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For the Pop Culture Club Group
Ahhh, Danny Elfman. I can't pick a favorite song, I love them all. But I *CAN* pick a favorite Muppet Laboratory Bunsen and Beaker Playset.... And this is it. And PERFECT for "Weird Science"
Played with photoshop and a 'borrowed' playset.
Modeling some Prim Reaper wear.
Black vintage faux-jet (it's plastic!) pendant suspended by two glow- in the dark skeleton arms. Hand-stitched black velvet choker with black and metallic green ruffle trim.
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crystalline combinations of water-blue beryl on black tourmaline from Erongo, Namibia are hard to resist
geotagged display at the AE Seaman Mineral Museum,
Michigan Technological University, Houghton, USA
Black vintage faux-jet (it's plastic!) pendant suspended by two glow- in the dark skeleton arms. Hand-stitched black velvet choker with black and metallic green ruffle trim.
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Nail biting, nose picking, and ear wax removal with a pencil. These are their nasty habits.
For the All-Around Awesome Weekly Theme group. The theme was "Song Title." My song was "Nasty Habits" by Oingo Boingo.
In the fall of 1990, I took a job as a graveyard, commercial account only, pest control technician...My area ran from the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco down the peninsula to Menlo Park...alone in the wee hours of the morning, I entered restaurants and food establishments in an attempt to rid them of rats, roaches and all other vermin...at first it was fun until I realized just how many filthy , rat infested places there were...entering in the dark, I had to find alarms and light switches and venture into the basements of gold rush era buildings...many times rats would jump off of door jambs and run down my arm...I swore I would never eat in a Chinese food restaurant again...but in all fairness, I had a handful of spotless businesses too...so much so that I would patronize these places when not working...Julie's Supper Club, which opened 3 years prior, was one of them...super clean bar, kitchen and bathrooms, which in the woman's, had a trap door in the floor which lead down to a huge storage area...it wasn't until a few years ago that I found out that Patricia Hearst, the heiress who was abducted in 1974 by a radical guerrilla organization calling itself The Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), hid out in that basement with her murdering, bank robbing cohorts...
well, I could only make it 5 months on that job and had to quit, which eventually helped us to escape the madness of the Bay Area...
Julie's lasted until 2005...last I heard, the sign was still there...
and this concludes your first history lesson of 2021...
Happy New Year...
From one of Oingo Boingo's annual Halloween gigs at Irvine Meadows.
What year was this, dogwelder and grendl?
If I recall correctly, I took this with a Ricoh 35mm SLR from about two-thirds of the way back in the amphitheater, with a 300mm telephoto lens. I think I shot it on whatever was then the fastest T-Max B/W film, perhaps 3200, pushed 2 stops, to perhaps 12,800 ISO.
This dude totally blew the first line of the song,
He got 'All dressed up with nowhere to go' wrong.
He's wearing a sombrero and no other clothes.
This cover band sucks, this really blows.
I struck him with lightning as he walked down the street
then I hit him with something last night in his sleep.
As I turned and I ran from the scene of the crime,
I had no silver dollars, so I left two dirty dimes.
I sat in the dark, home all alone,
when a knock on my door chilled me right to the bone.
It was the chauffeur come to settle the score,
I heard him call out, theres room for one more.
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The moral of the story is ... shoot, I forgot to put a moral in it. Go do what you want after you view in black of course.
Día de los Muertos
112 Pictures in 2012: Represent The Title Of A Song (Dead Man's Party by Oingo Boingo)
For the love of Shrewder (Oingo Boingo enthusiast) and Lamont (master of 4-LoM shots)
"Insects make me scream and shout
They don't know what life's about
They don't have blood
They've got too many legs
They don't have brains in their heads
They know they'll rule the world some day
They bite and sting me anyway
They bite and sting and suck
They bite and sting and suck suck suck"
Wonderfully Crazy Lyrics from the song "Insects" by Oingo Boingo
NO ONE LIVES FOREVER!!!
LET's HAVE A PARTY
THERE's A FULL MOON IN THE SKY
IT's THE HOUR OF THE WOLF
AND I DON'T MIND DYING!!!
