My record collection, ready to be sorted. I'll count them when I finish. Does anyone care to guess how many pieces of vinyl are in the pile? (Hint: Most full length LPs, like the Amon Tobin record on the front left, are two pieces, though a majority of this collection—I'd guess 80%—consists of 12" singles and EPs.)

we need Crimpshrine now more than ever... Fuck Trump!

78 rpm record labels from David Harrison's collection.

One of the best records ever by one of my favorite bands ever... the cover of Sounds Like The Pixies by the Tim Version was amazing and so is the original! I don't know know why Fay Wray isn't the most popular punk band ever...

Here I am in an outfit that is not black...it's rare, but it does happen! LOL This happens to be at my Dad's old house. He built the cabinet behind me specifically for the stereo & record collection. Our stereo/record player was actually hooked up to speakers in every room of the house so you could listen where ever you were. It was pretty cool!

iPhone picture while shooting with Francesca in Williamsburg and Greenpoint.

More to come... ON FILM.

I have a MUCH better Divine record, but this undie-shaped picture disc has its own merits.

Divine had a little bit of a connection with my hometown, Lexington, Kentucky.

She was very good friends with Bradley Picklesimer, who was / is an equally fabulous drag Empress. Bradley owned Cafe LMNOP on Main Street for exactly a couple of years. Divine came to town for the bar's closing night.

When I was 15 or 16 - YES! - I met the boy who later was my first kiss, first sex, first LOVE in that very club.

Of course, eventually someone got wise and they started NOT letting me in. Being a wee bit under aged! *blush*

So I didn't get to go to Divine's farewell appearance. I was DEVESTATED. UGH.

Anybody remember any of this?

Carly Simon (1972)

Never a truer album title...

I'm not a fan of the Dead, but this is probably the best way to experience them – live, rambling and still young enough to pull it together in the end. Plus the cover is a cool Mouse/Kelly design. Look for the word "live" in the ice cream goo.

I first heard Marshall Crenshaw's "Someday, Someway" on KSYM, San Antonio College Radio 90.1 FM and was hooked. Totally worth the 33 year wait -thanks so much for the Irregular Frequency podcast drop! The show was at Sam's Burger Joint March 18th, 2005. Great staff, thanks again Jacob!

Here is another album that I got today, from Bill the music man.

I was going through some things late this afternoon and came across these 3 Walt Disney Albums. These are mind. I had them for a very long time and had forgotten all about them. My Uncle gave these to me back in 1978 when I was 5 years old. These were Christmas presents.

Here is another two albums that I recently brought.

David Bowie (1973)

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Released: 1974

Label: Capitol Records

Cat#: 5C 180.81675/6

Side 1:

1. Surfin' Safari

2. 409

3. Surfin' U.S.A.

4. Shut Down

5. Little Deuce Coupe

6. Surfer Girl

7. Fun, Fun, Fun

8. In My Room

Side 2:

1. I Get Around

2. Wendy

3. Little Honda

4. Dance, Dance, Dance

5. Do You Wanna Dance

6. Help Me Rhonda

7. California Girls

Side 3:

1. Then I Kissed Her

2. Barbara Ann

3. Sloop John B.

4. You're So Good To Me

5. Good Vibrations

6. God Only Knows

7. Wouldn't It Be Nice

8. Heroes And Villains

Side 4:

1. Wild Honey

2. Darlin'

3. Do It Again

4. Bluebirds Over The Mountain

5. I Can Hear Music

6. Break Away

7. Cotton Fields

I have no doubt that hearing Fats Domino in the back of my mom's car while she drove around Hawaii drunk is a huge reason I am punk! Fats Domino R.I.P.

Mexican pressing

John Denver (1973)

Morrissey - San Jose State Event Center - July 26, 2015

I was too cheap to buy an original copy of Last Resort's debut LP so I picked up this reissue at Standards: A Record Store (Vista,CA), which is OK since Let Them Eat Vinyl did an excellent job on this reissue... the only thing more pretty than this vinyl is you!

started this week with a Sheer Terror reissue and ending it with a newish Sheer Terror / The Old Firm Casuals split 7 inch!

This one contains a great cover of Jackson, with Lee Hazelwood. That, plus the actual cover, make this one of my favorite 60's country records. Most of the songs sound straightforward, but she doesn't mean a word she says, and since county music is so insincere anyway, it's the perfect way to interpret the songs.

In order of appearance:

• Wir sind Helden - Von hier an blind.

• Geezer Butler - Ohmwork.

• System of a Down - Mezmerize.

• Björk - Drawing Restraint 9.

• Arcade Fire - Cold Wind (7")

• Opeth - Ghost Reveries.

• System of Down - Hypnotize.

Happy Birthday Roger!

60 years today!

You´re my fav songwriter! I can still remember the first time

I listened to a song of Supertramp and the hapiness it gave me.

I was in love with your songs. That was ages ago (laughs) when

I was thirteen :)

I know I´ll never have the chance

to meet you and that probably you never

see this photograph, but It´s my birthday gift :)

and it´s done with all my love :)

I wish you peace & love!

