Light, Sound & Stories: I'd Rather be Blue

I always start of a post by apologizing for neglecting my own blog, it is kind of silly, but i will apologize again because my ignorance has been paramount, nearly matching the apathy I feel towards my hair (i currently have two, almost fully formed (unintentional) dreadlocks

If we do have any actual followers you may have picked up on two main themes thus far.
One, we are very inconsistent, and two, there isn't too much continuity within posts, but I have never been for continuity, not exactly my forte. Ask my mother. Never expect one theme in our blog posts is what I am saying.

That being said, I'm starting this blog off with some stuff I've been digging, and it will probably end with some more stuff that I dig, but it is more than likely they will have no (known) relation to eachother.


Cliff Edwards, a.k.a Ukulele Ike

This post was potentially just an excuse to post this picture, just because everything about it is just so good. Cliff Edwards was a musician and voice actor( notably,he was the voice of Jiminy Cricket (!!!!)) popular in the 1920s and 1930s. I don't know too much about the guy yet, but I think I will have to because he seems like quite the rad character. Another cool thing about this ol'Cliff Edwards is that he happens to hail from the same Hannibal Missouri as Mark Twain.

I was going to post about Fanny Brice,(singer/entertainer during 1920s/1930s) the real Funny Girl, but I won't because the fact of the matter is I like Babs Streisand heaps more. Yes, I love Barbra Streisand.

So I guess it would be appropriate to do a Barbra Streisand post then. I have no idea where this post is going. I think i like Barbra because I just find her really awkwardly talented.

Weirdly enough its almost like I have an actual theme to this post, that idea is almost uncomftorable, but I guess my infatuation with the twenties and thirties is kinda overwhelming my mind. So I suppose I will just post a bunch of picture circa those two decades. I particularly really like the 20s because aesthetically it seemed to be some sort of reconciliation of bohemian sensibilities and a kind of theatrical glamor? I've spent my whole life trying to merge those two worlds and in the 20s they seemed to figure it out pretty ok.