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Glad to see you.
So why wait??
Cosmos are in the shaker, chilled and ready to pour.
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Get your random 10s out…
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Please recommend (and unrecommend the Cafe/Lounge from earlier)
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May the 4’s be with you
Friday Happy Hour CLOSED
Hi all! Random 10s:
Euromotion – Farewell (don’t ask)
Iron Maiden – Twilight Zone
Linkin Park – Wth>You
Operating Ivy – Unity
Creed – Faceless Man
Rancid – Radio Havana
AFI – Self Pity
NoFX – Cops and Donuts
Sum 41 – I’m Not The One
Lagwagon – Lazy
P.S. If any of you are interested in becoming a part of a local blogging project that will (hopefully) be big after November 7, please see my diary from yesterday.
BTW Psi, AFI is appearing in the area. (Hudson Valley)
In the past, I would’ve said ‘Cool!’ But their latest album was a complete sell-out, so I’m not very fond of them these days.
Hey Psi, did I see you mention something about Al Gore this weekend? Are you going?
Yeah, Al Gore is doing rallies in PA tomorrow…I’ll be at the one with Rendell, Casey, and Murphy, but he’s also going to be doing a couple with Sestak later in the day as well.
Really fuckin’ awesome. I hope he sticks around…I have a couple of questions I’d like to ask him (including the one everyone wants to know…just worded a bit differently).
Hi CG and Psi! I’ll be leaving work any minute now. Woohoo!
Hey B2! Yay to the end of the work day!
This Must Be Love – Buckwheat Zydeco
Glass House – Ani DiFranco
Sadness/ Darlin Waltz – Mark O’connor With Buddy Spicher
She’s No Lady – Lyle Lovett
After Midnight – Jerry Garcia Band
We’re All in This Together – Ben Lee
Creepin’ In – Norah Jones
Doubting Thomas – Nickel Crreek
Caring is Creepy – The Shins
For Free – Joni Mitchell
Pour me a glass of Grandma’s Old-Fashioned Homemade Elephant Tranquilizer, leave the bottle and let’s listen together as our brains slowly sail off into the sunset:
The Breakup Song – Greg Kihn Band
Snake River Hoedown – Gordon Titcomb
Holding Out For A Hero – Frou Frou
Choo Choo ch’Boogie – Louis Jordan and his Tympani Five
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band/With A Little Help From My Friends – Da Vinci’s Notebook (or the Beatles, their version is good too)
Letterbox – They Might Be Giants
Minnie’s Yoo Hoo – Walt Disney Co.
Operator – Grateful Dead
Ye Bandit of Sherwood Forest – The Goons (Goon Show episode)
and as promised:
The Battle of Evermore – Led Zeppelin
Minnie’s Yoo Hoo?
least it’s not Minnie’s Hoo Haw
Heh, yeah.
Minnie’s Yoo Hoo was kind of a theme song for Minnie Mouse back in the very early days (right around “Steamboat Willie” time). Somewhere in my video collection I have a little short Disney did of Minnie singing the song:
You can still hear the melody to this in a couple of places in Disneyland, although for the life of me I can’t remember exactly where right now. I think it’s one of the songs on King Arthur’s Carousel.
i love disney trivia (even though we’re supposed to hate them due to their ties with ABC) sigh….no refuge is safe anymore from the crazy wingers of the right.
oh no, Manny, NO! Tell me it ain’t so!
We’ve got to do an intervention, and quick!
Don’t you know they will own your soul before it’s through? You’ll go in that voting booth and,. . .and . .
It’s just too terrible.
I’m calling the BF clinic right now to see if the Anti-disney wing has a free bed.
this would be a bad time to bring up the fact that I spent New Years in front of Sleeping Beauty’s Castle? :0
The ambulance is on its way. Cancel your plans for the next 6-7 months.
Note: You will be placed in the special “Bud available” wing.
Did someone say “Bud?” You have my attention.
awwwww. I love Bud Blogging.
Save me a seat right next to you. FSM help me, I’m a slave to the Mouse. It happens a lot when you have two nine-year-olds in the house, one of whom is actually 32.
This weekend is usually the weekend I’m at Disney World, but I’m skipping it this year to work on the election.
I admit it … I love Disney World.
Mary, you could get a free trip to Disney world! My brother’s high school band could use another chaperone on their after-Christmas trip this year.
