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7/29/2024

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Monday, July 22, 2024

Monntag 22 July 2024. after Freitag's Microsoft fiasco left my Kielbasa wid a Limp Biskit, I DID decide ("Bored to death" like my sixth-cuzzin twice GG Allin) to re-research Bill Gates on famous kin. He/david gates of bread AND Cindy Crawford all descend from Stephen Gates, early hingham,Mass. settler. lived on what is now North Street (good Irish seissun bar The Snug there) bounded "west by town swamp"; COULD that be Bare Cove? if so, 1.4 miles away wuz Ma's Lincoln ancstor Tomas Lincoln The Miller, adress South street near Main street; 300 years later, dat iz da coffee house Brewed awakenings. Gates had three acres, Lincoln had five acres! Nowadays "I've gone from White Privilege to white trash"....Ma's Lincoln ancestor's grandaughter married into the Branch family, which is Ma's great-great granny, New England to New York. I told all this to Skip GATES, but all he said wuz "It dont matter to me" (now,for record wonk! Stephen Gates descndant wuz Top of The Pops with the april 1970 release of "it dont matter to me" b/w the even better b-side "why do you keep me waiting" and the july 1970 album On the waters...six years later Gismos in Creem but it all began in Puritan Hingham! Fug Microsoft; we'll play acoustic! (and Fug unplugged; "I'm in HATE wid da modern world")

Tuesday, July 23, 2024

Sonntag 21 July 2024. Ken and Gee Julie "lazin' on a sunny afternoon" lissenin' to online radio box . Absolut Bella von Bayern (mein great times four opa von there to NYC 1773,fought in "Amerika first" revolutuion). They play schlagers like Roland Kaiser (whom did a cover of his cover Ken's 1977 hit "Ich liebe du Laurie") plus "oldies" which equal WBBF rochester NY or WJIB mit Herr Bittner. "Man without Love" by englebert Humperdinck May '68 and Herman's Hermits january '67 "No milk today"; oldies sung in English but dj announces in Deutsch! Gut musik!

 

Wednesday, July 24, 2024
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day pf Wodin 23 july 2024. during SUPPER cruised youtube for Bollywood films and came acrost Guardian; 8 march 24 release ALREADY of youtube! a Tamil film dubbed into Hindi on youtube, poster on wikipedia. The New Indian Express gives it a Melissa Mills/Uriah Heep level review so OF COURSE i love it in a Plan 9 way. "horror revenge thriller"; starts out with these Grade Z-level sorcerors and a young gurl whom makes things happen (good and bad) through her mental powers! Even as the grandson of a dairy farmer, this is even almost too cheesy for me! (watching it is like watching "the wreck of the ole 97"!). THe New indian express gives it a 1/5 rating; Schlock arounda da clock at da orson welles cinema Mass Ave! (RIP)

 

Thursday, July 25, 2024

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day of Thor 25 July 2024. 0500 channel surfin' and FX retro had Wild on the Beach, a movie released 25 August 65, same day as Help! The last hour I caught some "under assistant west coast promo man" was "tryin' to make some gurl", braggin' 'bout his music career; opens a closet door and out comes ALL the 45s he never sold! As Moose Mudbug call it "It's a million seller! i got a million in my cellar". movie shot in black and white and wikipedia sez: "Beach party rip-off...so third-rate and low budget"...Muzak to my ears! "listen to da music": Sandy Nelson! Sonny and Cher! The Astronauts! "Back in '72", Ken Seger gambled on a Astronauts album (49 cents?) at a used reocrd store Greece NY town mall...beleive i also got Terry Knight and the Pack's Reflections and a "bang a gong" 45 there. Good to Finally see da Boulder Colorado surf band the Atronuats in action! Yes It is! on youtube: "drive in classics!";"mama dont allow no parkin'-Brownsville station"!

 

Friday, July 26, 2024

Sand Pebbles
Freitag 26 july 2024. 0500. caught the last hour of the sand pebbles on FX retro. DID not see this 20 dec 66 film; Dad wuz in 'Nam and Ma could afford me Mad Magazine,so i saw the satire (Alfred E. nneumann? kenneth E. Highland? "what, me worry"?). Little did I know of this 1926 event in China, though "the marines have landed in Shaghai!"...all else, a period piece military film but let's talk about TWO stars: googling during morning coffee, Steve McQueen wuz in the Great Escape,1963, a Highland boy favourite, then came this, then Bullitt in '68 (my lil brother telling me about "cool" car chase scene). On a SERIOUS note, though: Gavin Macleod wuz in McHale's navy (comedy) a serious role in sand pebbles then comedy again in the Love Boat! 2 out of three Aquatic comedies! someone tell Blowfish the news".

Saturday, July 27, 2024

LIKE Kenne Highland's air force on facebook SAME week, mad painter worthern tavern. lowell, mass. saturday 3 august 2024 with stigmatics/lucretia's daggers/dead harrison. til then, it's Absolut Bella online radio box von Munich! playing some schlaghers in Deutsch which morphs into the "oldie" "Peter Gunn" by Duane Eddy! (in my mono i-phone like a mono transistor radio!). I MAY declare Ich liebe der musik von das radio von Munich!".....

 


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