After the Mustang Forest… we got the Mustang Ranch, and it can be yours for $700.000 (well if it ain’t sold already that is).

It’s a shame to see such a collection of fine cars rot away, anyway here’s the story on how it was discovered by a reader of Jalopnik:

“I have just returned from a vacation somewhere tropical. On the way back form a day excursion I chose an alternate way back to the highway. Ok, I made wrong turn somewhere and rolled with it. This "scenic route" brought us upon what was recorded by these images. It was my wife who first saw them. "Oh look, Mustangs!" I turned my head in time to see a metric shitload of vintage ponies. I immediately turned around and pulled into the driveway. There was a gentleman in the yard who turned out to be the caretaker for the owner of the house/treasure trove. It turns out that the guy who collected all these cars recently succumbed to cancer and his wife wants all these pretty ponies sold en masse for what is by local standards the princely sum of $700 large (I think there plenty of room for negotiation here).”

More images on Jalopnik.

Source : http://freeaafia.org/

I first saw Jim Henson’s experimental art film “Time Piece” in 2001, during the first (and only) Muppet convention in Santa Monica. (MuppetFest was awesome, so shut it!)

Started as a personal project, Henson would go on to storyboard, write, direct and star in the film starting in the spring of 1964. It premiered in May 1965 at the Museum of Modern Art, and was even nominated for an Academy Award in the category of “Best Short Subject, Live Action Subjects” in 1966.

Since 2001, I’ve tried to track down the film online. Finally, someone put it on YouTube. Awesome.

So here it is, Jim Henson’s “Time Piece” in all its jazzy glory. You can totally see how it would go on to influence some of the shorts from “Sesame Street” years later.

Be sure to keep an eye out for brief cameos from Frank Oz (with a full head of hair) as a messenger boy, Muppet designer Don Sahlin as a stand-up comic, and head Muppet writer Jerry Juhl as a bartender.

When you’re done, check out this short “behind the scenes” segment on the making of “Time Piece.”

Help,

-Shady

Words can’t describe the beauty of this Dodge Deora built circa 1965 for the Detroit Autorama in the ’60s. Everything from the color to the steering wheel to the car meters wreaks of refinement. The fact that you can only get into the vehicle through the windshield is I find funny.

The Dodge Deora has a sophisticated yet whimsical appearance I suppose. Rise and shine everybody, down that coffee and let’s go!

Gugazine

Revisiting history when on Thursday Morning, April 29, 1965 at 7:28am, a 6.5 magnitude earthquake occured between Seattle and Tacoma. This earthquake was among the largest and most damaging earthquakes of the past 100 years in the Pacific Northwest. The quake was felt over nearly 200,000 square miles covering Washington, much of Oregon, Southwest British Columbia, and the Idaho panhandle.

My Account – The Setting:
I was in 8th grade at East Junior High School in Puyallup, Washington. I had just finished my last lap in a mile run at the track that was located near the east end of the large field east of the school buildings. Exhausted from my run, I huffed over to the bleachers at the edge of the track to sit and catch my breath.

Short Shockwaves:
Just as I was about to relax I heard the loudest noise I had ever heard. It sounded as if a dozen Boeing 707 jet engines were ignited with continuing thunderclaps imbedded in the din. Puyallup is in the Seattle flight line and I feared a jet was crashing near me. I looked around and was suprised to see nothing visible that should cause such a loud roar. Almost simultaneous with the noise, the ground was rapidly and violently shaking. I felt I should flee, but where? I just reasoned that the ground was going to crack open and I would get swallowed into the dirt so I began to run once again.

Medium Shockwaves:
Though still exhausted from the mile run, I was running, this time towards the school for I felt I would be safer there. The field I was on was several acres large, and the school was a long way away. I believed I was running for my life. I could not run straight because I was being buffeted back and forth by the rocking ground. It was a frantic run.

Longer Waves:
Still running, I witnessed the telephone poles rocking back and forth several yards away from me, and I observed waves underneath moving through the field I was on. The power and phone lines were swinging like jumpropes. The field was looking as if it was liquid; as if it was on top a wavy ocean. I could actually see the direction the waves were moving, west to east.

