Badness Productions presents...

From 'Collage'

Badness Productions. Collage, paintings, comics and more cool stuff. (via CoLLaGeMaNíA)

Tarzan Triumphs

RareMovieImages (formerly known a BadAssMovieImages) presents Daily Images. Image for Feb. 27 is from Tarzan Triumphs (1943). View it here!

Rocky Schenck

D.J., 1999

"Rocky Schenck is at once creator and master technician, composing densely toned, beautifully tactile, and deeply evocative images - dreams and projections of a fully realized inner jurisdiction. Freed by darkroom artistry and painterly manipulation of print surface, he outstrips the representational world, revealing the richness of his visual moments through his photography." (quote from)

Find Rocky's photo art here, here and here. And even more here! Great artistery! (via Penny Dreadful)

The Unsuccessful Elf

Ford, the brain behind Kiddie Records Weekly tells us: "Paul Wing, one of my favorite storytellers, narrates this charming tale about Edgar, a baby elf that grows much too fast. The beautifully illustrated sleeve is by "Reairuin." Does anybody have any information on this artist? "

The Unsuccessful Elf

Tacky Times Vol. 3

Tacky Times has got their Third Volume out.
Great retro articles like; ANITA - Just Being Herself (See the making of this major scene in a new Italian film the world famous director Fredrico Fellini is filming, Anita Ekberg's notorious bath in the Fontana di Trevi.); THE BEATNIKS - Here They Are (Meet the "beatniks", young people who bold and cheekily turn their backs on the technical civilization and the official American moral.); Meet "The One" - LIBERACE (Walter Liberace has cast a spell on American women for more than three years now and by that given their husbands a hard time.) and much more!

Art Blakey and the guys

Gojira69 shares this wonderful Jazz LP:
Ritual: The Jazz Messengers featuring Art Blakey (1957)

Trixon

"In the end of the 50's Lionel was in Hamburg at the
Trixon factory to buy some instruments for his orchestra."

The Trixon-Drums Website. Check out the history pages and the Drummer-section with Lionel Hampton and others!

Whoa, Nellie!

Robert Berry of retroCRUSH has interviewed Alison Arngrim, the girl (I suppose she is a woman by now...) who played the snotty little spoiled brat in Little House on the Prairie.
And it's a really fun and interesting talk. Everyone with a taste for anything pop cultural should read this. A lot of facts and information you wouldn't want to live without and a lot of laughs, is what you get!

"(R. B.): I thought it would be a fun project to just catalog every single character that’s ever been on that show. Some just mysteriously appear on the show and (the story has them) living there for 4 years. Like there’s this Blacksmith that is a part of the town, and you never…

(A. A.): There’s some banker and then you’re like “whatever happened to that banker?” (laughs)

Right, there should be like 9,000 people living in Walnut Grove if you really listed them all out.

There’s some child who’s sick, and they come to see Doc Baker, and then you never see them again. Or the little girl who was crippled, and had one leg shorter than the other, and Pa made shoes for her.

She grew up to do other shows.

Well that was Kim Richards. And do you know who Kim Richards is?

Well, I know her as an actress.

She was in Nanny and The Professor, and she was the little crippled girl on Little House on The Prairie, and her sister Kyle Richards was also on…I believe it was that Patricia Neal episode where she was dying, and her three children had to get adopted.

She was also on this horrible show, it was a spin off of Diff’rent Strokes, called Hello, Larry!

YES! Oh my god!

McLean Stevenson’s show, she was his daughter.

Yep. Well here’s the kicker. There’s a third sister, who’s their older sister, named Kathy Richards…she was a child actress, too, but she got married when she was 18 or 19, and who did she marry?

Uhhh….Rod Stewart?

Mr. Hilton! Kim Richards is Paris Hilton’s Auntie."

retroCRUSH Interviews Alison Arngrim - Tv's Greatest Villain: Nellie Oleson (Part 1 of 2)

Hi everyone.

