i know. :( but i also know that the records i would even want to spin at a bbq are ones i didn't just pay $1 for.. and if something sat in the sun, or had beer spilled on it - it would be total suck-b-que city..

something like that would be awesome though, like. a guy, and a gal... on a rooftop... a bunch of sweet ass records, and a bottle of cheap wine, and a bit of good weed, and ... oh shit, what were we talking about again..? 

TeenFink said:

party pooper.
 

The only advice I have is NOT to get one of the cheapo Crosley deals they sell at Target, walmart, et. al.  Especially if you plan on playing 45s.  They have this annoying auto-stop function that normally cuts of a 7"er at about the Two and a half minute mark.

party pooper.

Jessy Drastic said:

they are cool, but not so practical.

not only do bbq sauce & vinyl not mix, it's a real pain in the ass to flip records AND burgers at the same time.

 

they are cool, but not so practical.

not only do bbq sauce & vinyl not mix, it's a real pain in the ass to flip records AND burgers at the same time.

That little Japanese thing looks pretty badass. But is it loud enough?

BTW, when I was a kid, I had one of those round transistor radios you can see in the background in that video. Mine was green. It's long gone.

so do any of you weirdos have a portable turntable? i was thinkin it'd be fun to get one for the backyard since summer's here and it's grillin' season and i get tired of the radio and and and......i just think it'd be bitchen to have a portable turntable to play 45s outside, i'm sorry.

Needle Doctor sells some:

http://www.needledoctor.com/Online-Store/Portable-Turntables

i also heard that the Columbia GP-3 is a keeper (battery powered, too!).

whatcha got? anything good on this?

I have never heard of this, nor seen anything remotely similar. The only "live action" Archie film I've seen was a really bad "reunion" TV movie of the gang, being older, and just being boring. Maybe the filmmakers did get sued, and that's why it's such an obscurity now?

John Battles said:

DID ANYBODY EVER SEE THE UNAUTHORIZED , R-RATED VERSION OF "ARCHIE" ? I'm not kidding. It was called "Hot Times" , and it used to air on cable , sometimes , in The 80's. It was made around '73. It was basically about Archie and the gang in sexual situations. They were all called by the same names as in the comics , except I think Jughead was called "Mughead".

I don't know how the people who did it did'nt get sued out of existense.

Wow, reading over this has really brought back some cool memories of me growing up (since me and the writer are close to the same age). I, too, had an obsession with "psychotronic" films and delving into issues of "Famous Monsters Of Filmland", "Fangoria", and "Starlog" only fueled it. Very cool article, and thanks for sharing it!

As reported on the Ichiban site, cool and unexpected article on Psychotronic culture in the New Yorker:http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/06/04/120604fa_fact_whitehead

Just got this title on amazon for I think $5.38 as an e-book. Reviews were good. Got through the first 2 stories so far. Kelly Link reminds me a lot of Mark Leyner in a lot of ways. Gotta read more current fiction. Thanks for the suggestion! 
 
sleazy said:

"Dinosauria We" is a good poem. It is apocalyptic like the Bukowski short story Animal Crackers in My Soup from Tales of Ordinary Madness. My fave Bukowski poem is "The Strongest of the Strange." It is an ode to cultural agoraphobia. Bukowski says the greatest works of art are created by the strongest of the strange. Like the bagboy with a college degree in "Dinosauria We": there's a certain motion/of the hands/of a bag-boy or a bag-/girl/while packing/supermarket groceries. And Bukowski goes on to say that some people are their own works of art. That and 90 cents will get you a pack of gum in Peoria but I thought it was fun to compare and contrast. 

 Allerleirauh said:

It's cool.  Under the Roofs of Paris is the only book by Henry Miller I like.  I agree with Pikini Death Ray and feel that way about every other book he wrote.  Under the Roofs of Paris is really fun. I can understand why he is read as a misogynist, but I loved it.

If I could describe Bukowski's writings with one word I'd pick raw.  From everything of his that I've read, he truly loves women.  He wrote truthfully about life and relationships- which isn't always pretty.

Dinosauria We is the only poem I really like.

Glenn Armstrong said:

Thanks for the reply. I don't mean to malign anyone's favorite book/author. I just enjoy finding perceived patterns then writing about them. I don't get a lot of time to write these days so this is a nice outlet. I'll see if I can find another book to crow about in a while and post the results.

It's cool.  Under the Roofs of Paris is the only book by Henry Miller I like.  I agree with Pikini Death Ray and feel that way about every other book he wrote.  Under the Roofs of Paris is really fun. I can understand why he is read as a misogynist, but I loved it.

If I could describe Bukowski's writings with one word I'd pick raw.  From everything of his that I've read, he truly loves women.  He wrote truthfully about life and relationships- which isn't always pretty.

Dinosauria We is the only poem I really like.

Glenn Armstrong said:

Thanks for the reply. I don't mean to malign anyone's favorite book/author. I just enjoy finding perceived patterns then writing about them. I don't get a lot of time to write these days so this is a nice outlet. I'll see if I can find another book to crow about in a while and post the results.

 I just watched "Cotton Comes To Harlem" ,an early (1970.) Blaxploitation picture, with Godfrey Cambridge , and not enough of Redd Foxx. It addresses a lot of "Issues" , money - hungry preachers , hard drugs , jail , police brutality , militants, rioting.....all handled pretty well. The title does have meaning. I just thought it was somebody's name , or a metaphor. Well - produced for a non - mega budget film.

