#Surfin' Fred

[elijones94]

❤️ “Oh, Fred.” 🦴🦕🦖

[longliverockback]

Chuck Berry On Stage 1963 Chess Record ————————————————— Tracks: 01. Go Go Go 02. Memphis 03. Maybelline 04. Surfing Steel 05. Rocking on the Railroad 06. Brown Eyed Handsome Man 07. Still Got the Blue 08. Surfin’ U.S.A. 09. Jaguar & the Thunderbird 10. I Just Want to Make Love to Yo 11. All Aboard 12. Trick or Treat 13. The Man and the Donke —————————————————

Fred Below

Chuck Berry

Reggie Boyd

Leroy C. Davis

Willie Dixon

Ebbie Hardy

Johnnie Johnson

George Smith

Otis Spann

Phil Thomas

* Long Live Rock Archive

[randomduckwandering]

I love music omg listening to everyones songs rn

Thanks for the tagg :)))

1. Cops/Dogs By destructo disk

2. All in the Family by Korn and Fred Durst

3.Surfin U.S.A by The Beach Boys

4. Baby Im Yours By Cass Eliot

5. Trash Magic by Lana Del Ray (unrealesed)

I have so many more :(

Tagging the few people i know

@helphowdoiusethis

@crowjodojocasahouse

@samthegremlin

@ Anyone else that wants to do this :^)

✨️when u get this u have to put 5 songs u actually listen to, publish. Then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (non-negotiable, positivity is cool)🎶✨️

Thank u so much bestie!! Some of my favorites let's go 🎵🎶

☆ Your Love (Deja Vu) - Glass Animals (all time fave ^^ I think I listened to it over 400 times last year)

☆ Self Destructor - Chevelle (from a movie I like it's a banger)

☆ Beauty School - Deftones

☆ Six Shooter - Coyote Kisses

☆ superdeadfriends - Yungblud (also a movie song)

Tagging 10 followers (if u want) !!!

@13-lucky-tapeworms @strawberrychainsawz @hey-sinamka @cthonic-the-hedgehog @scaredypunk @whereserpentswalk @boldlykrispytragedy @fluffnfuzzxoxo @pricemarshfield @thanos-the-dad-titan @plaguecarthallucination @a-strawbebie @foolishrats and @silvershewolf247 ^^!!

[chaptertwo-thepacnw]

the flintstones |1965|

[coldturkeysandwich]

“Alright folks, next up on Bikini Bottom radio, we have Surfin’ Summer by Richard MyHill!”

[internethorrorfan]

My Halloween Playlists

Since 2016 I've made an annual Halloween playlist and posted them online. Since there’s only a week until Halloween I guessed now was as good a time as any to share them with you. I wanted to just embed them but I couldn’t figure out how to do that. If someone tells me how to embed MixCloud to Tumblr I'll go back and do that.

Jukebox of Horrors volume 1: The Orange and Black Album

https://8tracks.com/plan9fromouterspace59/jukebox-of-horrors-vol-1-the-orange-and-black-album-remake

Tracklist:

Intro-Halloween Convention of Spooks Alice Cooper-Welcome to My Nightmare Live Elvira-Haunted House  Bobby "Boris" Pickett-The Monster Swim Bernard Herrmann-Psycho Theme Velvet Revolver-Psycho Killer (Talking Heads cover) Johnathan Young-Monster Mash (Bobby "Boris" Pickett cover) Leo Moracchioli-Ghostbusters (Ray Parker Jr. cover) Chuck Billy Of Testament-Thriller (Michael Jackson cover) The Ghastly Ones ft. Rob Zombie-Halloween [She Get So Mean] Creature Feature-Buried Alive Jaunter-This Is Halloween (Danny Elfman Cover) Interlude-Mini Monsters cereal commercial T.S.O.L.-Blackmagic Fastway-Trick Or Treat Type O Negative-All Hallows Eve 45 Grave-Partytime: Zombie Version  Blitzkid-Myers 10/31 Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein-Stranger Things theme Halloween-Halloween Night Bloodjunkies-All Hallows Eve Ozzy Osbourne-Bark At The Moon Dead Kennedys-Halloween  Oingo Boingo-No One Lives Forever  Goblin-Suspiria  The Misfits-Halloween Outro-In Announcement: Good Night and Drive Safely

Jukebox of Horrors volume 2: At The Monster Shindig

https://8tracks.com/plan9fromouterspace59/jukebox-of-horrors-vol-2-at-the-monster-shindig

Intro-Halloween 1978 TV Spot  John Carpenter-Halloween Theme The Meteors-Michael Myers Rob Zombie-Everybody Scream The Misfits-Night of the Living Dead  AFI-Fall Children  The Other-Hallow's Eve  Coffin Spell-Halloween III  Alice Cooper-Keepin' Halloween Alive Jack Marshall-The Munsters Theme  Danny Hutton-Monster Shindig Interlude: Country Fair Flea Market Halloween Sale 1989 The Reverend Horton Heat-The Halloween Dance Blitzkid-The Pumpkinpatch Murders  Wednesday 13-Halloween 13-13  The Cramps-I Was A Teenage Werewolf  Creature Feature-Grave Robber at Large  Concrete Blonde-Bloodletting (The Vampire Song) Jack Lenz-Goosebumps TV Theme Impaler-Blood Of The Vampire AC/DC-Night Prowler Francis Haines-Return of The Living Dead theme  Joe Lamont-Flesh to Flesh  Type O Negative-Creepy Green Light  Blue Oyster Cult-Nosferatu Halloween-Halloween Outro-Halloween III Silver Shamrock Commercial

Jukebox of Horrors volume 3: Samhain Serenade

https://8tracks.com/plan9fromouterspace59/jukebox-of-horrors-vol-3-samhain-serenade

Intro-Excerpt From Are You Afraid Of The Dark Tuesday Knight-Nightmare David Bowie-Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) Rockwell-Somebody’s Watching Me Lou Gramm-Lost In The Shadows (Video Edit) Danny Elfman-Tales From The Crypt Alice Cooper-Feed My Frankenstein Bobby 'Boris' Pickett-It's Alive Silent Horror-The Tingler Nekromantix-Trick or Treat Status Quo-Halloween Calabrese-Voices of the Dead Interlude-Are You Afraid Of The Dark Promo Samhain-Samhain The Cramps-Surfin' Dead Halloween-Trick Or Treat Marilyn Manson-This Is Halloween (Danny Elfman cover) Rob Zombie-Living Dead Girl Ernest Raymer-Hauntedween Prowler-Haddonfield Pretty Maids- Night Danger Claudio Simonetti-Demons Theme The Birthday Party-Release The Bats The Legendary Invisible Men-Spooks Night Out Coffindan-No Sleep 'Till Halloween Outro-Are You Afraid of the Dark End Credits

