On Saturday, Sally and I stopped by an estate sale tucked into the backroads of Fremont. There wasn't much there of note, but I did end up purchasing some wonderful old books, mostly things I've been meaning to read but haven't got around to yet.
I thought it would be fun (because I, apparently, have no concept of what fun actually is) to blank out the titles and authors and let you take a running stab at what I purchased.
There are no prizes for getting any of these right, and clicking on any of them will take you to my flickr page where the answers are, but hey! it's Wednesday. What more of a diversion do you need?
Once again, the End Times came and went this past Friday. Many thanks to all that bore witness, especially those who traveled from out of town. Y'all my peeps.
For as long as I can (or care to) remember, I've been attending concerts. In fact, one of my first memories is watching the Mamas & the Papas at Hershey Park in Pennsylvania.
This was, of course, after Mama Cass had died, but I was a wee one yet and had not yet developed the killer hipster sense that would have told me one of the 60's greatest pop bands playing to a half-filled amphitheater in a theme park devoted to chocolate was perhaps a sad thing.
It's only been over the last couple of years that I started taking pictures at the events I attend, only a little over a year since I began posting those pictures to Flickr, and just a smidge under six months since I started my music blog at the P.I.
And it was yesterday that I finally received the recognition I so richly deserve.
Hi Tyson,
I work with Fox Searchlight Pictures here in Seattle and they are the studio that is putting out the upcoming film ONCE starring Glen Hansard of “The Frames.” They saw the photos you posted on the Seattle Post-Intelligencer blog and are looking to gain permission to post those same photos on the Fox Searchlight official website on behalf of the upcoming film and that band.
Oh yes. Oh, hell yes.
I asked them for many things -- credit, tickets, (hookers) -- but we finally reached an equitable agreement (no hookers).
4/3 Day Shift Angry, the teenage son of the mother driving the vehicle jumped out at the car near the intersection of SR 525 and Harbour Pointe Blvd. The son was upset because he was enroute to a drug test and no one believed him regarding his drug use. He ultimately agreed to go with his mother to get the test. There were no further problems.
4/3 Night Shift A mother reported that her son was out of control and possibly on drugs. Upon arrival, officers located the son outside. He was shirtless, incoherent and rolling in the mud yelling for help. Officers were eventually able to communicate with him and he admitted to taking insulin. He was transported to the hospital via a medical unit.
In other news… Officers were dispatched to the 5100 block of 104th St. SW for a 911 hang-up. It was determined that the mother had argued with her son because he would not do the dishes There was no evidence of an assault.
4/4 Day Shift What do you say to that A mom reported that sometime yesterday an unknown actor took her child’s Radio Flyer pedal go-kart.
4/4 Night Shift Wait, what? A neighbor reported what sounded like a domestic disturbance with one male reportedly kicking on the front door. Another caller at the residence reported that her daughter was with her and was the respondent in a no contact order, which made the man outside the protected person. Officers contacted the parties. The male said he was at the residence to speak with the mother about the previous theft of some of his personal property. He said he hadn’t known the daughter was present. No contact occurred between the two, but mom did reportedly push both males away from her door. No order violation appeared to have happened and the male was advised to report the theft to the appropriate LEA.
4/5 Day Shift He loved food, officer Photo albums and cook wear went missing from her house, reported a woman. There was no sign of forced entry and she had not changed the locks after her ex-husband moved out. The case is under investigation.
A postal employee said there were two males at the post office holding political signs and passing out pamphlets calling for the impeachment of Vice-President Cheney. The employee said they were not blocking anyone from coming or going and were not causing a disturbance. The worker was informed that the First Amendment allowed them to continue.
4/6 Day Shift A caller requested officers check on a male in a Subaru that was sitting in his vehicle near the intersection of 107th Pl. SW and 56th Pl. W. According to the caller, the male was “reading” and it appeared suspicious. The vehicle was gone on arrival was registered to a subject out of Bothell.
4/7 Day Shift A woman called 911 to report that her father was in an argument with an unwanted subject outside their residence. When officers arrived, the unwanted subject had already left. The father told officers that he was leaving the house this morning to go on a motorcycle ride only to find the subject outside his residence. The subject has been a contractor for the business and started arguing with the father over money. The subject pushed the father off his motorcycle then grabbed a reciprocal saw and took a swipe, cutting the seat on the cycle. Officers advised Snohomish County S.O. to check the subject’s residence in Arlington, but he wasn’t there. There is probably cause for Assault 2nd degree.
4/7 Night Shift Three days ago, reported a woman, while shaving her legs, someone above her head hit her, causing distress. Upon arrival, she told officers that she felt a pinch in her legs and they were now swollen. The fire department responded and checked her.
At least three people reported hearing a loud explosion in the area of the 12300 block of Harbour Pointe Blvd. None of the witnesses saw anything. An area check was done but nothing suspicious was located.
