I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Woohoo.
Time for us to take to the streets.
Damn you again mer (and Buck Fush!)
Hai keeba!
Good Morning....
...Fuck Bush!
fifth.
I heard the "Vagina Mary of the Underpass" is no more. In Memorium
Still shakin' the bush, boss....
Golly, I hope our soon-to-be nobel prize econotrolls come up here and straighten us all out on the wonders of the service economy some more!
The Republican Party was born from the wreckage of the American Party (read that as the Know Nothing Party), they haven't changed at all in the intervening 155 years.
I wonder if a case could be made the the Republican National Committee is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the American taxpayers under the Terms of RICO?
274,000 people got crappy jobs in april! woo hoo! surplus by 2007, baby!!
Time for us to take to the streets.
anyone up for Mad-As-Hell Mondays?
Meet downtown at lunch and scream "Fuck Bush"
"Mecca, bitches!"
Hackworth is dead. On the one hand, he was an intelligent critic of the Iraq fiasco. On the other hand, he is allegedly the "expert" who authenticated the CBS Burkett memo.
it's friday, do you know where your bush boom is, holden?
Whatever happend to space chimp Ham?
I'm out there, Jerry, and I'm lovin' every minute of it!
spinoza, you make me laugh. I like you for that. It rare lately for me to laugh.
kenosha kid, re:hackworth
as i said on an earlier thread
david hackworth, soldier, self-promoter, bullshitter, patriot, and all around good egg. may he rest in peace.
For some reason, I have the Dead Milkmen's "Gorilla Girl" playing in my head this morning. Some byproduct of having to hear about Lump's comic repartee and W.'s animal husbandry activities, no doubt. Won't somebody help me?
Whatever happend to space chimp Ham?
Dead
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Hey y'all--
Just to inform you that I will be taking off for Spain (Madrid in particular) pretty damn soon. It is also probable that I will be offered a job at UCM (Universidad Complutense Madrid) which is, frankly, my dream job.
Anyway, because of where I will be at least initially (camping in Asturias, drinking Sidra, getting goofy with cave paintings), I will be away from the internets.
Have a wild blast and keep the fundies at bay for me, will ya?
Love,
people worshipping damp concrete just another example of this country going batshit crazy.
SWEEEEEEEET!
Yesterday I sent an email to msnbc.com about their insulting headline about Gore getting an award for 3 decades of contriubution to the internet. Their headline was something along the lines of "Al Gore to receive award for creation of internet...really!" Well, today, they have changed the headline.
This has actually happened before: when something about Bush's drug use came out a few months ago, they had an online poll asking if the allegations lowered our opinion of the chump. I wrote in saying that it was a ridiculous poll since it didn't capture the sentiment of people who already had a low opinion of him, nor did it capture the sentiment of Pro-Bush potheads (are there any?) who would only find it cooler that he really was a druggie. In any case, my reasoning was much more detailed than what I just said, but that afternoon, they changed the wording of the poll.
Point being? Sometimes, even if the letter doesn't get printed, changes happen. So, keep up the hard work of making the press accountable.
Lieberman was on the radio this morning in CT....defending Bolton and declining to defend Dean. I can't wait for the primary.
Hackworth kicked the bucket?
Damn, I need to get out more,
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Getting goofy with cave paintings? Do link to your findings when you can return to posting.
chica toxica sez:
It is also probable that I will be offered a job at UCM (Universidad Complutense Madrid) which is, frankly, my dream job.
Yay, chica!!!
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mmmmm...damp concrete...aaggg. aaagggg, aaaaggggla...
Gaggle...
...sound.
[Yes, this is the comment in which Holden attempts the rare double-blogwhore with an Arabesque. Eat your tiny heart out, Shannon Miller.]
well i might be gone a long, long time
-chica tojica/bob dylan
NO MONEY FOR ARMOR ?
Of the nearly 2,700 Marine Corps Humvees in Iraq, fewer than 500 -- that's less than 18 percent -- are fully armored, while the Marines have suffered some of the highest casualty rates, in some of the most intensive combat of the war.
In fact, a Government Accountability Office report issued last month found that the Army failed to increase production of fully armored Humvees, in part because it didn't have the enough money at hand to pay for it.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7752483/
(Ah yes, more tax cuts for the Rich & Corporate, that's what we need)
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I have the Dead Milkmen's "Gorilla Girl" playing in my head this morning..... Won't somebody help me?
How's about swapping it out for "Seasons in the Sun" by Terri Jacks?
(Laughs sinister laugh)
GD MRNNG!
MPCH BSH!
FCK BSH!
FCK TH YNKS!
HV 
NC DY!
But, but, spork...what happened to Laika the Space Dog?
[big eyes, welling with tears]
Thanks, Spork. Ham was a hell of little chimp, wasn't he? That shoots down my theory that he became W, though.
Chica,
Take me with you!
mccain = total whore liar
via drudge:
Assessing Kerry's odds in the June issue of Men's Journal, McCain said, ``I think it would be difficult for John, for the same reason it's hard for all candidates who don't succeed.''
He said he spurned Kerry's overtures last year to become his running mate. While the position ``was never officially offered,'' McCain said they discussed it during ``three chats'' despite his being ``not interested from the beginning.'' Asked why Kerry continued to pursue him, McCain said, ``You'll have to ask him that.'' McCain, who campaigned for President Bush last year, praised GOP efforts but added, ``I also don't think Kerry ran a very good race . . . At the Democratic convention, I can't tell you anything they did besides say, `Reporting for duty.' ''
http://news.bostonherald.com/
pol...articleid=81928
I'm listening to NTodd now, Holden.
Betcha our little troll doesn't dare.
chica toxica,
my jealousy of your trip knows no bounds. Good luck with the trip, job, and gander a bit at some fine ancient art on my account, if you please.
If you are allowed to take pictures, please share when you make a return to these fine internets.
As far as the Fundy's are concerned, we'll do our best.
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"people worshipping damp concrete is just another example of this country going batshit crazy."
-the old man from scene 24
they have weeds in their minds.
i mean flowers. did i say weeds? i meant flowers.
Anything is better than "Seasons in the Sun." Except "Me and You and a Dog Named Boo," of course. Yes, it hurt me as much to type as you to read that.