Jukebox of Horrors volume 4: The Dead Shall Rock From Their Grave

https://8tracks.com/plan9fromouterspace59/jukebox-of-horrors-vol-4-the-dead-shall-rock-from-the-grave

Intro-Excerpt From John Carpenter's Halloween Skycycle-It's Terror Time Again The Kobanes-Season Of The Witch The Misfits-Vampira The Ramones-Pet Sematary  Wednesday 13-Haddonfield Blitzkid-Terror In The Haunted House 45 Grave-Evil The Other-Nightmare On Halloween Coffin Spell-Pumpkineater Calabrese-Midnight Spookshow The Dickies-Killer Klowns from Outer Space Live The Casket Creatures-Devil's Day Interlude-Excerpt From Freddy Vs. Jason Prowler-Knives For Fingers Blind Guardian-Wizard's Crown (Halloween) Death-Evil Dead  Type O Negative-Black No. 1 (radio edit) D.C. Lacroix-Devil's Son  Acid Witch-October 31st  Bloodletter-Monster Thrash (Bobby Boris Pickett remake) F.K.U.-Friday The 13th Part 2 Helloween-Halloween  W.A.S.P-Scream Until You Like It King Diamond-Halloween Outro-Excerpt From Halloween 3

Jukebox of Horrors volume 5: Halloween Is A State Of Mind

https://8tracks.com/plan9fromouterspace59/jukebox-of-horrors-vol-5-halloween-is-a-state-of-mind

Intro-Rob Zombie's Halloween II tv spot Zacherly-Happy Halloween Bobby Boris Pickett-Monster Rap The Fibonaccis-Terrorvision Vic Mizzy-The Addams Family Theme The Ghastly Ones-Banshee Beach Roky Erickson-Night of the Vampire Alice Cooper-The Black Widow Fred Myrow and Malcom Seagrave-Phantasm theme Rob Zombie-American Witch Green Jelly-Trick or Treat Marilyn Manson-I Put A Spell On You (Screamin' Jay Hawkins cover) Jimmy Psycho-Tales of Halloween The Misfits-Ghouls Night Out Interlude-Toys R Us Halloween commercial The Cramps-Big Black Witchcraft Rock The Who-Boris The Spider The Swingin' Neckbreakers-No Costume, No Candy The 69 Eyes-Lost Boys Little V-Spooky Scary Skeletons (Andrew Gold cover) Leo Moracchioli-Don't Fear The Reaper (Blue Oyster Cult cover) Sorcery-I'm Back Ministry-Everyday Is Halloween (Evil Version) Blitzkid-Candyman 45 Grave-Night of the Demons Haunted Garage-Slenderman Ripper-Halloween Perturbator-Halloween Theme Rework (John Carpenter cover) Oingo Boingo-Dead Man's Party Live Outro-Halloween Resurrection tv spot

[cardest]

