Quote: "BE READY to click PAUSE as we flip through the pictures of my CMZ250's carburetor being rebuilt for the Red Baron. These pictures should aid you in the rebuild of your own IF you have never done it before. Basic tools and simple cleaning solutions used. This is by no means HARD - YouTubes new "annotations" bubbles will be used to describe what's going on so bear with me as I add them ok??.. -Rob"
I rebuild mine after they break down, feels good, sometimes I wish I'd done it sooner.
Now adjust the sucka!
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Mono is back & soundin sweet... Los Bravos - Black is black
A damn Classic!
Sounds better in mono too...
Weak-assed stereo version...
"Don't even bother with it."
Sounds better in mono too...
Weak-assed stereo version...
"Don't even bother with it."
"Estimates show that 30 of every 1,000 females and 45 of every 1,000" <--- that's 50% more abuse that men take. Aint it???
This comes as no surprise to me, because of my family upbringing and social structure I found only two ways to approach life. One was as a care giver and other as a care taker.
In most all of my relationships I was the protector and the abused. I did all I could to find a good outcome for my partner and in doing that I made it easy for her to abuse me.
No tears though. I never showed the pain I felt being punched out by a woman half my size. I never hit back. I only tried to guide them and it never worked.
Seems by the time you meet a woman with a price on her the price is already set. You can't do anything with her and expect not to pay the price.
Bothers me most though is I can take the punch. I've had an oak rocking chair busted over my head without flinching.
But I'm me and most are not like me.
What bothers me is my children are not like me and abuse only usually knows one law, "only abuse those you can trust to be abused and still protect you".
I am abused and not ashamed of it.
I am however ashamed that I won't get professional intervention to prevent this from progressing further.
I know she (this one) is messed up, but fear foster homes or providers might be worse.
I try to think I can teach my children around the abuse to overcome it, but I know I myself cant.
I pray, but I often don't listen.
This post I made because I hope for better for others and for me.
Blessings All...
Domestic Violence.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, from [this page]
An illustration from JJ Grandville's Les cent proverbes captioned "Qui aime bien châtie bien" (Who loves well, punishes well), showing a man spanking a child, and another beating his wife.
In most all of my relationships I was the protector and the abused. I did all I could to find a good outcome for my partner and in doing that I made it easy for her to abuse me.
No tears though. I never showed the pain I felt being punched out by a woman half my size. I never hit back. I only tried to guide them and it never worked.
Seems by the time you meet a woman with a price on her the price is already set. You can't do anything with her and expect not to pay the price.
Bothers me most though is I can take the punch. I've had an oak rocking chair busted over my head without flinching.
But I'm me and most are not like me.
What bothers me is my children are not like me and abuse only usually knows one law, "only abuse those you can trust to be abused and still protect you".
I am abused and not ashamed of it.
I am however ashamed that I won't get professional intervention to prevent this from progressing further.
I know she (this one) is messed up, but fear foster homes or providers might be worse.
I try to think I can teach my children around the abuse to overcome it, but I know I myself cant.
I pray, but I often don't listen.
This post I made because I hope for better for others and for me.
Blessings All...
Domestic Violence.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, from [this page]
(Redirected from Violence against men)
"Domestic disturbance" redirects here. For the 2001 film, see Domestic Disturbance.
Domestic violence, also known as domestic abuse, spousal abuse, child abuse or intimate partner violence (IPV), can be broadly defined a pattern of abusive behaviors by one or both partners in an intimate relationship such as marriage, dating, family, friends or cohabitation. Domestic violence has many forms including physical aggression (hitting, kicking, biting, shoving, restraining, throwing objects), or threats thereof; sexual abuse; emotional abuse; controlling or domineering; intimidation; stalking; passive/covert abuse[1][2] (e.g., neglect); and economic deprivation. Domestic violence may or may not constitute a crime, depending on local statues, severity and duration of specific acts, and other variables. Alcohol consumption[3] and mental illness[4] have frequently been associated with spousal abuse.
