And So It Continues
Posted on May 10th, 2010 by Tintin
ABOVE: Robert Stacy McCain (an imaginary
reconstruction of McCain’s favorite pastime)
Shorter Robert Stacy McCain, The White Supremacist McCain:
Lesbian Elena Kagan Will Be Nominated by Obama; Gayest SCOTUS Evah!
- The reason I keep pointing out that Elena Kagan is lesbianatical lesbyterian lesbian bull dyke lesbo who is butcher than Rosie O’Donnell at a WNBA game is to prove that conservatives don’t care at all whether Kagan is a lesbian or not. It’s only bigoted liberals who think that there’s anything wrong with being gay. Oh, and did I mention that Kagan is a LESBIAN?
‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard. We are aware of all Internet traditions.™
Stealth lesbians, unlike stealth bombers, function when wet.
Out of the boat, must. kill. self.
Stupid fuckface hillbilly responding to being called out for running his idiot yap about Kagan’s speculative homosexuality. It’s irrelevant, yet fucking ScARY!
I have to confess, I’m delighted at the Kagan pick simply because GOP senators will now be under tremendous pressure from their nutty base to ask her about her sexuality at the confirmation hearings. It’ll be fun watching them squirm, as they struggle to find a way to hint at it without asking outright.
Or hell, maybe they’ll just come out and ask.
Conservatives have always been the gay man or woman’s best friends, you silly liberals.
I actually read that steaming pile, and I’m still not really sure what his point is. Ther was one thing that he got right, though:
conservatives are dangerous, irrational bigots
Bullseye, RSM, even if your middle name does sound suspiciously like a girl’s.
Or hell, maybe they’ll just come out
Heh.
My kingdom for Lindsey Graham to ask her the big question.
My kingdom for Lindsey Graham to ask her the big question.
My kingdom for Tom Coburn to demand that Lindsey Graham and Elena Kagan make out RIGHT NOW
Who knew one lousy plagiarist and former WashPost columnist could have such an impact
ed bowel?I would hope that if she is asked, that she starts making inferences to the many sexual indiscretions to come out of the right-wing congress over the past few years.
“I’m not entirely sure what you are asking senator, but I would like to point out that I’ve never had to worry about communicating with the person in the next stall, if that is what you mean.”
“To address your point more directly, the good people at C-street would never have to cover up for my laissons, were I ever to be invited there”
“Well, I would have never propositioned a congressional page, if that is the question”
So the crazy killer stealth Muslim has nominated an icky stealth lesbian for the highest court in the land. Makes sense. If you’re a complete and total moron.
So. If there were high market demand for pictures of Stacy hitting himself in the nads with a hammer…
Anyone who thinks Kagan is a “bulldyke” obviously hasn’t spent that much time around lesbians…
“Ms. Kagan. Here is a nice RUG on the floor. Does it make you … hungry?”
“The purpose of the Kagan “whispering campaign” blame game is the same as the Tea Party “racism” smears: To convince Americans (gay, straight, black, white, whatever) that conservatives are dangerous, irrational bigots.”
Yes, the dangerous actions, irrationality and bigotry from the rightwads on television and radio wasn’t enough to convince America they suck it. We really needed that whisper campaign to drive things home.
That just about sums it up, doesn’t it? “That person doesn’t conform to my expectations of gender roles and/or is ugly, therefore they must be a total homo.”
Bob (Neil’s “roommate”) tells the ugly truth:
Shorter hillbilly: She’s a fucking dyke, meaning I’m going to be a dyke if she(?) makes it to the Supreme Court! BLARGHHHH!!!1!
Ms. Kagan. Here is a nice RUG on the floor. Does it make you … hungry?
Do you like this pink frilly blouse more than this comfortable plaid shirt?
That Photoshop is making me sick to my stomach.
Ms. Kagan. Here is a nice RUG on the floor. Does it make you … hungry?
Do you like this pink frilly blouse more than this comfortable plaid shirt?
Ms. Kagan, may we inspect your shoes for comfort?
“Ms. Kagan. Here is a nice RUG on the floor. Does it make you … hungry?
Do you like this pink frilly blouse more than this comfortable plaid shirt?”
And could you step to the front so we can see your shoes?
Ms. Kagan. Here is a nice RUG on the floor. Does it make you … hungry?
Do you like this pink frilly blouse more than this comfortable plaid shirt?
Ms. Kagan, may we inspect your shoes for comfort?
Ms. Kagan, how do you feel about Subaru Foresters?
Ms. Kagan, your Uncle Moe asks you to name your favourite singer. Do you reply:
A. “Frank Sinatra, Moe.”
B. “Dean Martin, Moe.”
C. “Don Ho, Moe.”
“I have to confess, I’m delighted at the Kagan pick simply because GOP senators will now be under tremendous pressure from their nutty base to ask her about her sexuality at the confirmation hearings. It’ll be fun watching them squirm, as they struggle to find a way to hint at it without asking outright.”
agreed. Break out the popcorn. Now what wine goes well with Repiggie flop sweat?
Ms. Kagan, how many dogs do you have and how large are they?
Now what wine goes well with Repiggie flop sweat?
Something cheap, heavily fortified, with the admonition “SERVE COLD” on the label.
Now what wine goes well with Repiggie flop sweat?
White whine, of course.
General Kagan, I appreciate that you wish to avoid commenting on hypotheticals or on cases which may come up before the Court again, but I would really appreciate hearing your opinion of the Citizens United case vis-à-vis Birkenstocks or ballet slippers?
Ms. Kagan, would you be interested in joining the Senate softball team?
Looch said,
May 10, 2010 at 19:03
Now what wine goes well with Repiggie flop sweat?
White whine, of course.
HAH–Goodbye, baseball!
Ms. Kagan, did you by chance arrive in Washington in a Subaru Outback?
Rusty Shackleford said,
May 10, 2010 at 18:48
My kingdom for Lindsey Graham to ask her the big question.
My kingdom for Tom Coburn to demand that Lindsey Graham and Elena Kagan make out RIGHT NOW”
Heeee!
Ms. Kagan, which impacted you more personally: Dana Fairbanks’ death from cancer in season three of The L Word, or Jenny Schecter’s murder in season 6?
approx. 3 percent of the population has a severe defect that makes them attracted to the same same
You have to admit, “the same same” is a pretty gay phrase for stout manly man “Bob” to be using. Butch it up a bit there, sweetheart.
with the admonition “SERVE COLD” on the label.
What’s the word?
Y’know, not all Subaru enthusiasts are lesbians.
General Kagan, this questioning must be exhausting. We should break for lunch. Tacos or hot dogs?
approx. 3 percent of the population has a severe defect that makes them attracted to the same same
Whereas approximately 29 percent of the population have a severe defect that makes them vote Republican.
What’s the word?
The big ‘bird.
Y’know, not all Subaru enthusiasts are lesbians.
I know…I have a Subaru Impreza and I loooooooooooooooove her.
It’s just that the Outback and the Forester are particularly good lesbian cars.
How’s it sold?
It’s just that the Outback and the Forester are particularly good lesbian cars.
The dogs have to ride somewhere.
How’s it sold?
Good and cold
The dogs have to ride somewhere.
EXACTLY!
It’s just that the Outback and the Forester are particularly good lesbian cars.
The dogs have to ride somewhere.
With extra room for bats and balls…V…R. I don’t know what that is. Fire away, Actor/DKW.
Rusty has good taste.
I’d like a WRX, but a) too expensive, and b) I can’t drive stick very well (SHUTUP).
Now I’m getting all misty-eyed over the loss of Ripple…
I haz WRX. It wasn’t cheap to buy, but I’ve had it for almost seven years and no end in sight.
With extra room for bats and balls…V…R.
Aw, you should have gone with “cleats”!
Fire away, Actor/DKW.
That’s what your mom said. Then I left because she kept getting me confused with one of the other joes that was schtupping her.
Actor/DKW
EWWWWWW
“Arky said,
May 10, 2010 at 18:53
It’ll be fun watching them squirm, as they struggle to find a way to hint at it without asking outright.
“Ms. Kagan. Here is a nice RUG on the floor. Does it make you … hungry?”
Sorry but I have to give this a big ROFL.
I haz WRX. It wasn’t cheap to buy, but I’ve had it for almost seven years and no end in sight.
Jellus. I want it in the racing blue. Although Joanie is is red and I really like that, too.
…Actor/DKW
Anywho, DAMN YOU actor212! It’s getting awful cold in your shadow!
And in blogging news, T&U has now reached “Your Mama” status on Sadly, No! Congratulations!
Actor/DKW
EWWWWWW
I LOLbarfed.
My car recently sputtered and died. While my mechanic made several attempts to resuscitate it and then further while I shopped around for a new car I was loaned a Subaru Outback. As I also play softball apparently I was a lesbian for almost a full month and didn’t even realize. Well, no wonder I didn’t get nominated to the Supreme Court!
Bad news. Someone may have found some dirt on her that’ll actually hurt:
D:
T&U has now reached “Your Mama” status on Sadly, No! Congratulations!
I have? What do I win?
Sorry but I have to give this a big ROFL.
Rolling on the floor licking? Shouldn’t that be ROCL?
“Ah, time for lunch! Ms. Kagan, would you like a taco, or a burrito?”
What do I win?
Horrifying images.
What do I win?
Whatever it is, the winner gets less than the second-place finisher.
D:
So is your mouth in your forehead or do you have a hipster two-spike beard?
%^D
Whatever it is, the winner gets less than the second-place finisher.
Veiled sloppy seconds/STD reference?
So is your mouth in your forehead or do you have a hipster two-spike beard?
Maybe he’s standing on his head?
Okay, now I understand all the “dykeity dyke dyke” crap. From Citizen_X on BJ:
Now it makes sense; they can’t get away with “kike” without alienating conservative Jews, so they’re rolling with “dyke” instead.
Veiled sloppy seconds/STD reference?
Nah. Play off an old joke:
“And our winner receives an all-expenses paid week’s vacation in Trenton*!”
“Our second-place contestant wins a month!”
*Fill in your locale of derision
But it could be, I spoze.
And while I’m stealing lines, FireDogLake had a good one: Unleash the Kagan!
I’m delighted at the Kagan pick simply because GOP senators will now be under tremendous pressure from their nutty base to ask her about her sexuality at the confirmation hearings
I imagine Sen. Al Franken heading this off, however.
He’ll dim the chamber lights. Soft British jazz playing in the background, he’ll lean into the mic and whisper, “Now, Ms. Kagan, would you relate to the court the hottest encounter you’ve ever had with a woman. And remember, you’re under oath, so we will want every single minute detail….”
Music rises revealing a “bow chicka wow wow guitar riff” and a large poster of “Penthouse Forum” is unveiled behind her as she gives…testimony¹
¹ veiled fapping reference.
It’s getting awful cold in your shadow!
That’s what your mom said, so I rolled over.
Y’know, not all Subaru enthusiasts are lesbians.
True enough, but the Stupid Anger party doesn’t do nuance and the question would make sense to them.
I imagine that the questioning between Al FranKen and Elena Kagan is going to look like <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ico6xzhaTtQ&" TITLE="SHORYUKEN!"this.
Arrrghhh Streetfighter tag fail.
this.
Yockey: Obama’s nomination of lesbian for SCOTUS confirms just how much the left hates lesbians
What Kleagle McCain REALLY wants to say is she’s a Jewess, but isn’t quite sure he has permission.
Nah. Play off an old joke:
Ah ha. Well, you can see where my mind is…
Well, she is a Jew.
I’m…I’m shocked! A Jewish lawyer!?!?!?! Oh good grief, what’s next? Doctors?
I’m…I’m shocked! A Jewish lawyer!?!?!?!
From the Bronx, of all places!
From the Bronx, of all places!
A Jew?
In the Bronx?
OMG! They’ve landed in the heartland!
It’ll be fun watching them squirm, as they struggle to find a way to
hint at it without asking outrightsurreptitiously “rub one out” because it’s, like, all hot.Fixx0red for maximum disturbing content.
Shorter Robert Stacy McCain: Here’s a jimmy joke about yo mama that ya might not like…
Fixx0red for maximum disturbing content.
Gee. Thanks.
Why is it I always seem to be eating lunch when you guys pull out* the spooge jokes?
*Do I even have to say?
“Ms. Kagen, what color of lipstick do you wear?”
Also, another PENIS cake over at my joint.
Wait.
Sotomayor – Bronx
Kagan – Bronx
Ginsburg – Brooklyn
Roberts – Jersey
Nino – Jersey
Alito – Jersey
WHAT. TEH. FUCH!?!?
WHAT. TEH. FUCH!?!?
Dude, I know, right?
As you can see here, :
We all know what ” a lot of fun” means. She’s KTHXBAI!!
Clearly an Okie from Muskogee is required.
“Ms Kagan, what is more important to you: girls in short skirts or girls in general?”
WHAT. TEH. FUCH!?!?
We no longer have a SCOTUS. We have a “family”.
WHAT. TEH. FUCH!?!?
Yo, you shut yuh yap if you know what’s good for you.
And not a SINGLE Protestant. What the hell?
WHAT. TEH. FUCH!?!?
Simple correlation: NYC okay! NJ: fucked!
$100 says Kagan is really Dick Morris in drag.
“Mr Kagan, when you cut your hair, do you prefer the razor set at number one or number three?”
“Sirius Lunacy said,
May 10, 2010 at 19:21
Sorry but I have to give this a big ROFL.
Rolling on the floor licking? Shouldn’t that be ROCL?”
Ooooooh, I smell a new Internet abreviation!
Yo, you shut yuh yap if you know what’s good for you.
Yea, cud you believe dis guy? WTF es his probbem, mouving off like dat!?
And not a SINGLE Protestant. What the hell?
They aren’t a majority in the NY/NJ metro area.
A thought….
We all know what’s on The Gay Agenda…um, what’s on The Jewish Agenda?
what’s on The Jewish Agenda?
