The Monkees

American attempt to copy the Beatles~~~~Mid 60's

monkeys doin research, right?

Monkeys recognise 'bad grammar'

states a BBC article

a sample of the article:

he team says the work illustrates how many animals use patterns that have become intrinsic to human language.

And this provides evidence of the "non-lingual" origin of certain aspects of language, the group told BBC News.

I fink, tha' monkeys, righ? they go' smalller brains than humans, righ?

so we're like superyoorr brainier than wot them is. see? so the study don' mean nuffink

Velvet underpants

The Velvet Underground-Sunday Morning video

and more!

The Velvet Underground - Venus in Furs - Live video

The Velvet Underground was an American rock band first active, in various incarnations, from 1965 to 1973. Their best-known members were Lou Reed and John Cale, who both went on to find success as solo artists. Although never commercially successful while together, the band is often cited by many critics as one of the most important and influential groups of their era and to many future musicians.

The Velvet Underground was a part of the subcultural New York City art collective surrounding Andy Warhol's Factory and his Exploding Plastic Inevitable events. The band's music and lyrics challenged conventional societal standards of the time, and broke ground for other musicians to do the same. The band favored experimentation, and also introduced a nihilistic outlook through some of their music. Their outsider attitude and experimentation has since been cited as pivotal to the rise of punk rock and, later, alternative rock.

Their 1967 debut album, titled The Velvet Underground and Nico (which featured German singer Nico, with whom the band collaborated) was named the 13th Greatest Album of All Time, and the "most prophetic rock album ever made" by Rolling Stone in 2003.

sallytoo fights the morphed alien

As requested by Lassie, here is a longer video of sallytoo (Sally 2nd, the border collie) apparently fighting an alien cunningly disguised as a dead stick. You can't trust the damned aliens; I sometimes if our members of parliament are really disguised aliens. Or maybe genuine dead sticks ... ?

nesting baby sparrows

There's nothing to see here, but an excellent sound recording of baby sparrows nesting about 3 feet from my back door, in the roof of the shed. They are now (late June) raising another flock/brood/litter/mob/ ... :)