Watching, Reading, Listening (Four)

This month's Watching, Reading, Listening is a bit late, due to the flu. Anyway, let's jump right into it.

TV

Patrick McGoohan and Guy Doleman in The Prisoner

I'm finally getting back into The Prisoner and trying to finish it (in, at least, one of the many orders of viewing). I'm not sure why I never watched it earlier but better late than never, right?

Witches of East End

If I believed in guilty pleasures, Witches of East End would be my newest. I watched every aired episode in one day. But I don't believe in guilty pleasures. I LOVE trashy tv but I need some kind of supernatural element (or a mystery) to keep me interested. I'm not sure why. But it does mean that Witches of East End is perfect for me. So, if you like witches and silly, fun TV shows, I highly recommend it.

Movies

The Double, dir. Richard Ayaode, 2013

I think I've only been to the movies twice, this past month, to see Guardians of the Galaxy which I didn't enjoy and Snowpiercer which I loved. At first, I wasn't sure what to make of Snowpiercer but I got right into it and loved it. I also watched The Double at home, which I liked a lot. It has an interesting premise and is absolutely stunning to look at. I keep looking at Mia Wasikowska in the still above and wanting to cut my hair off. Argh. It does have similarities to older films (namely Brazil) but that's not necessarily a bad thing in my opinion.

Books

Operation Margarine by Katie Skelly

This little graphic novel is right up my alley. It's about a runaway rich girl, Margarine, who meets tough girl Bon Bon & the two escape to the desert on motorbikes. The '60s influences in terms of both story and design are evident. It's a very quick read (I wish there was a little more story but I also quite liked the simplicity, for lack of a better word). You can buy a copy here or here.

I also read the first volume of Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's Young Avengers. I can't wait 'til my library lets me know volume two and three are waiting for me. I don't usually read superhero stuff, because there's just too much, but I knew I liked Gillen & McKelvie's work so I thought this would be a pretty safe bet. (I've been loving The Wicked + Divine and I'm about to start Phonogram, too.)

Music

After seeing Grease on stage (I quite liked the current production) I couldn't stop listening to this recording of Those Magic Changes from the original Broadway production. It's such a great song and it's a pity it didn't get a proper showcase in the movie.

Watching, Reading, Listening (Three)

I was going to post the second part of my room tour, but then I realised it was time for another Watching, Reading, Listening post!

TV

My biggest TV obsession this past month was In the Flesh. I've watched it twice through, already, and I'm desperate for more. It's thoroughly beautiful and both heartbreaking and heartwarming. Yes, it's about zombies (Partially Deceased Syndrome Sufferers) but it's also quite political, in the big picture of the show, as well as being about prejudice, grief, family, community, friendship and, well, the human condition, I guess?

It's top quality writing with beautifully realised characters, a gorgeous soundtrack, etc. So of course a third series is not (yet, I hope) confirmed. Always seems to be the way with quality television, sadly. Of the genre variety, at least. You can check out my In the Flesh tag on tumblr (there are spoilers, obviously) for more of an idea, if you like. (If you don't want spoilers, definitely take a look at this post at least).

Other than that I watched the From Dusk Till Dawn series and re-watched Haven. I need a new show to sink my teeth into but I can be so picky!

Movies

I've only been to the cinema once this past month, I think, and that was to see Jersey Boys. (Above is a photo of what I wore to see it.) I found it bloated and slow, but it was enjoyable enough, especially once the songs actually started with frequency. I've seen a production of the stage show, too, so I was comparing it to that no matter how hard I tried not to.

Books

I haven't really been reading anything, lately. Embarrassing! Perhaps this next month I'll collect some links of what I've been reading online as well as books/comics - would anyone be interested in that? It would, at least, fill any voids in those months I've not been able to read any books.

Here are a couple of links I do remember reading:

"I Want to Talk About the Dresses": C.S. Lewis' That Hideous Strength at The Toast (I've actually only read the first book in this series but I still loved this article)

Best Feminist Films: An Essential List at Flavorwire (I've not really seen many of these! Must get on that.)

Music

I'd say I've mostly listened to The Raveonettes and Helen Love this past month. I can't believe I'd never heard of Helen Love before. So suited to my tastes.