Yiddish as a second language. More Jewish comedians.
We all know what’s on The Gay Agenda…um, what’s on The Jewish Agenda?
A nosh, a schvitz, maybe a nap.
WHAT. TEH. FUCH!?!?
Could be worse. They could have come from South Carolina and Georgia. [shudder]
Jewish Mother’s Day, where you don’t have to get her a card, she’ll just sit in the dark and remember how she carried you for nine months, you ingrateful little shit.
At this rate, the only cases that’ll receive ceritorari are rent disputes and stuff about parking.
A song, a dance, a little sheltzer down your pants.
“Big Bad Bald Bastard said,
May 10, 2010 at 20:14
We all know what’s on The Gay Agenda…um, what’s on The Jewish Agenda?
A nosh, a schvitz, maybe a nap.”
and then maybe a some bagels and lox and a little money-hoarding?
the only cases that’ll receive ceritorari
Elitist snob and your fancy French words…
“actor212 said,
May 10, 2010 at 20:15
Jewish Mother’s Day, where you don’t have to get her a card, she’ll just sit in the dark and remember how she carried you for nine months, you ingrateful little shit.”
NINE months? Shit. Is that why my skull’s so squishy?
and then maybe a some bagels and lox and a little money-hoarding?
What? You don’t like a shmear with your bagels, bubbeleh?
NINE months? Shit. Is that why my skull’s so squishy?
I know a good lawyer if you want to sue. He’s Jewish, guy named Elena Kagan.
“actor212 said,
May 10, 2010 at 20:16
A song, a dance, a little sheltzer down your pants.”
there’s a party in my pants and everyone’s coming. *rimshot*
and then maybe a some bagels and lox and a little money-hoarding?
Would this be followed by taking over the government, installing a Kenyan usurper, and sending black helicopters flying over the Heartland to rile up the Birchers?
“actor212 said,
May 10, 2010 at 20:19
and then maybe a some bagels and lox and a little money-hoarding?
What? You don’t like a shmear with your bagels, bubbeleh?”
I usually only get a shmear with my pelvic exams.
there’s a party in my pants and everyone’s coming
The seltzer’s for the fuching ferrets.
I usually only get a shmear with my pelvic exams.
What??? A Jewish doctor? Unpossible? And a gynecologist? His name wouldn’t be Seymour Bush, would it?
Come to think of it, Whelan’s blarg post specifically mentioned this:
Here I thought that Republi… oh, sorry, “libertarians” were against teh evul class warfare, so why would he go and bash her as an “elite?”
It’s just that the Outback and the Forester are particularly good lesbian cars. – T&U
I did not know that. My wife and I have a Forester. Does that mean we are lesbians? Maybe it’s time for me to come out of the closet to my family — “mom, dad — it’s your son on the phone. I have to be honest with you. I am a lesbian”.
My wife and I have a Forester. Does that mean we are lesbians?
Who wears the pants in your family?
Case closed!
Wait.
Jewish? check.
Lawyer? check – at least for now.
Doctor? How about a dentist?
so why would he go and bash her as an “elite?”
It serves the current narrative… consistency be damned!
mom, dad — it’s your son on the phone. I have to be honest with you. I am a lesbian”.
I did once, years ago, try to convince a very attractive lesbian that I was,in fact, really just a lesbian trapped in a man’s body.
And not a SINGLE Protestant. What the hell?
They aren’t a majority in the NY/NJ metro area.
Wait, what? No wonder you guys aren’t a part of Real America.
I did once, years ago, try to convince a very attractive lesbian that I was,in fact, really just a lesbian trapped in a man’s body.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand how did that go?
Who wears the pants in your family? – actor212
Actually when I first met my wife, she was in the middle of an “even though I’m a conservative/masorti Jew and over the age of 40, I’ll dress like I’m an undergrad at Stern College” phase. She now does were pants. Although so do I.
I actually know a couple in which sometimes you’ll find neither partner wearing the pants in the family (he tends to wear those utilikilts). They are both Jewish lawyers … perhaps their next auto purchase will be a subaru?
When my ex-wife was looking for a car, she fell for the Surbaru Baja (something about cars with truck beds appealed to her mexican ancestry, we figured). When we went to the dealership, the salesman actually asked us if we were really married because he only sold them to gay people.
I’ve driven Subarus for almost 20 years now. But I am a lesbian man.
I did once, years ago, try to convince a very attractive lesbian that I was,in fact, really just a lesbian trapped in a man’s body. – Sirius Lunacy
I actually made it to first base with a lesbian once (it was actually my first, “real” open mouth “french” kiss): see I was chewing my last piece of gum and she really wanted a piece of gum …
I guess I should write to Penthouse forum about this incident?
It’s funny you guys are bringing this up. My obsession with the films “The Women” and “Auntie Mame” has me pretty convinced I am, in fact, a gay dude.
I’ll dress like I’m an undergrad at Stern College
I always chuckle when I see the sign “Stern College for Women”.
Gets me every time!
K-Lo on twitter
“just wondering: are men allowed to be nominated to the supreme court anymore?” kathrynlopez
Also, my dad and stepmom have a Subaru Outback. Can’t wait to tell them they’re lesbians.
Speaking of which, Michael Steele just made a howler of a statement re. Kagan:
(bolded emphasis added)
Leave the Constitution alone! It was just fine when it permitted slavery!
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand how did that go?
You’ll notice I said I tried to convince rather than saying I convinced.
“His name wouldn’t be Seymour Bush, would it?”
actor, I asked you not to discuss my short-lived film career on this site.
My obsession with the films “The Women” and “Auntie Mame” has me pretty convinced I am, in fact, a gay dude.
I have a great response to this, but for my own sanity, I am not going to go there.
Also, Golden Girls?
My kingdom for Tom Coburn to demand that Lindsey Graham and Elena Kagan make out RIGHT NOW
Now THAT would be more awkward groping than a junior high dance!
I always chuckle when I see the sign “Stern College for Women”.
You laugh, I was graduated from Stern School of Business.
“Also, Golden Girls?”
Love it. See? Totally gay.
actor, I asked you not to discuss my short-lived film career on this site.
You’re right. I apologize. But I’m keeping the negative.
“Ms. Kagan, Fat Boy or Electra Glide?”
Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
May 10, 2010 at 19:03
“General Kagan”
I don’t mean to get all pedantic on your ass DKW but the correct title is “Madam Solicter” or “Solicter General Kagen”. She is not a general. General refers to her jurisdiction as in the opposite of specific. The plural would be Soliciters General. The same as the plural of A.G. which is Attorneys General and not Attorney Generals.
We now return to our regularly scheduled snark.
You laugh, I was graduated from Stern School of Business.
To think, you coulda gone to the Stern School of Talk Radio.
You’ll notice I said I tried to convince rather than saying I convinced.
Oh, good. I feel better. Most lesbians won’t have sex with *me* and I have ladyparts!
You’re right. I apologize. But I’m keeping the negative.
We’ll always have “When Pap Shmears Go Right”. *sniff*
Also, Golden Girls?
Uh oh. Loving show tunes and the Golden Girls means I am a gay man. Driving a Forester means I am a lesbian. I am both a gay guy and a gay woman? How could that be when I am a straight guy?
Sirius Lunacy said,
May 10, 2010 at 20:44
To think, you coulda gone to the Stern School of Talk Radio.
There’s just too much self-referential irony here to snark at.
“Also, Golden Girls?”
Love it. See? Totally gay.
Or you just have really good taste.
How could that be when I am a straight guy?
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, wears flannel and whistles show tunes…
I am wondering if Tom Coburn will ask her if she and Sotomeyer will use the SCOTUS ladies room for lesbian preversion.
Wait.
Sounds like Tony Soprano’s “organization”.
Uh oh. Loving show tunes and the Golden Girls means I am a gay man. Driving a Forester means I am a lesbian. I am both a gay guy and a gay woman? How could that be when I am a straight guy?
I think we’re all confused. Apparently this world is LOUSY with lady-lovin’ Birkenstock-wearers.
I am both a gay guy and a gay woman? How could that be when I am a straight guy?
Obviously you need to brush up on your Judith Butler.
“lesbian preversion.”
Is that the test perversion you do before you get to the good stuff?
Seriously, will someone help me clean my desk? It’s starting to look like an episode of Hoarders here.
I am both a gay guy and a gay woman? How could that be when I am a straight guy?
Guys were never my scene, but I do like show tunes.
“Or you just have really good taste.”
Well, I *do* like “Wings,” too. So that’s debatable (I’ve learned). But, thankee, dahlink!
Solicitor.
Also, Golden Girls?
Addictive. Next?
Well, I *do* like “Wings,” too.
Yeah, I was pretending I didn’t see that.
…and if so, could you describe this perversion? In detail? Please?
“And not a SINGLE Protestant. What the hell?”
Uhm, Justice Roberts.
K-Lo doesn’t like it when someone brings an open-faced sammich to the weiner party. This implies things about the nature of her porn addiction.
I don’t mean to get all pedantic on your ass DKW but the correct title is “Madam Solicter” or “Solicter General Kagen”.
Veiled pimping reference.
Five Catholics, three Jews, one Protestant.
Uhm, Justice Roberts.
Nope. He’s a Catholic.
No. So what?
Or even more correcter, “Solictor General Kagan” or “Madam Solicitor.”
He’s a Catholic.
So den dere’s two lesbians, two cat licks on da court?
I am both a gay guy and a gay woman? How could that be when I am a straight guy?
Cruel accident of birth?
If you can see any part of the surface of the desk you don’t qualify. If the shortest pile is under 3″ you don’t qualify. Trust me, I know whereof I speak. I “arrange” my desk in strata…
Hey, totally off-topic, but…
On Pandagon, one of the more prolific authors put up a thread telling people they could comment on just about anything. So I wrote a short comment asking what people had in heavy rotation on iTunes, ‘cuz I’m nosy and I love to talk about music and I like learning about new music. And so far it’s 59 comments strong and my question has gone completely ignored. It’s like massive, embarrassing commentfail. I feel like a dork. Silly, I know…
Is it so unfathomable to the right wing that the court at least take a pass at trying to represent the fact that more than half of Americans have a vagina?
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, wears flannel and whistles show tunes…
But has it been arrested behind the bushes by the vice squad in the public park, is what I want to know.
Five Catholics, three Jews, one Protestant.
The only Protestant is Stevens.
This actually implies that I give a shit, which I really don’t.
I “arrange” my desk in strata…
My boss once threatened to put my desk in an oven and bake a lasagna.
““just wondering: are men allowed to be nominated to the supreme court anymore?” kathrynlopez
Six men, three women, zero gays since Souter left although I have my suspicions about Roberts. [Not that there is anything wrong with that]
“Madam Solicitor.”
I was arrested for being that!
If you can see any part of the surface of the desk you don’t qualify. If the shortest pile is under 3? you don’t qualify.
Where do crumbs and used coffee cups come in? Also, boxes full of shredding?
“If you can see any part of the surface of the desk you don’t qualify.”
I think there has to be some sort of rotten food item on there, too.
“The only Protestant is Stevens.”
Isn’t Roberts a fundie Christian?
Five Catholics, three Jews, one Protestant.
Wow, what happened? The Religious of Freedumbs™ has really let itself go!
Also, if Papists have a controlling vote do we have to send tribute to the Vatican now? Or just our first borns? One needs to keep up on such things.
Isn’t Roberts a fundie Christian?
No, he’s a Catholic.
Not that those are necessarily mutually exclusive.
Obviously you need to brush up on your Judith Butler. – T&U
I went to a talk of hers once and actually spoke to her afterwards. Nice lady. Actually very understandable and not at all what I was expecting.
She’s not my type though, so I’m not gonna brush up on her … well, not unless she asks really nicely and my wife decides she wants to watch or something.
“Ms. Kagen, when you heard that Portia de Rossi and/or Saffron Burrows were lesbians, did your heart sink, like mine? Or did you pump your fist and cry ‘aw-R-I-I-I-GHT!’?”
So den dere’s two lesbians, two cat licks on da court?
Dunno about you, my money’s on Boston College.
Isn’t Roberts a fundie Christian?
Sorry my bad. ‘Nother Catholic.
I have a sneaking suspicion she’s worried about the potential longevity of Obama appointees.
“Mr Kagan, Brazilian or full forest?”
vacuumslayer said,
May 10, 2010 at 20:58
Hey, totally off-topic, but…
This is what I’ve been playing a lot of lately.
You can get mice to clean up the crumbs. Just throw the cups out the window.
I don’t mean to get all pedantic on your ass…
Then don’t. General is her title. You may think that General only refers to military officers – but that too is a short-form whereby the adjective “General” is used as a subsititute for the term General Officer.
Nice lady. Actually very understandable and not at all what I was expecting.
It was fun to see my 20-year-old classmates’ heads explode trying to read a portion of her work after complaining the week before that our professor was assigning an unreasonable amount of reading (ie, more than 10 pages).
“Wait, so the penis isn’t REAL???”
Just throw the cups out the window.
I don’t have direct access to a window…can I put them on my enemy’s desk?
I have a sneaking suspicion she’s worried about the potential longevity of Obama appointees.
So she’s worried about dead lesbians in the gloaming?
“and her support for statements suggesting that the Constitution “as originally drafted and conceived, was ‘defective,’’
Michael Steele self awareness fail. It must be Monday.
Then don’t. General is her title. You may think that General only refers to military officers – but that too is a short-form whereby the adjective “General” is used as a subsititute for the term General Officer.
Uber pedantic, but the proper form is “General Kagan, Esq.”
Awww, cool. Thanks for sharing. When I clicked the first song, I was like “whoa, they sound kinda Beatles-esque.” And sure enough I read their description…
I’d send them to the enemy via internal mail.
“Mr Kagan, Brazilian or full forest?”
Veiled global warming debate reference.
I’d send them to the enemy via internal mail.
