Random Thoughts

MOJO · Post by **MOJO** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 4:23 pm

http://beachimpeach.org/sfa28_photos.html

ReadyToHearTheWorst · Post by **ReadyToHearTheWorst** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 6:12 pm

Otis Westinghouse wrote:Nice one. What year? Is 10 miles an under-estimate for the distance to Macc? 15 maybe? I went for 10 as everything is so incredibly close together in that part of the world.

That was approx 5 years ago. Also spotted Rio Ferdinand thereabouts (or at least his Aston Martin, RF 1).
10 miles is about right. As you say, all those places are joined up now so it's difficult to know where one becomes the other.

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 8:42 pm

BWAP wrote

But I don't know anyone under 55 that owns a late model cadillac.

au contraire, mon frere. Escalades are the shit. For example, my boss's baby mama drives one! And she's my age, I think.

ice nine · Post by **ice nine** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 9:08 pm

Looking thru a book called Jews Who Rock, I discover that Courtney Love is Jewish. Who'da thunk it?

Mr. Average · Post by **Mr. Average** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 9:13 pm

According to Adam Sandler, OJ Simpson is not a Jew.

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 4:51 am

ice nine wrote:Looking thru a book called Jews Who Rock, I discover that Courtney Love is Jewish. Who'da thunk it?

It figures facially.

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Fri May 04, 2007 7:29 am

A fistanation* of degradation,
And hate and war. There must be more.
* = 'philistine nation'

wow, I'm glad you explained that.

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Fri May 04, 2007 9:15 am

Is there anything more annoying than a co-worker with a Betty Rubble giggle and an uncanny ability to project?

Post by **spooky girlfriend** » Fri May 04, 2007 11:10 am

Big reality check. The daughter is (gulp) 18 today.

On the plus side, we're getting a new roof today. Sad what gets you excited in your 40s - a new roof. Oh well, at least the insurance adjuster thought we had hail damage so they're paying for most of it.

Not as stressful as planning a wedding though. How goes it, Blue and Red?

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Fri May 04, 2007 1:50 pm

mood swung wrote:wow, I'm glad you explained that.

For the benefit of our non-British friends...

I've moved on, though I was tempted to write 'guitarshepoo' for my location (I reconnected with my 15 year old self last night in a big way - we'd compete to see who could come up with the worst approximation to the real language in Weller's delivery).

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Fri May 04, 2007 2:09 pm

well, my first thought was that it might be for make benefit of glorious nation of Kazakhstan.

that doesn't make me a bad person, does it?

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Fri May 04, 2007 6:49 pm

Probably not, but I have to confess after re-listening today (very inevitably) that the 'li' is actually pretty clear. Maybe I just want there to be fewer syllables than there really are. Teenage humour. Or maybe that was a live rendition.

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Tue May 08, 2007 12:22 pm

just celebrating the genius of todd snider:

Ballad of the Kingsmen
(from East Nashville Skyline)

The Kingsmen came together in a garage,
They could hardly even play
But they practiced night and day pretty soon
They got to where they could really play that song Louie, Louie
So they saved up all the money from the shows
Went in to one of them studios and gave their version of the song a try

Now, I don't know the words to that song Louie, Louie
And I'm pretty sure the singer for the Kingsmen didn't know them either,
If he did know them he didn't get them right on the record
Cause on the record they sound jumbled in his jaw
It says, "Me think of me girl oh so constantly
Ahmayaaah makaaaah aahh ooohoooh aaaaah"
Well, that last part scared everybody from the PTA to the FBI
You see, the kids had been going kinda crazy lately
And it seemed like nobody could figure out why
So they decided to form a coalition,
Launch an investigation, you know for the children, they at least had to try
To figure out the words to Louie, Louie

It's the feel good hit of this endless summer
It gets these kids out of control
Singing along to that star spangled bummer
Hail, hail rock and roll

Marilyn Manson's real name isn't even Marilyn Manson
He's a skinny public high school kid from Florida
Not some monster from out of this world
And like of a lot other skinny long hair public high school kids
He was sick of getting beaten up by the pulling guard all week
Only to go out on the weekend and watch the quarterback get all the girls
So he formed a band, man
Now he gets all the girls
A few years later a couple of latch-key kids go tragically mad
And everybody's standing around the television store at the mall trying to figure out what went wrong
This guy says, "You think the life of a kid going to high school could've gotten so bad?"
This other guy says "Nah, it's just the words to one of them goddamn Marilyn Manson songs"
You know the one