Asian Horror Encyclopedia

Abyss :
The abyss is often characterized as the underworld or the abode of the dead. This often places it underground or inside mountains. Chinese demonic tradition holds the underground is the abode of subterranean demons, as well as the world of the dead. The Japanese and the South Sea Islanders have the curious tradition of placing the abyss beneath the sea or at the bottom of lakes. This ties in with the myth of undersea cities and palaces as in the Japanese classic fairy tale "Urashima Taro," reminiscent of King Arthur's Avalon.
...

Madness :
A potentially horrific state of mind. Madness can be a source of terror to the afflicted themselves and to their sane companions. Highly exaggerated as threat in popular culture, madness can be used effectively to invoke horror and modify audience attitudes towards a character.
...

Rashomon :
A ghost tale of old Kyoto not to be confused with the Akutagawa short story and movie with the same name. In this tale, a man meets a young woman at Rashomon Gate, who turns out to be a ghost. He slashes off her hand, which he proudly displays to everyone. The ghost uses this pride to get her hand back.

Asian Horror Encyclopedia. (via del.icio.us/robbytherobot)

Cartoon Themes

A super great page with tons of Classic Cartoon Themes (in mp3).
Mike's Classic Cartoon Themes. (via MetaFilter)

Old School Party Flyers

"Most of the Old School Party Flyers were Designed By Buddy Esquire and Phase 2. Phase 2 was a real big Aerosol Artist who wrote on allot of the NYC Trains who also did a majority of the Party Flyers back then. Buddy Esquire was a regular Artist who did allot of party flyers as well.
These Cats Worked on big Art tables and had all the tools to make these flyers by hand including those Rub on Letters, wax Machines, exacto knives, Graph Paper and many other tools that are extinct today in the modern artwork world." [note: slow page - a huge amount of cool images to load!] (thanks to Karramarro)

Betsy to Heavens: You'll Fail NOT to SPACE PATROL

Well... it's true. You can learn to accept your SPACE PATROL at
http://luxuriamusic.com Wednesday at 8pm PST/11EST/0400 GMT (Thursday), with
a rebroadcast at 5am PST/8am EST/1300 GMT Thursday.

Listen - chat - LOVE!

What'll be in it this week? Blisstery from Camille Sauvage, Quincy Jones, Asha Bhosle, Manny Albam, Kristian Schultze Set, George Shearing, Robert Maxwell, Andre Popp, and ...just for fun... Ultravox! with John Foxx. Oh, and more. Too. Also.

Official Space Patrol Blog: http://spacepatrol.blogspot.com

Official Space Patrol Swag: http://cafepress.com/spacepatrol

And here's a work in progress...
http://axenhammer.com/spacepatrol

Remember, Luxuriamusic thrives on your donations and your participation.
Listen throughout the week for New Shows, including the legendary Otis
Fodder's "Friendly Persuasion"!

Significant personalities

A list of 10 persons I do not know in person and have nu genetical relation (I wish!!) to, but means something to me.

In no particular order:

• Zlatan
• John Steinbeck
• Lasse Gullin
• Thelonious Monk
• Iggy
• Marilyn Monroe
• Jaime Hernandez
• Billie Holiday
• Paul Burlison
• Bob Dylan

Live at the Sandalwood

Above image is a cut-out from the back cover art work.

Up this week at Pastor McPurvis' Weekly mp3 Talent Show is a sticky sweet and somewhat funky offering from the band Reunion.

Also: Album Cover Theme of the Week is pipes! Very nice and colorful covers!

Modern American Portrait Drawings

"The art of portraiture, after thriving for generations at the forefront of the visual arts, rode a roller coaster of reputation in the twentieth century. First it was re-empowered as experimental, then discredited in an age of abstraction, and gradually rediscovered. But although portrait traditions were buffeted by new ways of thinking about art and the individual, artists never completely abandoned the figure; they continued to experiment. These drawings from the National Portrait Gallery's collections, dating from the 1880s to the 1980s, are adventurous, assertive, witty, or monumental. They all reflect modern themes and aesthetic concerns, confirming the vitality of twentieth-century portraiture. ..."