I'm listening to NTodd now, Holden.
It'll stunt your growth!
chica toxica ~
Congratulations! Here's to following your dreams!
Anyone care for a little paranoia in the morning? This might feed a little bit of that. It concerns the National ID.
"In reality, this bill is a Trojan horse," said Paul, the Republican congressman. "It pretends to offer desperately needed border control in order to stampede Americans into sacrificing what is uniquely American: our constitutionally protected liberty."
http://www.randomfate.net/archiv...ves/
001229.html
There is the link.
In fact, a Government Accountability Office report issued last month found that the Army failed to increase production of fully armored Humvees, in part because it didn't have the enough money at hand to pay for it.
Maybe they should look at the back-end at how much they would save in artificial limbs, rehab costs and service related disability payments.
You'll shoot your eye out, kid.
But, but, spork...what happened to Laika the Space Dog?
IIRC, Laika was just left up there to die.
[big eyes, welling with tears]
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If you are allowed to take pictures, please share when you make a return to these fine internets.
not a chance of taking pics but I may have access to others'. I'll see what I can do.
Anyway, because of where I will be at least initially (camping in Asturias, drinking Sidra, getting goofy with cave paintings), I will be away from the internets.
Have a wild blast and keep the fundies at bay for me, will ya?
Love,
chica toxica
Awesome! If I remember correctly, there is an internet cafe on every street corner of that city. You can't escape the Eschaton.
mccain = total whore liar
sky = blue
And yet, some of my family even clings to the idea of McCain as some sort of straight-shooting maverick. Bastard.
NTodd, thanks for adding me to the gallery. Quite a compliment to "belong" with the others in there.
NTodd has flowers in his mind.
Thanks, Spork. Ham was a hell of little chimp, wasn't he? That shoots down my theory that he became W, though. -B1 Bummer
Heh, don't believe the cover story. [/tinfoil hattery
chimpanse exposed to excessive cosmic radiation = Little Bitch George? Works for me.
But, but, spork...what happened to Laika the Space Dog?
[big eyes, welling with tears]
abyssgazer | Email | Homepage
She also inspired the greatest
instrumental rock band in the
world, Finland's astounding
Laika and the Cosmonauts.
How's about swapping it out for "Seasons in the Sun" by Terri Jacks?
(Laughs sinister laugh)
Central Scrutinizer | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 11:15 am |
Or Fuck, Yeah!
i kinda like "me and you and a dog named boo". if that seasons in the sun thing is the one i remember that is one of the worst songs ever.
i thought the dog was named "blue".
Chica,
Take me with you!
spinoza
what will I tell my husband?
Do you have any skills?
B1B,
Don't forget "Billy, don't be a hero", which IMHO is the peak of Pop suckiness.
Anything is better than "Seasons in the Sun." Except "Me and You and a Dog Named Boo," of course. Yes, it hurt me as much to type as you to read that.
B1 Bummer | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 11:18 am | #
But is either really worse than "Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast"?
Chica Toxica:
What's Spanish for bon voyage?
Durn - what's going thru my head at the moment (with all the talk about Shania) is "Soak Up the Sun" by Miz Twain. It was part of the muzak loop whenever I was on a flight by Virgin Atlantic.
I though Laika's capsule was allowed to re-enter and burn. Oh well. Shows how screwed up everything is, either way, as if we needed more proof.
Do you have any skills?
chica toxica | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 11:22 am | #
You know, archery skills, nunchuck skills, computer hacking skills?
Oh, and we'll miss ya, chica toxica!
it's friday, do you know where your bush boom is, holden?
NTodd
It's right here [WARNING: Not entirely worksafe].
Can't be worse than the noxious "The Night Chicago Died" by Paper Lace: contrary to its lyrics, there is NO "East Side of Chicago."
chica - Oh how lovely it all sounds. I hope you get your dream job, I really do.
Watch some flamenco for me - my foolish desire is to be a flamenco dancer.
Woohoo, tax credits for private schools were defeated in South Carolina! Destruction of public schools avoided.
Chica,
Take me with you!
spinoza
what will I tell my husband?
Do you have any skills?
Uh, well I have some friends who would be skilled at distracting your husband while you taught me enough Spanish to make intimate conversation like, "Dear, those cave paintings are so retro cro magnon."
Lieberman was on the radio this morning in CT....defending Bolton and declining to defend Dean. I can't wait for the primary.
none |-- 11:13 am
ummmmmmm, one suggestion: if you can get close enough, PTMDAS©*
*Push The Mutherfocker Down A Stairwell™
i have to listen to "spanish boots of spanish leather" by bob dylan in honor of chica tojica leaving for spain.
Don't worry, crossing out Ham just narrows the field! We're down to either J. Fred Muggs or Lancelot Link! Get your bets in now, kids.
I though Laika's capsule was allowed to re-enter and burn. Oh well. Shows how screwed up everything is, either way, as if we needed more proof.
B1 Bummer | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 11:24 am | #
According to my cursory google search, this is right. They're not sure whether or not Laika was still alive when her capsule hit the atmosphere--telemetry had failed, and the oxygen supply should have been exhausted.
On a very slightly related note, a group named Laika makes some really excellent electronic music.
IIRC, Laika was just left up there to die.
No, no, no. I'm sure she's OK. Probably a little bored by now.
Santy Claus feeds her once a year on his rounds. Yes, I'm sure of it.
Ummm.. From defensetech.org, quoting Armchair generalist:
Over lunch on the first day of the conference a representative from the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defence for Public Affairs discussed strategies to counteract critical viewpoints of the non-lethal weapons programme in the media. She encouraged those present to keep repeating a positive message particularly when there was a negative story published, and not to shy away from commenting. If there was negative coverage about an important programme that could be derailed by the general public or congress then they would ‘really go after them’, she said. She indicated that officials would give increased information access to ‘bread and butter military journalists’ as opposed to the ‘60 minutes type journalists’ in return for more positive coverage. She also advocated a strategy of targeting military analysts working for various news media and getting them on message. She admitted, however, that they ‘still don’t know how to handle the bloggers’.
