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This artist we’re bringing to you today has a wondrous sensibility to style and passion, cultivating his own hip pulse alongside Elvis himself. Rockabilly style sensationalism must be in the air, because we’re tripping off of this pretty-boys badass look.
Born 1940 to the name Ronald William Wycherley in Liverpool, England, where winning a talent show as a kid would lead to a life showcasing the goods he was born with. Born with an abundance of talent and a weak heart, he was destined to leave behind a big handprint.
Wycherley fronted his own group in 1955, but simultaneously worked full-time on a tugboat and later as a stevedore. By 1958 had started composing his own songs. When he was signed he was such an immediate success, new management would rename him ‘Billy Fury’.
However, his early sexual and provocative stage performances received censure, and he was forced to tone them down. But we have to attest, the world was changing in a big way, and sex is exactly what people wanted!
With a whiney twang, and a pouty quality to his style of sound, he is a forgotten idol of the changing pop culture through the 1950s.
Having spent decades making career choices based on health, and having to pass on many opportunities and tours, ‘Billy’ would be found on his hotel room floor in 1983.
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From the film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, which is directed by David Lynch and written by Lynch and Robert Engels , we bring you a small piece of the soundtrack, The Black Dog Runs at Night.
The iconic television series from the 90s, Twin Peaks, was cut short during it’s second season due to fleeting ratings. Though not short of fanfare, this sequel/prequel film was released in 1992 to cap off storyline established during the shows run.
Attempting to wrap up the story of the small lumbering town in the woods would prove to miss the mark by certain standards. With several actors unwilling to reprise pivotal roles, and a mixed up story line consisting of flashbacks, and leaps ahead in time, mainstream audiences had trouble wrapping their heads around the movie at the time of it’s release.
But die hard fan’s of the franchise will tell you this film is not to be missed! Not only was the show great during its run, but this retelling of key events in the series gave the Twin Peaks fan’s a taste of what they so craved; closure!
With Halloween in the air, we are cultivating a mood not only for ourselves, but for you our readership! Special thanks to domtakis for his comment on a previous story and bringing our attention to this one-off track from the movies soundtrack.
With effective lyrics by David Lynch himself, and music by Angelo Badalamenti, we appreciate the cool and eerie tone of such a short piece. Like all of Lynch’s work, this really packs a punch! Devilishly effective, and all together quite creepy, we love this!
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If you’ve ever had the pleasure of staying at a Howard Johnson, you undoubtedly recognize that sense of comfort you automatically feel when you hear the ring of that iconic name.
Created in 1925 by Howard Johnson himself, a $2,000 loan would help open a small drugstore/soda shop. The quick thinking entrepreneur would soon find huge success with ice cream recipes developed by Johnson himself that would catapult the Howard Johnson name to the tips of the tongues of America.
From ice cream, the Howard Johnson name soon founded restaurants all across the United States, becoming the largest restaurant chain in America. Furthering their name in American comfort and charm, the brand soon began opening Howard Johnson hotels all across the highways of America.
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This week’s episode of Mad Men capitalizes on this icon of nostalgia. When Megan and Don Draper find themselves at a Howard Johnson restaurant and all of it’s kitschy retro glory, ironically the famous ice cream doesn’t sit well with uber-current and cultured Megan.
She finds the orange sherbert tastes like perfume. Don thinks “What does she know?!”, and get’s weirdly defensive. Poor guy. It’s easy to see Don’s obsession with it all.
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A character like Don, who’s every fiber of being is his success with marketing, can’t NOT believe in this world. Howard Johnson epitomizes everything that is true America.
An every man’s fateful success story, Howard Johnson epitomizes this American Dream. A dream so many men, including Don, find themselves mindlessly chasing at the expense of those closest to them in their lives.
Is it worth it? Just ask Don.
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Before Kermit was green, America was still seeing in black and white! Check out this collection of Wilkins Coffee Commercials that may mark the beginning of the worlds love for Jim Hensons‘ Muppets. From 1957 to 1961, Henson made 179 commercials for the company.
Very humble beginnings for the great Mr. Henson. We wonder if he had any clue what he would go on to achieve. Shout out to Pickachu4352 for the vid.
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The glamour, the fashion, the fame! The lives of the rich and famous sure seems fabulous, but it seems clear to us there is a lot of pressure once you’re on top. Everybody else is doing it… you may think it would help you network, or maybe feel more relaxed. But when it comes down to it, there are too many ‘yes men’ in this alienating industry. It’s no surprise that substance abuse, be it alcohol or chemical, has become far too prevalent in our time. But pop that pill! If it’s perscribed, it must mean that it’s tailor made for your condition… whatever that condition may be, right?
We want to take you back to a time of “female hysteria” in the early 1900’s, when women were not only condemned as being over emotional and erratic, but the most plausible solution is that these women had cravings their husbands were not fulfilling. So naturally the cure for a over hyped women’s libido was to get ‘some’. Now, its the ‘what’ of the ‘some’ you may be asking, will she ‘get’?? Well, back in the day, the good doctor only needed his own two hands, maybe even just a finger, to help satisfy a women’s cravings. This was the logic then, though most doctors are less hands on today.
Now we look back on this with a horrendous idea of what our society was, but the reality is, it was not too long ago!! These women trusted their doctors, who of course are educating themselves daily, constantly learning new techniques, and being fed tactics from ‘higher up’ declaring the latest craze to hit the medical world. Be it a snake acid injected into the skin to help alleviate age, penicillin, or some kind of sedative promised to kill or calm whatever isnt letting you ‘feel good’ so you can feel a hell of a lot better feeling nothing at all!
Anxiety and depression are curable with a pill, if you live in North America. Yet astonishingly in poorer nations where water and food is a luxury, the population riddled with anxiety doesn’t seem to exist. We’re so distracted by our worlds innovations, we’re loosing the concept of finding simple joy.
We all have witnessed someone we love battle with their own content. We are bombarded by countless pressures telling us that what we have isn’t enough. Whether it’s the stresses of our mundane work day, or a quiet ambition driving us to be the perfect version of ourselves, we have become brainwashed to believe that it’s wrong to be unhappy.
In truth, its the up’s and downs of our lives which give us humility. But answers are handed out far too quickly in the form of a prescription. Sure seems like the best remedy for a mild case of celebrity is some kind of a numbing pain killer.
The influence of our prescription bound society is not only evident through tragedy but also found in modern art works. Back in 2002, Lullaby Spring, a humungous display of 6136 hand painted pills by Damien Hirst recently sold for whopping 22.8 Million Dollars. More recently, we can find work by Beverly Fishman, where pill play has a major role in the efficacy of the Art piece called “Pill Spill“.
We are not suggesting a complete rebellion against the North American healthcare system (necessarily), but we do suggest readers look deeper than their prescription slip. Often if investigated, the ‘discovery’ or ‘root’ of so many modern ailments, are shrouded in as much mystery as the illness itself. It’s disheartening to think that a system which is structured to take care of us, is actually striking fear into us, and draining us of all logic and dollars.
Ingesting something synthetic asking for a cure will not save us, we must embrace what is true to our experiences as we go through them. Trust that tomorrow will be a brand new day.
R.I.P. We love you Whitney.
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