Archive for January, 2006
Gruesome Twosome: Kids Are All Right Edition
January 31st, 2006The Brady Bunch: “Everything I Do”
LP: The Brady Bunch Phonographic Album, 1973 | BUY
Rodney Allen Rippy: “Eenie-Meenie-Minee-Moe”
LP: Take Life a Little Easier, 1974
On today’s menu: kiddie music, funky style. The Brady’s recordings consisted of frenzied shoutalongs and/or inappropriate covers of the day’s hits (such as “Baby I’m a Want You”), but “Everything I Do” from […]
Four Phases of VH-1
January 30th, 2006I’ve been thinking about VH-1 lately. More precisely, the good old VH-1 from five or ten years ago. I miss it, but there’s always hope that things will change. As this handy Wikipedia entry demonstrates, the channel has had a complex history. The interesting thing about VH-1 lies in how, unlike MTV, they never established […]
Love (and T-Shirts) For Sale
January 27th, 2006Somebody I know gave me an ultimatim this week — get my art online for sale or else. In response, the Scrubbles Store has been reopened at CafePress. “It needs to be called the Matt Hinrichs Store,” responded the somebody. Whatever, I’ll address that later. Right now the only artwork per se for sale is […]
Repeat Steps 1-5
January 25th, 2006Currently I’m in the process of correcting a stupid mistake — I accidentally trashed a design project and now have to rebuild it from scratch. D’oh!
I guess that makes it a good time to point out a couple of semi-old reads that I missed. First off is Michael Beirut’s Design Observer post on the design […]
She’s No Bebe Shopp!
January 23rd, 2006Does anyone still think about Miss America? For the first time in years, I actually tuned in to the CMT broadcast of last weekend’s pageant. It was exactly as I remember it — kind of kitschy, kind of boring, completely fascinating in its earnestness and increasing irrelevancy. The winner, Miss Oklahoma, projected a somewhat plastic […]
Motel Googie
January 22nd, 2006Doncha just love the cleanliness, color and optimism in this painting? Real fresh and breezy, like that strip of paper the maid put around the toilet lid. It comes from James Lileks’ work-in-progress Motel Postcards site. He’s planning to post vintage cards and witty commentary from all 50 states throughout the year.
Badass Wicker
January 22nd, 2006The Nonist has done an entertaining history of wicker furniture as signifier of hipness (via PCL Linkdump). Love it!
The Grumpy Old Man
January 20th, 2006I had a $25 Barnes & Noble giftcard burning in my pocket recently (thanks to Christopher), so I spent it on a book that I’d been wanting to check out for a while — The R. Crumb Handbook by R. Crumb and Peter Poplaski. It’s quite a unique little book, a compact and chunky hardback […]
Dude Needs Jenny Craig
January 20th, 2006The Chicago Tribune asks a nagging question that has been haunting us here in Chez Scrubbles: Why is Hurley on ‘Lost’ still fat? We’ve been noticing that the actor playing Hurley is actually looking heavier this season than last. How is that possible (unless he’s been snacking on the other castaways)?
Download Brigitte
January 19th, 2006CBC: “Both Sony and Universal Music have announced plans to reissue classic recordings in digital form.” Very cool news. Universal’s plans include 100,000 vintage songs by mostly European artists, with the first batch being available on iTunes next month. I’m especially looking forward to finding out what old material they’ll have from Brigitte Bardot.
Gruesome Twosome: Poet, Fool, Bum Edition
January 18th, 2006Lee Hazlewood: “What’s More I Don’t Need Her”
LP: Cowboy In Sweden, 1970 | BUY
Honey LTD.: “Louie, Louie”
LHI Records single, 1968
For today’s aural delights, I turn to the enigmatic Lee Hazlewood. Richie Unterberger nicely sums up Hazlewood’s appeal in his book Unknown Legends of Rock ‘n’ Roll: “How can you judge a man who sounds like […]
Horizontal Hold
January 17th, 2006Sometime yesterday afternoon, my computer went all wonky on me. After I restarted, the iMac’s desktop and Finder were unaccessible and everything was slow. Whenever something like this happens, you go through a panic and then you take stock of what you’d miss if everything on your hard drive had to go. It’s like undergoing […]
A Shelley Winters Memory
January 15th, 2006Farewell to Shelley Winters, who died Saturday at age 85. The Shelley I grew up with was the blowsy, muu muu clad Poseidon Adventure lady who’d arrived at “The Tonight Show” looking like she knocked off a few Jack Daniels before showtime. It wasn’t until much later when I saw her in stuff like A […]
Wannabe Film Critic Blues
January 12th, 2006The Internet Movie Database has accepted my mini review of the 1943 Roy Rogers vehicle Silver Spurs, which I submitted solely because nobody else commented on it. The same reason I just finished another mini-review, for the uneven ‘41 Warners ‘B’ Steel Against the Sky. That one hasn’t yet been approved.
Speaking of the IMDb, I […]
A Found Find
January 11th, 2006The Christian Science Monitor just did a nice article on FOUND magazine. The FOUND empire — website, magazine, book, and traveling exhibit — is devoted to found notes, photos and pieces of paper. In their words, “We decided to make a bunch of projects so that everyone can check out all the strange, hilarious and […]
