Celebration: Saint Lucia
Today is Saint Lucia Day (Saint Lucy).
Blog: GlyphJockey makes the headlines
Congratulations to blogger Lex10 and his blog GlyphJockey which has become a favorite of magazine Rolling Stone. Reason is his little movie Royale With Cheese. Soon he will be canonized for his new movie - La Virgen de Xtabay!
Music: Right On Soul Hits!
"Right On Soul Hits - the stone smashes that are in the charts today! The big ones written by James Brown, Joe Tex, Marvin Gaye, Wilson Pickett and a host of others. The tunes that are lighting up the soul charts from New Orleans to Boston - L.A. to New York. A right on collection in the original sound." (from the Liner Notes)
I'm re-posting* this great record - originally posted in February - for your listening pleasure. The musicians and singers on this album - released in 1972 - are anonymous cover artists but they are great. Groovy listening!
RapidShare / EasyShare / SendSpace
Password: lapaz
* Keep an eye out for an other audio re-posts on Martin Klasch
Stop Motion: Ray Harryhausen Creatures
Uploaded by Matbergman. Via PCL LinkDump.
Ray Harryhausen
Wikipedia / IMDb / Official Web Site / R H Creature List (clips)
Message: Hello!
Have a nice weekend!
See to it that you get the Sivuca record if you are interested. It'll be gone on Monday. See you then.
Where am I going?
Music: Lee Hazlewood is ill
I'm reading that 77 years old singer/songwriter Lee Hazelwood has contracted kidney cancer and has less than a year left to live. On the bright side he is releasing his (probably) last album - Cake or Death.
Listen to one track here!
Hosting: Which is your favorite host?
A lot of people are tired of RapidShare because of the waiting period you have to endure before you can download a second time, and probably also because it seemed they were acquiring something of a monopoly position. What to use instead? I know there are a great number of alternatives. Which is your favorite one-click file host?
I want:
- NO registration
- to be able to upload AT LEAST 100 Mb each time
- the file NOT to expire before 30 days of inactivity
- to be able to kill the link BEFORE the 30 days
- NO limits to downloads per day
- the site to be REASONABLY clean (from disturbing pop-up ads etc)
- must for FREE
The first suggestion comes from 1977 (Ultracuerpo) (NSFW link) (/lamatriz/bello pubico):"I think you won't find a free service that meets all that you ask for, but sendspace may be good enough ("You can upload and share files up to 300MB each, completely free. You can download up to 1GB of files every day"). I've used it myself a couple times and works well."
Anyone else? Don't be shy.
Music: Sivuca - Guitar & Accordion
I've recieved several requests for re-posting the record "Guitar & Accordion" by the famous Brazilian accordion player and guitarist Sivuca. It was recorded 1969 at Europa Studios in Stockholm, Sweden. The flutes and strings were arranged by Merit Hemmingson*.
This record has probably never been reprinted, at least I can't find it anywhere. It isn't even on the list of his records on his own website. Let me know if you find it!
RapidShare
EasyShare
Hurry up!!! It'll only be there a couple of days!
UPDATE: You are too late! Links are dead...
Sivuca's website.
Buy other Sivuca records that are available!
* Keep an eye out for more audio re-posts on Martin Klasch
Music: Devo
Devos first concert: 1973, Kent State University (YouTube)
Mongoloid - live from 1978 (YouTube)
Devo ad for Honda Scooters (mov, 2,9 MB)
Devo's website
Devo in Wikipedia
Via smidigt.se
Thanks Robert!
Illustration: Ugly Buttons
Ugly Buttons from 1967
"There are 24 buttons in this series. 11 were designed and painted by Norman Saunders and 13 were designed by Wally Wood and painted by an unknown artist." normansaunders.com
Design: Moomin Gingerbread
Moomin gingerbread made by A Cat In the Kitchen. Go here for her post on recipes for Swedish gingerbread biscuits.
The Groke, Little My and Moominmamma as Swedish Gingerbread biscuits
Ephemera: ...and other printed matter
New additions to P-E Fronning's Flickr set -
Ephemera and other printed matter
Architecture: The Playboy Townhouse
The Ultimate The Playboy Townhouse could have looked something like this in 1962. Looks alright to me in 2006. The article is from the May 1962 issue of Playboy.
Via PCL LinkDump
Stuffed: Odd dolls
Photos of some nice and kind of odd dolls (link 1, 2 & 3) found by bandyman - Mr J. He says they're Chinese; I don't know. He's not to be trusted.
Via Josephzohn gås Blogger
Design: WhatTheFont?!
Do you keep hundreds or thousands of fonts on your computer or discs? Have you experienced wasting a great deal of time going through all of them just to find the right one? Sure there are nice applications for download (even for free like The Font Thing, FontPage) that will will help you review your fonts more easily, but it still takes time. Also you might not have the right one! This online service might be a solution for you:
WhatTheFont : MyFonts
...and then you might wanna download some fonts for free? ...and then some?
Thanks to P. Asth!
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