Yes RL scarier than my avatar. An SL anomaly LMMFAO
For some reason, the Cars song that's playing when Phoebe Cates gets out of the pool and takes off her bikini is not on the album. WTF?!
Track Listing:
1. Somebody's Baby - Jackson Browne
2. Waffle Stomp - Joe Walsh
3. Love Rules - Don Henley
4. Uptown Boys - Louise Goffin
5. So Much in Love - Timothy B. Schmit
6. Raised on the Radio - Ravyns
7. Look in Your Eyes, The - Gerard McMahon
8. Speeding - The Go-Go's
9. Don't Be Lonely - Quarterflash
10. Never Surrender - Don Felder
11. Fast Times (The Best Years of Our Lives) - Billy Squier
12. Fast Times at Ridgemont High - Sammy Hagar
13. I Don't Know (Spicoli's Theme) - Jimmy Buffett
14. Love Is the Reason - Graham Nash
15. I'll Leave It up to You - Poco
16. Highway Runner - Donna Summer
17. Sleeping Angel - Stevie Nicks
18. She's My Baby (And She's Outta Control) - Palmer & Jost/Jost
19. Goodbye, Goodbye - Oingo Boingo
Left to right from the top, and in no particular order:
U2 - Achtung Baby
Ivy - Apartment Life
Frank Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim
Beck - Midnite Vultures
Monty Python - Live at Drury Lane
John Lee Hooker - Live at Cafe Au Go GO
The Velvet Underground & Nico
Ulrich Schnauss - Far Away Trains Passing By
The Cure - Galore
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Greatest Hits
Bob Marley & the Wailers - Live!
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsies
Louis Prima - Capitol Collector's Series
Detroit Cobras - Life, Love & Leaving
B.B. King - Live at the Regal
Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd - Jazz Samba
U2 - Zoo Europa (bootleg from 1993)
Stevie Ray Vaughan - The Sky is Crying
Frank Sinatra - Come Dance With Me!
Oingo Boingo - Farewell
James Brown - 20 All Time Greatest Hits
T-Bone Walker - T-Bone Blues
The Dirtbombs - Ultraglide In Black
Pretty obvious who my favorite band is. I had to leave Zooropa off the list just for the sake of diversity. But if this were a desert island top 25 it would be on there for sure.
Couple of notes:
Picked the Sinatra/Jobim album over Getz/Gilberto, mostly because I am a huge Sinatra fan and a lot of the songs overlap. Plus it is a completely different style of Sinatra than any other album he'd done before, and the uniqueness is what really makes it a great album.
John Lee Hooker Live at Cafe Au Go Go: Just an incredible live set. JLH is backed by The Muddy Waters Band! Yes, Muddy Waters is on this album playing guitar but he never even sings! Also there is Otis Spann on piano.
U2 Zoo Europa: From the August 1993 show in Dublin Ireland. In my opinion it features the best version of "One" out there.
Oingo Boingo Farewell: I was at those shows!
B.B. King: If you want to know what the blues is all about, get this album.
Also, forgot Led Zeppelin II! Not sure what I'd take out though...
"Dangit, Bobby! Just what kind of place is this?"
"It's a dead man's party, Dad. You're supposed to leave your body at the door."
Admit it, you heard it in their voices.
This was a hard choice. But, alas I decided on my 24 albums to have with me on a Desert Island.
1. "Little Earthquakes" -Tori Amos
2. "Disintegration" The Cure
3. Led Zeppelin IV
4. "Heaven or Las Vegas" -Cocteau Twins
5. "Dark Side of the Moon" -Pink Floyd
6. "Rumours" -Fleetwood Mac
7. "Fumbling Towards Ecstasy" -Sarah McLachlin
8. "Welcome to My Nightmare" -Alice Cooper
9. "Hellbilly Deluxe" -Rob Zombie
10. "Hounds of Love" -Kate Bush
11. "Pretty Hate Machine" -Nine Inch Nails
12. "The Trinity Sessions" -Cowboy Junkies
13. "Strange Days" -The Doors
14. "Wish You Were Here" -Pink Floyd
15. "Houses of the Holy" -Led Zeppelin
16. "Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me" -The Cure
17. "The Beekeeper" -Tori Amos
18. "Best O'Boingo" -Oingo Boingo
19. Phillip Glass Score of Dracula
20. "Little Queen" -Heart
21. "Supersition" -Siouxsie and the Banshees
22. "Greatest Hits 1976 - 1986" -Elton John
23. "Garlands" -Cocteau Twins
24. "Rio" -Duran Duran
I just wanted to wish all my wonderful friends a very fun and scary Halloween!