Ha! That would be great, but I’d hate to get the guy who distributes the mail caught in the middle…although he hates her more than I do…
Transcript with Coble and Gallegly referring to Abu Gonzales as “General”. That’s a House Judiciary Committee, so probably not as relevant as this one where Ted Kennedy does same.
“Then don’t. General is her title. You may think that General only refers to military officers – but that too is a short-form whereby the adjective “General” is used as a subsititute for the term General Officer.”
DKW/gm pedantic war!
Uhm
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/solicitor+general
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_plural_form_of_attorney_general
OFFS.
Awww, cool. Thanks for sharing. When I clicked the first song, I was like “whoa, they sound kinda Beatles-esque.” And sure enough I read their description…
If you like that, also look for their first two albums on I tunes os somesuch. The Bears and Rise and Shine. The fourth album, Eureka, I was not so impressed with.
can I put them on my enemy’s desk?
SWEEEEET… I hadn’t thought of that. I like the way your mind works! (The older and moldier the better for those coffee cups, by the way.)
OFFS.
TURN-?
ONE-?
ONS-AND-?
SWEEEEET… I hadn’t thought of that. I like the way your mind works!
Oh, I’ve spent a lot of time plotting revenge, trust.
Oh, and here’s what I’ve been playing.
Werd. E$ went on a shopping spree this morning and picked up a new Movado Esq and now my wrist is frostbit, my progressive homeys.
Just wanted to pop in and say that Lana (her friends like E$ call her Lana) is totally dope and chill and I don’t wanna hear any static out of the looney lefties about how she’s soft on this or that or whatever. That kinda noise makes E$ stress. Just a few minutes ago Ezra was hangin’ with his niggas Rahm and Lindsay and Rahm said “I swear to fucking God if any of those retards make a fucking peep about Kagan the skullfucking is going to commence.” Grahamy and I laughed and I asked him where he got the aviator shades he was wearing and he said “Your mama, that’s where, Jewboy,” and we all laughed and laughed and it was fun.
Shit. Yglesias is stressing coz E$ been blowing him off lately for McMeggerz but if that chick doesn’t at least start taking her gloves off before she gives me a handjob I’m gonna have to kick her to the curb anyway. Gotta get going–got three tapings to do tonight, plus some work to do on my Facebook Friends Page and Rahm wants to see drafts of a month’s worth of Kagan Kolumns by early next week so E$ needs to get on all that shit yo.
“I don’t mean to get all pedantic on your ass DKW but the correct title is “Madam Solicter”…”
Hmmm. On-topic Freudian typo?
The one question that matters to me: Why has Elena Kagan refused to wear the morning coat?
DKW/gm pedantic war!
And the plural of military general is general officers.
I’ve got Ted Kennedy on my side, you – and your silly pluralization argument – have gots William Safire.
I believe that’s game, set and watch (ESQ.).
Oh, and here’s what I’ve been playing.
Aww, our music compatibility is LOW.
I thought my iPod wasn’t scrobbling to my last.fm account, but apparently it is now. Now I’m embarrassed that people can see that I’ve been listening to, like, the same six songs for the last month.
Why has Elena Kagan refused to wear the morning coat?
Makes her butt look fat.
Wangchuck’s here. Can I start making jokes about his mom now?
“Hmmm. On-topic Freudian typo?”
Heh
“I thought my iPod wasn’t scrobbling to my last.fm account, but apparently it is now. Now I’m embarrassed that people can see that I’ve been listening to, like, the same six songs for the last month.”
I don’t mean to get all Facebooky, but i hope you friended me. I wanna see what you like. I’m NOSY. Is your taste all hip and cool and esoteric? Am I gonna get schooled?
Wangchuck’s here. Can I start making jokes about his mom now?
Have you anted up? We’re trying to buy her a new six pack of tube tops.
Cool! Which six? Don’t feel bad. I do the same thing. I get obsessed with songs and suddenly my playlist consists of, like, 3 songs.
Yeah, yeah. They walk into a bar. Then what happens?
Hot. Tea. Right up my nose.
On the bright side, it washed some of the pollen out.
(and the powder, too.)
“Have you anted up? We’re trying to buy her a new six pack of tube tops.”
Yeah. I got a few bucks I can spare for some new hotpants.
Courier it then.
“I’ve got Ted Kennedy on my side, you – and your silly pluralization argument – have gots William Safire.”
I believe that’s game, set and watch (ESQ.).
Most people get it wrong even many Senators and lawyers. What kind of watch do I get 😉 Can I get a free Madam solicit instead?
“Yeah, yeah. They walk into a bar. Then what happens?”
They say “ouch” in unison.
Yeah. I got a few bucks I can spare for some new hotpants.
Formal wear???
I don’t mean to get all Facebooky, but i hope you friended me. I wanna see what you like. I’m NOSY. Is your taste all hip and cool and esoteric? Am I gonna get schooled?
I just did. You should feel special, as I don’t really mess around with the social networking aspect of that site!
I wouldn’t say “esoteric.” I’m pretty much boilerplate semi-gay indie rocker sad sack. It looks like you might enjoy some of the stuff that I like, though.
“Five Catholics, three Jews, one Protestant
Yeah, yeah. They walk into a bar. Then what happens?”
Scalia says “We don’t get many of your kind in here.” And Thomas walks out.
iTunes DJ:
Keep On Marching The Meters
Sweatin’ Me Young Black Teenagers
Tush ZZ Top
Champagne Taste Eartha Kitt
Kids In America Kim Wilde
I’ll Be There The Jackson 5
Mahshav John Zorn
Back Home Again Low
Quality Control Jurassic 5
String Bean Jean Belle and Sebastian
Hold On Black Box
Walking the Cow Daniel Johnston
Obsessed Nomeansno
Mickey Toni Basil
I Zimbra Talking Heads
Kepone Factory Dead Kennedys
“Five Catholics, three Jews, one Protestant
Yeah, yeah. They walk into a bar. Then what happens?”
No they pass the bar. (rimshot) sound of crickets chirping. “Is this thing on?”
“I just did. You should feel special, as I don’t really mess around with the social networking aspect of that site!”
I don’t either, truth be told. Hell, I can’t even be bothered with Facebook. Pretty much the only place to consistently get me is either at my gallery or, well, here.
Most people get it wrong even many Senators and lawyers.
Well, you sort of expect Senators and lawyers to get it wrong.
Anyways, this is all moot since I was using the term as it would be used by a hypoithetical lesbian-obsessed Senator questioning alleged lesbian Elena Kagan. Therefore I am right again. As usual. Nyah Nyah Nyah.
ARrrrRRGGHhhhHH. Pretend I didn’t capitalize senator in previous comment.
Pretty much the only place to consistently get me is either at my gallery or, well, here.
I suppose you expect us to be flattered…
Ah what a godsend the bigots can be! Hopefully this kills her nomination and we get a real progressive in her stead! Sorry lesbians, turn Diane Wood and you can have a gay SCJ! I’m solidly with the bigots on this one! She’s queerer than a fruitcake! Down with the dyke Kagan! Toss her out wrapped in the carpet she munched in on! and all that goodness!
I get obsessed with songs and suddenly my playlist consists of, like, 3 songs.
Yeah, I’ll listen to the same song three times in a row. In my defense, my account does not reflect the records I listen to, though I’m not much better about that, either.
Hell, I can’t even be bothered with Facebook.
I wouldn’t be on Facebook much, either, if it weren’t how I stay in contact with a lot of my friends.
I don’t mean to get all Facebooky, but i hope you friended me. I wanna see what you like. I’m NOSY. Is your taste all hip and cool and esoteric? Am I gonna get schooled?
NO[E]SY?
Veiled NMR reference?
If only O had nominated Betty White, everybody would be happy.
GAY!
Capitalizing senators is just a bad habit I picked up from my days as a lobbyist.
“I suppose you expect us to be flattered…”
I expect you all to prostrate yourselves and start chanting my name.
I expect you all to prostrate yourselves and start chanting my name.
*whew*!
T&U makes us do that naked…
“my account does not reflect the records I listen to, though I’m not much better about that, either.”
Really? I’d claim it. I was looking at your page and all your groups look like unhappy hipsters. That’s a good thing, right?
T&U makes us do that naked…
What can I say? It’s just this thing I have…
“my account does not reflect the records I listen to, though I’m not much better about that, either.”
Really? I’d claim it. I was looking at your page and all your groups look like unhappy hipsters. That’s a good thing, right?
Oh, I think the records I listen to are accurately reflected, just not how often I listen to them.
And yes, unhappy hipsters. I suppose that’s a good thing, until you try to make an upbeat mix for a friend and wind up putting 20 Peter, Bjorn, and John songs on it, along with an Elliot Smith song that sounds vaguely happy.
you try to make an upbeat mix for a friend and wind up putting 20 Peter, Bjorn, and John songs
I dunno it’s that hard. That sounds kinda gay to me.
What?
“And yes, unhappy hipsters. I suppose that’s a good thing, until you try to make an upbeat mix for a friend and wind up putting 20 Peter, Bjorn, and John songs on it, along with an Elliot Smith song that sounds vaguely happy.”
Hee!
I dunno it’s that hard. That sounds kinda gay to me.
What?
Obviously, you are not a Morrissey fan.
I got a few bucks I can spare for some new hotpants.
Great, I know a sailmaker. I’m pretty sure he can get his hands on enough cloth.
Lawl.
Obviously, you are not a Morrissey fan.
I was a Morrissey fan when you were drowning your sorrows in breast milk, young lady.
“Great, I know a sailmaker. I’m pretty sure he can get his hands on enough cloth.”
Tee hee! People in this thread makin’ me laugh…
I was a Morrissey fan when you were drowning your sorrows in breast milk, young lady.
Nuh uh! The Smiths were formed in 1982 and I was weaned by then! For a whole year!
That reminds me of the 13-year-old girl I saw at a Moz show a few years ago who was there with her parents. ZOMG so DORKCUTE.
That reminds me of the 13-year-old girl I saw at a Moz show a few years ago who was there with her parents.
Bah! I’ve seen five generations at Beach Boys concerts.
Bah! I’ve seen five generations at Beach Boys concerts.
Oh, her parents obviously weren’t fans, but just went with her because they didn’t want her unaccompanied.
Oh, her parents obviously weren’t fans, but just went with her because they didn’t want her unaccompanied.
I’ve discovered many a good band
stalking my daughter’s friendschaperoning groups.At the risk of getting my azz kicked, I free admit to loathing everything I’ve ever heard by Morrissey. It’s that kind of cloying, whining sound that makes my ears want to eat holes into my brain. That being said, I’m not sure a Morrissey fan would even be capable of kicking my ass.
But on the serious tip, I’m totally respectful of everyone’s musical tastes, so don’t hate me. It would be incredibly boring if everyone liked the same music.
I like Creed.
I’m not sure a Morrissey fan would even be capable of kicking my ass.
HEY!
Okay, you’re probably right.
Unfortunately, I am such a Morrissey fan that I got my nym from him.
I like Creed.
Hey, we all like a little Stapp infection now and again.
I like Creed.
How can you even say this as a JOKE?
Another preview of the right-wing sideshow via Think Progress: Senators Bare-asso and Sessions are planning to make a big deal out of the frivilous wingnut suits alleging that the health care reform bill is unconstitutional. Also too she’d better support the right of crazed teabaggers to brandish rifles in public if she doesn’t want something to happen to her nomination.
“To me at least he appeared devious, truculent and unreliable where his own interests were at stake.”
HA!!!
It’s that kind of cloying, whining sound that makes my ears want to eat holes into my brain.
In my defense, I was drunk for most of the 80s.
But on the serious tip, I’m totally respectful of everyone’s musical tastes
Like it or at least respect it.
What are your thoughts on Nickelback, Sub?
Not me. There is NO excuse for modern country music. None. Don’t even think about flaming me, you’ll get struck by lightning.
It’s that kind of cloying, whining sound that makes my ears want to eat holes into my brain.
Actually, this is how I feel about The Cure. UUUUUUUUUGH.
“Actually, this is how I feel about The Cure. UUUUUUUUUGH.”
Exactly. Never had much use for them.
“Like it or at least respect it.”
Respect it? Hell, I wish that had been playing when I walked down the aisle. “Moving” and “transcendent” are just two of the words that come to mind.
Senators Bare-asso and Sessions are planning to make a big deal out of the frivilous wingnut suits alleging that the health care reform bill is unconstitutional.
I still have trouble believing these retards (not satire) actually hold political offices.
Actually, this is how I feel about The Cure. UUUUUUUUUGH.
**most theatric gasp**
Please give The Top a listen before you say that.
“Not me. There is NO excuse for modern country music. ”
Most of its pretty bad. But as for respecting people’s tastes, I guess I just try to take the “do unto others” tack. It would hurt my feewings if someone told me that everything I like sucked ass. I likes what I likes and I let everyone else likes what they likes.
They’re no Creed.
“They’re no Creed.”
Indeed. Indeed. *very serious nod*
Please give The Top a listen before you say that.
I have. I’m sorry. I’m afraid I’m a classic Smiths fan, down to my Cure hatred.
They’re no Creed.
Few poisons are.
Most of its pretty bad. But as for respecting people’s tastes, I guess I just try to take the “do unto others” tack. It would hurt my feewings if someone told me that everything I like sucked ass. I likes what I likes and I let everyone else likes what they likes.
I try, but there’s a line. People tell me that all the time when I’m listening to Bauhaus or old Soundgarden, or old Depeche Mode, etc…
I just can’t condone giving money to some hillbilly booger-eater using nationalism to hook other booger-eaters. It just makes the listener a giant toolbag. I’m sure there is plenty of newer country out there that is great music, but it just gets ruined by the “Proud to be an American” and “Have They Forgotten” garbage.
It just makes the listener a giant toolbag
How does this make country any different from Lady GaGa or the latest American Idle or any number of rappers? It’s all pretty much corporately controlled until the artist becomes so fucking big (or remaindered) that they finally have some artistic freedom.