Anyone else 'discovered' any new music or TV they're digging, lately?

Watching, Reading, Listening (Two)

Here's a snapshot of what I've been watching/reading/listening to in the past month for my second media roundup post.

TV

I've just finished re-watching Pushing Daisies...again. How I wish this show had just had one more season. I think that could have capped it off perfectly. Too much and it may have gone the road of so many other shows that inevitably jump the shark, but being cut short at just two seasons was such a terrible shame. Sigh. Of course, now I just want to dress like Lonely Tourist Charlotte Charles every day.

 

With only two episodes left of this series of Penny Dreadful I'm getting pretty excited! I don't want it to end but I want to see how it's all going to wrap up. I believe it's been renewed for a second series which only increases my excitement. I'd watch anything with Eva Green in it but I am thoroughly enjoying this show. I think it does a very good job of bringing various characters of Victorian stories to life and weaving their stories together in a believable way.

Speaking of excited, Teen Wolf starts again next week - I'm not sure if I'm ready for it! Eep.

Movies

I've been letting my movie watching fall behind but I did finally get around to seeing Maleficent. I really loved it. It's nice to see different kinds of 'true love' are being showcased in fairy tale movies, and I really liked Maleficent's character development. It wasn't perfect but I liked it a whole lot. I enjoyed the bits of humour injected into the film, mainly with Maleficent's dislike of/awkwardness toward children and the interactions between Maleficent and Diaval (Sam Riley). And the costumes are quite gorgeous. This write-up summarises some of the reasons I liked it so much.

Books

OK, this isn't a book, as such, and I'm not actually reading it (again) but my thesis is all bound! And in the baby pink I've been dreaming of all year. It was actually really exciting to pick these up. When I went in to get it done, I looked through the colour options and settled on a light blue. Luckily, I mentioned I really wanted pink because the man working there said 'well, we do have pink we just don't advertise it!' Apparently most people want a hot pink but it was my perfect pink and I was so happy.

In case you can't read the spine, the title of my thesis was 'Enigma, Anxiety and Artifice: Interrogating Feminine Identity in Contemporary Photographic & Filmic Portraiture'. Unfortunately none of these copies are for me. I have to save my pennies until I can afford a copy of my own.

I've also finally started making my way through this. I can't seem to concentrate on novels lately, but I seem to be doing OK with this book. I figured I should read some of the non-fiction books that have been sitting on my shelves for years and, as I'd attempted this before, started with this one. It's a very smooth read, so far - it's not dry like some other film books I've read in the past.

I'm not sure if I'll follow up with the other book on film noir that I have, or maybe delve into one of the art history texts I never really got around to reading when I was actually studying. Oops.

Music

Well, I've been listening to this and that, lately, but today I'm favouring Beyoncé again. I've mainly been listening to B'Day on repeat - such a great album. Get Me Bodied is probably my favourite song on the album and it sure doesn't hurt that this amazing video is inspired by my favourite scene in Sweet Charity. The dancing in the music video is so impressive but, then, when is Beyoncé's dancing not impressive?

And, of course, it's always a delight to revisit this perfect video.

Oh, and my blog is now on Facebook! Let's hope I remember to use the page regularly.

What have you been watching/reading/listening to lately?

Watching, Reading, Listening (One)

Thank-you to everyone who commented on my last post. 

I'm not 100% sure I explained myself properly but thank-you, nonetheless. I've been working on a new layout but I'm still thinking about the colours, so it's not ready yet. I've also been working on some other things that have distracted me from this blog - nothing much, just time consuming for me.

One idea I've had is to do a post roughly once a month on what I've been consuming lately, media-wise. A little roundup. For now, I'll stick to TV, movies, books and music. I spent all day trying to think of this title, by the way.

TV

A friend asked me if I watch Death in Paradise because she wanted someone to talk with about the latest episode she'd seen (her exact words were 'flail over' - we flail over TV a lot, together). I hadn't been watching but decided to look it up, and I'm so glad I did. 

It's a lot of fun and quite lighthearted (so far - I'm only halfway through series two and I suspect more feelings are going to be involved soon). 

It's set on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint Marie, and relies a lot on jokes about the lead English detective not acclimatising to life there. But the characters are great, especially Camille (pictured), who I just love.