Screw the last sentence, everyone is crowing about the last sentence, but look at the stuff I bolded. Non-lethal weapons programs are so controversial. Remember that horrible situation in the Moscow theater a while back? That was an implementation of a "non-lethal" programme.
The story from the Armchair Generalist is here, and the report he quotes is here.
Wow. So they admit this stuff, and no one cares?
Good luck, Chica Toxica. Our nukular family is presently looking for work in the vicinity of the Catsass Inn, North Cadbury, Somerset. Cross your fingers for us also.
"Afternoon Delight." Pay up.
Soft petals in my mind.....
Fucking haloscan. I closed that tag you fucking bastard.
[Yes, this is the comment in which Holden attempts the rare double-blogwhore with an Arabesque. Eat your tiny heart out, Shannon Miller.]
As NTodd spins his rolodex, looking for Tonya Harding's phone number...
B1Bummer:
That bastard J. Fred Muggs actually
bit me once. At a New Jersey state
fair back in the 50s.
not a chance of taking pics
I figured that might be the case. Whatever you can share will be appreciated.
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A short musical emetica compendium
Judy in Disguise
Yummy, yummy, yummy, I got love in my tummy
Tall Paul (anything Annette Funnicello)
These Boots Were Made for Walking
Tramps and Thieves
Muskrat Love
pop suckiness=
S-A-
T-U-R
D-A-Y
NIGHT!
by the bay city rollers.
yeah, i know.
sky=blue
ITS MORNING ONCE AGAIN IN AMERICA IM SO PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN WHERE THE LEAST I KNOW IM FREE
THE JOBS NUMBERS ARE UP TRAMENDOUSLY AND SO IS THE FUTURE OF THIS GREAT COUTNRY THANKS TO THE TAX CUST AND THE LEADERSHIP OF THIS PRESIDENT
IM FLYING MY FLAG AT FULL STAFF TODAY
int argc, I just love you. Love your pic.
You are polite, intelligent, and gracious, and those are such inspiring and positive traits in a young man.
I just had to say that.
IIRC, Laika was just left up there to die.
Lakia was the Terry Schiavo of space dogs. Damn those activist Soviet space judges!
FUCK BUSH AND HIS JESUS-LICKING SUPPORTERS
Good luck, Chica Toxica. Our nukular family is presently looking for work in the vicinity of the Catsass Inn, North Cadbury, Somerset. Cross your fingers for us also.
Bon chance, chica toxica!
See, I'm multilingual.
what will I tell my husband?
Do you have any skills?
chica toxica --11:22 am
tell him i have no skills at all (just to keep hiim off balance), so i'd just be the perfect supernumerary, factotum and general satrap...send me for the luggage, the 'pan,' the cervesa, the caviche, anything...
anything...please!!!!
Lieberman was on the radio this morning in CT....defending Bolton and declining to defend Dean. I can't wait for the primary.
Stop it! Joementum is a fool and a whore. What was Al Gore thinking?
Sounds like W to me! Little biting shit!
IM FLYING MY FLAG AT FULL STAFF TODAY
Merkin Patriot | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 11:29 am | #
Oh, god, for some reason I just thought of the General's Spermatozoan-American Cavalry.
wÒÓ†,
that booby looks like it was in the middle of a conversation and suddenly heard Tony Blair use the word "mandate."
It'll stunt your growth!
Uh oh. I'm only 5'1" as it is.
Anyway, enough of this. Off to graduation. Feels kind of bittersweet really. My babies are all growed up.
Have a wonderful day, everyone.
Yeah, are you pretty good with a bo staff?
chica-
Good luck, and don't forget to send us back some boots of Spanish Leather (obligatory obscure Dylan reference).
See, I'm multilingual.
Ah come on, Watertiger. Who do you think you are, some character in a Balzac novel?
IM FLYING MY FLAG AT FULL STAFF TODAY
Fianlly got that Viagra scrip, huh?
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Crap.
Olaf beat me to it.
That's what I get for not reading the thread first.
Congrats, little ol' pie. Give the grad a (((hug)))
Follow your dreams, chica mi hermana.
Oh, and is NTodd still here?
How come you cut off my head on the Atriot's page? I'll have you know that was my high school graduation photo and I'm quite proud of it.
Hey pie ~
Have fun! It's a great day to be proud! (Watching my daughter blossom has been bittersweet ~ I understand the emotion.)
Heart is out to you!
Do you have any skills?
chica toxica
The question that has stopped me dead at every job interview.
Foiled again!
Uh oh. I'm only 5'1" as it is.
pie
Well, when NTodd post your photo he won't have to cut off your head then, will he.
listening to it right now, rmj
I JUST CHECKED WITH THE REAL AMERICANS POSTING AT FREEREPULBIC.COM (CHECK IT OUT) AND THERE TELLING ME THE EURO IS WAY WAY DOWN HA HA HA HA EUROWEENIES I BET ATRIOSIOS ISNT GOING TO COMMENT ON THAT IS HE
ALSO THE BOYCOTT AGAINST FRANCE IS RUNIIING FULLS PEED AHEAD AND ITS HITTING THEM WHERE IT HURST
Congrats to you and your fam, pie!
How come you cut off my head on the Atriot's page? I'll have you know that was my high school graduation photo and I'm quite proud of it.
If NTodd isn't still here: Holden, click on the thumbnail to get the whole thing.
You look darling, BTW.
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Anyway, enough of this. Off to graduation. Feels kind of bittersweet really. My babies are all growed up.
Have a wonderful day, everyone.
pie -- 11:31 am
take care o'yoreownself...i have a friend who went through a triple shot of empty-nest last year and it near knocked her out: triplets, all graduating and leaving home simultaneously...left her pretty shaken...so be careful of your heart...
just sayin...
IM FLYING MY FLAG AT FULL STAFF TODAY
Er, you're supposed to fly your flag at full staff every day you fly flag.
geez, Vicki, thank you
I'm blushin' over here.
It's really nice to hear that from one of my favorite fellow posters. It's no wonder the trolls always take after you, you have so much to say.
NTodd is a great, great person. Now I don't even have to wait until September to see what all you brilliant people look like!
bo and Olaf: Damn you. I'm going to boil some pasta now and pick out the longest noodle I can find to give you each 50 lashes for putting that Bay City Rollers song in my head.