Halloween playlist

Halloween playlist By Cardest October is my favorite time of the year! Here is 300 songs or so I put together I think will make your Halloween rock! 001 The Misfits - Scream! 002 Alice Cooper - The Nightmare Returns 003 Acid Witch - I'm Back (Sorcery cover) 004 John Carpenter\Alan Howarth -  Halloween Theme 005 King Diamond -  Halloween 006 Ghost - Mummy Dust 007 Jerry Goldsmith The Omen OST - Ave Satani 008 Fantomas - Der Golem 009 Doyle -  Cemeterysexxx 010 Mastodon -  Halloween  (Instrumental) 011 Cramps -  Human Fly 012 Fright Night Soundtrack - Armies Of The Night 013 Shooting Guns - [Wolfcop Soundtrack - Wulver 014 Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party 015 Type O Negative -  Halloween In Heaven 016 Phantasm  OST - Funeral organ-dwarf in hearse 017 Grave Robber -  Skeletons 018 John Carpenter -  Theme from "The Fog" 019 45 Grave -  Night Of The Demons 020 The Birthday Massacre -  Horror Show 021 Bernard Herrmann - Psycho (theme) 022 The Misfits - Friday the 13th 023 Blood Ceremony -  Coven Tree 024 Goblin - Profondo Rosso 025 October 31 - The House Where Evil Dwells 026 Michael Jackson -  Thriller 027 Bobby 'Boris' Pickett & The Crypt Kickers - Monster Mash 028 Ministry -  Every Day Is Halloween 029 Sleepy Hollow movie Theme 030 The Damned - Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 031 October 31 - The house where evil dwells 032 Rigor Mortis - poltergeist 033 Necrophagia -  Reborn through Black Mass 034 Fantomas - Rosemary's Baby 035 Pseudo Echo - His Eyes (from the Friday the 13th V OST) 036 Misfits -  Dig Up Her Bones 037 Sigh -  Graveward 038 Christian Death - Church of no return 039 The Rocky Horror Picture Show -  Over At The Frankenstein Place 040 With The Dead -  Nephthys 041 David Bowie- Scary Monsters (And super creeps) 042 Early Man - Creature From The Black Lagoon 043 Hellbound Hellraiser 2 Theme 044 Rob Zombie - Dragula 045 Misfits - Night of the Living dead 046 Ramones - Pet Semetary 047 Roky Erickson - I walked with a zombie 048 Blue Oyster Cult -  Don't (fear the reaper) 049 The Munsters TV show theme 050 Slayer -  Necrophobic 051 Type O Negative - Wolf Moon (Including Zoanthropic Paranoia) 052 The 69 Eyes -  Lost Boys 053 The Vision Bleak -  The Night Of The Living Dead 054 The Devil's Blood -  I'll Be Your Ghost 055 Ghost B.C. -  Ghuleh / Zombie Queen 056 Voltaire -  Brains! 057 The Shrine -  Tripping Corpse 058 Zig Zags -  The Fog 059 Doyle -  Land of the Dead 060 Danzig - On A Wicked Night 061 Fantomas - One Step Beyond 062 Siouxsie And The Banshees - Dear Prudence 063 The Misfits -  Nightmare on Elm Street 064 Warren Zevon -  Werewolves Of London 065 The Cramps - Creature From The Black Leather Lagoon 066 King Diamond -  Trick Or Treat 067 Arcturus -  To Thou Who Dwellest in the Night 068 Deicide - Dead But Dreaming 069 Zombie Ghost Train - R.I.P 070 American Horror Story - Theme Song 071 Antonius Rex - Necromancer 072 THE WOLFGANGS - Cannibal Family 073 THE TWILIGHT ZONE THEME 074 Queens Of The Stone Age -  Burn The Witch 075 The Hellfreaks - Boogieman 076 Ghoultown - Drink With The Living Dead 077 Fantomas - Experiment In Terror 078 Coil - Main Title (Unreleased Hellraiser Theme) 079 Autopsy -  Skull Grinder 080 Beastmaker - Eyes Are Watching 081 S.O.D. - Freddy Krueger 082 Christopher Lennertz - And So It Begins Supernatural OST 083 Xandria -Vampire 084 Slayer -  Ghosts Of War085 085 With The Dead -  Living With The Dead 086 Devil Master -  Listen, Sweet Demons... 087 G Tom Mac - Cry LIttle Sister 088 Celtic Frost - The Usurper 089 The Moving Sidewalks - Crimson Witch 090 Electric Wizard - Black Mass 091 Return Of The Living Dead Theme 092 Carcass - The Master Butcher's Apron 093 Cedell Davis - She's Got the Devil in Her 094 Zombi OST  - Zombie Vs Shark 095 Rob Zombie -  House of 1000 Corpses 096 Calabrese - Vampires Don't Exist 097 Dario Argento's LA TERZA MADRE - Main Theme by Claudio Simonetti 098 The Damned - Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde 099 Danzig -  Bodies 100 Slayer - Postmortem 101 Fantomas -  The Omen (Ave Satani) 102 Cannibal Corpse - The Cryptic Stench 103 The Vampires of Dartmoore - Hallo, mister Hitchcock 104 45 Grave -  Party Time 105 Coffins -  Decapitated Crawl 106 The Misfits -  Them 107 Talking Heads - Psycho Killer 108 Denial Of God - The Curse Of The Witch 109 Lucio Fulci's Zombie Theme 110 Anthrax - Bordello Of Blood (Tales From The Crypt) 111 Iron Maiden - Phantom Of The Opera 112 The Exorcist Theme 113 Demented Are Go -  Hotrod Vampires 114 The Creepshow - Zombies Ate Her Brain 115 Tenebre (Main Title) by Goblin 116 Voltaire - Zombie Prostitute 117 HorrorPops - [Bring It On! #09] Walk Like A Zombie 118 Death  - Open Casket 119 Friday The 13th Original Theme Song 120 Wesley Willis - Vampire Bat 121 The Cult - The Witch 122 Dracula (1931) Theme Bela Lugosi 123 Slayer - Live Undead 124 Re-Animator Theme 125 Ray Parker Jnr - Ghostbusters 126 Megadeth - The Conjuring 127 Santana - Black Magic Woman 128 The Who - Boris The Spider 129 Entombed -  Evilyn 130 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds -  Red Right Hand 131 Twisted Sister -  Burn In Hell 132 The Edgar Winter Group - Frankenstein 133 Electric Wizard -  Dunwich 134 Danzig - Skin Carver 135 King Diamond - Them 136 Salems Lot Theme 137 Dio -  Dream Evil 138 Tenacious D -  Beelzeboss 139 Dokken -  dream warrior 140 The Doors -  The Ghost Song 141 Saint Vitus - White Magic/Black Magic 142 The Vampires of Dartmoore -  Crime and Horror 143 Fantomas -  Spider Baby 144 Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me 145 Samhain -  Halloween II 146 Blue Oyster Cult - Godzilla 147 The Five Blobs - The Blob 148 Rob Zombie - Superbeast 149 The Cramps - Big Black Witchcraft Rock 150 Phantasm Theme Song 151 The Addams Family TV theme song 152 Slayer - Black Magic 153 Necrophagia -  Rue Morgue Disciple 154 Bastard Priest -  Ghouls Of The Endless Night 155 Ennio Morricone - The Thing (theme) 156 The Vision Bleak - The Wood Hag 157 Soulfly -  Cannibal Holocaust 158 Creepshow 2  - Original Theme Music 159 Dracula theme - Bram Stoker's Dracula theme 160 Monster Magnet -  19 Witches 161 Blood Ceremony -  My Demon Brother 162 Janet Jackson - Black Cat 163 Cramps -  I Was A Teenage Werewolf 164 Nosferatu - A Symphony of Horror 165 The Evil Dead - Pencil It In 166 White Zombie - Cosmic Monsters Inc. 167 Fred Schneider - Monster 168 Men At Work - Dr. Heckyll & Mr. Jive 169 Cathedral -  Hopkins (The Witchfinder General) 170 Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science 171 A Nightmare on Elm Street - Theme Song 172 The Misfits -  Halloween II 173 The Guess Who - Clap for the Wolfman 174 Inter Arma -  Scarecrow 175 Royal Thunder -  Sleeping Witch 176 Slayer - Spirit in Black 177 Yoga -  Flying Witch 178 Down - Witchtripper 179 Witchcraft -  Ghosts House 180 Serge Gainsbourg -  Docteur Jekyll et monsieur Hyde 181 Danny Elfman - [Sleepy Hollow OST] Into The Woods (The Witch) 182 Deicide - Dead by Dawn 183 Elm Street - Elm St's Children 184 Acid Witch -  Trick or Treat 185 Satyricon -  Black Crow On A Tombstone 186 Possessed - The excorcist 187 Electric Wizard - Satanic Rites Of Dracula 188 Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting (The Vampire Song) 189 Predator Soundtrack - Main Title 190 Kryst The Conqueror - Doctor Phibes Rises Again 191 Ministry -  Every Day is Halloween (remix) 192 Megadeth - Devils Island 193 The Misfits - From Hell They Came 194 Devil Master - Black Flame Candle 195 Soiuxee and the Banshees - Fear (Of The Unknown) 196 Cradle of Filth -  Her Ghost in the Fog 197 Goblin - Witch (Suspiria Soundtrack) 198 Cliff Richard - Devil Woman 199 NIN - Dead Souls (From The Crow Soundtrack) 200 Alice Cooper - Teenage Frankenstein 201 Misfits -  Cold in Hell 202 John Carpenter - Halloween 2019 Theme (Main Title) 203 The Damned - Grimly feindish 204 Slayer -  At Dawn They Sleep 205 Atrium - Doctor Jekyll 206 Serge Gainsbourg - Docteur Jekyll et monsieur Hyde 207 Darkthrone -  Graveyard Slut 208 Faith No More -  Zombie Eaters 209 Candlemass - Demons Gate 210 Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead 211 Rigor Mortis -  Vampire 212 Rob Zombie -  In The Age Of The Consegrated Vampire We All Get High 213 BLOODY HAMMERS -  Witch Of Endor 214 Ghost -  Spirit 215 Autopsy -  Tourniquets, Hacksaws And Graves 216 Alice Cooper - Keepin' Halloween Alive 217 Old Man's Child - Return Of The Night Creatures 218 Black Sabbath -  Black Moon 219 The Misfits - Walk Among Us 220 Early Man -  Frankenstein: I'm Dead Alive 221 Ghoul - Dungeon Bastards 222 Slayer -  Spill The Blood 223 Carcass -  Corporal Jigsore Quandary 224 Over Kill - playing with spiders/ skullcrusher 225 Frankie Stein And His Ghouls - Elbow Twist 226 Mercyful Fate -  Black Masses 227 The Elm Street Group - Do The Freddy 228 Instant Funk - Witch Doctor 229 Cathedral -  Tombs Of The Blind Dead 230 Celtic Frost - Necromantical Screams 231 Grave Digger -  Witch Hunter 232 Basil Kirchin - Dr Phibes' Theme 233 Necrophagia -  Coffins 234 The Misfits -  Monster Mash 235 The Vision Bleak - Witching Hour 236 The Vision Bleak -  A Witch Is Born 237 Megadeth - Last rites/loved to death 238 Overkill -  Frankenstein 239 Dave Edmunds - The Creature from the Black Lagoon 240 Death - Zombie Ritual 241 John Fogerty - Eye Of The Zombie 242 Nunslaughter - Ouija 243 Main Title (Stephen King's IT) 244 Goblin -  Zombi 245 White Zombie -  I, zombie 246 XTC - Ballad Of Peter Pumpkinhead 247 Misfits -  Green Hell 248 Autopsy - Embalmed 249 Slayer - Haunting The Chapel 250 The Devin Townsend Band -  Vampira 251 The Frantics - Werewolf 252 Black Sabbath OST by Les Baxter - Main theme 253 Slasher Dave - Moldy coffins 254 Morricone Youth's Night of the Living Dead - Driveway to the cemetary 255 Bob McFadden - The Mummy 256 Screaming Jay Hawkins - I put a spell on you 257 Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams 258 Buddy Haydock & The Boppers - The Raven 259 Helloween - Halloween 260 The Ghastly Ones -  Draculon (with intro) 261 Echo & the Bunnymen - People are strange 262 Exhumed - Slaughter maniac 263 Nightmare Before Christmas OST - This is Halloween 264 Cerrone - Supernature 265 The Specials - Ghost town 266 The Cramps - Surfin' dead 267 David Bowie's Labyrinth OST - Magic dance 268 Lalo Schifrin Abominable OST - maine title 269 The Castle Kings - You can get him Frankenstein 270 Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at the moon 271 The Grave Mistakes -  Dig your own grave 272 Demons 2 OST -  Videomix 273 Wolfmen of Mars -  Mouth like Piranha 274 Entrails - The cemetary horrors 275 Obituary - Blood soaked 276 Cannibis Corpse - Mummified in bong water 277 Dawn of the Dead OST -  theme song 278 Exodus - Piranha 279 Danny Elfmann's Nightbreed OST - end credits 280 Rigor Mortis - Wizard of gore 281 Ancient Order of the Droids -  Torus 282 The Damned - Black is the night 283 Angry Birds Seasons Halloween - Haunted Hogs Theme 284 Dunwich Horror OST by Les Baxter - Black mass 285 Chopping Mall OST -  movie theme 286 The Simpsons Tree House of Horror - Halloween Special theme 287 The B-52's  - Devil in my car 288 Cannibal Corpse - Beyond the cemetary 289 Sturgil Simpson - The Dead Don't Die 290 Chained to the Dead - Beheaded by Berrymen 291 Sisters of Mercy - This corrosion 292 Exhumed - Defenders of the grave 293 The Cure - The forest 294 Book of Love - Witchcraft 295 Alice Cooper - Welcome to my Nightmare 296 TSOL - Wash away 297 Death  - Born Dead 298 Scooby Dooby Do  TV Show - theme song 299 Dead Vampires - The Day after Halloween 300 Danny Elfmann's Beetlejuice - main title 666 ACID WITCH -  I Hate Halloween 999 Misfits - Halloween 

