How ’bout some chaotic motion? [h/t Octopus]
Not sure what this is all about. [Found here.]
[Giant Venus Flytrap found here.]
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Saturday Matinee – Las Vegas
I can’t bring myself to post anything remotely light-hearted or amusing, so we’ll leave it at this.
Please pray for the dead, their friends, their families, and especially pray for the witnesses who will remember and relive this horrific event for the rest of their lives.
STOP THE REEF
“But that’s like the height of white performativeness.”
This leftist racist idiocy needs to stop, and while we’re at it, we might as well STOP THE REEF.
Saturday Matinee – Shirley Bassey, Goldfinger, Nena & Nina Hagen with Don Rickles & Merv Griffin
Dame Shirley Bassey‘s classic “Theme to Goldfinger” as captured on film in 1965. I didn’t know she was Welsh until today.
Goldfinger‘s cover of Nena’s “99 Luftballons” is pretty good.
Nena‘s “Rette Mich” (Save Me) is from the same album as 99 Luftballons.
I’m embarrassed to admit that I once confused Nena (Gabriele Kerner of Hagen, West Germany) with Nina Hagen (Catherine Hagen of East Berlin, East Germany). Never again.
Have a great weekend, folks. More is yet to come.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 501 – BoomBoomBoomBoom, Bird/Camera Frame Synch & Dance Hard
Saturday Matinee – About Hurricane Harvey
In case you’re living in a closet, there’s some nasty weather going on down south with a killer hurricane underway.
Led Zeppelin unapologetically ripped off Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe for one of their greatest hits.
On the other hand, this blues jam was an original.
So what’s next? Maybe a Rainy Night In Georgia.
To my friends down in Texas and Louisiana, keep safe.
Saturday Matinee – Earl Barton & Lisa Gaye, The Wolfgangs & The Reverend Horton Heat.
If you lived in that time period, you’d have done the exact same thing. Not me. Dig, man, I wouldn’t have been caught dead dancing plaid.
I don’t know anything about The Wolfgangs except that they rock and may or may not use illegal substances.
Very few bands can cover a classic Johnny Cash song like Folsom Prison Blues, but the Reverend Horton Heat did just that, and even cranked it up a notch.
Rock on, my friends. More stuff coming down the pipe.
Saturday Matinee – Portlandia Gutter Punks, Music From Hell & Joe Bonamassa Rips It
Heh. I’ve seen posers like this in Santa Monica and elsewhere in Southern California.
Dang [via].
Reminds me of Tom Waits’ “Conundrum” that he described as the sound of “a jail door closing behind you” and says it looks “kind of like a Chinese torture device.”
So many uncredited influences crammed into one awesome jam.
Have a great weekend, folks, and I promise we’ll never post the real names of your dogs and cats without permission.
Saturday Matinee – Bert The Turtle, Time for Sushi & Jaco Pastorious
Bert The Turtle showed children how to survive a nuclear attack – assuming they’re far enough away from Ground Zero to have time to react. The film was shown in schools from 1952 into the 1990s.
David Lewandowski‘s “Time for Sushi” (2017) is pure disturbed weirdness. (His 2013 vid “Late For Meeting” is a classic.)
The late Jaco Pastorius was one of the greatest jazz-funk fretless bass players in modern times, IMO. [Video h/t TITH]
Have a great weekend, folks. We’ll do something just as fun tomorrow.
Saturday Matinee – Turbulence, Laurie Anderson, MiniMall & The We Five
“This Is Your Captain speaking. We’re experiencing some minor turbulence and we ask that you stop screaming.” Wild rides were ridden on at the Birmingham Airport 23 February 2017 [via].
Okay, there’s a link to some surreal 1980s Laurie Anderson stuff above, so let’s go to 2010 live for fun.
Anderson was the Ken Nordine of the 80s (without the baritone voice).
MiniMall has a bit of a retro vibe and consists of:
Merced Stratton — composer, ukulele, vocals
Maral Ohan — composer, vocals
Allegra Rosenberg — composer, bass
Wynne Males — trumpet, vocals
Brennan Doyle — drums
[Merced & Wynne ate sandwiches on our rock-n-roll patio recently because Bunkessa knows them. They were all like harmonizing and musical and stuff.]
The “We Five” had this awesome hit in 1965, a cover of Ian & Sylvia‘s song “You Were On My Mind.”
Sylvia Fricker supposedly wrote it in a bathtub in Greenwich Village in 1962. Yeah it’s lip-synched, but it’s still fun as hell. One of these days I need to find out who the lead guitar on the left is because he rocks.
Have a great weekend, folks. Be back here tomorrow for more of you-know-what.
Tacky Raccoons 