cd tip : not the same old song

this month the Dutch record label Excelsior released a cd with tv tunes from the past called televisie tijd! (television time!)
wow, that brings back happy memories of wednesday afternoons and saturdays, the only times there were childrens programs on tv over here untill the eighties or so
flipper, ivanhoe, ti-ta tovenaar, pipi langkous, stuif es in, calimero ... it's all there!
still, the highlight of the Excelsior catalog remains Congo Jazz from last year:
infectious 78rpm recordings from African jazz combo's collected by the fantastic 
dj Blue Flamingo - Mississippi Records couldn't have done it better
good to know: Blue Famingo is in Africa right now, searching for new old sounds ...

justify my love

it's spooky how much a dog and it's owner look like each other sometimes 
here we have another curious couple: ain't the girl the spitting image of her llama?
she says her woolly friend makes very good company

but that was boring 1964 of course, when a girl didn't have records like je t'aime 
moi non plus, love to love you baby or justify my love to get down on the floor with

exhibition tip : Vincent Mentzel photographs

Coming up: a beautiful exhibition in Kunsthal Rotterdam titled 'Het oog van Nederland'. On show are pictures by the famous Dutch photojournalist Vincent Mentzel, who made quite a bunch of very intriguing portraits in his 40 year carreer. Like this one of rock 'n roll junkie Herman Brood and Amsterdam folk singer Andre Hazes from 1983. There are also fantastic portraits of Audrey Hepburn, Mohammed Ali and Daan van Golden, to name a few others.
march 5 - june 13, www.kunsthal.nl  

what made my hamburger disappear?

what a gorgeous picture! the composition is really amazing

feminists might be not too happy with the sexist header though: steak, a man's job

but things in this modern 1958 house are much worse in fact

notice how the grown-ups in the background are sitting in comfortable chairs

while the young lady is positioned slightly lower on an ottoman

but then the boy: his place is on the floor with the dog!

he has to fight with the beast over the leftovers thrown in their direction

because let's count: there are 8 people and only 7 of those mouth watering steaks

why don't you kill yourself?

what did people do in the long, long evenings, like the ones of 1970, 

when they didn't have 1000 channels to watch on tv or computers with internet?

well, besides making lots of babies they had all sorts of creative hobbies

it is often said that those times were much more fun then ours

but why did they come up with such sad results then?

pablo picasso was never called an asshole

so in 1965 people bought a heater 
because it went so well with their art? 

who are you calling an asshole?

just can't get enough

developed in 1979: the best therapy ever for everyone who wants to quit smoking

if you want to try it, you'll find the instructions below (in Dutch)

heigh ho

this was called sporty fashion in 1964

we have to admit: the guy is a good sport to wear 

this ensemble his lady made for him