It's the feel good hit of this endless summer
It gets these kids out of control
Singing along to that star spangled bummer
Hail, hail rock and roll

You know, every ten years or so our country and some other little country
We start firing all of our newest weapons at each other
For some reason or another, right or wrong, like it or not, it happens
And when it happens people get shot and when people get shot
They show it on TV a lot every night at six o'clock
And you don't even have to be eighteen to see it
You don't even have to be in first grade
First grade where they teach the kid pride
They tell him he'll need to thrive
In a world where only the strong will survive
So he's taught the art of more
To compare to and to keep score Monday through Friday while
He stares at the floor 'til Sunday they make him go to school once more
Only this time they make him wear a suit and a tie
And listen to some guy who claims to know where people go when they die
Tell him that only the meek are gonna inherit the earth
Well shit, by this time the kid doesn't know what anything is worth
Now brothers and sisters I am only one guy
And I don't even know the words to that song Louie, Louie
But I can tell you right now without batting an eye
That the next time some latch-key kid goes wrong
It aint gonna be cause that Eminem gets to say the word "fag" in his song
And I'm not trying to preach to you either,
I'm just trying to sing to you, you know, string a few words together

live and almost in my backyard last year -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpgRlCgA_90

back to your regular programming...

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Tue May 08, 2007 5:25 pm

That's a lot of speaking.

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Wed May 09, 2007 7:08 am

Ya know, it is. I always marvel at his ability to remember it all. A lot of his songs are like that, rambling into randomness (see, I am on topic) but not quite as off-the-cuff as they might seem.

Mr. Average · Post by **Mr. Average** » Wed May 09, 2007 10:06 am

Oh man!. At the close of this weeks Soprano's, after Michael Imperioli whacks a guy and is finding his way home, nurturing a sapling that has toppled, the song "Valley" by Los Lobos from their latest gently rises up and follows him home, continuing in its entirely through the closing credits. It is sucha beautiful piece, With David Hidalgo's vocals just so perfect for that moment. I swear, no other show on TV knows how to pick 'em for the soundtrack. Pick up the Soprano's current soundtrack lp and check out the songs. Then listen to them in sequence. Great stuff. This is at least the second Los lobos song used, with "The Viking" used for an earlier episode.

bambooneedle · Post by **bambooneedle** » Wed May 09, 2007 2:48 pm

I hope the rain picks up, wouldn't mind a break from work.

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Fri May 11, 2007 7:49 am

I hope you got your wish, 'boo. I am hoping for showers as well, for my little pepper plants.

In other random thoughts, I was listening to Amy Winehouse's Rehab for the first or second time somehow some way the mental image that came up for Mr. Hathaway was this -

Boy With A Problem · Post by **Boy With A Problem** » Fri May 11, 2007 10:13 am

Jane Hathaway

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Fri May 11, 2007 10:19 am

she's my hero. Her and Alice, from the Brady Bunch.

seriously, how did I confuse Howell and Hathaway? I guess I was thinking castaway, but without Tom Hanks and just a 3 hour cruise (but with luggage out the ass).

I'm pretty sure it's true what they say about aluminum cans.

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Wed May 16, 2007 4:43 pm

So, I buy a disposable camera while I'm in England and take a few photos of different places in and around Manchester, the football grounds I visited, etc. When I get home there are about 20 exposures remaining. So what do my kids do? Abscond with the camera and proceed to take photos of each others derrieres. I suppose I'll just pitch the camera in the trash now. Surely if I try to get these developed the folks at CVS are going to think I'm some kind of perv and give my name to the police.

Why oh why?!?

so lacklustre · Post by **so lacklustre** » Wed May 16, 2007 5:07 pm

that's why it's called a disposable camera.

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Wed May 16, 2007 5:18 pm

so lacklustre wrote:that's why it's called a disposable camera.

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Thu May 17, 2007 3:53 pm

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mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Fri May 18, 2007 12:12 pm

what exactly is a year's worth of Taco Bell foods?