Sleep screaming Neighbors called police after the woman who lived above them started screaming in her sleep and banging on the walls. Upon arrival, officers could her screams from the parking lot. She told officers that she had been asleep, but agreed to try to go back to sleep and keep the screaming to a minimum.
4/8 Day Shift Still screaming After receiving two more complaints from different neighbors, police were forced to arrest the woman who was screaming and banging on the walls in her sleep. She was arrested for Disorderly Conduct under the city code. On this last occasion, she had opened her sliding glass door so the entire complex could hear her screaming. She was booked into the county jail.
Ever since Fred did this, I've been remembering to note the videos I find fascinating. What follows is a smattering of those delightful discoveries. What we need, obviously, is a tv station and a license to broadcast whatever we feel like.
Speaking of Fred (and television): a long time ago, the good Doctor loaned me a copy of Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung by Lester Bangs. There's a screed in there entitled The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-up Zombies or, The Day the Airwaves Exploded (because while Bangs was ostensibly writing about music, more often than not, he was actually writing about the way things should be. And, god love him, he was, more often than not, right) about the public retaking ownership of the airwaves.
FCC Commissioner Susskind said today that the recent outbreaks of violence and vandalism against TV stations in every state of the Union were the actions of a vast conspiratorial network "whose extensiveness staggers the imagination of any reasonable man." The Commissioner stated further that the network was populated mainly by heroin addicts, students driven psychopathic by hallucinogenic drugs, politicized shakedown artists, and prostitutes of both sexes-"junkies, sickies, trickies, and quickies," as the Commissioner quipped-led by an elusive cabal of disgruntled dropouts from the Weathermen on special orders from Red China.
Which, of course, could and will never happen, but goddam, ain't it fun to think about?
At last report, the station in Paw Paw was showing nothing but old "Popeye," "Bugs Bunny," and "Donald Duck" cartoons interspersed with 1952 episodes of "Dragnet" and "Inner Sanctum."
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In Nome, the commandeered station was reportedly showing nothing but old commercials and newscasts run backwards, with a soundtrack comprised of Redd Foxx records and old rhythm and blues "party" (sex-oriented) songs superimposed on them.
Stations in other parts of the country are showing propaganda films from Communist countries and groups and broadcasting readings from Chairman Mao by hirsute under-thirties. Others screen nothing but Andy Warhol films, or "home movies" or "underground films" made by the guerrillas themselves. In San Francisco a rock group called the Grateful Dead has been playing an uninterrupted concert for ten days and, even more amazingly, a song entitled "Turn on Your Lovelamp" for the last four straight days, around the clock. One channel in Los Angeles is currently featuring a gentleman of indeterminate age named Kim Fowley, engaged in unprintable acts with a girl who doesn't look older than 14 and a boa constrictor, while "singing" in a warbling monotone.
When Bangs wrote this, he knew it would never happen. Mass media is media for the masses, not by the masses. What Bangs couldn't possibly have foreseen (at least not in its current incarnation; Bangs was a prophet, not a prognosicator) is Youtube's ascendancy to that ideal. What Lester Bangs was wishing for was what Youtube is slowly becoming: a mass media format for and by the people.
So let's commandeer a tv station; I've got the playlist figured out.
(Also: for those among you who know and/or care: Kat, that delightful minx of a person, and Nathan, the magisterial bear of the summer's night crowning, are engaged. That, plus the fact that they own a cafe in Anacortes officially makes them the most ridiculously cute couple ever.)
It's arty. It's ridiculous. It's in black and white. It's one of my favorite movies.
Richard Thompson doing Beeswing. This is a wonderful song; too bad his playing is for shit.
The only thing that would make this better is if they had done this on Springer. They could have brought in the horse!
One of the few people still living whom I would love to see live and probably never will: Jeff Mangum.
Because sometimes the best way to kill a man is to strangle him with your penis. Not everytime, mind you, just sometimes.
Roy Smeck is the master of the strings.
John Scarne explains some things.
Ferrofluid is some crazy manna. By drinking a dram of this highly magnetic fluid, you gain the power to shit magnets and die horribly, as your upper intestine attracts itself to the lower.
Finally out on DVD. Now I'm just waiting for the next season of the Muppets.
I don't know why this exists, but the fact that it does makes me...scared? Ecstatic? Lubricated? I'm so confused.
Comedy at its best.
Fucking Jacques Brel.
The fact that you can't buy this for American DVD players is one of the biggest travesties in the realm of media, right after DRM and the RIAA.
Someday I'll be this good. Or I'll be dead. One or the other.
Lenny Bruce.
Oh, Tracy Ullman.
Back when commercials ruled.
My favorite DJ.
