I heard this song on the way home from me mum's house last night. When the guy on the radio described this video, he said that Bob Dylan looks like Tom Petty's Aunt.

I think he looks like the love child of Tiny Tim and Alice Cooper.

It Must be Santa

Psychedelic Psaturday

For whatever reason, I decided to search for Brian Jones playing the sitar on YouTube today. I liked the early Stones - the Brian Jones era. To me, the epitome of 60's cool is seeing some white cat playing sitar in a rock band. I dig that sound. I ran across this ditty with Keith Richards wearing super nerd glasses. Not sure why he didn't pursue that look. Keith, can you help me with my algebra homework?

Keith can you help me with my algebra homework?

One of my favorite songs - Paint it Black. Looks like Keith lost the super nerd specs. How cool can it get? Brian Jones sitting cross legged on a chunk of plastic on some TV show playing sitar. Get Mick out of the way and let the musician play. Funny comment below about white cats playing sitar. Chuckles.

White cats can play ( and wear white too I suppose)

Blood of my Blood

Strange drive to work yesterday (Monday) morning. I'd just taken the prior week off for vacation (caught a cold half way through). Even though it was only a quarter after seven, the traffic was pretty bad. The area is still reeling from horrible tanker explosion on I-465:
http://www.theindychannel.com/news/21391396/detail.html

No one was killed. Death took the day off.

Driving in to work (very slowly - rerouted traffic) I got to hear part of Orson Wells' Mercury Theater production of Dracula on the radio.
http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2005/11/orson_welless_d.shtml

Ancient Mongolian Competition Ties Past To Present

I head the horse race part of this on the way to work one morning.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112514153

Marble Hill

During a conversation at work the other day, the subject of Marble Hill came up. Marble Hill - the lovely nuclear power plant project in Marble Hill, Indiana that started construction in the early 70's and went grossly over budget due to things like attempts to make the shoddy construction of the containment walls safe. Say that out loud.

I actually worked with a girl, years ago, who had been an admin at Marble Hill before it was closed down.



Has anyone thought about making this story into a movie? I can picture 70's era Bloomington IU campus students providing some of the protesters. A nuclear power plant out in the sticks.

http://www.abandonedonline.net/index.php?catid=179

Not your mother's prosthetic devices.

I was going through some old magazines and came across old pictures of Aimee Mullins. She had both legs removed from knee down at the age of 1. She was a collage athlete and a model, among other things. Pretty inspiring stuff.

I got to thinking - I wonder what ever became of her.

http://www.ted.com/talks/aimee_mullins_prosthetic_aesthetics.html

Worn out like an old coffin pillow

Yawn. The next two episodes of the first season of True Blood (yes, I'm behind) just fell flat for me. Mr. Ball gave us these wonderful, complex characters in Six Feet Under. We got to peek behind the curtain at a funeral home. I delivered papers as a kid and one of the houses happened to be a funeral home. I always wondered what happened inside...

In episodes 1 and 2 we saw Sookie attracted to a seemingly laid back civil war era vampire. In episodes 3 and 4 we see a vampire who clearly used to hang out in the vamp bars and he can also drive a car. Where did he get those glad rags? Bill used his vampire ways to subdue a cop. Jeeezzz. TB seems to rely heavily on Southern stereotypes for human characters and vampire characters. Bill seems to be glowering in every scene. Yawn. Yes, the series is based on a book, but show me something I don't already know about the South and undead.

Having said (typed) all that - I've added DVD 1 of Season 1 Six Feet Under to the top of my Netflix queue. I want to see some worthwhile Alan Ball material.