Quake’s End:
Soon I realized that the ground was not going to swallow me up, nor was I going to be called upon to rescue survivors from a catastrophic plane crash and I stopped my run. It was later documented that the quake lasted 45 seconds, but to me it felt as if it shook for minutes. The quake was the only focus of our conversations that day and for some time.

Aftermath:
The quake’s epicenter was near Des Moines, Washington, only 15 miles away. Four people lost their lives in Seattle, and there were a fair amount of injuries as a result of the quake. Damage was estimated at over $12 million.

Sources cited: SeismoArchives
1965 Puget Sound (USA) Earthquake Archive | HistoryLink.org

The first step in my health care reform plan is simply this: recognizing that health care is not a right.

How can I be so cruel as to say that? How can anyone be so cruel as to say otherwise?

To say that health care is a right means that you have a right to someone else’s labour. Do others have a right to your labour, or is your labour your own, to use it as you see fit?

Communism is a system that holds that some have the right to the labour of others. Communism co-founder, Karl Marx, stated in 1875: “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.“

I understand the well-meaning intentions of those who say that health care is, and should be, a right. However, a right is an entitlement. How can you be entitled to the work of a doctor, a nurse, or any other health professional, as a matter of birth?

If health care truly was a right, then that was quite the oversight by the Founding Fathers of the United States, in not including it in the Bill of Rights in 1789. But it wasn’t an oversight. They recognized that it wasn’t a right.

The consequence of recognizing that health care is not a right, I believe, is to put the focus back where it properly belongs, as to who is ultimately responsible for their own health — the individual. There are those who are unable to properly care for themselves, as there has been since the dawn of time. Those people should be appropriately cared for, as matter of public interest, not as a matter of right, as well as all others. But just because it’s in the public interest to take care of all individuals, doesn’t make it a right, nor necessitate the method of care.

These days, health care is often taken to mean expensive diagnostic equipment, treatment with expensive drugs, expensive private health care plans with high overhead, and unsustainable government health plans, such as Medicare, which, as I previously documented, cost 744% more by 1990 than previously estimated at its inception, in 1965.

Modern health care has regressed from the basic principles of the father of modern medicine, Hippocrates, who stated: “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.“

Instead of a proactive, preventative approach to health by the individual, the focus has regressed to a  reactive, expensive third-party approach, and this must change.

Movie Name: Kavyamela
Singer: Leela P, Yesudas KJ
Music Director: Dakshina Murthy
Lyrics: Vayalar Ramavarma
Year: 1965
Producer: Vasudevan TE
Director: Krishnan Nair M
Actors: Nellikode Bhaskaran, Pillai GK, Prem Nazir, Sheela

സ്വപ്‌നങ്ങള്‍ സ്വപ്നങ്ങളെ നിങ്ങള്‍
സ്വര്‍ഗ്ഗ കുമാരികളല്ലോ
നിങ്ങളീ ഭൂമിയില്‍ ഇല്ലായിരുന്നെങ്കില്‍
നിശ്ചലം ശൂന്യമീ ലോകം
ദൈവങ്ങളില്ല മനുഷ്യരില്ല
പിന്നെ ജീവിത ചൈതന്യമില്ല
സൌന്ദര്യ സങ്കല്പ ശില്പങ്ങളില്ല
സൌഗന്ധിക പൂക്കളില്ല  ആ ആ ——————- (സ്വപ്‌നങ്ങള്‍)

ഇന്ദ്രനീലം കൊണ്ട് മാനത്ത് തീര്‍ത്തൊരു
ഗന്ധര്‍വ രാജാങ്കനത്തില്‍
അപ്സരകന്യകള്‍ പെറ്റുവളര്‍ത്തുന്ന
ചിത്ര ശലഭങ്ങള്‍ നിങ്ങള്‍
സ്വര്‍ഗത്തില്‍ നിന്നും വിരുന്നു വരാറുള്ള
ചിത്ര ശലഭങ്ങള്‍ നിങ്ങള്‍ ——————- (സ്വപ്‌നങ്ങള്‍)