"The Five Spot in New York was a raffish neighborhood bar that began promoting of avant-garde jazz bands in the late 1950s. It was probably where Elaine de Kooning drew this image of Ornette Coleman playing the alto saxophone. Coleman's sensational debut at the Five Spot in 1959 was the culmination of a long war with jazz conventions. Largely self-trained, he refused to follow swing or bebop conventions of improvisation and chord progressions. Coleman's unorthodox playing was at first controversial, but eventually his "free jazz" developed a following among serious musicians, and he became a regular at various New York jazz spots.
In this portrait, de Kooning, a skilled draftsman who had drawn obsessively ever since childhood, manipulated the graphite with stump and erasure to subvert form and outline. Jagged, repeated pencil lines substitute for hands, suggesting the motion of the fingers shaping a quick succession of notes. Other diagonals envelope the head and body, evoking the sensation of rhythm and sound. ..."

Eye Contact: Modern American Portrait Drawings from the National Portrait Gallery (via PLEP)

Peter Mitchell

William Burroughs

The works of Peter Mitchell (flash site!). (via Josh Rubin: Cool Hunting)

Jazzmen

"A dozen top jazzmen join forces in a free-and-easy session that swings solidly all the way."
This superb Jazz recording on crispy vinyl (yes, what a lovely sound) from 1956 is being shared by Gojira.
Session at Riverside.

Christina Lindberg

I have posted about this Swedish femme fatale/terrible before. But then it was about her singing and acting skills(!?). Now I'd like to present you to some of her other skills(!?). The Crime In Your Coffee points to this entry (careful! NSFW!!) in UNRAT Deluxe. Well...

Update: By request I'v uploaded the songs (as YouSendIt-files) from the EP that Magnus shared at his Bellybongo site almost half a year ago.
Note: These are not the files Bellybongo shared. These are my own.
And here is the front cover.

Allt blir tyst igen .mp3
Du är min enda kärlek .mp3

From generation to generation

"Taken over a period of approximately twenty years, the photographs in this exhibition are part of a series entitled, Triptychs. These twenty-seven photographs, presented in groups of three, depict working class families living in a six-block area of Buffalo, New York's Lower West Side. The families were photographed during the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. These images speak about the importance of family, continuity, and the impact of the passage of time. Without sentimentality or romanticizing, the portraits capture the dignity of these individuals and tell their stories of humor, warmth, vitality, and mortality. ..."
From Generation to Generation - Milton Rogovin Photographs. (via Linkfilter)

Moira Hahn

'Double Trouble' [Click image for larger view at source]

The works by Moira Hahn. (via Geisha Asobi)

Carl-Eiwar Sect

"Welcome to the CARL-EIWAR SECT homepage
We only play obscure garage rock from the 60's. Preferably songs so obscure they were not even released at the time We also like to dig up so called "Incredibly strange music" artists. And then do a tribute show dedicated to them. Our next project is an "Einar Bergh" tribute. He has to be seen and heard to be believed!"
Listen to Carl-Eiwar Sect now! Fine Swedish garage rock.

An unbeatable top team

A gallery of crochet fashions from about circa 1975. Scanned and uploaded by Retro Randy.

Splusp!

Splogman's undefined sharity program. Strange, obscure or amateur music is being shared.

Danger Diabolik

Bedazzled! has posted 12 Tracks (are there more?) from the 'Danger Diabolik' soundtrack composed by Ennio Morricone. The mp3s from the latest two posts are available.

Mendes

Rato has posted 4 tracks from Sergio Mendes solo album "My Favorite Things" on his blog. Great stuff!

Bubbles

[Clickable]

SixDifferentWays has a charming Ball, Bubble, and Egg Chair Gallery.

Rum, Sodomy and the Goof

MrBaliHai tells us: "... I picked up this lovely bit of ephemera at a flea market last year for two bucks, and immediately set about working my way through all of the recipes; I can assure you that they're most drinkable when made with a good Jamaican or Puerto Rican rum. However, if you think that all rums are created equal, well, you just can't possibly imagine how much smoother and mellower a 7-year old HC (flash-site) is until you try it for yourself. ..."