Awareness, perception and documentation of domestic violence differs from country to country, and from era to era. Estimates[citation needed] are that only about a third of cases of domestic violence are actually reported in the United States and the United Kingdom. According to the Centers for Disease Control, domestic violence is a serious, preventable public health problem affecting more than 32 million Americans, or over 10% of the U. S. population.[5]
Violence between spouses has long been considered a serious problem. The United States has a lengthy history of legal precedent condemning spousal abuse. In 1879, law scholar Nicholas St. John Green[6] wrote, "The cases in the American courts are uniform against the right of the husband to use any [physical] chastisement, moderate or otherwise, toward the wife, for any purpose." Green also cites the 1641 Body of Liberties of the Massachusetts Bay colonists -— one of the first legal documents in North American history —- as an early de jure condemnation of violence by either spouse.
Popular emphasis has tended to be on women as the victims of domestic violence.[7] Many studies[8][9] show that women suffer greater rates of injury due to domestic violence, and some studies show that women suffer higher rates of assault.[10] Yet, other statistics show that while men tend to inflict injury at higher rates, the majority of domestic violence overall is reciprocal.[11]
Modern attention to domestic violence began in the women's movement of the 1970s, particularly within feminism and women's rights, as concern about wives being beaten by their husbands gained attention. Only since the late 1970s, and particularly in the masculism and men's movements of the 1990s, has the problem of domestic violence against men gained any significant attention. Estimates show that 30 of every 1,000 females and 45 of every 1,000 males are victims of severe violence committed by their spouses.[3] A 1997 report says significantly more men than women do not disclose the identity of their attacker.[12] A 2009 study showed that there was greater acceptance for abuse perpetrated by females than by males.[13]
Definitions:
The term "intimate partner violence" (IPV) is often used synonymously with domestic abuse/domestic violence. Family violence is a broader definition, often used to include child abuse, elder abuse, and other violent acts between family members.[14] Wife abuse, wife beating, and battering are descriptive terms that have lost popularity recently for at least two reasons:
- Acknowledgment that many victims are not actually married to the abuser, but rather cohabiting or other arrangement[15]
- Abuse can take other forms than physical abuse and males are often victims of violence as well. Other forms of abuse may be constantly occurring, while physical abuse happens occasionally.
These other forms of abuse have the potential to lead to mental illness, self-harm, and even attempts at suicide.[16][17]
Amartya Sen calculated that more than 100 million females and follow up studies showed that between 60 million and 107 million women are missing worldwide.[18]
The U. S. Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) defines domestic violence as a "pattern of abusive behavior in any relationship that is used by one partner to gain or maintain power and control over another intimate partner". The definition adds that domestic violence "can happen to anyone regardless of race, age, sexual orientation, religion, or gender", and that it can take many forms, including physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional, economic, and psychological abuse.[19]
The Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service in the United Kingdom in its "Domestic Violence Policy" uses domestic violence to refer to a range of violent and abusive behaviours, defining it as:
Patterns of behaviour characterised by the misuse of power and control by one person over another who are or have been in an intimate relationship. It can occur in mixed gender relationships and same gender relationships and has profound consequences for the lives of children, individuals, families and communities. It may be physical, sexual, emotional and/or psychological. The latter may include intimidation, harassment, damage to property, threats and financial abuse.[20]
In Spain, the 2004 Measures of Integral Protection against Gendered Violence defined gendered violence as a violence that is directed at women for the very fact of being women. The law acknowledges that women are considered by their attackers as lacking the basic rights of freedom, respect, and decision making capability.[21] The law established Courts of "Violence against Women" and suspended presumption of innocence for men accused of domestic violence. Spanish Courts are empowered to hold closed door hearings before trial and evict men from their homes; suspend parental rights, child custody, or visitation rights; and bar men from possessing weapons.[22]
Forms of abuse:
All forms of domestic abuse have one purpose: to gain and maintain total control over the victim. Abusers use many tactics to exert power over their spouse or partner: dominance, humiliation, isolation, threats, intimidation, denial and blame.[23]
- Direct physical violence ranging from unwanted physical contact to rape and murder
- Indirect physical violence may include destruction of objects, striking or throwing objects near the victim, or harm to pets
- Mental or emotional abuse including verbal threats of physical violence to the victim, the self, or others including children, and verbal violence including threats, insults, put-downs, and attacks
- Nonverbal threats may include gestures, facial expressions, and body postures
- Psychological abuse may also involve economic and/or social control such as controlling the victim's money and other economic resources, preventing the victim from seeing friends and relatives, actively sabotaging the victim's social relationships, and isolating the victim from social contacts
Physical violence:
Physical violence is the intentional use of physical force with the potential for causing injury, harm, disability, or death, for example, hitting, shoving, biting, restraint, kicking, or use of a weapon.