[nocompromise-noregrets]

29, 38, 39, 40 for the song asks?

29. a cover that you like better than the original song Oh, this one's easy. Private Line's cover of Live Wire by Mötley Crüe. Quite apart from the Issues I have with the Crüe (it's a long story involving vehicular homicide and the drummer of my favourite band), PL's version is just better. It's harder, stronger, more attitudey, it's just great.

38. your favorite song from childhood oooooh. There are a few. Favourite children's song - Right Said Fred by Bernard Cribbins (I had an album of 'children's favourites' and that's the one I still really enjoy today :D ). Favourite pop song from when I was a kid - Stand and Deliver by Adam and the Ants. I wanted to be Adam Ant when I was five, and if I'm really honest with you, I still do. <3333 And favourite song I used to listen to with my parents when I was a kid...tough choice, we used to play Sgt Pepper and Revolver by the Beatles, Queen's first greatest hits album and the Beach Boys' 20 Golden Greats on rotation and I love every last song on all of those. But...Bohemian Rhapsody and Surfin' USA might just pinch it. :D

39. a song you always sing along to I have to be in the mood to sing, and completely alone - usually in the car - but Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen is one of them. King by Marillion is another, as is The Bitter End by Placebo.

40. your favorite song in a language different from your native one I've just answered this but I'll think of a few more. Tahdon rakastella sinua by Pelle Miljoona Oy, Haloo Helsinki! by Haloo Helsinki!, Viimeisen kerran by Stella, and actually, although I generally cannot abide Eurovision and all its workings, I am actually very much enjoying Måneskin, and Zitte e buoni is really rather good. :D

Thank you! <33333 Anyone else want to get me talking music?

[alexlacquemanne]

Avril MMXX

Films

L'aventure c'est l'aventure (1972) de Claude Lelouch avec Jacques Brel, Lino Ventura et Charles Denner

L'Emmerdeur (1973) de Édouard Molinaro avec Lino Ventura, Jacques Brel et Caroline Cellier

3 h 10 pour Yuma (3:10 to Yuma) (2007) de James Mangold avec Russell Crowe, Christian Bale et Ben Foster

La Veuve Couderc (1971) de Pierre Granier-Deferre avec Simone Signoret et Alain Delon

Habemus papam (2011) de Nanni Moretti avec Michel Piccoli, Nanni Moretti et Margherita Buy

La Septième Compagnie au clair de lune (1977) de Robert Lamoureux avec Pierre Mondy, Jean Lefebvre et Henri Guybet

La Princesse de Montpensier (2010) de Bertrand Tavernier avec Mélanie Thierry, Gaspard Ulliel, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Raphaël Personnaz et Lambert Wilson

Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) de Jean-Paul Rappeneau avec Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet, Vincent Pérez et Jacques Weber

Le Sauvage (1975) de Jean-Paul Rappeneau avec Catherine Deneuve, Yves Montand et Luigi Vannucchi

