Zebra At Your Car Window Day
20 September 2010
Nostalgia is a wave function sort of thing. Time appears to move forward continuously, and nostalgia is always cresting about a generation behind Time's leading edge.
No, really.
Okay, in my teenage years, these were the albums that were in virtually everyone's house:
one early Elton, MADMAN or TUMBLWEED or (increasingly over the years) GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD.
ditto one early Cat Stevens, usually TILLERMAN or TEASER, occasionally CATCH BULL.
Carole King's TAPESTRY
WOODSTOCK
The Who, TOMMY.
Some Beatles, at least SGT. PEPPER or ABBEY ROAD.
Some Stones, often HOT ROCKS.
James Taylor, SWEET BABY JAMES
first CS&N, or DEJA VU
LED ZEPPELIN II or IV
Most were in every house that had a stereo. Even my friends who were "too hip" — their parents had 'em. This was the portfolio of the average guy or gal, weighted more to the Zeppelin side for guys and the Cat Stevens side for girls.
Okay, kids, Zebra At Your Car Window Day is finally here! Celebrate accordingly, be safe, but have fun!
All right, you ladies of the 1970s. You know who you are. And you had this album, because I saw it in nearly all your rooms and sat and listened to it with you in half of them. So I heard "Moonshadow" pretty much as many times as you did. And I still have a little soft spot for those Teaser and the Firecat years.
Teaser And The Firecat
www.youtube.com
1971, trippy animated short film to promote the album by Cat Stevens. Enjoy.
19 September 2010
"As you were, I was. As I am, you will be."
I'd like to sleep for a month straight. Not because I'm so tired, but just because I'd like a long vacation from the demands of reality. I'd like to think differently for a bit. If I can't have that, I'd settle for napping underwater. Or in space.
This is by Walangarri Karntawarra, a painter of the new generation of Australian Aboriginal artists (meaning those who never lived full-time in the bush.) I like this a lot. What's interesting to me is how he uses themes and styles from his parents' generation's work but also modernizes.