More to read on about [here], or you can just live in it like many others seem to have to do.
Danse Macabre
Danse Macabre I noticed in a poster first in 1970.
Danse Macabre (first performed in 1875) is the name of opus 40 by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns.
The composition is based upon a poem by Henri Cazalis, on an old French superstition: Zig, zig, zig, Death in a cadence, Striking with his heel a tomb, Death at midnight plays a dance-tune, Zig, zig, zig, on his violin. The winter wind blows and the night is dark; Moans are heard in the linden trees. Through the gloom, white skeletons pass, Running and leaping in their shrouds. Zig, zig, zig, each one is frisking, The bones of the dancers are heard to crack— But hist! of a sudden they quit the round, They push forward, they fly; the cock has crowed.
According to the ancient superstition, "Death" appears at midnight every year on Halloween. Death has the power to call forth the dead from their graves to dance for him while he plays his fiddle (represented by a solo violin with its E-string tuned to an E-flat in an example of scordatura tuning). His skeletons dance for him until the first break of dawn, when they must return to their graves until the next year.
The piece opens with a harp playing a single note, D, twelve times to signify the clock striking midnight, accompanied by soft chords from the string section. This then leads to the eerie E flat and A chords (also known as a tritone or the "Devil's chord") played by a solo violin, representing death on his fiddle. After which the main theme is heard on a solo flute and is followed by a descending scale on the solo violin. The rest of the orchestra, particularly the lower instruments of the string section, then joins in on the descending scale. The main theme and the scale is then heard throughout the various sections of the orchestra until it breaks to the solo violin and the harp playing the scale. The piece becomes more energetic and climaxes at this point; the full orchestra playing with strong dynamics.Towards the end of the piece, there is another violin solo, now modulating, which is then joined by the rest of the orchestra. The final section, a pianissimo, represents the dawn breaking and the skeletons returning to their graves.
The piece makes particular use of the xylophone in a particular theme to imitate the sounds of rattling bones. Saint-Saëns uses a similar motif in the Fossils part of his Carnival of the Animals.
[from Wikipedia]
The music:
I will finish the post later....
Danse Macabre (first performed in 1875) is the name of opus 40 by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns.
The composition is based upon a poem by Henri Cazalis, on an old French superstition: Zig, zig, zig, Death in a cadence, Striking with his heel a tomb, Death at midnight plays a dance-tune, Zig, zig, zig, on his violin. The winter wind blows and the night is dark; Moans are heard in the linden trees. Through the gloom, white skeletons pass, Running and leaping in their shrouds. Zig, zig, zig, each one is frisking, The bones of the dancers are heard to crack— But hist! of a sudden they quit the round, They push forward, they fly; the cock has crowed.
According to the ancient superstition, "Death" appears at midnight every year on Halloween. Death has the power to call forth the dead from their graves to dance for him while he plays his fiddle (represented by a solo violin with its E-string tuned to an E-flat in an example of scordatura tuning). His skeletons dance for him until the first break of dawn, when they must return to their graves until the next year.
The piece opens with a harp playing a single note, D, twelve times to signify the clock striking midnight, accompanied by soft chords from the string section. This then leads to the eerie E flat and A chords (also known as a tritone or the "Devil's chord") played by a solo violin, representing death on his fiddle. After which the main theme is heard on a solo flute and is followed by a descending scale on the solo violin. The rest of the orchestra, particularly the lower instruments of the string section, then joins in on the descending scale. The main theme and the scale is then heard throughout the various sections of the orchestra until it breaks to the solo violin and the harp playing the scale. The piece becomes more energetic and climaxes at this point; the full orchestra playing with strong dynamics.Towards the end of the piece, there is another violin solo, now modulating, which is then joined by the rest of the orchestra. The final section, a pianissimo, represents the dawn breaking and the skeletons returning to their graves.
The piece makes particular use of the xylophone in a particular theme to imitate the sounds of rattling bones. Saint-Saëns uses a similar motif in the Fossils part of his Carnival of the Animals.
[from Wikipedia]
The music:
I will finish the post later....
Some early Funk fer y'all, Curtis Mayfield - Freddies Dead.
This is an exploitational song but it's a very well done exploitational song from early summer 1972, so enjoy...
