Vintage Viewmasters

A veritable plethora of vintage Hanna-Barbera 3-D Viewmaster images can be found at Bob Logan's blog, which I found with some help from Cool-Mo-Dee.

Christina Bothwell

'I Fell into a Dream' & 'I Know Not to Whom I Belong'
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Christina Bothwell: works.

A Moog Mass

Caldera - A Moog Mass, availabel at Dr. Schluss' Garage Of Psychedelic Obscurities.
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High quality censored videoclip

THE BPA 'TOE JAM' FEAT. DAVID BYRNE & DIZZEE RASCAL


same clip on youtube

Clásicas de la Música Jíbara

La Caja de Pandora offers the vintage Cuban album Clásicas de la Música Jíbara which I believe translates to "Music to Listen to with Cock in Hand", and yes I'm only posting this to tell that lame joke.

Or you can ignore me and listen to one of the cuts by Toñin Romero.

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EDIT: Reader Staria pointed out the Puerto Rican flag on the man's shirt, so I'm going to defer to that wisdom and assume the album is vintage Puerto Rican music, not Cuban.

"You wear your breasts like a man with an uncontrollable bulge in his apartment"

The Surrealist Compliment Generator (via Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)

1930s-40s in Color

"Backstage" at the "girlie" show at the Vermont state fair, Rutland. 1941 Sept.


Chopping cotton on rented land near White Plains, Greene County, Ga. 1941 June.

"These vivid color photos from the Great Depression and World War II capture an era generally seen only in black-and-white. Photographers working for the United States Farm Security Administration (FSA) and later the Office of War Information (OWI) created the images between 1939 and 1944. ..."
1930s-40s in Color, a spectacular documentation uploaded to Flickr by Library of Congress. (via Coudal Partners)

Can't Turn You Loose, Wayne

WHAT?? NO Wayne Cochran in the whole history of PCL? Shocking, really. The man known as the "White James Brown" could both rock the room AND a head of hair. The Tuna Melt pays tribute to "the Hardest Working White Man in Show Business" with a share of one of Wayne's releases on Chess records, do stop by and give it a listen.

The clip below is a performance featuring Wayne and his C. C. Riders in the 1970 Ann-Margret and Joe Namath film "C. C. and Company".

Tokyo Bossa Lounge Jazz Pop Cha Cha Cha

Check out some groovin Brazil pop via Tokyo numbers on this import offering from DJ Uilson. The album started out a little slowly for me (so you should try to stick through until the end)--standouts for me include the velvety "Sayonara Mo Ienakute", "Koryamata Minasa Hyakumenso", and the lively "O Ganso".

There’s A Lot Of Lovin’ In This Old Boy Yet

"... All that really needs to be said is that this is a collection of contemporary (for the end of the sixties) tunes sung, without irony or humor, by an Al Jolson impressionist. That, in a nutshell, is the premise of the album. ..."
A. J. Marshall - There’s A Lot Of Lovin’ In This Old Boy Yet is available at Our Lady of Perpetual Obsolescence Vinyl Rescue Mission and Orphanage.
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Red Rape

"Red Rape is that rare sleazy pulp novel that actually lives up to its lurid cover illustration and alarmist subtitle (IT CAN HAPPEN HERE!) within the first two pages. It was a canny choice on the part of the publisher to use the popular - and in this case suggestive - civil defense rallying cry for the book's jacket slogan because it no doubt appealed to the patriotic and prurient interests of the anti-Communist pervs who purchased the book back in 1960. Indeed, the prolific author Connie Sellers* (who is a man) seems to have taken the subtitle as something of an editorial mandate and produced an "anything goes" Soviet invasion fantasy that eclipses anything in John Milius's wildest RED DAWN wet dreams. ..."

Read the full story of this sleazy anti-commie pulp novel over at Conelrad.

The Long Lost 1934 George Bush / John McCain Tijuana Bible

"We recently came into possession of one of the rarest and most sought after of documents. Which one, you ask? The long lost 1934 JOHN McCAIN BIBLE. YES. THAT ONE. To collectors of the TRULY ODD and UNMENTIONABLE you already know what this means. Yes, it exists! ...
The still-sealed box, purchased from a dumpster diver who fetched it from the curbside trash outside Mr Hartford's Bahamas residence last month, arrived without ceremony or description at our steps last Tuesday. We had purchased it for scrap. ...
"OBLIGING LADY" - the 1934 Tijuana Bible long sought after by historians as the oldest known document to feature George Bush and John McCain. We're not teasing, we have it right here to show in complete eight page detail. And in what we must refer to as an intimate embrace! We're talking filthy intercourse! ...
Ready for it? This John McCain George Bush Bible is in fact a "Lieberman Squeezer" - specifically Catalog Item #103-B! ..."
Ethan Persoff is presenting the Adventures of Fuller Bush Man and John McCain in "OBLIGING LADY" (NSFW!)

This Is What You'll Get When You Mess With I

Radiodread. Easy Star All Stars. 4 delicioso tracks in player, unfortunately "Fitter, Happier" is not among them, (Toots' track is) but hey, spend the money. Link to player link at link in link pic below. As usual, last to the banquet of goodness, so forgive me if you're all hip to it already. (I won't even mention their "Dub Side of the Moon" after the zero reaction to Polka Floyd)
Thanks Lex11 !

Hawaii Tattoo

Martin Denny - Hawaii Tattoo, available at Xtabays World.
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Musique Electronique Du Cosmos

Jean-Jacques Perrey - Musique Electronique Du Cosmos (1962) is available thanks to 36 15 MOOG.
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Weirdo bad song contest

Bad Song Contest

That's right, Weirdo Records is holding a bad song contest.

To compete simply send in your bad song. It can be submitted on any recorded format. Reels, 2-track tape, 16rpm lps, wax cylinders, beta tapes, etc are perfectly welcome alongside more popular formats. If you prefer you may also submit a score or even some mere rough chord charts/lyrics/directions.

It's completely up to you to decide why the song is bad. Perhaps you know a creepy song that's quite fascinating. Perhaps there's an especially annoying song you find very intensely mediocre. Perhaps you know one that unduly pushes the limits of what could be called a song. Or you may think some entangled aesthetic combination of all of the above. The song does not necessarily have to be written/recorded by you, although originality is a factor of the judging process.

Submissions must be recieved at Weirdo by September 1st, 2008 & will not be returned. Qualifications, disqualifications, & other decisions are entirely at the discretion of Weirdo. However please note that your comments are more than welcome & all submissions will be given due consideration.

The winner of the bad song contest will receive a $50 gift certificate to Weirdo, so be sure to include your contact info along with your submission. Winner, runners up & honorable mentions will be posted on this page as they come in for all to see, hear, & guffaw over. The winner will be announced on the Weirdo email list & posted here promptly upon the end of the submission period.

What are you waiting for?

Send your submission to:

Bad Song Contest
Weirdo Records
652 Somerville Ave. #3
Somerville, MA 02143
weirdo@weirdorecords.com
http://www.weirdorecords.com/

Feel Better, or Not.....

after going here, I thought, "Whoa! I'm not!"

I Am Neurotic:

Example from site:

"i have the need to smell the dental floss each time i pull it out from between my teeth. sometimes when other people are around, i have to turn my back in case they catch me sniffing the floss, because i can’t just floss without sniffing."