Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Some things I'm laughing at while I should be working

Jeff has just recently gotten into collecting full-length records. Considering how this has gone so far, you may see our home on an episode of 'Clean House' sometime soon. He has close to 300 records already, helped in part to his mother, his life-long enabler. Anyway, she found a listing on craigslist for "free records" the only stipulation that they "find a good home." I don't know if we qualify for a good home, or even a home for that matter, but regardless, she picked them up. Now they're sitting in a pile in our second bedroom.

Jeff has also been scavenging yard sales for records. He's not looking for pristine condition, in fact most of them are not.

He's got some classic stuff in there, but then he's got his pile of ones he plans to give away or sell. Um... anyone interested?

First off, we have the "Edgar Winter Group" offering "They only come out at night." To my surprise, Edgar Winter has an extensive wikipedia entry. Unfortunately, the second item is "Relationship with the Church of Scientology," which includes this nugget:
Edgar is a Scientologist. He has appeared in at least seven issues of the Church of Scientology magazine 'Celebrity' between 1995 and 2005, which list the Scientology courses that he has completed.[1]
Edgar also produced, arranged, and performed on the album Mission Earth (1986). This album's words and music were written by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. L. Ron Hubbard supposedly left detailed instructions and audio tapes for the musicians and producers to follow when making the album.[2] Edgar described Mission Earth as "both a return to rock’s primal roots and yet highly experimental".
L. Rob Hubbard rock god? You decide.


Then we have Millie Jackson's "Feelin' Bitchy." Turns out, Millie also has an extensive wikipedia page which tells me that, "In 2007, 1977 album Feelin' Bitchy was reissued with positive reviews." Maybe these albums will be top sellers. Any takers?

Lastly, this video I cam across (ironically) on a wedding message board. Either you find wedding message boards useful, or stupid, or a little bit of both.  Either way, this is funny -- and true.


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

They're called LPs--long playing record or also 33s

Jeff S said...

wait... i can see both of your hands. how did you take this picture?

YOU'RE A WITCH!