How to Juggle from HowCast.com
I'm sure a lot of kids would find this one interesting. I hope so anyway because I'm posting this specifically for benefit of my daughter Angela. She has her own computer in her room so now she wont watch vids on dads puter and won't share hers so this is the only way I can try to get her to watch something. *smile
Here is a link to HowCasts site. It looks like a really good source of info, [link].
Here is a link to HowCasts site. It looks like a really good source of info, [link].
DMX with a new twist on Aint No Sunshine.
Not a bad R&B mix on this one. Toons are kinda cute too...
Friday, September 11, 2009
Wow! A black cutout of a pyramid over Singapore. I guess that means we are being invaded by cut-outs.
Watch out for origami....
You got it folks. 25 seconds of drama and fear. Godzilla will be up next...
Here's Godzilla next...
You got it folks. 25 seconds of drama and fear. Godzilla will be up next...
Here's Godzilla next...
Question Mark and The Mysterians 96 Tears
I thinks I likes this version betterin the other one...
Hell, I can't even find the other one, but I had it on a 45 years ago.
Hell, I can't even find the other one, but I had it on a 45 years ago.
Question Mark and the Mysterians (rendered ? and the Mysterians on the record label) were an American rock and roll band formed in Bay City, Michigan, in 1962.
The group is best known for its song "96 Tears," a garage rock classic recorded in 1966 that reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and would go on to sell over one million copies and receive a BMI award for over three million airplays. ? and the Mysterians was perhaps the first band to be described as punk rock[1], and also may be the first Latino rock group to have a general audience hit record in the United States. The group named itself after the 1957 Japanese science fiction film The Mysterians, in which aliens from the destroyed planet Mysteroid arrive to conquer Earth.
The band's frontman and primary songwriter was ?. Though the singer has never confirmed it, Library of Congress copyright registrations indicate that his birth name is Rudy Martinez. His eccentric behavior helped to briefly establish the group in the national consciousness. He claimed (and still claims) to be a Martian who lived with dinosaurs in a past life, and he never appears in public without sunglasses. <----bullshit, I don't believe any if it but snabbed it frim wiki's page located [here]
Program yer own mind.
Subliminally, here's how...
NOTE: Some of this may be considered NSFW.
Some Optical Illusions too.
NOTE: Some of this may be considered NSFW.
Some Optical Illusions too.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Moving to Montana soon to hunt wolves with Frank Zappa...
I'm huntin this wolf too...
"The Wolf is One with the Wild" - Wolf's Rain song
"Wimpy song but, eh..."
Something I wanted to write about...
Pardon my writing skills. I have none.
This is the past. It is true but it is the past.
Mid February, well before that...
In the winter of 1974/1975 I headed back to Clearwater/Tampa area to return to see my friends there from the year before. The house I had stayed at was now closed down and everyone was gone. I bummed around a few days thinking "well, there must be something more". There was nothing left even similar to what I had experienced just a year ago.
Thinking more I decided "nothing here then find something". I went to Miami looking for something less disappointing than nothing.
I arrived there with nothing and went looking for work. At Manpower I met a group of guys. everyone shared a single room with a bathroom and kitchenette and they all worked two shifts at Coca Cola bottling plant every night. One shift you use your name to work, the AM shift you just used some other name and you were paid two checks every morning. I think it was around $20 each or more like $32 after taxes with both cashed.
This seemed great. I gave my share which was about $5 a night for the room and rest went to rum, beer and weed. What we really did for work at Coca Cola plant was drink rum & coke and break bottles. We were hired to clean up broken bottles so we needed broken bottle clean up to show we earned our money.
I think around 10 days into this my (our) supervisor tried to rape me. I was 14 years old, he was late 20's. I convinced him there would be blood and he gave up on me throwing me out and firing me.
I had some money left. I think $5 to maybe $8 and I walked down the BLVD. It was Tuesday or Wednesday and that was quarter 16 to 20 ounce Budweiser draft beer special day everywhere, so I started hitting bars.
I met a guy at a bar and he was pretty much in the same boat as me so we drank together. Plan was one beer at each bar so we could drink but not get stupid drunk. I drank with him till about 2:30 and we were walking in between bars when I looked back and saw two guys walking towards us. They were walking fast but not looking at us so I said nothing. When they got to us they split around us and then the blonde guy had a mini baseball bat in his hands. This guy was built too. To describe him I'd have to say he looked like Chuck Norris. He beat my friend in the face with the bat, as he did this the other guy pinned my face to the glass store or warehouse front window screaming at me "you want some? You want some too?" I asked why. He said guy I was with broke into a car earlier. He was with me earlier, they had the wrong guy but the blonde killed him right there on the side of the street.
