the results are in!

the polls are now closed. actually, not really. feel free to keep sending them in and i'll continue putting them up below. these first few come from eli, tess, ned, and kelly, respectively.









some of you may recall last week's unfortunate misspelling in my example. thankfully, a quick and crude photoshop has remedied the situation:



and the stragglers:

ona's

album cover test

i spied this activity on beware of the blog. the rules are simple. first go to a random wikipedia article. this will be your band's name. then grab the last bunch of words in the last quote at the bottom of a random quote page from this site. this will be your album's title. finally, download the 3rd photo from the explore/interestingness/last 7 days page on flickr. this is your band's album cover. mock up the results and serve!

here is how mine went:


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email me your results and i will post them.

addendum: if you can figure out how i screwed up my cover, i will give you extra credit. here is an example of the same kind of mistake, but on a real album cover for a real band.

blossom dearie, april 28, 1926 – february 7, 2009

blossom dearie is probably best known for her contributions to schoolhouse rock!, but her career was long and varied. here's the ever-so-funky "i like london in the rain" from her 1969 album that's just the way i want to be:


i have yet to hear a bad blossom dearie record. i love her voice and piano playing and she chooses great songs to interpret. the album pictured up top is from 1983. i found it (and this one) last summer while digging at the uptown cheapo. it turned out to be autographed on the back:



here she was on the jack paar program sometime in the early 60s. RIP:

i am the artist in residence for the psu geology department!

i am the artist in residence for the psu geology department! keep up with all the latest at my blog about that.



when visiting the field museum of natural history in chicago, illinois, i strongly recommend surfing the arthropleura.

secret music history presents... bobbi boyle!

my friend christian's record label has just landed what is in this writer's humble opinion it's biggest release yet. so i feel obligated to plug.


mpls ltd. has thus far built its reputation on the commodification of newish music, which i pay little attention to (it's just a problem i have, don't take it personally). this album came out in 1967 however and fetches pretty sums of dough when (if?) an original copy ever comes up for sale. so who is bobbi boyle? and why is an obscure record of 60s pop standards so sought after? should i mention that bobbi boyle was an associate of legendary song poem man rodd keith and his msr record label? is bobbi boyle perhaps the voice on the song poem classic "i like yellow things"? i should mention that i get a credit in the liner notes for doing the vinyl to digital transfer of the bonus tracks, though thanks should really go to my dad, who is nuts enough to drop serious cheese on a fancy record player and hi fi system. finally, coup of coups, dustygroove is selling it, which is just tops in my book. listen to bobbi boyle here. can i get a kool-aid man oh yeah!?:

happy birthday sean!

GPK

i got my first packs of these in the first grade. i remember my dad and i driving to a 7-11 to buy some. i took my modest collection out of storage last summer and have begun scanning and uploading them to the GPK set in my flickr. in addition to my collection, check out this very comprehensive reference site. and here's the GPK wikipedia page, which always adds a wiff of faux legitamacy to any internet research. oh and lest we forget, there was a live-action garbage pail kids movie too! godawful... and available from netflix ( ;