VIDEO: "LOUNGE GARAGE" PERFECTED IN SANDY NELSON'S "HEY JOE!" (1966) (MILDLY NSFW)

OK, so "Hey Joe" is already one of my fave rave songs of the 1960s, so I'm up for hearing any version of it I can get my hands on, yeah? This week in my thrift store runs I came across drummer Sandy Nelson's "Superdrums!" LP from 1966 and put it in my cart WITH NO HESITATION AT ALL when I spotted "Hey Joe" as one of the tracks on this instrumental record. I got it home, cleaned it up a lil', and plopped it on the turntable, and this BIG smile came...

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I MADE YOU A CHILDREN'S BOOK NOT FOR CHILDREN: SUMMER ACTIVITIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS

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IPHONE PHOTO MINI-ROUNDUP: GAS WORKS PARK, SEATTLE

It was a gorgeous summer day yesterday in the Pacific Northwest, and we found ourselves at the very unique and cool Gas Works Park in Seattle: From the park website: This 20 acre point on Lake Union was cleared in 1906 to construct a plant to manufacture gas from coal - later converted to crude oil. Import of natural gas in the 1950's made the plant obsolete. The city acquired the site for a park in 1962. The park was opened to the public in 1975....

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HAPPY 70TH BIRTHDAY RAY DAVIES!

Tomorrow, June 21st, the inimitable Ray Davies turns 70 years old. I'm very comfortable with calling him "inimitable," having suffered through many possibly well-meaning attempts by other musicians over the last 50 years or so to jack his style. Writing a pseudo-nostalgic tune about blueberry scones whilst singing with a fake British accent does not cut it, my friends, no, no, and no. Ray Davies became an influential and honored songwriter by running...

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I MADE YOU SOME FATHER'S DAY CARDS

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SONGS MORRISSEY WOULD PERFORM IF HE DIDN'T CANCEL HIS TOUR BECAUSE OF A COLD

Frail grumpy pop legend Morrissey has, once again, canceled a slew of concerts because of illness. This time, because of a respiratory infection contracted by, his representatives claim, opening act Kristeen Young (which she adamantly refutes, by the way), fans will once again be deprived of an evening of intractable surly emotionalism and middle-aged man chest-baring. But...what if Morrissey stuck to the ol' showbiz adage "the show must go on?"...

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28 YES 28 MORE WEIRD RECORD COVERS FROM VALUE VILLAGE THRIFT STORES!

HOO-EEE!  Das rite, you read it co-rek-lee...it's a MEGA-BLOWOUT SUPER POST of dusty old donations from our musical past! CAN YOU DIG IT??? I KNOW THAT YOU CAN! Please to enjoy! Do you need to really annoy someone? Put this on at home but use a garden hose. Inside the house, of course. ...

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FOR BETSY

The bluest sky you've ever seen, in Seattle I find the sun to warm me Bleach away the pain The unfairness of it! A perfect couple pulled apart Sweat and tears, salt in my eyes She is gone. I look up There is no Big Guy there for me But there is something, a presence So many hearts connected Love and grief thrown into the air On a beautiful day. We start to navigate our loss Together, this way. I know there was nothing I could do. I know there was...

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12 ODD KNICK-KNACKS FROM 3 VALUE VILLAGE THRIFT STORES!

Hello, Fellow Fans of Found Foolishness! A couple weekends ago, I made it to THREE YES THREE Value Village thrift stores here on Seattle's Eastside, and collected some images from the rows and rows of tchotchkes for you. Ponder them in good health, and please to enjoy! UH OH. TROUBLE. ...

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