Chocolate City
Chocolate City is Parliament song from 1975. Suddenly, Ray Nagin makes sense. And my African-American friends are looking at me like I’m retarded, because everyone knows what he was talking about.
I am so white.
Institutionalized
Sometimes I try to do things and it just doesn’t work out the way I wanted to.
I get real frustrated and I try hard to do it and I take my time and it doesn’t work out the way I wanted to.
It’s like I concentrate real hard and it doesn’t work out
Everything I do and everything I try never turns out
It’s like I need time to figure these things out
But there’s always someone there going
Four Things Meme
Four Jobs I’ve Had
- Public Library Page
- Assembly Worker of Industrial Gas Shut-off Valves
- Chicken Restaurant Cooking Staff
- Website Designer
Four Movies I Can Watch Over and Over
- Auntie Mame
- The Wizard of Oz
- Southpark: Bigger, Longer, Uncut
- Much Ado About Nothing
Four Places I’ve Lived
- Ankeny, Iowa
- Canton, Ohio
- Muncie, Indiana
- Indianapolis, Indiana
Four TV Shows I Love
- Veronica Mars
- Lost
- Gilmore Girls
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Four Places I’ve Been On Holiday
- Munster, Germany
- Luray Caverns, Virginia
- Chicago, Illinois
- New York City
Four of My Favorite Dishes
- Lasagna
- Pizza
- Fried Chicken
Four Sites I Visit Daily
- Flickr
Four Places I Would Rather Be Now
- At home in bed
- New York
- In the car on a roadtrip
- London
Four Bloggers I Am Tagging
- Stephanie
- Anyone else
What I’m listening to: Rolf Is a Nazi
Rolf Is a Nazi: A SongFight Tribute to The Sound of Music
Glitter and Twang does a cover tribute of the Sound of Music soundtrack. mp3s available at the link.
Melissa Etheridge and other cool stuff
My friend Amy gave me Greatest Hits: The Road Less Traveled by Melissa Etheridge a few weeks ago. I’ve been listening to it, but didn’t get around to paying attention to some of the new tunes on it until this week. There’s a very beautiful song called “This Is Not Goodbye” about going into surgery and having a loved one sitting in the waiting room for you. Thank God we didn’t hear that frickin’ song earlier in the year. I can’t even listen to it now. It’s a great song, but still.
Also, check out this awesome Library of Congress photo gallery of color pictures taken between 1939 and 1943. There are some fantastic photos there, like this one. You can see even more of the photos taken by the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection at this link, though, and although it’s not as easy to navigate, you can find the high-resolution images.
A really cool video on how to perfectly fold a shirt. I’m so going home to practice this one.
Cool new board games for 2005. There are some on here I really want. I looked at “Around the World in 80 Days” and “Ingenious” at Game Preserve the other day, and they made my want list. I’m adding “Shadows Over Camelot” to the list, too.
AirTran/Wendy’s Free Flight offer: for 32 flight coupons, get a 1 way ticket, 64 coupons get a round-trip ticket. You get a coupon on every Wendy’s drink cup. Pretty awesome.
PaperbackSwap is a way to exchange paperbacks with other folks. You send paperbacks to others, and get credit to have them send some to you.
The straight dude’s guide to ‘Brokeback Mountain.’
From Uncommon Goods:
gorilla pillows – $40.00
sock monkey slippers – $15.00
monkeys on the bed – $26.00
write no evil pen holder – $75.00
FREUDIAN SLIPPERS – $24.00
Hucklebuck
One of my cats is named Huckleberry, but I frequently shorten his name or call him some variation on that, like Huck, or Hucklebuck. I had no idea that hucklebuck is a word that other people use, though. Today I happened to be reading about the Flickr photo of Shaving Cream that was mysteriously changing gender and noticed someone in the comments section said “so you maybe have ended up being additionally hucklebucked by…”
A quick Google search later, and I now know there was a 1949 R&B song by Paul Williams, that lead to a risque dance craze, a Blues band, a sexual term (didn’t look at that link, might not be SFW) a font face, a DJ, and a term meaning “to be hoodwinked or fooled.” And there’s a musical called “Dancehall Qs and Hucklebuck Shoes”
Who knew?
I’ve seen things, I’ve seen them with my eyes…
Mike needs to stop sending me to sites that have songs that I can’t get out of my head once they’re there, like this site.
Thanks to Audio Hijack, I now have the song as an mp3.
Free Bird!!
Source: Wall Street Journal: “Rock’s Oldest Joke: Yelling ‘Freebird!’ In a Crowded Theater”
A history of the phenomenon of people shouting “Freebird!” at concerts. The best part is the last paragraph, where Lynyrd Skynyrd band member Johnny Van Sant admits he’s done it himself at a Cher concert.
Memesville
I haven’t been able to post lately, because I have been sicker than a dog. I’m still sick, but I’m at work anyway, because I have to get some stuff done. Anyway, courtesy of Lisa at Another Pink World, here’s a meme for you.
1. Total amount of music files on your computer?
0 files on computer. Files at home on my music server: 22,330 songs. 62.1 days, 97.53 GB.
2. The last CD you bought was…
on iTunes: Nina Simone: Anthology. On CD: Loretta Lynn, Van Lear Rose.
3. What was the last song you listened to before reading this message?
The Secret Machines /Pharoah’s Daughter
4. Write down five songs you often listen to or that mean a lot to you.
1) I’d Like That/XTC
2) Good Things/Bodeans
3) Subterranean Homesick Blues/Bob Dylan
4) Bus Stop/The Hollies
5) Dream A Little Dream of Me/Mama Cass
5. What 3 people are you going to pass this baton to and why?
Eh, anyone who happens to read this and wants to answer. My friends don’t all have blogs.
My Top 10 Favorite Love Songs
I realize I’m going to get torn to shreds by my fellow Indyscribers for the utter cheesy sappiness of this post, but I don’t care. It’s Valentine’s Day, I’m in love, and someone actually loves me back. The confluence of those three conditions is rare, so I choose to wallow in the spectacular sickening sweetness of it all, because, hey this never happens to me. Here are my top 10 favorite love songs.
10. Crimson and Clover – Joan Jett
Because that guitar rocks.
9. Set the Prairie On Fire – Shawn Colvin
A lush, scorching song about the intoxication of sex that never once mentions the word.
8. It’s Only A Paper Moon – Ella Fitzgerald with The Delta Rhythm Boys
A depression-era song about how the transforming power of love can make even the poorest folks rich.
7. Wonderful! Wonderful! – Johnny Mathis
The “heavenly choir” background chorus is so over the top that I couldn’t possibly leave it off my list.
6. On the Street Where You Live – Andy Williams
One of those songs you want to sing on a public street, when you feel like shouting how you feel to the entire planet, possibly while dancing around lightposts in the rain and making an complete spectacle of yourself.
5. Good Things – Bodeans
The lyrics may sound like the singer is pleading his case, but the delivery makes it clear he knows that they’ll be together.
4. Bus Stop – The Hollies
An unconventional, trippy sixties love tune that celebrates the spontaneity and unexpectedness of love.
3. A Kiss to Build a Dream On – Louis Armstrong
That low rumbling voice is classic.
2. Dream a Little Dream of Me – Mama Cass
“And now to sing this lovely ballad, here is Mama Cass.” A simple, quiet, haunting song that needs nothing extra to express the power of love.
1. Head Over Heels – The Go-Gos
Because it was featured in the sweet movie “13 Going on 30” where we went on our second first date. It’s light, fun and probably describes our relationship better than any other.
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