I ran down the street after they left and hid in weeds and bushes along the beach. I think I hid there a couple to three days only moving a little way at a time until I came to Biscayne Boulevard and from there on to Lincoln Street.
From there I got a job at The Ritz Plaza working for Judah Bernstein. I lived and worked there a few months glad just be off the streets. Judah fucked me over for all my pay and I got run over by a car leaving but still it was worth it.
I had learned something about life and a few things about death.
People know me now but I don't. Those few moments changed me forever.
This is the past. It is true but it is the past.
Mid February, well before that...
In the winter of 1974/1975 I headed back to Clearwater/Tampa area to return to see my friends there from the year before. The house I had stayed at was now closed down and everyone was gone. I bummed around a few days thinking "well, there must be something more". There was nothing left even similar to what I had experienced just a year ago.
Thinking more I decided "nothing here then find something". I went to Miami looking for something less disappointing than nothing.
I arrived there with nothing and went looking for work. At Manpower I met a group of guys. everyone shared a single room with a bathroom and kitchenette and they all worked two shifts at Coca Cola bottling plant every night. One shift you use your name to work, the AM shift you just used some other name and you were paid two checks every morning. I think it was around $20 each or more like $32 after taxes with both cashed.
This seemed great. I gave my share which was about $5 a night for the room and rest went to rum, beer and weed. What we really did for work at Coca Cola plant was drink rum & coke and break bottles. We were hired to clean up broken bottles so we needed broken bottle clean up to show we earned our money.
I think around 10 days into this my (our) supervisor tried to rape me. I was 14 years old, he was late 20's. I convinced him there would be blood and he gave up on me throwing me out and firing me.
I had some money left. I think $5 to maybe $8 and I walked down the BLVD. It was Tuesday or Wednesday and that was quarter 16 to 20 ounce Budweiser draft beer special day everywhere, so I started hitting bars.
I met a guy at a bar and he was pretty much in the same boat as me so we drank together. Plan was one beer at each bar so we could drink but not get stupid drunk. I drank with him till about 2:30 and we were walking in between bars when I looked back and saw two guys walking towards us. They were walking fast but not looking at us so I said nothing. When they got to us they split around us and then the blonde guy had a mini baseball bat in his hands. This guy was built too. To describe him I'd have to say he looked like Chuck Norris. He beat my friend in the face with the bat, as he did this the other guy pinned my face to the glass store or warehouse front window screaming at me "you want some? You want some too?" I asked why. He said guy I was with broke into a car earlier. He was with me earlier, they had the wrong guy but the blonde killed him right there on the side of the street.
I ran down the street after they left and hid in weeds and bushes along the beach. I think I hid there a couple to three days only moving a little way at a time until I came to Biscayne Boulevard and from there on to Lincoln Street.
From there I got a job at The Ritz Plaza working for Judah Bernstein. I lived and worked there a few months glad just be off the streets. Judah fucked me over for all my pay and I got run over by a car leaving but still it was worth it.
I had learned something about life and a few things about death.
People know me now but I don't. Those few moments changed me forever.
FlashRock presents Dirty Mercy
This band has a rock sound influenced by many other bands but original true & true. You can hear the basic influence but they still dominate the sound for something fresh and vibrant. Look out for more from Dirty Mercy because I think they're heading to the top fast.
Quote from original post:
"DIRTY MERCY live flashrock music videoa band whose approach is so drastically different from its musical contemporaries, that it might just be the start of a special career. Sexy, sophisticated, dynamic and timely. builds on a wide range of classic rock, blues and funk; only to churn out something surprisingly modern and unique band video flashrock live music videos webcast"
This is from FlashRock and these guys are great for bringing us new sounds and great bands. Link is [here] to their Yahoo page and [here] to their official site.
Pay attention to FlashRock too, because these guys are 100% for the show!
Quote from original post:
"DIRTY MERCY live flashrock music videoa band whose approach is so drastically different from its musical contemporaries, that it might just be the start of a special career. Sexy, sophisticated, dynamic and timely. builds on a wide range of classic rock, blues and funk; only to churn out something surprisingly modern and unique band video flashrock live music videos webcast"
This is from FlashRock and these guys are great for bringing us new sounds and great bands. Link is [here] to their Yahoo page and [here] to their official site.