You might enjoy this Halloween video...It's one of my favorites
Oingo Boingo...It's a Dead Man's Party
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UbGtjnluyY
NOTE: I will be away for a little while, but don't give up on me...I'll be back in a few weeks!
It's Halloween...so this should be viewed on Black : )
This movie is not so bad if you are 16. But when I saw it first I was 39 nine and I liked it :-)) The song is also not bad.-
You didn't think I'd forget, did you?
This is the fifth (and final) installment of my annual "13 Days of Halloween" series.
13 days, one song per day, up until the 31st.
For previous years:
Happy Halloween!
Day 1 - TV Theme to "Are You Afraid of the Dark?"
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Day 2 - TV Theme to "Scooby-Doo"
Wendesday, October 20, 2010
Day 3 - "Witch Doctor" by David Seville
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Day 4 - Theme to "Coraline" by Bruno Coulais & The Children's Choir Of Nice
Friday, October 22, 2010
Day 5 - "Dead Man's Party" by Oingo Boingo
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Day 6 - "Carol Anne's Theme" (from "Poltergeist") by Jerry Goldsmith
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Day 7 - Theme to Stephen King's "Pet Sematary" by Elliot Goldenthal
Monday, October 25, 2010
Day 8 - "Evil Theme" from "Heroes of Might and Magic III"
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Day 9 - "Oogie Boogie's Song" from "The Nightmare Before Christmas"
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Day 10 - Theme to "12 Monkeys" by Paul Buckmaster
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Day 11 - Theme to "Saw" by Charlie Clouser
Friday, October 29, 2010
Day 12 - "The End" (from "Edward Scissorhands") by Danny Elfman
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Day 13 - "The Worms Crawl In, The Worms Crawl Out" (aka "The Hearse Song")
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Another drawing of Danny Elfman, because I've been waxing nostalgic over Oingo Boingo recently. Also, Danny Elfman is a musical genius.
The kids had the day off of school today...
I think it's Presidents Day or something.
I knew they'd be bouncing off the walls...
so I picked up a little chemistry set and thought we'd set up a lab on the kitchen table.
The littlest Viewminder's always doing experiments in the bathroom.
Making all sorts of concoctions that will no doubt revolutionize the world.
At least revolutionize the world of soap or hand moisturizer.
In this experiment the little one's learned how the density of water affect the buoyancy of things.
I enjoyed our little experiment.
This is a concert poster in the Red Rocks Amphitheatre's Visitor Center. I am a big fan of Oingo Boingo, so I just had to take picture.
I'm the one dancing in the bottom left-hand corner, looking right at the camera. The band I'm dancing to is "Oingo Boingo," as they sing "Dead Man's Party" for the movie Back to School's party scene.
I thought I'd add this to my '80s photos. It's a pretty bad copy, but if you squint you can kind of see me. Actually, I look like one of Picasso's portraits; the ones he did of his ex-wives or girlfriends after he no longer liked them. You know, features all askew and slightly pathetic.
Like the other photo, this is from the movie "Back to School," which I worked on as a movie extra for about a month. And, yes, I did buy the DVD, and freeze this scene so I could take my own photo. I'm vain and I'm dorky, but I've always admitted that.
Anyway, I spent all day dancing - my arms swinging and hips swaying - trying not to look at the camera, but apparently I just couldn't help it.
Legendary bassist Johnny Avila of Oingo Boingo and now MUTAYTOR photographed at the historic Westerfeld Mansion in San Francisco on the last night of recording "Magic by Mistake"
OINGO BOINGO BOW
Bow is made of black tulle polka dotted with green sequins. It features a grinning skull charm framed in more green sequins and two dangling checkerboard charms suspended by black metallic seed beads.
