New Mascot: The Rally Rothko

by Rev Halofan on Mar 7, 2006 11:16 PM PST in Angels News

This Ain't no Tommy Kinkade.

This ain't no 15 minute Warholia Superstar.

This is the infinite sublime of the eternal Fan.

Are you ready for the Rally Rothko?

You may need him before he needs you.

Read up on him, sounds like an Angels fan in midseason form.

You voted for him!

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And...

Occupation: Panther.

That could be a misspelling.

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

by scareduck on Mar 7, 2006 11:49 PM PST reply actions

EXACTLY!

And can you believe they spelled Anaheim "Latvia" I mean... c'mon!

by Rev Halofan on Mar 8, 2006 12:40 AM PST up reply actions

Mark Rothko would not by any chance be the real name of Halo Harry? Halo Harry was an unofficial cheerleader for the California Angels in 1968-69. Harry would wander through the stands leading cheers with a halo over his head. The halo was made with a bent coathanger and had small white Christmas lights attached. Harry's halo was lit up more often than the halo on top of the Big A. I really mean he was "unofficial." I recall reading an article about Halo Harry in which he states he paid for his Angel tickets. Strangely there is no mention of Halo Harry in Ross Newhan's "The Anaheim Angels: The Complete History." How can it be complete without Halo Harry? The suicide of Mark Rothko on 2/25/70 might explain why we never saw Halo Harry at the Big A after 1969.

by Yetijuice on Mar 8, 2006 6:54 AM PST reply actions

I'm seeing...

A fat swatch of red above a smaller swatch of deep blue... with a little brown blending the two together. The brown is of course a small symbol of a monkey.

So in the 7th when they're playing house of pain... the camera frantically zooms in and out of the canvas of color.

"I don't have to be nervous... It's a baseball game."

by proletariat on Mar 8, 2006 8:40 AM PST reply actions

oh yeah...

and once again, we elect someone who commited suicide to be a symbol of our cause.

I'm getting concerned here... there's some kind of Freudian guilt over Donnie Moore or something.

"I don't have to be nervous... It's a baseball game."

by proletariat on Mar 8, 2006 8:42 AM PST up reply actions

Rothko

I voted for Rothko and I'm glad he won. Imagine seeing the late great JACKSON POLLACK's ugly mug with a Halo's hat sitting atop his bald head. Bringing up that image; I'm quite happy with Rothko winning.

by Jack Frost on Mar 8, 2006 9:38 AM PST up reply actions

I actually voted for Pollock

Not because I know that much about him or anything, but because he's the main source of inspiration for the art of John Squire.

by LA Seitz on Mar 8, 2006 10:10 AM PST reply actions

The Stone Roses were awesome

John Squire's paintings were not

by yeswecan on Mar 8, 2006 10:31 AM PST up reply actions

How dare you say anything negative...

...about Guitar Jesus?!

by LA Seitz on Mar 8, 2006 11:28 AM PST up reply actions

haha

i prefer Guitar Jesus' "Second Coming" guitar noodlings to any of his Pollock ripoffs. that lick in that "i'm gonna break right into heaven" song is so overblown, but it's tits!

the first record is ETERNALLY better, though. Amen.

by yeswecan on Mar 8, 2006 11:41 AM PST up reply actions

No need to convince me

Their debut is the greatest collection of recorded material I've ever listened to.

by LA Seitz on Mar 8, 2006 11:42 AM PST up reply actions

I prefer

The Soup Dragons

Halo Country

by cupie on Mar 8, 2006 12:21 PM PST up reply actions

...and that's how cupie rolls

by yeswecan on Mar 8, 2006 1:35 PM PST up reply actions

Nobody can touch

Arthur Lee on Forever Changes...

by Rev Halofan on Mar 8, 2006 3:33 PM PST up reply actions

Does that have "Alone Again, Or" on it?

I can't decide if I like the original version better than "the Damned" version. There's a cool little guitar part in the Damned version that I really like.

Eh, if I was picking something second behing the first Stone Roses album, it would probably be "Ocean Rain".

by LA Seitz on Mar 8, 2006 8:24 PM PST up reply actions

First Track

Alone Again Or
With the trumpet section that ended up in a Miller Beer commercial a few years back subbing as a maricahi track at a backyard BBQ - big time audio doubletake WTF?

Marquee Moon by Television is a good runner up - great guitars.

by Rev Halofan on Mar 8, 2006 8:39 PM PST up reply actions