New Mainstream! And other good stuff...

Well, I've decided to start up "The Mainstream" again! It'll be up around 8 tomorrow night on www.themainstreamshow.blogspot.com . Also, I've recently re-discovered my love for Scooby-Doo. When I was a wee little tike, I watched every episode of the first three incarnations of the show, and A Pup Named Scooby-Doo!. I think what I loved most about it was the chase songs, my favorite of which being "Tell Me, Tell Me" from the episode "Who's Afraid Of The Big, Bad Werewolf?".

Also, I'd like to thank "The New Scooby-Doo Movies" for introducing me to Phyllis Diller, Don Adams, Don Knotts, Jerry Reed, and Cass Elliot. Speaking of Don Knotts, I had a really strange dream last night in which Michael Richards starred along side Don Knotts and Andy Griffith in "The Andy Griffith Show". Oh, yeah, and Jack Soo was there.

Streamline Moderne - It's Aerodynamic!

Wow, two posts in one day! What the hell is wrong with me? Anyways, I've just realized two new obsessions of mine. One: Streamline Moderne. Streamline Moderne was a type of Art Deco art style that was prominent in furniture and architecture. I discovered it while looking up facts I could slip in to an ode about a toaster I'm writing.

A Streamline Moderne Diner

The 1951 Buick LeSabre - Arguably the coolest

Streamline Moderne automobile ever sold

... and last, but certainly not least, that shiny, chrome,

Streamline Moderne toaster that I think everyone has

owned at least once in their life

The second thing that I am now obsessed with is the color Cosmic Latte. 'What is Cosmic Latte?' you may ask. Well, you foolish naïf, Cosmic Latte is the color of the universe. WHAT? THE COLOR OF THE UNIVERSE?! That's right. Apparently, some nerds over at Johns Hopkins took a survey and found out the colors of over 200,000 galaxies and averaged them out on the color spectrum. In other words, they took a bunch of paints, mixed them in a bucket and ended up with one color! But seriously, all joking aside, they ended up with a creamy, off-white color and sent in a poll to the Washington Post to see what the name should be. Some guy read it while he was at Starbucks (I'm assuming he was wearing a scarf and typing Blank Verse poetry on his Gateway laptop, too) and noticed it was the color of his latte. He sent in his suggestion for the color's name - Cosmic Latte - and ended up winning! Thank you, Mr. Hipster*, you've done the scientific community proud.

Cosmic Latte!

Also a Cosmic Latte!

*Actually, the guy's name was Peter Drum

My First Video

Well, shucky darn! It seems to me that I haven't posted on this here blog in quite a while. Luckily, due to a recent blog craze and newfound artistic inspiration, I've decided to start posting again! To kick off my return, I've got a new video on YouTube that I spent virtually no time on:

Test run

Test run.

Well, Shucky Darn!

Hey, sorry I haven't posted in a while, but I've been busy having a life. Ah, I'm just kidding, I don't have a life! But what I do have are a whole bunch of new CD's and junk, not to mention a new repertoire of novelty songs for the show. I went and visited with that bald guy who keeps following me around, and we headed over to Amoeba, The Pasadena Swap Meet, and Penny Lane Records, and I really made out like a bandit. I'm serious, for 50 bucks, I got Brain Salad Surgery, Nirvana: Unplugged In New York, Weezer (The Red Album), Bitches Brew, Marquee Moon, Station To Station, VU, Muswell Hillbillies, Village Green Preservation Society, The Pros And Cons of Hitch Hiking, a 2001: A Space Odyssey movie poster, some buttons, and a pack of meat stickers. Well, shucky darn! And if you haven't heard of any the albums I previously listed, well then too bad for you. Here's a sneak-peek of what you can expect from the next Mainstream episode:

Now isn't that wonderful! Hopefully I'll post tomorrow or the day after, so until then... uh, bye.

Pet Sounds and Stereo System

Hey, I'm back! I went to Orphaned CD's for the first time since I got back and I suddenly came to the realization that they're good if you're randomly walking in there to browse, but if you're looking for something specific they have absolutely NOTHING! I went in there with the hopes of finding Bitches Brew, Apostrophe, and The Red Album, but their selection was extremely weak. Strangely enough, I did end up coming out of there with Stunt, Birth of The Cool, and The Pet Sounds Sessions 4-disc Set (the latter for $11.99, I might add!) and I was really pleased. The moral of the story is: If you go into Orphaned CD's, don't expect to find what you're looking, but expect to find something cheaper and almost as good. Speaking of music (isn't that what I'm almost always apeaking about?), I have finally gotten a shelf dedicated to my CD's, Vinyl, Record Player, and Stereo, so I'm going to spend the ret of the day organizing all my musical stuff-osity. And to end today's wonderful blog, I will post a beautiful picture of the greatest children's book of all time:

The Mainstream: Episode 1

Hey, the first episode of The Mainstream is up! Download it right here:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=B8MM12RZ

Sorry I didn't download it right away like I promised, but it was an early morning, and I have bigger things to worry about than you. Also, sorry about not naming it or anything (you'll see what I'm talking about when you download it), but I'm an amateur. Hope you like it!