Ah, fight fire with fire.
We had joy we had fun we had seasons in the sun......
Sky rockets in flight, afternoon delight....
Holden,
If you double click on your NTodd picture, your head is included.
How come you cut off my head on the Atriot's page? I'll have you know that was my high school graduation photo and I'm quite proud of it.
Holden Caulfield - 11:34 am
Come on. You weren't using it anyway.
spork_incident -
I'm down with the thumbnail (got this interweb thingy all figured out), but on the main page it looks like he's entranced with my crotch.
I thunk Ntod is a chicken chit.
i still say the best lookin gal in that atriots album is the one standing behind f'ing librule. to his right. just lovely.
listening to it right now, rmj
Olaf glad and big
Turn it up. Gotta drown out this '70's crap these guys keep stirring in my memory!
Oh for a '70's music memory purge!
Chica, best of luck! We'll miss your shiny self around these parts.
Eschatonian comings and goings. I got here in late 2003/early 2004, I think. Who's been here the longest?
see, i never knew that was Bay City Rollers song; I always wondered why they were famous when I couldnt name a single song of theirs. Now I know. It is annoying.
fwiw, I found out who does that great song (in my opinion, anyway) that the Ali G show uses for Bruno.
IM FLYING MY FLAG AT FULL STAFF TODAY
Remember. If your flag stays at full staff for more than 4 hours, seek medical attention.
but on the main page it looks like he's entranced with my crotch.
Who isn't?
[ewww]
Eschatonian comings and goings. I got here in late 2003/early 2004, I think. Who's been here the longest?
Athenae | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 11:39 am | #
Not I, although I didn't realize that I had been reading almost as long as you! I arrived in Feb. 2004, although I lurked for the first few months.
I still miss America's Nemesis.
to his left, i mean. right side of the frame.
Buena suerte chica tóxica, que te vaya bien...
bo-
I think THese boots are made for walking is a great song.
But this one made me laugh:
Yummy, yummy, yummy, I got love in my tummy
If you ever get too much "love" in your tummy (don't laugh, it happens by George), a good remedy is to
Put the lime in the coconut and shake it all up.
Who's been here the longest?
Athenae = 11:39 am
not i...it's only been about a year for me...
time flies* when you're enjoying yourself, though, doncha think???
*Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a melon...
Gratuitous blogwhore....
Athenae sez:
Who's been here the longest?
I got here when Lott had his segregation moment. When was that? 12/02?
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Eschatonian comings and goings. I got here in late 2003/early 2004, I think. Who's been here the longest?
Athenae | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 11:39 am | #
2002-03 for me. I was mostly in lurk mode tho.
HOLDEN!!!!!!
That was uncalled for. I think I'll skip lunch now.
Gotta go. See y'all tommorow.
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Athenae - I arrived shortly after the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Spring of 2003.
I lurked for a while, started posting sporadically in January or February 2004, and then became addicted by late Spring, early Summer 2004.
bye, spork
Off and on since about '02, '03. First found it when theregister.co.uk first posted a report about the "stalking" lawsuit. Time flies* indeed.
*preferably with one of those infra-red gates and a good stopwatch
OK, I keed, I like him. I was just trying to have some fun getting him riled. Apparently, he split. Couldn't take the heat and all, I guess.
This might bother some, but I would like to nominate "Crocodile Rock" as one of the most idiotic songs of all time. It seems to get overlooked, probably because Sir Elton wrote some good tunes around the same time.
Eschatonian comings and goings. I got here in late 2003/early 2004, I think. Who's been here the longest?
Athenae | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 11:39 am | #
I think I've been around longer. Though I come and go like the wind *shshshshhooooeushoshoshooowhhwhshshoo* I'm not sure when I started posting under this name though. I'll have to look into the HD on my oldest computer, I used to save posts and comment threads to disk.
but I would like to nominate "Crocodile Rock" as one of the most idiotic songs of all time
I agree! I do not like that tune.
i've been here for a while. it wasn't that crowded back then. we didn't have all this riffraff. if strom thurmond had been elected president in '48 we wouldn't have all these problems today.
Off and on since about '02, '03. First found it when theregister.co.uk first posted a report about the "stalking" lawsuit. Time flies* indeed.
*preferably with one of those infra-red gates and a good stopwatch
TheaLogie, Respected Overlord | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 11:44 am | #
I'd forgotten when that happened. If that was when it was then I've been around quite a bit longer than that.
I've been here long enough to remember when 65 comments was considered BIG.
The worst part is the watery "la-lalalala-la" part. Real teeth grinder, that one.
But I still feel NTods presence. It's still there.
Oh I've been here since at least the mid 90s.
i actually like "crocodile rock" even though it is stupid as hell. i never listen to it though. if i were going to listen to elton john i would listen to "honky cat" that's a good song.
You know, there was so much bad music in the 70s made by people like Mac Davis, Helen Reddy, Jerry Reed---I could go on--and they all had their own variety shows on TV.
It was the golden age of painfully bad entertainment.
He's still there.
but I would like to nominate "Crocodile Rock" as one of the most idiotic songs of all time
I agree! I do not like that tune.
Oh, Lord, will you please stop with the bad music?!?!?!?
I've got a head full of that stuff and it takes a lot of work suppressing it and I don't have an alternative music source to drown out the memories and the ferret still hasn't come back with the new bottle of scotch, so you're killin' me here!
Bad songs...and nobody's mentioned "In the Year 2525" or "Afternoon Delight?"
Amateurs...
Honky Chateau is a pretty good record. "Think I'm Gonna Kill Myself" was a cool Randy Newmanesque thing.
You know, there was so much bad music in the 70s made by people like Mac Davis, Helen Reddy, Jerry Reed---I could go on--and they all had their own variety shows on TV.
It was the golden age of painfully bad entertainment.
abyssgazer | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 11:49 am | #
Do you have any idea of how bad Kelly Clarkson's going to seem in 20 years?
"Crocodile Rock"---is that the one with the line about his sister looking cute in her britches and boots?
Eschatonian comings and goings. I got here in late 2003/early 2004, I think. Who's been here the longest?
A little over a year ago here, although mostly a lurker. The Philadelphia Magazine and other local papers had multiple little blurbs about the mysterious Atrios around that time. Stopped by out of curiosity and got hooked.