ഞാനറിയാതെന്റെ മാനസ ജാലക
വാതില്‍ തുറക്കുന്നു നിങ്ങള്‍
ശില്‍പ്പികള്‍ തീര്‍ത്ത ചുമരുകളില്ലാതെ
ചിത്രമെഴുതുന്നു നിങ്ങള്‍
ഏഴല്ല എഴുനൂറു വര്‍ണങ്ങലാല്‍ എത്ര
വാര്മഴ വില്ലുകള്‍ തീര്‍ത്തു
കണ്ണ് നീര്‍ ചാലിച്ച് എഴുതുന്നു
മായ്ക്കുന്നു വര്‍ണവിതാനങ്ങള്‍ നിങ്ങള്‍ ——————- (സ്വപ്‌നങ്ങള്‍)

Violet is one of my favorite people to knit for.  Why?  She loves helping me pick out yarn and has the patience to spend hours in The Silver Creek Cabin fiber store, and she actually wears the things I knit for her.  In fact, her favorite hat is a crummy stretched out pink cap I knit for her years ago…

I wanted to knit something from my vintage stash of Vogue Knitting magazines.  So, I dug out my 1965 issue which focused on knitting for children and knit her a roomy “sweater coat.”  It really is huge on her, but she loves it and I hope she wears it for many years to come.

Because this is a vintage pattern the yarn suggested for use is no longer available, so, the fiber I used is from Malabrigo yarns. A chunky fiber, it is 100 percent Merino wool and the color is called “Mariposa.”  Since I was knitting this for my butterfly lover, I thought this color choice was perfect!  Of course, I had to add a bit of pink for my Pinkalicious little girl.  To finish the project, I found the perfect mother of pearl buttons online here.

It was a pretty straightforward and simple pattern; however, I did learn finally to crochet (a simple single chain) for the edges and because the pattern was vintage there was much more shaping, e.g. you actually knit a HEM in this sweater!

Violet really wasn’t up to modeling for me.  I had some extra skeins left after the sweater was completed, so I knit her a little matching hat.

The top-30 movies from the swinging sixties. This was a tough one, but like always, I think I nailed it. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the top movies from 1960-1969!

1. Psycho (1960) Director: Alfred Hitchcock
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Director: Stanley Kubrick
3. Midnight Cowboy (1969) Director: John Schlesinger
4. Repulsion (1965) Director: Roman Polanski
5. Bonnie and Clyde (1967) Director: Arthur Penn
6. The Graduate (1967) Director: Mike Nichols
7. Dr. Strangelove (1964) Director: Stanley Kubrick
8. Cool Hand Luke (1967) Director: Stuart Rosenberg
9. Rosemary’s Baby (1968) Director: Roman Polanski
10. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) Director: George Roy Hill
11. Lolita (1962) Director: Stanley Kubrick
12. The Great Escape (1963) Director: John Sturges
13. The Hustler (1961) Director: Robert Rossen
14. The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) Director: Roman Polanski
15. The Umbrellas of Cherbourgh (1964) Director: Jacques Demy
16. The Sound of Music (1965) Director: Robert Wise
17. Goldfinger (1964) Director: Guy Hamilton
18. Planet of the Apes (1968) Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
19. Breakfast at Tiffany´s (1961) Director: Blake Edwards
20. Man’s Favorite Sport? (1964) Director: Howard Hawks
21. My Fair Lady (1964) Director: George Cukor
22. The Birds (1963) Director: Alfred Hitchcock
23. Breathless (1960) Director: Jean-Luc Godard
24. The Dirty Dozen (1967) Director: Robert Aldrich
25. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) Director: Sergio Leone
26. Bullit (1968) Director: Peter Yates
27. Easy Rider (1969) Director: Dennis Hopper
28. Spartacus (1960) Director: Stanley Kubrick
29. The Apartment (1960) Director: Billy Wilder
30. The Party (1968) Director: Blake Edwards

THE TRAILERS FOR THE TOP 3 BEST MOVIES OF 1960-1969

Draga mea prietenă de departe,

Iată că sunt şi mai departe de tine acum, dat fiind că mă aflu în celălalt capăt al ţării, tocmai la Timişoara. Am plecat, cum ţi-am spus, cu Marcel şi copiii, în vacanţă. Dar numai vacanţă nu e asta, cu Mihăiţă care îmi mănâncă zilele chiar mai rău decât Marcel.

