Early exotica, the perfect mood for a lazy sunday afternoon.
For those who thought that everything started with Les Baxter ... listen to : "Exotica You'll Like A Lot-ica!" a compilation curated by the eminent Leefrom music you (possibly) wont hear any place else
An entry from Peter Payne's J-list Side Blog reminded me that November 11th is International Pocky Day--due to the fact that all the 1's in 11/11 are reminiscent of the long slim crackery-sweet goodness that is Pocky™® brand snack foods. The Journal of Ephemeral Inspiration put together a nice collection of photos entitled Pocky, Pretz, and Pretenders if you want to make your Pocky selections before a visit to your local Asian grocery. I don't know if I can be fined for admitting this, but my favorite brand of Pocky is Men's Pocky, the bitter dark chocolate version. I always tell the person at the checkout I'm buying it for my boyfriend and so far they have believed me.
Oh, and so you don't embarrass yourself publicly, it's pronounced "Pokey", like Gumby's friend.
***NOTE: It has been brought to my attention that this file may not work as is. Though, once you have downloaded the file, change the file extension from "mp3" to "m4a." Then, it should work. If it does not, let me know.
the Percy Trout hour
Super-Fizz-Sugar-Pop from all over the Globe!
Download another show from the Archives (this one from October 29, 2007):
I'm not sure what has gotten into me of late besides a handful of Percocets and a twelve pack of Busch. In any case, I have had a yearning to go back in the Yuma vault and dig out dead axemen tunes.
Here's one of the greatest slide players I've seen: Lowell George
Rather than the traditional glass or steel slide, George employed a Sears & Roebuck 11/16ths spark-plug socket wrench. Although not the first – since 1965 Ry Cooder had been playing slide live and on albums – George was certainly amongst the pioneers of the use of slide guitar in rock music. After minor stints with the Factory and The Standells, George teamed up with the Mothers Of Invention in 1969. He recalls that he was tossed from the band after proposing the song "Willin" because of it's references to drugs.From 1970 to 1979, he was the spirit and soul of Little Feat. Dead at age 34 from excess, his band continues on without the swagger and soul that Lowell brought to the table. boomp3.com
The 1970s Egyptian pop song "Elli Shatr Enhaa Tgannen" by Sami Ali & Sahar Hamdy was deemed too hot for the airwaves--the liner notes of Y'alla--Hitlist Egypt describe it as "a rude and raunchy wedding song, with a spirit too suggestive of sex for the authorities, who banned it". (The "Je T'aime Moi Non Plus" of Egypt, apparently). Hamdy was a dancer "who makes studied obscenity her hallmark". Sadly, there is no photo of her available.
By LEE HIGGINS - lhiggins@thestate.com In the scripted, fabulist world of wrestling, the Fabulous Moolah was all real. She wore bling before anyone called it that. She was a showman who clearly was all-lady. “I love old people and I love babies,” she told The State in 2005. “And if anybody else steps in my way, I’ll just kick (their butt). That’s the way it is.”
The Fabulous Moolah, the legendary female wrestler who called Columbia home and became the first female inductee into the WWE Hall of Fame, died Friday.
She was 84.
Born Mary Lillian Ellison in 1923, she was raised in the Tookiedoo neighborhood near Blythewood — the youngest and only girl of 13 children. Her mother died of cancer when Ellison was 8. Father-daughter time for Ellison meant attending weekly pro wrestling matches in Columbia. Ellison was trained in the ring in the 1940s by then-women’s champion Mildred Burke — the sport’s biggest star at the time, according to the WWE.
Moolah held the world’s championship for 28 years, from 1956 to 1984.
The next year, she won it again for two more years. In 1999, at age 76, she reclaimed the title for a final time. A legend passes.... the creator of the Backbreaker is gone.
Perhaps you have heard the legendary tale of 19th century Moulin Rouge star and “fartiste” Joseph Pujol--the man who could turn methane into music. Essentially the guy would get up on stage, in full evening wear, and regale audiences with his droll sphincular imitations of air raids, and the sound of 2 yards of calico being ripped. Amazingly, Hollywood turned its other cheek on this tale for many years--it wasn’t until quite recently that a Pujol biopic was made. I present to you below an excerpt from the 2005 Universal Studios epic, Le Petomane; Parti Avec le Vent. In this poignant scene, young Joseph discovers his well-hidden talents.....and a nosy doctor wants to probe deeper into the source.
There was an earlier attempt to tell the story—the 1979 unreleased film Le Petomane was penned by Steptoe & Son writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, and produced by Monty Python’s Ian McNaughton.
And I just realized this is my second fart-related post in as many weeks.
Good Grief. My retina's are about to explode. A legend, a true star. Candy Caramelo performed as a flamenco dancer at the "1965 World's Fair" in New York. She was billed as "The Latin from Manhattan" and followed in the same circuit as Lili St. Cyr. She starred in "The French Revue" at "Casa Loma" as part of the "1967 World's Fair" in Montreal. In Halifax she appeared at the "Lobster Trap" and in Toronto at the "Victory Burlesque Theatre". The following year, after the release of the popular movie, she adopted the name "Rosemary's Baby, the girl with the little devil in her". She also starred at the reopening of the "Mayfair", the biggest burlesque theatre in New York after a ban had been lifted on burlesque.
If you’re hoping for some memorably inappropriate behavior at your next get together, you’re going to need a suitable soundtrack to get the inhibitions to disappear. Send your party in the right direction with such numbers as “Keep on Churnin’”, “The Wallop”, “Beaver Shot”, “I’m the Hunter, You’re the Tiger”, and “The Pump Song”, on the Big Fat Dirty Party Mix.
(and make sure you invite some of the ladies in the post below)
Early exotica, the perfect mood for a lazy sunday afternoon.
Posts
