motley crue mirror
my neighbor esther is a nice lady, a weird dresser with bright hair, and i don’t need to tell you that i very nearly spit when i learned that she grew up on the carnival. yes, the carnival– shilling shitty trinkets to accommodating parents of garden-variety brats (”baby cry, mommy buy”), riding the egg scrambler for free, elephant ears for breakfast, corn dogs for lunch, knowing the angles, shouting “hey rube!”, etc.. so how is it possible, with all that and funny hair and tiny zoobomber bikes, skinned knees and dumpster diving, i ask you how is it possible that she did not know the bikini kill song “carnival”? i mean, we still like her- she’s great- but this new knowledge casts everything in a weird light, right?
anyway our stalwart pal kasey henniman’s got her priorities straight and made these BK-inspired mirrors, one of which we have here, for the winner of a particularly difficultsimple carnival-style game.
“i’ll win that motley crue mirror if it fucking kills me!”
motley crue mirror- 1 life of trying
Is that a Terry (Pteri?) the Pterodactyl doll in the background? Because I want that.
December 12, 2006 @ 5:40 pm
big tiiiiiime.
December 12, 2006 @ 11:33 pm
ok so i listened to the song. and you know what’s crazy? well at the end they say “by the lacey mall” and up until i was 8 i would celebrate my birthday in Lacey at the carnival, but there is another carnival at one of the mall’s in Lacey at a different time which i think now is run by Funtastic. anyways so just to make sure we were talkin bout the same lacey, i googled bikini kill, turns out there from olympia, wa which is where i used to work the lakefair when i was younger too! also they were big in the 90s right? that’s when i used to work both those spots. yup i’m the seedy underbelly of the carnival they’re talking about.
December 13, 2006 @ 1:13 am
I saw the ZooBomb bike pile when I went to visit Nummy in Portland (the same time that I ran into CoolBreeze and Mike Lesley outside Q is for Choir Records). I seem to remember something about the ZooBomb ride going through a tunnel. This info isn’t in the wikipedia page though.
Intense stenciled Motley Crue mirror by the way. makes me want to make lots of stencilled mirrors. Would you sell them if I made them? I assume the answer is going to be, “YEAH!”
also, I didn’t know you had a show the other night until Cindy mentioned it to me in an email. It was on Amory street, right? or was it Armory street?
December 13, 2006 @ 1:35 am
two drinks- it was in fact, amory st, not armory st, which got us stupid lost. i will sell your crazy mirrors, duh.
esther- this rules. even today you’re still “wearing plastic, not real leather”. stay seedy!
December 13, 2006 @ 1:46 am
my first carnival mirror. (nintendo Kung Fu cartridge).
December 20, 2006 @ 2:56 am
uh, no dice, two drinks- post the url of the image.
December 20, 2006 @ 12:51 pm
I just scored a black motley carnival mirror with a wooden frame at a yard sale for .50 cents! It just has a pentagram and reads “Motley Crue”. I saw a similar one sell on ebay for about $70 bucks! I guess they’re not cheap trinkets anymore…
When I saw it sitting there on some lady’s shelf, it brought back a flood of memories. Carnivals in the ’80s were good times. It was a time to hook up with girls and have fun. Sure the games were rigged and the rides were cheesy but it wasn’t about that… it was about hanging out with people and being a kid.
I miss those days when everything didn’t suck so badly…
July 30, 2011 @ 4:13 am