Bonanza!

Jukkis Järvinen - Bonanza Theme.mp3 [YouSendIt-file] (Uploaded by lo999d)

Some picks...

Some of the eyeballs I prefer in my Martini can be tested at An Idiot's Guide to Dreaming.
Lionel Ritchie's Dick stands out(!) at Cake & Polka Parade.
Todd Rundgren's 'Wolfman Jack' at We're Here to Help You Thru Yr Changes.
The Fall's 'Theme From Sparta FC' over at Strange Reaction.
3 songs by Kevin Ayers is to be enjoyed at Orbis Quintus.

Commercial

Life On Mars. (via Ollo)

Oksana & Yumiko

'Moscow' (Oksana Badrak) [Click the orgy for large view at source]

Oksana Badrak & Yumiko Kayukawa - Exhibition at Ox-Op. (via Thumbmonkey)

Re-Penetrator

"Re-Penetrator is a pornographic spoof of H.P Lovecraft’s 80’s horror flick Re-Animator. Re-Penetrator is the story of a stripper (Joanna Angel), who after being dead for twenty years, is resurrected back to life by a perverted mad scientist (Dr. Breast). Dr. Breast vaginally injects the long-dead, but exquisitely preserved, exotic dancer with special serum so the re-penetrated corpse will return from the VIP room in hell and crave nothing but sex. After he injects her with a gooey green potion the stripper awakens with an insatiable craving for balls, and she fucks the mad scientist from the gurney to the grave. ..."

First: I didn't know Mr. Lovecraft was directing horror flicks in the 80's. He must have risen from his grave. Ok.. Maybe it was H. P. Lovecraft after all...
Second: Watch the trailor for Re-Penetrator and read more about this coming movie classic. And it's NSFW. Thank god it's Friday! (via Unscathed Corpse)

Disco music - what were we thinking?

"One of the more entertaining elements of a newly opened disco exhibition is a kiosk of recordings that highlight the genre at its worst. Listening to Ethel Merman, Frank Sinatra, and the Muppets try their hand at a style of music that originated in hip New York gay and minority nightclubs makes the backlash against disco a bit more understandable. ..."
Article/Review in The Christian Science Monitor. (via ..................MARK!!!)

Electronic Arts

"Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) is a leading resource for artists' video and interactive media. EAI's core program is the international distribution of a major collection of new and historical media works by artists. Founded in 1971 as a nonprofit media arts center, EAI also offers a video preservation program and a screening room/study center. The Online Catalogue is a comprehensive resource on the 175 artists and 3,000 works in the EAI collection. The searchable database includes artists' biographies, tape descriptions, QuickTime excerpts, resource materials, and online ordering." (via Linkfilter)

It's the SPACE PATROL that you'll... you'llingly.

Well... it's true. You can learn to accept your SPACE PATROL at
http://luxuriamusic.com Wednesday at 8pm PST/11EST/0400 GMT (Thursday), with a rebroadcast at 5am PST/8am EST/1300 GMT Thursday.

Listen - chat - LOVE!

What'll be in it this week? Sumptuousness from Sam Paglia, The Fabulous Jokers, Richard Marino, I Marc 4, Jack Acquaviva, Leo Addeo, Alice & Ellen Kessler, Sam Sklair, Sylvie Vartan, and... from the Temple of Countryman... Sam Sachs. Yes, it's a full range of... Samism.

Official Space Patrol Blog: http://spacepatrol.blogspot.com

Official Space Patrol Swag: http://cafepress.com/spacepatrol

And here's a work in progress...
http://axenhammer.com/spacepatrol

Remember, Luxuriamusic thrives on your donations and your participation.
Listen throughout the week for New Shows, including the legendary Otis
Fodder's Friendly Persuasion!

How to Belly Dance: For Fun! Health! Profit!

