The Smiley Smile Message Board

Disclaimer: I'm doing this with a wink-and-a-nod sense of humor that I hope the subject of this if he ever sees this will appreciate and not take offense.

Opening statement: Is the Mike Love look from 1966 back in style? Is it a thing among hipsters? Is this person possibly a board member and a BB's fan?

In yet another semi-insomniac haze last night, I dozed off and woke up in the easy chair to the Jimmy Kimmel Show on ABC (I'm partial to Fallon, but anyhow...). The next guests were going to be two authors named Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher, who have a book titled "VHS" http://www.amazon.com/VHS-Absurd-Ridiculous-Videotape-ebook/dp/B005GPSN1M (http://www.amazon.com/VHS-Absurd-Ridiculous-Videotape-ebook/dp/B005GPSN1M). It's all about their collection and archiving of all kinds of bizarre VHS tapes from the golden age of that format in the 80's, with training videos, exercise videos, do-it-yourself projects, etc. It's a classic kitsch/hip kind of book, and it definitely interested me as someone who has hundreds of old VHS tapes stacked up in various places, and a feeling that 80's kitsch and schlock will be appreciated the same way a lot of us appreciated 50's and 60's pop culture kitsch and schlock as we read the "Re:Search" books like Incredibly Strange Music about the previous generation's forgotten stuff in the 80's and 90's.

Getting to the point...

Kimmel introduces them, the guys walk out, they appear to be hipsters, and I did a double or even a triple take when I saw one of them.

You don't get this exact look by accident.

The Kimmel screenshot:
(http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n295/guitarfool2002/mikekimmel1.jpg)

Mike in 1966:
(http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n295/guitarfool2002/mikekimmel2.jpg)


The comparison:
(http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n295/guitarfool2002/mikekimmel3.jpg)

 :o   ;D

So true, 1966 was one of the last years Mike wore tasteful clothing. :lol

I was channel surfing last night, and I happened upon this interview with the VHS collectors.I thought to myself..."he must be trying to look like Mike Love. It was too uncanny!

I had a friend who went for that look. While standing next to him, a drug dealer tried to get our attention by yelling... "HEY! IRISHMEN!"


These are the fine fellas who do the Found Footage Festival. Check em out, there's some of it on youtube I'm sure. Endless entertainment value.

http://www.youtube.com/user/foundftgfestival/videos

(Twitches in the background trying not to go into a plug for the found footage madness going on at Everything is Festival this weekend in LA... fails...)

I should confront him with his Mike Love-ness and gauge his reaction carefully.

You know, I've been wearing that same cap now for nearly a year and did not realize it matched the one Mike wore in '66!  :lol

Hmmm. Was it the star on their chests?

Yep.

1966-67 era beach boys would absolutely be in style hipsters today.  I thought that was known  :o

Mike Love was rocking this look before it was mainstream  ;)

And I think it is about time a certain someone is brought to task about this:

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iyqip4r1x18/T3rJ_NdeEgI/AAAAAAAAF5E/QD4N26Aq1QM/s1600/bad-fashion-hipster-glasses.jpg)
(http://seoulawesome.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/yuri.jpg)
(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/g-tdy-LOOK-120109-hipster-glasses-1130a.photoblog600.jpg)

Would this include the Sherlock Holmes look he was sporting in England, fall '66? It was the pipe that made all the difference...

Yes, Sherlock Mike was cool, TM Mike, Hippie Mike, 15 big ones Mike, cowboy Mike, and greedy Mike weren't. In 2012, Mike just went back to hip Mike clothing most of the time....

You left out "Gold Lame and Turban" Mike, and his onstage sidekick at the time, Al "Uncle Sam" Jardine.

The mid 70's were the height of fashion.  :)

  :lol Al and Mike should grow their beards back and bring some of those 1970s clothes out of storage.

(http://i46.tinypic.com/wh1pg5.jpg)
Mike's 1975 incarnation is gonna pop up on South Park too.

A Mike Love look alike that is actually named Mike Love!!!

http://youtu.be/owiAMe7SSiA

Yeah, a real bonafide trendsetter-Elvis rings, Jagger dancing, Maharishi robes and sandals, with necessary turbans, feathers and stage makeup. A real cavalier he is.

OPPZ I MISUJNDERSTAND

If this "certain someone" is Brian, I hardly think we can blame him for the two days in his entire life that he wore thick-framed glasses.

Brian has been asked about it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcPjQVDwZPY&feature=plcp

The funny thing is, there's a vintage clipping in which Brian says he got reading glasses, not just for show - I think I read it in LLVS - so that contradicts what he's saying in the video.

Well, that's just Brian. Sometimes he's f*cking with us, sometimes he just doesn't remember (correctly). I merely wanted to respond to this:

I think this guy is Mike Love from an alternate universe.

I remember I found his song Permanent Vacation and it blew my mind, it did. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk39IvlBYpk

Yap, he's good. And that's a rad beard, too.

I like the beard. Not sure that his music is my think though. But he should have our Mike Love write lyrics for him. Call the album, Two Loves is Better then One!

I happen to like it, personally.