Even though I'm pretty easy to please when it comes to murder mysteries/detective shows, I'd definitely recommend this if you like detective shows. 

Movies

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders

Last week I spent all Saturday in bed watching Russian and Czech movies from the 1970s, namely two adaptations of The Little Mermaid, both from 1976, and Valerie and her Week of Wonders. 

The Czech version of The Little Mermaid had these stunning 'underwater' sequences that were all filmed in a quarry but using lighting and movement and colour there was this real sense of it actually being underwater. It stuck a little closer to the original tale of The Little Mermaid, especially in its ending where the mermaid dissolves into sea foam. The Russian version deviated quite a bit but was also very beautiful. 

I felt like I probably missed a lot of the meaning of Valerie and her Week of Wonders (although I definitely got the Alice in Wonderland stuff) as I usually feel with surrealist work but I enjoyed it, nonetheless. It's beautiful and strange, two things I always appreciate in a movie. 

Before that I was going through some of Michelangelo Antonioni's films. I'd already seen La Notte, which I love, so I watched The Bride Wore Black*, Blow-Up, L'Eclisse and Red Desert, which was probably my favourite.

Monica Vitti in Red Desert

I love the women in Antonioni's films (which is probably why Blow-Up was the least successful for me). They're always going through a tumultuous point in their life, often deeply unhappy and uncertain, but not without the capacity for joy. I over-identify with them, I think. I'm still looking out for L'Avventura - I just love Monica Vitti.

You can see what other movies I've been watching at my Letterboxd account.

Books

As much as I love reading I don't really do a whole lot. I can be a slow reader if I only just like a book, but if I love it I can devour it in a few days. I have a ridiculous amount of unread books, though (approximately 200 - no, really) so I'm trying to read more. 

One of my favourites, lately, was Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories. Her versions of well-known fairy tales are gorgeous. Dark and funny and feminine and clever.

I've also been in a comic/graphic novel reading mood. I enjoyed Joss Whedon's Fray although I felt like it ended just as I was really drawn into the story. I've also been reading Rat Queens, Batman 66 and Gail Simone's Red Sonja, but I've especially loved the new series Lumberjanes, co-created by one of my favourite artists Noelle Stevenson. (She also runs a great web-comic Nimona).

This comic is a lot of fun and adorable. It's about 5 friends at summer camp who discover some strange, supernatural happenings. There are some pop culture references and each issue has the tracklisting for a mix made by one of the five main characters in the back. So cute! If you like stories about interesting women/girls, definitely check it out.

Music

Well, I haven't been listening to anything obsessively lately but today I'm listening to Hunx and His Punx while I type and tidy and what-not. Good tunes!

*For some reason I added The Bride Wore Black in here but it's actually a Truffaut film. Don't know why I did that!

I want to be a backup singer...

Well, I'm back from my little blogging break. I've got some posts written up, including this one, that should hopefully help me get back into the swing of things!

A little while ago, now, I went out with a friend to see Clairy Browne & the Bangin' Rackettes. I haven't been to a live gig in so long for a number of reasons - sometimes I find out too late, sometimes I don't have enough money or anyone to go with and, well, sometimes I just don't go! But I'd listened to Clairy Browne on the recommendation of the same friend I went with and their soul-infused tunes are very much to my taste so I decided to go along, this time. And, boy, was I glad that I did! Such a great show. I was right at the front dancing along to every song. This is what I wore...

Apologies for the phone shot. First time I've ever been successful with wing(ed) eyeliner.

My friend prefers catching people unawares, as it were, when taking their photos. But I actually like how this one turned out. Except I didn't adjust the colours properly so it looks a bit too blue.

Said friend taken by me.

And a polaroid of me, taken by mum before I left. I lowered the flash setting instead of increasing it so it's really dark.

Clairy Browne...

and the Bangin' Rackettes! As the title suggests, seeing these ladies renewed my life-long desire to be a backup singer/dancer. But I have a feeling I'd need to be good at both singing and dancing for that. Ha.

Some music for anyone who hasn't heard them before.

And I guess this song is on a beer commercial?

If you get a chance to see them live then definitely do! But if you don't, you can still listen to some of their songs on YouTube, which I highly recommend.

