#hiway 1

[pch65]

August 21, 2024 - Getting back into reading. When I was pretending to go to college (East Los Angeles College, 1969-1971), I read a lot. I had met some people in the English Department and there was a level of peer pressure to read the counter culture classics... Kerouac, Hesse, Brautigan, Huxley, Burroughs, Orwell, Heinlen, etc. I thought a lot of it was terrible (some of it I enjoyed), but I also thought maybe my 19 year old mind just couldn't understand the message. I have re-read some of it and some of it was just hippie bullshit.

Secretly, I was reading a lot of Steinbeck. I brought it up once and felt a bit of "looking down of the nose" and I felt maybe the books I enjoyed were too basic. I've spent a lot of time in the California Central Coast over the years. Starting in 1972, there was an annual trip to Laguna Seca Raceway to participate in the professional motorcycle race held there. Trips up Highway 101 to San Francisco to visit friends. Motorcycle rides alone and with friends up and down Highway 1. Monterey became and still is one of my favorite places and my daughter attended college at California State University Monterey Bay.

Getting back into some Steinbeck is like comfort food for me. Familiar places, familiar personalities, just the basic vibe of California from the window of my van or through the lens of my motorcycle helmet. There's a nice warm golden glow to both the California Central Coast and more so moving through the Central Valley. I get that from Steinbeck.

[vintagelasvegas]

Swanky Club, 920 N Boulder Hwy. This restaurant-nightclub in Henderson had the first buffet service in Clark County, and its first nightly female impersonators.

The club was constructed in '42 while the Basic Magnesium Plant was being built nearby. In 1946, owners Jack & Doris Mallory called it the Swanky Club. It was a lunch, banquet and meeting place for many Henderson organizations by day, and a bar, dance hall with evening entertainment by night. Throughout summer-fall 1946 Swanky Club advertised female impersonators: Billy Earle, James Ray "and his fans," Gene Bays "Prima Donna," and Three Gay Knights, aka The Four Gay Knights.

Swanky Club's dinner service was a smorgasbord buffet, operated by Bob & Pearl Pfluger, which launched just months earlier than the Chuck Wagon buffet at El Rancho Vegas.

In the 1940s when few businesses dotted the highways, Swanky Club had no address. Their ads said they were on "Boulder Highway at Pittman" or "Boulder Hiway across from the B.M.I." The area was empty enough that Jack Mallory landed and parked his Aeronca Chief 2-seater plane in the desert of his nearby home.

Bob Pfluger was the owner of the club when it was destroyed by an overnight fire and explosion on 7/15/58. The Mallorys bought back the property, rebuilt with a trailer court and 6-unit motel on the 8-acre parcel, and reopened Swanky Club on 7/29/59.

The club closed in '84. The adjacent motel closed after a fire in '85. Henderson Fire Dept. used the club for controlled fires before it was completely demolished. It was replaced by Cattle Baron Casino ('90) aka Joker's Wild Casino ('93).

Photos: (1) Circa '49/50. Dennis McBride Photograph Collection (PH-00263). (2) Postcard, undated. (3) Postcard, 1960s. Photo by Stough Photographers. Nevada State Museum, Las Vegas. (4) Clark County Museum. (5) '76, courtesy of Dennis Connolly.

Swanky Club Destroyed by Fire, Explosion This A.M. Review-Journal, 7/15/58; Club Owners. Review-Journal, 7/29/59; Swanky Club: Introduced First Chuck Wagon in Clark County. Review-Journal, 10/31/64; Club fire was false alarm for onlookers. Review-Journal, 10/31/85.

[teacup-captor]

Hiway and Dumptruck are like 100% small dog big dog

Dumptruck is the active one who gets every -1

Hiway is the big one that only wants to snuggle

[jungleindierock]

Time Machine - 2024 - No. 3

The third Time Machine playlist of 2024. 40 tracks again, as it makes the playlist not too long or too short, perfect number of tunes. The whole playlist only lasts 2 hours 30 minutes. Tracks from the 50's to 2023, of mixed genres!!

Enjoy it and share it, you might find some old bands/artists you like and want to explore their back catalogues!!

