Random ramblings from an amateur rock-n-roll historian and critic,self-professed bourbon aficionado, blackberry growin', jam makin', sometime tie-die shirt makin', ex hippie wannabe, turned punk rock lovein', blues festival going, middle aged pudgy bald white guy who loves to wear Hawaiian shirts in the summertime and happens to be more Stax than Motown, more Alman Brothers than Skynard, more Stones than Beatles, more NASCAR than Baseball, more freeware than license keys...
Monday, December 23, 2013
"...I am a poor boy too, pa rum pa pum pum I have no gift to bring, pa rum pa pum pum..."
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.
Tom is the eldery white gentleman in the picture. He worked at Kindred as a security guard. On his right is Derrick Brice who I also ran into at Kindred. He also worked there as a security guard for a while. I went to high school and played football with Derrick. Funny we ran into each other after not having seen each other since high school till he walked into the NOC one day doing his rounds.
Back to Tom. He is the one that saw you that day in the lobby and said "Who is that? Wow!" I told him "Remember the story I told you about the young lady in the parking garage?" The look on his face lol, priceless...anyway, with hands out motioning downward slowly he says "Be patient, it will be worth it." I never had any idea how much so...
Said Amen loud and by myself for the first time ever. Nobody else said a damn thing.
They needed to hear it.
"So much fear in the world today. What are you so scared of? Hording your guns. Thats all fine for hunting and so on I get it. I do too.Your gonna protect your property. You can have them I don't want them. I don't have one in the house. It's just stuff. If somebody broke in my home I'd just give it to them."
A FREAKING MEN.
I have two antique rifles.
But people take things a little to far these days.
Christian. I love him like my brother. But he got a $1000 gun safe and sixteen guns ammo etc.
Thing is like a small room.
Has AC outlets, USB outlets, Ethernet connection.
If he had all the money he had spent on ammo and guns over the years he could have paid his bills and had a good credit rating and a home years ago. He will never understand. Luckily for both of us I know better than to try to explain.
I told the Pastor after the service "Fear is a lair. It's not what your creator wants you to experience. If you truly have faith what is there for you to be scared of?" I could tell he was like "Wow somebody gets it."
Nich told him he liked his music because he wasn't afraid to be himself and it inspired him. He told nich that to not be true to who you know yourself to be is where the pain comes from.
Glad we went even if it was on four hours sleep and my knees hurting lol.
Seriously, it was great.
The Flaming Lips are an American rock band formed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1983. Instrumentally, their sound contains lush, multi-layered, psychedelic rockarrangements, but lyrically their compositions show elements of space rock,
including unusual song and album titles—such as "What Is the Light? (An
Untested Hypothesis Suggesting That the Chemical [In Our Brains] by
Which We Are Able to Experience the Sensation of Being in Love Is the
Same Chemical That Caused the "Big Bang" That Was the Birth of the
Accelerating Universe)". They are also acclaimed for their elaborate
live shows, which feature costumes, balloons, puppets, video
projections, complex stage light configurations, giant hands, large
amounts of confetti, and frontman Wayne Coyne's signature man-sized plastic bubble, in which he traverses the audience. In 2002, Q magazine named The Flaming Lips one of the "50 Bands to See Before You Die."
The band is best known for its associations with 1960s and 1970s psychedelic subculture,
with elements of this culture permeating the group's instrumentation,
effects, and composition. Coyne's lyrics, in particular, both reference
and embody the fascination with the science fiction and space opera genres of fiction that were popular during the golden age of psychedelic subculture.[1]
His lyrical style tends to use the imagery and plot conventions of
space opera to frame more abstract themes about the unfolding cycles of
romantic love, highlighting its vulnerability while delving into its
metaphysical implications.[1]
The group recorded several albums and EPs on an indie label, Restless, in the 1980s and early 1990s. After signing to Warner Brothers, they scored a hit in 1993 with "She Don't Use Jelly".
Although it has been their only hit single in the U.S., the band has
maintained critical respect and, to a lesser extent, commercial
viability through albums such as 1999's The Soft Bulletin (which was NME magazine's Album of the Year) and 2002's Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. They have had more hit singles in the UK and Europe than in the U.S. In February 2007, they were nominated for a 2007 BRIT Award in the "Best International Act" category. By 2007, the group garnered three Grammy Awards, including two for Best Rock Instrumental Performance.
I like the Yoshimi battles the Pink Robots record a lot. This song is from it.
So after the show we get back to Janet's' after the great cell phone charger fiasco mess and Nichs been in the mosh pit and he says "I gotta take a shower." She has one downstairs where we both slept. He looked in the mirror and said "Do you wanna take a picture of my hair?" I looked over at him laughed and said yeah...when I recovered from laughing I told him he looked like Robert Smith of the Cure,,,"Who?" he asked. I showed a young lady both pictures while we were waiting in line at the record store to meet The Flaming Lips lead singer. Nicholas just said..."I hate you..." and we all laughed.
Songs awesome. Great intro, first lyrics really get stuck in your head easy. Great keyboard and guitar parts...The Cure featuring Nich...No I mean with Robert Smith.
"Show me how you do that trick
The one that makes me scream" she said
"The one that makes me laugh" she said
And threw her arms around my neck
"Show me how you do it
And I promise you I promise that
I'll run away with you
I'll run away with you..."
"Never trust a cheeseburger you can't take the bun off of."
"Never trust a rock-n-roll band that can't play at least five Chuck Berry songs."
"Satisfying more desperate housewives than the spin cycle."
"she's not drunk, she's just mean!"
"swampadelic!!!"
"We self medicate the depression that is a direct result of the obsessive compulsiveness"
"what's crackalackin?"