Barry Lyndon (1975) de Stanley Kubrick avec Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson et Leon Vitali

Jo (1971) de Jean Girault avec Louis de Funès, Bernard Blier et Claude Gensac

Le rouge est mis (1957) de Gilles Grangier avec Jean Gabin, Lino Ventura et Annie Girardot

Mélodie en sous-sol (1963) de Henri Verneuil avec Jean Gabin, Alain Delon et Maurice Biraud

Bullitt (1968) de Peter Yates avec Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn et Jacqueline Bisset

Le cave se rebiffe (1961) de Gilles Grangier avec Jean Gabin, Maurice Biraud et Bernard Blier

1492 : Christophe Colomb (1492: Conquest of Paradise) (1992) de Ridley Scott avec Gérard Depardieu, Sigourney Weaver et Armand Assante

L'Homme de Rio (1964) de Philippe de Broca avec Jean-Paul Belmondo, Françoise Dorléac et Jean Servais

La Fille de d'Artagnan (1994) de Bertrand Tavernier avec Sophie Marceau, Philippe Noiret et Claude Rich

Symphonie pour un massacre (1963) de Jacques Deray avec Charles Vanel, Jean Rochefort et Claude Dauphin

Le Soleil des voyous (1967) de Jean Delannoy avec Jean Gabin, Robert Stack et Margaret Lee

Comment épouser un millionnaire (How to Marry a Millionaire) (1953) de Jean Negulesco avec Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall et Betty Grable

Spectacle

Ben l'Oncle Soul - Tribute to Frank Sinatra (2016)

Le sommelier (2018) de Patrick Sébastien avec Didier Gustin, Philippe Chevallier, Marianne Giraud et Kym Thiriot

One World: Together at Home (2020)

Séries

Psych Saison 7

Une soirée mystérieuse - Quel cirque ! - Mariage mouvementé - Vies parallèles - Jeune femme partagerait appartement - Impair et Maire - Meurtre au bureau - Radio meurtre - Une affaire qui déride ! - La Truite sur le dos - Tous en scène ! Acte 1 - Tous en scène ! Acte 2 

Castle Saison 4

47 secondes

Maguy Saison 1

Changer de look, quel souk ! - A visage redécouvert'’

Chapeau Melon et Bottes de Cuir Saison 6, 5, 4

L'Invasion des Terriens - George et Fred - Une petite gare désaffectée - Mon rêve le plus fou - Rien ne va plus dans la nursery - Voyage sans retour

Top Gear Saison 14, 18, 19, 20, 12, 16, 22, 13, 10, 11

Du grand art ! - Surfin’ USA - Spécial Journée Circuit - Rugbymobile - Mission Camping-Car - Trois camions d’enfer - La fiesta dans tous ses états - Le choc des titans - James VS Tanner - Une voiture pour chaque situation - La traversée de Londres - Apprentis policiers - Routes de rêve - Spécial Bolivie

Meurtres au paradis Saison 9

La Lettre à Élise - De Manchester à Sainte-Marie - Opération Survie - Le Salon de coiffure

Kaamelott Livre I, II, VI

Præceptores

Livres

OSS 117 : Cité secrète de Jean Bruce

Les Aventures de Tintin : Les Cigares du pharaon d’Hergé

Le Catch : Ma vie, notre passion ! de Christophe Agius

Kaamelott Tome 1 : L'Armée du Nécromant de Alexandre Astier et Steven Dupré

[mostlysignssomeportents]

#1yrago Happy Public Domain day: for real, for the first time in 20 years!

Every year, Jennifer Jenkins and Jamie Boyle from the Duke Center for the Public Domain compile a "Public Domain Day" list (previously) that highlights the works that are not entering the public domain in America, thanks to the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, which hit the pause button on Americans' ability to freely use their artistic treasures for two decades -- a list that also included the notable works entering the public domain in more sensible countries of the Anglophere, like Canada and the UK, where copyright "only" lasted for 50 years after the author's death.

But this year, it's different.

This is the year that America unpauses its public domain; it's also the year that Canadian PM Justin Trudeau capitulated to Donald Trump and retroactively extended copyright on works in Canada for an extra 20 years, ripping works out of Canada's public domain, making new works based on them into illegal art (more proof that good hair and good pecs don't qualify you to be a good leader -- see also: V. Putin -- not even when paired with high-flying, cheap rhetoric).

Even as Canada's public domain has radically contracted, America's has, for the first, time, opened.

So this year's American Public Domain Day List is, for the first time in 20 years, not a work melancholy alternate history, but rather a celebration of works that Americans are newly given access to without restriction or payment, for free re-use and adaptation, in the spirit of such classics as Snow White, West Side Story, My Fair Lady, All You Need is Love, and more (More than 1,000 in all, summarized in this handy spreadsheet -- thanks Gary!).

Films * Safety Last!, directed by Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor, featuring Harold Lloyd * The Ten Commandments, directed by Cecil B. DeMille * The Pilgrim, directed by Charlie Chaplin * Our Hospitality, directed by Buster Keaton and John G. Blystone * The Covered Wagon, directed by James Cruze * Scaramouche, directed by Rex Ingram

Books * Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan and the Golden Lion * Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links * Winston S. Churchill, The World Crisis * e.e. cummings, Tulips and Chimneys * Robert Frost, New Hampshire * Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet * Aldous Huxley, Antic Hay * D.H. Lawrence, Kangaroo * Bertrand and Dora Russell, The Prospects of Industrial Civilization * Carl Sandberg, Rootabaga Pigeons * Edith Wharton, A Son at the Front * P.G. Wodehouse, works including The Inimitable Jeeves and Leave it to Psmith * Viginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

Music * Yes! We Have No Bananas, w.&m. Frank Silver & Irving Cohn * Charleston, w.&m. Cecil Mack & James P. Johnson * London Calling! (musical), by Noel Coward * Who’s Sorry Now, w. Bert Kalmar & Harry Ruby, m. Ted Snyder * Songs by “Jelly Roll” Morton including Grandpa’s Spells, The Pearls, and Wolverine Blues (w. Benjamin F. Spikes & John C. Spikes; m. Ferd “Jelly Roll” Morton) * Works by Bela Bartok including the Violin Sonata No. 1 and the Violin Sonata No. 2 * Tin Roof Blues, m. Leon Roppolo, Paul Mares, George Brunies, Mel Stitzel, & Benny Pollack (There were also compositions from 1923 by other well-known artists including Louis Armstrong, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, WC Handy, Oscar Hammerstein, Gustav Holst, Al Jolson, Jerome Kern, and John Phillip Sousa; though their most famous works were from other years.)