You can find previous Time Machines and more here on the Spotify

Tracklist

1- Bob Marley And The Wailers - Three Little Birds 2- Buffalo Springfield - For What it's Worth 3- Pixies - Debaser 4- Sam & Dave - Soul Man 5- Half Japanese - One Million Kisses 6- Dandy Livingstone - Rudy, A Message To You 7- Sonic Youth - Teen Age Riot 8- The Charlatans - The only One I Know 9- Half Man Half Biscuit - National Shite Day 10- Steel Pulse- Ku Klux Klan 11- The Libertines - Up The Bracket 12- Mercury Rev - Goddess On a hiway 13- Fun boy Three - The Tunnel Of Love 14- Ian Brown . F.E.A.R. 15- Television - Marquee Moon 16- Pulp - Babies 17- The kinks - Waterloo Sunset 18- Blur - There's No Other Way 19- Happy Mondays - Kinky Afro 20- Dusty Springfield - Son Of A Preacher Man 21- Orange Juice - Rip It Up 22- The Bluetones - Slight Return 23- The Gun Club - Sex Beat 24- Neil Young - Heart OF Gold 25- Gloria Jones - Tainted Love 26- Magazine - Boredom 27- The Zombies - She's Not There 28- Kraftwerk . Autobahn 29- Max Romeo, Lee Perry - Chase The Devil / Disco Devil (With The Full Experiance) 30- Eddie Cochran - C'mon Everybody 31- Arcade Fire -No Cars Go 32- Catatonia - Mulder & Scully 33- Wet Leg - Oh No 34- The linda Lindas - Growing Up 35- Tony Clarke - Landslide 36- Daniel Johnston - Poor You 37- David sylvian - A Fire In The forest 38- Camper Van Beethoven - Take The Skinheads Bowling 39- Kevin Ayers - Stranger In Blue Suede Shoes 40- The Beta Band - Dry The Rain

[satiricaily]

tagged by @b1uetrees (as someone whose fics tend to be titled by song lyrics this is so nice ty !!! <3)

the rules: take your 3 most recently liked songs on Spotify (or the first 3 that pop up on shuffle, whichever you want) and you have to 1) choose a line from each song to be a fic title and 2) tell me the genre of fic it would be and any other fic description you feel inspired to include.

(chose my 3 most recent liked songs)

1. Digger by Great Grandpa

fic title would probably be 'aphantasia's grace' — i never thought that condition could be considered as a merciful thing as indicated by the song but if i want to write a fic of a character riddled with grief and guilt and wishes to erase any mental imagery that's associated w such loss by doing absolutely anything to forget (so many potential plot lines for that!!) then yeah. i could see myself using this as the title. ('these quivering weights' is also a good alternative title)

2. Goddess on a Hiway by Mercury Rev (errghh i love this song. love this album.)

fic title: 'when i see your eyes arrive' — i have never tried my hand in sad ending fics cuz im weak like that but i can see the appeal and this song works so well for that. im imagining a slow burn fic where they eventually clash so hard that they'd consume each other to no end, a culmination of all that waiting and guessing and hoping and longing — only to die out just as fast (tragic to wait for something that long only for it to not last hence the song lyrics "i got us on a highway, i got us in a car, got us going faster than we've ever gone before")

3. Fuzzy by Grant Lee Buffalo

fic title: 'hunger for a bit of faith' (this song has so many potential fic titles it's crazy... but i love this one the most, followed by "we water like a dead bouquet") — this song screams slice of life fic to me.... post canon fic where everybody's getting their footing again and rediscovering each other and their greatness and their flaws and where do they fit in now that the reason they met at all has been resolved? do they even still fit in? what about the self reconciliation? maybe they should sit down and rest for a bit first, get dinner, because they've got all the time in the world now to do all that.

not tagging anyone but if you see this and wish to do it feel free :-)

[eyes-of-rock]

Thanks for the tag @elliotts-personal-property <3

rules: shuffle one of your playlists and list 10 songs (In doing the one with most of the music I love on it)

1. get you on the run // treat

2. United // Judas Priest

3. Fear of the dark // iron maiden

4. Call my name // night ranger

5. Words of wisdom // Europe

6. Let it go // Def Leppard

7.till the living end // Dokken

8. Searching // Slaughter

9. Rock n roll’s gonna save the world // Y&T

10. Hiway night // Great White

Just do it if you want too :)

[tmbg-tournie]

TMBG BEST SONG SIDE 1 PART 2:

ALBUM: They Might Be Giants (1986)

[cinenthusiast]

favorite photographs taken in 2022 part 3/? turquoise lomochrome stock motel hiway house, albuquerque, nm canon ae-1    

[decafcatfeen]

[WARNING - DISTRESS CALL RECIEVED - S.S.S. ZERONORTHE NCC-98475]

This is Damien Zoro Vorkowits of the SSS ZeroNorthe!

All crew have mysteriously disappeared.

I don't even know what to do anymore.

I finally got the emergency call transmitter online and I don't even know what to ask for anymore.

I don't even know where I am.

This transmission could go dead at any time.

