Bad Luxury new years brigade!

As 2009 falls victim to the not so merciful hands of time, try to embrace the good times had, and learn from and move off of the bad decisions and tough times through a rough year. 2009 was A celebrity graveyard, and an economic shit pit... Bernie Madeoff with a lot of peoples money, the unemployment office was hiring, but no one else was. Who cares for healthcare, no really who is going to foot the bill? The government bought a car company, a few banks, and a bunch of clunkers, but there is still no economic growth, what was the point! The Phils gave us another great season, A.I. is back in town, and winning is for the BIRDS right now! Kanye west did what he does best...Be an idiot!
The only person who started out in life as a poor black kid and died as a rich White woman passed this year, thanks for the thrills!
2012 is the new y2k...Vampires are the new black, lumberjack plaid is all the fad, peeps tweeted on twitter, youtube hit was the NOMASxDoc Ellis Psychedelic no hitter....The media was goo goo for lady gaga, another year in Afpakistan looking for Osama...witnessed American history when we welcomed our new Prez Barrack Obama....
The mummers will be strutting down Broad street tommorow to bring in 2010!
Parades rule, and so does tradition, making this an amazing New Years celebration, if you've never been than you wouldn't understand how fun it is.



2009 marked the end of the infamous SPECTRUM, the Flyers sent the Russian red army packing after using a little too much brotherly love!


Happy new years to each and everyone, and best wishes for a healthy happy new year to come!

Heavy Rotation....

While out hanging ten on the internet swells, I frequent a few blogs, and sites that tell what music they are in to as of late, or as of that week or day. I was inspired to make it an addition to my posts so to start it off I decided to go the full monte and post A few visuals to accompany the sounds that are in heavy rotation this week.
Madder rose

Balck uhuru

It felt good to be lost at 22...this week I peered into the looking glass of reflection at a 32 year old teenager scared he is still lost at 32....
Life of Agony

Peace!

p.s.

Rumor has it that this equation might be equalling something....Stay tuned!

merry ChristMASS APEAL...

Merry Christmas to you n yours!




Holiday spray...

Traditional traditions of classical classics...





Nothing says Americana like ol' man Rockwell...Christmas from the brush of Norman...





Listened to this album a lot during the 90's, heavy rotation with my friends and I...

The art of warpaint...

Members of the fly guy artist club were not pop icons, or socialites, they were men and women serving our country in wartime, with dreams and memories of home and peacetime. The art that was painted on these warbirds were not officially allowed by the military, but the regulations were not enforced. Military code is based on uniformity, and these paintings were the only form of individuality and expression that broke that code. The regulations may not have been enforced on the basis that these paintings gave a little boost in morale to the squadron, and may have given them a little comfort in the stresses of war and possibility of death. The themes varied from hometowns, to pin up girls, cartoon characters, wives, girlfiriends, and enemy stereotypes. The planes were originally painted to identify friendly units, but evolved into an American folk art of sorts. The critics of these paintings were usually on the receiving end of huge missiles and gun fire, the artwork was not being sold at galleries in cities around the world. It was an art that was done in a bad place during a bad time that helped make a few people laugh, or feel safe, or even draft a memory of home. The further away from the public's eye the planes were the racier the art was, the planes stationed in the pacific were prone to have more nudity, and enemy stereotypes then the ones stationed in Europe. Nose art can be traced back to pre WW1 Italian planes, but it was traditionalized in ww1 and more so in ww2 by the flying tigers shark faces, and american air squadrons. WW2 was the golden age of this art, after WW2 it was seen a little in Vietnam, and Korea, but is not so prevelant on modern day war planes. The planes come marked with military insignias, but these markings were the thoughts, character, and nature of the crew that manned the planes that were going into situations were the future wasn't always a certain. I am magnetized to these paintings in so many ways, the wit and humor, the neat lettering and fonts, the cartoons and women, but most of all it's the men behind the art and the American spirit that lived in them to create these paintings, not for the money or recognition, but for the other men and women in the war that might see it. Viva americana!