Chi.

|January 24, 2013 | Found Images

This.

FL

|January 23, 2013 | Photos By J.Yuenger, Travels

GPOYW

|January 23, 2013 | Photos Of J.Yuenger

A. keeps on freaking me out by posting photos of me that I never knew existed. This is Flipper, playing at Club C.O.D. in Chicago, April 1982. I loved Flipper, and two years after this, I actually got to open for them. The kid in the striped shirt is A., and the kid next to him, with the leather jacket with the pins on it, right underneath Will Shatter’s bass, that’s me. MCI took this.

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|January 22, 2013 | Found Images

November, 1982. Richard Guillis.

Various And Sundry

|January 19, 2013 | Various And Sundry

* ” Derided as witlessly negative when they first appeared, Black Sabbath were so simultaneously weird, hurt, and powerful that millions of people drank their essence to the dregs, and neither the band, nor their record label, nor the few critics of the time who loved them could ever really articulate why. “

* ” The Battle of Cold Harbor was in May and June of 1864.  It’s interesting that scavengers and insects defleshed the skulls in less than a year. “

* So long, brick-and-mortar.

* Bristol is a mean, mean town. ( Criminal Wisdom showed it )

* Except for the fact that they let me stay onboard during the stops on the freezing overnight Yangon-Mandalay ride, this well-written account describes bus travel in Myanmar almost exactly as I experienced it.

* More things which English has no word for. ” Backpfeifengesicht “, ( ” a face badly in need of a fist ” ) for example.

* This guy was exposed to all the new stuff at once. Think about what that must be like.

* ” It’s beyond thinking, actually “. Another Green World, yet another documentary about Brian Eno. This one’s particularly good, but if there are a thousand more, I’ll watch a thousand more. There are so many great quotes in this one ( ” I was always impressed by music that I couldn’t penetrate the mystery of “ ), and you can hear him singing Buddy Holly. And then, 53:15 to 54:18, he sums up, with total accuracy, what music is to young people in 2013. My man.

* Something else I found through Criminal Wisdom : The largest collection of vintage Chinese ( and Japanese military ) execution  postcards I have ever seen. The beheadings go on and on.

* Here’s something I didn’t know myself until I consulted with a surgeon about the planned operation to chisel some bone out of the inside of my skull so I could actually breathe through my nose ( it worked, sort of ).

* ” She ran in the bathroom and puked, and puked, and puked, and I sat there and I said, ‘I told you so, baby, I told you so’, and I went to the refrigerator, got a beer — I felt better, you know “. Watch Bukowski’s worst hangover.

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|January 18, 2013 | Captchas

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|January 17, 2013 | Found Images

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|January 17, 2013 | Found Images

A tintype, from the collection of Frank Suvari.

The Lonely Metropolitan

|January 16, 2013 | Found Images

Herbert Bayer.

GPOYW

|January 16, 2013 | Photos Of J.Yuenger

Chicago, March 1983. MCI took it, A. posted it. That’s Barry, and Steve, and me on the right, doing a 360 or whatever.

Thinkin’ About The U•S•A

|January 16, 2013 | Found Images

U Bein

|January 15, 2013 | Asia, Photos By J.Yuenger, Travels

Sorry, I haven’t had much time to spend here. I’ve been in places where there isn’t much internets, or riding in a bus all day, or going to see stuff like this. I walked from one end to the other and back. Every so often there’s a person selling owls, the idea being that you buy one and release it. It’s said that the owls are trained to come right back to the owl-sellers after a little bit of being set free. ( a new sight : owls huddled together in wire cages – also, I don’t imagine I’ve ever yet in my life said ” owl-seller ” )

” Amarapura is a former capital of Myanmar, and now a township of Mandalay. Amarapura is bounded by the Ayeyarwady river in the west, Chanmyathazi township in the north, and the city of Innwa in the south. Amarapura was the capital of Myanmar for three discrete periods during the Konbaung dynasty in the 18th and 19th centuries, before being finally supplanted by Mandalay 11KM north in 1857. “

” The U Bein Bridge is a 1.2KM wooden footbridge ( the longest teak bridge in the world ) and was built in the mid-19th century by the mayor U Bein, salvaging the unwanted teak columns from the old palace during the move to Mandalay. The bridge still serves as the most important communication link for the people of his villages. “

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|January 12, 2013 | Captchas

That’s Pretty Much It

|January 11, 2013 | Stuffs

It’s interesting that the quality of certain things, things you’d naturally assume would get better as we jet into the future, has actually declined. For example, you can’t fly as fast as you could in the 1970s, because they had The Concorde then. And if you could go back in time and spy on yourself and your friends listening to music as kids, back when everybody had stereo systems, I think you’d be shocked at how good it sounded. People come over to my house to check out their mixes and test-pressings a lot, because I’m the only person they know who has an actual stereo. Have you talked on a land-line phone recently? It’s a freaky experience.

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|January 11, 2013 | Found Images

I See A Guy

|January 10, 2013 | Asia, Photos By J.Yuenger, Travels, White Zombie

Yangon, Myanmar. I said ” OH SHIT! “ pretty loud. This is a big, noisy city, so nobody heard. I would have been too shy ten years ago, but not now, and , anyway, I look like a big scary Viking to these people. I roll up and start taking pictures of this guy, who is, of course, completely mystified. ( Look at the dude. I’m sorry, dude. )

I just got here last night, and I haven’t even learned to say ” thank you ” or ” can I have the bill, please? ” in Burmese, so, after I’d taken a couple of photos, I pointed at his shirt, and then I pointed at myself, and I said, ” that’s me, that’s my band ” in English. It was all I could do, and I knew he wouldn’t understand, and I knew there was no way to explain it. He looked around at all the other people cooking on the street and laughed and shrugged. It would be cool if he had one of the albums and looked at it tonight and said, ” Oh “.

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|January 9, 2013 | Asia, Photos By J.Yuenger, Travels

Yangon, Myanmar. ( if you’re thinking about old-timey times, that’s Rangoon, Burma. )

The city’s full of beautiful old colonial buildings, and this is the first Victorian Buddhist temple I’ve ever seen.

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|January 9, 2013 | Captchas

K–RK

|January 8, 2013 | Found Images

DB

|January 8, 2013 | Video

He is out of his fucking mind, and constantly worried that he still has blow on his nose ( or that his nose might simply fall off ), but, still, they do not make rock stars like this anymore.