Composition & photograph made in 5

minutes. I have my home full of Roger and

Supertramp records but I adore spontaneous

photographs, one shot or few ones. Death to

repetitions and edited pictures xD. So I took

some vinyl records and I created at once

the setting and the stage :) But I´ve left

again my room completely untidy, oh no! :D

P.S. Dear voyeur (presumed dumb) :P

many thanks for your indiference about my art :P

and dear thief (presumed with more snout

than a tapir :P), Please do not use my photographs,

paintings, drawings, cartoons, poems, translations

and words on websites, blogs or any other media

without my explicit permission.

© minidreamer

www.flickr.com/photos/minidreamer/

Feliz Cumpleaños Roger!

60 años hoy!

Eres mi compositor favorito! Aún recuerdo la

primerá vez que escuché una canción de Supertramp

y la felicidad que me transmitió. Me enamoré de tus

canciones. Eso fue hace siglos (risas) cuando tenía

13 años :)

Se que nunca tendré la oportunidad

de conocerte y que lo más seguro es

que nunca veas esta foto pero bueno

es mi regalo de cumpleaños :) y está

hecha con todo mi amor :)

Te deseo paz y amor!

Composición y fotografía hechos

en solo 5 minutos. Tengo la casa

llena de discos de Roger y de Supertramp,

pero adoro las fotografías espontáneas, de

uno o pocos disparos. Muerte a las repeticiones

y a las fotos editadas xD. Así que cogí unos

discos de vinilo y enseguida creé la ambientación

y el escenario :) Pero he vuelto a dejar mi habitación

totalmente desordenada, Oh no! :D

P.D. Querido/a mirón/a (presumiblemente mudo/a),

,muchas gracias por tu indiferencia acerca de mi arte :P

y querido ladrón/a (presumiblemente con más morro que un tapir) :P

, por favor no utilices mis fotografías, pinturas, dibujos, tiras cómicas,

poemas, traducciones y textos en páginas webs, blogs u

otros medios de comunicación sin antes haberme

pedido permiso para poder hacerlo.

© minidreamer

www.flickr.com/photos/minidreamer/

21th March 2009

Original resolution: 13.6 Megapixels.

Unedited image :)

Camera: SONY DSCW-300

Got this the other day and couldn't jam it till now. Pretty stoked that Blackout! Records reissued this because this is the perfect soundtrack for my Tonopah trip that I am currently getting ready to leave for... pretty stoked to finally see the Car Forest, stay at the Mizpah Hotel, try the Tonopah Brewery, do some drunk star gazing, see the creepy Clown Motel, drive home on the Extraterrestrial Highway, spending some much needed time with Bethany, and of course experiencing anything else that comes out way!

In 1937, while researching folklore in Haiti, Zora Neale Hurston encountered the case of a woman who appeared in a village, and a family claimed she was Felicia Felix-Mentor, a relative who had died and been buried in 1907 at the age of 29. However, the woman had been examined by a doctor, who found on X-ray that she did not have the leg fracture that Felix-Mentor was known to have had.[8] Hurston pursued rumors that the affected persons were given a powerful psychoactive drug, but she was unable to locate individuals willing to offer much information. She wrote: "What is more, if science ever gets to the bottom of Voodoo in Haiti and Africa, it will be found that some important medical secrets, still unknown to medical science, give it its power, rather than gestures of ceremony."[9]

Several decades later, Wade Davis, a Harvard ethnobotanist, presented a pharmacological case for zombies in two books, The Serpent and the Rainbow (1985) and Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie (1988). Davis traveled to Haiti in 1982 and, as a result of his investigations, claimed that a living person can be turned into a zombie by two special powders being introduced into the blood stream (usually via a wound). The first, coup de poudre (French: "powder strike"), includes tetrodotoxin (TTX), a powerful and frequently fatal neurotoxin found in the flesh of the pufferfish (order Tetraodontidae). The second powder consists of dissociative drugs such as datura. Together, these powders were said to induce a deathlike state in which the will of the victim would be entirely subjected to that of the bokor. Davis also popularized the story of Clairvius Narcisse, who was claimed to have succumbed to this practice.

The process described by Davis was an initial state of deathlike suspended animation, followed by re-awakening — typically after being buried — into a psychotic state. The psychosis induced by the drug and psychological trauma was hypothesised by Davis to re-inforce culturally learned beliefs and to cause the individual to reconstruct their identity as that of a zombie, since they "knew" they were dead, and had no other role to play in the Haitian society. Societal reinforcement of the belief was hypothesized by Davis to confirm for the zombie individual the zombie state, and such individuals were known to hang around in graveyards, exhibiting attitudes of low affect.

Davis's claim has been criticized, particularly the suggestion that Haitian witch doctors can keep "zombies" in a state of pharmacologically induced trance for many years.[10] Symptoms of TTX poisoning range from numbness and nausea to paralysis — particularly of the muscles of the diaphragm — unconsciousness, and death, but do not include a stiffened gait or a deathlike trance. According to psychologist Terence Hines, the scientific community dismisses tetrodotoxin as the cause of this state, and Davis' assessment of the nature of the reports of Haitian zombies is viewed as overly credulous.[11]

Scottish psychiatrist R. D. Laing highlighted the link between social and cultural expectations and compulsion, in the context of schizophrenia and other mental illness, suggesting that schizogenesis may account for some of the psychological aspects of zombification.[12]

Slaves brought to Haiti in the 17th and 18th centuries, believed that when they died, Baron Samedi would gather them from their grave to bring them to heaven, unless they had offended him in some way, such as committing suicide, in which case they'd be forever a slave after death, as a zombie.