Learn to correctly move and shake your hips; learn to shake your stomach and move your bust; learn the belly dance yell!
C'mon girls. Get in line! And this course is free, and you get taught by a real professional.
Marisa of Radio Bastet shares How To Belly Dance with Jodette (Kamelia) With Aboud Abd El Al & His Orchestra.

Egyptian Movie Posters

I Am the Doctor [ana al-doktor] (1968).

Posters From Egypt; Egyptian films, Foreign films (like Superman II) and Lobby cards. (via Bitter Cinema)

The Mysterious Artist

Tina

"Does this painting look familiar? The chances that you have seen it before are pretty high. The chances you also know that its name is "Tina" are a bit lower. The chances that you know anything about the artist who created it are close to zero.
I am talking about J.H. Lynch, an artist that left nothing but his paintings and his signature. I am not talking about someone who lived 400 years ago or some local hobby artisan. No, I am talking about a persona whose works were sold worldwide in amounts of hundred thousands if not even millions. And even though this happened only some 30 years ago there are almost no traces left that could answer questions like: Who is J.H. Lynch? Is he still alive? Is he a woman? Where did he come from? Are there more paintings? ..."
J.H. Lynch: Mysterious Artist. (thanks to Johnny)

A ride with Michelle

Enjoy Michelle Pfeiffer doing 'Cool Rider' over at the blowupdoll. From Grease 2.

James Jean

From the "sketchbook" for 2000.

James Jean; Illustrator and painter. Awesome stuff! If just one of the pages in my sketchbooks looked like these I'd die a happy man!
The Donnas 'Gold Medal' Album!!. (via Bibi's Box)

Shout At The Devil

"In the beginning
Good always overpowered the evils
Of all man's sins...But in time
The nations grew weak
And our cities fell to slums
While evil stood strong
In the dusts of hell
Lurked the blackest of hates
For he whom they feared
Awaited them... Now many many lifetimes later
Lay destroyed, beaten, beaten down,
Only the corpses of rebels
Ashes of dreams
And blood stained streets
It has been written
"Those who have the youth
Have the future"
So come now, children of the beast
be strong"

Retrospect Records brings us this heavy freebie: Mötley Crüe: Tucson Community Center, AZ 3-14-84. (via del.icio.us/haikohebig)

Dan DeCarlo

"How about you driving a while, Millie?!"

"If you've ever taken a look at Betty or Veronica in an Archie comic, it's almost certain that you've enjoyed the art of Dan DeCarlo. Dan is recognized as the single most defining artist to work on the Archie books, with over 4 decades of drawing the Riverdale gang under his belt between the 60s and 2000. While working for the company, he created Josie and the Pussycats and Sabrina The Teenage Witch. (Dan's wife Josie was the inspiration for the Pussycats lead). Sadly Dan died shortly after a failed lawsuit that went all the way to the supreme court over unpaid royalties from the horrible Pussycats movie from 2001. ..."
retroCRUSH brings us some Pinups of DAN DeCARLO.

Tijuana!

This Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass Ep is being shared by Rato on his new blog.

10 versions of Henry Mancini's 'Moon River'

Pastor McPurvis is one romantic one! He sais (in his most sensous kind-of-whispering style of voice): "This week we are doing something a little different in honor of Valentine's Day. For your listening pleasure we offer you ten different versions of that most romantic of songs, Henry Mancini's 'Moon River'. We've tried to include a little something for everyone in the mix. For the purists we begin with Mancini's arrangement from the 'Breakfast at Tiffanys' soundtrack. From there the styles break open wide and include Moog synths, college choirs, lounge organs, blazing brass sections, and even a country flavored version. We've even whipped up a spiffy CD insert to bring the collection together. So fire up that CD burner, dim the lights, wrap yourself up with the one you love, and bathe in the varied stylings of 'Moon Rivers'. Happy Valentine's Day and as always, Enjoy!"
10 versions of Henry Mancini's 'Moon River' Lovingly selected by Pastor McPurvis.