And as great as that list is, it's hardly a patch on the amazing works we'd be inheriting if the Sonny Bono law hadn't been passed and the 1978 law was still on the books -- works whose authors fully expected them to be in the public domain as of tomorrow:

Books * Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time * Rachel Carson, Silent Spring * Barbara Tuchman, The Guns of August * Katherine Anne Porter, Ship of Fools * James Baldwin, Another Country * Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle * Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions * Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire * Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange * Michael Harrington, The Other America * Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom * J.G. Ballard, The Drowned World * Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes * Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest * Edward Albee, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? * Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich * Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook * Helen Gurley Brown, Sex and the Single Girl * Ingri d’Aulaire and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire, D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths

Movies * Lawrence of Arabia * The Longest Day * The Manchurian Candidate * Dr. No * Jules and Jim * Sanjuro * Birdman of Alcatraz * Mutiny on the Bounty * Days of Wine and Roses * How the West Was Won

Music * Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream), by Cindy Walker, performed by Roy Orbison * Blowin’ in the Wind, Bob Dylan * Watermelon Man, Herbie Hancock (from his first album, Takin’ Off) * Twistin’ the Night Away, Sam Cooke * You Can’t Judge a Book by the Cover and You Shook Me, Willie Dixon * Surfin’ Safari, The Beach Boys * Songs from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Stephen Sondheim * Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream), Cindy Walker * Big Girls Don’t Cry, Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio * Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield * Little Boxes, Malvina Reynolds * The Loco-Motion, Gerry Goffin and Carole King * Soldier Boy, Luther Dixon and Florence Greenberg

And, as Jenkins and Boyle point out, the largely hidden casualty of copyright term extension is the scholarship and research published in academic journals, who paid nothing for these works, and who have locked them up for decades to come:

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[brn1029]

It happened like this….in music history…

March 4th

1963 - The Beach Boys

The Beach Boys released 'Surfin' U.S.A.' a song with lyrics by Brian Wilson set to the music of 'Sweet Little Sixteen', written by Chuck Berry. Billboard ranked 'Surfin' U.S.A.' the No. 1 song of 1963.

1966 - John Lennon

John Lennon's statement that The Beatles were 'more popular than Jesus Christ' was published in The London Evening Standard. His opinions drew no controversy when published in the UK, but when republished in the US a few months later, angry reactions flared up in Christian communities. Extensive protests broke out with some radio stations banning Beatles songs and their records were publicly burned.

1967 - The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Ruby Tuesday', the group's fourth US No.1 single. 'Lets Spend The Night Together' was the original A side but after radio stations banned the song 'Tuesday' became the A side.

1974 - ABBA

ABBA released 'Waterloo' the first single from their second album and the first single to be credited to the group performing under the name ABBA. It later became the winning entry for Sweden in the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest and a No.1 hit in several countries. It reached the US Top 10 and went on to sell nearly six million copies, making it one of the best-selling singles in history.

1978 - Jerry Lee Lewis

The US internal Revenue Service carried out a dawn raid at the home of Jerry Lee Lewis and removed cars worth over £100,000 ($170,000) to pay off his tax debts.

1982 - Frank Zappa

Frank Zappa's son Dweezil and his daughter Moon Unit formed a band called Fred Zeppelin. Their first single was 'My Mother is a Space Cadet'.

1994 - Kurt Cobain

Kurt Cobain was rushed to hospital after overdosing on alcohol and drugs in a Rome hotel during a Nirvana European tour. Cobain had taken 50-60 pills of Rohypnol mixed with champagne; rumours on the internet claimed that Kurt was dead.

1997 - Raymond Edwards

Raymond Edwards American bassist with The Silhouettes died. The doo wop/R&B groups single 'Get A Job' was a No.1 hit on the Billboard R&B singles chart and pop singles chart in 1958. The doo-wop revival group Sha Na Na derived their name from the song's lyrics. 'Get A Job' is included in the soundtracks of the film American Graffiti, Trading Places and Stand By Me. The Silhouettes performed in the 1986 movie Joey.

2001 - Village People

Village People singer Glenn Hughes died of lung cancer aged 50 in his Manhattan apartment in New York. He was the original "Biker" character in the disco group who scored the 1978 UK No.1 & US No.2 single Y.M.C.A.

2003 - Cliff Richard

A noisy neighbour was banned from playing her music and had her stereo system impounded, after she had played Cliff Richard music too loudly. 23 year-old Sian Davies was fined £1,000 ($1,700) plus court costs after environmental protection officers raided her flat in Porth, Rhondda, Wales and seized 15 amplifiers and speakers, plus 135 CDs and cassette tapes. The disc found in her CD player was the Cliff Richard single, 'Peace in Our Time'. A spokesman for the Cliff Richard Organization said he was delighted to hear of somebody in their early 20s owning one of his many recordings. He added, Cliff would not want anyone to play his music so that it caused a nuisance.

2015 - Daryl Hall and John Oates

Daryl Hall and John Oates were suing cereal maker Early Bird Foods & Co. over the company's use of the name Haulin' Oates for their maple syrup granola bars. The two musicians accused the Brooklyn-based firm of infringing on their trademark with the packet of cereal deliberately creating a phonetic play on the band's well-known name.

[gargus-questionspot]

Thoughts on the next bunch of Registry films? And like ones you're most interested in and looking forward to?

Obviously the four big ones are gonna grab all the major headline attention - Fellowship of the Ring, WALL-E, Return of the Jedi, and A Nightmare on Elm Street - and I'm definitely looking forward to dissecting them in an expanded capacity. Amongst the smaller stuff, though...

-It's admirable how the Library of Congress is so dedicated to expanding the representation of minority voices in the Registry, be it the new trio of films investigating three prominent POC murder cases from the 70s and 80s (Requiem-29, The Murder of Fred Hampton, and Who Killed Vincent Chin?), or promoting works like Sounder, Cooley High, and The Watermelon Woman to a larger audience. As always, I wish there were more queer voices amongst the ranks, but one shouldn't let disappointment in one area of representation lacking take away from the importance of others getting a boost. There's always next year.

-At a glance, I don't see quite so heavy an emphasis on works notable for their music compared to the last two years (though I could be proven wrong in the watching), but Stop Making Sense serving as this year's obligate concert film is great, and there's also the guy with the singing butthole doing Surfin' Bird in Pink Flamingos, which warms my heart to see rubbing shoulders with Howard Shore's Middle Earth score. Plus there's a film from Ray Manzarek of The Doors back when he was a UCLA film student.

-Fans on twitter are going wild for Selena's induction, and I have never properly heard of the movie or its subject, so really looking forward to finding out what all that fuss is about!

-Of everything here, The Wobblies has me most intrigued. Documentary interviewing and preserving the experiences of IWW workers from the early century in their twilight years? Sounds fascinating!

