Fantastic Mr. Fox in your wardrobe.

Peter Gabriel fronting Genesis, 1973

And happy retirement Phil Collins! (it's about time).

Fletcher's room

Like many things in our place, our one-year old son Fletcher's room is furnished with from yard sales, thrift shops, flea markets, and hand-me-downs.
The dressers and cabinets are old George Nelson for Herman Miller- the long glass case originally meant for record albums. The Mickey Myers crayon prints and signed ("For Amanda") Bil Baird Marionette Theatre prints were bought years ago at the Carousel thrift shop in Southport, Ct., which funnily enough is located in the church where I went to nursery school. We found the Stokke crib on Craigslist, from the local window-washer who washes the windows of the local Scandinavian Shop. The mobile has since moved away since I took this photo a few months ago.
Linda's old Eames rocking chair was from the 26th St. flea market and is now home to a Freudian-looking Keith Kustard. The teak monkeys are hanging around a teak floor lamp by Laurel, from a garage sale.

The Kodak Instamatic X-15 camera was a store display from the 60's. The flash cube is actually an electric light.
The wooden sail lamp was made by our friend Fidi.  Over to the left is a giant Marimekko beanbag, and an unphotogenic mass of stuffed animals and books.

The hi-fi system with fun-for-Daddy records including Harry Nilsson's The Point! and my brother's and my old Jim Copp and Ed Brown records, inscribed by them when we were kids and our mother took us to see them perform at Bloomingdale's in Stamford, Ct., in the shadow of the giant Bjorn Wiinblad ceramic fountain.

For more on his room and our inspirations click over to the super nice and extremely patient Jenny Dalton's site: LittleBig Magazine



Below is his room in its previous state as our guestroom:




related:



Julie Merz's room, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, January 1978. From the incredible, fascinating Nooney Brooklyn Photographs, 1978-1979. From the NYPL Digital archive.

Heavy Metal 1977-81

From Ebay.
AAAAA+++++!

Related: Bowie at the Beeb:

Bulloww-Up

We don't usually buy records anymore unless there's a poster inside, but here are the latest exceptional exceptions.
Lalo Schifrin's Bullitt and Herbie Hancock's and the Byrds' Blow-Up.

Bear Up Bison!

Our old and good friend Vinditto at the brilliantly resplendent The World's Best Ever kindly asked us to contribute a mix tape to their amazing catalog of Sound Advice. While we're no djs, our mix starts off somewhat autobiographical (except for Makin' It- I thought it was about makin' it) and then segues into a melange of what was most often in the tape player/on the passenger seat.

Click the boom box and enjoy.


Sound Advice 71: Wary Meyers

01. Streetbeater Theme by Quincy Jones

02. Boy/Girl by U2

03. Makin’ It by David Naughton

04. Sexy Eiffel Towers by Bow Wow Wow

05. Shack Up by A Certain Ratio

06. Me And My Arrow by Harry Nilsson

07. Only You Can by Fox

08. Monica by The Kinks

09. Stacey Grove by Tyrannosaurus Rex

10. Junk by Paul McCartney

11. History Lesson Part II by Minutemen

12. Fearless by Pink Floyd

13. On The Way Home by Neil Young (from “Live At Massey Hall”)

14. American Tune by Paul Simon (from Greatest Hits, Etc)

15. Red Sleeping Beauty by McCarthy

16. Post Modern Girls by The Strokes & Regina Spektor

17. Bear Up Bison by Big Dipper

18. Loch Ness Monster by Big Dipper

19. Moon Shadow by Labelle

20. Ma Ligne De Chance by Anna Karina

21. For Lovers by Wolfman and Pete Doherty

22. Grazing In The Grass by Hugh Masekela

23. Roxanne by Sting (from The Secret Policeman’s Other Ball, 1981)

24. Message In A Bottle by Sting (from The Secret Policeman’s Other Ball, 1981)

25. Tonight You Belong To Me by Bernadette Peters and Steve Martin

26. Wild Mountain Honey by Steve Miller Band

Take R.I.T

Selections from Rochester Institute of Technology yearbooks, 1974, 76, and 78.

(in no particular order)

September 17th

Sofia Vergara as Mary Tyler Moore on the cover of Astrud Gilberto's excellent album September 17, 1969.

The Secret Policeman

Sting, resplendent in sublimeness at The Secret Policeman's Other Ball benefit for Amnesty International, 1981.

Also, Message in a Bottle

One Buffalo Boy gone 'round the outside

R.I.P. Malcolm McLaren. Sex Pistols manager, Bow Wow Wow creator, shop owner, genius, and the inspiration behind our boombox.

:nytimes

He's a nice cat

	tyrannosaurus rex - stacey grove .mp3
	Found at bee mp3 search engine

Older Allen & Unwin paperback of The Hobbit- with Tolkien's Death of Smaug cover art- from a yard sale; and from a garage sale a Tyrannosaurus Rex claw for the boy's room. Relatedly, Steve Peregrin Took and Marc Bolan of Tyrranosaurus Rex with two of their best.

The Point

Second hand needlepoints, always found for a dollar or two, and always making us ask "why would anyone get rid of this?" From top: the coolest tennis racquet cover ever, from a church sale. Obviously for a plumber, or a tennis pro with a wandering pipe; a nice colorful glasses case; a so sweet gift from a grandmother featuring an 8-bit sized Jack Russell; an old Union Jack pincushion; floating mushrooms; a funny Gucci purse, from an estate sale in Old Orchard Beach; two blue willow pillows; an old Princetonian eyeglasses case; a pink-and-metallic pillow from 1974; and Harry Nilsson's The Point, memorized by John from when he was a kid and now cued up on the toy turntable in our soon-to-arrive son's room (who needs "hickory-dickory-dock" when you have "Me and my Arrow".)

	Harry Nilsson - Me And My Arrow .mp3
	Found at bee mp3 search engine

see also here and here

Distressed Finnish

Aalice Cooper Alvar Aalto Maash Üpp, from the pages of 

Wary Meyers' Tossed & Found