Also: Album Cover Theme of the Week Gallery: Hearts and Flowers.

We love you too Pastor! Do not ever doubt that!

"I don't know about art, but I know what I like."

The Best deserves the Best. That is probably the reason why the poster art works for The Cramps are so good. This link came from Largehearted Boy. And this is another PCL find.

Update: Enjoy Dwight Pullen's 'Sunglasses after dark', the song covered by The Cramps on 'Songs the Lord taught us' and now shared by Spread The Good Word. Also Mr. Pullen's 'Everybody's Rockin' which also is super great rockabilly.

At The Gas Station

A montage sequence using a portion of Frank Zappa's LUMPY GRAVY.
Director: Alex Ryterski
At The Gas Station at The Internet Archive's section for Open Source Movies.

Motorcycles of the 20th Century

A collection of more then 500 High Quality Motorcycle pictures. (via Linkfilter)

Datapanik

New WM Recordings release: "Datapanik is a music project of 3 people living in a shared student house in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. All songs are recorded with the use of inexpensive homerecording equipment. Most of the songs are live recordings and are written 'on-the-fly' without any rehearsals or preparations.The essence of Datapanik was having fun in making music in general. Enjoy listening to Unknown Questions."
Datapanik - Unknown questions.

Grapefruit Moon

Close up of 'Marilyn Monroe as "The Spanish Girl"' by Earl Moran.

"Grapefruit Moon -- an online art gallery specializing in original Pin-up, Glamour, Advertising, and Cover Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration. Featuring original paintings by Earl Moran, Rolf Armstrong and Henry Clive, as well as vintage photographs, prints, period decorative arts in ceramic and metal ..." (via Vintage Photographs)

Sambaal

Sambaal Video (This original work from NYSUFilms, directed by Jesús Hernandez with the talent of Enrique Pedraza. Great interpretation of this piece where the screen have a principal role.) Music: Malaventura (via Coudal)

Exotic Melodies of the Middle East

Just discovered that Radio Bastet (the greatest place on the net for vintage bellydancing music information) is having a new fantabulous 'album of the month' feature.
This months selection (15 Jan. - 15 Feb., that means you better be quick!!! ;-)):
HORST WENDE & HIS ORCHESTRA Oriental Caravan - Exotic Melodies of the Middle East

The WILHELM Scream

"A series of short painful screams performed by an actor were recorded in 1951 for the Warner Brother's film "Distant Drums." They were used for a scene where a man is bitten and dragged underwater by an alligator. The recording was archived into the studio's sound effects library -- and it was used in many of their films since. "Star Wars" Sound Designer Ben Burtt tracked down the scream recording - which he named "Wilhelm" from a character who let out the same scream in "Charge at Feather River (1953)." Ben has adopted the scream as sort of a personal sound signature, and has worked it into as many films as he can."

Scroll down on this page about Film Sound Cliches for the "language and voice"-section to read more and of course to HEAR IT. (via grow-a-brain)

Postcards of Alameda

Maybe it's because I'm very sensitive today dealing with a minor hangover. Maybe it's because I'm a sucker for sunsets. I don't know.... but THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL!

Sunset from Encinal Boat House [Click the beauty for A GREAT BIG VIEW at source]

"The following postcards of Alameda, CA (including cards of Neptune Beach, Surf Beach, Park St, Webster St, the Webster Street Bridge, the old Bay Farm Island Bridge, and much more) are a great visual look back at Alameda's history and are the result of ten different individual collectors who have contributed their scans to this site." (via grow-a-brain)

Dragstravaganza

"OK, so it's a strange hobby; aren't they all strange to someone who's not into it? Don't ask when or how or why I started collecting records by female impersonators. Maybe it was when a DJ pal gave me a promotional copy of a Charles Pierce LP so many moons ago, or maybe it had something to do with my brief and inglorious stint on the stage back in the late 70's. But whatever the reason, the more I looked, the more I found. I marveled as time went on at just how many female impersonators had made commercial recordings. When setting up this website, I wondered if there were anything unique I could give to the cyberworld, and the one thing I haven't seen is a discography of Drag Queens. So I thought, why not? ..."

