Record Cover of the Week

The Sylvers: Showcase

Afrotastic! L to R: Edmund, Jonathan, Angie, Charmaine, Pat, Ricky, Leon. Front row: Olympia, Foster.

(click thumbnails to enlarge)

Runners-up:

Record Cover of the Week(?)

Jack Jones: Bread Winners

Jack spent the 60s all uptight in tuxedos (or cardigans if he was kicking back in casual mode), but on this 1972 album he’s clearly embraced youth culture with hippie-length locks, blue jeans and a psychedelic-print shirt. The music is also designed to woo a younger, hipper audience: the mind-bending, acid-tinged melodies of David Gates and Bread.

Weekend Thrift-a-rama

Not the Record Cover of the Week

Francis Lai: Live for Life (sountrack), detail from front cover

Worst cut & paste job ever.

My other thrift store record buy this week was Marianne Faithfull’s 1966 album Faithfull Forever. Here’s a picture from the back cover (the white streaks are from the cellophane it’s still wrapped in ).

Highway Scavenger Hunt

Here’s how we did on the scavenger hunt Gaenor made for our “Lost in Paradise” vacation. We interpreted the rules a little loosely to include stuff we saw when we weren’t in the car too. The instructions said: “Describe or draw (as necessary) in spaces provided. If you can get photos, so much the better!“

An animal with horns:

Value Village, Vancouver.

An animal with fangs:

Take your pick. Bookstore, Seattle.

A recognizable item of clothing lying on the highway (not off to the side) Identify below: Nope.

A modified Jesus fish:

Archie McPhee, Seattle.

(“Truth” is eating “Darwin”)

A personalized license plate

Easy peasy – before we were even out of town.

A bumper sticker that makes you want to meet the person in that vehicle (draw or write contents below and explain why): Nope. The only bumper stickers we saw made us not want to meet the folks.

A chainsaw sculpture (describe or draw):

Dick and Jane’s Spot, Ellensburg WA.

Someone making a face at you as you pass (you are allowed to encourage this): No, you are not allowed to encourage this. Have you never heard of road rage??

A fruit stand selling what is clearly imported fruit or Atlantic seafood: Nope.

Someone with a foot out the window: Nope.

A dog with it’s head out the window (dogs in the back of pick-ups don’t count): Nope.

A license plate from a southern or eastern state: Lots of plates from Florida. Mostly people pulling big trailers.

An advertising sign that has been modified Draw or photo, please: Nope.

A naked person:

Shaboobie Boobarella (do pasties count?)

A crying child: Nope.

A tandem or recumbent bicycle or unicycle: I’m not even sure what a recumbent bicycle is, but G says we saw one in Vancouver.

Something written with rocks or flowers: A few. City names I think. Kamloops maybe?

A motel or restaurant that advertises that they speak another language. Name language: Nope.

A building or sculpture made of a nontraditional material:

Lego bust of William Shatner. Calgary AB.

A business with a “humourous” name:

We thought this sign was pretty hilarious. G kept going on and on about “a bag of Dicks.” Spokane WA.

An advertisement or business offering a “senior” benefit to people who are not yet 65; the younger the better: Nope.

People in a river: Yes, somewhere in Washington, I think.

Someone doing something at least moderately dangerous. Illustrate or describe: I have a pretty low risk tolerance, so I think highway driving is risky.

A camper, trailer or vehicle with old national park stickers on it: Nope.

A hitch-hiker with a cardboard sign telling you where they are going: I think we saw one hitchhiker, total. No sign.

A ‘Baby on Board’ sign: Nope.

A car/truck accessory with that naked lady sillouhette: G says he saw one.

An item beside the road, out back of a business or by the garbage that you would pick up if you weren’t on holidays: Ewww!

Record Cover of the Week

Diana Dors: Swinging Dors

1960 album by Britain’s blonde bombshell. Sweet, swinging, sultry versions of The Gentleman is a Dope, Come By Sunday, Imagination, Crazy He Calls Me and others. G thinks she looks like Scarlett Johanson on the back cover: