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Friday Happy Hour and Random 10 at the Froggy Bottom
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How is everybody this afternoon?
Exhausted, and I have to run out of work in a second. How are you, CG?
I’m feeling like I have too much to do and not enough time to get it all done, but other than that, okay. In some ways, Friday gets here awfully quickly. 🙂
How’s everyone in the b2 household?
This was a very long week for me, but everyone is okay, thanks. Say hi to the cabins for me, gotta run.
Tired.
Have to run soon to pick up my daughter from some after school thing. But things could be worse. I could be a Republican.
Yeah, those Repubs seem to finally be having a bad run of things, don’t they?
Have a nice weekend!
Stressed. Haul out that hogshead of Grandma’s Old Fashioned Homemade Elephant Tranquilizer and let’s get to work.
Hang on a minute, I need to go pull a Random 10 out of my hat. Most of what I’ve been listening to the last few nights has been the second disk of the Switched-On Boxed Set. Lots of electronic Montiverdi, Scarlatti and of course good old Johann Sebastian his own self.
Okay, this is the funniest thing ever.
He really should have named his party the Lieberman for Himself party.
You’re right. That’s great.
I liked Lieberman a lot better in his role as Willie on TV’s Alf. This new role sucks. I’m not sure if it’s the writing or the acting, but it really shouldn’t have been picked up for another season.
That’s insanely funny.
Orman is a genius to set this up. This has the potential for some weird litigation.
first set…10 nov06
son seals: friday again
matt “guitar” murphy: got me carrying a stick
little milton: the blues is my companion
lady bianca: made up my mind
bobby rush: what’s good for the goose
fillmore sims: slippin’ out
little walter: key to the highway
jr. wells: goin’ down slow
little milton [live]: 8 men, 4 women
mem shannow: phunkville
bonus mp3…jj cale and eric clapton: when this war is over qt, pre-release
enjoy
You filled the Lounge with smoke and soul from this Random Ten. I like it.
Last pre-Thanksgiving edition:
It’s A Beautiful Day For A Ball Game – Harry Simeone Songsters
The Girl On The Greenbriar Shore – The Carter Family
The Sound Of Philadelphia – MFSB
When You Wish Upon A Star – Cliff Edwards
Little Wild One – The Wonders
My Kingdom For A Car – Phil Ochs
Do I Creep You Out – Weird Al Yankovic
Rainy Night In Georgia – Brooke Benton
Your Brain Fell Out – Logan Whitehurst & The Junior Science Club
and this little hymn I’m sure we all remember from when we were kids:
The site I got this from says it’s from Tom Lehrer, but it doesn’t exactly sound like him. Although the line about “how can you tell?” fits in with his philosophy of religion (he doesn’t think much of it).
Random 10s:
Unwritten Law – Shallow
No Use For A Name – Pride
Pete Yorn – For Us
Rise Against – Stained Glass and Marble
‘Gladiator’ Soundtrack – Am I Not Merciful?
Incubus – Out From Under
Led Zepplin – Going to California
Sonata Arctica – Mary Lou
Alkaline Trio – You’re Dead
Elton John – All The Girls Love Alice
The Wanderlust – FLogging Molly
Take the Test – AFI
Leeches – In Flames
Still Frame – Trapt
Lacerated – Shinedown
Needles – System of a Down
Third Season – AFI
Writing on the wall – Underoath
Mookie’s Last Christmas – Saosin
The Nameless – Slipknot
has clearly been repaired.
Shorter AndiF: huh?
Hey, you were complaining about my old stale lists last week…another one of which is posted further down. 🙂
How are you this fine Friday evening?
Yeah, the crossover rate was pretty high — I’ve got stuff by four folks on the list but the Banana dudes made up for it.
It’s Friday night, I can’t be anything but fine. You?
Not bad…had dinner with the guys, debating running out to take care of an errand.
Here’s the only Banana Blackout video I could find on YouTube.
we dial-up folks do not partake of youtube. 🙁
Oh poo. Can you listen to audio links?
Audio works better but if it’s an mp3 I usually just download it so I don’t have to put up with the breaks while it buffers.
Here is the DBB myspace, which has 3 tunes on it, to give you an idea.
They have more stuff at their regular website but the mp3s are 6MB or better so I’ll have Jim pick some up when the next time he’s at the library. Thanks for the links.
If you like funk, the Jen Durkin stuff (Bomb Squad) is good too.
Are you trying to show that you’re not behind the times or something? 😛
Actually, it was more because some weeks the only reason I recognize what’s on your list is because CBtE has it too.
And I know I’m behind the times. I have a teenager to tell me ALL about it… 😛
Woodford Reserve
Makers Mark
Elijah Craig
Wild Turkey
Booker’s
Buffalo Trace
W.L. Weller
Rebel Yell
Old Charter
Jim Beam
Approximately in order of personal preference, so it’s really not random, but after you’ve had a few shots, everything seems kinda random.
Hmmm, I don’t think I have any of those.
I have my top four on hand at all times. I’m also an Old Bushmill’s fan, but that’s Irish, not Kentucky.
Closest I can come is having gone on a tour of Heaven Hill Distilleries a very, very long time ago.
