8 year anniversary!

Today PCL LinkDump celebrates 8 years in orbit. Happy birthday to us!

Happy Birthday Alan Lomax!

"...Starting in the mid-1930s, when he made his first field recordings in the South,  Lomax was the foremost music folklorist in the United States. He was the first to record Muddy Waters and Woody Guthrie, and much of what Americans have learned about folk and traditional music stems from his efforts, which were also directly responsible for the folk music and skiffle booms in the United States and Britain that shaped the pop-music revolution of the 1960s and beyond...

... Long before the Internet existed, he envisioned a “global jukebox” to disseminate and analyze the material he had gathered during decades of fieldwork. A decade after his death technology has finally caught up to Lomax’s imagination. Just as he dreamed, his vast archive — some 5,000 hours of sound recordings, 400,000 feet of film, 3,000 videotapes, 5,000 photographs and piles of manuscripts, much of it tucked away in forgotten or inaccessible corners — is being digitized so that the collection can be accessed online. About 17,000 music tracks will be available for free streaming by the end of February, and later some of that music may be for sale as CDs or digital downloads. ..." 

See article in The New York Times: Folklorist’s Global Jukebox Goes Digital.

Further news about this Global Jukebox see news at Cultural Equity.

Thanks to Johan Jacobsson.

Stinky Toys - 'Birthday party'

Let's celebrate Tiny Tim 1932-1996

It's Tiny Tim's birthday. Let's go on over to the other side for a big psychedelic party with Tiny and the kids!

Happy Birthday to You

This is the ultimate Happy Birthday production number, in fact I wish I could have a birthday exactly like this every year. Except for the part with the bagpipes, you can leave those out when you're planning my birthday celebration. In March. The 30th.
Found by Doug Spalding

Birthday Wishes

What birthday present do you buy a man who already has everything? I simply have no idea, so I guess I will just have to hop into my soviet-era flying car and fly off to the Scandinavian part of the world to personally wish PCL-founder MR. DANTE FONTANA the happiest of birthdays.

Thank you for being born, and making the internet world so much more interesting!

POST 7000!!! Ammaeli.

Sugarcubes - "Ammaeli (Birthday)"

Happy 6th birthday, PCL!

Holy Days

Passover? Easter?
Occasions to celebrate and reflect for many in our world.

At PCL headquarters, March 30th marks another very special occasion. A time to hoist the Faygo and Fluffernutter sandwiches and rejoice in the birthing day of one Baikinange Overkill.

In the spirit of Ange's special day, I invite all our loyal readers to post photo's/video's and reflections of the blessed innocent as offerings to this spiritual day.

Happy Day Ms. Overkill.

Jackson Pollack

Today is his birthday.

In November 2006 Pollock's "No. 5, 1948" became the world's most expensive painting, when it was sold privately to an undisclosed buyer for the sum of 140 million dollars.



Ok, this little pictures doesn''t do it justice. Pollack's work is rather large.

Happy Birthday!