Pay attention to FlashRock too, because these guys are 100% for the show!
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
A better understanding of electricity & magnetism...
This is a wonderful show. Understanding is important.
Go ask Alice, a true story.
This film came out in 1973. It is the story of a young girl "Alice" facing life in the early 70's and in the end her death from it.
I still remember the first time seeing this film and how deeply it touched me
I'm sorry but I got the vid in 4 parts. In the bottom right hand corner of the player (I think the one next to the time line) you can switch to watching it full screen, just hit the [Esc] button to return to normal viewing for the next segment.
Enjoy this powerful and true story...
Part 1,
Part 2,
Part 3,
Part 4,
I still remember the first time seeing this film and how deeply it touched me
I'm sorry but I got the vid in 4 parts. In the bottom right hand corner of the player (I think the one next to the time line) you can switch to watching it full screen, just hit the [Esc] button to return to normal viewing for the next segment.
Enjoy this powerful and true story...
Part 1,
Part 2,
Part 3,
Part 4,
The Forbidden Kingdom with Jackie Chan & Jet Li...
This is a movie/film post. Most of the reason I'm posting this one is I love Jackie Chan's acting. This guy is one hell of a funny bastard.
Below is taken from I.M.D.B.'s website located [here].
"Jackie Chan returns in a Drunken Master (1978) role along with Jet Li in a more mysterious but delightful twisting role in this fantasy martial arts film that requires a leap of faith into myths, legends, and magic. In doing so, this adventure tale is compelling from the very beginning with a quick, fast martial art scene followed by some amazing opening credits. The martial art fights are prolonged and exciting and the storyline is although predictable, entertaining and worthy of an evening storytale. Not a classic, nor epic, not heavy, and never managing to enter into serious realm of award-winning, this movie is nevertheless a summer, adolescent family movie that is worth its admission price and both Jackie Chan and Jet Li offer up some good performances in a movie without any real failings. Eight out of Ten Stars. "
Enjoy!
Below is taken from I.M.D.B.'s website located [here].
"Jackie Chan returns in a Drunken Master (1978) role along with Jet Li in a more mysterious but delightful twisting role in this fantasy martial arts film that requires a leap of faith into myths, legends, and magic. In doing so, this adventure tale is compelling from the very beginning with a quick, fast martial art scene followed by some amazing opening credits. The martial art fights are prolonged and exciting and the storyline is although predictable, entertaining and worthy of an evening storytale. Not a classic, nor epic, not heavy, and never managing to enter into serious realm of award-winning, this movie is nevertheless a summer, adolescent family movie that is worth its admission price and both Jackie Chan and Jet Li offer up some good performances in a movie without any real failings. Eight out of Ten Stars. "
Enjoy!
Monday, September 7, 2009
Big Daddy Roth, Rat Fink and Cult art from the 60's and 1970's.
As a boy age 9 or so you had to have the tee-shirts, the Revell models of the hot rods and a box of extra model parts. The box of parts contained alternate body parts and chrome for customization of the engines. You built your models, destroyed them, used the parts to design new ones and dwelt in a realm of car racing fantasy.
Rat Fink was one of my favorites. He was associated mostly with the fastest muscle cars and the funny cars. I mowed lawns for the comic books featuring Ed Roth, Robert Williams and several others.
What I didn't know back then was I was only a vulture of America's most independent form of art. I wish I had managed to save some of my collection from then but life is not that giving. I did however save the memories of a boy age 9 to about 12 and the influence those great days brought me.
This my friends is American art, it's what defined an era of creation and inspired young kids all over to get interested in creating something out of what was available.
Below is a quote and after that a movie. More after the movie. I hope you read some of it.
"From the award-winning director of Comic Book Confidential and Grass comes TALES OF THE RAT FINK, Ron Mann's wildly inventive bio about Renaissance man Ed Big Daddy Roth, who engineered a shift in mid-20th century culture with his customized cars, monster T-shirts and America's alternative rodent, Rat Fink."
Following is from Wiki's site [here].
Ed "Big Daddy" Roth (March 4, 1932 – April 4, 2001) was an artist and cartoonist who created the hot-rod icon Rat Fink and other extreme characters. As a custom car builder, Roth was a key figure in Southern California's "Kustom Kulture"/Hot-rod movement of the 1960s. He grew up in Bell, California, attending Bell High School, where his classes unsurprisingly included auto shop and art.
