Burly Chairs

I saw these seats in a hotel lobby near Santa Barbara and I had to ask Sixty about them:

Surely they were turned on a lathe.  Staff at the hotel didn't know about them.

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My new favorite FM radio station, KUSC, recently did an hour long comparison of different versions of Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker Suite." I learned that the Leonard Bernstein/New York Philharmonic version is still considered the finest American recording.

The distinctive piano-like instrument is called a celesta -- so-named because it sounds so heavenly. I wonder if Sixty had one of these growing up?

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Ein kleines bisschen Horrorschau...

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Chip mentioned A Clockwork Orange and I mentioned Nadsat - the language used by the teens. Two Nadsat words appear in die Toten Hosen's song Hier Kommt Alex: Horrorshow and droogs. Burgess chose them for ironic effect.

Lyrics with English translation after the jump

WKRLEM: Sixty's New Statue and Song!

He Deals in Wood.

WKRLEM: FREEBIRD.........where's my freaking cigarette lighter?

Filmmakers defiant over Lynyrd Skynyrd film rights 

New York Post September 6, 2017

 A judge’s finding that a new Lynyrd Skynyrd film violates a “blood oath” made by the band to not exploit the group’s name following a fatal plane crash hasn’t stopped the film’s creators from threatening to distribute the film.

KLEM TV

Who started the whole "cultural appropriation" uproar?

One of the funniest parodies of it was in Terry Zwigoff's "Ghost World" (2001). Check it out:

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Oh and Sixty, in case you're wondering who the redhead is, her name is Dylan Jones. You're welcome.

WKRLEM: Levon Rules......Robbie drools

Fans upset Robbie Robertson bashes former bandmate in book

New Post Page Six By Richard Johnson December 6, 2016

Fans of The Band are disappointed that Robbie Robertson diminishes his late bandmate Levon Helm in his new memoir, “Testimony.”

Helm — whose drumming and country-flavored vocals were featured in “The Weight,” “Up on Cripple Creek” and “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” — died of cancer in 2012.

His widow Sandy and daughter, Amy, have kept mum, but family friend Barbara Jacobs told me that there is no reason Robertson had to quote Helm’s father using the N-word at his dinner table in Arkansas or to quote Levon sounding anti-Semitic,

Has anybody checked Sixty's shed? Just askin'

Missing woman found ‘chained like a dog’ in storage container

New York Post By Jackie Salo November 3, 2016

A woman was found “chained like a dog” at a South Carolina home Thursday where she had been held captive after vanishing without a trace in August with her boyfriend.

Police say Kala Brown, 30, was found inside a metal storage container when they rescued her, according to news station WYFF. Brown told authorities she had been inside the container for two months, and that there were as many as four other people at the property in Woodruff, South Carolina.

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Overheard at Lem's:

She was good for about two seconds, then did the same - walk down that hall, turned her back on me to point at the hall and then she kept rambling on. And rambling on was precisely what I did - information my foot! linkage

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The old classic is surprisingly complex for a Zeppelin song, from the Tolkien-inspired lyrics to John Bonham's percussive efforts. Wiki delivers:

There has been much doubt around Bonham's percussions in the background throughout the song, having regard to the particular resonance that it captures. There are no versions consistent in this respect: often mistaken for bongos, some said of a small plastic bin for waste played with the hands from the side of the bottom, others about the sticks on his drum kit vinyl seat pad, or even the soles of the shoes he wore during the recording session and so rhythmically beaten with his drum sticks; the book John Bonham: A Thunder of Drums reports instead of a hard case for guitar on which Bonham improvised percussion background with bare hands. linkage

More Red Meat

That is from yesterday's Trump rally in San Diego. The two young men unfurled their banner as they walked with the crowd leaving the rally. Most of the protesters had been sequestered across Harbor Boulevard in the background.  They are shaded by the shadow of the Convention Center. The fellow on the right with the cap was bellowing the whole time in an affected "southern" accent about how he hated Muslims and Mexicans. Shortly after I took the photo, three uniformed police escorted them back to their safe zone before they met any harm.
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In the comments: Chip Ahoy brightens the protesters' day:

 And, Lem links to Telemundo caught in the act in San Diego.