Recently on the Exotica Mailing List the topic of old cocktail books came up.
Reprinted Cocktail Books at Amazon
Here’s a link to the re-printed cocktail books site
Monty Python officially at YouTube
The inspiring magazine for architecture enthusiasts and their midcentury homes: renovations, furnishings, landscaping and resources for real people on a budget.
Is this the first cocktail blog I mention here? Hard to believe. This link goes to the receipes tagged Tiki. Obviously Beachbum Berry is a contributor.
Update:
I got it today, but could only read bits here and there so far.
My favorite quote currently is Johnny Bartlett saying:
“See, a lot of surf bands (in recent years) got it so wrong. It’s not just the guitar you use, or the sound you get, or the clothes you wear… it’s the whole package.”
I encourage anyone with an interest in Surf to buy it asap. It’s just epic.
Pop Surf Culture: Music, Design, Film, and Fashion from the Bohemian Surf Boom: Brian Chidester, Domenic Priore
This is going to be a must have book – just trust me. If you’ve read previous publications by the authors (like the latest Dumb Angel Magazine for example), you know they get deep into their subjects and have great sense for entertaining writing. They take you right there, with coolest people – connecting all the dots of southern california youth culture of the sixties.
link to Pop Surf Culture on Amazon for your pre-order. I am Amazon affiliated, which just means by using this link for a purchase you get a great book and support this blog at the same, for the same money. Why give it all to Amazon ;–?
This is another one. The modification of olf hi-fis to support modern media-components seems to become popular. And I understand it. They are too beautiful to throw away if you have the space and they sound incredible.
Mister Jalopy artwork on display in Los Angeles gallery Nov. 1 – 18, 2008 – Boing Boing
Swyng Jacks a pre Pulp Fiction surf band from Hamburg, Germany. Lonely Tubes was the title track of a MC published in 1992 called The Swyng Jacks Play Lonely…