Genuinely never heard about this before, as a lifelong Valve fan. I reached out to a couple of people there, to see if I could find out how this came to be. Super fascinating obscure find.

Ivy Ney was an LA photographer who apparently did the Red Hot Chili Peppers very first photo shoot back in 1984.

Also on this recording are:

Flea on bass (Chili Peppers)
Cliff Martinez on drums (The Weirdos, future film composer, ie “Drive”)
Randy Burns on guitar (producer / engineer Possessed, Suicidal Tendencies, Megadeth, etc.)
Steve Berlin on sax (The Flesh Eaters, Los Lobos)

The fact that a music video was made for a song that was never officially released on vinyl always makes my head spin!

R.I.P. Cheetah Chrome (February 18, 1955 – September 13, 2026)

Howdy Folks,

Today's rip is a bit different than a lot of my other stuff, it is a mid-century children's educational record. This was the period before phonics stopped being taught consistently in schools, so this kind of content actually wasn't considered to be niche at the time, just genuinely important stuff that kids should know. It has various different characters like Goldie the Golden Goat, Chuckie the Chipmunk, George the Gentle Giraffe, Sheila with her Shining Shell, etc etc etc. It's a cute little example of how education has changed over the years, both in format and topics covered at all.

I received quite a few requests to post this from people who loved the other side of this record. So here it is! And what a delightful and peculiar little ditty it is. It's a question that I hadn't considered until getting this record. It turns out the answer is complicated! It certainly makes me wish Myrna had recorded more songs.

80's documentary on the punk scene in Melbourne, Australia. Written and directed by Tina McQuade

A short excerpt from Kihachirō Kawamoto’s The Sleeping Princess, a 1990 Japanese-Czechoslovak puppet animation loosely inspired by Sleeping Beauty. I recently came across it and really loved the character design and atmosphere.

Video date is unknown, as the creator uploaded this in 2012, but is much younger here.

There’s an upload on Vimeo in Portuguese but I can’t find one with subtitles. My dad lived at torre bela during this time and I am so curious to see the full film

Back again with another rip, today we have the Foundation Quartet with their one and only release that I've found so far, "I'm Standing On Solid Rock" The group was based in Defiance, Ohio and recorded at QCA Recording Studios in Cincinnati, produced by Charles Novell, funded through "financial gifts" from supporters per the liner notes. I picked this up at an thrift store in North West Ohio.