Crazy Rat, The Violetz (2014) Neo rockabilly / psychobilly band from Japan.
Work smart [via Bunkerville].
The pants see through your lies.
Abacusynth [via Memo Of The Air].
I Got Drunk And Slapped Me A Midget.
Zulu pronunciation tutorial [via Mme. Jujujive].
I’d buy this dumpster a beer for a story [via This Isn’t Happiness].
You already know what’s going to happen and you’re gonna watch it anyway.
[Top image found here.]
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Boombada, Les Baxter (1960) From the great 1988 compilation album Swing For A Crime, this recording includes an intro clip from The Big Heat (1953), featuring Lee Marvin being firm but gentle, and then just firm.
Do the Electric Clam.
Lab-grown meat looks real.
Humane Resources & Failed Interviews.
250 photo I.D. badges [via Mme. Jujujive].
A phenakistiscope of rats [via Memo Of The Air].
The first flower grown in space [via Bunkerville].
[Top image: Background story on that 2012 Ratrod unknown, found here via Tineye.]
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Update: Twitter now requires you to have an account and log in before you can see linked tweets. What a shame.
Cruisin’ For A Love, J. Geils Band (1973) One of the greatest bar bands to hit it big (timeline of band members here). Guitarist John Warren Geils Jr. passed away in 2017 at 71.
This dog [via Bunkerville].
Building Barbie [via Mme. Jujujive]
Blunting the Tip of the Spear [h/t Kirk W.]
Ray Jessel‘s 2014 performances of What She’s Got [NSFK].
North Korean anti-American propaganda art, 1950-1970 [NSFK].
[Top image:Apocalyptic play house, Lazio, Italy, via Google Maps Street View via Neil.Fun h/t Memo Of The Air.]
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RIDE!, Dee Dee Sharp (1962) Before going solo at 17, Dee Dee Sharp provided vocal backup for recordings by Lloyd Price, Frankie Avalon, Fabian, Bobby Rydell, Jackie Wilson, and Chubby Checker (Pony Time). Sharp’s song made it to No. 5 on the charts. (BTW, pony was hokum for something else.)
THIS needs video.
Bassed [h/t Danny D.].
Eggshell solo [h/t Gord S.].
FATE [via Memo Of The Air].
Doggie Sang Bass [via Bunkerville].
Designing a VR vehicle in real time…
“Whisper ‘Puss’ and a ‘Mew’ came in reply.”
[Story here, via Mme. Jujujive.]
[Top image: “Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Chung-Hoon (DDG-93) steams in formation during a multi big deck event on June 8, 2023. US Navy Photo” via USNI.]
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Bring It On Home, Sonny Boy Williamson II (1963) This classic was written by Willie Dixon and recorded in 1963 (with Matt “Guitar” Murphy) but wasn’t released until three years later. Led Zeppelin covered the song on their album Led Zeppelin II (1969). In 2017 Randy Newman wrote Sonny Boy, a song about Rice Williams’ theft of the original Sonny Boy Williamson’s identity.
The “Certificate.” [h/t Kirk W.]
Spy hatchlings! [via Bunkerville]
I need just about everything they sell.
1954 Buick Wildcat II [via Memo Of The Air]
Best Use of Thermochromics Award [via Mme. Jujujive].
[Top image: Doggo McMuffin found here.]
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Background Music For Your Personal Movies
from Kodak Sound-8 Vol. 1 (1961). Music for any occasion.
Fump Flork is my Don Martin sound effect name.
Body Based Units of Measure In Cultural Evolution.
The Bonnacons were disgusting [via Mme. Jujujive].
RED – Two months in two minutes [via Memo Of The Air].
[Top image found here. There’s a cool Victorian house 1/4 mile to the east on the right.]
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Theme from Jonny Quest, Hoyt Curtin composer (1964)Opening & closing themes to Hanna and Barbara’s Jonny Quest Saturday morning cartoon show that aired in 1965. According to Curtin, the opening theme took about an hour to produce.
Puppy’s first bath [via Bunkerville].
Singapore timelapse [via Mme. Jujujive].
The Welsh Guards Band paid a tribute to Tina Turner.
It’s what’s on the inside that counts [via Memo Of The Air].
[Top image found here, h/t Nag On The Lake.]
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Get Rhythm, Johnny Cash and The Tennessee Two (1956) Originally calling themselves Johnny Cash and The Tennessee Three, Sun Records owner Sam Phillips suggested they go with The Tennessee Two after steel guitarist A.W. ‘Red’ Kernodle became too nervous to play and left the studio, leaving Luther Perkins (Fender electric guitar) and Marshall Grant (upright bass). By 1953 drummer W.S. Holland joined the band, and they eventually became The Tennessee Three again.
Kitty sings the blues [sound up].
How to enter a crowd in Paducah, Kentucky.
Seven seconds of contentment [via Bunkerville].
The Melbourne Bouncy Castle King [h/t Gord S.].
Spoiler alert: C is for the Capsule [via Mme. Jujujive].
The big band jazz of Jonny Quest [via Memo Of The Air].
The Atomic Energy Merit Badge begat The Radioactive Boy Scout.
[Top image: 1958 Cadillac Fleetwood tail light found here.]
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Cankton Two Step, Leeman Prejean (1988) From an obituary:
A native of Carencro and a resident of Lafayette for most of his life, Leeman Prejean retired from the Lafayette Parish School Board after thirty-two years of service as a custodian. He had a passion for music and was an active musician for thirty-nine years with “Leeman Prejean and the Happy Playboys of Scott“.
bababababop [via Bunkerville].
A reply to a message in a bottle.
NOT a deepfake. Those are real.
Bar napkin art [via Memo Of The Air].
The thing is called the Great Seal bug.
USAF racist program to combat racism.
A Unique petting zoo opened in Florida.
A.I. generated 1993 Pizza Nuggets commercial.
[via Mme. Jujujive]
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Let’s Dust, Planet Seven (2001) From their album The Tomorrow That Never Was, Planet Seven launched spacesurf punk from San Francisco, CA.
Camo.
Helene [via Memo Of The Air].
Rollin’ & Rockin’ [via Bunkerville].
All the dance moves you’ll ever need. [Sound up]
One more thing to see before bedtime [via Mme. Jujujive].
[Top image found somewhere, possible Reddit photoshop.]
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Tacky Raccoons 