-When people note the delayed-presence of venerable classics like Whatever Happened to Baby Jane and Strangers on a Train in context of wondering why it took so long, I always have to wonder which films they'd prefer not have made it first so the big names could have their seat at the table. The NFR's purview encompasses the entirety of American filmic life with an emphasis on preserving the vulnerable, and historically the smaller names have entered its ranks in minority to allow greater focus on the well-beloved institution members; I'd thus far rather one of Aldrich or Hitchcock's classics wait a little bit longer for their millionth day in the sun than let works like Hellbound Train or The Flying Ace lurk in the dark much longer. At twenty-five films a year with no signs of stopping, there's enough room for everyone important eventually. Just gotta make sure the lesser-known parts of our history aren't shunted out.

-Last year, Richard Pryor got in with his performance in Wattstax. This year, he gets in with his performance from Richard Pryor: Live in Concert. I hereby advocate we do everything in our power to ensure Superman III enters the National Film Registry post-haste.

[lichenloglichenblog]

First we have a lichen surfin' slug. He just skimmed across their tops giving me an appreciation of the strength of lichen in compression. Then a forest of assorted cladonia. Followed by a check in on the world's largest fairy cup. It looks to be declining. Perhaps I'll light my Betty Friedan candle for it. Then trillium, a tree from the parking plots of Portland - this one from the Glisan Fred Meyers. More peeling than lichen but still photo worthy. The violet in the next photo may seem ordinary, but it is a volunteer growing betwixt lava rock, as if to say "Ha beauty overcomes utility." Last more moss flowers, because I can. Lichen on!

[cosmiculture]

CosmiCulture 07

I Go to All the Parties in Chelsea

        "Well, I went over to her studio. She was painting a portrait of, what's his name, Kanzakis. The usual paintings were lying about, of gold jewels and bats with human heads. She had a book on Emma Goldman on the table. Could there be an anarchist connection? We went to her art exhibition. There were just the usuals there, except one man, he wore a monocle and a grey pinstripe suit, blonde but greying hair. I didn't recognize him. He talked to her and she seemed pretty shaken afterwards. She didn't talk on the way home, and she had no interest in sex. In the middle of the night she snuck out. I followed her but I had to stay behind so she wouldn't recognize my car. I lost her on the Orbital. I think she was headed to the spaceport. Can't be sure, though."          Billy was sitting in a large luxurious brown leather chair. He was wearing tight black jeans and a black Fred Perry. Across the desk sat Terrence Thoth, dressed in his usual all black, suit, shirt, tie. They were on the top floor of the Ibis tower, a large black obelisk of a building with horns on top.         "Well, she's in the wind. I think you're officially on vacation, Billy Octave."         "You don't want me to track her down?"         "No, I think Lydia Chance has been threatened. I think she will try to hide, but in the end do something drastic, and then we'll find her, and then I'll call you."        "Well, alright sir, I'm off."        It was a sunny summer day in London and the air smelled, well, still dirty, but a little fresher with Billy's new freedom. A chance to be himself again, even if that self was a broken hearted veteran whose fiancee left him during the war to marry another man. Everyone's ego need a day or two to breathe, no matter how broken.        Billy jumped into his convertible Artemis Halloway Hover car. He switched on the Greene Machines, primal American beat pop. Their only hit played, "Surfin' Australia." He raced aimlessly through the streets of London, trying to fix his hair and light his cigarette at the same time. "Yeah yeah/I caught a wide berth/yeah yeah/Surfin in Perth/Yeah yeah/I said yeah yeah/ Come on." He pulled up to a pub in Chelsea and walked in and ordered a whisky and soda. And a few more. Enough he began to make friends with the locals. They were excited to meet an American. The United Kingdom like all of the English speaking world, except New Zealand, had been annexed into the American Kingdom during the Great Manifest Destiny Part Two, but England had remained somewhat separatist. England was still English, and not very many Americans bothered to make the trip across the pond.         They invited Billy to a house party around the corner. It was a wild scene, all of the London underground must have been there. Visigoths, part time punks, psychedelic amateurs, beat realists, mutants. There was an old time band setting up in the living room. Electric guitar, synths, a real drumset and bass guitar. The band kicked off with a wall of feedback, then guitar and bass, and drums, and hard chords from the synthesizer. He drank a lot and talked to anyone standing near-by. He fingered a young blonde bird in a hallway. He jumped and whooped and danced and stumbled out of the party and his black out brain's homing device got him somehow safely back to his hotel room.         The next day, late afternoon, after he had finally finished vomiting, his phone rang with an invitation to another party, and that night he did it all again, setting off a month long binge of parties.         Early on he kept running into the blonde bird. She was Swedish. Svetlana Una. She was a mod mod. She wore pretty much only red, white, and blue. Her usual outfit was a plastic white dress, a blue scarf, and red belt and boots.                 They paired up fairly quickly.         During the days she showed him around London. Any place he could take a flask and fight off the ever growing, ever looming, dreaded hangover. The abandoned Buckingham Palace, the Eye, Waterloo Bridge, Charring Cross, the British Museum, the Ibis Tower, where Billy had to feign astonishment.         The nights were still filled with the parties in Chelsea. Svetlana introduced him to practically everyone in London, and he forgot practically all their names. In fact, only one man really stood out in his drunk spree, the venerable Karmaananda, visiting from his ashram near Billy's one time hometown, Saint Valentine, on Mars. He gave a teaching in one of the bedrooms. It was cleared out and everyone sat on mats on the floor.          "One has to understand, there is physics, metaphysics, and 'pataphysics, from here all science, philosophy, and religion stems. But if one looks at these rungs as what we culturally assume to be increasingly higher on a ladder into the realms of human thought, with physics at the lowest rung, we must ask the question 'is there a lower rung?' This would be surphysics, and it is the point below human thought. Or pre-thought. Whereas in physics, one must know equations and smash atoms together to understand how the world works, in surphysics the mind just does this automatically. With this understanding, then, the mind already knows and understands the cosmos fully, it is only with language that it becomes fractured, difficult to know. This is because language is a simplification of what really Is. And, the more we become engulfed in language as our way to understand the world, the more we feel removed from our understanding of where the world comes from. This is where the concept of sin is created. We feel removed from the Cosmos, like we are broken. And if we are broken it's so easy to put that language back on the Cosmos and say it is broken. The beautiful thing about surphysics is that it says nothing is broken. Your mind already understands everything in the pre-verbal realm. There is no need to reach for God, your mind is already part of it. There is no need to fix anything, it is already whole. There is no need to strive, you've already reached."        It was a brief moment, perhaps the only during the month-long binge, where everything slowed down. But the moment passed and Billy was pulled back into the swirl of Chelsea parties.         One night Svetlana was missing. Billy asked after her. "She's gone back to Sweden, I'd expect," said whats'isname, one of the psychedelic amateurs. So it was back to days of vomiting, nights of partying. Going home in the morning. Going out at night.         Early one morning, as Billy was coming down and getting ready for bed his phone rang. He was somewhere between hungover and still drunk. He answered, but could not make out a word coming from the other end. He yelled "what?" into the phone.        "It's Terrence, Billy. We've found Lydia Chance. She's on Io."