"Another of Rudy Ray Moores stable of drag artists." Fairy Godmother (Kent KST 003; LP)

Dragstravaganza (via Jazzcafés)

Two-fisted tales of twisted terror!

TJ Adamowicz #1 & Christopher Mills #1

"I'm your host, Christopher Mills, alias The Crimeboss. The characters and stories on this site – most of them, anyway – originated somewhere deep in my fevered imagination, the bastard offspring of a long, illicit love affair with four-color comic books, black and white B-Movies, cliffhanger serials, newspaper adventure strips, pulp fiction and old-time radio. ..."
Supernatural Crime - Free Digital Comics & Pulp. (via PLEP)

Joe Hill Louis

"One of the greatest, though most obscure Sun records acts, Joe Hill Louis, also known as the Be-Bop Boy, was one of the One Man Band giants! Unlike some of the more refined, ambidexterous One Man band Blues artists, Louis was a raw, wild performer who didn't display particular expertise on the drums, guitar or harmonica, but displayed an amazing talent to make the wild mess of his simultaneous playing hold together just enough to get through the song. ..."
3 tracks by Joe Hill Louis are presented by Spread The Good Word.

Paradise

Magnus tells us: Bellybongo visitors may remember John Sangster's Australia and all that jazz LP which I shared one year ago, here is a similar LP, allthough sponsored by I guess commercial interests, it's jazz mixed with animal and nature sounds, sometimes exotica-styled and humorous, always uplifting, you will also experience some serious Baretta style funk.
Bonus consist of a find from this week, a Finnish version of Eden Ahbez' Nature Boy recorded in 1958 by OLAVI VIRTA, and also a find from some month's ago: SVEN PETTERSSON OCH SLUMPENS SKÖRDAR doing Aloha Oe, here entitled Alohae recorded 1977.
John Sangster died some years ago, but you can still support his memory! There are beautiful CD reissues currently available with Sangster's jazz interpretations of "LORD OF THE RINGS".
John Sangster Concert Orchestra - Paradise VOL. 1

Cool

I am not the only fan of One Man...

Expo 58

"Often, when people got troubles they made an appeal to fair-hostesses.
This one smoothly helps an Indian business man." (From the section: Expo Visitors)

Expo 58: "1958: After nine editions Belgium organised his tenth world fair named Expo 58, Universal Exhibition Brussels. Expo 58 opened the gates for the public on april 17 of the year 1958 and closed the doors on october 19 of the same year. ..."
Expo by night (check out the 3000 powerful lights on the Atomiumspheres twinkling!!), the remainings: Expo relics. And much more of visual eye-candy and architechtual history. (via Gatsu Gatsu)

Atomium – official site
Heysel Exhibition Park – legacy site

X Rated & B Movie Posters

Invasion of the Blood Farmers (here's a review and more pics..)

A totally awesome gallery filled with sleaze, sexploitation, horror, blaxploitation and bad girl movie posters at Poster Age Age of Movie Posters. (via Sheinriese)

A Spike Lee Joint

POP77 has a great compilation of songs named 'A Spike Lee Joint' for your downloading pleasure. (via Totally Fuzzy)

Mauritz Karström

Untitled.

Too bad I missed this exhibition! It's just 2-3 blocks away from where I'm sitting!
Works by Mauritz Karström at Galleri Tapper-Popermajer in Malmö, Sweden. (via gmtPlus9)

Silver Screen Ladies

Frances Farmer (here's a tribute site to her)

Hollywood Hall Of Fame Actresses. A nice pictorial tribute. (via RetroGrafix)

Hey Ho! Let's Go!

Helen Love digs Joey Ramone over at N. 1 In Belgium.
Phil is pissed - really pissed - on the way things are over at WFMU's Beware of the Blog.
Go now. Yes, go right away to the Evigan Funk.
Last Exit is in the Vinyl Mine.
Set #29 of Land of the 999 Dances.
Tributes to Jimmy Smith here, here, here, here, here and here. Thanks for the helping hand, Nick!
A Best Truth has a stash of Boris Vian mp3s.

