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Ennio Morricone turns 80 on November 10th!
LuxuriaMusic's Morricone week kicks off with Thrifting for Tunes'
Due to the overwhelmingly positive response to the last all-you-can-eat spaghetti buffet, we're laying off the cocktails for the next two weeks and getting back in the kitchen for more pasta!
Thrifting for Tunes - Halloween Special
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Happy Halloween folks...
Enjoy a mostly spoken-word set of eerily ear-tickling witty weirdness to get you feeling happily haunted! And oh yeah, a few bloody beats and ghoulish grooves too! THE THRIFTING FOR TUNES HALLOWEEN SPECIAL October 25 at 11 am pacific / 2 pm eastern October 31 at Noon pacific / 3 pm eastern
Hawaiian Isle: 1966 (from the video archives)
Another one from the family archives...Here's a glimpse of the Hawaiian Isle Motel in Miami Beach, circa 1966. Even at one-and-a-half years of age, I think my enthusiasm for all things Tiki is obvious... right from the opening scene when I run straight for the motel entrance. Check out the nice font on the sign... and the huge Tiki out front.
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"scruffy whiskers caveman hour" — Thrifting for Tunes Lee Hazlewood Special
Airs on Lee's birthday, July 9 (3 p.m. pacific / 6 p.m. eastern) "you play that stuff in the mauna loa lounge?.jpg)
and again in my usual timeslot on July 12 (11 a.m. pacific / 2 p.m. eastern)
sheesh. why don't you change the name to scruffy whiskers caveman hour?"
-Recent LuxuriaMusic.
Thrifting for Tunes - July 5
I'm getting ready to head out on a rum-buying excursion in mid-July but I've still got plenty going on...
From the family archives: Johnny Puleo tries to hit on Mom!
Here's a little something from the family archives I thought I'd share with you all today...
That's my mom in the picture — all 4 feet 11 inches of her — towering over harmonica virtuoso Johnny Puleo... circa 1962, at a classy joint called Le Faisan Bleu here in Montreal.
My Dad can be seen cracking up in the background... He really didn't seem to mind Johnny P. trying to score with Mom... it was the swingin' sixties after all.
Polynesian Pop Culture in the Great White North
Urban archaeologists searching for remnants of vintage Polynesian Pop culture above the 49th parallel often come up empty-handed and disappointed, especially if beginning their quest on the West Coast. Sure, if you dig around enough, you can find traces of Tiki’s past in British Columbia… With a little luck, maybe a couple of things out in the prairies… Not much at all in Ontario (nothing, in fact, in Toronto)… But starting out in the east, in Quebec — in and around Montreal in particular — you’ll find a region that is teeming (well, almost) with Tiki activity.