KING ELVIS HAS SURELY COME

yo!.. solo mio... innit!

 so..

on with the show..

it's 1979..

 

 

The median income of households in the United States was $16,530 in 1979..

an increase of 10 percent over the 1978 median of $15,060.

..the most famous people died who died in the year 1979..

This list includes people like John Wayne..

Josef Mengele, Dhyan Chand, Sid Vicious..

The Walkman virtually invented the concept of "personal electronics." 

The first Walkman..

 featured a cassette player and the world's first lightweight headphones..

A Walkman cost $200.00 in 1979.

 

Cost of a new home : $71,800.00

• The Quote: "This is the product that will satisfy those young people who want to listen to music all day." - Akio Morita, Sony Chairman, about the Sony Walkman.
• On January 9, Vietnamese troops took the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, and toppled the brutal regime of Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge.
• The Top Song was My Sharona by The Knack
• The Big Movies included Kramer vs. Kramer, Superman and The Amityville Horror
• TRS-80 Computer, 4k, Model 1: $499.00
  Price of a gallon of gas in 1979: 88 cents
• The World Population was ~ 4,312,000,000
• The First Strawberry Shortcake doll went on sale.
• The Cray supercomputer was invented by Seymour Cray.
• And... The China Syndrome, a movie about a nuclear meltdown caused by a faulty sensor reading and a stuck-open pressure release valve, aired only 12 days before the 3 Mile Island Meltdown, caused by a faulty sensor reading and a stuck open pressure release valve. 

most people would have called it..

new paintings..

but not our boy..

it's a take on..

king harvest has surely come..

here in palookaville..

we like to relate to famous stuff..

like..

I saw the figure 5 in gold.. 

once upon a time in the west..

she came in through the bathroom window..

THE YELLOW ROSE OF TEXAS

that's the picture on your left foreground..

is inspired by the idea of..

culture shock or cultural imperialism..


JUST ANOTHER GUY NAMED JOE


the one with the roller blind..

made from old glory..

is another echo..

from east 100 st.

you know..

the child in the photo..


ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE


this is a trip..

drugs are not recommended..

but this is the artist at dawn in bangor park, belfast 1970..


PUTTING ON THE AGONY PUTTING ON DE STIJL


little english elvis..

how to draw automobiles..

and all our dreams go pop..


OH.. AND THAT'S CAP




the painting on your right hand side..

sitting in his condo..

with his off duty duds on..

enjoying a beer..

"with the hi fi high and the lights down low"

the painting show is described as a picture disc..

music is a backdrop..

you see it not hear it..

it's the background..

it's the rhythm..

it's the soul..


DID THEY GET IT?


it's too soon to say..