It’s struck me that, since the Beatles hit it big by being a) really really good but also b) really really well managed, that music that you and I hear on the radio is manufactured.
The best music an artist in the true sense of the word puts out is before he’s discovered and after he’s forgotten.
eople tell me that all the time when I’m listening to Bauhaus or old Soundgarden, or old Depeche Mode, etc…
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT? I get the Soundgarden thing, but what’s wrong with Bauhaus or Depeche Mode???
I have a friend who is unhealthily OBSESSED with Taylor Swift. I think he may have broken up with me because of my vitriol toward that utterly generic, saccharine nightmare.
“Soundgarden”
Well, there’s my limit. Anyone who doesn’t like Soundgarden has shitforbrains. Sorry…went through a period where I pretty much didn’t listen to anything BUT Soundgarden.
I like songs by Bauhaus and Depeche Mode, so let me be gentle: they are often hilarious and not in a “hey, we’re hilarious” kind of way.
“I have a friend who is unhealthily OBSESSED with Taylor Swift. I think he may have broken up with me because of my vitriol toward that utterly generic, saccharine nightmare.”
I don’t like her music, but–to her credit–I think she writes or co-writes most of her stuff. So I give her props her for that.
I expect you all to prostrate yourselves and start chanting my name.
Actor’s prostrate is swollen and needs constant massage from DK-W’s mom. His chanting may be off.
How do you understand “modern country music”? “God Bless the USA” came out in 1984.
How do you understand “modern country music”?
I don’t understand it at all.
Also, is “God Bless the USA” technically country..or just unclassifiable schlock?
Also true of Kathryn Jean Lopez.
Also true of Kathryn Jean Lopez.
Who is currently looking for a manly man in a black robe to judge her.
“Actor’s prostrate is swollen and needs constant massage from DK-W’s mom. His chanting may be off.”
Which is why I did ask them to prostate themselves. Thought things might get a little too…real.
This last.fm thing you kids are listening to is fascinating. How do I hook it up to my hi-fi?
Actor’s prostrate is swollen and needs constant massage from DK-W’s mom.
That’s what I tell her, but the antibiotic course ended last week.
This last.fm thing you kids are listening to is fascinating. How do I hook it up to my hi-fi?
Aux.
“This last.fm thing you kids are listening to is fascinating. How do I hook it up to my hi-fi?”
Well, see, the internet is a series of tubes…
Anyone who doesn’t like Soundgarden has shitforbrains.
Heh. I think they’re a good, solid rock band, but I’m just meh on them. I used to listen to them a lot when I was a teenager.
they are often hilarious and not in a “hey, we’re hilarious” kind of way.
What? Next you’re going to say the Pet Shop Boys are totally queer!
How do I hook it up to my hi-fi?
OK, so first you have to crank the handle…
the Pet Shop Boys are totally queer!
Not at all. They were, however, furries before their time.
The only conclusion I can draw is that the voters keep sending them to D.C. to get them the hell out of their home states.
GOD DAMN YOU J—
Bono turned 50 today. That made me feel old.
“Heh. I think they’re a good, solid rock band, but I’m just meh on them. I used to listen to them a lot when I was a teenager.”
Yeah. I was in my late twenties when I got obsessed, though they’d been on my radar since my late teens. (Their early, early stuff is pretty raw.) I think we’re about 10 years apart (suddenly I feel ancient) so that makes sense.
I like that one Soundgarden song that starts out kinda slow and grumbly with Chris Cornell going “grumble grumble grumble” then they kick on the volume and fuzz and he’s all like “RWAAAAAR!!!!!”
In one respect only–pop music doesn’t push the ultra-nationalist ideology. It has its own set of problems, some of which I have a tough time tolerating, but it certainly does not (at least any that I’ve heard) beat the fucking war drums at the dumbshit hillbillies.
Early Beatles is directly responsible for Lady Gaga and all of the manufactured crap out there. They actually wrote and played it, instead of stealing it from black people, but po(o)p music it was. I do believe they were an unbelievably talented band, and music today would not be the same without them, for better and/or worse.
Amen, brother. There are at least 20 bands whose newer music makes me want to puke, but older stuff is some of my favorite.
Perro Chacarron!
http://www.gomusicnow.com/album.html?id=96798
Here to serve. All praise is due to the one Chacarrón Macarrón.
Have you met the new Andean supergroup?
I like that one Soundgarden song that starts out kinda slow and grumbly with Chris Cornell going “grumble grumble grumble” then they kick on the volume and fuzz and he’s all like “RWAAAAAR!!!!!”
This one?
I think we’re about 10 years apart (suddenly I feel ancient) so that makes sense.
I turn 30 in four months*, so not quite *that* far apart, but yeah, Superunknown came out in 1994.
*I am much, much more distressed about this than I should be, especially since my 20s have sucked.
Here’s what I just copied from my thumb drive* to my devbox** at the office:
Linda Oh, Entry (three-piece jazz: trumpet, bass, drums)
Joe Bonamassa, You and Me
Ted Leo & Rx, The Brutalist Bricks (thanks, T&U, I’m always looking for new tunes)
Eclectic? Well sure, I don’t know how you’d run an mp3 player without eclecticity.
* Not VPR
** Not VVR
This one?
No no no… the other one
(thanks, T&U, I’m always looking for new tunes)
I’m always happy to share, especially when it comes to someone as genuinely nice and cool as Ted Leo.
In one respect only–pop music doesn’t push the ultra-nationalist ideology.
Really?
You’re confusing artist with medium. I’d argue in both country and pop music, the ideology is fixed by the studio suits.
For example, if you recall after 9-11 Clear Channel issued a list of songs that it suggested were not to be played, mostly out of mourning but also because the lyrics and/or artists were questionable.
Some of these were ridiculous, like banning John Parr’s “St Elmo’s Fire” simply because the title had “Fire” in it. Some of these were pretty ideological, like the entire Rage Against the Machine catalog and Cat Stevens.
WHAT. TEH. FUCH!?!?
Could be worse. They could have come from South Carolina and Georgia. [shudder]
Well, when Sarah Palin’s elected, she’ll nominate Roy Moore, getting the Real America and Protestant yay-hoo in one fell swoop.
Oh, and here’s what I’ve been playing.
Dammit. I’ve finally got that chorus to “Electric Feel” out of my head, and you go shoving it right back in.
“Not me. There is NO excuse for modern country music. ”
Remember Sturgeon’s Law, and also recall that thanks to Pro-Tools, Auto-Tune, and lazy-ass producers, most radio-oriented stuff sounds like recycled dogshit. That being said, I like Joe Nichols and I’m willing to put my country music cred up against anyone’s.
suddenly I feel ancient
Wait until the day you can say “the last album I bought, I bought after hearing about it on Fresh Air.“
Wait until the day you can say “the last album I bought, I bought after hearing about it on Fresh Air.“
Hey, they had a story about Broken Social Scene a couple of weeks ago on Fresh Air, and they’re still considered pretty cool, AFAIK.
I turn 30 in four months*, so not quite *that* far apart, but yeah, Superunknown came out in 1994.
That’s where Soundgarden fell apart. Louder than Love and Badmotorfinger were both masterpieces in filthy post-punk anguished pre-screamo smashalicious superrighteous fuck yeah.
Louder than Love and Badmotorfinger were both masterpieces in filthy post-punk anguished pre-screamo smashalicious superrighteous fuck yeah.
I agree on this. I still enjoy Badmotorfinger from time to time.
Hey, they had a story about Broken Social Scene a couple of weeks ago on Fresh Air, and they’re still considered pretty cool, AFAIK.
Welcome to Del Boca Vista, my dear. You’ll find it’s not so bad here…
*ducks*
Michael Steele self awareness fail. It must be
Mondaya day that ends in “Y”.Fecksed despite the fact the comment it refers to is days or weeks old at this point. Y’all talk <a lot, yes you do.
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In one respect only–pop music doesn’t push the ultra-nationalist ideology.
Brittany Spears’ “we should do what the president tells us”? Kid Rock doing much the same thing? Dig, man, country music is and always has been pop music with steel guitars and Southern accents. Hank Williams wrote nationalist, jingoist songs (“No, No Joe”, for one), and Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson have all made “Yay, America” tunes.
Back on topic.
“Anyways, this is all moot since I was using the term as it would be used by a hypoithetical lesbian-obsessed Senator questioning alleged lesbian Elena Kagan. Therefore I am right again. As usual. Nyah Nyah Nyah.”
Fair enough. What is the over under on the # of times she is refered to as General Kagan? I say 4. The correct title is either Attorney Kagan , Solicitor Kagan, or Madam Solicitor. (Not to be confused with a madam soliciter which I think should be David Vitter’s title)
Hank Williams wrote nationalist, jingoist songs (“No, No Joe”, for one), and Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson have all made “Yay, America” tunes.
And you could have knocked me over with a feather when Toby Keith endorsed Obama.
It probably is fixed by the suits, but if you’re going to antagonize, (and I’m being a santimonious, self righteous fuck, because I’m right and Toby Keith is a douche) RATM does it properly. And yeah, I remember clear channel pulling that bullshit. I also remember Walmart banning Sheryl Crow for telling it like it is. I am a musician, and an intense music lover. I know that’s no excuse for being dismissive, but it’s the only topic in my life that I feel like I can be a twunt about and still be able to sleep at night.
*ducks*
OK, five Catholics, three Jews, one Protestant and some ducks walk into a bar.
Then what happens?
OK, five Catholics, three Jews, one Protestant and some ducks walk into a bar.
Then what happens?
Jurisprudence, and quacking.
And you could have knocked me over with a feather when Toby Keith endorsed Obama.
Yeah, me too. But then any hillbilly should be pretty much OK with Obama if he’s not a flaming racist asshole.
Tsam, my only point is, the shit we hear on the radio is what the suits let us hear, and that’s generated by two things: first and foremost, money. You want to hear more RATM then make them profitable.
But next is the cultural context. It’s why a song like “Who Are You?” which for decades was cleared for play unedited for decades, despite having a line sounding suspiciously “Who the fuck are you?” now being played with a millisecond of silence over that phoneme.
“OK, five Catholics, three Jews, one Protestant and some ducks walk into a bar.”
Veiled Antonin Scalia reference?
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0217-04.htm
Yeah, the nationalism of country music is annoying but the fucking whining is what drives me crazy.
Blues songs are about bad times too but you don’t end up wanting to offer them a binkie and a blankey and to tuck them in for a nap when they’re done. Blues singers got some sack; even the wimminz got more than the man-type country musicians.
My favorite country (sort of) group is the Austin Lounge Lizards, who have made their name making fun of country music. Oh, and I learned about them on NPR so you kids get the hell off my lawn. They make fun of everybody though. Go find a copy of Grunge Song and see if you don’t lawl.
Also: best band you’ve never heard of: Jonny Sonic. Punk + Funk = Righteous.
In other words, be right or shut the fuck up.
There’s a big difference between pushing that tough guy warmongering shit (we seem to take it much more seriously when people like Daniel Pipes do it than when a phuktard with a guitar does it) and writing a sort of yay America song that celebrates some of the good things about this country. I know you can all get down with that.
Tsam, my only point is, the shit we hear on the radio is what the suits let us hear, and that’s generated by two things: first and foremost, money. You want to hear more RATM then make them profitable.
But next is the cultural context. It’s why a song like “Who Are You?” which for decades was cleared for play unedited for decades, despite having a line sounding suspiciously “Who the fuck are you?” now being played with a millisecond of silence over that phoneme.
I know. And you’re absolutely right. Like I said before, I’m being a sanctimonious, self righteous, egocentric know-it-all. This is my one indulgence, please let me have it–LOL
They were profitable. Heard ’em on commercial radio a lot.
Yeah, the nationalism of country music is annoying but the fucking whining is what drives me crazy.
I don’t think they’re even making country music any more. What comes out of Nashville today sounds like bad 70’s pop.
Not to imply that there was good 70’s pop.
That should have been:
“Jurisprudence, and quacking.”
Veiled Antonin Scalia reference?
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0217-04.htm
And you could have knocked me over with a feather when Toby Keith endorsed Obama.
Mmm, not really. The jingoism of his “America, Fuck Yeah!” song was more a sign of the times, really, than any bold political statement. A good number of country singers of the time recorded similar tunes, but with the exception of Keith’s number and the “Have You Forgotten” thing by whoever it was (Darryl Worrley? Something like that), they were crap both artistically and philosophically. Clint Black – a guy who’s music I’ve always liked – did a horrid little number called “Iraq & We Roll”, for example. But country’s target base is both fairly conservative in the “if it wasn’t for liberals we’d support health care” sort of way and pretty damn ignorant about geopolitics. The sort of people who don’t vote becuase “they’re all the same” yet get bent out of shape over how the government actually governs.
I’ve never been a fan of the cat’s music, but Keith’s apparently a fairly shrewed operator, dick-measuring with the Dixie Chicks aside. As tsam said, anyone with a lick of sense could see Obama was the only choice in 2008, which is why I’m continually embarrased to admit I’m a fan of Hank Williams Jr’s music, the pig-headed dipstick.
There’s a pretty good book about politics and country music that came out 2004 or ’05, but I’m damned if I can remember the title or author. Nashville isn’t as reactionary as most folks think.
writing a sort of yay America song that celebrates some of the good things about this country
Yea, but here’s the thing: some of the most beautiful and patriotic songs about this country were written by lefties, or at least folks that would be lumped in with us.
For instance, America the Beautiful was written by….*ominous ellipse* a lesbian!
The jingoism of his “America, Fuck Yeah!” song was more a sign of the times, really, than any bold political statement.
Yea, but the whole Dixie Chicks thing…
Veiled Antonin Scalia reference?
YesssssssssssssNO.
You are way ahead of me. I had completely forgotten Nino’s failure to recuse himself in the Cheney duck-hunting dealio.
