LP record for the do-it-yourselfer

“Do-It-Yourself” from the Columbia Records series “Music for Gracious Living.” Do-It-Yourself

[#1 posted by dbarak , September 12, 2008 12:02 PM]

Check out the boss cuffs on that kid's pants!

[#2 posted by Phikus , September 12, 2008 12:04 PM]

Orange and blue go so well together.

[#3 posted by TJIC , September 12, 2008 12:17 PM]

Let me point out that the right format for do-it-yourselfers is DVDs! (or, depending on your interests, a subscription to a bunch of DVDs ).

Yes, this is plugging my own baby - please forgive me!

[#4 posted by TJIC , September 12, 2008 12:19 PM]

@2:

> Orange and blue go so well together.

They do, actually! I built a big library onto my house. It's 450 ft^2 of floorspace, with 10 ft ceilings...and something like 1,000 square feet of wall space...all of which I sponge-painted in beige and orangey-terra-cotta, and valences and blankets in the room are blue, and it looks pretty darned spiffy, if I do say so myself.

Also, on a cold winter day, a fire in the woodstove is nicely complemented by orange-ish walls, IMO.

[#5 posted by Phikus , September 12, 2008 12:21 PM]

Yes, but do you provide music for gracious living? Do you have a portal to bring us back to the 50's?

[#6 posted by dbarak , September 12, 2008 12:23 PM]

"Yes, this is plugging my own baby - please forgive me!"

I have no problem with it as long as you send me a set... just kidding. ; )

[#7 posted by EH , September 12, 2008 12:28 PM]

With all the hammering and sawing, the upshot is that this records sounds like Nurse With Wound.

[#8 posted by Stefan Jones , September 12, 2008 12:29 PM]

While Dad and Junior build a peg board-mounted bin for peg board hooks in the cleanest home workshop that ever existed, mom knits a bomb shelter cozy.

Meanwhile Sis enjoys the view from her panda bear shaped iron lung.

[#9 posted by Mark Frauenfelder , September 12, 2008 12:31 PM]

#8: (snort!) You are channeling, Lileks, Stefan!

[#10 posted by jimh , September 12, 2008 12:54 PM]

I hope it has the industrious factory music, "Powerhouse" by Raymond Scott, so often heard in Warner Brothers cartoons. You know the one.

[#11 posted by jimh , September 12, 2008 12:57 PM]

http://raymondscott.com/Powerhse.wav

[#12 posted by Gary61 , September 12, 2008 12:59 PM]

My personal fave is track 11: "the 'I've Cut My Finger Off' Stomp".

[#13 posted by The Unusual Suspect , September 12, 2008 1:09 PM]

I do indeed know the one, but I've never known the name. I thought it was a Stalling composition.

Thanks, JimH!

[#14 posted by MarlboroTestMonkey7 , September 12, 2008 1:16 PM]

Ah! Music to play while I MAKE the germ free baby fishbowl.

[#15 posted by Stefan Jones , September 12, 2008 1:20 PM]

What a great site.

Some of the foreign covers are nightmarish.

Don't miss the Metaluna Ladies Choir.

[#16 posted by gnosis , September 12, 2008 1:45 PM]

#7 - I LOLed.

[#17 posted by SharpieSniffer , September 12, 2008 2:33 PM]

I like mom's proto-Birkenstocks. For the self-sufficient, off-the-grid pioneer of the 50s.

[#18 posted by gleez , September 12, 2008 3:10 PM]

Mark, I have this record. Have I ever played it? Nope. A few years back, I acquired it, where else, at a garage sale. It used to be on my wall in one of those Restoration Hardware album frames, but it was replaced with the self titled James Brown album when he died. If I find it, maybe Mister Jalopy will rip it on his giant ipod and we could graciously listen to it at the next event at Coco's Variety.

[#19 posted by Modusoperandi , September 13, 2008 4:02 PM]

There's no way that exterior wall is up to code.