion.
[From the Onion archives.]
Saturday Matinee: Peaches En Regalia
Bunk loves this song, especially THIS version of this song. Looks like SNL footage of Frank Zappa’s 1976 entourage.
[If it doesn’t play, try this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwQogHWkWck%5D
Zappa’s line up back then was amazing. Might be Jean Luc-Ponty on the invisible violin; Terry Bozzio on drums; Ruth Underwood on xylophone; maybe Roy Estrada on bass. Zoot Allures era.
Any FZ fans wanna leave comments to clear this up?
Zappa was only on SNL once, and was banned for mugging too much in the skits. You can find the two other SNL/Zappa vids on the Utubage if you hunt for ’em.
“…they’re pretty good musicians, and the musicians are pretty good…”— FZ, from “Green Rosetta.” Make a muffin really betta.
[UPDATE: Something yanked the link to the video originally posted. Here’s the same video from a different source. –Bunk]
[UPDATE 2: Seems that anything posted from SNL is now verboten. I’ve added a new version of my favorite Peaches. Slightly lesser quality video, but let’s see how long this one lasts. –Bunk]
TGIF: The .gif Friday Post 8
Hot Wheels: Babe Maggot No.2
I meant “Babe Magnet.” Or maybe I didn’t. Note that the dead cat, Boone’s Farm bottle and the week-old wad of used Pampers all add nuance to artistic expression of the moment. Note also that the windows are rolled up.
But here’s the genius inherent in this work of Art: It compels the viewer to imagine what it smells like inside and to run away without ever knowing. A piece of artistic genius.
[Photo found amid foodstuffs at Bockety. More Babe Magnetism here.]
Is this a Great Country or What?
No other country in the world has Elvis impersonators on mini-bikes. (Take that, Ma’am Odd Imadinnerjacket.)
[Photo, made in USA, can be found here.]
Saturday Matinee: LEON!
The music of the late 1970’s was terrible. FM radiowaves were flooded with over-produced theater/stage rock (Yes, ELP, ELO); annoying pre-packaged disco (Chic, Bee Gees, Donna Summer); run-of-the-mill commercial rock (Bob Seeger, the Eagles, Lynyrd Skynyrd); and New Wave/Punk (Talking Heads, Elvis Costello, the Ramones).
Okay, I’m not denying that I liked that last category. At least it was different.
But right in the middle of all this garbage was the shining star known as Leon Redbone. He came out of nowhere, playing acoustic guitar versions of 1920’s and ’30’s songs while remaining a mystery to his fans. (Some wags speculated that he was really Frank Zappa, undercover.) When I heard Mr. Redbone’s version of “Sheik of Araby” I was hooked.
Here’s Mr. Redbone with three songs, back-to-back, from about 1977.
Mr. Redbone, you are invited to Bunk’s house for mint juleps and peach cobbler any time.
TGIF: The .gif Friday Post 7
Alfred Hitchcock deleted this first take of “the shower scene” from his masterpiece “PSYCHO.” Why? I dunno, Babs, but I do know this. Hitchcock almost always had a cameo role in his movies. In this scene, his makeup was amazing.
Iggy & the Rolling Stooges
“Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself, Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk!”
I bet Keith Richards is rolling over in his bed right now.
[Photo manipulation buried somewhere in the catacombs of the always amazing Worth 1000 photoshop contests.]
Um, Nice Stained Glass?
Ah, it’s just wrong. Horrible and funny at the same time. Bunk just had to post it.
Alpaca the Awesome found this horrible and funny thing and posted it on his new website.
Tacky Raccoons 