Who's been here the longest?
Hey you kids! Git offa my lawn!
(Just feels like I've been here a long time....)
THERES A RUMOR CIRUCLATING THAT ELTON JOHN IS GAY
HOPE IT SNOT TRUE HE WAS A GOOD GUY
My first booby post was during Arnold's run for governor.
I think I started reading atrios in Feb of 2004, after Alterman said something to the effect of "As usual, Atrios has it right." So I popped over, hated the color scheme, but lurked until May. NOW YOU CAN'T GET RID OF ME!
OK, now he's left.
RMJ - What was the name of that song from the 70's -
If you like pina coladas, and taking walks in the rain...
Get that one out of your head now.
Bwahahahahahahaha!!!
Yeah, but nobody will even remember her in 20 years, I hope. That stuff is so insubstantial, it doesn't even qualify as a "song" really, I think.
the 70s didn't have a monopoly on bad songs though. who could forget "my baby takes the morning train", by sheena easton?
Do you have any idea of how bad Kelly Clarkson's going to seem in 20 years?
SWR
I think 20 minutes is all that was necessary.
"Crocodile Rock"---is that the one with the line about his sister looking cute in her britches and boots?
no, that was "Saturday Night's [Alright for Fightin']"
(pounding forehead on desk)
I just got my Wu name.
bigvic from this day forward
you will also be known as Profound Genius
You must all bow to me genius. Hahahaha.
If you like pina coladas, and taking walks in the rain...
Get that one out of your head now.
Bwahahahahahahaha!!!
"High on the hill was a lonely goatherd..."
is that the one with the line about his sister looking cute in her britches and boots?
abyssgazer
that was Saturday Night's All Right.
Oh thanks, Tena. Now you can come over here and club me with an axe-handle until that piece of crap is out of my head!
I got here in late 2003/early 2004, I think. Who's been here the longest?
My got here in August 1975. What I did was I got an old TV screen and some masking tape. I put a piece of tape on the top of the screen and wrote "Eschaton" on it.
Beneath it I taped an index card. I scribbled "HaloScan" on it, and right under that I wrote "First!"
What's funny is that a week later I got a letter telling me that comments were disabled.
abyssgazer, no. that's "saturday night's alright for fighting", another extremely bad song that i actually sort of like.
and it's "braces and boots", not britches and boots".
THERES A RUMOR CIRUCLATING THAT ELTON JOHN IS GAY
Does anybody remember the urban legend about how Rod Stewart was sent to the emergency room because he swalled 2 gallons of sperm?
Fait divers du jour: GoldenPalace.com bought up the popemobile.
What on earth will they do with it?
c'mon...bad seventies songs have to include "delilah."
or anything else by tom jones.
just sayin'
the 70s didn't have a monopoly on bad songs though. who could forget "my baby takes the morning train", by sheena easton?
Olaf glad and big
Well, I DID until just now!
[not comin' back to this thread until I get an iPod and load it with Anonymous 4, Bach, Beethoven, Led Zeppelin, Judy Collins, Leonard Cohen, and the Allman Brothers. Gonna need somethin' really strong to purge this mess!]
NOOOO! nooo! noo! noo!
I thought Crocadile Rock was a great 50's nostalga sendup. The la-laa-lalala was simultaneous reference to chalypso (Paul Anka's Diana) and Get a Job.
But I will gladly offer up Benny & the Jets as substitute sacrifice.
I like the power chords in Saturday Night's etc. Crocodile Rock sucks exra hard because it's a pastiche of 50s style rock/r&b, which is always a misguided and obnoxious thing to do.
billy don't be a hero
There was some good stuff in the 70's: Parliaments/Funkadellic/P-Funk?
Man,the summer of '77- yowser!
Thersites | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 11:55 am | #
destined to be one of best classic comments.
elton john, gay? that's impossible. i'm almost positive that there was a report of him being seen in public with a woman once.
What's funny is that a week later I got a letter telling me that comments were disabled.
Thersites
They still are.
But it's okay, we're very inclusive.
I remember toggling comments here in octal on the front of a DEC PDP-8. What a great day when I got that Trash-80!
Athenae - I arrived shortly after the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Spring of 2003.
Tena
Me too, sistah.
Tom Jones is awesome! No, no, you can't include Tom Jones in a discussion of bad music. nuh-huh.
I think I might be one of the earliest (sounds better than oldest, truer too) Eschatonians around. Weird. I'm more of a semi-irregular though.
thers.
oh man.
that is classic.
please atrios, one more takedown of "kenbaer17" over at TPM?
Actually, the W. horse festivities reminded me of that Rod Stewart story for some reason. Can't imagine why . . .
Thers: hahahahahahahah!
HOLDEN!!!!!!
That was uncalled for. I think I'll skip lunch now.
bigvic
You were warned.
OK, he's back, and we welcome that.
I first posted here (under a different name) in early 2004, but lurked quite a bit before that. (In fact I still lurk quite a bit, I'm the lurkingest lurking lurker that ever lurked a lurk). How many of you remember "Middle C on the Mighty Casio"? Just what did that mean anyway?
Given that the United States is a big bloated bankrupt special interest whore, perhaps it would be best to focus on individual states to seek out that ol' live free and die kinda country we once enjoyed. I'm voting for Rhode Island. That place never wasn't corrupt, so at least thier civil about it.
Spain sounds good too.
Oh, and by the way, ugh.
Humans are as dangerous a virus as any ever seen through a microscope.
Sheeeeeeit. We, as a whole, suck. Which was fine before we had nukes in the holsters and when land was cheap. But now, the future is so bright I need sunglasses. Or a lead blanket rather.
Fuck Bush. Fuck PITME. Fuck me for ever defending anything that antihuman ever said or did. Fuck the stupid human race. Fuck everybody but
the Atriots.
Who's keynoting the bash in September?
Rob is available. (tee-hee)
anybody else remember "run, joey, run"?
the night chicago died?
i used to love that song.
another day at the office, sifting through email, wondering how i'm going to pay the bills when my notice runs out, and seeing there's currently no fires to run and stomp on, dialing up you all...
let me tell you something: it is a weird and alienating experience to have a job where one works alone in an office, and conducts their business 99% via email. not to be corny, but thank Ba'al for this place. must be a flammable goat around here somewhere...
