Please listen to the instrumental version of this song while looking at the Santa jpegs below. I'm also putting up the vocal version. I don't know who Stéphane Collaro is, and I don't really want to know. The jacket illustration is basically insane, obviously based on a photograph of Stéphane being in the middle of explaining something, while sitting in front of a giant pink radio. I don't know how graphic designers come up with this stuff.
Friday, August 31, 2012
Santa Posse: An Ongoing Collection Of Holiday Mascots
From my ever-growing collection of Santa photographs, here are 5 outstanding examples of the Big Guy in the world of photography.
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Santa with Twins. A moment of perfect weirdness in the world. |
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You can pretty much tell that this Santa was into being Santa. |
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Full flown terror, and this Santa is laughing. The girl's older brother is chilling though. |
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Detail of her hand reaching out, half her crying face, and half of Santa's laughing face. |
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This little girl might have lost it, but unlike the one upstairs, she's not struggling to get away. It's more like sadness, over terror, but she's resigned herself to the tragedy. |
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This guy's just trying to remember what he wants for Christmas. |
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A little blind girl feels Santa's beard. |
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He's a good Santa, with top-of-the-line stick-on eyebrows. They don't wear those anymore. Sometimes you catch them just wear the the beard AND moustache stuck under their chins. Santas these days. |
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This girl seems a little older than the other screamers. |
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I think his eyebrows are touched up with make-up. |
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I suppose they're at the Post Office, but getting stamps from Santa seems pretty weak. That's probably why the girl is crying. |
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STUFF I COLLECT
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Lightning Trapped In Concrete
The lightning got trapped in this slab of concrete in Long Island City. I made it into a GIF and have supplied you with a THUNDER soundtrack to go with it, in order to let it out.

Labels:
OTHER THINGS,
STORYTIME
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Cracochon et Kangounet
Pretty excellent kids stuff here and the instrumental would be perfect for a walking-around montage in somebody's video.
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MUSIC
Anne Sings the "Rangers Du Risque Theme Song"
In America, after the success of Duck Tales, that odd combination of all the Disney Ducks and a spark of the Indiana Jones franchise, Diz went at it again and put the chipmunk duo Chip and Dale in their own adventure cartoon with a bunch of other unknown chipmunks. It was called "Rescue Rangers" and in it, Chip straight up wore Indiana Jones' outfit, hat and all.
If you're smart like I am, you probably know all that.
But while I was in Paris I picked up a stack of kids 45's and on the B-SIDE of this "Anne" record, I found the Rescue Rangers theme, done in French, like it was an old Jazz standard. Here it is.
If you're smart like I am, you probably know all that.
But while I was in Paris I picked up a stack of kids 45's and on the B-SIDE of this "Anne" record, I found the Rescue Rangers theme, done in French, like it was an old Jazz standard. Here it is.
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MUSIC
Lady Skate Et Les Skateboard Kids
Basically bad late-70's skate-surf-oldies-rock-disco a la Bay City Rollers. Still, I do like it. A french rock-n-roll personage named Lady Skate is just meaningful to me. I don't know what the meaning is, except that she was obviously crazy, and that's what I'm all about.
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MUSIC
Golden Music on 74th Street
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This is Gajanan. He works at Golden Music, and manages several of the surrounding spaces, like that office that's for rent to the right. |
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Detail of carpet that leads to the office. |
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STORYTIME
Monday, August 27, 2012
My Neighborhood: The Jackson 123 Movie Theatre
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Any theatre that tells you not to bring a radio into the theatre is in a neighborhood where there's still a little insanity. I mean this in a good way. |
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Sad jpeg blow-up of the Dark Knight as seen through the doors to the main theatre. There's Bruce Wayne, being all crippled and stuff. |
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Me with Officer Johnson out front. Officer Johnson is something of a New York historian. He told me about a bunch of old school spots in Queens and Brooklyn. |
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Officer Johnson's tattoos. The End. |
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BONUS INTERNET PICS OF THE JACKSON IN THE OLDEN DAYS!! |
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STORYTIME
George Samples Choward's Guava Flavor Tropical Candy
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Choward's is best known for making Violets, a pale purple candy that tastes like violets. |
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George said that the Guava ones were, "Fine." |
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Detail of the a piece of Choward's Guava. |
Labels:
STORYTIME,
STUFF I COLLECT
The Oldest VIM Jeans and Sneakers
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V.I.M. - established in 1977. Had a bet going on what it stands for. I called the main hub in Jamaica, they said it doesn't stand for anything. |
Labels:
STORYTIME
Beno Picks Peaches
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Detail of Beno's red comb in his top pocket. That's style, boy. |
Labels:
STORYTIME
Saturday, August 25, 2012
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