A Collectorium of Emphermeral Indulgences and Audio Disturbances!!
#11 Larsen Ice Shelf, Antarctica C.C. Approx. 460 Yards. Par 3. - "always be alert for penguins - Handicap #10"
Here's the other two Spin-Art paintings I held onto. This one is Batman escaping from a Super Nova Explosion, and.....
.....This one is a dynamite blast in Alaska with the Northern Lights in the background! They make great wallpaper!!
I was cleaning out some stuff in the garage and I found these old paintings I made years ago! I think it was on The Boardwalk in Santa Cruz about 1964. It probably cost about 50 cents to make one. They would spin these little boards as you squeezed paint onto them, and they usually came out pretty cool. I always wondered why I saved them all these years, and now I know why!
I love this postcard, it reminds me of, you know, apples! - "Prize Winning Apples"
"Wild Flowers - Bakersfield, California." Other wild flowers found here are Lupine, Sand Verbena, Indian Paint Brush, Shooting Star, Baby Blue Eyes, Owl's Clover, Wild Hyacinth, Coreopsis, Buttercup, and Primrose! - From Tykie and Bess, 1976
"Santa Pants Filled With Yogurt-Covered Pretzels" - I'm sorry, but even at $5.99 that just ain't right!!
I am standing up here tonight to testify to you that out of all the zillions of new things I learned about in 2011(Mostly because of blogs), I can't believe I never heard of Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers until just a couple of months ago! I'm older than sin, have collected records for years, listened to every record in my college radio station library, haunted swamp meets, garage sales, and thrift stores for years, and still have 4000+ LPs, 45's & CD's to get rid of before I die, but I never heard of Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers! These guys come off sounding like the best combination of James and Bobby Purify, The Rumblers, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Sam & Dave, and Sly and the Family Stone, and every cover they do, they make it their own! Here is just a minutely small example of what these cats could pack into two minutes! I almost had an aneurysm just trying to pick out one song! Go find a CD!!
" A dirigible moored to the mast atop the Empire State Building would exert a greater pull than three locomotives!"
The Earth's Buttcrack!
Ansel Adams - Forest Floor of Yosemite Valley - "Christmas Greetings"
TOTEM MOTEL - North Hwy. 101 - Crescent City, Calif - Reasonable Rates!
The Santa Cruz Boardwalk used to be such a neat place, way before video games, you put in a nickel and you got one of these! Yeehaw!! Lemme go thru the spinning barrel again!!
"Cheyenne, one of America's important transcontinental points, lies midway between the north and south borders where the Rockies are crossed more easily than at any other point." - 1947
Sounds like a Little Feat song!
"Dear Toasters, Keep on doing what's groovy." - 1977
Art Department Post Card Show - "See You Soon!" - 1972
This is a postcard given to me by my good friend Bud Cockrell! Bud was an amazing talent, and I was shocked, but not surprised when I heard of his death this year! The world has a tendency to take talented people like Bud for granted, but out of billions, he was truly one of a kind! Here's a song from his one album with his wife at the time, the equally talented Pattie Santos, "I Tried It All". This is not a song, it's a true story! This song also features the talents of an even sadder story, the Jimi Hendrix of the bass, Jaco Pastorious on Rhythm guitar, the amazing Ernie Watts on Sax, and the sweetest of background vocals from The Sweet Inspirations!
"Refer to the local newspapers for schedule of prices and performances." - 1960's
Cat Stevens - "Foreigner" - 1974 - Message reads "Hi. Busted, No Scratch. Blowing my trip. Alive and Well."
Cowboy Neal Hart
Show opening announcement at the Psychedelic Solution in New York for artist Lee Conklin - 1992
Kona Girl - "Breezin' Wif Al" - I used to have fun doing Acid Music contests. This was one of my mixed entries! It was a mix of 5 different songs by George Benson, Joe Sample, Michael Franks, Al Jarreau and David Sanborn!
