This was complemented by jangly, psychedelic-influenced guitar work reminiscent of 1960s bands such as The Beatles and The Byrds, and the combination of the two developed into the style which became known as the Dunedin Sound.

Also from San Francisco, Blue Cheer played psychedelic-influenced rock in a blues-rock style.

The Shamen were a Scottish electronic music and psychedelic-influenced band from Aberdeen.

Vocalist Selene Vigil formed a gothic / psychedelic-influenced band by the name of Cistine, in 2000.

Most likely, as speculated in the Oxford Dictionary of British Place Names, it is simply " a whimsical name bestowed in the 19th century on a place considered desolate, exposed or difficult to cultivate ".

Bowie's influences at this stage of his career included the theatrical tunes of Anthony Newley, music hall numbers by acts like Tommy Steele, some of the more whimsical and ' British ' material by Ray Davies of The Kinks, Syd Barrett's slightly cracked nursery rhymes for the early Pink Floyd, and the Edwardian flam shared by such contemporary songs as The Beatles ' " Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite ".

The phrase Uncle Tom Cobley and all is used in British English as a humorous or whimsical way of saying et al., often to express exasperation at the large number of people in a list.

The decision to call it a guild was partly inspired by the notion that medieval guilds had encouraged professionalism along with mutual aid, as well as by a whimsical desire to create the acronym GOONS, evoking a popular British radio humorous show, The Goon Show, and making a self-mocking comment on the quixotic nature of one-name studies.

Nasreddin often appears as a whimsical character of a large Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Italian, Judeo-Spanish, Kurdish, Pashto, Persian, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Turkish and Urdu folk tradition of vignettes, not entirely different from zen koans.

Many surviving acts moved away from psychedelia into either more back-to-basics " roots rock ", traditional-based, pastoral or whimsical folk, the wider experimentation of progressive rock, or riff-based heavy rock.

The museum features an eclectic collection of antiques ( particularly electronics and arcade games ) and dozens of examples of proprietor John Preble's folk art, which ranges from the whimsical to the macabre.

Chief Lyons is also known for his whimsical toy creations called " folk " Totem Toys.

He continued to use pseudonyms, such as Cyprian St. Cyr (" Cyprian Sincere "), for whimsical articles in the Transactional Analysis Bulletin.

However, as the aliens continued to pour in, INS workers became bored and overworked, and at times chose whimsical names, reflecting historical or literary characters and geographic settings.

The whimsical Svetz series consists of a collection of short stories, The Flight of the Horse, and a novel, Rainbow Mars, which involve a nominal time machine sent back to retrieve long-extinct animals, but which travels, in fact, into alternate realities and brings back mythical creatures such as a Roc and a Unicorn.

It can be formed into whimsical shapes, like mushrooms, or piped into a crisp basket that is baked and filled later with cake, fruit, or flowers.

" After World War II the band shifted into higher gear leaning more toward a whimsical honky-tonk feel, with a heavy, manic bottom end-the slap bass of Fred Maddox.

The moon gate and other whimsical doorways also act to frame views and to force the viewer to pause for a transition into a new space.

" Roger Ebert called the film a " sweet, whimsical and surprisingly intelligent comedy " whose " last third ... turns into a hilarious sendup of the modern musical " that " must be the funniest deliberately bad play in a movie since Mel Brooks ' " Springtime for Hitler " in The Producers.

The whimsical poem " The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon " in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil tells how the Man in the Moon fell one night into " the windy Bay of Bel "; his fall is marked by the tolling of a bell in the Sea-ward Tower ( Tirith Aear ) of Dol Amroth ; and he recovers at an inn in the city.

Here Sobule comments on her own unconventional show business career ( the bittersweet " Freshman ") as well as the tragicomic arc of go-go dancing 60s icon Joey Heatherton (" Joey ") alongside whimsical autobiographical songs (" Cinnamon Park " and " Strawberry Gloss ") and more politicized tracks dealing with issues related to adolescent homosexuality (" Underdog Victorious " and the humorous " Under the Disco Ball ") and even sexual slavery (" Tel Aviv ," sung in the voice of a girl forced into prostitution after going overseas for a waitressing job " in the Promised Land ").

Seymour wades into the ocean and, placing the girl on a rubber raft, proceeds to tell her the whimsical tale – “ the very tragic life ” – of the bananafish: in their gluttony, they gorge themselves on bananas, and swollen too large to escape their feeding holes, die.

Although he appears aloof and whimsical, Elder can display great authority and leadership spurring those around him including Sister Kate into action.

Her drawing evolved into what she calls " soft geometry ," featuring pastels used in a " colorful, light-hearted, and whimsical " manner.

I can only imagine that it is a whimsical riposte for my having my name removed from a film I wrote a few years ago reference to Halloween III: Season of the Witch | Halloween III for which Kneale wrote an early draft and which Mr Carpenter carpentered into sawdust ".