Goddam, I miss MST3000. At one point in my life, I used to be able to spend Saturdays watching the Mike Nelson era. And while I'll always be partial to Joel, this show was the tits regardless of who was hosting (but once they headed into outer space with the monkey and the watcher, it truly jumped the shark).
Hell yes.
Qi. This, like most British television, would never fly here. Not because it's risky, sexy, or violent (you know, selling points), but because it bothers to be smart and funny, open and wide-ranging, and doesn't talk down to the audience.
Bill Hicks speaks openly and honestly about Hitler.
3/26 Day Shift Officers responded to the 5700 block of 105th Pl. SW to check on the welfare of a resident. She had called her previous employer, thinking she still worked there. She acknowledged that she was confused and was waiting for her husband.
3/27 Day Shift A caller reported that about one hour prior he observed a possible vehicle prowl. He saw an adult male, wearing a ski mask, near a vehicle. He appeared to have an item in his hands. The officer checked the area but did not locate the suspect or any vehicle that appeared to have been prowled.
A suspicious vehicle was spotted "cruising the neighborhood". The officer located the vehicle and found it was delivering phone books.
3/27 Night Shift A gentleman called 911 saying he had been told to call a Mukilteo officer regarding his vehicle speeding through a school zone or disobeying a flagger. The officer who took the call was unable to determine who wanted to speak with the caller and advised him he would be called back if additional follow-up was necessary.
3/28 Day Shift Sometime yesterday, reported a caller, someone entered three portables and took several overhead projectors. The caller ended up calling back to say there was some miscommunication: a maintenance worker moved the projectors to the East Campus, so they were not stolen. The case number was cancelled.
SnoCom advised that an elderly female had called 911 and was complaining about neck and shoulder pain but refused an ambulance and sounded confused. SnoCom requested an officer check on her. One did and found her fine, except she was reporting that the neighbor who lived upstairs had a machine that was causing her neck and shoulder pain. The woman's son was contacted and he said he would handle the problem.
Officers received a third party report of a child living in the woods near the playground area around the 11100 block of Chennault Beach Rd. The child was reported to be covered in mud and had "snake bites" all over her. There was no age, race, name, or any other information on the child. Officers checked the wooded area but did not see any evidence of anyone living in the woods.
3/28 Night Shift A mother reported that she got into an argument with her son. Her other son attempted to step in and was assaulted by his brother. The offending son fled on foot before officers arrived and was not located. Case will be sent to the prosecutor for charges.
3/29 Night Shift The officer signaled a car to stop for a traffic violation; the driver stopped the car, then fled on foot. He was apprehended a few blocks away and identified. His driving status was Driving Without Licensing Second Degree for Vehicular Homicide. He was charged with DWLS and refusal to give information and cooperate with police and was booked into the county jail. A tow company impounded his vehicle.
A caller reported a large amount of water coming from the 900 block of 10th St. Officer checked the house and determined that the homeowners were draining their swimming pool.
3/30 Day Shift The officer responded to the corner of 5th St. and Lamar for a report of a dead animal in the roadway and transported a deceased squirrel to PAWS for disposal.
He does this everyday A father reported his son had runaway. He later called to report that his son was located and was at school. He was removed from runaway status.
Officers responded to the 8400 block of SR 525 for a two-vehicle collision. Vehicle #1 failed to yield while attempting to turn left in front of vehicle #2. The driver of vehicle #1 was arrested for DUI. He was processed, cited, and released to his father.
3/30 Night Shift Officers were dispatched to an area check for a subject wearing a ski mask and dark clothing walking through the neighborhood. An officer identified the subject as a local resident out for his nightly walk.
A burglary was reported in process by a homeowner after his basement alarm activated. Officers determined that a raccoon had likely activated the alarm.
4/1 Day Shift Officers responded to the 12300 block of Harbour Pt. Blvd. for a male possibly "having a fit" in a van. The officers contacted a male who was not having a medical condition but did have an outstanding warrant for theft. He was booked into the Snohomish County Jail.
4/1 Night Shift Officers observed a green 1995 Honda Civic 4-door being driven through a parking lot; a check of the plate revealed the vehicle had been reported stolen out of Bothell yesterday. The car was stopped and the driver arrested. He acknowledged that he had assumed the vehicle was stolen when an unknown acquaintance had loaned him the car the previous day, there was no key for the ignition and the steering column was torn apart. He was also in possession of a methamphetamine pipe and vehicle prowling tools. He was booked into the Snohomish County Jail. The Honda was impounded at the owner's request.
4/2 Day Shift The Animal Control officer headed to the 4300 block of Harbour Pt. Blvd. for a report of an injured duck. The duck did appear to be injured, but the officer was unable to catch it. 4/2 Night Shift April…fools? Report of "loose peacocks flailing about" along the 4300 block of 78th St. SW. They were not located.
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