Back to the joke, I suppose it could go something like: “They order a round of shots and Cheney barges in and …”
Or not.
Honestly, I think the whole Dixie Chicks/Toby Keith thing was a work, something to keep both acts’ names in the papers. Sort of a play on a rap fued, same thing with Big & Rich having a “country music posse”, but not nearly as serious. I may just be cynical about how the music bidness works, but it was far too goofy to take seriously.
Yea, but here’s the thing: some of the most beautiful and patriotic songs about this country were written by lefties, or at least folks that would be lumped in with us.
Agreed–we could all sit here and rattle off songs like “This Land is Your Land” all day long. Those messages made me what I am. Sometimes the most angry songs are the most patriotic–“Fortunate Son” is the nearest example. I find the most deeply rooted patriotism comes from a place of fighting those things that threaten what it truly means to be an American–as recently as “American Idiot” or “Holiday”.
Honestly, I think the whole Dixie Chicks/Toby Keith thing was a work, something to keep both acts’ names in the papers. Sort of a play on a rap fued, same thing with Big & Rich having a “country music posse”, but not nearly as serious. I may just be cynical about how the music bidness works, but it was far too goofy to take seriously.
Whatever the motivation, defending a guy like Bush, after all of his Constitution shredding, is just more than I can handle.
Random iTunes DJ hit:
Conmigo No Quieres Nada – Brave Combo – Mood Swing Music
Oil Gusher – Raymond Scott – Microphone Music
Another First Kiss – They Might Be Giants – Mink Car
Green Shirt – Elvis Costello – Armed Forces
Whiteface – Vernon Reid – Other True Self
Crosseyed and Painless – Talking Heads – Remain In Light (Remastered)
Cattle [Reversed] – Camper Van Beethoven – Cigarettes And Carrot Juice- The Santa Cruz Years
Discourse – Material – Secret Life
The Return of Jackie and Judy – Tom Waits – Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
Dishnet Sports Wrap-Up – Firesign Theatre – Boom Dot Bust
What A Fool I’ve Been – Wynton Marsalis – Blood On The Fields
II Allegro (A Musical Offering) – J.S. Bach
Ba-lue Bolivar Ba-lues-are – Thelonious Monk – Brilliant Corners
Smart Patrol / Mr. DNA – Devo – Duty Now for the Future
Not a bad mix for computer-generated but it doesn’t really reflect what I’ve been listening to lately, which is mostly the tributaries around Balkan/Mediterranean + Hip-Hop mashup groups like Balkan Beat Box, Boom Pam, Beats Antique, Mad Manoush, etc.
Eclectic? Insufferable Music Snobs™ tip they muthafuckin’ hat when I walk by.
a fairly shrewed operator
It’s a change from ferrets.
I listen to music by people who have done far worse than that.
I listen to music by people who have done far worse than that.
You mean GG Allin? Or did Jane Fonda do an album?
My problem with country music is how defensive it is. Every third song is “It is so much better in the country, because here shit is real, and everyone wants a country girl or guy, and our dicks are so huge and all, and we don’t give a damn what your think about us, because we are just so awesome, right guys? tell them how awesome and how much we don’t care what they think. In case they are listening.”
Then every other third song is some nostalgic “Things we so much better when I was a kid, even though we didn’t have nothing it was so much simpler and these kids today don’t know how easy they have it and they should learn to appreciate their youth before they grow up to be whiny country singers, like me”
Though thats mostly male country. Female country is strangely empowering much of the time. Which is ironic, since rural women often lack confidence… so its good they get to hear strong women.
“I thought my iPod wasn’t scrobbling to my last.fm account
How odd. I’d only ever heard of Definition #4 BUT I’M NOT OLD.
I listen to music by people who have done far worse than that.
You mean GG Allin?
Way to steal my joke, tsam.
Dagnabbit, I had a nice little comment with a 10 song selection dumped from the iTunes random DJ thingie but WordPress eated it. FYWP!
Shorter that comment: “Eclectic? Insufferable Music Snobs™ tip they muthafuckin’ hat when I walk by.”
Weird, I just dug out a bunch of my old vinyl and was a-playin’ it before I saw this thread.
Colosseum *
Caravan *
ELP *
Eno & Rodelius
OMD
Chemical Brothers
Yes *
Ralph Towner
Tim Buckley
Janis J.
among others
* (blow me ProgRock haters)
My problem with country music is how defensive it is. Every third song is “It is so much better in the country, because here shit is real, and everyone wants a country girl or guy, and our dicks are so huge and all, and we don’t give a damn what your think about us, because we are just so awesome, right guys? tell them how awesome and how much we don’t care what they think. In case they are listening.”
Thank you! Yes. Hip hop is bad for that shit too, all the fucking self promotion horseshit wears me out in a hurry. Rock music has the “Back off, I’ll take you on” or “I’ll kick your ass, quit it” childish crap.
Female country is strangely empowering much of the time
I know–“Gunpowder and Lead” is a fucking AWESOME song. I love it.
Cynthia Yockey is a really clever parody, right? She showed up in the comments over there and left this steaming pile of dumb:
What truly makes this comment fucking stupid is that she has a post up on her blog noting that social conservatives loathe gays and lesbians–and yet she’s unable to make a connection between that and the whisper campaign against Kagan. Here’s a tip, Cynthia: if you hold out your hands with their backs facing you and your thumbs out, left makes the “L.” Those attacks coming from the other direction? Yeah, that’d be the Right shitting all over you, as usual.
More iTunes that prove I am old.
Start to Move | Wire
Rocks Off | The Rolling Stones
Pandemonium | Killing Joke
The River | Brian Eno & John Cale
Round And Round | Ratt
La La La | Ernie and Bert
Sartori In Tangier | King Crimson
Who’s Ready To Get High | The Didjits
99 Problems | Jay-Z
Mental Cruelty | Buck Owens and Rose Maddox
Spill The Blood | Slayer
California | Quasi
Burial in the Sky | Sun City Girls
engine heart | Mirah
Gemini | Slayer
All Tomorrow’s Parties | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Shorter that comment: “Eclectic? Insufferable Music Snobs™ tip they muthafuckin’ hat when I walk by.”
**tips his muthafuckin hat**
You’re fuckin awesome, Substance.
Top 10 favorite songs? Post em if ya got em
More iTunes that prove I am old.
I think most of that is awesome. Aside from the Slayer.
Then again, I’m not really a member of the youth demographic…
I’m 40 and still listen to Reign in Blood and South of Heaven periodically. I bookend it with old Megadeth and Metallica, then get serious with the old school punk. When I get all pouty and girly, I go for Depeche Mode, Pink Floyd, Alice in Chains, U2-Unforgettable Fire or October, Bauhaus…
Slayer is way past the youth demographic anymore. I don’t know how many actually young metal fans even know who they are. Hopefully more than I think, cuz dey wuz da bomb.
Oh, sorry about stealing that joke T&U. I put Allin in my quick-draw holster for just such an opportunity.
Top 10 favorite songs? Post em if ya got em
I can’t even begin to do that…it’s usually “top ten songs I’m into at the moment.”
Oh, sorry about stealing that joke T&U.
No problem. There’s this great comedy bit that the drummer from Superchunk (and now Mountain Goats) always does in which he says something like, “Mr. Allin passed on a few years ago” in a really quiet, respectful voice. It always cracks me up.
Substance McGravitas said,
May 10, 2010 at 23:33
More iTunes that prove I am old.
Damn. What happened to Killdozer?
~
“OK, five Catholics, three Jews, one Protestant and some ducks walk into a bar.”
\Jackie Mason ON
“You want me to buy a duck for $40? Why should anyone pay $30 for a duck, I ask you? Is the duck really worth paying you $20″….
\Jackie Mason OFF
Sorry, couldn’t help myself…
I can’t even begin to do that…it’s usually “top ten songs I’m into at the moment.”
That’s how you know you’re a true music fan.
Sorry, couldn’t help myself…
Yoooouuuuu’rrrrre dethpicable.
Considering that my breakpoint between “new music” and “old music” is Fleetwood Mac’s Little Lies, I can’t contribute much to these here newfangled music discussions.
Darn my youtube link had gone into modern nation. Or maybe I fuchs up the link.
Anywho, I see no Killdozer on Mr. McGravitas’ list (IF that is his real name).
~
That’s how you know you’re a true music fan.
Aw, thanks. But my range of what I like is really, really narrow. I’m terribly white, first of all, and second of all, well, I’m really white.
(I’m working on it. That’s not my full library yet, either).
Aw, thanks. But my range of what I like is really, really narrow. I’m terribly white, first of all, and second of all, well, I’m really white.
WHOA–you look PRECISELY how I imagined you would look. (that is NOT an insult in any way).
Being extremely white isn’t a bad thing as long as you don’t resent people who aren’t, right? I’m awfully white too…
That’s some obscure (in pop culture terms) stuff ya got goin on there.
WHOA–you look PRECISELY how I imagined you would look. (that is NOT an insult in any way).
Bespectacled and cranky? 🙂
Being extremely white isn’t a bad thing as long as you don’t resent people who aren’t, right? I’m awfully white too…
.
Sure, but I hate being like, “I just don’t understand that rap music those youths are playing these days!” Because there’s some good stuff out there, and I just need to get out of my comfort zone.
That’s some obscure (in pop culture terms) stuff ya got goin on there
If you can’t tell, I’m into “art punk” and post-punk quite a bit. Also, shoegaze.
It’s more a matter of “songs I don’t get tired of” which is not the same as “best songs ever”.
I, too, am ‘way white. I also can’t say what’s playing on my iPod ’cause I have a different MP3 player ( 😛 ). Here’s some recent albums (CDs for you kids) I’ve added to my collection (skewed by the fact that I’m taking bass lessons so a lot of it is “interesting bassline” heavy):
Alice in Chains, self-titled
Buddy Guy, Buddy’s Blues
Camper Van Beethoven, New Roman Times
Dropkick Murphys, Do or Die
Maceo Parker, Roots Revisited
Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon (funny story, my daughter dragged me to the laser show and I lay there thinking, “Hey this is a fuckin’ great album!”)
Serge Gainsbourg, Histoire de Melody Nelson
Super Geek League, A Magic Castle Land
Alan Parsons, Tales of Mystery and Imagination: Edgar Allen Poe
Underworld, 1992-2002
Sure, but I hate being like, “I just don’t understand that rap music those youths are playing these days!” Because there’s some good stuff out there, and I just need to get out of my comfort zone.
One perk of being old is that you aren’t really expected to get out of your comfort zone.
I have a comfort zone too, I really try to keep up with newer stuff and discover new things, but it is *very* difficult to find things that don’t bug me or just don’t have any soul to them at all. Seems like what a lazyish person like myself can easily find is beating a long dead horse. It’s really hard to find things that aren’t samey and lame, or a deliberate attempt to be “different”, resulting in something like that sounds like utter crap.
There’s nothing wrong with bespectacled and cranky. I’m becontacted and cranky and very white too.
It’s more a matter of “songs I don’t get tired of” which is not the same as “best songs ever”.
That’s kinda what I mean. Things you don’t outgrow, things that invoke memories (recent or way back), things that affect your mood in whatever way you wish…
Whale Chowder said,
May 11, 2010 at 0:19
I, too, am ‘way white. I also can’t say what’s playing on my iPod ’cause I have a different MP3 player ( 😛 ). Here’s some recent albums (CDs for you kids) I’ve added to my collection (skewed by the fact that I’m taking bass lessons so a lot of it is “interesting bassline” heavy):
Great stuff–I think Dark Side of the Moon is my 1-1 seed–all time greatest album. That chick just belting over the piano nearly brings me to tears, after the 10millionth time hearing that album. I get goosebumps just thinking about that passage.
You know, if you’re taking bass lessons (I’m a guitar player), I’ve been told that the best study guide for rock music is AC/DC (I shit you not), and stay away from stuff like Tool and Primus. Makes me sad because some of Tool’s bass work is an absolute masterpiece.
I think Dark Side of the Moon
A buddy & I rigged up the Loudest Stereo In The World and played this in our share house.
Yes – it was the LOUDEST: SRO 15 inch woofer driven by an Ampeg 150 watt tube amp for the low freqs, and two satellite speakers driven by by a Phase Linear 400 (rated 200 WPC, but I modded it and it was running about 350 WPC)
Then one of the satellite speakers fried because we were CLIPPING the Phase Linear. (!) It was, seriously, louder than any rock concert I was ever at.
Because of this, I actually have dreams about Pink Floyd.
That’s where Soundgarden fell apart. Louder than Love and Badmotorfinger were both masterpieces in filthy post-punk anguished pre-screamo smashalicious superrighteous fuck yeah.
Put your Hands away!
the best study guide for rock music is AC/DC
Heh, I actually saw them in Chicago last August (with my son, who listens to metal to decompress from the jazz and classical he plays (trombone) and listens to (how many parentheticals to you think I can fit in here (today)?)).
The rhythm section was rock solid and they for sure knew their role: support Angus.
So yeah, I can believe that.
Another funny story: My daughter dragged me to the Michael Jackson laser show a few months ago. One of the songs they played was ABC by the J-5. Wilton Felder (founding member of The Crusaders) on bass. My gawd. I bought a copy (hate stealers) and have learned it. Dead simple but the feel. It just works sooo well.
So I pick up tidbits here, there and everywhere. Need to find a bunch of old duffers like myself to jam with though.
Those are funnier.
Five stars from the A section of the at-work playlist!
A buddy & I rigged up the Loudest Stereo In The World and played this in our share house.
Yes, I’m jealous much. Did the speakers survive it?
I like to mix things up a bit, musically.
I’ll start with the Stooges, segue into Renaissance, followed by Pantera, then Leonard Cohen, next Nurse With Wound, then Tori Amos. Continue in this vein for a while, then take my schizophrenia pills.
Five stars from the A section of the at-work playlist!
I LOVE it! Anthrax and Abba–nice mix!