"Your curse is my blessing"
Quotes from the 09 WC Handy Blues Fest
"We're an army and we're growing"
"Thats award winnin strutin' right there"
"That's shakin' it like the pros do"
"It's just Jimi passin' by"
"I walked in the door and saw hubert and my old lady doing the funky chicken right down in the middle of the floor"
"I spent $500 to save you $300, thats almost half off"
"I hate loud music, blues music and Heat"
"I don't know, that might be Jimi and Stevie"
"I don't buy enough shit to try and talk people down to start with"
"as long as you don't have that 38 it's all cool!"
People Of The WC Handy Blues fest
Ol' Dancin' Couple
Freaky Lookin' Dude
Mother and Daughter
Purple Hat Lady
Old Soldier
Got Grey Hair Now Duse
Subnet.com People
T- Shirt Guy
Quotes from "Porch Night Out"
"...are there any ding dongs left?..."
"...are those the Cheetos?...
"...can a brother get a lil ananimity?..."
"What was I supposed to be writing?..."
"YEAH!!......I'm sorry what?..."
"...there aint no dope on Bowling Green..."
"...somebodys got to drive my fat ass to Philpot..."
"...snapper shit..."
"...18 to 80, blind, crippled, or crazy..."
"...higher than a hippie on a helicopter ride..."
"...Whiskey Dicked..."
Quotes from Bowling Green Trip
Andrew, "Look a trailer with Christmas lights on it". "Thats not a trailer, thats a school bus!, and it doesn't have Christmas lights on it", Dave
Andrew, "Is the computer on?". "No you have to turn it on for it to be on", NA
"Well, it is getting toward wintertime", NA on Big breasted women.
"She wont get horny, she'll just get pissed off", BC
"Now do you want to smoke paper or do you want to smoke...", NA
"I'm squinting, everything s blurry..."Andrew
"I might just gateway across the spectrum", Dave
Overheard in Hancocok County
Criminal Girl, "oh shit, that wasn't the ash can!, that was my purse!!, Preacher Man, "If you go messing around with a skunk, you ought naught be surprised when you end up a little smelly.""If your clean, you aint eating it right", guy eating barbq.Country Boy, "I think those jerks on first shift were trying to poison us."Country Boys' Date, "Well, you didn't have to eat it now did you?"Country Boy, "But it was pizza". Big Guy to Clerk: "look at me, does it look like I want cheese sauce?"Overheard from phone: "Why the hell are you watching that?" Reply "Because it's on." Country Boy, "She got fired for doing some guy in the parking lot. Typical Tell City Chick..." Country Boy, "It done dried!"
Overheard at Work
"Has anybody seen the hemostats?"
"How are you?" "I'm doing well. It's early."
"I aint in any hurry."
"I am the queen of 8:15"
"I don't care if she takes over a Russian satalite with it..."
"I don't know anything, I'm just a suit"
"I plan on being reasonably functional for most of the day"
"I tried to reformat it, but it takes a frigin' act of congress or somethin'..."
"I'm like a brownie at a weight watchers meeting, I'm gone..."
"I'm not their boss, and I'm not their moma..."
"It would help to have your mouse over the link, yes..."
"It's a vortex of evil down there"
"It's not that I'm not listening to you, it's that I am having trouble comprehending you"
"Just click it with your mouth."
"Man, it's fried", "Like chicken..."
"The only thing I'm handy with is a doughnut"
"Why don't you go troubleshoot a Network Printer or something?"
"You are starting to scare me with your new found caffinefreeness..."
"You might not want to mess with me, I have a bladder infection"
Great Music Quotes
"If they wanted to name rock-n-roll something else, they could have called it Chuck Berry", John Lennon."Tune low and play hard", Stevie Ray Vaughn "What do I want a pick for, I got five of them on my hand." Gatemouth Brown "The Grateful Dead should be sponsored by the government -- a public service." Jerry Garcia "Rhythm is something you either have or you don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over." Elvis Presley "Free your mind and your ass will follow." George Clinton
Great Guitarists
Jimi Hendrix, Chuck Berry, Tab Benoit, SRV, Pete Townshend, Eddie Van Halen, Pete Anderson, Steve Cropper, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, James Burton, Ron Wood, Jimmy Page, Keith Richards, Carlos Santana, Freddie King, Albert King, B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, Robert Cray, Prince, The Edge, Duane Allman, Dickey Betts, Slash, Joe Walsh, Joe Lewis Walker, Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, Kim Thayil, Albert Collins, Lonnie Mack, Buddy Guy, Bonnie Rait, "Gatemouth" Brown, Johnny Winter, Tinsley Ellis, Lightnin Hopkins, Jimmy Reed, Robert Johnson, T-Bone Walker, Tommy Castro, Hubert Sumlin, Tom Morello, Elmore James, Brian Jones, Jeff Beck, Mike Campbell, Steve Via...
Great Keyboardists
Jerry Lee Lewis,
Little Richard,
Johnie Johnson,
Booker T. Jones,
Ray charles,
Billy Preston,
Fats Domino,
Roy Bittan,
Pinetop Perkins,
Bernie Worrell,
Benmont Tench,
Sly Stone
Great Bass Players
Duck Dunn, Jaco Pastorius, John Entwistle, John Paul Jones, Bill Wyman, Jack Bruce, Robbie Shakespear,
Bootsy Collins, Tony Levine, Willie Dixon, Les Claypool, Noel Redding, Flea, Adam Clayton
2 Turtles, (1 released, I think it was a she and she was preggers) 4 Frogs (1 of them a Tree Frog, 1 of them about as big as thr tip of my index finger), 2 salamanders, countless worms and lightning bugs, 1 big ugly lookin' thing with wings on it...