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Stuff I Do When I’m Bored
Tag: miscellanea
Obumbrating Hot Links
Violent Love, The Big Three Trio (1951) Okeh Records Active from 1946-1952, The Big Three Trio consisted of Leonard “Baby Doo” Caston (piano, vocals), Ollie Crawford (guitar, vocals) and Willie Dixon (upright bass, vocals). Dixon wrote this and many other blues standards during his lengthy career. (Note: Crawford replaced band founder and guitarist Bernardo Dennis in 1947.)
Root cellars [via Mme. Jujujive].
EV charging stations in California.
Economic forecast [via Bunkerville].
Violent Love, Oingo Boingo, live 1983.
Sea Matheson at Fat Studies Conference.
There’s a hole in the port plate, dear Liza.
Freespoke is another search engine alternative to Google. (I haven’t checked it out yet – I use DDG.)
[Top image found at Tfarhad.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
Tautophonic Hot Links
Who’s Been Talking, Howlin’ Wolf (1970) Sometimes mistitled Cause Of It All, Chester Burnett’s recording from the The London Howlin’ Wolf Sessions (Chess 1971) is a classic. Backing musicians for this track included Eric Clapton, Lafayette Leake, Hubert Sumlin, Steve Winwood, Charlie Watts, and Bill Wyman.
This is The End.
If true, this is disturbing news.
Hoogerbrugge’s Hotel was awesome.
What an honor! Thanks Mme. Jujujive!
Pelican trying to eat a capybara [via Bunkerville].
Church puzzled by low attendance at men’s conference.
[Top image: Still from After the Storm.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
Neotenical Hot Links
Brazil, Geoff & Maria Muldaur (1970) In 1939, Ary Barroso was stuck in his house during a rainstorm, so he wrote Aquarela do Brasil. Three decades later, multi-talented musician Geoff Muldaur and his wife Maria (nee D’Amato) recorded it as Brazil. In 1985, Terry Gilliam adopted the song for his cinematic vision of a retro-future dystopia, and now it’s immediately recognizable as the Theme to Brazil.
Pre-WWII smoke screen.
[h/t Bunkerville]
Mr. Hitler, Leadbelly (1942).
Rocket cats from the 16th century.
[via Mme. Jujujive]
It’s legal in Brazil to kill motorcycle thieves.
“I have turned into Moira Rose, Queen of the Crows.”
[Top image: László Löwenstein, aka Peter Lorre, in promo for movie Crime and Punishment, 1935.
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
Stuff I Do When I’m Bored
Some of these are dated, and yeah, that was our experience with The Omigodmicron. The one at bottom right was an experiment – I took an arbitrary section of my recent WebEx Meeting Notes, ran it through a photo-morph and the alien from Planet of the Mufflers appeared.
Pagophagial Hot Links
Funbar, Deerpeople (2013) I heard this song years ago (on Atomic Flash Deluxe Hi-Fi Radio) but didn’t know the title or the band name until recently. Formed in 2012 in Stillwater, Oklahoma, Deerpeople were described as psychedelic folk rockers. One day they just stopped performing and recording for no particular reason, but reunited to officially disband in 2019.
Checkpoint Jumbo.
[h/t Bunkerville]
Magnetic vibrations.
[via Memo of the Air]
Catch the Chameleon. Great soundtrack.
The War of Human Cats by Festus Pragnell.
98 year old found out how old he is. [NSFW]
“In America if it is worth doing it is worth overdoing.”
Here’s proof.
It’s a multipart saga about earplugs in space: Surprise Visit (Part I).
[Top image found here.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
Capelocratic Hot Links
Love is All Right, Cliff Nobles & Co. (1968) Cliff Nobles recorded this A-side for the 45rpm, but the B-side, The Horse, was the instrumental hit. It became one of the most recognizable instrumentals ever, and EVERY high school band played it. The Horse was also the theme song for Radio Veronica, a popular dutch pirate radio station that broadcast from a ship on the North Sea in the 1960’s & 70s.
Sound up.
[h/t Bunkerville]
Milton Friedman would have turned 110 years old today.
Clifford Stoll talks about what he’s not going to talk about (2006).
[Top image found here.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
Neovitalistic Hot Links
Thunderbirds, A. Aallon Rytmiorkesteri (2000) A. Aallon, also known as A. Aalto and A. Aalto’s Rhythm Orchestra, is an iskelmä (pop) music group from Ylöjärvi, Finland. Interesting mix of styles, but this particular space western surf instrumental struck a chord with me.
The Proposal.
[h/t Bunkerville]
Fibbonacci Elephant.
[h/t Memo Of The Air]
Ridiculous Inflatable Swan Thing.
[h/t Mme. Jujujive]
[Top image found here.]
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Geniophobic Hot Links
Real Wild Child, Jerry Allison & Buddy Holly (1958) The Crickets had toured Australia in February 1958 and recorded the cover with drummer Jerry Ivan Allison singing lead. The song was partly a tribute to Australian Johnny O’Keefe, who wrote the original titled The Wild One.
How to turn bread to toast.
[h/t Mme. Jujujive]
Ibuprofin may be toxic to Neanderthals.
In 1929, an 87 year old recalled the good old days.
[h/t Bunkerville]
[Top image h/t Gord S. Unknown source.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
Stuff I Do When I’m Bored
Tacky Raccoons 