Yes, I’m jealous much. Did the speakers survive it?
No, as I said the Phase Linear actually CLIPPED and literally melted one of the satellites’ 4″ midrange driver voicecoils into a solid mass. It was messy, but the speakers were homemade, so I didn’t mind. The amp didn’t suffer, TFSM.
T&U, I’m pretty white too
I’m the one in the middle…
Put your Hands away!
…You’re gonna kill your mother, kill your mother, kill your mother, and I love her…
Masterpiece.
CLIPPED and literally melted one of the satellites’ 4? midrange driver voicecoils into a solid mass.
YES! You’re a god.
At that point I saw them for One Whole Dollar and they cleared the club.
YES! You’re a god.
I can’t claim god-hood for merely using an insane amount of electrical power to loosen the joists in the house – but I DO still have the postcards and sticker inserts from the LP, so that might count for demi-god-hood or something.
From her blog:
Support GLBT equality. SA2SQ and all that.
Now go ahead and pester the GOP leadership to get right on that. I’ll step back behind this blast shield and watch from a safe distance.
I’ll start with the Stooges, segue into Renaissance, followed by Pantera, then Leonard Cohen, next Nurse With Wound, then Tori Amos. Continue in this vein for a while, then take my schizophrenia pills.
Is it a liberal thing to bounce around from hard metal to Tori Amos?
Ok, here goes:
Dark Side of the Moon album/Pink Floyd
Wire/U2
Unforgettable Fire/U2
Master of Puppets/Metallica
The Future/Leonard Cohen
Won’t Get Fooled Again/The Who
10 Years Gone/Led Zeppelin
Dazed and Confused/Led Zeppelin
Double Dare/Bauhaus
Flat Field/Bauhaus
That’s 10 of a few hundred…This is harder than it looks.
At that point I saw them for One Whole Dollar and they cleared the club.
Yes, live performance was not their cupatee.
tsam, when you say you are the one in the middle, is that a joke? This is a Way Over My Head thread, so I am just not sure. Whatever. The blue jeans on the one in the middle fit very nicely, though.
I can’t play in this game. My economy collapsed a little over 10 years ago, and I have fallen way behind on musical necessities. It has nothing to do with being a stupid Luddite, and everything to do with having to pay the rent and shit. I have the CDs I had when I crash-landed, plus a bunch more I’ve picked up used over the ensuing decade. I can’t do Random Tens or mix ‘n’ match tunesets or whatever they are called. Oh, and listen up, I am not whining, I am simply ‘splaining. This is why I don’t know hardly anything you are talking about.
Because shut up, I don’t have a radio or other music-emitting device in my car, either. But when Kagan gets confirmed, I plan to get my hair cut Ellenishly, and then I am going to wait at the designated place, where I will receive my shiny new Subaru with a complimentary Indigo Girls CD already playing. Yup. Better times are coming.
tsam, when you say you are the one in the middle, is that a joke? This is a Way Over My Head thread, so I am just not sure. Whatever. The blue jeans on the one in the middle fit very nicely, though.
Hah! No, that’s really me, playing in a casino. Note the lack of a soul. I don’t have a stereo in my car either, cuz some douche friggin stole it. This thread is over my head, I started something I couldn’t really finish! But please jump in–you don’t have to be up on the new, hip stuff that all da kidz is pumpin thru da skullcandeez. I just think musical tastes give a little bit of insight into the personality of a person.
So far all I’ve met are extremely bipolar, yet strikingly awesome people.
No love for “Ding(1)” on the iPod?
Top Ten Random Favorite Songs from a Diverse Group Spanning Probably a Couple of Decades
In no particular order:
“Love and Communication”–Cat Power
“What You Know”–T.I.
“Mise a Nu”–Pauline Croze
“One Day”–Fishbone
“Lovesong for a Vampire”–Annie Lennox
“Empire State of Mind”–JayZ
“Cherry Blossom Girl”–Air
“You Got It”–Mudhoney
“Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us”–Allison Krauss and Robert Plant
“There’s No Home for You Here”–The White Stripes
OK, I’m gonna hit “submit” then immediately regret nearly every song on this list. This is…TOO HARD. *sniff*
Only four stars my friend, a much more diverse category.
“More iTunes that prove I am old.
Start to Move | Wire
Rocks Off | The Rolling Stones
Pandemonium | Killing Joke
The River | Brian Eno & John Cale
Round And Round | Ratt
La La La | Ernie and Bert
Sartori In Tangier | King Crimson
Who’s Ready To Get High | The Didjits
99 Problems | Jay-Z
Mental Cruelty | Buck Owens and Rose Maddox
Spill The Blood | Slayer
California | Quasi
Burial in the Sky | Sun City Girls
engine heart | Mirah
Gemini | Slayer
All Tomorrow’s Parties | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds”
I love Mirah. I discovered her a couple of years ago and thought her voice was so fresh and earnest and lovely.
I really try to keep up with newer stuff and discover new things, but it is *very* difficult to find things that don’t bug me or just don’t have any soul to them at all.
I have to have someone I respect basically make me listen to new stuff. It’s bad.
I also just realized that I’m wearing basically the same outfit today as I’m wearing in that picture.
“I LOVE it! Anthrax and Abba–nice mix!”
Agreed. Anyone who is unpretentious enough to have Abba on his/her list and rocks hard enough to have Anthrax…well, that person can be in charge of the music anytime…and I do not say that easily, as I have serious control issues when it comes to who(m?) is controlling the music.
tsam, you need to jump up your stage presence. Then you might attract crazy old farts like this one, not to mention the more comely groupie types.
“I really try to keep up with newer stuff and discover new things, but it is *very* difficult to find things that don’t bug me or just don’t have any soul to them at all.”
I sooooooo feel this. I work HARD to find stuff that resonates with me.
“Love and Communication”–Cat Power
Love her – saw her at the Apollo. She was crawling through the first few rows during part of her set.
You know, somehow the last.fm model just hasn’t worked out for me. I was just irritated waiting for things to interest me.
Okay, let’s pretend I can do a Random Ten thingie.
Highway Back To You – Gillian Welch
Burn Don’t Freeze – Sleater-Kinney
Once In A Lifetime – Talking Heads
Sister Love’s Cafe – Rhythm Angels
Bramble Rose – Tift Merritt
But I only get to do five, because they aren’t random, and self-selecting skews the impression too much.
“You know, somehow the last.fm model just hasn’t worked out for me. I was just irritated waiting for things to interest me.”
I think iTunes Genius is actually way more intuitive. I don’t like most of the stuff LastFm picks out for me either.
While we’re here, I have to pimp my friends’ bands.
1. Foundry Field Recordings. Prompts/Miscues is a great shoegaze record, although I don’t know how much more they’re going to do beyond that. They broke up a couple of years ago, but members of
2. Bald Eagle joined after they broke up. They’re fucking great–really clever, fun hard rock with a little bit of prog rock thrown in. (God, that promo photo is embarrassing).
3. coward. features the lead guitarist from Bald Eagle/my tattoo artist, my husband’s BFF, and two other friends. They are really amazing live–unfortunately, the stuff recorded doesn’t do them justice. They’re, um, I dunno, prog rocky/hardcore/rhythm-heavy/lyricless awesomeness.
Not friends, but I also love Ad Astra Per Aspera, who moved from Lawrence, Kansas to Brooklyn a couple of years ago and NEVER come back to see us. Bastards. They’re, like, post hardcore/screamcore with maybe a little math rock thrown in.
Anybody who doesn’t have “Get to the Choppa” needs to rectify that situation.
PS…whenever I hit “start Genius” in iTunes I’m usually pretty impressed. It’s like “how did it KNOW?”
WHOA–you look PRECISELY how I imagined you would look. (that is NOT an insult in any way).
It’s funny, I usually have no mental image from people on the other side of teh t00bz.
I do, though, because of hints he’s dropped, tend to picture Smut Clyde as looking like R. Crumb’s “Mr. Natural”.
Some music that’s held up well over the years for me:
==The Russian Orthodox liturgical version of I Like Big Tits.
==The Jelly Song.
==Bali Ha’i and Beer-Barrel Polka, but only when they’re both played at the same time, really loud, at 3:00 AM, with your neighbors yelling at you to quiet the fuck down.
==Ode to Joy whistled by someone who can’t whistle worth shit.
==Themesong to ‘The Brady Bunch’, played over and over and over and over for hours, so quietly you’re not sure if you hear it or not.
==The Mongolian throat singers’ rendition of Mairzy Doats.
==Adolf Hitler covering Barry White.
Now anyone who wants to stalk me based on my beeeeyoooteeeful picture will be able to easily.
To my mind, the best damn record released in the 90’s was Hedningarna’s “Tra”- it’s one of those albums which has a cumulative effect that is greater than the sum of the individual tracks.
CONSUME!!!
I tend to picture Smut Clyde as looking like R. Crumb’s depiction of R. Crumb.
We could do a whole freakin album of Mairzy Doats. I’ll work on the Javanaese gamelan cut. That’s gonna be hard. I’ll probably need the shadow puppets, too.
Also…I’ve been drinking. I’m only half this charming and funny when I’m sober.
Ode to Joy whistled by someone who can’t whistle worth shit.
Oh, so you’re the one who bought my last record!
Now anyone who wants to stalk me based on my beeeeyoooteeeful picture will be able to easily.
Throw them off the trail by posting a picture of Smut Clyde… or Mr. Natural.
Throw them off the trail by posting a picture of Smut Clyde… or Mr. Natural.
Genius! That will totally fool them!
We could do a whole freakin album of Mairzy Doats. I’ll work on the Javanaese gamelan cut.
I volunteer to coordinate the version using Lego robots playing the heads of teabaggers filled with various amounts of water to get different frequencies.
Huh, I’m amazed that no one did this one yet:
Ms. Kagen, have you earned the free toaster yet?
On the conversation about music, it’s kinda ironic because a month ago, I was doing a pretty rote rotation between some old standards, but a couple of weeks ago, someone posted up that Romanian site with the 1001 albums you must here before you die on stream and have been slowly working my way through ever since.
Throw them off the trail by posting a picture of Smut Clyde… or Mr. Natural.
Genius! They’ll never suspect!
We could do a whole freakin album of Mairzy Doats. I’ll work on the Javanaese gamelan cut.
I’ll play cowbell. With a piece of rebar.
That work?
Oh yeah, thanks for the reminder.
Rebar/cowbell works just fine, plus we can silence our critics very easily.
Rebar/cowbell works just fine, plus we can silence our critics very easily.
And a sense of rhythm is not required, right?
And a sense of rhythm is not required, right?
A sense of rhythm is actually a detriment in this case.
(Not to be confused with a madam soliciter which I think should be David Vitter’s title)
I am forced to quote the great Canadian comedian Frank Shuster:
“No, honey, what you need is a barrister. You’re, the solicitor.”
The music discussion reminds me once again how very much I am not cool, never have been and never will be. I must ask, though, is “shoegaze” pronounced like it looks, or does it rhyme with Fugazi?
Looch, you just have to be able to count. Like one thousand one, one thousand two, one thousand three, and as you get to one thousand twenty, you takes re-bar to cowbell. Gong. Then you start over.
I must ask, though, is “shoegaze” pronounced like it looks, or does it rhyme with Fugazi?
Ha! Like it looks. And its name is pretty much a perfect descriptor of how it sounds.
A sense of rhythm is actually a detriment in this case.
Oooh, can I play the drums, then? I’ve always wanted too, but I’m too uncoordinated and have about the worst sense of rhythm on the planet.
Also, “to.” Fuck.
Heh. I actually have a couple of Shoegazi songs in my liberry.
Some bad news for Obama.
Goodness, a music thread. I’ll stay with my claim that I don’t have any taste, and have just been nostalgic and raiding archive.org’s collection of Grateful Dead concert tapes. I’m especially fond of the Jack-a-Roe from this show here in Salt Lake City nearly 30 years agone.
Ah, so Shoegaze is the preferred musical choice of engineers at social functions, right?
“The music discussion reminds me once again how very much I am not cool, never have been and never will be.”
meh. What’s cool? I find that people who worry too much about it automatically aren’t. Yer plenty cool. I have spoken.
Ah, so Shoegaze is the preferred musical choice of engineers at social functions, right?
Pretty much, yeah. Or whatever the right-brain equivalent of an engineer is.
Like one thousand one, one thousand two, one thousand three, and as you get to one thousand twenty, you takes re-bar to cowbell. Gong. Then you start over.
I don’t think so.
Ah, so Shoegaze is the preferred musical choice of engineers at social functions, right?
I hear you can tell an engineer is outgoing if, when you talk to him, he looks at your shoes.
vacuumslayer, aw shucks. BTW, did you resolve your website problem?
Yep, she’s doomed.
I did not. I think I may be officially screwed.
I did not. I think I may be officially screwed.
I don’t know if you saw my previous post on the subject, but I have some recently graduated students who almost certainly have the skillset you need (and are in need of employment). If you’d like me to put you in touch with them you can email at lurkingcanadian at gmail.
If not, I promise not to bring it up again.
If not, I promise not to bring it up again.
DON’T DO IT! It’s a trick to make you listen to Neil Young and sing Oh Canada! and join Cunuckistan and its plot to spread politeness around the world! IT’S A TRAP!
Bono turned 50 today.
this is obviously a lie.
Seriously, you could have picked Avril Lavigne, Nickelback, Celine Dion, Bryan Adams or Rush but you went with Neil Young?
Don’t you know the Geneva Conventions are quaint?
Don’t you know the Geneva Conventions are quaint?
Actually, I like Neil Young. I definitely should have picked Celine Dion. What was I thinking?
Pardon me – you left out the poutine with maple syrup.
Not to mention the beavers.
For that you need The Smiths/Morrissey.
I like DM a bit more than any adult should and this song is my favorite DM song not by DM. I like Bauhaus, also2. Unfortunately Mr. Lynch never gave them the treatment.