<---Backwards                                                                                                               Onwards--->

[thoughtsthatstray]

Pandora must have missed the post of my back acting up and making me feel like Fred Sanford since it wants me to go on a Surfin’ Safari. Maybe I can watch from the Woody with a couple of Surfer Girls. Otherwise, I’ll have to pass.

Favorite Line:

Early in the morning we'll be startin' out Some honeys will be coming along We're loading up our woody With our boards inside And headin' out singing our song

[biofunmy]

Surfing: A Peru way of life as sport debuts at Pan Am Games

Every dawn, on every day, surfers in wetsuits paddle out to take on the famed Peruvian waves. Back on rocky beaches bearing Hawaiian names like Makaha and Waikiki, instructors can be seen training students.

Some here speak about the country’s world surfing champions. Others lay claim to being home to the world’s longest waves, offering a top destination for surfers worldwide. That includes professionals from across the Americas who will compete on huge waves on a reef break 38 miles (60 kilometers) south of Lima when the sport is featured Monday for the first time in the Pan American Games.

“As a Peruvian, I’m so proud that the Pan American Games are being held in Lima, and that for the first time, surfing is included as a sporting discipline,” said Alberto Lopez, who runs one of the dozen or so schools at Makaha beach in Lima’s upscale neighborhood of Miraflores. “Peru really is a gem. All Latin Americans know that Peru is the region’s best surfing destination.”

Surfing is a way of life in Peru, which has been called the Hawaii of Latin America. Sure, millions have marveled at the famed Inca citadel of Machu Picchu and tasted the cuisine that fuses indigenous traditions with European, African and Asian influences through fresh ingredients, including an abundance of seafood from the Pacific Ocean’s chilly Humboldt current. But Peru also is synonymous with surfing.

Some Peruvians go as far as claiming that surfing’s origins can be traced to their homeland, with the pre-Inca Chimu civilization, near northwestern Chicama. Fishermen from the beach town of Huanchaco, 300 miles (480 kilometers) north of Lima, still ride the waves back to shore with the day’s catch on the same reed boats used by the Chimu, called “caballitos,” or little horses.

Surfing, which also debuts at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, was long the preserve of Peru’s wealthiest. But the tides changed. Many credit surfing’s popularity and its ability to transcend Peru’s class lines with easier access to inexpensive boards and a homegrown 2004 world surfing champion, Sofía Mulanovich, who ignited a wave-riding fever.

“We’re considered the Hawaii of Latin America because of the frequency of our waves,” said instructor Fernando Vidal, who on a recent morning arrived at Makaha in a rusty van with boards on top. “With our world champions Felipe Pomar and Sofía Mulanovich … (and the) internet and Facebook we’ve become well known.”

The first World Championships staged by the International Surfing Federation were held in 1965 on the same Punta Rocas beach where surfers will now compete in the Pan Am Games. They were won by Pomar.

Mulanovich learned to surf when she was a young girl at Waikiki and became the women’s world surfing champion. Her victory brought with it a wave of surf schools that opened on Lima’s coast.

“Surfing in Peru had long been an aristocratic boys-only club. Demographic change had already begun filtering into Latin America’s beaches and lineups, but Mulanovich — compact and sloe-eyed, with a low, fast, tightly coiled wave-riding style — greatly accelerated the process,” the Encyclopedia of Surfing says. “By the late 2000s, roughly half of Peru’s surfers were from the expanding middle class, and among this new generation there was a small but fast-growing number of females.”

These days, teenagers in board shorts, jet-setting surfers, locals and curious tourists share the breaking waves.

In his black wetsuit, a barefooted Hector Vega recently bobbed like a penguin next to a highway carrying his board to a rocky break. Thick fog blanketed the horizon, but he was undaunted.

“It’s very addictive. In a way it’s like flying,” said Vega, a 61-year-old who began surfing at age 15. “In this country we’re lucky that any day of the year, we have one beach, one spot that will yield good waves.”

One big bonus: The breaks along Peru’s 1,500-mile (2,400-kilometer) desert coast hit all year long, fed by the Humboldt current and uninterrupted by land masses. That has brought fame to the northern Chicama beach, home to some of the world’s longest waves and a top destination for the most daring surfers — even before the Beach Boys sang about the “shores of Peru” in their 1962 hit “Surfin’ Safari.”

“I consider Peru second only to Hawaii in the evolution of the sport,” former professional surfer and lawmaker Fred Hemmings told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from Kailua, Hawaii. In 1968, Honolulu-born Hemmings was the winner of the World Surfing Championships.

Hemmings praised Peruvian surf contest organizer Eduardo Arena who in 1964 founded the International Surfing Federation, and later headed the World Surfing Championships. Like many others, Hemmings also credits Carlos Dogny with popularizing surfing.

Dogny, the son of a sugar cane magnate, fell in love with surfing when he studied in Hawaii in the 1930s, and he escaped Lima’s long winter months in search of his own “Endless Summer” about three decades before the surfing documentary by that name was released. Dogny returned to his home from Hawaii sometime in the late 1930s or early 1940s with a huge wooden board, a gift from Duke Kahanamoku, seen as the father of modern surfing.

In 1942, Dogny co-founded the Club Waikiki, at the time a wooden shack bathroom on Costa Verde where they kept their boards. The club swelled to hundreds of members and includes a restaurant, tennis courts and a pool where three gigantic wooden boards are on display.

The white one in the middle was Duke’s gift to Dogny, said Victor Curo, a 79-year-old former potato farmer from the highlands, who has cared for surfboards at the Waikiki for 60 years. “Mamico,” as he is best known, recalled how it took two people to haul the mammoth board. Curo also opened a wooden door to a surfboard room named after him with a plaque commemorating his 50 years of service at Waikiki on the entrance.

“We have more than 1,000 boards here,” he said proudly. “Many have also sent me gifts,” he said, pointing to walls packed with framed pictures by pro surfers, including Hemmings, who first came to the Waikiki in 1964. In Hemmings’ dedication, he thanked Mamico for also helping his grandsons when they visited in 2017.

“Mamico did with my grandchildren what he did with me 50 years ago: He greeted them with open arms,” Hemmings said. “It’s the hospitality and gracefulness that he’s known for. He’s part of my Peruvian family.”

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