The bow is attached to a sturdy barrette with green sequin backing.
This is not the first time / you tried to get away
This is not a party / where people know your name
This is not a classroom / with teacher at the board
This is not a catshow / with prizes at the door
Go, don't you go
Won't you stay with me one more day
If we get through one more night
If we get through one more night
This is not a horse race / where winners beat the time
This is not a funeral / with mourners in a line
This is not a sit-com / where everything's alright
This is not a prison / with terror through the night
Go, don't you go
Won't you stay with me one more day
If we get through one more night
If we get through one more night
(Stay - Oingo Boingo, from "Dead man's party" - 1985)
Social Sound System
LINK TO VID PLAYLIST: www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=1FA6C2D6A5B36EC6
The Burning of Rome (http://www.myspace.com/theburningofrome )is the other band at Speakeasy Studios. Their drummer, Lee, owns the place and we rent a side room from him. Their sound is kinda like death-pop. I read a review that classified them as gypsy vampire punks (something like that). Well, I've been talking out my ass for months saying that we were going to come to their shows. Well, Evan (band mate in The Gents) and I finally made it out. They opened for Dead Man's Party (an Oingo Boing tribute band). It was a really great show for them with a good size crowd. They have lots of energy, noise, and stage presence. Really energized with great harmonies singing some dark-comedy-esque lyrics. Really glad I made it out to show some love!
Dead Man's Party was great as well (http://www.myspace.com/deadmansparty). People often overlook Oingo Boingo's contribution to music when thinking about great bands of the 80s. Too bad. Dead Man's Party puts on a great performance. All members really perform. Horns = AWESOME!!! Their singer is so good too. Really gives it his all for Danny Elfman!
So yeah... Another concert for me.
Everyone Orchestra with Matt Butler and Steve Kimock,
Particle
Mike Doughty of Soul Coughing,
Willie Waldman project Big Band:
Steve Molitz of Phil and Friends,
Steve Kimock, guitar God
Tony Austin Santanaęs drummer
Terry Saffold drums and congas
John Avila bass and Greg koerner Bass
Herman green Saxophone
Willie Waldman Trumpet
Norton wisdom painter
Hot Buttered Rum,
Gent Treadly,
Jim Miller band,
Cabinet,
Trainjumpers,
Jazzam
Jerry Hannan Band
Cody Dikinson (North Mississippi Allstars) - guitar
Jerry Hannan - acoustic guitar/vox
Steve Molitz (Phil Lesh, Particle) - keys/vox
John Molo (Phil Lesh, Bruce Hornsby) - drums
John Avila (Oingo Boingo) - bass
Every two weeks or so, I go to Amoeba Records here in Hollywood to look for any Oingo Boingo records that have come in. I've been searching for Dead Man's Party and Only A Lad for months, but they never show up. Today, both were there and I bought them. I want to have all of the Boingo catalog on vinyl if I can eventually and I'm really close now. All I need is Dark At The End of the Tunnel and Skeletons in the Closet. Not sure if Boingo was ever on vinyl. At any rate, I want them all. If you love me and you see any Boingo vinyl laying around for cheap, GET IT cuz I will certainly take it. I'm an obsessed freak.
I walked into Amoeba wanting 2 CDs... I left spending $70. Oy.
"...I was struck by lighting
Walkin' down the street
I was hit by something last night in my sleep
It's a dead man's party
Who could ask for more
Everybody's comin', leave your body at the door
Leave your body and soul at the door . . .
(Don't run away it's only me)..."
Because I love Oingo Boingo and this trio reminded me the music! :-D Who knows... Maybe I try an Oingo Boingo Series.
One of the ways the Skull hair bow can be worn!
I love this bow-I don't want to part with it. It reminds me of the earlier days of Oingo Boingo.
Bow is made of black tulle polka dotted with green sequins. It features a grinning skull charm framed in more green sequins and two dangling checkerboard charms suspended by black metallic seed beads.
The bow is attached to a sturdy barrette with green sequin backing.