I’d rather pay my own way and go with adults!
When I was in highschool we went to Florida for spring break. We went to Disney World — at the time only the Magic Kingdom was open. A few of my friends got arrested by the Disney police (who let them go into the custody of the chaperones). I don’t think I’m up to the challenge of chaperoning!
Four or five buses of high school band kids? Can that be worse than a cabal of NY Lawyers?
Yes, because THEY can’t legally drink and the NY lawyers can.
My sister (1974 HS graduate) went with her senior class to Disney World. I think they were one of the earliest high schools to go there on their class trip. (Lucky us, our class two years ahead of her went to Washington, DC. We almost got busted for whistling in line for the White House tour.)
Man E, you got backwards. We’re supposed to hate ABC because it was bought by Disney.
in humility to your wisdom, o wise one 🙂
that a good friend of mine is going to be in Tucson singing next weekend (the 10-12). Then she goes to Phoenix the next weekend. (She’s an opera singer.)
the city has a decent art culture, lots of performances all over the place decently attended. The weather is perfect around here at the moment too
I’m here in the desert — so different
that could mean almost anything. I hope she likes it.
Got a weekend of phonebanking and canvassing planned?
This is it — the LAST weekend. Of COURSE I’m canvassing. Big GOTV rally on Sunday afternoon. Obama’s coming. Tuesday’s the day. And then I get my life back.
I’m almost to the point where I don’t care who wins … I just want it to be over. ooops, did I say that? I take it back.
I wish I felt better about it though. I hope my baseball negativity works the same way in the election.
I hope so too. I envy you seeing Obama.
In-laws still visiting?
Yeah, I’m excited to hear him.
I guess.
I think I’m too tired of the whole thing to really get excited about anything right now. I just hope he does his job and gets people excited to go vote on Tuesday.
I don’t think I’ve wanted anything in a long as much as I want Tuesday to be over and for at least the House to go dem. If it doesn’t, I’m thinking that olivia might be needing a permanent house guest.
We may need to set up a BT expat community there. 🙂
You won’t mind, will you, olivia?
you know how much she just loves crowds. 😉
I don’t think I’ve wanted anything more than to be able to turn on my TV and not hear lying political ads.
It would be nice for the house to go dem and I hope it happens. But frankly except for seeing some blog stuff about the chances I haven’t paid much attention to the house races. I’m all senate. I’m going to be REALLY depressed if the dems manage to take the Senate but still lose Missouri.
But there’s no way I’m going to let those bastards drive me out of MY country. Maybe the disparate parts of the Democratic coalition won’t hold together long enough to kick them out, but it’s still MY country. I’m not leaving.
Fine then. We’ll all stay, just for you. Screw those Ratpub bastards.
And with that, I’m really off to pick up my rug.
well, I actually couldn’t go unless olivia has room for the dogs and the woods.
It is our country, no matter how hard the GOP tries to make out that it is theirs alone. I nominate you as this century’s Molly Pitcher.
(She didn’t get smashed did she?)
Nah, but her husband took one of the team, for what that’s worth.
only works if Talent starts making crucial errors every damn day.
Kidspeak is working doggedly on her right-wing leaning brother to vote for McCaskill. He, the b-i-l, has more than a little of the Missouri mule south-pasture attitude about him, but she might get to him. Fingers crossed for McCaskill, it’s looks like a close one.
a home run and we’ll defeat him with a bunt that he won’t know how to field 😉
I hope Kidspeak is successful. This is an election where every vote is important. Especially if the person doesn’t live in one of the cities.
I told him about the funding cuts for the wildlife refuge. My Cape G bro is really attached to the Missouri wilds, and he got very upset at the sell-off of the NF in Missouri.
He is very hard to talk to, however, as he is one stubborn unit. I know my bro favors stem cell research, though, so I;m hoping that Michael Fox’s work and the attention it got will also help push him over the edge.
I did get one of our grad students here to vote absentee for Mo Dems – he had been very lazy about that, and had planned to register here in Michigan. I got him to do the absentee stuff in Mo – where his Dem vote is needed more than here. I’ve been vigilant about getting our outstate doctoral students to vote and helping them be able to vote successfully, which isn’t easy with the new voter ID laws.
That’s great! There was a new group that just endorsed McCaskill because of her oppostion to the sale of public land. The American Hunters and Shooters Association. I know nothing about them.
And good work on the absentee ballot!