The Russians are coming!

Cossack lounging at Swapatorium.

Bernie Green plays more than you can stand

Your Pal Doug brings us Bernie Green plays more than you can stand in Stereo. If you can stand it, that is...

The new design

I'm making some design changes. I'm not finished - but please tell me what you think. It's quite different...

Didn't you see the sign: "NOT TO BE DISTURBED"!

3 910 hits today. Thanks Mark, but I'm having a break here...
BoingBoing is more than just a blog - it's a force of nature.
But... thanks! Hopefully one or two of all these BoingBoing-readers stay 'til I'm back.
But, seriously, this is one of those things that makes it worth all the effort I put down into this blog. If someone discovered the intriguing beauty of Yma Sumac and her music through my entry here I'm more than delighted!

See you later!

/Z aka Sebastian

There's no question of the SPACE PATROLLING you'll do

Well... it's true. You can learn to accept your SPACE PATROL at http://luxuriamusic.com Wednesday at 8pm PST/11EST/0400 GMT (Thursday), with a rebroadcast at 5am PST/8am EST/1300 GMT Thursday.

Listen - chat - LOVE!

What'll be in it this week? Hell, I don't even know anymore! I've completely lost track. Oh well.

Official Space Patrol Blog: http://spacepatrol.blogspot.com

Official Space Patrol Swag: http://cafepress.com/spacepatrol

And here's a work in progress...
http://axenhammer.com/spacepatrol

Remember, Luxuriamusic thrives on your donations and your participation.
Listen throughout the week for New Shows, including the legendary Otis Fodder's "Friendly Persuasion"!

Short break

No links here for a while. Will be back with force and hopefully a guest in a couple of days.
In the meantime go for my blogroll here to the right.

/Z aka Sebastian

Breaking News!

"This photo was probably taken in the early 80's...before THOR released Unchained. Notice Cherry Bomb/Pantera reaching for that nipple!"

Exciting news from Smog Veil: "THOR has just signed a major multi-media contract with the fast-rising label, Smog Veil Records (SV Records)
A new album, Thor Against The World has already been recorded, and should be unleashed very soon. This is Rock the way Rock SHOULD be tapping into and channeling the very heart & soul of the genre! It's extremely catchy and addictive, with a timeless quality that will make it just as fresh decades from now as it will be on its release.
A video has already been shot for the song: Glimmer (which will include scenes from the upcoming movie, Murder in the Presidio which will air on the USA Network on April 29, and features Thor)."

As exciting as these news really are I think the website is just as exciting! Look at this Early flyer for one of Thor's "Muscle Rock" shows. It rocks! And what about this very early shot of THOR and his band having fun with ballons! And here is THOR recording the new album (I don't know... it doesn't do it to me...)
So whatever you think of THOR musically take at least a tour through the Photo Archives. You won't be disappointed. There is something for everyone! I promise. (thanks to Up-Tight)

Fly South

I'm likewisely enthralled by "Fly South", from Enon's new album. (Much to my surprise I should add...)

Yma Sumac

"A young Yma Sumac --not in the High Andes...
but in the Malibu mountains! This is the very early 50's."

This is the first ever truly authorized web site for Miss Yma Sumac. She is very much a part of the site, and thrilled to welcome you aboard!

Also: Read more about Yma at SunVirgin.com's biography page.

And most important: Read the essay "Yma Sumac...the Voice of the Incas" once published in Fate 1951...

...made available by the great Java's Bachelor Pad.

Update: Somebody mailed me and asked me if I could post an mp3 with Miss Sumac. Ok... This is no mp3 blog. But here is a YouSendIt-File with Yma Sumac doing 'Babalu'. That's all I can offer for the time being. Enjoy!
Update II: Yma Sumac Polyphonic Ringtone (Malambo No. 1)