Ne-am dus şi noi să vedem tramvaiul, şi Mihăiţă una-două a sărit pe linie, de mi-a stat inima în loc. Marcel nici n-a văzut, că el să uita la catedrală, dracu s-o ieie! Şi uite aşa mă plimb eu prin oraş, cu Brânduşa de o mână şi Mihăiţă de cealaltă, şi Marcel cu mâna-n buzunar!

Dar oraşul e tare mândru.  Şi oamenii sunt aşa gătiţi, de zici că merg la nuntă în fiecare zi. Un domn dichisit i-a dat o bomboană Brânduşei şi ea nici n-a mulţumit, de mi-a venit să intru în pământ de ruşine. Am scuturat-o să îi amintesc cele bune maniere, dar domnul acela mi-a zis că nu-i frumos să zdruncin copilul. Auzi tu! Dar ei cum educă plozii aici la Timişoara, Catrino? Îi pupă în frunte când le fac neajunsuri? Aşa ies ghiavoli de cei răsfăţaţi ca cela al Vioricăi.

Ce să-ţi mai spun, draga mea? Am fost şi-n parcuri mari, frumoase, cum n-avem noi la Galaţi, dar eu n-am prea avut linişte. Nu ştii tu, Catrino, dar când ai copii, nimica nu-ţi mai ticneşte. Ei, barem acum o să-i pot spune Vioricăi că şi eu am fost la Temeswar, cum se lăuda ea anul care-a trecut.

Of, de erai şi tu cu mine aicea, toate mi se păreau mai uşoare, scumpa mea. Te pup cu dor arzător.

P.S. Am pus ilustrată cu Piaţa Operei, vezi dară şi tramvaiul şi ce verde şi frumos e tot împrejur!

Poucas equipes nacionais tiveram o privilégio de defender a Seleção Brasileira e um destes times foi o Sport Club Corinthians Paulista. Isso aconteceu em 16 de novembro de 1965, e o adversário eram os ingleses do Arsenal. Mas talvez, não tenham escolhido a melhor do time paulista para este jogo, já que o Brasil fora derrotado: 2 a 0.

A partida aconteceu em Londres, no lendário estádio Highbury e além da fase corintiana ser terrível (atravessava um jejum de títulos que já durava 11 anos e ainda tinha mais 12 por vir), a fase brasileira já não era tão boa. O País vivia uma transição de gerações e por isso, mais tarde, não se deu muito bem na Copa do Mundo, disputada justamente na Inglaterra, e vencida pelos donos da casa.

Porém, o Arsenal que enfrentou o Corinthians travestido de Seleção Brasileira pouco auxiliou nessa conquista no que se refere à cessão de jogadores para a sua seleção. Dos 22 ingleses que fizeram história, apenas um era do Arsenal, ou atuou nessa partida de 65, o atacante George Eastham, que também nem entrou em campo no mundial.

Para fazer a partida o Corinthians sofreu muito com a mudança climática. Dois dias antes, havia sido derrotado pelo Santos, por 4 a 2, jogando sob um sol de 30º. Saiu de São Paulo para jogar na Europa com a incrível temperatura de -3 graus abaixo de zero. Para piorar, a camisa azul da Seleção Brasileira tinha mangas curtas.

Mesmo assim, os relatos contam que o time comandado por Osvaldo Brandão e que contava com o jovem Rivellino, de 19 anos, além de Edson Cegonha, Dino Sani e Flávio, entre outros, suportou bem a partida no primeiro tempo, que terminou empatado sem gols. Na segunda etapa, porém, Sammels marcou duas vezes e decretou o resultado da partida.