A photo, a song, and a winner

One of the things that I've discovered lately is that getting into a regular blogging schedule is harder than I thought. After all this time, you'd think I'd learn to have some back-up posts for times when I'm too busy to blog, wouldn't you? Well, apparently not! I think the best I can expect, whilst I'm studying this year, is that my blogging may be sporadic but I'm reassessing my aims for my blog. These, when I get around to them, will remain just for me but hopefully it will make blogging a better experience for myself and my readers!

Until then, here is a photo of one of my Barbie families (yes, I make families and life stories for my dolls). Three sisters, Casey, Cilla and Tutti (whose name is subject to change.) I love all of these clothes but the dress worn by Casey (standing up on the left) is my favourite and has a little matching bonnet, too. She even has a cute little half-slip to wear underneath.

In other news, I can't stop listening to this cover of Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me from She & Him's new album. Mel Carter's version is still my favourite but Zooey's voice suits this song so perfectly!

Lastly, but probably most importantly, I wanted to say that the winner of the What Katie Did competition was notified and her lovely lingerie is on its way to her! I'm sorry for not announcing that sooner but I've not been feeling the best. Congrats to Karin Wennerberg! And thank-you to everyone who entered the competition and to the new followers I now have. 

Today I made you a mixtape...

So, like many others, one of my favourite pastimes is making mixes. I probably don't take it quite so seriously as some other people do (there are definitely some 'rules' I like to go by when making them but I'm not that finicky about it or about how other people make their own mixes).

I used to make mixtapes, on cassettes, in high school and just after, when I would make the covers by hand (drawn or glued together) and write out the playlists on brown paper and other bits and pieces. I still have most of the tapes that haven't stretched. I remember stacking up CDs and records, making lists of all the songs I wanted to use off of them and trying to figure out which songs would sound good one after the other. And never ever filling the tape up - there was always either a long gap or songs got cut off! I clearly never quite mastered that part of the art of the mixtape.

And then I moved to CDs (some of which made it into the music collections of my friends) but in the digital age, I mainly make them as playlists and upload them to my 8tracks account. I still enjoy making them and burning them off for friends, so I tend to leave them at around CD length (but I never upload the mixes I make for someone else - it seems to ruin the personal nature of making a mix specifically for another person).

Anyway, I thought I'd be self-indulgent and share a few that some of my readers may enjoy listening to! Even though it's not what I usually blog about, I guess. And if you've got an 8tracks account and like what you hear, feel free to follow me (or leave me your username if you're a fellow mix-maker). 

♥Theme for a Dream at 8tracks♥ ♥Tracklist♥

♥After Laughter (Comes Tears) at 8tracks♥ ♥Tracklist♥

A mix that is mainly old soul and some ska/reggae/rocksteady tracks. And about unhappy love/broken hearts. The photo was taken by Malick Sibide.

♥Cuore at 8tracks♥ ♥Tracklist♥

Another mix of broken hearts and unhappy love. (There are just so many great songs on the subject!) A lot of Italian songs. 

And, lastly, this ended up being my most popular playlist both on 8tracks and Tumblr:

♥Wow Wow Wee at 8tracks♥ ♥Tracklist♥

I did similar mixes compiling my favourite upbeat doo-wop songs and one of my favourite 'British Invasion' tracks, too.

I'm not sure which are my own favourite mixes but my favourites tend to be the least well-received. Off the top of my head, I'd say my favourite three (apart from those in this post) would be: Restless Feeling, Love in a Void and How Come You're Such a Hit with the Boys, Jane?

And if you want to see any of the playlists, just take a look at my 'mixes' tag on Tumblr.

Thank-you to anyone who made it this far - I've been feeling a bit nostalgic, lately, and making mixes is one of those things that lets me indulge that nostalgia, I guess. Even if I make them in a very different (and far less time-consuming) way than I used to.

Pssst, remember there is still time to enter the What Katie Did competition!

Musical Interlude {Lesley Gore}

I must admit that I just haven't been in the mood for blogging, lately. I feel like I have a lot of great post ideas but I can't seem to pin them down and work out exactly what they are. The ones I can work out seem like just a little more effort than I am willing to put in at the moment. Ha. But I've got a little post for you, today, on one of my favourite pop singers...

