Broken Record Sale 2003_02

I was going to post one of the tracks from one of the CutUpSound albums available at Bandcamp (linked on the right side over there).  But this one's never been published in a collection, so here ya go.

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Building Code Under Fire

The "Building Code Under Fire" collection of fine dummy headlines is available in the "Other Pages" section, on the right side under the Blog Archive, or through this link.

Celebrity records...or are they?

Take the test: which of these 3 album covers is made up, and not actually a celebrity LP at all?  (Hint-- two of them are real.)

Is it... "Alan Hale's Roman Orgy"?

"Art Linkletter Presents Amphetamine Party"? 

or "Lee Marvin at the Mighty Wurlitzer Sings About...", well, you know.












Ready?


The answer is...

"Alan Hale's Roman Orgy"!

This magnificently cheesy record jacket, complete with cartoony dancing girls, is the work of Cris Shapan-- who has a great eye and a sure hand when it comes to getting the look exactly right.  The lettering, the colors, the wear-and-tear-- it's perfect.  Inspired.  When it appeared on Facebook a few years ago, people thought it was the real thing.

There's more of his work at Dangerous Minds-- an all-too-scanty hint of the possibilities inherent in this new art form-- which I'll leave for you to discover on your own.  Except for this one:

I swear I've seen this at Goodwill.  It's not just weird, it's weird in precisely the way old records are weird-- a collision of non-sequiturs with a famous face to sell it.  Your free gift from Uncle Jemima Soap.  Beautiful work.



...OMG, he does paperback books too!

Rocket Man fireworks

The real deal. 

the lower case

Poorly-chosen headlines and text seem to be surviving into the e-publishing age, and Columbia Journalism Review is still running its "lower case" feature.  If you like seeing an authoritative little block of print declare something like "President, Congress, Butt Heads" or "Baseball Talks in Ninth Inning", or "Red Tape Holds Up New Bridge" (the title of one of their books), I highly recommend it.

Turning a page on radio

Well, now we know it's possible to at least set up an internet radio station on this site.

Keeping it going is another matter.  It's a lot of work for no pay.  I hesitate to completely take it off, but sometimes you have to make these breaks to keep moving forward.  And I can't really do the idea justice, as things now stand.  I need to work on making a living.  At the moment, anyway.

So, I'm setting it aside.  Sic transit gloria radio.  Maybe we can bring it back, more fully formed, next summer. 

Today's radio upload

The internet radio station over there on the right is still very much a pilot project.  The big question is, can one person working on it part-time keep it interesting?

Let's try one-hour uploads into an 11-hour base.  Whenever it's possible.  That will move the program back (or ahead?) an hour, every time it plays.  So you can tune in regularly and hear something different at least some of the time. 

The next hour is up.