Category: Retro & Vintage
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The Ohio State University Marching Band (aka, The Best Damn Band In The Land) has a raccoon named Bon Qui Qui for a mascot. Thanks to all the Buckeye fans who inadvertently gave us a traffic spike of almost 5x normal yesterday. [Related posts here.]
Monumental Land Art in the U.S. Sorry, but I don’t consider a trench in the desert “Art,” but some of these are kinda cool.
There’s a Robert Redford movie coming out soon about Dan Rather, CBS and the Killian Documents Forgery Scandal. Here’s a breakdown of how the fraud began to unravel and who actually uncovered it.
She’s inane. She’s vapid. She’s @SocalityBarbie.
Heh.
Someone doesn’t know what a knife is for.
Attach a corn cob to a long fishing pole, swing it at a rubber chocolate donut and try to avoid hitting a bunch of protesters with placards on sticks in a field. That’s Hornussen, aka Swiss Golf.
How about a Little Turtle Face?
Old Lady Chic: Wearing the 60’s in their 70’s.
Saturday Matinee – Solar System Scale Model, Bonya & Kuzmich, & Billy Woodward
Building a scale model of our solar system [via]. Were the Earth the size of a marble, take a guess as to how big this model was.
(Hint: Bigger than that.)
Not sure what to make of this, but it kept my attention. It’s titled “Kiesza – Hideaway (Bonya & Kuzmich Russian parody).” I don’t know who Kieza is, but I’m not impressed and don’t care much either. [Found here.]
Since our Saturday Matinee Post is typically eclectic, let’s shift gears.
Billy Woodward is an anomaly – part country, part country blues, part rockabilly. Although I was looking for a video of another song (I Got Bit) this’ll do.
Have a great weekend, folks, and be back here tomorrow for more stuff.
The Walking Department Store
Saturday Matinee – The Spencer Davis Group, Traffic & Blind Faith
In 1965, The Spencer Davis Group rocked.
In 1967, Traffic rocked.
In 1969, Blind Faith rocked.
30 or so years later, and Steve Winwood still rocks.
Have a great weekend, folks. Be back here tomorrow, Winwood or not.
“Darts ready? Okay! On three…”
Saturday Matinee – Puddles The Clown, Jim Stafford & Jimmer Podrasky
Pinball Folsom Wizard Prison Blues.
Excellent performance by Puddles The Clown.
Jim Stafford was rated, both under and over, for obvious reasons.
By the way, how ’bout a crappy but excellent video of The Rave-Ups featuring frontman Jimmer Podrasky?
The Rave-Ups were underrated IMO, but they got some traction for their work in a B-minus movie, Pretty In Pink, and In My Gremlin is my favorite Rave-Ups song, also for obvious reasons.
Have a great weekend, folks, and be back here tomorrow for Armageddon.
#BreckLivesMatter
Blues Legends Illustrated
Every one of those images were derived from B&W photos, and if I’m not mistaken, they were created by Robert Crumb. You’ve heard their songs covered by others (like this one by Memphis Minnie & Kansas City Joe McCoy).
[Image found here.]
Saturday Matinee – Best Coast, The Ray Beats & Bishop Bullwinkle
So I axed Bunkessa about the song she played last weekend on our patio hi-fi. She said it was “Our Deal” by Best Coast, a Beach Goth band from L.A. Never heard of the group nor the genre, but so what. I like the retro sound. [The video accompaniment is a Cliff’s Notes mime version of West Side Story.]
Okay, so what to post next? Let’s keep the retro thang going.
The Ray Beats were kinda Chantays, kinda Ventures, kinda Dick Dale and kinda NY punk in the late 70s/early 80s. In other words, kinda young, kinda wow.
Here’s another talent who dodged my radar: Bishop Bullwinkle and “Hell 2 Da Naw Naw.” Apparently it went viral in August and I’m late to the party [via]. Dude’s got a great message.
Have a great weekend folks. See you back here tomorrow, even if you’re headed out on a 3-day family road trip to See Ruby Falls.
Tacky Raccoons 