This morning, on Tumblr, I came across a great playlist of '60s songs put together by someone I don't follow and it spurred on the '60s kick I've been on lately...which eventually lead to me listening to nothing but Lesley Gore for most of the day. So here are a few fantastic photos of Lesley and a couple of my favourite songs of hers. If you want to read a bit about her, start with the wiki article, but I basically just want this post to be about images and sound.

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How perfect is her flip? Sigh.

{All images were found on the first page of google image search}

{Lesley Gore as Pussy Cat in That Darn Catwoman and Scat! Darn Catwoman, 1967}

I can tell you, now, that I would gladly dress like Lesley Gore as Pussy Cat! She's also wearing pink tights and just-below-the-knee pink boots.

A fantastic video of Lesley singing You Don't Own Me live in 1964. This is one of those songs that are great to put on really loud and belt along to. Very therapeutic!

A colour Scopitone of Lesley's song Wonder Boy which features some very cute and colourful outfits. And Lesley's even cuter short do! This is one of my favourite of her songs.

And another favourite: Maybe I Know. I adore her flip and eye makeup and the gorgeous smile she gives at the end!

I suppose this is a bit of a filler post until I feel up to my regular content again but she was on my mind today...I'm sure there are many other fans of hers who read my blog, too.

Love,

Andi B. Goode

x

Musical Interlude {The Brother Sisters}

It makes me happy that my readers enjoyed the first glimpse at my record collection and I shall definitely be doing more installments in the future (am trying to think of how to organise the rest of the posts, though...would you be interested in seeing any of my 70s & on collection as well or just the earlier records, which I don't have as many of?)

For now, though, here is a 45 that I picked up at an op-shop once because it was old and I was intrigued by the name of the group: The Brother Sisters.

As much as I love picture sleeve 45s there is still something so gorgeous about the design of these paper sleeves - though I think this must not be in its original sleeve (I don't think Parlophone and Mercury are linked but they do look rather nice together, regardless.)

I couldn't find either of the songs online so I recorded them with my iPhone - the recordings aren't that great but I wanted everyone to be able to hear them!

Side 1: Alone

This song was originally recorded by the Shepherd Sisters and this version seems to be quite similar but I can't really find any information on The Brother Sisters at all! I just found a few listings for the record on different websites and that it was released in 1957. If anyone else was able to dig anything up or knows anything about the group, I'd love to know. I found a mention in an old magazine online when I first bought it but I can't find it now, unfortunately.

Side 2: Pass Me the Mustard

This song is so silly and cute, which is probably why I love it so much.

I know Vimeo doesn't always work for everyone but I am keeping my YouTube account solely for ukulele videos so I apologise if anyone can't watch these.

I'm a wee bit busy, right now, hence the brief post but I am trying to write up some more to queue so it won't be too dead around here.

Love, 

Andi B. Goode

x

I've Told Every Little Star

I recorded this a few weeks ago and forgot to share it on here! I don't usually do posts that are just ukulele videos anymore because I feel like they get a bit dull without other content but I'm making an exception for this one as I forgot about it. It's my cover of Linda Scott's I've Told Every Little Star. David Lynch fans will probably know this tune from Mulholland Drive, others will just know (and love) it. And hopefully enjoy my version, too!

 

I've Told Every Little Pumpkin from Mashed in Plastic on Vimeo.

And here's a neat mashup of the song (with video from Mulholland Dr) and Smashing Pumpkins' 1979. I love Melissa George's sparkly pink outfit in this scene. (The video possibly contains NSFW bits, actually...)

 

And Linda Scott on her own for good measure! It's such a cute little song.

Love,

Andi B. Goode

x

PS Thank-you for all the lovely comments on my new hair (in the last post)!

Scoptiones!

For most of my life one of my dreams has been to one day own a jukebox...well, when I first found out about Scopitone machines that dream took a backburner and now I'd rather have one of those! I have a huge love for music videos and the Scopitone machine combines this love with my desire for a Jukebox perfectly. A little about Scopitones from Scopitone Archive:

Scopitone films are the 1960s ancestors of today's music videos. They were distributed on color 16mm film with a magnetic soundtrack, and were made to be shown on a Scopitone film jukebox. The first Scopitones were made in France in 1960, and the Scopitone craze spread throughout Europe (particularly in West Germany and England) before crossing the Atlantic to the United States in mid-1964. By the end of the 1960s, they were gone. [Source]

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Many of the Scopitone videos are available to watch on YouTube (but, take caution - you could spend hours watching them!) so I've chosen a few of my favourites to share with you. It was painful to pick these as there are just so many fantastic videos!

