Friday, 31 October 2008

Tiki and then some...[Here]


Scott Scheidly is talented and funny. Visit his site to see a gallery of interesting art inspired by the absurd and a tiny dose of Tiki culture. All done with acrylics. Very inspiring.

http://www.flounderart.com [click title]

Wednesday, 1 October 2008

1973 Cheech & Chong's : Basketball Jones






Tyrone Shoelaces has a fantasy...some might call the imagery racist now but in 1973 it rose to #15 in the record charts.
This is the short released to promote the single by Cheech & Chong off their LP Los Cochinos. The Beatles even make an appearance!
If this looks familiar, Peter Sellers watches this as Chance the gardener during a sequence of the 1980 film, Being There. Enjoy!

James Blackshaw plays: The Eye

Hypnotic!



Yes, there's a bit of trickery and repetition, but overall there's still some soul to the music.

Thursday, 25 September 2008

Hell Hath No Mercy As A Letterman Snubbed

National hero and senator John McCain, at the last minute, cancelled his appearance on David Letterman's talk show to go to another network down the street, after calling Dave personally to say he had to rush to Washington to help save the economy...

Tuesday, 9 September 2008

GIN - The Tiger Lillies



One of the bands on my 'must see' list.

Friday, 5 September 2008

Jerry Reed & Chet Atkins - Summertime


Jerry Reed 1937 - 2008

BUTTER 08 - Butter of 69



Butter 08 was a short-lived musical side project whose members consisted of Yuka Honda and Miho Hatori of Cibo Matto, Russell Simins of the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Rick Lee of Skeleton Key and director Mike Mills. The band released just one album, the self-titled "Butter 08" in 1996 on the Beastie Boys' now defunct Grand Royal record label. The album features guest performances by future Cibo Matto members Timo Ellis and Sean Lennon as well as a performance by filmmaker Evan Bernard who directed music videos for several Grand Royal artists as well as for Cibo Matto and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
In addition to their one album, a remix of their song "Degobrah" appears on the soundtrack for "City of Industry", a 1996 film featuring Harvey Keitel.
The band was allegedly formed when the members spent an evening recording the 1995 Cibo Matto single "Know Your Chicken" together. A demo was then sent to Mike D, who immediately signed Butter 08 to Grand Royal Records - taken from Wikipedia

Tuesday, 24 June 2008

Weird Sesame Street short...

This is almost creepy...until you notice how influenced it is by Paul Dressen, who helped set the animation style in the Yellow Submarine Film some few years earlier. What's that big 'morphy-type' guy's name anyway?

Friday, 13 June 2008

Now that you're nice and mellow...

...here's Ethel Smith and some of her gal pals! Don't ask where they're hiding the brass section. She's playing Tico Tico! Notice how some of them aren't even tapping their feet.


Sunday, 1 June 2008

Pogo - Alice



Fantastic!