Heaven Hill makes Elijah Craig, Evan Williams and Henry McKenna. I haven’t tried the McKenna, but the Elijah Craig 18yr is one of my faves. It has a bit more of a sour bite than my other faves, but I found out that if you buy a bottle of the 18 yr old and leave it unopened for another seven years, it makes a huge difference… That was a happy discovery made with with a friend who doesn’t drink a lot of bourbon who received a bottle as a gift and never opened it til I visited him. I now have a couple of bottles in the back of my cabinet and I have about three more years to go before I crack the first one open. In general, I prefer the smoky dark and smooth bourbons, with the bite coming from the alcohol itself, not the sour mash taste.
Here’s a great link for bourbon lovers, The Bourbon Database.
That’s a great database, blueneck! Much appreciated! Obviously, you are a connoisseur, which I am not, just know what I like.
I’m a firm believer in the “keep it and don’t open it for many years” rule. In fact, I look forward to inheriting the untouched supply of bourbon that my dad was gifted with over the years before he retired in 1988. My mom has a lot of the good stuff carefully stored away. Now, as we seem to have only one opened bottle of bourbon on hand at a time, and there’s still quite a bit left of our current MM version here. . .
Took me a while.
And proof that I’m no big fan of bourbon. Mostly beer and wine here.
But cheers!
Bottoms UP!
Hey, blueneck, you still around? What number are you by now? The Weller?
Little Joe From Chicago – Mary Lou Williams
Time On My Hands – Kate & Anna McGarrigle
Lolita – Suzanne Vega
Red Hot – Roy Rogers (No, not that Roy Rogers)
Caravan – Ella Fitzgerald
Yank Rachell’s Blues – Yank Rachell
My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama – Persuasions
Chelsea Morning – Judy Collins
My Mother The War – 10,000 Maniacs
Now’s The Time – Charlie Parker
Anarchy In The UK, Punk Steady (Reggae)
Fixing A Hole , The Beatles
The Music Goes Round My Head, The Saints
Dreaming While You Sleep, Genesis
Material Girl, Madonna
The Pink Panther Theme, Henry Mancini
Telecommunication, The Best Of A Flock Of Seagulls
Blue Jean, David Bowie
Walk Like An Egyptian, Bangles
I Wonder What The King Is Doing Tonight, Camelot Soundtrack
Now’s that an eclectic list. You might think a webgoblin dreamed it up.
Nope. Uh-uh.
Well, that’s a shame — I would think he’d make a fine writing companion.
What I really want him for is email and news filtering. If I could get someone else to do that for me it’d buy me an extra hour a day.
Hunted – Cowboy Junkies
Every Morning – Keb Mo
James! – Erin McKeown
House Carpenter – Nickel Creek
Pixie – Ani DiFranco
Cassidy – Grateful Dead
Crazy Baby – Joan Osborne
Taylor – Jack Johnson
B’gock! – Deep Banana Blackout
Runnin’ to the Judgement – Reverend Gary Davis
Deep Banana Blackout — a name, no doubt, generated by throwing refrigerator magnets into the air.
Lot’s of unfamiliar stuff up there, especially dada and blueneck. Must try to check some of it out.
My random 10 come from shuffling my iTunes library – a mix of favorites from the 70s up to now.
Love Song – Simple Minds
The Call – Tangerine Dream
3 A.M. Eternal – KLF
Nutrocker – Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Two Way Monologue – Sondre Lerche
Agua – Jose Padilla
Venus – Shocking Blue
Heartstrings – Secret Garden
Money – Pink Floyd
Part of the Union – The Strawbs
I’ve got to dig out my CD of Pictures At An Exhibition and get that on the iTunes library — would make a cool contrast to the solo piano and full orchestral versions I already have on there… 🙂 (Got to be one of my favoritest classical works…)
Agree – Mussorgsky is great. Better go get the classical version, long time since I heard it.
Been busy today — what a concept!
Was A Sunny Day — Paul Simon
Masquerade Suite: I. Waltz (comp. Khachaturian) — London Symphony Orchestra
1985 (Acoustic Version) — Bowling for Soup
Pump Up the Jam — Technotronic
Sextet in E flat major: III. Rondo (comp. Beethoven) — Andrew Clark & Ensemble Galant
Cloudy — Simon & Garfunkel
A New Hope and End Credits (from Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith) — John Williams
Genie in a Bottle — Christina Aguilera
Sueno con Mexico — Pat Metheny
Live and Let Die — Paul McCartney
Hope everyone has a great weekend — hoping to get a lot more done around here (along with taking time off to watch some college football)…
1.I’d have to be Crazy, Willie Nelson
2. One Night, Etta James
3. Ballad of Ira Hayes, Johnny Cash
4. I Know what I Know, Sen. Paul Simon
5. Rainy Day Women, Bob Dylan
6. And Your Bird Can Sing, The Beatles
7. I am a Man of Constant Sorrow, The Soggy Bottom Boys
8. Can’t Find My Way Home, Joe Cocker.
9. Chain of Fools, Aretha Franklin
10. Oye Como Va, Santana
and turn it way, way up to 11 for
Jefferson Airplane, Somebody to Love.
That’s very cool, MM!
No doubt the tune is Froggy Went A Courtin’ .. all 170 verses.
🙂