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April 21, 2018

#Lamar Sorrento on @Twitter - Only HERE! (i'm his biggest fan and earliest dealer)

  1. 18 Aug 2010
    Huey Lewis and The News Album cover art by Lamar Sorrento http://fb.me/FZA0j7xL
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  3. 21h21 hours ago
    4. i wanted to thank you. she and michael bought your chuck berry at the gallery. after the show while they were doing cocaine she and i sat on the couch and drank champagne. she smelled good. it was called Eden Lamar Sorrento
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  5. 23h23 hours ago
    6. Lamar Sorrento Lawnmower Song Loverly Memphis via
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  7. Apr 14
    8. Lamar Sorrento do you know this incredible memphis artist who penned two of the two official songs of memphis, David Saks? i just thought of you when i heard it. he's also a philatelist.
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  9. Jan 22
    10. Ate the most amazing meal ( best sweet potato casserole!) at Ajax in Oxford, Mississippi surrounded by fabulous art by Lamar Sorrento
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  11. 21 May 2017
    12. When you're in Williamsburg and you see a Lamar Sorrento on the wall and realize there's no escape
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  13. 17 Apr 2017
    14. & on 4/28 Painting
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  15. 30 Dec 2016
    16. Art and Music Lamar Sorrento such a great 45
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  17. 26 Dec 2016
    18. Gretchen Peters Retweeted maggie
    Artist is the inimitable Lamar Sorrento. Guitarist is a tiny Johnny Cash.
    Gretchen Peters added,
    Replying to @gretchenpeters
    love that canvas of the Parthenon with the guitarist, who is the artist?
    1 reply 2 retweets 6 likes

  19. 16 Sep 2016
    20. Our @JJaggersWMC interviews artist Lamar Sorrento MEM . Watch Justin @ 6
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  21. 5 Jul 2016
    22. New addition to the wall at High/Low. Thanks to Lamar Sorrento.
    0 replies 0 retweets 6 likes

  23. 11 Apr 2016
    24. Thanks to for this fantastic mural on our side-entrance, showcasing lots of great Memphis musicians.
    0 replies 1 retweet 4 likes

  25. 9 Jul 2015
    26. Oh, and they have a companion to my Lamar Sorrento piece too...
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  27. 31 Mar 2015
    28. Grab an ‘Goofer Dust Pale Ale’ with artwork from NOLA folk artist Lamar Sorrento at .
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  29. 13 Jan 2015
    30. Replying to
    MORE great outsider from
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  31. 26 Dec 2014
    32. Lamar Sorrento painted this album cover for me and the painting hangs in my living room. He's such a badass. My...
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  33. 25 Oct 2014
    34. Lamar Sorrento: "Are you here for that cooking show thing?" "?" "Yeah that." One Night Stand open for biz.
    0 replies 1 retweet 4 likes

  35. 24 Oct 2014
    36. I'm really glad decided to have Lamar Sorrento paint us
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  37. 3 Aug 2014
    38. spotted a Lamar Sorrento painting on the wall of Ethan Hawke's pad in the wonderful movie "Boyhood." drive to Memphis & go see it.
    1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes

  39. 27 Jun 2014
    40. Check out this cool painting/postcard print by Lamar Sorento
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April 20, 2018

WATCH Lisa DeLeeuw Defends Constitution! PLUS Traci Lords Marries! (Both by ME, STILL on YouTube)


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April 18, 2018

WATCH Elvis In Concert June 1977 - Some lady said about this show, 'He can't talk, but he SURE AS FUCK CAN SING!'

some lady said about this show: 

 

he can't talk, but he SURE AS FUCK CAN SING!

it gave me chills and made me laugh--i call it a chillaugh




here's the caption ( i love this blurb i wrote 11 years ago, but you may not. the video however is UNFUCKINGINCRDIBLE--19 DAYS AFTER i saw him and less than two mos. till he dies. what is this, rollerderby--EP on Dilaudid)
 
"Oh see, See See Rider" Elvis tells James Burton to "Take it on"
"God, I mean I was totally unprepared to come out here backstage. You know, I was, there were flash bulbs, and, and he says you're on! On what? You're on! Anyway"

"Have I, have we, we.

I have, I ever 'bin to this town before?"

"Yeeeeeaaaaahhhhhhhhhh"

Elvis wore the Sundial suit with the two cuff buttons which he wore the night before in Omaha. Pershing Municipal Auditorium. 
 
Elvis In Concert CBS Special concert, along with the Omaha, June 19, 1977 & Rapid City, June 21, 1977 shows.

2001 theme, 
 
"Oh Yeah"! 
"Look at his clothes"! 
"Alright!"

"Yes, you're right"

Elvis acknowledges his fans. 
 
"When I was sick" it sounds like Elvis says. 
 
