beautiful color footage of Los Angeles...

...during the holidays from 1946. Here's Part One and Part Two.

Cruise Sunset Strip...

...from 1964 and check out the groovy cars. Vrooooooooooooom!

Saturday morning dose of Soul Train...

...from its early days with Get Down by Curtis Mayfield. Get down!

Sunday morning dose of the tropics...

...with Johnny Nash singing Hold Me Tight from 1968.

Saturday night dose of authentic...

...mid 1950s Mambo music by Perez Prado performing Mambo #8.

Sunday morning dose of The Beach Boys...

singing Wendy on an unusually snowy day in October.

drive-in theater refreshment movies

so scary and bizarre... I love them! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Sunday morning dose of color...

...with the incomparable Otis Redding on The Beat from 1966.

crazy man, crazy!

Groovin' on The Munsters with The Standells covering The Beatles.

Sweet Soul Music

Arthur Conley singing Sweet Soul Music from 1967. Nice, clear footage of the band groovin' and folks in the audience diggin' it.

Allen House in Boston

Some summer shots of The Allen House on Washington Street.

Friday morning dose of kitsch

There's a ghoul in the school! Waaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!

shake ya money maker

I present James Brown and Bobby Byrd singing Sex Machine.

Friday morning dose of go-go-ness...

...with more American International stuff. Groooooooooooooovy.

American International Pictures

AIP started in 1955, cranking out a ton of double-feature, B-movies aimed at teenagers with lots of music, fast cars and swinging.

Here's Michael Landon in I Was a Teenage Werewolf. Rrrrrr!

Here's the trailer from Riot on Sunset Strip, circa 1967

Candy Johnson during closing credits from 1963

Here's the trailer for Muscle Beach Party for a kooky slice of 1964.

Check out James Brown singing I Got You in 1965's Ski Party.

Here's the trailer for Beach Party from 1963. Get out your bongos.

 Dr. Goldfoot and his Bikini Machine was cinema at its best.

Monday morning pick-me-up...

...with go-go dancing from an episode of Burke's Law circa 1964.

Friday morning dose of Oompa Loompas

I was singing this song this morning and just had to hear it.

traveling go-go party!

Summer isn't over yet. Head to the beach in your shimmymobile.

Simmons Hall at MIT

The weeHouse post inspired me to finally take a bike ride to see this building in person. There are some beautiful old and new dorms in Boston and this one is incredible!

prefab ain't what it used to be...

Thank God. Check out these cool weeHouses. I want one! Yehaaw!

Friday morning dose of go-go-ness...

...from the Whisky a Go-Go on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood.

put on yer bikini...

head to Surf City and shake it! Whooooooooaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!

Friday morning dose of the yeh-yehs...

...with Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames. Yeh yeh

Monday dose of get-up-and-go-go...

with Chuck Berry from French 1958 tv. Here's Roll Over Beethoven.

head to the beach before summer ends...

and wiggle wobble! Just beware of those pesky beach monsters.

k.d. lang

I saw k.d. lang last night at the Cape Cod Melody Tent. What a great place to see a show. It's a revolving theatre-in-the-round stage and quite intimate. It's only an hour from Boston if you drive quickly. Just kidding. Not really. Her voice is the best and her show was fantastic.

Darlene Love

Great beach read if you like reading about the music industry, particularly 60s pop and soul. In Darlene Love's book My Name Is Love, her candor is so refreshing, I like her even more. Plus, juicy rock and roll tidbits, but not gross tidbits. Check out some of the characters: The Blossoms,  
Shindig!, The Righteous Brothers, Phil Spector, Sonny and Cher,  
Tom Jones, Nino Tempo, The Four Tops, The Temptations, Aretha Franklin, Dionne Warwick and Ike and Tina Turner. 

If you see this ghoul, play it cool

Making hey-hey in the moonlight while the monster waits, watches.

Such a happy theme song for a movie about killer jello.

Check out Robot Monster from 1953. Whaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!

Friday morning dose of go-go-ness...

from a bevy of beauties in Mexico. Wooly Bully en Español.

fireworks over Boston

While taking footage of the Boston skyline, fireworks went off. How groovy was that?! Whooooooooaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!

Memorial Day on Boston Common

Found this memorial while bike riding around the city.

skyline time lapse

Day to night and night to day from my window in Boston.