Glam Racket Vintage

I like old stuff: etsy.com/GlamRacket

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Steve Marriott

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Where'dja get all those cats, Steve Marriott?

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I've been playing guitar a lot lately (and the shop, though slowed down a bit, does have a few new listings!) Listening to my favorite guitar players inspires me to get better. I'm in an ensemble class where we're playing selections from Television's Marquee Moon, one of my favorite albums. So speaking of...

Richard Lloyd

I'm having like a spiritual thing with Richard Lloyd since starting this Television ensemble. 

John Squire

And may I make an observation unrelated to the guitar - John Squire has the best hair. It's glorious. He's 50, I think. Look!

Bob Stinson

Jennifer Pearl

I couldn't find a good picture of her playing guitar, so here's a regular cool picture of her. She's played guitar in Lost Kids, Lion Fever, and VUM to name a few. She wails! 

Dexter Romweber

The Flat Duo Jets are my favorite band that I've started listening to in the past couple of years. God they're so good. Dexter is truly a portal. This is a fun quote:

And that drunken shout bubbled up between songs again: "We love you, Dex!" "But I can't take you home with me," he purred from the stage, eyeing the mesmerized faces. "But ya know, lotsa women wanna marry me, but I'm only married to one thing." His purr turned to a snarl. "I'm married to Death!" He kicked into "Cigarette Party," a sinister surfy instro from the new album.

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An on-leave serviceman and his date take a break from a dance at Fullerton Beach, 1943, Chicago.

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This beautiful lady reminds me of Barbara Stanwyck.

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The Three Degrees 

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good argument for bell bottoms

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Happy Birthday-uh to Mark E. Smith, who turns 56 today! 

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Happy birthday to my favorite songwriter and cat person, Mark E. Smith!

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Crushed green velvet walls… 1970s living room design.

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8-O

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Dolly Parton

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Goddess

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Pisces Return

Today, February 20th, the beginning of Pisces Season, I would like to commemorate the birthday of some of my very favorite Pisceans:

Joel Hodgson, my forever imaginary boyfriend (53 today)

Ian Brown, my previous imaginary boyfriend, in his famous money shirt with beautiful Manchester as the backdrop (50 today)

Poison Ivy, icy guitarist for The Cramps (60 today)

Hat tip to Kurt Cobain, Charles Barkley and George Washington, for the music/being the round mound of rebound/founding the country and shit, respectively.

[mrdingo]

Miss Sausage Queen, 1955.

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Gaga's got nothing on this broad.

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Lil Kim - Big Momma Thang

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Let's remember the good times with Lil Kim...

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I am. I'm so pissed. (I don't know what this is about.)

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WHOA  Easy.

Not suitable for life

Easy there, Trebek.  

Easy.

Greg Johnson

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Utter bafflement. Nice glutes though, Trebek.

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You know how sometimes you slide down an Internet hole and start shopping for things you didn't know you wanted or needed? Cut to me searching for pink Minnetonka moccasins - the kind I wore as a child and as an early 20-something - only to find out that Minnetonka has discontinued any color that I might want, including pink, red and black (though they do offer three different shades of brown. Thanks guys.) I never wear pink except for these shoes. My last pair bit the dust sometime in 2005-ish. Now I'll have to scour etsy and ebay. Hmph.

This is more crushing than when I found out they stopped making Chandler's Assignment Notebooks.

Goodbye, old friends...

[bothkindsofmusic]

Zoe Muth - If I Can’t Trust You With A Quarter

Ladies, take this to heart. 

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It was cold Thursday night in January when I first met you at the bar. We’d been smoking our cigarettes with the heater on, listening to Elvis in my car. Well the place was pretty empty. I worked on my second rum and Pepsi, just longing for the sound of a sad country song. When you moved a little closer I had no intention of saying “no sir”, then you asked me for a quarter…that’s when it all went wrong.

Chorus:

You know I’m a jukebox honey, but I ain’t got much money. Said you had song that you wanted to hear so I gave my change to you. When I heard that jukebox start, I knew the cupid’s dart had missed its mark. If I can’t trust you with a quarter, how can I trust you with my heart? 

It was still another week ‘til payday and I had a big old pile of laundry to do. I’d been saving my quarters for a wash and dry, but like a fool I gave them all to you. Well they say a decent man is hard to find when your taste in music is as good as mine and I just could not ignore what I already knew. When you said that you’d never heard of John Prine, well I knew right away you weren’t worth my time. And I’m sorry to say hon before we’d begun, we were already through.

Chorus…

You can call me stubborn, you can call me a snob. You can even call me downright mean, but I’ve got the finest record collection that you’ve ever seen.

Chorus…

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New criteria for dating...

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Total Chicago Gal, 1966, Chicago.

Tracy Turnblad would be proud.

via Shindoo’s Flickr Stream

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