What the he-

[TRANSMMISSION LOST - SOURCE IN UNKNOWN SPACE REGION]

A:\>Attempt SVRelay5 FileReq SIERRA [NCC-98475]

S.S.S. ZeroNorthe - NCC-98475

PRECURSOR SHIP - Callsign: ParaPROTO-2

Warp Engine: HiWay Mk.1 - RelaySpace Engine

[FURTHER INFORMATION REDACTED]

...

Can we like

Get Katie on the line?

We are definitely un-prepared for something like this.

Considering we don't even know where the hell..

Yeah. Get Katie on the line. This is one of her ships, after all. Considering it uses an SVR, it uses a HiWay engine..

We aren't doing her work for her after all.

[tippysattic]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: The Best Of Arlo Guthrie CD.

[rollercoaster59]

Hiway 1

[snackpointcharlie]

Bask in the warm incandescent glow of Snackpoint Charlie and our patented blend of musics from elsewhere and beyond, every first and third Wednesday from 10pm to midnight Eastern Time on WGXC, 90.7 FM in New York’s grand and glorious Catskill mountains. Now equally as reliable as the US post (if not more), the portable podcast version is downloadable at the link below

Snackpoint Charlie - Transmission 132 - 2024.02.07 https://wavefarm.org/wf/archive/5haxfd [ ^ click for download ^ ]

PLAYLIST

1) Lata Mangeshkar & Mukesh – “Kabhi Kabhi Mere Dil Mein Khayal Aata Hai” from KABHI KABHIE https://www.discogs.com/release/4932264-Khaiyyaam-Sahir-Kabhi-Kabhie

2) Neval - “Yara” https://www.microscopi.cat/neval

3) Elena Setién - “Surfacing” from MOONLIT REVERIES https://thrilljockey.com/artists/elena-setien

(underbed throughout:) Pinchas Gurevich - “Boinklander”

4) Abdoulaye & Ahmoudou - “Tchihoussey” from AKALINE https://purplishrecords.bandcamp.com/album/batch-1-family-pr-001-pr-002

5) Motyaba and Nada - “No Black No White” https://www.discogs.com/release/5746632-Motyaba-And-Nada-No-Black-No-White

6) El Rass & Munma - “Tkhayal / Conceive” from KACHF EL MAHJOUB / UNVEILING THE HIDDEN [10TH ANNIVERSARY REISSUE] https://rupturedthelabel.bandcamp.com/album/kachf-el-mahjoub-unveiling-the-hidden-10th-anniversary-reissue

7) Zaiko Langa Langa - “Femme Ne Pleure Pas” from CONGO FUNK! - SOUND MADNESS FROM THE SHORES OF THE MIGHTY CONGO RIVER (KINSHASA/BRAZZAVILLE 1969-1982) https://analogafrica.bandcamp.com/album/congo-funk-sound-madness-from-the-shores-of-the-mighty-congo-river-kinshasa-brazzaville-1969-1982-analog-africa-no-38

8) Koltun - “Nign #2” from SOL https://purplishrecords.bandcamp.com/album/batch-1-family-pr-001-pr-002

9) Cheikha Rimitti - “Hak Hak” from NOUAR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUptG5e3ucs https://www.discogs.com/release/2435093-Cheikha-Rimitti-Nouar

10) Lata J. Ramasar, Kissoon Ramasar Jr. - “Hiway Xpress” from THE GREATEST NAME THAT LIVES / HIWAY XPRESS https://www.discogs.com/release/4908530-Lata-Ramasar-The-Greatest-Name-That-Lives

11) The Tigers / ザ・タイガース - “Red Jacket / 真赤なジャケット” https://www.discogs.com/release/7767180-%E3%82%B6%E3%82%BF%E3%82%A4%E3%82%AC%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9-The-Tigers-%E3%83%A2%E3%83%8A%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B6%E3%81%AE%E5%BE%AE%E7%AC%91-Mona-Lizas-Smile

12) Sublime Frequencies - “Oddities in Humidity” from RADIO THAILAND: TRANSMISSIONS FROM THE TROPICAL KINGDOM https://sublime-frequencies.bandcamp.com/album/radio-thailand-transmissions-from-the-tropical-kingdom

13) Həsənağa Sadiqov - “(title unknown)” from RADIO IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY 17 - AZERI ELECTRIC GUITAR https://www.radioisaforeigncountry.org

14) Hans Reichel - “Could Be Nice Too” from EUROPEAN PRIMITIVE GUITAR (1974-1987) https://n-t-s.bandcamp.com/album/european-primitive-guitar-1974-1987

15) Allen Ravenstine - “Wreck of the Sandoz” from MODULISME SESSION 100 https://modular-station.com/modulisme/session/100/ https://modulisme.bandcamp.com/album/modulisme-session-100

16) The Residents - “Rest Aria (featuring Sarah Cahill)” from THE RESIDENTS SECRET SHOW - LIVE IN SAN FRANCISCO https://www.residents.com/