RMJ - What was the name of that song from the 70's -
If you like pina coladas, and taking walks in the rain...
Get that one out of your head now.
Bwahahahahahahaha!!!
Tena
Ah, Tena.
So glad to see you are back.
Be careful with this season's jar of pickled peaches.......
I remember commenting here in cuneiform.
Re: Hackworth
Any hierarchy has those who identify mostly with their superiors, who they'd like to be, and forget those under them; and those who continue to identify with their inferiors, those who they'd been. Hackworth never forgot the base of the pyramid. He'd never had lied to them, or taken them someplace to die in vain. People like Hackworth remind grunts that someone gives a shit about them, and that they should give a shit about themselves.
Ooo! Oooo! Sheena Easton, he says! Anybody remember "Strut?" Dear god, what an awful song. It burns! It burns!
Thersites, BWAH!
I remember the stalking thing. So maybe it was longer than that. That thing was fucking funny.
A friend used to say the best way to get rid of an unwanted erection was to sing the Smurfs theme song to himself.
La la la lalala, la la lala la ...
A.
anybody else remember "run, joey, run"?
my dad & i just had a fight...and he stomrmed out the door....
popie, thanks for doing the letter writing.i think people are starting to care, mostly for the wrong reasons ,gas prices etc. but it is a start.always remember the media makes our struggle doubly tough.THANX AGAIN.
"my baby takes the morning train", by sheena easton?
Olaf glad and big
"Do the Freddy" Freddy and the Dreamers 1965
Someone is going to hate me for this.
I know I was here sometime in 2002 but didn't go mainline until the next year. I know that I was here in November of that year because it's the first time AM-Zozo-Ted went nuts on me. He was a "Green" Nader supporter" for that jag.
Me too, sistah.
Holden Caulfield
Comrades in arms, baby.
Back when we had one troll who called himself "Walter Cronkite". Tomaig lived at Counterspin, Walter lived here.
abyssgazer
Tom Jones is awesome! No, no, you can't include Tom Jones in a discussion of bad music. nuh-huh.
abyssgazer | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 11:58 am |
You are forgiven this lapse in taste only on account of your pic (RRROOOOWWWRRRR!) combined with the images now going through my mind representing the strange form of tribute often lavished upon Tom Jones by his female fans. Can I ask you a personal question? Have you ever been to a Tom Jones concert?
I'm bad, truly bad, I know.
I've started reading this blog regularly just before the start of the 2004 primaries, or maybe back a little further to fall 2003. I got here via Andrew Sullivan, who complained that Atrios never said anything bad about Democrats.
Back then I thought the comments section was filled with paranoid nutcases. I still there are some, but watching the Bush Admin over the past 18 months, I've concluded that I was rather behind the curve in catching on to what they are really about. Mea maxima culpa!
So fuck Laura Bush with the horse's cock that George is milking.
"government accountability office".
must be a very small office.
Want some whiskey in your water
Sugar in your tea
What's all these crazy questions they askin' me
This is the craziest party there could ever be
Don't turn on the lights, 'cause I don't want to see
Mama told me not to come
Mama told me not to come
That ain't the way to have fun, no
the 70s didn't have a monopoly on bad songs though. who could forget "my baby takes the morning train", by sheena easton?
Olaf glad and big
"MacArthur Park"?
Written by: Jimmy Webb
Sung by: Richard Harris or Donna Summer, equally silly.
Spring was never waiting for us, girl
It ran one step ahead
As we followed in the dance
Between the parted pages and were pressed
In love's hot, fevered iron
Like a striped pair of pants
MacArthur Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!
I recall the yellow cotton dress
Foaming like a wave
On the ground around your knees
The birds, like tender babies in your hands
And the old men playing checkers by the trees
MacArthur Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!
[break]
There will be another song for me
For I will sing it
There will be another dream for me
Someone will bring it
I will drink the wine while it is warm
And never let you catch me looking at the sun
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
You'll still be the one
I will take my life into my hands and I will use it
I will win the worship in their eyes and I will lose it
I will have the things that I desire
And my passion flow like rivers through the sky
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
I'll be thinking of you
And wondering why
[break]
MacArthur Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!
Oh, no
No, no
Oh no!!
How many of you remember "Middle C on the Mighty Casio"? Just what did that mean anyway?
I beleive A-man was spoofing "The Mighty Wurlitzer."
I've been here since February of 2003.
is int argc still here?
I dunno, I find the Smurf song kind of arousing . . .
Current CNN Poll:
Are you satisfied with the apology from runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks?
Yes
No
I'm thinkin' RMJ will be retirnig again soon.
I guess, actually, I do have to go for a while. And somehow get some work done. At least it's friday.
i once won a shot contest because they asked who sang seasons in the sun in 1973.
terry jacks spewed out before i could stop myself.
is int argc still here?
her eyes | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 12:03 pm | #
Why, I believe I'm being paged!
Yes, I'm still here
since we're talking about 70's songs, here is one i want to hear again. can't remember whether it sucks or not. it was called "druscilla penny". i really want to hear it again. i remember a few lines from it vaguely. nobody else remembers it. maybe it was never written.
Mama told me not to come.
But I didn't listen.
Now I have a little brother named Jeb.
I was lead to Atrios via Tom Tomorrow, as I think many others were.
Crocodile Rock sucks exra hard because it's a pastiche of 50s style rock/r&b, which is always a misguided and obnoxious thing to do. - B1 Bummer
Humph, one man's homage can be another man's heresy, but if you're dissing '50s rock, there's gonna be internicene war in Escatonia.
"government accountability office".
must be a very small office.
r@d@r
I have a friend who works for the GAO. Believe it or not, it is pretty big.
RMJ - What was the name of that song from the 70's -
If you like pina coladas, and taking walks in the rain...
Get that one out of your head now.
Bwahahahahahahaha!!!
Ironically, it's actually called "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)" by Rupert Holmes. And for fans of the New York Times' top science writer, we sing to that tune:
If you like Gina Kolata ...
I'm thinkin' RMJ will be retirnig again soon.
