Helnwein'd

The Austrian-Irish artist Gottfried Helnwein did the memorable album cover for the Scorpions 1982 Blackout LP. That I knew. What I learned was, he also did that 1987 satire of the Edward Hopper painting Nighthawks. Helnwein included Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, and Elvis Presley in his and called it Boulevard of Broken Dreams. It became a popular poster. The Scorps' cover also adorned many a dorm wall. And that is indeed a self-portrait, NOT the teutonic mustachio'd rhythm guitarist Rudy Schenker in the picture, although he does do the imitation in the video! Video bonus: Klaus Meine in little blue underpants.

Aaron Burr and his granddad

Oh man oh man! I can't believe what I learned today!
Aaron Burr was Jonathan Edwards' grandson??!
What?!! Are you jiving me??
Nope.
Jonny Edwards, the Calvinist, Puritan, Monster Theologian?
He made the guy who made the guy who killed Alexander Hamilton?

Got it from the intro to this AMAZING book:
A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign by Edward J. Larson.

Parthenon & Ebbets

PARACLES builds!
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PARTHENON: most perfect building ever?
It was built to honor ATHENA.
13-ton columns -- 46 of 'em!
That's 2 and a half thousand years ago, yo!
ATHENS!!

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The mistake of '98: Brooklyn absorbed into New York City.
Charles Hercules Ebbets, ticket-taker to team owner.
Bought property in Pig Town, and abandoned part of Brooklyn.
His ballpark was the The Great Modern Ballpark in 1913 with 25,000 seats.
Too few! In 1932 he added 7,000 more.
The park was intimate all over. It took up ONE city block.
Luv dem Bums and Clowns and Sym-Phony Band!

Satellite & Transistor

The 1st communications satellite = July 10, 1962
TELSTAR = 3 Earth stations: U.K., France, Maine
The 1st image broadcast was the American flag.

The 1st televisions hit the stores in '54.
By the late 60's you got red blood on yer screen.

It is 238,000 miles to the moon.
Roundabout the average center-to-center distance.
About 30 times the diameter of the Earth.

The TRANSISTOR was invented in 1947!
[they won the Nobel Prize for it]
Bell Labs y'all!! [lasers, cellphones, touchtones ... ]

ACCUTRON watches use oscillating tuning forks.
They are electronicall driven wristwatches and they are FRESH.

JET BLACK MARY

Today I Learned? Shoot, every day I learn more about the awesomeness of Howard Ashley Storey cinematix! Jarring! Stirring! Fuggin' ACE!

JET BLACK MARY IS LIVE AND ON THE INNERNETS HELL YESS!

SATANIC VOGUE

Crowley Audio Storey Video

Backstage Snaps

Took these backstage at the L - O - C

Backa the staxa The John Adams Building, knowsit ...

Sneaky cameraphone captures ...

Declassified Government papers ...

Classic rows of archived history herein ...