I had a eye-opening great experience browsing through the many Google Street View photos on 9 Eyes. I must be a nosey lil’ shit. Here’s just a taste of what I found on this glorious website.
More of 9 Eyes after the jump…
You learn something new everyday, folks.
Discusses satanic cults and details signs and evidence that may be found at crime scenes. Teaches officials what to look for and how to anticipate satanic activity.
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The New Zealand band Mother Goose formed in Dunedin in 1975, with an original line-up of Craig Johnston (Vocals), Marcel Rodeka (Drums), Pete Dickson (Lead Guitar), Kevin Collings (Rhythm Guitar), Steve Young (Keyboards), Denis Gibbins (Bass Guitar). The band mixed bizarre comedy pastiche with rock and roll (think Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band meets Frank Zappa, via The Goodies), and only eighteen months after forming, Mother Goose smashed all attendance records on a tour of Australia and New Zealand. The bands success rested on their talented musicianship and incredible live shows, which led to a music contract, a first album Stuffed, and a single Baked Beans
As drummer, Marcel Rodeka recalls on his website:
What can you say about Mother Goose? The band really was one out of the bag on all counts. There was never anything like it before and there’ll never be anything like it again. It was a unique piece of rock’n roll, vaudeville, theatre that just seemed to hit the mark wherever it played.
The original concept of the way out costumes, a mad stage performance and pumping rock music was motivated by the desire to stand out from the rest, to make a point to be better than any other local/national band and hopefully take the world on.
At the first rehearsal every band member was asked to turn up with something ridiculous to wear. I went home and dug up a green and red pixie outfit complete with pointy hat that I wore when I was eight years old in a school play. I tried it on and, amazingly, it still fitted if a little tight in the chest!
The early photos of Mother Goose reveal some ridiculous looking outfits that made no sense whatsoever but looked hilarious on. Over time the outfits became a bit more identifiable, a sailor, a pixie, a baby in nappies, a ballerina, minnie mouse and a bumble bee. We also strived to make the music different to anything that was going on at that time. We had all come from local rock cover bands and the idea of creating our own music was really exciting. The early musical ideas came from keyboard player Steve Young, singer Craig Johnston and guitarist Peter Dickson.
For me, the whole thing was a blast. Really, the life and times of Mother Goose could fill a book. But this is not the place for a tell all, warts and all look at nine years of successes and failures, hits and flops, incredible highs and incredible lows, bad management and bad decisions, fantastic beaches, fantastic parties, great songs and not so great songs, band members leaving, record company hassles, wonderful band camaraderie, stadium shows and tiny clubs, relationships and bust ups, overseas tours, rip off managers, awesome gigs, funny gigs, rotten gigs, an enviable lifestyle and the one big adventure that this was. There’s too much to tell…..
With thanks to Graham Tarling
‘Manchester’s famous mopheads.’
Okay, you assholes, keep your filthy hands off my rock and roll!
Inspired by vintage fashion and sci-fi magazines, cook books and advertisements, collagist and animator Jean Lecointre created a bunch of indescribably hilarious short films for French TV called ‘Turkish Delights’ and ‘Oasis More Fun’. If you dig pastry porn, the noirish world of palmiers and psychotic fruit, you’ll love this.
More weirdness after the jump…
Designer Guido Ooms has created a throw rug that’ll make you throw up. I want one.
Do you know the feeling that you do not want to take a look at something, but you still do? The Roadkill carpet is a continues struggle between attraction and repulsion. It’s a warm, soft, cuddly carpet that attracts you to take a nap on it. But at the same time its a repulsive image of a car-flattened, bloody fox.
A bargain at $5000.
Via Lost At E Minor
One of DM’s favorite bloggers Christian Nightmares has compiled his top 15 craziest Christian music videos for The Daily Swarm. Check em out here.
I’m particularly fascinated by the uber-cheesiness of Christian Black Metal band Erlösung doing ‘Wall of Glass’. If this is Christian rock then I’ve definitely lost my religion.
This is Baba Major Singh, who’s known to have the world’s largest dumalla (warrior turban). The turban is made of 1300 feet of fabric. Baba is a Nihang Sikh, an order of monk-warriors.
This is a gift idea for Christmas for the rocker in your life that has everything. A belt that can be used to repair a guitar and pop open a bottle of beer.
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Two Uncle Louie segments from MTV’s Liquid Television series, 1994. These were drawn by the fabulous Drew Friedman.
Drew has a new book out ‘Too Soon?: Famous/Infamous Faces 1995-2010’. It’s a collection of scathingly funny portraits of celebrities and politicians.
Subjects (or targets, depending on how you look at it) for Friedman’s pen on the political side include Bill and Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, John McCain, and George W. Bush (with an iconic “W. as Strangelove” image) and his gang. Entertainers include Tiny Tim, Barney Fife, Bob Dylan, Woody Allen, Oprah Winfrey, Barbra Streisand, Jerry Lewis, the Three Stooges, Ellen DeGeneres, and Conan O’Brien. And falling somewhere in the gray area between entertainers and political players (you make the call!) Rush Limbaugh (who blasted Friedman’s George W. Bush image as being of “low artistic quality”), Sarah Palin, and Michael Moore.