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HAHA, you've stumbled upon Punkin's Comic Zone:
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Punkin says: "These albums are terrible!"
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Punkin replies: "now these are what i call good BeachBoys albums!"
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Just Kidding, i love all beach boys albums....

Take the Pickwick album out of the casing and put the Love You album in.

yeah, i want to soon! that frame is screwed into my wall a wierd way so i need another person to help me with it...it's been up there quite sometime....

Did anyone ever tell you that you look eerily like Harry Nilsson?

ah, no way! how? i look a whole lot up to him as of lately...ive only gotten to know his material in the past 6 months or so...thank you though, that's awesome

Damn right you should look up to him. He's only the most unappreciated singer-songwriter there has ever been.

ah yeah!  ;D

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I support you in your bearding, brother.

Let us keep our heads up high, and our beards left to grow wild and bushy like the caveman of long ago.

yeah, ive got an amish thing goin on...unfort there's a patch under my chin that doesnt grow anything

If your hair was straight, hmm... I'm trying to decide if you look more like Carl or Brian...  :)

id be honored if either one!

you look like MIKEY from AMERICAN CHOPPER

Nice t-shirt back there.

beat me to it...

Mitchell- you referring to the smile tour shirt? yeah, it's great, I'd love to wear it, but i refuse to...ive got a friend who gave me like a 1982 or 83 tour shirt and he wore it, and he regretted it

afraid i dont know American Chopper

Yep. I'm wearing it now!

how do you regret wearing a tshirt? its suppose to be worn!

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I remain amazed at the legions of younger posters who are such rabid BB fans.

But as I think about it, I actually enjoyed a lot of the music that was old when I was a teen;



the top 10 songs oof 1935

1) Fred Astaire, "Cheek to Cheek"

2) Ray Noble, "Isle of Capris"

3) Victor Young, "She's a Latin from Manhattan"

4) Glen Gray, "When I Grow too Old to Dream"

5) Eddy Duchin, "Lovely to Look at"

6) Guy Lombardo, "Red Sails in the Sunset"

7) Fats Waller, "Truckin"

8) Glen Gray, "Blue Moon"

9) Litle Jack Little, "Im in the Mood for Love"

10) Bing Crosby, Red Sails in the Sunset"

Im 27, and personally, I like everything old.  I think it's because I hate change, and I like seeing things that can stand the test of time.  I.E., Brian still being able to sing fairly well, Paul McCartney performing "Helter Skelter" nearly as good as the original on the grammies the other night.  I drive cars from the 60's... I restore arcade games from the 80's... etc.  When I was a kid, my parents moved around a lot, and I honestly think that's what I like anything ancient. 

about regretting wearing the shirt...he got a deoderant stain on it....and he wanted it to be worth a lot.


To Ron- I know exactly what you mean. I love vintage stuff. The reasons i like the particular movies i like is that reminise of nostaliga and old times....movies like A christmas Story, Superman IV, American Graffitti, JAWS, Back to the future...etc.....

Beach Boys/Brian Wilson keeps me in that safe place of old times sake.

Popular culture was in an incredible Golden Age from the twenties to the sixties.  Film, literature, music, fashion, television, animation, architecture, the comic strip, baseball, graphic art... It went through an entertaining decline in the seventies and then nearly everything just sort of died.  We're in an age of technology now and that's what our art is about. People will be living in that past for years to come because it was extraordinary.

I always feel like a backwardslooking technophobe luddite.

I'd like to think that SurferJoe, but I dunno.  I'm already hearing lots of 90's songs played almost as 'classic' tracks, and it seems to me (although I could be just imagining this) that the 50's nostalgia in our culture is all but dead, and the 70's nostalgia is on the rise.  As in, the 'cool' decade is moving.  

Personally, I know nothing about the 40's.  When I was a kid, I listened to 50's music all the time, many movies were set in the 50's, etc... now as I'm a little older, a lot of movies are set in the 60's and 70's, it's hard (very hard) to find 50's music on the radio, nobody talks about Marilyn or James Dean or even, gasp! Elvis to a large extent anymore.  Lots of kids have never heard of Buddy Holly or Richie Valens or god forbid the Big Bopper.  

So while I personally feel that you're right and there's a huge golden age there, it seems like at least the 50's portion of it is being lost, and the 70's are now considered equally as important and as 'retro' as the 60's.  

Get what I'm saying? It's hard to explain, but imagine a 20 year span of 'cool' and 'vintage' that moves with the times.  

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He doesn't look anything like Nilsson.

I think he looks like that guy with the glasses from the Turtles.  ;D

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Mark Volman?  Nah.


Rad Picture of John and Harry, though.  Rad.

Try and find the one of them laying down and Harry's fat beer belly protruding out of his sweater. It's a great picture of the two and his great beard.

I do get what you're saying; you have a strong point, Ron, and I'll continue to give it thought, but I tend to think that most things come back once from nostalgia, and I think that's what's happening with the 80s and maybe 90s now.  People remember it fondly, but there's just not much else there.   Different aspects of the 50s come back over and over in different forms.  And remember the Swing craze about seven years ago?  That'll happen again. 

You may think of the fifties, for example, as Elvis (and he'll keep coming back forever without ever really going away), but Louis Prima (to name one) will keep having his innings.  I'm a former animation artist, and we kept returning to the fifties (see: "Ren & Stimpy", "Dexter's Lab", etc. etc. etc.) over and over for different influences- character design, background styling, sponge-painting, the eclectic scores...

Clothing styles still draw from the fifties heavily- see Charlie Sheen's shirts on "Two And A Half Men".  Elements of the forties, sixties, and seventies are just as much present all around us.  Personally, I think that as years go by the culture of the eighties and nineties will be rehashed far less in part due to quality but in part because they were rehash to begin with.  In thirty years "I Love Lucy" and "The Honeymooners" will still be classic comedy.  But will "Saved By The Bell" or "Who's The Boss" be around when the people who watched the original runs are gone?

Mark Volman watched me punch out a concrete wall at the Burbank Courthouse in 1995.

you guys think i look like that guy? geegs...my ego was boosted last nite when i was told about the nilsson lookalike...now im depressed