Elvis pauses while the audience applauds him. 
 
He responds, "But I'm back," which brings more applause. 
 
good luck on your tour Tav Falco. try to hold it together. i don't know if Amy Starks likes elvis, but she's been shy lately
Doug Meet
 
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Isaac Tigrett's Inventor Father and the Toys which Made him Famous! Drinking Bird, Zoomerang, a toy called The Toy and More

Tigrett Toys

 


Hewitt, Isaac and Johnny Tigrett wrap toys on the Tigrett Christmas Card, 1955

 

Most everyone has holiday memories, probably a mix of traditional Christmas season songs and activities, Vatican TV broadcasts, Mormons from their Tabernacle, Perry Como, Elvis, maybe snow, trains or planes and getting back home, to Jackson
This is a Santa Pops with the original box.
But for some of us, we can remember one of Jackson’s major contributions to the holidays that was truly unique.  Some of the most original, clever and cutting edge toys ever designed and manufactured came from Jackson.  What’s more, many of us, as kids, got to test them out before they were mass produced.  

There’s something magic about someone asking you to test a toy… if you are NINE!  Adults didn’t ask for your opinion about much back then.  But to join a dozen other kids and play for several hours with toys that were not in any store, anywhere, and have adults interested in your opinion of their creative efforts.  That creates a memory.

A white 1955 Chevy Suburban with Tigrett Industries written on the door, would pick everyone up, much like the crew for an Apollo Mission (which happened 20 years later).  The job was to evaluate a string of (what would become) unprecedented toy successes and national and international stories.

One of the first was The House of Cards, designed by Charles and Ray Eames, they were playing card sized boards with various images that fit together with tiny slits.  You could build structures with the cards without tools or adhesives.  Another Eames designed toy was designed as die cut shapes to color and attach together.

The Eames House of Cards, now a collector's item was an early Tigrett international success.
Another Eames designed toy called "The Toy" was a minimalist take on an inside tent.

In the picture are Isaac Tigrett, Patricia Morgan (Milner), and Johnny Tigrett
One of the most popular toys was Albert, a seesaw design that transferred a liquid in an enclosed vial toward the birds beak.  A wick that, immediately after dipping in water, produced a drop in temperature due to condensation which transferred the weight back to the bill.  Then it would reach a horizontal position the weight would transfer back to the tail, but only after the bill had become wet again to start the process once more.  It was advertised as “the one and only perpetual motion machine”.  Whether it broke the rules of thermodynamics or not, it sold millions of units.

Albert, an international phenomena.
 
A method of filling a thermodynamic motor consisting of passing liquefied gas having a boiling point below room temperature from a pressure tank into an expansion chamber chilled below room temperature, passing a measured amount into a hollow member chilled below room temperature from said chilled expansion chamber, permitting the temperature of the liquid in said hollow member to rise until it boils, boiling the liquid until the vapor therefrom purges most of the air from the member, and sealing said member.

Carl F. Massopust September 20, 1948, assigned to John Burton Tigrett November 17, 1953 www.ip.com The Intellectual Property Library
In the New Yorker column Talk of the Town, July 4, 1953 they reported:

“Yogi, a plastic bird that climbs ceilings, walls and windows. Yogi is the invention of an Ohio engineer named Wigal. Last year while he working in Japan for the Goodyear Rubber Co.,Wigal sent the prototype of Yogi to John Tigrett, of Tigrett Enterprises, who was behind the Drinking Bird, Zoomerang, and a house-building toy called The Toy."

the fabulous success of the toy
 http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1953/07/04/1953_07_04_015_TNY_CARDS_000239837#ixzz1g9Ns3o8m

 
Fritz profiled in Popular Mechanics shows Yogi, which by June of that year had earned him more than a half million dollars according to the article.  He developed a less aggressive version of a suction cup that would hold tightly for a few seconds, release easily and allow another cup to take its place as a wheel of 5 cups moved the device up a smooth surface.

This is the Wigal helicopter prototype. According to eye witnesses the device did leave the ground but was not stable.




The Zoomaray was another entry into the Tigrett successes.  These are not all of the toys produced, and these are not all of the stories surrounding John Burton Tigrett. 

He wrote an autobiography, “Fair and Square” which tells more about his successes as well as his tragedies. 

His book can be found on eBay from time to time.  In it, you discover that the remarkable success of Tigrett Industries is but a tiny chapter of a personal adventure on an international scale.

Hewitt, Isaac and Johnny Tigrett wrap toys on the Tigrett Christmas Card, 1955

Most of the toys and all of the research was thanks to Steve Hamilton, a certified nine-year-old Tigrett Toy Tester who owns the toys to this day.  He lives with his wife Sheila Hamilton on Manasota Key in Florida.
John Reitzammer
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