Poucos meses antes, quem representou a seleção foi o Palmeiras, na inauguração do estádio do Mineirão. Time com notória qualidade à época, o clube paulista não deu chances para os uruguaios, ao vencer a seleção daquele País, por 3 a 0. Três anos mais tarde, foi a vez do Atlético Mineiro, já com a base do time que seria campeão brasileiro em 1971, vencer a Iugoslávia, por 3 a 2.

Ficha técnica: Arsenal 2 x 0 Brasil

Arsenal
Burns (Fornell); Howe, Storey e Neil; Curt e McLintock; Skirton, Sammels, Baker, Eastham e Armstrong.
Técnico:Billy Wright.

Brasil
Marcial; Galhardo (Jair Marinho), Eduardo I e Clóvis; Edson Cegonha e Dino Sani; Rivellino, Marcos, Flávio, Ney e Geraldo (Gilson Porto).
Técnico: Osvaldo Brandão.

Data: 16 de novembro de 1965.
Local: estádio Highbury, em Londres, Inglaterra.
Competição: Amistoso.
Árbitro: H. Philips.

Por Raoni David
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When a club represented Brazil

Not many clubs had the chance to play with the Seleção colours, one of those cases was Sport Club Corinthians Paulista in 1965. The adversary on a 16th of November that year were The Gunners, playing in London, at the legendary Highbury Stadium.

The Brazilian team, and Corithians, were not in the best years, altougth Brazil won a second title in 1962, it was time to rebuild the team and they never got to the 1966 World Cup with real chances. Corinthians was in a drougth that lasted until 1977 without titles. Arsenal was not a big team back then, just giving striker Eastham to the English Team that won in 1966.

Corinthians had a problem with the weather uppon arriving in England, they left a sunny 30º São Paulo to arrive in London with -3º, and they had to play in short sleeves, as that was the only option available.

With all those dificulties the Brazilians managed to tie the forst half. Rivellino was a young promess of the club, Edson Cegonha, Dino Sani and Flavio were other notables. At the second half however Sammels scored twice to seal the home owners win.

A few months back Palmeiras had the chance to play in Brazilian clothes, They had a great team and defeated Uruguay with three goals. In 1971 Atlético Mineiro won Yugoslavians by 3 to 2.

Arsenal 2 x 0 Brazil

Arsenal
Burns (Fornell); Howe, Storey and Neil; Curt and McLintock; Skirton, Sammels, Baker, Eastham and Armstrong.
Coach: Billy Wright.

Brazil
Marcial; Galhardo (Jair Marinho), Eduardo I and Clóvis; Edson Cegonha and Dino Sani; Rivellino, Marcos, Flávio, Ney and Geraldo (Gilson Porto).
Coach: Osvaldo Brandão.

Date: 16th November 1965
Place: Highbury Stadium, London
Competition: Friendly
Referee: H. Philips.

Tradução de Fabricio Presilli

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When I decide to post a song, most of my time is taken to get the lyrics right. There are some people who inform me that one can get lyrics of the songs on internet. Like most well meaning (and uninformed and unsolicited) advises, this information is not backed by facts.

When you try to search for lyrics, the top results claim that they have the lyrics. But you can keep searching and searching, and after wasting valuable time, one finds that the site did not have the lyrics that they claimed to have.

In case one finds sites where lyrics are available, these lyrics are often incomplete. Moreover, they are often incorrect. Moreover, I have found that most such sites do not bother to get the lyrics for themselves. They all cut and paste from the same source and carry the same incomplete and/ or incorrect lyrics.

And then there are songs for which lyrics are not at all available, for the simple reason that few people are aware of these songs. Many of the songs posted in this blog fall in that categories. In other words, the lyrics of these songs are available for the first time only in this blog.

Here is a song from “Chaand Aur Sooraj” (1965) which not too many people may be aware of. Or perhaps I am speaking from my ignorant point of view. I indeed listened to this song for the first time only just now and spend time getting the lyrics right.

