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[Michael Bailey]

http://home.att.net/~marvart/HollywoodSaxons/hollywoodsaxons.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yItFm1AfvOw

the olympics? obvious ambiguity makes them a booger to search for.
I didn't find anything - next time I go to the oldies store...

"souvenirs out of a childhood Doc had never much felt
he wanted to escape from"

just as astrology posits the particular moment of
birth as being important in creating a person, perhaps
the music and memories of one's childhood have as much
to do with creating a personality.  The stars in Doc's
childhood were these musicians, and his lingering
youthfulness (a quality also celebrated in song: Forever Young,
Young at Heart, etc) is something that was set up early on
by their alignment.
Lazy les bon temp rolaids, or something

but at this juncture, those great songs and groups
appear only as occasional blessed relief in what is
apparently a fairly lengthy drive otherwise filled by
the "Super Surfin' Marathon.

Denis wants to hear "Tequila"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rew6On8ejNg

"the Spanish modality and flamencoid roll strokes
of the surfer's sworn enemy, the Lowrider"
(- a rivalry "much celebrated in the history of my people", sez Hector
in _Vineland_ (or words to the effect))


"The house had once belonged to half of a much-loved
hillbilly act of the forties"
Flatt and Scruggs?  didn't think they lived in California...

"bass player turned record-company executive"
- Mike Curb again?  no idea...

coffee tables made from surfboards:
http://www.malibulongboards.com/coffee.html

porte cochere
http://www.buffaloah.com/a/DCTNRY/p/porte.html

http://www.filmreference.com/Writers-and-Production-Artists-Kr-Lo/Loew-Marcus.html
"1969 Loew's sold off its famous Culver City MGM backlots, and the
artifacts of Loew's most famous creation went on the auction block."

http://www.caslon.com.au/auctionsprofile7.htm
" 1970 MGM Studios auction"

stuff like the Cowardly Lion costume...
http://www.dvdverdict.com/newsblog/cboris/post/1410

...and more
http://lelands.com/bid.aspx?lot=1760&auctionid=611

found a closed auction on eBay for 3 volume catalog
of that, but it faded and disappeared before my eyes...
"I'm melting...."

Jurgensen's in Beverly Hills:
upscale gourmet food store, vanished in the 90's apparently...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa2.jpg

Rilke wrote a poem about the series of Hokusai's paintings,
all depicting Mount Fuji, that "Great Wave" comes from:
http://www.picture-poems.com/rilke/features/deepsnow.html#Berg




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