The Mossi Files

I've been collecting cards since I was a knee high to a grasshopper (first and last use of that idiom). My earliest memories involved stuffing massive amounts of stale, dusted gum sticks into my pie-hole while thumbing through freshly opened wax packs, searching for the elusive Mantle or Mays only to be dealt your eighteenth Roger Repoz.

As an aging curmudgeon, I have, in recent years began to appreciate the "Ray Sadecki's" of the world - they had more blemishes than the matinee idol boys. These cards were more alluring than those prized ones that were free of dinged corners and not subject to defacing via the magic marker alchemy

These are the guys that looked like your Uncle Solly.

Here for consideration, are a few of my more admired selections:

ETEWAF

ETEWAF: From WIRED a couple of months ago. I have run out of interest. Everybody seems to have eaten Quake and Quisp with Wanda Jackson and Hasil Adkins while wearing their soupy Sales Fan Club Badge, nowadays.

I go do now.

Yes- YES there's an ad at the beginning of the clip I CAN'T HELP THAT. Hit mute or something.

I find that this is always a real pick-me-up, Dave's "I Can't Read":



Yes I'm all curmudgeon-y today.

60's Asian pop record covers

A wonderful collection of 60's Asian pop record covers curated by Syd Presley aka David Greenfield.
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visit the gallery
myspace.com/singaporesixties
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Thanks dear Doctor Disco for the link. Hey! By the way, Doctor has started an audio blog en francais with an english title: dig in the disco.

Amazing Record Collection Shared

This dude is in the process of uploading over 3,600 of his 78 recordings for your enjoyment. He's currently linked up over 2,400 titles and has included a searchable ACCESS database.
Want obscure?
Bunk Johnson, The Utica Institute Jubilee Singers, The Castlewood Marimba Band.
More traditional?
Jimmy Rogers, Dizzy Gillespie or Artie Shaw
Totally whacked?
Gayla Peevey doing "I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas" or Oscar Qualm doing duck calls

It's all here and much, much more. A goldmine.
Found at the always entertaining Bifurcated Rivets

Five Finger Discount

While looking for a good Tempest Storm image, I accidentally found some completist weirdness: For The Love Of Opera Gloves It's all about...you guessed it. But the really cool thing is their index is open (or whatever you call that) for short-circuiting the eyeballing of a treasure trove of images dedicated to this particular accessory.

Lou's Strange Hair Net Collection

Lou Brooks' Strange Hair Net Collection (via Dadanoias)

vinyl obsession

He certainly reminds you one of your friends ... Is this serious doctor?
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via year of the spaghetti

Dream Baby, Dream

Yes, I know I'm frequently last with stuff but here:

Link to Suicide @ Pic

^Link to Suicide @ Pic^

A nice collection of interesting performances at punkcast.com they seem to be giving it a good inning.

The Horrors
(who are the back up band for Vince Noir in the "I did a shit on your mom" clip I posted earlier)

The English Beat

The Fall

Nina Hagen

Joe Strummer

The Troggs

The Box Tops

The Slits

and anybody else who's a hundred or dead. In addition, they point you to other links and downloads for a bunch of the stuff. Cool foolin.

Company sleeves designs

A reference for vinyl geeks and graphic artists. Ms Kavel Rafferty's collection of company sleeves.

INCREDIBLY ATTRACTIVE! A MUST SEE!

The crucial choice for the images to post had been a long time effort. Each sleeve is so unique and beautiful!
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Record Envelope : The Little Library Of Factory Sleeves

Johnny's Barf Bags

There may be bigger and more established websites of airsickness bag collections (EDIT: such as the Airsickness Bag Virtual Museum), but I choose to link to Johnny's Barf Bags, maintained by the guy who left a message for me on my last.fm site saying he found my blog via a search for the bawdy sea chantey "Good Ship Venus", which makes him A-OK in my book. There is also a mildly amusing interview of him on his site from an Israeli TV show in which the chipper reporter tries to make the best of a subject she is clearly confused by.

Monster Museum

Flickr user Zombophoto's delightfully obsessive Monster Museum takes up the third bedroom of his house (and not his parents basement as one might imagine). He admits they are not the greatest photos, but I give him a free pass because he seems to be channeling his energies into creating those perfectly synchronized chorus lines of Frankenstein monsters and Creatures from the Black Lagoon.