I do, though, because of hints he’s dropped, tend to picture Smut Clyde as looking like R. Crumb’s “Mr. Natural”.
Said the winner of the Shuman-the-Human Look-alike Contest for three consecutive years.
I like songs by Bauhaus and Depeche Mode, so let me be gentle: they are often hilarious and not in a “hey, we’re hilarious” kind of way.
For that you need The Smiths/Morrissey.
Why does everyone HATE ME???
Why does everyone HATE ME???
Are you, by any chance, the end of your family line? That could explain it.
Lurking Canadian said,
May 11, 2010 at 2:29
I did not. I think I may be officially screwed.
I don’t know if you saw my previous post on the subject, but I have some recently graduated students who almost certainly have the skillset you need (and are in need of employment). If you’d like me to put you in touch with them you can email at lurkingcanadian at”
I just may take you up on that. Sincere thanks.
If I weren’t such an old fart, I’d take you up on that. You’ve got a definite Janeane Garofalo thing goin’ on there. In other words, Will you marry me? (I’ve got no problem with bigamy.)
Now if I just didn’t look like John Goodman…..
Not to mention the beavers.
Or the Leafs, eh?
Are you, by any chance, the end of your family line
Yes, but the decision is mine!
Maybe they just hate it when their friends become successful…
Maybe they just hate it when their friends become successful…
So why am I not universally loved?
You’ve got a definite Janeane Garofalo thing goin’ on there.
Oh, thanks! I’d like to think I’m better dressed, though.
In other words, Will you marry me? (I’ve got no problem with bigamy.)
Sure, as long as Larkspur’s willing to share.
Effin’ crap, S,N! is modulating my comments again.
~
This ain’t my top ten, but it’s the ten last that I didn’t skip on iTunes on my commute home:
Dancing Queen, ABBA
Kung Fu Fighting, Carl Douglas
Istanbul, TMBG
I Love Rock ‘N Roll, Joan Jett & teh Blackhearts
Catfish, Billy Boy Arnold with Tony McPhee
Mack the Knife, Bobby Darrin
After Midnight, Clapton
Puttin’ on the Ritz, Fred Astaire
Road Movie to Berlin, TMBG (again)
Take On Me, a-ha
The BiL calls my music “Fag Rock”. And he’s a happy hardcore DJ. A guy who plays raves thinks my taste in music is teh ghey.
The absolutely last priority should be nominating a Supreme Joke judge.
Count dammit. 6 out of 9 jokes believe that the crazy guy in a dress in Rome is more important than the president.
No nomination would be the only intelligent decision, however, Bush III has no capacity for intelligent decision. Currently the supreme joke will be the same for 30 or 40 years. Kagan matters not one whit in hell.
The snake handlers and fundies will be dancing in the streets when Roe vs Wade is overturned. One minute later when they realize that the pope in Rome totally controls the Supreme Joke, then you will see priests decorating lampposts. Sic semper tryranis. The pope hasn’t got a lick of common sense. So here comes real religious bigotry.
Kagan is a joke.
Two songs about Constantinople that are better than that TMBG thing. Other songs are pretty good.
Don’t mean to let you down, but I like the two Johns.
Don’t mean to let you down, but I like the two Johns.
That’s what your mom… nevermind.
Two songs about Constantinople that are better than that TMBG thing. Other songs are pretty good
I’d say that’s nobody’s business but the Turks’.
A guy who plays raves thinks my taste in music is teh ghey.
Well, you do have to admit that list is kinda gay…
Catfish.
I know you and you cannot sing.
Well, you do have to admit that list is kinda gay…
Wot? Barely any lesbians in there at all. Plus ABBA! How can you call that gay?
I know you and you cannot sing.
That’s nothing. You should hear me play piano!
What’s cool? I find that people who worry too much about it automatically aren’t.
Winner-winner, chicken dinner!
People over the age of, say, 23, who play the Hipper Than Thou game tend to be the most joyless people on the planet*. Life is short; love what you love.
*Second only to Smiths/Morrissey fans; man they suck.
Hmm. Gayest playlist…I’ll have to think about that one…
Seriously, you could have picked Avril Lavigne, Nickelback, Celine Dion, Bryan Adams or Rush but you went with Neil Young?
How about Blue Rodeo or The Tragically Hip?
HA! Who’s the band? Interestingly (lie), that was a classic rock cover band. We attracted many older persons. Lookin good all decked in the merch!
Plus ABBA! How can you call that gay?
I’m pretty sure the ABBA automatically makes it gay, dude.
*Second only to Smiths/Morrissey fans; man they suck.
*cry*
…I’ll have to think about that one…
MMMBop, Peggy Lee’s Fever, Love Shack, Boys Don’t Cry
Yes, I am just reading names out of my iTunes.
I’ll let the great Leonard Cohen say it: “You don’t command the enterprise…”. You can’t force inspiration. If the music isn’t doing it, that’s not your fault. I suffer from some mental illness that makes me dislike music until everyone else is tired of it, then I catch on to it, and it’s gone.
Speaking of sucking, how is your dad?
(Because I’m not going to do a yo mama joke so close to Mother’s Day.)
If the music isn’t doing it, that’s not your fault. I suffer from some mental illness that makes me dislike music until everyone else is tired of it, then I catch on to it, and it’s gone.
I am just now starting to listen to Rhianna. Probably because Disturbia is on DDR:HP3.
My taste in music is much like my dancing – frightfully embarassing, but I don’t give a shit because I am enjoying myself (not a veiled coprophiliac masturbation reference). EXCEPTION – partner dance is different. I’ll make an effort not to totally dork it up when dancing with someone.
Headliner just cuz one of their songs is called “Rodents of Unusual Size”.
I don’t have speakers right now, but I promise to give all of these bands a listen asap!
And SM’s mom hasn’t given me head. Yet.
Made it up to D:
Chiquitita | Abba
Knock on Wood | Amii Stewart
Love Me Tonight | Annette Hanshaw
Divine | Antony and the Johnsons
A Natural Woman | Aretha Franklin
Windy | The Association
Jive Talkin’ | Bee Gees
Everybody Everybody | Black Box
Call Me {Theme From American Gigolo} | Blondie
Lover Man | Blossom Dearie
Ever Fallen In Love? | The Buzzcocks
Lollipop | The Chordettes
What A Girl Wants (Radio Edit) | Christina Aguilera
The Hucklebuck | Chubby Checker
Fascinated (Radio Edit) | Company B
Pee Wee’s Playhouse | Cyndi Lauper
Teenage Wildlife | David Bowie
Just between you, me and the intertubez, I love Disturbia, and have a super stiffy for “Shutup and Drive”. I really like “Rehab” too. Rihanna is a fun listen.
That’s not funny because my mom is headless.
A-fuckin-MEN! If it hits the pleasure center, go with it. (VgaysexR)
That’s not funny because my mom is headless.
She was found in a topless bar, then?
Ohhhh–too soon.
I am just now starting to listen to Rhianna. Probably because Disturbia is on DDR:HP3.
Between DDR:HP3, Wii Just Dance (I totally rock on the Spice Girls song!), and my taste in music and TV, my wife and I have pretty much decided I’m the gayest guy of our acquaintance, and that includes the gay people.
Really, all I’m missing is the fashion sense.
And, you know, sex with men.
Say Hello | April Wine
you bastard, subby. You right bastard.
Now I am going to go pay for a fricking download of this album I bought when I was a stupid kid.
You fuckin bastard.
No love for “Ding(1)” on the iPod?
you loosers. ding(1) fucking ROCKS.
no capitalization.
Oh yeah, you’re gonna have to PAY. Riiiiight.
you could have picked Avril Lavigne, Nickelback, Celine Dion, Bryan Adams or Rush
Martha & the Muffins. That is all.
I have to have someone I respect basically make me listen to new stuff. It’s bad.
I’m the other way around. When I hear “dude, you have got to…” I’m checked completely out. It’s not fair to the bands at all. However, I fall in love with damn near everything I hear live. So wtf? That makes it tough, since Spokane has a notoriously shitty music scene, likely due to the abhorrent venues.
I also just realized that I’m wearing basically the same outfit today as I’m wearing in that picture.
Hm, I wear that same outfit basically every day. The one in my pic, not yours. I kinda suck. Wait, the wristband is only for guitar playing. I don’t, like, wear it to work or anything. Usually. Also.
You know, that one’s just Rushy enough to get away with playing in the presence of a girl if said girl likes your mullet.
*Second only to Smiths/Morrissey fans; man they suck.
did I tell you I cried today?
did I tell you I cried today?
Meeting with an owner’s rep?
How do you understand “modern country music”? “God Bless the USA” came out in 1984.
Since Jerry Lee Lewis? Patsy Cline? Before Hee Haw? Something along those lines. Essentially since it parted company with rock music. Maybe the death of Elvis…I don’t know. I know that when I was a little kid, my dad listened to Glen Campbell and Conway Twitty. That stuff was very different from what I hear in the last 20 years–that is when I can be arsed to or accidentally listen to what they call country.
Here’s how much I suck w/r/t keeping up with the new music stuff: I don’t even have an ipod. But I have recorded a lot of my old vinyl into the computer. Stuff I can listen to over and over and never tire of hearing:
Boogie Chillen – John Lee Hooker
London Calling – the Clash (everything on the album)
Papa Don’t Take No Mess – James Brown
Lust for Life – Iggy Pop
Naive Melody – Talking Heads
Jane Says – Jane’s Addiction
Waltzing Matilda – The Pogues
What’d I Say – Etta James, live
Get Off Your Ass and Jam – Funkadelic
Happy Birthday to Me – Cracker
If I Had a Boat – Lyle Lovett
and now that I’m rolling, way way way too many more to think of. I’ve really been out of the loop music-wise for about the past 10 -15 years; before that I worked at a used record store and amassed a huge collection of vinyl and CDs – my pre-1995 music awareness is fairly encyclopediac, but since then, nuthin’ or next to it.
Mutt Lange produced Shania Twain. Chord changes in “Still the One” sound not unlike a cuddlier Def Leppard.
Also Alison Krauss and Iris Dement are worth a lot of time.
Oh yeah, you’re gonna have to PAY. Riiiiight.
I have itunes set to create a smart playlist with my recent adds. currently:
Von Bondies, Pawn Shoppe Heart
The Kissers, Good Fight
Drive By Truckers, The Big To-Do
Frightened Rabbit, Sing The Greys
The New Pornographers, Together
The Thermals, The Body, the Blood, The Machine
Porcupine Tree, Stars Die
The Depreciation Guild, Spirit Youth
Trampled By Turtles, Palomino
Cirque du Soleil, Ka
Split Lip Rayfield, I’ll Be Around
Ollabelle, Riverside Songs
Heavy Metal Soundtrack
Jefferson Starship, Red Octopus
The problem here is that invariably, I add something like April Wine or Loverboy or Kansas, and it plays while somebody else is in the room.
Nanci Griffith.
How do you understand “modern country music”?
If you like old-school style country, I would recommend looking at the artists on the Bloodshot label. Some of them edge into rocky/punky territory (I am looking at YOU, Waco Brothers) but the spirit is there.
Shania et al may be the major label ‘country’, but the real stuff is still out there….
What she said was sad.
(BTW, if no one else has said it, I’ll say it: If you dirty hippies aren’t using Pandora you suck harder than SM’s dad. But not in a good way.)
Von Bondies, Pawn Shoppe Heart
I’ve been listening to this like there’s no tomorrow.
London Calling – the Clash (everything on the album)
Seconded. One of my favorite albums of all time.
The only album that has ever come close, (sometimes I even think it is better) is Rock ‘n’ Roll by the Mekons. The opener, “Memphis, Egypt” is easily as strong an opener as “London Calling” and I can never turn it up loud enough.
Some of them edge into rocky/punky territory
Right, there’s the whole alt country scene, of which I’m totally ignorant but which may be of interest to some here.
Von Bondies, Pawn Shoppe Heart
I’ve been listening to this like there’s no tomorrow.
C’mon, C’mon came on the iPod tonight and I listened to it like four times in a row.
C’mon, C’mon came on the iPod tonight and I listened to it like four times in a row.
I was introduced (so help me) by Rescue Me.
The Thermals, The Body, the Blood, The Machine
ZOMG LOVE. That (and Neon Bible) was my “6 years into the Bush Administration” jam…
Right, there’s the whole alt country scene
OK, now you’re going to get me started, but the Mekons basically created alt/country in the 80’s (by copying the attitude of Hank and Cash, actually). Laid the blueprint with Fear and Whiskey and Honky Tonkin‘…
Like the first Velvet Underground album, those didn’t sell too many copies, but everyone who bought one started an alt-country band….
Also, being a dinosaur, I’ve been hitting replay on Quadrophenia a lot.
I was introduced (so help me) by Rescue Me.
Yeah, me too, I confess. I even went so far as to learn the guitar parts; as is proper with a Detroit garage band, they are pretty easy….
MY DAD IS DEAD, MONSTER! One of ’em anyway…
Also, being a dinosaur, I’ve been hitting replay on Quadrophenia a lot.
GET OUT OF MY HEAD, YOU DAMN ENGINEER!!!
5:15 fucking rocks. Maybe not as much as ding(1), but it still fucking rocks.
Right, there’s the whole alt country scene, of which I’m totally ignorant but which may be of interest to some here.
I edge into that territory, but I’m pretty picky…
Also, being a dinosaur, I’ve been hitting replay on Quadrophenia a lot.
Wev. That’s an excellent record. At least it’s not Tommy.
as is proper with a Detroit garage band, they are pretty easy….
Oh yeah: while working yesterday, three hours of the Detroit Cobras.
Koka Kola just came on the iPod;
GET OUT OF MY COMPUTER, JENNIFER!!!!
Rescue me?
Also, being a dinosaur, I’ve been hitting replay on Quadrophenia a lot.
Wev. That’s an excellent record. At least it’s not Tommy.
