I spent a little time in the garage today, and was rewarded with a bunch of nifty discoveries, so I thought I'd share pictures of a few of them. All of these images can be clicked to embiggen them at Flickr, where you can learn more about them:
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hehehe hehe hahaha haha đ
Holy god. That same Pac Man album is sitting in my closet, right now.
BWAAAA!~!!! Scott Grimes! God, I used to have such a thing for him back in the day. #SHAME
Dude, your garage rocks.
you had me right up to the Brady Bunch. I mean Dude…I watched ’em but I never BOUGHT anything with them on it. đ
I only ever find cobwebs and chipmunk nests in my garage. I think I’m doing something wrong.
Christmas with the Brady Bunch?
Oh dear Wil, serious 2d3 damage to your coolness points.
/me hides his early albums. Haddaway, get-outta-way.
Wow. A single issue of Watchmen, bagged and boarded. A sure sign of old age. (I have them all, actually bought as they came out, in the days before the innernettubes.)
I have the same Pacman album (opened, though) and Scott Grimes cd. Actually – I’ve got Scott’s on both cassette and cd. Hee!
I’m gonna have to admit that when I took a look at the twitter pic from my droid, I thought it said “Christmas Witch, the Brady Bunch” which I thought was a tape that was either the Brady parents telling the children a story about the ‘Christmas Witch’ or a story of The Brady Bunch themselves having to save Christmas from the titular Christmas Witch (both versions of course containing plenty of traditional and new Brady Bunch Christmas songs).
I am slightly sadder now to see that it was simply “with” the Brady Bunch and that my crazy idea last night in fact doesn’t exist and would have been significantly cooler in comparison.
Dusted the cobwebs off of a few things last year myself… Mutant Enemy Softball Jersey from working on Angel, Clive Barker signed Tapping the Vein and Hellraiser comics. Let me know when you are having a garage sale. I’ll bring them over.
Is that the same one with “Do the Donkey Kong” and
“Froggie’s Lament”?
Oh wait, I think that was Pac Man Fever.
RE: Happy Accident on Dancing Barefoot pic
Happy Accident is the name of my Bob Ross velvet painting
Total Aside. A conversation which took place earlier between my youngest (11.5) and myself: Kid2: I’ve come to the conclusion that “Stand By Me” is, and will continue to be, the best movie of all time. Me: You’re a smart kid.
I think it is so cool that both my boys (oldest just turned 15 on the 8th) look up to you. Totally awesome that they have geeky role models outside of myself.
Your trip to your garage has yet again reminded me that I’m not a teen any longer.
This isn't Pac-Man fever. Based on the track listing, it's more of an actual story record with original songs from 1980.
Love the editorial note “That was funny?” I use to do a lot of editorial work for doctors and I know the feeling behind those pen strokes.
Yeah, it’s sort of like the Irwin The Dynamic Duck kids albums that came out in the 1970’s and 80’s, that had a basic adventure story tied together with kids’ cover versions of popular songs.
What’s funny is that it never uses the actual Pac-Man theme. It’s not connected to the animated series either.
So is it cannon? This is important business, Bobby The Mat.
nice memory trip while cleaning! I love doing that every now and then…and always surprise myself as to what I’ve saved. I can only imagine the conversations I might have with my kids someday.
So I have to ask…did you ever save any of the fan mail you got back in the day?
Wow, is that your handwriting on the manuscript? You have fantastic handwriting!
It was so overwhelming back then, we'd read it, answer it as best as we could, and recycle it.
Who can say for sure?
But let’s listen to the evidence. Ladies and gentlemen, Blinky and The Creepy Pedophile Singers:
Is that a script from The Tempest underneath Watchmen #9? Shakespeare geek!Liz is freaking out.
You win all the internets and are hereby proclaimed King Nerd (compliment, not sarcasm, I swear)
good god, the hairs on the back of my neck stood up. for serious. #creepy
Oooh, thanks for opening some floodgates of memory. đ
Brady Bunch Christmas nearly as great as the Star Wars Christmas album. Nearly.
How much editing do you do on paper these days? Actually how much writing on paper in general?
(A) Gorgeous Watchmen cover.
(B) Best of Van Morrison = WIN, BIG-TIME.
That … that is … I mean, that is just … AWESOME.
(and very, very wrong)
Actually, yes, it is! I was Ferdinand in that performance, which was a staged reading at the Pasadena Playhouse.
Yeah. My inner child just instinctively backed away.
I'm not entirely sure, but the audio fidelity gave me the impression that they recorded that track in a windowless white van.
I’d say well-played on your part for not opening it.
Wowee, Wil! I don’t even know what half of this stuff is, but, quite obviously, you’ve found a treasure trove. What’re you going to do with it all?
In other news (just up a few minutes ago), the new Garfunkle & Oates song references both Pac Man and YOU.
Coincidence? You might say “plate,” “shrimp,” or “plate of shrimp.”
I totally had both the Pac Man record, and the Scott Grimes on tape not cd. Loved his cover of You’ve Got A Friend!!
I blame society.
You’re a white suburban punk, just like me.
Wow, good eye! đ
Wow! Talk about a blast from the past! Those are SO cool! They sure bring back a lot of memories!!! đ
Step away from the hoard!
What a find. What do you plan on doing with all these rediscovered memories?
Nice finds!
Hey Wil, I got excited and made something:
I had been writing an in character diary for our epic Call of Cthulhu campaign on my livejournal and when it was done, I pulled all the entries into one formatted document which is available as a PDF here or for reading online here.
I even had a book printed of it as a thank you for the GM.
Scott Grimes did an album??? Dude!
This is precisely why I am so reluctant to chuck out my crap, even though it kills me every time I move house (which is approx once a year). It’s just too much fun to find all that time-travel-in-a-box. I think I still have some East German coins floating around somewhere…
Oh, sweet Gott in Himmel. Love the Scott Grimes CD. I had a crush on his freckles. Still do. I was quite distracted watching “Band of Brothers.” Why did Mr. Wheaton not put out an album-or did he and I missed it? Getting back to the Scott Grimes CD, was there a duet with Alyssa Milano? She my confusing, pubescent, asexual girl crush. That was probably TMI. No more coffee for me this morning.
Wow. Looking at that series of photos is like looking at one man’s slow, inevitable collapse into utter insanity.
Check out all the great Dr. Seuss books! One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
Wow! Talk about a blast from the past! Those are SO cool! They sure bring back a lot of memories!!! đ
Um. The wrongness of that song is boundless. *and*? now it is stuck in my head. I blame you and this blog. Now I’m going to have to go listen to the song by Cee Lo Green. At least that reference to Atari doesn’t want to make me tear out my earlobes with my teeth. It weirdly wants to make me dance around my office…
*lol*
Oh my dear lord.
That Watchmen book looks pretty damned sweet – still one of my favourite graphic novels of all time. Insteresting cover though – I’ve never seen that one before.