Around here they’re known as “The Shotgun Shell and Beer Can Litters Association”
It makes sense for them desert the republicans — they NEED good emergency health care because guns and alcohol don’t mix … you know?
I live in a county where no hunting season goes by without some guy falling out of his deer stand — yeah, I know.
by following the road signs that are peppered with buckshot.
Have you ever been to the Indianapolis International film festival? It’s this weekend and Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore? is playing. That’s the movie about the grassroots candidate who ran for congress in my congressional district in 2004.
Here’s the website for it.
I don’t pay that much attention to stuff in Indy — depending on where it is, it’s a 65-80 mile drive so it’s got to be pretty special before we’ll bother. Maybe the movie we’ll be on the sundance channel or ifc.
on PBS in February — on Independent Lense. I’ll look for it and let you know.
so how come you’re hanging around here on a Friday — I’m used to your having a slew of things lined up, which make me feel tired just thinking about them — which in turn makes me feel much better about doing nothing.
way to make a girl feel bad for having no plans on a Friday night … ::sob::
My Friday nights are going to be more free generally. I’ll be washing my hair a lot.
I guess you can take a break from being the social butterfly of BT.
Thanks. We can’t make political statements in our classes, but I do hand out voter registration stuff and give students a few extra credit points for showing me that they are registered voters – most of my classes have a public policy component so I can get by with it.
I love TMBG. We used to listen to them and Bela Fleck (the professor was a banjo player, go figure) in my Friday afternoon chromatography lab every week.
And don’t tell anyone, but I like froufrou too.
Bela is of course one of my favorites too, being a banjo player. I like to listen to his “Perpetual Motion” album at night when I’m drifting off to sleep. I was playing it for my wife one day and during the first Scarlatti number I remarked that I wished I could get my banjo to sound like that. She was completely surprised — “You mean that’s a banjo??” It sounds sort of like the love child of a lute and a harpsichord.
These days it often gets edged out — early on, anyway — by my granddaughter’s current favorite, the soundtrack of the London musical “Bombay Dreams.” I have to play only certain songs, though. She gets indignant if I have the nerve to start it anywhere but at track 4.
As for Froufrou, I don’t know much about them. “Holding Out For A Hero” is off the Shrek 2 soundtrack, an earlier favorite of the Entertainment Czar. I do like that cut, though.
I used to listen to the Flecktones a lot when I was in Austin. Love Bela!
When FSM creates Texans, she makes the best of them musicians and the duds become Senators and Presidents.
The first time I ever heard them was Thanksgiving 1991. I had heard of Bela Fleck — I think I read a Rolling Stone article about him when the Flecktones were just getting going — but I had never heard any of his stuff. We had moved to Seattle about a week before, no money in our pockets, we had just spent pretty much every last dime we had to rent an apartment and were hoping I could find a temp job so we could get some quick grocery cash.
My sister in law and her at-the-time SO (future husband) lived here and had some friends who invited us over, not knowing us from Adam’s off oxen, for Thanksgiving dinner and treated us like family while we were there. The soundtrack was the Flecktones’ debut album. It was, as they say, a Thanksgiving dinner that couldn’t be beat and got us off to a much better start in our adopted hometown than we otherwise would ahve gotten.
All The Best – John Prine
Blood on That Rock – John Medeski
Just Walking – Montreux
Hollywood Nocturne – The Brian Setzer Orchestra
Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man – Ella Fitzgerald
The Whistle Tune – Béla Fleck & The Flecktones
How Long Has This Been Going On – Diane Schuur
Mortal Friend – Rogers, Sally and Claudia Schmidt
Stay Up Late – Talking Heads
You’re Driving Me Crazy – Dave McKenna
John Medeski AND the Flecktones? And that talking Heads CD reminds me of my first year in college.
You are too kewl.
I’m not kewl but I sometimes play one on my FRT.
What a great list, Andi! Prine, Flecktones, Fitzgerald, Talking Heads. I’m impressed.
why thank but I owe it all to Jim — he was the one who akk the time loading our CDs into iTunes.