Holden Caulfield
And to think I once entertained the hope that we could at least take away the nation's shovel.
'cause it just keeps sinkin' deeper 'n' deeper, and never seems to quit diggin'
Troutski - Oh that's a good song - Mama told me not to come. I like that one.
LOL!!!
I found this place in a very roundabout manner. It was via the Guardian, by way of Daypop and Counterspin.
"druscilla penny"
The Carpenters.
int argc, i just saw your pic over at NTodd's, and i just wanted to tell you that i think you are one fine young man.
i am astonished at the wisdom of one so young.
Hola Atriots,
Here's a fun song...The Empire is growing stronger every minute. Do not underestimate the power of the dark side...
Listen to Blazing Empire
..
More terrible seventies songs? Howzabout a little number called "The Devil Went Down to Georgia?"
"Granny does your dog bite? No child, no."
A short musical emetica compendium
Judy in Disguise
Yummy, yummy, yummy, I got love in my tummy
Tall Paul (anything Annette Funnicello)
These Boots Were Made for Walking
Tramps and Thieves
Muskrat Love
bo | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 11:28 am
you forget the requisite "Boogie Fever" by the fabulous DiFranco Family.
And, by the way, this is the worst song in the history of pop (and I don't care that it's supposedly a metaphor for death):
It was late at night on the open road,
Speeding like a man on the run,
A lifetime spent preparing for the journey;
He is close now and the search is on,
Reading from a map in the mind,
Yes there's the ragged hill,
And there's the boat on the river,
And when the rain came down,
He heard a wild dog howl,
There were voices in the night - "Don't do it!"
Voices out of sight - "Don't do it!
Too many men have failed before,
Whatever you do,
Don't pay the ferryman,
Don't even fix a price,
Don't pay the ferryman,
Until he gets you to the other side;"
In the rolling mist then he gets on board,
Now there'll be no turning back,
Beware that hooded old man at the rudder,
And then the lightning flashed, and the thunder roared,
And dancing bones that jabbered and a-moaned
On the water;
And then the ferryman said,
"There is trouble ahead,
So you must pay me now," - "Don't do it!"
"you must pay me now," - "Don't do it!"
And still that voice came from beyond,
"Whatever you do,
Don't pay the ferryman,
Don't even fix a price,
Don't pay the ferryman,
Until he gets you to the other side;
Don't pay - the ferryman!"
Are you satisfied with the apology from runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks?
Just how many CNN viewers does she need to give one to? Some social scientist, we deeply need a book about this. Not the RAB but why anyone in the world cares and just when did minding ones own business stop being a cherished pleasure.
Absolutely vile song that makes me dumber just knowing its around: "Convoy."
On the Dave Chappelle front, I heard that a radio station in DC reported that Dave has been in rehab.
Open up the window
Let some air into this room
I think I'm almost chokin'
From the smell of stale perfume
And that cigarette you're smoking
'Bout scared me half to death
Open up the window, sucker
Let me catch my breath
So fuck Laura Bush with the horse's cock that George is milking.
A difficult visual for many reasons.
I was lead to Atrios via Tom Tomorrow, as I think many others were.
Holden Caulfield
I've been trying to remember how I got here.
I seem to remember a rabbit hole....
tell him i have no skills at all (just to keep hiim off balance), so i'd just be the perfect supernumerary, factotum and general satrap...send me for the luggage, the 'pan,' the cervesa, the caviche, anything...
anything...please!!!!
WoodyGuthriesGuitar (aka...) | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 11:30 am
now THAT'S my "dream job"!!!
I remember commenting here in cuneiform.
Holden Caulfield | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 12:00 pm | #
I've read your comments Holden, and while it's true the writing was cuneiform the language was Akkadian, latecomer! I was commenting here in Sumerian back then, though that might have been on some obscure site name of "Calpundit" IIRC.
i came here through yahoo, believe it or not.
I was lead to Atrios via Tom Tomorrow, as I think many others were
That and Hesiod.
@Tena and Troutski,
Tom Jones does an awesome cover of that song.
Worst song from the 1970s: anything by The Who or The Doors.
Honorable mention: anything by the Sex Pistols.
/ducks
No, I like 50s rock/blues/r&b. Turning it into a joke a la "Crocodile Rock" is obnoxious.
EPT, out of The Horse.
I'd like to see what The Horse would do if Georgie got fresh with him (her?).
So fuck Laura Bush with the horse's cock that George is milking.
A difficult visual for many reasons.
Have to admit, I'm still trying to figure out why a joke about the President masturbating a horse is considered funny if the First Lady says it.
'cause if anybody else had....well, the Secret Service and the IRS would be involved by now....
Dubya: Why hello there my fine steed...
Horse: Mama told me not to come!
.
I seem to remember a rabbit hole....
Hey, yeah. Mine had something about a red pill and words generating across my screen under their own will.
Freaky.
i'd be flying my flag at full staff, but i've got a pain in my balzac...
Barry Freed! C'mon now! "She's a lady, woah-oh, woah-oh, woah, she's a lady, talkin' about the little lady..."
Alas, no, I haven't had the honor of tossing my knickers at the Tom.
THERES ANOTHER RUMOR CIRUCLATING THAT I ENJOY GETTING FUCKED IN HTE ASS BY A SHELTON PONY
JUST WANT TO MAKE CLAER ITS COMPLETLEY BOGUS AS I WOOD NEVER BE WITH A SHELTON PONY EITHER GIVING OR RECIEVING
I'm not back to haunt thee. I am too busy hollowing out a London Plain tree, and not to craft a canoe to get off Manhattan during the next attack, but to make into the Guinness Book of Records for owning the universe's biggest bong.
bubble, bubble, toiling amidst the rubble!
Who loves ya!
(goddamit, the caps stuck on the med bottle again. Hammer time!)
If you like pina coladas, and taking walks in the rain...
Get that one out of your head now.
I wish. Unfortunately I'm destined to have "yummy yummy yummy" ratling round my head for the next three days.
So I will spread my misery to others:
Yummy, Yummy, Yummy.
I got love in my tummy,
And I feel like a-lovin you:
Love, you're such a sweet thing,
Good enough to eat thing
And that's just a-what I'm gonna do.