Roth is best known for his grotesque caricatures — typified by Rat Fink — depicting imaginative, out-sized monstrosities driving representations of the hot rods that he and his contemporaries built. Although Detroit native Stanley Mouse (Miller) is credited with creating the so-called "Monster Hot Rod" art form, Roth is accepted as the individual who popularized it. Roth is less well known for his innovative work in turning hot rodding from crude backyard engineering, where performance was the bottom line, into a refined art form where aesthetics were equally important, breaking new ground with fiberglass bodywork.
In the 1960s, plastic models of many of Roth's cars, as well as models of Rat Fink and other whimsical creatures created by Roth, were marketed by the Revell model company.
Numerous artists were associated with Roth, including painter Robert Williams, Rat Fink Comix artist R.K. Sloane and Steve Fiorilla, who illustrated Roth's catalogs.
Roth was active in the field of counterculture art and hot-rodding his entire adult life. At the time of his death in 2001, he was working on an innovative hot-rod project involving a compact car planned as a radical departure from the dominant "tuner" performance modification style. In his later years, Roth's telephone number was listed in the directory, and he encouraged fans to contact him: he was always generous with his time and enthusiasm.
A Roth custom feared lost for many years was the subject of a number of articles in automotive enthusiast magazines in the summer of 2008. The Orbitron, built in 1964, was discovered in Mexico in late 2007. The car, in dilapidated, inoperative condition, had been parked for quite some time in front of an adult bookstore in Ciudad Juárez. The owners of the shop were also the owners of the car. It was purchased by Michael Lightbourn, an American auto restorer who did extensive business in Mexico and who in turn repatriated the car to the United States. The Orbitron has since been restored to its original condition by present owner Beau Boeckmann.
Rat Fink was one of my favorites. He was associated mostly with the fastest muscle cars and the funny cars. I mowed lawns for the comic books featuring Ed Roth, Robert Williams and several others.
What I didn't know back then was I was only a vulture of America's most independent form of art. I wish I had managed to save some of my collection from then but life is not that giving. I did however save the memories of a boy age 9 to about 12 and the influence those great days brought me.
This my friends is American art, it's what defined an era of creation and inspired young kids all over to get interested in creating something out of what was available.
Below is a quote and after that a movie. More after the movie. I hope you read some of it.
"From the award-winning director of Comic Book Confidential and Grass comes TALES OF THE RAT FINK, Ron Mann's wildly inventive bio about Renaissance man Ed Big Daddy Roth, who engineered a shift in mid-20th century culture with his customized cars, monster T-shirts and America's alternative rodent, Rat Fink."
Following is from Wiki's site [here].
Ed "Big Daddy" Roth (March 4, 1932 – April 4, 2001) was an artist and cartoonist who created the hot-rod icon Rat Fink and other extreme characters. As a custom car builder, Roth was a key figure in Southern California's "Kustom Kulture"/Hot-rod movement of the 1960s. He grew up in Bell, California, attending Bell High School, where his classes unsurprisingly included auto shop and art.
Roth is best known for his grotesque caricatures — typified by Rat Fink — depicting imaginative, out-sized monstrosities driving representations of the hot rods that he and his contemporaries built. Although Detroit native Stanley Mouse (Miller) is credited with creating the so-called "Monster Hot Rod" art form, Roth is accepted as the individual who popularized it. Roth is less well known for his innovative work in turning hot rodding from crude backyard engineering, where performance was the bottom line, into a refined art form where aesthetics were equally important, breaking new ground with fiberglass bodywork.
In the 1960s, plastic models of many of Roth's cars, as well as models of Rat Fink and other whimsical creatures created by Roth, were marketed by the Revell model company.
Numerous artists were associated with Roth, including painter Robert Williams, Rat Fink Comix artist R.K. Sloane and Steve Fiorilla, who illustrated Roth's catalogs.
Roth was active in the field of counterculture art and hot-rodding his entire adult life. At the time of his death in 2001, he was working on an innovative hot-rod project involving a compact car planned as a radical departure from the dominant "tuner" performance modification style. In his later years, Roth's telephone number was listed in the directory, and he encouraged fans to contact him: he was always generous with his time and enthusiasm.