Heading out in about 25 minutes, so got time to get this in:
You and I — Crystal Gayle & Eddie Rabbitt
My Song — The Moody Blues
Etude Op. 10 No. 12 “Revolutionary” (comp. Chopin) — Idil Biret
Hey Tonight — Creedence Clearwater Revival
Sledgehammer — Peter Gabriel
Water Music, Suites II & III in D/G: 2. Alla Hornpipe (comp. Handel) — Trevor Pinnock and English Concert
North — Pat Metheny
The Rockafeller Skank (Short Edit) — Fatboy Slim
What Is Hip? — Tower of Power
Lollipops and Roses — Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
(note: those of us over 40 might recognize the last song as the “winner song” from the TV game show “The Dating Game”)
Was hoping to get something off my new Janis Joplin recording, but no luck…
You always have the widest range of music in your 10s. I bow to your eclecticity. 🙂
I’m finally ripping Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago II, and Chicago III to my iTunes Library while I’m waiting for the spouse…their best albums IMNSHO, before they went too pop…
What I remember most about Chicago is that their first three LPs (remember those, folks?) were all double-albums, a rarity in those days. And most of the songs were too long to be played on standard AM radio, so had to listen to the FM stations that specialized in album rock.
CTA (first album) has a song dedicated to the protests at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago — it starts out with the protesters chanting, “The whole world’s watching…” Probably my earliest intro to the idea of protest music at the young age of 8-9. Ah, them was the days…
One of my buddies in long, lost kid days had a set of drums in his basement. He banged and slammed and crash to CTA and the James Gang. I can’t hear either of them without seeing Paul drumming away and smelling the aroma of his mother’s wonderful Italian cooking as it drifted down the stairs.
I love the early Chicago. I used to go to Chicago concerts all the time in the early 70’s. Before Pete Cetera became the focal point and they changed.
But of course, you were only, like, 2 at the time, right?
I was in high school. I guess it was closer to the mid-70’s. The first concert of theirs I went to was in 1974. I was a freshman in highschool.
You were in high school when you were 2? I have greatly underestimated you.
and all those feed up with same.
Guess who just found out he’s mildly allergic to cats?
to find that out — a hairball upyernoz?
Nyah. Shortness of breath and the occasional chest pains. I still think I might be allegic the Bush family, but the doc’s don’t seem to have a scratch test for that.
Well, Bush is a big pile of shit …
True. And what do think Jeb’ll be doing the next 2 years? I can’t stand the thought of another member of that crime family running the country.
So that seals the deal — you’re allergic to bushit.
But that means, I’m …….. normal ???
The doc recommended removing the cats from our bedroom and (certainly!) keeping them off our bed.
This is our bed with typical daytime occupancy, pic taken earlier today:
Fat chance.
Our solution? We’re going to sleep in the car.
those are still three damn cute kitties.
The Gof4 will never let you do that — too far away to be at their beck and call. You’ll have to sleep in the bathtub.
I’m trying to talk them into wearing little plastic suits. They seem dubious.
I also have minor mold allergy. That must be Cheney.
At least your allergies show off your intelligence. So people will look at your runny nose and say ‘What a smart guy!’
As long as they aren’t saying “I wonder if he uses coke?”
Hey y’all, I have to run out for a bit, but I’ll be back. Don’t let Family Man and maryb trash the place while I’m gone. 🙂
We have Bill Clinton coming to my school tomorrow morning, and then Howard Dean will be in the environs later in the day.
Of course, Clinton is here at (groan) 8am.
Oh! I missed Clinton when he was here for McCaskill, I was out of town. (Maybe in Chicago?)I heard him speak when he was running for re-election and he was great! (He also ran an hour behind schedule).
I heard Howard Dean at YearlyKos and enjoyed seeing him in person.
You should try to see them both 😉
I will definitely go hear Clinton, though I wish he were here Sunday speaking in the big churches. I’m sure that’s what he’ll be doing somewhere Sunday.
We missed him entirely during the 1992 primary season when we lived in Iowa, when we would ordinarily have candidates on every corner.
Might not make it to hear Dean in the ‘burbs, however, in favor of doing other election work. I was lucky to meet Dean during the 2003 primary run at a small gathering, and then to hear him speak several months later. He’s quite impressive; better than on the sound-bite TV clips.
so eyes wide open, eh.
Hiccup!
Shouldn’t that be a glass of Chardonnay?
In the meantime, Mr. Martini speaks for us.
so does mr martini have a stump speech?
…don’t have the whole text but there’s lots of jingling “clink, clinks” and persuasive stuff about plump olives and sweetly frosty crystal glasses.
i’m back…looks like we need a new lounge..just a minute.