Category:
Music

Cocktails and Records

As WU readers might have guessed, I love strange music. That's why I was thrilled to discover the blog called COCKTAILS AND RECORDS.

Here's a groovy sample: THE BEATNIK'S WISH.

Enjoy.

Posted By: Paul - Sat May 30, 2009 - Comments (2)
Category: Music

Super Clarinet

A reader named Luke--thanks, Luke!--points us toward this triple-sized musical instrument. It reminds me of something Dr. Seuss would've drawn.

Posted By: Paul - Fri May 29, 2009 - Comments (2)
Category: Inventions, Music, Technology, Reader Recommendation

Four Jills in a Jeep

The embedded video at the bottom of this post consists of an entire feature-length film titled Four Jills in A Jeep. It recounts the based-on-truth activities of four female stars on the USO circuit during WWII. You are kindly invited to watch the whole thing if you wish: there's some good singing, and a few laughs amidst the corn. But if you only have three minutes to spare, please do this:

1) Allow the whole video to load, with the sound off if you wish. It'll take a little bit, depending on your connection, natch.

2) Push the slider to the one-hour-and-nine-minutes mark. That's when our gals arrive at a North African village.

3) Wait patiently until, at the mark of 1:11:27, Kay Francis says "They brought us in on a camel caravan."



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There's only one problem. Francis had a famous lisp, so the line becomes: "They brought us in on a camoo cawavan."

Watching this at home, we almost fell out of our seats, and had to replay the line several times to make sure we had heard right, laughing harder each time. I can guarantee you will not witness a funnier line-reading for a long time.

What makes it better is knowing something about Kay Francis's offscreen life. As we learn from this site:



A combination clotheshorse/workhorse, Kay Francis made 67 films from 1929 to 1946. Her life and career are a splurging record of indulgent consumption and extravagant dissipation....She usually drank a tumbler of gin for breakfast, got bored very easily, and slept around indiscriminately [with both men and women], racking up a high number of abortions... Kear and Rossman's book quotes liberally from Francis' diary, even using pull quotes from it on many of the pages, so that you feel their subject is talking directly to you. Kay repeatedly calls herself a bitch and a slut, proclaims her pooped-out boredom, and runs down her list of conquests. "Had merciless afternoon with Maurice (Chevalier)," she reports. "Four times in two hours." Her taste ran to talented directors too, like Goulding, Mamoulian, Lang, and Preminger. She could be generous: "Had to sleep with her because she wanted me," says one entry.


Four Jills in a Jeep


Posted By: Paul - Fri May 29, 2009 - Comments (2)
Category: Movies, Music, Sexuality, Sex Symbols, War, 1940s

Wraygunn

The Portuguese band called Wraygunn is my new favorite. How can you beat the brilliance of a lyric like "Go-go dancer, maybe my big sister"...?






Posted By: Paul - Thu May 28, 2009 - Comments (1)
Category: Music, Dance, Europe

Funky Space!

Posted By: Paul - Wed May 27, 2009 - Comments (0)
Category: Fashion, Music, 1970s, Yesterday’s Tomorrows

Monorail!

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June 2009 will mark the 50th anniversary of the Disneyland Monorail System. Let's all let out a lusty cheer for the mass-transportation breakthrough of the future which is always and forever just around the corner of feasibility. Maybe you'd even like to join THE MONORAIL SOCIETY to celebrate.

Or listen to this:







Posted By: Paul - Wed May 27, 2009 - Comments (3)
Category: Fairs, Amusement Parks, and Resorts, Futurism, Music, Technology, Cartoons, 1950s, Yesterday’s Tomorrows

Flexi Discs

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Vinyl records maintain a certain level of popularity these days. But I don't think anyone plans on reviving the Flexi Disc, which ceased production in the year 2000.

Visit this great site for a history of this odd phenomenon. Be sure to look at the Flexi Disc stamps from Bhutan!

Posted By: Paul - Sun May 24, 2009 - Comments (2)
Category: Music, Technology, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s

A Million Ways Times Two

The first video shows the band OK Go dancing to their hit A MILLION WAYS.

The second video shows four amateur Turkish youths replicating the video.

Which do you prefer?



Posted By: Paul - Fri May 22, 2009 - Comments (2)
Category: Music, Video, Dance, Parody

The Lamp of Memory

Posted By: Paul - Wed May 20, 2009 - Comments (1)
Category: Movies, Music, Sleep and Dreams, Surrealism, 1940s, Dance

Hayseed Dixie: Bluegrass tribute to AC/DC

The music itself is weird enough on its own, but add the Final Fantasy video and the weirdness just overflows.

Posted By: fyshstyxx - Wed May 20, 2009 - Comments (3)
Category: Art, Boredom, Music

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