The Bike by Alex Marco

My favourites are, of course, the kookiest. Like this one - I don't understand French but I'm assuming The Bike is possibly meant to be a dance? Or maybe this guy is just really excited about bicycles?

High Boots

This one is my absolute favourite (so far!) - I love all of the novelty dances showcased, there are some great threads and the flip on the blonde is fantastic! There is a bit of a discussion trying to identify the singer over here.

Pussycat A Go Go by Stacy Adams.

Oh, look! Bikini clad dancers! What a surprise in a '60s video. The dancing really is something else, though. I'm especially impressed by the woman in the orange-red bikini with the fabulous beehive! Mesmerising.

Here's some more evidence that the reasons for scantily clad dancers were really quite tenuous in this video for Jody Miller's version of The Race is On - the dancers appear in lieu of horses or other racing animals...hmm. Their costumes are a bit fabulous, though.

Le Vampire by Stella

To show you that it wasn't all scantily clad go-go dancers here's one that...well, I'm not sure what to say about this!

This really is just a small selection - there are so many fantastic Scopitone films to watch on YouTube, including songs by artists I know and love like Lesley Gore, France Gall, Neil Sedaka, Nancy Sinatra as well as many I'd never heard of before! 

You can read about the Cinebox here, a similar machine originally produced in Italy. And check out scopitones.com for more info and news on Scopitone machines and the films made for them. You can pick up DVDs of some of the videos, there, and the site even offers custom made DVDs of your favourite Scopitone films.

As an aside, I've just realised this is almost a combination of my musical interlude posts and the Silver Screen Sunday ones! Anyway, I hope you've all enjoyed this little taste of a part of music history I find fascinating and fun.

Love,
Andi B. Goode
x

Musical Interlude {Fabienne Delsol}

Well, it's definitely been a while since I've done a 'musical interlude' post but I'm toying with the idea of doing one every other Sunday (and maybe finally starting up my Silver Screen Sunday posts again on the alternate weeks...) Until I decide, you can all at least (hopefully) enjoy today's music post!

As you all probably know by now, my personal style tends to reflect the fashions of the 1940s and 1950s, but when it comes to music I'm usually more drawn toward the 1960s. This little fact is exactly why I'm so in love with the French singer Fabienne Delsol and her infectious (but never, to me anyway, overbearing) brand of indie-pop music.

Fabienne Delsol's music reflects all of my favourite aspects of 1960s music (wikipedia describes it as a blend of UK garage, pop and psychedelic), with many tunes having a distinct yé-yé flavour. In fact, the first song I ever heard by her was a cover of France Gall's Laisse Tomber Les Filles at a club I used to go to when I was 19 or so. I asked the DJ what it was and he just showed me the cover of the first volume of So Frenchy So Chic and I soon went out to buy it. It wasn't until quite a few years later that I acquired more of her music. As an aside, this song was possibly more famously covered by April March, in English, as Chick Habit, featuring on the soundtrack for Tarantino's Death Proof but also, where I first heard that particular cover, on the soundtrack for But I'm a Cheerleader.

I only have two out of Fabienne Delsol's three albums and am finding it very difficult to find copies of the albums released by the band she was in, The Bristols (except to download on iTunes and I'm rather old-fashioned in that I like having a physical copy of things that I pay for, which is something I'm sure I will have to get over one of these days. I've been searching eBay and there are a few copies floating about, at least). Since I got a turntable for Christmas that isn't attached to a great big ugly 1990s stereo, I've decided to start collecting more vinyl and I think Fabienne Delsol's albums might be some of the few I get!

I mentioned earlier in the post that she was also the singer of a band, The Bristols, who are no longer together. But they made even more fantastic music reminiscent of the 1960s. One of my favourite tracks is this cover of The Dave Clark Five's Can't You See That She's Mine 

Hopefully some of you have discovered a new (to you) artist to enjoy because sharing the music I love is definitely one of my greatest pleasures. If you'd like me to continue sharing please let me know - as I said, I'm just toying with the idea of doing this as a regular feature. For now, you can always go to this neat site I found that allows you to stream all of the music posts any individual user makes on their tumblr: trntbl.me. Enjoy!