17) Penny Carson Nichols with Sue Boettger - “Alameda Baby” from TRINIDAD SEED http://www.elkbugles.com/2021/01/only-on-cassette-penny-carson-nichols.html https://yogarecords.bandcamp.com/album/trinidad-seed

18) R.M.Ng. Rana Suripta & Langen Praja - “Dhenggung Turulare (excerpt)” from WORLD MUSIC LIBRARY: MUSIC OF MANGKUNÊGARAN SOLO I https://www.discogs.com/release/2429188-Langen-Praja-Music-Of-Mangkun%C3%AAgaran-Solo-1

[temess07]

ITA's Geographical Moment (Adair County)

I haven't posted anything lately as Iowa travel has come to the usual winter weather standstill. Not too soon to be thinking about 2024 destinations

Once upon a time, the state of Iowa designated counties on their license plate by their position in an alphabetical list . The distinction of being # 1 on and the answer to countless trivia questions was Adair County. Also holding the #1 position is the fact that the first “Freedom Rock” was painted near a quarry on the Hiway 25 between I-80 and the town of Greenfield. Now that phenomonen has…

[rastronomicals]

1:36 AM EDT October 7, 2023:

Blue Cheer - "Hiway Man" From the album   Good Times Are So Hard to Find - The History of Blue Cheer (1988)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Proto-metal

[fuckyeahchiptune]

James aka CalmDownKidder plays the latest chiptune tracks, talks about upcoming shows and some tech news! This week was a BANDCAMP FRIDAY special, playing nothing but Bandcamp tracks!

Valden - Vroume - cyanide dansen limitation de vitesse rmx https://valdenchiptune.bandcamp.com/album/vroume

TheDuccinator - Mars Bar on Mars https://theduccinator.bandcamp.com/album/something-something-tracks

bash explode - nostalgia per minute https://bashexplode.bandcamp.com/track/nostalgia-per-minute

Archipelago Soundsystem - Nyabo'z organ'z (Trey Frey original edit) https://finestylewest.bandcamp.com/album/archipelago-soundsystem-speed-goth-dubz-10-super-extended-play

utsuho - Synth Traveller https://utsuho.bandcamp.com/album/synth-traveler

Tobikomi - Dormant https://tobikomi.bandcamp.com/album/tobikomis-best-of-furnace-2k22

Space Town - Dusk https://spacetown.bandcamp.com/album/if-you-had-known

2xAA - Biohazard https://2xaa.bandcamp.com/track/biohazard

DEFENSE MECHANISM - Laundry Quadrant https://nosidesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/defense-mechanism-goto80-split

GOTO80 - Elektro Argo https://nosidesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/defense-mechanism-goto80-split

newlife+ - dream;Gate (ft. azuria sky) https://newlifeplus.bandcamp.com/album/dream-gate-ft-azuria-sky

isocore - Northern FM https://isocore.co.uk/album/clear

Alice Knows Karate - She's Got Legs, You Idiot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJQVWXmyJ9M https://aliceknowskarate.bandcamp.com/album/fablewave-deluxe

Soft Toss - Theme for Dog https://outergrid.bandcamp.com/album/soff-toss

SuperJet Spade - NeoStar Raceway https://superjet-spade.bandcamp.com/album/superjet-spade-music-collection-2020-2021

DJ Diskmachine - DRL https://djdiskmachine.bandcamp.com/album/00-drl

fallinginmotion - Feel Alive https://fallinginmotion.bandcamp.com/album/cleanse

Bodaciously Kamek - Gray Monolith (Shock and Awe Ed.) https://bodaciouslykamek.bandcamp.com/track/gray-monolith-shock-and-awe-ed

Max Tundra - Lights 2023 https://maxtundra.bandcamp.com/album/lights-2023

ne7 - Gimme Some Sugar https://ne77en.bandcamp.com/album/amiga-archive-ep-1

Starmint - Incompatible Funk https://starmint.bandcamp.com/album/planeskippers

chunter - Colonial Groove Inspection https://chunter.bandcamp.com/album/colonial-groove-inspection

3xBlast - I'm A Necromancer Who Summoned A Skeleton Now I'm In Love!? https://3xblast.bandcamp.com/album/im-a-necromancer-who-summoned-a-skeleton-now-im-in-love

Sloopygoop - Nite Hiway https://sloopygoop.bandcamp.com/album/pre-teen-wasteland

Iron Curtain - Mama (feat. MEIKO) https://ironcurtain.bandcamp.com/album/mama-feat-meiko

Nullsleep - Motion Map (Feel The Rhythm) https://nullsleep.bandcamp.com/album/liminal-zones-vol-2

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