No one told me when to run- I missed the starting gun!
Sunday, June 01, 2008
Audio: Paternal Flatulence and Child Development
An audio story of Dad's (Lex09) digestive tract antics. Deftly and cleverly produced by my genius lad (Lex11), possibly award winning. Full of cusses. He promises me he will do the rest of the audio in a couple of installments. Even juicier stuff. Make him do it.




all last names have been "backwardized" to maintain anonymity.
Also, in case you're bad with math, that's me telling the story.

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Friday, August 17, 2007
Bumming
Maybe this little tiny baby Krishna will cheer me up:



.....let's see.... marginally. I think if I layer on top of it the fact that Ernest Borgnine is still alive. He was in:

McHale's Navy
Demetruis and the Gladiators
Bad Day at Black Rock
The Vikings (HAIL RAGANAR!)
Barabbas
Emperor of the North
Escape from New York
and many episodes of Spongebob

People croak every day - he was awesome in Bad Day before I was born.

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Sunday, June 17, 2007
Father's Day Reminiscences of Dear Old (Filthy) Dad


He made these recordings with a pal around 1947.



Seven years later and maybe fun was rapidly diminishing...

They've been banged around quite a bit, and the sound is atrocious, but listenable in an Edison wax cylinder kind of way.

I had them in a film can backfrom my college days- the school was so unsure about teaching film that we'd get castoff bargain basement stock.



I cleaned it them up real well, and here's the type of disc- Metal center, acetate(?) skin.



Here's the audio:

The first one "Recitations" is basically a string of misogynistic, race-based, if not actually racist, jokes. Being a son of an Eastern Eupropean coal miner made good as a shoe repairman, anybody was fair game, I guess. Either way it's gourmet old-timey filth.

The next one, "Piano Solo" is him pretending to play (he didn't) while saying things over the music.

The final two are ribald songs with live guitar.

First one

Second one

BONUS:
While going through these 78's I found a signed copy of Malaguena b/w Harmonica
Boogie by the Harmonicats



Here's "Harmonica Boogie", because Malaguena had a pretty good ding & I might want to use my phonograph again sometime.

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