" Maslin felt that the " pointedly whimsical film overworks the fairy-tale aspect of this friendship ( between Devon and Trent )", she concluded that Duigan " does breathe life into a story that rails against conventional wisdom.

In the 1970s Recycled Paper Greetings, a small company needing to establish a competing identity against the large companies like Hallmark Cards, began publishing humorous " whimsical " card designs with the artist's name credited on the back.

This idea, while whimsical, is quite difficult to fathom when one is confronted with the fact that at various times in Russian history, the playing of the balalaika was banned because of its use by the skomorokhi, who were generally highly irritating to both church and state.

Often whimsical, these pieces display Rossini's natural ease of composition and gift for melody, showing obvious influences of Beethoven and Chopin, with many flashes of the composer's long buried desire for serious, academic composition.

Other enduring features have been " Goings on About Town ", a listing of cultural and entertainment events in New York, and " The Talk of the Town ", a miscellany of brief pieces — frequently humorous, whimsical or eccentric vignettes of life in New York — written in a breezily light style, or feuilleton, although in recent years the section often begins with a serious commentary.

In those Continental contexts where Rococo is fully in control, sportive, fantastic, and sculptured forms are expressed with abstract ornament using flaming, leafy or shell-like textures in asymmetrical sweeps and flourishes and broken curves ; intimate Rococo interiors suppress architectonic divisions of architrave, frieze, and cornice for the picturesque, the curious, and the whimsical, expressed in plastic materials like carved wood and above all stucco ( as in the work of the Wessobrunner School ).

Written by Jeunet with Guillaume Laurant, the film is a whimsical depiction of contemporary Parisian life, set in Montmartre.

In her review she said, " Its whimsical, free-ranging nature is often enchanting ; the first hour, in particular, is brimming with amiable, sardonic laughs.

The Central Illinois Regional Airport near Bloomington has a whimsical statue of Stevenson, sitting on a bench with his feet propped on his briefcase and his head in one hand, as if waiting for his flight.

Fast food restaurants rapidly became the eatery " everyone could agree on ", with many featuring child-size menu combos, play areas, and whimsical branding campaigns, like the iconic Ronald McDonald, designed to appeal to younger customers.

Their self-given names are often tinged with menace ( but still tend to be whimsical ), such as:

The foremost dancer is ornamented all over with down feathers, which gives him a monkey-like appearance ; the hindermost has had the whimsical idea of painting his body to imitate the uniform of a Spanish soldier, with his boots, stockings, breeches, and upper garments.

Although this volume is notable for featuring imagined histories by serious historians, the histories are presented in narrative form ( in most cases with a fairly whimsical tone ) without any analysis of the reasoning behind these scenarios, so they fall short of modern standards for serious counterfactual history and are closer to the fictional alternate history genre.

Dorothea Lynde Dix proclaims that “ Perhaps no flower ( not excepting even the queenly rose ) claims to be so universal a favorite, as the viola tricolor ; none currently has been honored with so rich a variety of names, at once expressive of grace, delicacy and tenderness .” Many of these names play on the whimsical nature of love, including “ Three Faces under a Hood ,” “ Flame Flower ,” “ Jump Up and Kiss Me ,” “ Flower of Jove ,” and “ Pink of my John .”

The flower has long been associated with human manner, as one man cleverly stated: “ Nature sports as much with the colours of this little flower as she does with the features of the human countenance .” The pansy ’ s particular connection to human thought and emotion is mirrored in one Dr. Evan ’ s poems, where he captures the whimsical, yet deep emotional roots of the pansy ’ s symbolism: “ Pied Pansy ,-once a vestal fair / In Cerestrain ,-now droops-/ Stained by the bolt of love her purple breast ,/ And ‘ freaked with jet ’ her party-colored vest ”.

While the Flintstones live in a world with machines powered by birds and dinosaurs, the Jetsons live in the year 2062 in a futuristic utopia ( 100 years in the future at the time of the show's debut ) of elaborate robotic contraptions, aliens, holograms, and whimsical inventions.

Some of the oil pump jacks along the main streets of Luling are decorated with whimsical characters, such as a girl eating a watermelon.

It marked the first time that Bailey had been able to tie together his music and post-modern gags with the whimsical rambling style he is now known for.

In writing to George Devine, who directed the Old Vic production, Beckett suggests that “ the inquirer ( light ) begins to emerge as no less a victim of his inquiry than they and as needing to be free, within narrow limits, literally to act the part, i. e. to vary only slightly his speeds and intensities .” But the role of the light is even more ambiguous, for it has also been seen as “ a metaphor for our attention ( relentless, all-consuming, whimsical )” and a way of “ switching on and switching off speech exactly as a playwright does when he moves from one line of dialogue on his page to the next .” Neither of these analogies conflicts with the more popular views where the spotlight is believed by to represent God, or some other moral agent tasked with assessing, each character's case to be relieved from the binds of the urn by having them relive this relationship, which has ruined all their lives.