This song is sung beautifully by Rafi and Lata. Shailendra is the lyricist and Salil Chaudhary is the music director. The song is picturised on very young looking Dharmendra and Tanuja. This song is a “Beach” song.

Song-Tumhe dil se chaahaa tumhe dil diyaa hai (Chaand Aur Sooraj) (1965) Singers-Lata, Rafi,Lyrics-Shailendra,MD-Salil Chaudhary

Lyrics

Tumhe dil se chaahaa
tumhe dil diya hai
ye waada karo ke bhula to na doge
tumhi tum ho meri nigaahon me lekin
nigaahon se mujhko gira to na doge
tumhe dil se chaahaa
tumhe dil diya hai
ye waada karo ke bhula to na doge
tumhi tum ho meri nigaahon me lekin
nigaahon se mujhko gira to na doge

tera khayaal tera hi baat
rahte hain dil mein din ho ke raat
tera khayaal tera hi baat
rahte hain dil mein din ho ke raat
kahin mujhko iski sazaa to na doge
tumhi tum ho meri nigaahon me lekin
nigaahon se mujhko gira to na doge
Tumhe dil se chaahaa
tumhe dil diya hai
ye waada karo ke bhula to na doge

dharti pe hai khushiyon ka raaz
ik geet meetha sa jeewan hai aaj
dharti pe hai khushiyon ka raaz
ik geet meetha sa jeewan hai aaj
bharam hi sahi par mita to na degaa
tumhe dil se chaahaa
tumhe dil diya hai
ye waada karo ke bhula to na doge
haay
tumhi tum ho meri nigaahon me lekin
nigaahon se mujhko gira to na doge

ghir ke jab aayegi jeewan ki shaam
ho jaayegaa jab fasaana tamaam
ghir ke jab aayegi jeewan ki shaam
ho jaayegaa jab fasaana tamaam
jalaa deep man ka bujha to na doge
tumhe dil se chaahaa
tumhe dil diya hai
ye waada karo ke bhula to na doge
tumhi tum ho meri nigaahon mein lekin
nigaahon se mujhko gira to na doge
tumhe dil se chaahaa
tumhe dil diya hai
ye waada karo ke bhula to na doge

Northern soul fans’ obsession with rarity often comes at the expense of quality. But in Do I Love You both merge into the holy grail of collectors’ soul. Frank Wilson was a Motown producer-songwriter whose solo career was stillborn with this one record, promos of which were melted down. But it’s a glorious, if raw, affirmation of everything the label was about: high-speed drums, delirious chorus and the thrill of love dripping from every pore. One copy of the record sold in 1996 for a reputed £15,000.

By now you have probably seen the photos of us dragging our handsome brute of a truck home from the woods of Maine. We’ve named the truck Goliath for obvious reasons. The thing is massive. After dragging it home we have not had a lot of time to spend with it so here’s some backstory about the truck, how we got it, and what we plan to do with it.

The truck is a 1965 Chevy C50 (we previously called it a ‘65). It has a GVW of 16,000 pounds. It is equipped with a 292ci straight six, four speed SM420 transmission, and large by huge Eaton rear end. We did some VIN decoding and discovered that the truck was ordered as a cab and chassis. It was built at the Oakland, California General Motors factory.

According to the guy we bought it from, the truck was owned by the phone company for many years and had a boom lift mounted to a flatbed. We’re on board with the phone company stuff but not sure about the lift part as there is no PTO on the truck and we’d think that a PTO would be necessary equipment to run the lift. Who knows, it may have been removed years ago. Continue reading at BangShift.com

Dirty surf, hot stuff fron Perú

Hello, i`m bring to you one of the finest band in latin garage ever! The Shains. They were a peruvian band, they play a dirty and wild surf garage beat. A few years ago, tented with the good reputation that they have for their work in sixties, they rejoin and play like the old days. They rule! Ok i let you in peace because my english is a mess… y bueno, es así.So man, if you can escuse my english, eve more: if you can understand my words, oh man, you are the boss, you deserve this gem. So, here you have:

Los Shains!!!