Month: August 2011
Chapter Twelve “Bloody hell! Your mum is a bloody nuisance.” “I better stay home. The seminar’s at half past eight.” “I’ll get you there on time.” “My mother’s calling too early.” “Fuckin’ aye! She’s really bolloxing things up for us.” “That’s her plan.” Sure enough, two messages awaited. “I don’t know where you are at …
Yes, I know “Kim the Waitress” was a Green Pajamas song, famously covered by Material Issue, but the version I always liked best was Sister Psychic’s off of “Surrender You Freak.” I couldn’t find that version complete, on the net, but there is a soundclip at Allmusic.com and probably a few other places. I also …
Taylor standing on the stairway looks so classy. Justin looks like he is trying to seem classy (hat, nice shirt), but he has to appear a little dangerous with the low pants, etc… Problem is: a man sporting a little danger doesn’t coo,”baby, baby, baby, oh” and tends to look like a man, not 15. …
Full story is here. Thanks to Robert for the link.
In Japan this is known as “Banzai Kitten”:
http://youtu.be/UlBcWqYpFf8
Chapter Ten I landed and meandered from the plane. Keith and I spotted each other and ran to each other’s arms. “I hope we’re never separated again like that,” Keith said when he finally let go. “I promise I’ll part the Red Sea to go to Roskilde next time,” I said. “You might get your …
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If you have a parrot and you don’t teach it to say,”Help, they’ve turned me into a parrot,” you are wasting everybody’s time. – Redditor kageyama123 http://youtu.be/K7ht0a2-OnA
Amazing! How did he do that?!? Years ago when my oldest son was in Kindergarten (he’s 23 now), he and I shared an afternoon at Chicago’s World-Famous John G. Shedd Aquarium. I had bought him a little stuffed dolphin at the gift shop and he was playing with it, making it “swim” along the underwater …
The modern GOP is just a micro-version, the display model, of the American Dream’s pyramid scheme… Con people into it (often thru religion/family values, a sharp contrast to Europe’s workforce) and as those few who figure out they’ve been had, bow out or die, more are added to the pile, the bottom of the pile. …
This kid is really keeping time, a drum prodigy. He can barely walk but he’s rocking to Joan Jett. Very “pro drummer” facial expressions. – Thanks to Joy Mazo Colella: https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=114329025264977
Dogs seem to experience such human-like emotions. Here the dog looks “guilty.” Dogs also get “jealous” when their human gives attention to another dog. Why would dogs feel guilt or jealousy?
Chapter Nine I returned and told Keith about my conversation with my mother. “Move in with me. My trust fund can support us both.” “My parents would send the gendarmes if I did that. We have to do something, though. I’m not moving back to France.” “I hope this doesn’t interfere with our trip to …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17dpZ0M9uxs
According to the Wik: “Gina Choi (Hangul: 최지나), better known by her stage name G.NA, is a Canadian-born South Korean singer…” http://youtu.be/3Y6dD5OPWx4
Chapter Eight The morning we were leaving for Brittany, I woke to the sound of Keith’s piano. “Good morning, my love.” He shot me a grin without rising from the piano when I emerged from the bedroom. “It took all my willpower not to wake and ravish you. I trust you slept well?” “I feel …
Thanks to Timothy Riley for this tune from Seattle’s David Bazan:
Thanks to Karl Clifton-Soderstrom for this. Funny how this recent Decemberists song sounds like an old classic from REM:
Back at El Corazon for Sunday and the final night of my three-day stint covering the Soundfest punk shows, although the first artist was hardly punk. Pascal Briggs, looking much like a young Woody Guthrie, is a poet singer with an electric/acoustic guitar. He had had very nice poetry, but there was nothing that wowed …
Jerry Lieber, of songwriting team Lieber and Stoller, authors of “Hound Dog,” “Stand By Me,” “Is That All There Is?” and many other fondly remembered pop tunes has died at the age of 78. Full story is here.