Tommy has its good points (Acid Queen, the Underture, and Sally Simpson come to mind) but nothing like Drowned, The Rock, or (a la ZRM) 5:15.
Oh yeah: while working yesterday, three hours of the Detroit Cobras.
Pretty tasty choice.
I mean, for an engineer.
Le Sigh. I remember when you could hear that on the actual radio.
Rescue me?
Very much no. Denis Leary as a NY firefighter, C’mon C’mon is the soundtrack to the opening credits.
Crap, the iPod isn’t playing along anymore. Genesis, Deep In The Motherlode.
DON’T JUDGE ME.
everyone who bought one started an alt-country band….
Or begged the great Rico Bell to come play accordion on their first solo album. Some of them were fortunate enough that he said yes.
Mutt Lange produced Shania Twain. Chord changes in “Still the One” sound not unlike a cuddlier Def Leppard.
Parted ways in name, I guess. Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly–all of that had a definite country twang to it, but it seemed like those guys were looking at country in the rear view mirror.
Answer one of the great mysteries–Mutt Lange, Shania Twain? WTF?
Le Sigh. I remember when you could hear that on the actual radio.
what is this ‘radio’ of which you speak? you make it sound like once upon a time, people could actually broadcast the things they wanted to hear, rather than the things they were paid, or ordered, to play…
you make it sound like once upon a time, people could actually broadcast the things they wanted to hear, rather than the things they were paid, or ordered, to play…
Pirate Radio was the lightest-weight fluff imaginable, but worth it for the soundtrack.
Or begged the great Rico Bell to come play accordion on their first solo album. Some of them were fortunate enough that he said yes.
HAH! MY IMS CRED is intact!! I have that disc,, and all of you should also.
Tommy has its good points (Acid Queen, the Underture, and Sally Simpson come to mind) but nothing like Drowned, The Rock, or (a la ZRM) 5:15
I agree. Plus, I’ve never been able to give Tommy a serious listen because, well, it’s TOMMY.
Crap, the iPod isn’t playing along anymore. Genesis, Deep In The Motherlode.
Dude, not even Peter Gabriel-era Genesis? SAD.
Plus, I’ve never been able to give Tommy a serious listen because, well, it’s TOMMY.
Some of us remember when it was new.
Actually, Townsend’s best opera was probably White City, but I’m the only one who bought the album.
Hank III is one my country heroes. True story.
People wanted REO Speedwagon too…
Dude, not even Peter Gabriel-era Genesis? SAD.
Before (Sledgehammer) he specialized in veiling?
HAH! MY IMS CRED is intact!! I have that disc,, and all of you should also.
We still have several boxes of them left taking up space in our closet, so yes please, all of you should. It’s over here, if you choose to heed the wise words of our resident zombie.
Thank you iTunes!
Many, many moons ago wild D.J.s roamed the land. But round about 1990 they were hunted to extinction and everything sucked. Come back here you little whippersnapper, gramps is gonna tell you all about Long Playing Records.
As far as alt country goes, the Old ’97s are a big favorite of mine, and their song Bel Aire features the best chorus in all of Rock and Roll
“And I should say this before the whole thing even starts,
I’ll stomp a mudhole in your heart”
YES is playing at Summerfest this year.
After having seen ASIA a couple of years ago (and then seeing a local band do a more lifvely version of “Roundabout”) I will be staying away. Unless someone is buying me beers, then I will stand there and pick fights with the old, broken down Yes fans.
gramps is gonna tell you all about Long Playing Records.
are those like CDs?
..kidding. I have about 1500 of those large, black fragile CDs.
Let me tell you about Punk Music, grandchirren.
here. listen to this! validate my taste in music!
Old 97s Bel Air
then I will stand there and pick fights with the old, broken down Yes fans
There are any other kinds?
the Old ’97s
“I sidled up beside her, settled down and hollered ‘hi there’
My name’s Stuart Ransom Miller
I’m a serial lady killer
She said I’m already dead
that’s exactly what she said”
Love ’em. Seen both Rhett Miller solo and the Old 97s. The rock, almost as much as ding(1).
Young, deeply retarded Yes fans. I.e. Trig.
There are any other kinds?
Holy hell, I hope not.
Hey! Maybe I can arrange a rumble between Yes fans and Morrissey fans!
People wanted REO Speedwagon too
Objection. Contention not supported by evidence.
Right, there’s the whole alt country scene, of which I’m totally ignorant but which may be of interest to some here.
I played in an alt-country band. We made some recordings. I make a point of making sure they’re never heard by human ears.
At the risk of being incurably cynical about things, the alt country scene is a turn-off, mainly because there’s too much “alt” and not enough “country”. Throw a badly played banjo and an out-of-tune mandolin over all the two-guitar-bass-and-drums keening you want, it don’t make it Merle Haggard. Plus, like all 20th century American music, it’s all about the bottom. Alt-country’s bottom is rock music, not country. Just doesn’t have the swing.
And Fear & Whiskey is one of those records I really wish I liked more than I do. I just don’t get it and would much rather listen to, say, Earl Thomas Conley or Mickey Gilley for my dose of country music.
I freely admit the Mekons are not everybody’s cup of whiskey. Hell, it took me a while for it to click, even.
But then one day, holy shit, it rocked my frickin zombie.
But, if you want straight up country, you’re right Matt, don’t look to those fucking limeys.
I can’t speak for alt-country as a whole genre but there is a significant fraction of it that sounds a little country, and a little classic rock and it is a fantastic soundtrack for drinking cheap beer, wasting away an afternoon, an evening, or an entire life. The Gear Daddies and the Refreshments are two more good examples of this type of music.
Are the Starkweathers still around? I was pretty fond of them a decade or so ago.
77S, two Madison bands that are now defunct and I think you missed, but mining the same ground, were the Rousers and Marques Bovre.
Hell, even Butch Vig’s band before Garbage, Firetown, was in the same realm.
Lots of room in the definition, is what I say.
But, if you want straight up country, you’re right Matt, don’t look to those fucking limeys.
You want real country, you got to go to real country folks, the redder the neck and the closer to the dirt road, the better. That’s the problem with both modern country music and alt-country: too many suburban white kids in (what my brother calls) “hillbilly blackface”, thinking the trappings and put-on themes will get them over.
It’s all about soul, son. You either got it or you don’t.
And that all being said, I do like me some Bottle Rockets. In a fair world, Brian Henneman would be hailed as a songwriting god.
It’s all about soul, son. You either got it or you don’t.
I agree with that.
I’m not sure about the redneck part, although I am totally down with the dirt road part.
Let’s not talk about you calling me ‘son’ 🙂
Yes, I used a fucking smiley on Sadly, No.
The Mekons are a great post-punk band that has often (but not always) used country as a reference, but I’d never call them a country band. No sense comparing apples and oranges.
In a fair world, Brian Henneman would be hailed as a songwriting god.
I hail him as such. Seen them in two or three local dives.
Does that make this world fair? At least a little bit more?
Also, you might appreciate Jon Dee Graham; he comes from a more punk background, but lives the dirt road and, in my white-boy opinion, has a certain amount of soul.
but I’d never call them a country band
Oh, me neither. I was trying to say they laid down they alt-country blueprint.
Often copied poorly, but that is their sin.
crap, too much rum, my html-fu is failing.
DAMMIT, WE WILL KEEP ON!!
too many suburban white kids
suburban white kids have always fucked up the best music.
I am with Atrios;
WE MUST DESTROY THE SUBURBS!!
I use “son” in the same way Jerry Reed did, sort of a culturally inspired point of emphasis. Sometimes, normal punctuation just won’t do.
As for “redneck”, it’s less a qualifier of behavior and more of a nice way of saying “poor white trash with little or no other option for a better life who just happens to write a good song or play a mean guitar”. Like blues and soul, country music was, at its roots and for most of its history, definitely a class-specific genre. You got to have suffered, got to have had pain, and you got to have known hard times, either emotionally or financially. It’s Buddha’s First Noble Truth.
…I …. am the only one left..
I must leave a record for those who come after.
….except… for Matt T….. we are ….the only ones left…..
You got to have suffered, got to have had pain, and you got to have known hard times, either emotionally or financially. It’s Buddha’s First Noble Truth.
So, I am going to be able to write great songs now? awesome.
Objection. Contention not supported by evidence.
March 21, 1981.
Never know till you try. Hey, it’s an untapped market, country music for the undead. Apart from one Troma film, far as I know, the zombie cracker is woefully underrepresented in popular media.
And “Honky Tonk Zombies” would be an excellent name for a band. Especially a cover band. Oooh. Halloween idea.
Hey, it’s an untapped market, country music for the undead. Apart from one Troma film, far as I know, the zombie cracker is woefully underrepresented in popular media.
I humbly submit the paintings of Jon Langford as a corrective in this area. (not so veiled Mekons reference).
country music for the undead
Already at least part way there. Lyrics from “Death Of Country Music” by the Waco Brothers:
damn you J Neo, beat me to it, because I had to cut n paste n do the html.
also, the fucked up lyrics are Nobby’s fault.
Wikiwhatever:
When Rolling Stone did its article about faceless bands I think someone from Foreigner was bragging about routinely outselling the Rolling Stones, who were nearly lively at that point.
HA! Who’s the band?
Super Geek League. Check out this video, which captures the characters pretty well but not so much the music (less hip-hop, more punk). They put on a helluva live show so if you’re in Cali, try to catch one of their shows.
Also, (and please pardon me if somebody’s already said this but) DKW, did yer mom pick out your music for you?
And now back to reading the rest of the thread…
thinking the trappings and put-on themes will get them over.
Somebody should tell the cowboys around here that tight ass fucking Wranglers, a huge belt buckle that says something stupid on it, with a precisely measured piece of belt hanging down (cod piece on the wrong side of the pants? If so, all I have to say is “Yeah, then ya woke up, pardner), a bolo tie one of those ridiculous velvet hats do not make a dude country. They make me wonder if they have a sailor suit and an indian chief costume in the closet next to their Roy Rogers outfits. Bikers too. Any so-called lifestyle that has a uniform (ie–you can spot one on the street without hearing a word), is wrong and lame.
Objection. Contention not supported by evidence.
March 21, 1981.
Holy motherfucking shit. That list broke a bunch of memories loose.
“Pri-ivate eyes, they’re watching you
They see your every move…”
I just puked all over my keyboard.
Stars on fuckin 45–wow.
Bright side–Bette Davis Eyes was (is) an extremely cool song. I’m pretty sure the “Sunglasses at Night” dude lifted that, sped it up a little, and wrote even cheesier lyrics.
Holy motherfucking shit. That list broke a bunch of memories loose.
I know. I had to put on galoshes.
Hi Infidelity is the ninth studio album by REO Speedwagon, released in 1980 (see 1980 in music). It went on to become the biggest selling rock LP of 1981
Making the point that cocaine is NOT a harmless drug.
Yes, I am picking a fight with Substance.
I am counting on that Righteous Bubba fella to back me up.
FYWP. I made a nice lil’ post for tsam about Super Geek League (who’s the band in the picture ‘way back up there ^^^). supergeekleague.com. I’m sure my post will show up about 4:00 AM local time so I’ll leave the rest but check out their vids for a sense of their show.
REO Speedwagon should die in a fire. I think they’re still touring, playing the casinos. Maybe their bus could collide with Kansas’ (and I bought a buttload of Kansas back when I was young and stupid and in college and smoking dope every day).
Also, I just bought Pawn Shoppe Heart because the previews sounded good. Thanks to whoever put that one up there. Lots of good musical bits (and some real crap but hey, that’s what makes the world go ’round).
Finally, DKW, did your mom pick out your playlist?
‘Cause that’s what was playing the last time I totally railed her.
A country song?;
OH FUCK YOU I WAS EATING
Headliner just cuz one of their songs is called “Rodents of Unusual Size”.
My favorite is “Sharks Are Fucked Up.” Seriously, they’re very good. The lead guitarist is amazing.
WE MUST DESTROY THE SUBURBS!!
Wait–you come up with a plan for all of those fucking new-life christian goddam white-flight republicans before you actually destroy the burbs. In the mean time, they and their motherfucking SUV’s will stay right where they are.
Thanks, dude! This has been the bestest thread EVAH! I’m so tired of all of my music, now I got all kinds of new leads from trusted sources.
Making the point that cocaine is NOT a harmless drug.
Unfair! You can’t blame cocaine for REO Speedwagon. Blame Van Halen or something.
Styx, Rush, Yes, all of those motherfuckers. REO turned that prog rock stuff into radio friendly superlameness.
“Ridin’ the storm out…” FUCK. I hate you all.
My favorite is “Sharks Are Fucked Up.” Seriously, they’re very good. The lead guitarist is amazing
Well good, cuz I like guitars. I’ll be checking those guys out today and report my findings. Thanks for the leads!
Battle the keyboard solo. You can’t do it my friend.
You can’t blame cocaine for REO Speedwagon
Speedwagon proves that God is cruel.
Substance McGravitas — FWIW, a ‘hell, yea’ to you on the Sun City Girls in your mix upthread. I had a violin and viola duet do a mellow take on “Space Prophet Dogon” as the processional in my wedding. Sounded beautiful.
They make me wonder if they have a sailor suit and an indian chief costume in the closet next to their Roy Rogers outfits. Bikers too.
A one-man Village People cover band would involve a lot of rapid costume changing, but could be entertaining.
A one-man Village People cover band would involve a lot of rapid costume changing, but could be entertaining.
Worth the price of admission just to see that!
Making the point that cocaine is NOT a harmless drug.
Unfair! You can’t blame cocaine for REO Speedwagon. Blame Van Halen or something.
Headliner just cuz one of their songs is called “Rodents of Unusual Size”.
My favorite is “Sharks Are Fucked Up.” Seriously, they’re very good. The lead guitarist is amazing.
Yes, I am picking a fight with Substance.
I am counting on that Righteous Bubba fella to back me up.