This is one of the more strange and unusual wall murals I've encountered. Yes, it is an electric stove, with arms and legs, wearing Renaissance-style footwear. And, because he's handpainted on the outside wall of an appliance store, he appears to have been given the task of strongly directing store personnel to move some inventory. I always thought the word was spelled refrigerator, but who am I to correct a stove. The call "I want my MTV" was popularized in a song by the British music group Dire Straits on their 1985 album Brothers in Arms. Could it be that this mural has been on that wall for 24 years?? Can't be. (I still want to know what is with the pointy shoes? We GOT to know!)
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
A Stove Can't Spell (or use proper English)
This is one of the more strange and unusual wall murals I've encountered. Yes, it is an electric stove, with arms and legs, wearing Renaissance-style footwear. And, because he's handpainted on the outside wall of an appliance store, he appears to have been given the task of strongly directing store personnel to move some inventory. I always thought the word was spelled refrigerator, but who am I to correct a stove. The call "I want my MTV" was popularized in a song by the British music group Dire Straits on their 1985 album Brothers in Arms. Could it be that this mural has been on that wall for 24 years?? Can't be. (I still want to know what is with the pointy shoes? We GOT to know!)
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I was a fan of Dire Straits from the start; hard to beat 'Sultans of Swing', and their first album, 'Making Movies' is one of my all time goodies. Not quite up with Buddy Holly, but close..
ReplyDeleteYep, I need the answers to these questions too!
ReplyDeleteReally interesting mural, despite the linguistic issues.
I hate it when my stove talks to me.
ReplyDeleteThe video for that Dire Straits song was one of my favorites back when MTV used to run videos all day long! Those were the days.
ReplyDeletelove your banner shot!
ReplyDeleteKen Mac: Thank you. I lived on the end of this street on the left several years ago. It has not changed in probably a half a century. It is hardly paved and the oakk trees hang low and plants grow like crazy.
ReplyDeletethose shoes look like what we called "winklepickers" but that was in the mid-60s
ReplyDeleteTalking stoves, funny! I know them only from Japan.
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