Before that , I watched "Midnight Cowboy". I'd seen it a few weeks ago , but , fell asleep partway through. You really have to be on your toes , it is OF ANOTHER TIME. AND IT GOES FROM PAST (USUALLY UNEXPLAINED) to present in moments.....tHERE'S A LOT OF PSYCHEDELIC IMAGERY , PARTICULARLY  IN THE 'PARTY ' SEQUENCE , STRAIGHT OUT OF A WARHOL FACTORY HAPPENING (with Ultraviolet  and Sylvia Myles , besides.).  You get a good look at still - sleazy New York. It demands a few views , as it's not real big on structure , but , it's time well spent. 

I just got out of the hospital for quadruple bypass surgery. I had my family bring me my laptop where I watched a few Paul Naschy movies plus a hilarious U.K. sitcom called 'The Thick of It.' Hang on with this clip until the end. http://youtu.be/5Q4o72jBZRY

I believe I am posting way too much but without all the fistfights and kids jumping out of (1st floor)  windows because of summer break I am a bit bored. Anyway, there was a Henry Miller discussion in this group recently and while watching After Hours for research purposes last night Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller came up. I took that to be a bit of a sign. The most impressive thing about Henry Miller was his ability to riff on any given subject for five minutes or five hours at a time. Also, Tropic of Cancer is the funniest book I have ever read. Funnier than Bukowski. The only thing funnier in the english language is Mark Leyner's bit about the mummified King Tutankhamen/Lenin's corpse/Ted Williams' cryonically preserved head bit on pg. 23 of the hardcover edition of The Sugar Frosted Nutsack. Lenny Bruce HAD to have read Henry Miller as well. The most interesting thing about Miller is that he seems to have been willing to sell himself or anyone else to anyone in order to procure the next meal or complete the next page in his novel. Absolutely shameless really which is part of his charm.

If wikipedia is to be belived, Anais Nin and Miller wrote for the same collector. Nin apparently even put up money to publish the 1st edition of Tropic of Cancer. Regarding tone and setting, Nin is in many ways superior to Miller. Her collection of short stories Delta of Venus has the tone of a smoky opium den. Not that one author is "better" than another, just different. Ok I am going to flip over Here Are the Sonics!!! now and try to refrain from posting for another 5 mnutes. Thank you for your kind indulgence.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEDuiB3IrYs

I buy shirts on Ebay from a seller called goodfellaswear. He has lots of nice bowling shirts and cocktail shirts. He also gives you the armpit to armpit size which is really helpful.

Opened a gift from wife today: it was the Mr. Yuk taste like poison t-shirt.  I love it.  Everywhere I went today no one made eye contact with me - they just kept looking at the shirt.

bout time I finally got one.  she is my hero

My first scooter. '75 Kawasaki H1 500.......

My current scooter, '06 Harley FLHTP.......

Both Charles Bukowski and Philip K Dick only took some community college courses after high school I believe. Clark Ashton Smith never went to HS and HP Lovecraft never graduated from HS either. All of these writers were primarily self-taught. I actually read a study that said the more years in school you spend the more your creativity level drops. I have a useless liberal arts degree in English lit. But as humorist Garrison Keillor says, someone has to write the sonnets in between frothing up the mochas. I have only published a few essays/poems in the American small press and mostly on paper. I can send you an essay published online in Sugar Mule magazine when I was on a Buddhist jag. I am especially psyched about my first scene (beginning-middle-ending, proper tension/conflict) created with the Domet book. It is however very NSFW or anywhere else so I will not inflict it, or anything else of that nature, on the Garage Punk Community. Thank you for your tolerance with my writing about writing. Perhaps after we get a correspondence going we can free up the frequency here a bit and get back to book reviews and less pedantic stuff! 
 
Pikini Death Ray said:

Will send you an email over the next couple of days. Been busting my hump at work and not time for GPN or writing or anything much. I would be really interested to read your work. You seem to know a lot  about the process, me I left school at 16 and don't know shit!  Maybe I will try Motorhead for inspiration. PDR. P.S just noticed I spelled your name wrong before (tut tut!)

Will send you an email over the next couple of days. Been busting my hump at work and not time for GPN or writing or anything much. I would be really interested to read your work. You seem to know a lot  about the process, me I left school at 16 and don't know shit!  Maybe I will try Motorhead for inspiration. PDR. P.S just noticed I spelled your name wrong before (tut tut!)

Wow, yes when I was in school I used to really enjoy creating outlines and viewing timelines and such. So this book speaks to me. I am proud to have had a scholarship to the same prep school as Kerouac and had a teacher who knew him. But I don't have the ability to write spontaneous prose for days on end like Kerouac did. He must have at least had some drafts in his head, linear or not. So Sarah Domet says that first thought is not always best thought at least for us literary mortals. And Truman Capote unfairly said of Kerouac, "That's not writing, that's typing" misunderstanding the whole spontaneous bop prose thing. Anyway, yes I am only on day 2 of exercises but it is certainly fun and helpful. 
 
Michael Wilson said:

Hi Glenn! Just joined the forum and saw this post. It caught my eye because i actually went to school with Sarah Domet and I saw that she had published this book! Glad to see that it sounds like it is helping you!

Hi Glenn! Just joined the forum and saw this post. It caught my eye because i actually went to school with Sarah Domet and I saw that she had published this book! Glad to see that it sounds like it is helping you!