Love,
Andi B. Goode
x

Latest Op-Shopping Finds

Did some op-shopping on a very warm Tuesday and the best thing was everything I found was priced at what I consider to be 'real' op-shop prices. It seems to be more and more rare to find that these days, with certain items. But enough griping, onto the spoils of the day! (All of these photos are from Instagram because I was too lazy to take some with my 'good' camera.)

 

Some more Paton's knitting patterns to add to my slowly growing collection. I tend to buy the children's/men's patterns for the 'lulz' as they have very humorous photos. One day I should do a post dedicated just to them! (Perhaps.)

 

Not quite a set (missing one cup) but in great condition and it has a little can opener, too. My nonna had a set of these that I remember from when I was little but hers had a green leather case that zipped open/closed around the top.

 

Also not quite a set - looks like these bamboo handle knives are from two different sets but luckily there are three of each so, at least, there's a kind of symmetry. At first I thought they were just made to look like bamboo but, upon closer inspection, they're definitely real bamboo.

 

An old tin for odds and sods. It has 'Cadbury' embossed on the top (and it's definitely the 'Cadbury' logo) but I'm wondering if it's been painted a different colour than its original. I've found a couple on eBay/google (like this one) and they all appear to have a coloured lid and band around the bottom and a circle design on the main part of the tin. Perhaps someone painted it to fit their colour scheme? Luckily, I like yellow and white! I'm not 100% certain it was painted, though - it seems a little too neat!

 

Some EPs from the 1950s and 1960s. I mainly bought these because I liked the covers (especially the Ames Bros - too cute!) but there are some pretty neat songs on there, too. There's a very fun number on the Ines Addio EP but I can't find it on YouTube to share with you all.

 

Some nice little wooden dishes.

 

Fun, chunky plastic bracelet.

 

And these aren't the era I usually write about here but I was pretty excited to find them! Let's Hear it for the Boy is one of my favourite songs.

Edit: Just realised I ought to have said these were from three different op-shops! Oops.

Love,

Andi B. Goode

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Vintage Sheet Music Collection

After seeing Amy Jeanne post pictures of her vintage sheet music collection, I remembered that I'd been meaning to post some of mine. Most of these have been picked up at fairs or op shops but some belonged to my mother when she was a teenager. Unfortunately, some places like to put nasty price stickers on them and if I take them off, I'll rip the paper. One of my pet peeves, actually, is when shops put stickers on the covers of old books/knitting patterns/music/etc. Sigh. Anyway, here we go (this isn't all of them, but it is most).

L-R: 1920 & c. 1921

L-R: 1928 & 1931

L-R: 1933 & c. 1940s/date unknown

L-R: 1942 & c. 1942

L-R: 1942 & 1942

L-R c. 1943 & c. 1943

L-R: 1943 & 1943

L-R: 1943 & 1944

L-R: 1945 & c. 1945

L-R: 1946 & 1946

L-R: c. 1948 & 1949

L-R: 1953 & c. 1954

L-R: 1959 & 1959

L-R: c. 1960 & 1960

L-R: 1960 & 1961

L-R: 1961 & 1961

L-R: c. 1962 & 1962

L-R: c. 1964 & 1966

L-R: 1966 & c. 1966

Hope you all enjoyed seeing these! It took me longer to get the post together than I thought it would. I'm glad it's all done, though. I'm not entirely sure what I'm going to do with them all - some are quite delicate and I was thinking of eventually photographing the actual music to possibly share online (I will, of course, check the copyright first) - that way, the music can still be used but they won't fall apart from constantly being opened, etc. Maybe I'll frame some of them, one day. Who knows?

I've had plans to learn some that have ukulele accompaniment, as a challenge to myself, and do videos of them but we'll see if I actually do that. Ha!

Love,

Andi B. Goode

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(Note: The colours may be slightly off as I don't have a scanner so I took photos of them, instead. And the dates are only what the copyright inside says, so all may not be the date they were actually printed.)