In March 2013, a Google Street View Trekker captured a flock of Pigeon People along the Tamagawa Aqueduct Greenway, Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan.
[Found here.]
Tag: Japan
The .Gif Friday Post No. 790 – Pounding Mochi, The Photograph & A Milk Snot Shot
*blooorp*
Ark Nova was created as a result of joint efforts of British sculptor Anish Kapoor and Japanese architect Arata Isozaki and it is the only inflatable concert hall currently in the world.
[Found here, h/t Gorehound.]
Saturday Matinee – Compact Living, Andrea Motis & Joan Chamorro, Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings, and Die Häder Bänd w/ Linda Krieg
The tenants’ reviews are interesting [via].
Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings did a great cover of Gregg Allman’s Midnight Rider (even though it’s a commercial). Sharon Jones succumbed to pancreatic cancer in 2016 at the age of 60.
Acclaimed German blues group Die Häder Bänd covers Memphis Minnie. Can’t find the lineup, but that’s Linda Krieg is on vocals and harp.
Don’t know what happened, but I lost a day this week and missed the .Gif Friday Post. Maybe it’s because I got mask-shamed by a dwarf. Again.
Meanwhile have a great weekend and we’ll go on a link binge tomorrow.
1970 Schizophrenia Treatment Center
The Mitsukoshi Department Store, Japan 1970
[Found here.]
75 Years Ago Today
Saturday Matinee – Rats & Star, Oh!Sharels & Shelly Trip Realize
Rats & Star (ラッツ&スター, Rattsu ando Sutā), formerly called Chanels, was a Japanese pop group that specialized in R&B & soul music… in blackface. Good stuff otherwise. {Had to update the vid. Original was sent to the YouTube gulag.]
Oh!Sharels is also Japanese and also do some nice retro covers, like this 1959 hit by the Flamingos (which was a cover of the song from 1934).
How ’bout some Japanese rockabilly? Not sure just what to make of Shelly (aka Shelly Trip Realize, aka Tinc), but the band rocks.
Have a great weekend or something. See you back here tomorrow for stuff.
Go Away. We Don’t Want You Here.
[Found in here.]
Tacky Raccoons 