Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Ride Forever - Leslie Nielsen (February 11, 1926 – November 28, 2010)

This is a grouse song from one of my favourite episodes of the Due South TV series and includes a little bit of lesser-known Leslie Nielsen as Sgt Buck Frobisher.
Apparently Leslie only appeared in 4 episodes. I was sure it was more.
I was bloody sad when I heard he'd died.
Ride forever, Leslie.

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Ahh, Southern California...

Ahh, Southern California... beautiful one day, covered in bloody oil wells the next.
Long Beach oil field, California, May 1923.
Move the mouse over the photo to pause or change direction, or click on it to view full size.

Saturday, November 27, 2010

Johnny Cash - Johnny 99

In 1983 Johnny Cash released the album Johnny 99. On it were 2 songs written by Bruce Springsteen. Highway Patrol Man and the title track, Johnny 99. Grouse cover photo, too.


More info and full track listing at Amazon.com

Friday, November 26, 2010

'54 Chevy Nomad

The 1954 Chevrolet Corvette Nomad was a concept car built by General Motors and introduced at the 1954 General Motors Motorama in New York City. It was based on the 1953 Corvette. General Motors produced 5 of the 1954 Chevy Nomads for the auto show circuit. Only 3 are known to still exist.

This guy decided to build his own...

Via www.54classicchevy.com, www.netcarshow.com, www.automotivetraveler.com and www.trifive.com

Thursday, November 25, 2010

The Intelligence of Crows

I'll never look at crows the same way again.

Via TED.com

Friday, November 19, 2010

Spike Jonze short film for Arcade Fire's "The Suburbs"

The video for the title track from Arcade Fire's August 2010 album "The Suburbs" was shot in Austin, Texas and directed by Spike Jonze. UNCUT magazine said the album was "nostalgic, with a sense of future dread". I'd use the same words to describe this video.

This is the full 30 minute short film "Scenes from the Suburbs" by Spike Jonze.

Via Pitchfork, Gorilla vs. Bear and Vimeo.

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Hubless Chopper

Pretty wild.

Click here for more info.

Monday, November 15, 2010

‘55 Chevys - short ‘n’ sweet

A-1 Pro Street

1000hp

Bad ‘55

Sunday, November 14, 2010

‘63 Chevy Nova SS 1000hp

You’ll tell me when this 1000hp thing gets boring, yeah?

Sunday, November 14, 2010

‘65 Dodge Coronet 1000hp

Continuing the 1000hp theme…

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Rocket II Trike

‘Nuff said.

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Show 'em the road

Cars, kids, cops, cruisin. Kinda daggy but cool, too. I had a big smile watching it. Even got a tad misty at times.

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Honda Rune

I’m all alone on this one, aren’t I… (no pun intended and no irony lost)

Memorable Motorcycles: Honda Rune

Friday, November 12, 2010

Route 22

There's something about road songs. This one’s a good little rocker.

Wednesday, November 03, 2010

In Dreams

Had a dream about Kate Moss last night. She wasn’t a model. She’d written a computer program for kids and I was helping her polish it up for sale. Pretty soon we started going out and seeing a lot of each other. It was perfect for a while. But at some point I got too needy or jealous. I could see the end coming. I was sad about that. Oh well.


Roy Orbison, In Dreams at Amazon