Pretty great Terry Reid footage from ‘71 at the Glastonbury Fayre. There’s some other good late 60’s clips from the movie Groupies, and then nothing else up until the last couple of years (which has some fantastic solo performances as wel).
I know that The River got reissued recently. Hopefully, Seed of Memory (my favorite Reid LP) will get the deluxe reissue treatment with some bonus tracks.
Ry’s post reminded me of something I’ve been meaning to post forever: The woman who says, “Your call is being answered by Audix” is named Lorainne Nelson. You can hire her to customize your voicemail shit so it sounds the real Audix. I’m going go to hire her to read transcripts of Bill Hicks routines in a Audix voice. In other news, I think ‘baby’ Jane Holzer is a real estate agent somewhere on Long Island.
So I assume this bit went through your head when reading my wifi spam post?
yeah but then i found this one too
Slightly intrigued by the remake of Sleuth, if only for the role reversal of Michael Caine. Has this happened before?
This was a new one for me. It was taking awhile to pick up a wireless networks at MM’s apartment and then when I checked the available networks I was amazed and frustrated to find that spammers and plundered a new domain– wifi hotspots.
/me cries
in a similar vein, I received my first my first text message spam the other day from 0000000000:
This is the one you want to C, Symbol : F D K E, Fred Entertinment This is an easy tripler ujpkgupontuor
The Prandtl-Glauert Singularity sometimes occurs when airplanes exceed the speed of sound.
“Prandtl-Glauert singularity effects can be readily observed on a humid day by successfully cracking a whip. A visible cloud is produced at the point where the tip of the whip goes transonic.”
You’re not gonna eat that crap, are you?
i hope they can get the dude yer gettin a dell guy to advertis this (that’s pronounced adVERtiz like the way brits say adVERtizments).
ps good job getting our blog screencapped and put into a powerpoint deck by some tard at taco bell’s 3rd party marketing firm.
I bet this little diagram could save a lot of grief in meetings where the web design team is trying to talk the restaurant out of a flash intro page or whatever.
TripIt This looks like it could be a good idea, even though travelocity/expedia/etc. will probably buy them or take the idea and run with it– defeating the purpose by making it closed.
Secrets of the Still: a zesty history and how-to for making spirits, fragrances, curables, gasahol, and other products of the stillroom.
We’re going to need to track a copy of this down for the PH’s Knowledge Ark. Also, please update the blueprints += ‘stillroom’
and cider house and sugar house.
apparently, this cat sits on you, then you die two hours later. Unclear whether the cat can see the future or is made of poison.
i saw this on CNN in a cafe two months ago, and then had it forwarded to me by everyone that lived in Providence, ever.
there’s a japanese horror movie in here somewhere.
oh man some how i missed the pvd cnxn. Speaking of, on sunday I was walking down Bedford and I heard the following convo:
Hep Girl: “Oh yeah? That’s crazy. So what’s he doing now?” Hep Guy: “Well, I guess he’s just kind of a ‘Man About Providence’ these days.”
I was going for a giant blue disembodied head of william gibson effect there, but images are styled
background-color: #FEFEFE;
so no dice.
and that would be intentional!
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“…ice cream, gunpowder, fruit candy, hot cocoa, marshmallows, blood-orange peel, and probably some DDT.”
“After the fruity opening, it settles down to the smell of a freshly opened pack of cigs.”
“a lot like a gin and tonic being sipped by a gentleman smoking a pipe.”
“starts…under a bitter chemical haze that does bear some relation to a gin & tonic…What I remember instead is the distinct smell of tootsie rolls, some powdered sugar, a touch of auto parts.”
“it has a toxic-industrial edge that I find disturbing.”
“For all that, it is a soft, subdued scent once it dries down, and could easily qualify as unisex.”
From various reviews of Versace’s The Dreamer, a smell for dudes.