A Roth custom feared lost for many years was the subject of a number of articles in automotive enthusiast magazines in the summer of 2008. The Orbitron, built in 1964, was discovered in Mexico in late 2007. The car, in dilapidated, inoperative condition, had been parked for quite some time in front of an adult bookstore in Ciudad Juárez. The owners of the shop were also the owners of the car. It was purchased by Michael Lightbourn, an American auto restorer who did extensive business in Mexico and who in turn repatriated the car to the United States. The Orbitron has since been restored to its original condition by present owner Beau Boeckmann.
A new look at Aspartame
Quote from original post follows...
The artificial sweetener, aspartame, is the bedrock of the diet industry. Found in everything from fizzy drinks to vitamin pills and marketed under a variety of different names, it is difficult to detect and even harder to avoid. But how safe is it? Does it really cause brain tumors, blindness and other serious illnesses? This shocking documentary investigates how the FDA came to approve such a potentially dangerous product.
The artificial sweetener, aspartame, is the bedrock of the diet industry. Found in everything from fizzy drinks to vitamin pills and marketed under a variety of different names, it is difficult to detect and even harder to avoid. But how safe is it? Does it really cause brain tumors, blindness and other serious illnesses? This shocking documentary investigates how the FDA came to approve such a potentially dangerous product.
Is your community sinking into... despotism?
Where exactly are we heading as a nation?
Think about it, please?
OK, one more...
Think about it, please?
Need More ???
OK, one more...
1940's Freak Show
This was originally posted by KingHuman
Here is his comment:
"This is public domain footage from Coney Island and it shows a freak show. These sideshows were commonplace in carnivals and fairs around the country."
I can't believe this but it actually took me a few years to find this and I'm still looking for more like it. If you have any then please send a link or the file. [My email]
Here is his comment:
"This is public domain footage from Coney Island and it shows a freak show. These sideshows were commonplace in carnivals and fairs around the country."
I can't believe this but it actually took me a few years to find this and I'm still looking for more like it. If you have any then please send a link or the file. [My email]
We just gotta help this poor guy out.
This is Fubar folks. I personally know about 5 sexy blondes (plus some brunettes, but blondes are more fun) that go there all the time. Also it's edacational and stuff. I learned alotta my readin skills from there too.
Here is this fine young mans plea for yer support an help...
Here is this fine young mans plea for yer support an help...
Dear funkingdave,
Sorry to bother you - I know you have better things to do than to read this lame, self-serving message. I also know that it's uncool to be begging like this... But, I really need your help!
I don't need much, and I certainly am not asking for money. But in order to keep this site running and to keep it fun, I need your friends to join!!!
If you like and you can spare just a couple minutes, just send at the very least an email to your friends about our site. I promise not to nag you again for at least a couple of weeks. I will give you over 5,000 fuBucks for every referral that joins! You'll also be featured on everyones homepage if you're one of the top inviters each day.
So if you're ready to help out for a good cause, you can use:
- the invite form
- or cut&paste the link below in an email to your friends: (or click [here] to get there)
http://fubar.com/join_w1.php?friend=3186268
Thanks and have some fun! Remember to tip your bartenders and don't drink and drive!
Cheers,
-mike aka babyjesus
Sunday, September 6, 2009
U2, Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, The Platters, Cyndi Lauper, Al Hibbler or The Righteous Brothers sing "Unchained Melody"
U2.
Elvis.
Roy Orbison.
The Platters.
Cyndi Lauper.
Al Hibbler.
"Best for last again"
The Righteous Brothers"
Elvis.
Roy Orbison.
The Platters.
Cyndi Lauper.
Al Hibbler.
"Best for last again"
The Righteous Brothers"
How to set up yer sewin machine.
This post is for my lovely daughter Angela, but you can watch it too if you want.
S.M.S. (Strange Music Symphony)
"Microband,using unusual techniques, perform classic works true to the original and yet totally different. They are the Marx Brothers of musical clowns."
Evergrey - Broken wings
This band's not bad. They have an 80's kinda sound to them but actually they are better than anything I remember ever coming out of the 1980's. Maybe a little on the metal side too.
Give it a listen and see what you think.
This is Evergrey & the song is Broken wings (Uncensored version), but it don't look like it ever needed to be censored anyway.
Give it a listen and see what you think.
This is Evergrey & the song is Broken wings (Uncensored version), but it don't look like it ever needed to be censored anyway.
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