Ooh love, to hold ya,
Ooh love, to kiss ya,
Ooh love, I love it so.
Ooh love, you're sweeter,
Sweeter than sugar.
Ooh love, I wont let you go.
Yummy, Yummy, Yummy,
I got love in my tummy,
And as silly as it may seem;
The lovin' that you re giving,
is what keeps me livin'
And your love is like
Peaches and cream.
Kind-a like sugar,
Kind-a like spices,
Kind-a like, like what you do.
Kind-a sounds funny.
But love,honey
Honey. I love you.
Yummy, Yummy, Yummy,
I. got love in my tummy,
That your love can satisfy;
Love, you're such a sweet thing,
Good enough to eat thing
And sweet thing, that ain't no lie.
I love to hold ya,
Oh love, to kiss ya,
Ooh love, I love it so.
Ooh love, you're sweeter,
Sweeter than sugar.
Ooh love, I wont let you go.
Got here because I read in the dead tree media that there were people here who called a spade a fucking shovel and were smarter than I am, might teach me something.
Not yet disappointed--
A couple of weeks ago I was listening to "Down Memory Lane" on Maine Public Broadcasting while planting onions. Did you know that Soupy Sales had a top 100 hit in 1965? Well, I do now. Much to my rue.
And further more:
Who can take a sunrise
Sprinkle it with dew?
Cover it in chocolate
And a miracle or two
The candyman
The candyman can
The candyman can
Cause he mixes it with love
And makes the world taste good
Who can take a rainbow
Wrap it in a sigh?
Soak it in the sun
And make a strawberry pie
The candyman
The candyman can
The candyman can
Cause he mixes it with love
And makes the world taste good
The Candyman Can
Cause verything he bakes
Satisfying and delicious
Talk about your childhood wishes
You can even eat the dishes!
Who can take tomorrow
Dip it in a dream?
Separate the sorrows
And collect up all the cream
The candyman
The Candyman can
The candyman can
The candyman can
Cause he mixes it with love
And makes the world taste good
And the world tastes good
Cause the Candyman thinks it should
Cause the Candyman thinks
Cause the Candyman thinks it should
take that Liberal Elitists!
I've known of atrios for a long time (years). I think DU was the place I first heard about it. I've had it bookmarked for quite a while.
wow hereyes, thank you!
I've never been accused of being wise for my age before
Now you have to join the fun... I'm sure NTodd would be happy to have your photo in the gallery too.
The question that has stopped me dead at every job interview.
Foiled again!
Rmj, Wandering Aengus | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 11:36 am
should you ever again be presented with this scenario, you can respond thusly:
"i have several years of experience as a web content provider in dynamic online publishing." which is true. they might be jazzed enough by the buzzwords not to ask you to explain what it means, which is that you post comments at eschaton a lot.
No, I won't flame you, int argc. It's about damn time somebody was brave enough to point out the obvious about the Sex Pistols. I doubt they thought they didn't suck, at least until the drugs took hold. Their reputation is a tribute to nearly thirty years of hipster bullshit.
Not yet disappointed--
me neither.
had to find me a does of "reality"
As mentioned earlier, current Crap News Network Poll:
Are you satisfied with the apology from runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks?
I think it's CNN that owes everyone an apology.
In Kansas, a conservative school board is trying to ramrod Creationism into the public schools. Don't they know conservatives have their own Theory of Evolution?
THERES ANOTHER RUMOR CIRUCLATING THAT I ENJOY GETTING FUCKED IN HTE ASS BY A SHELTON PONY
I heard it was a Clydsdale myself.
The.
Worst.
Pop-Ten.
Hit.
EVER:
Hey, Paul, Hey Paula...
by
Paul and Paula (circa, 1963)
simply DREADFUL!!!
there is only one worst song ever.
mentioned upthread, nothing comes within a planet of this piece of crap...
Muskrat Love..
Now you have to join the fun.
yep. i'm working on that...
if only i didn't break every camera that i come in contact with...
B1B,
Ok, I'll quit sharpening my dagger.
ITS HITTING THEM WHERE IT HURST
Merkin Patriot | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 11:36 am
i guess it could be worse, it could be hitting them in their fuelie heads...
i like that pina colada song. in fact i actually like anything by squeeze. go figure.
pssssst. starbucks coffe tastes like burnt kitty-litter.I lurked at eschaton when the anti-war protests began i guess winter 2002, i think,the fog of war ya know
and oddly enough, they're not referring to the media:
'Whore College' Offers Hands-On Training
By LISA LEFF, Associated Press Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - The 25 students in jeans and T-shirts could have been in any career that requires hustle. The classes, covering topics such as effective marketing, stress reduction and legal issues, could have been part of any professional development seminar.
But this was "Whore College," and any illusion it was just another corporate how-to for young go-getters abruptly ended at the sex toy display and was stripped away for good during a graphic demonstration that put a whole new twist on the concept of hands-on training.
"We are still illegal," instructor Kimberlee Cline said before her 20-minute demonstration. "If we want to be treated as business professionals, we need to act ethically within the industry."
Presented in conjunction with the San Francisco Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival, the class Wednesday at an erotic art gallery was billed as away for working girls and guys to polish their skills in a supportive atmosphere.
(snip)
The worst music I ever owned was Virgil Fox playing a "Heavy organ" concert at the Fillmore. The music was about as schmalzyingly [?] terrible as was the performance:
"He looked like the Elton John of the organ with an outlandish bow tie, paisley jacket accented in shimmering silks, and rhinestones on the heels of his organ shoes. Behind the console came the light show, the different hues swirling in all directions and even Bach's stern features popping up occasionally."
In sum, it was like hearing someone driving a yugo at high speed in first gear at the Indy 500.
abyssgazer
Ok, you got me there, a little.
I'll confess a soft spot for some Neil Diamond tunes. And not all of them do I like for the ironic hipster frisson pose.
Though that's because Johnny Cash covered a song or two of his and Johnny (RIP) could make anything cool just by spittin' on it.
"i have several years of experience as a web content provider in dynamic online publishing." which is true. they might be jazzed enough by the buzzwords not to ask you to explain what it means, which is that you post comments at eschaton a lot.
Does sound a far sight better than: "I spend a lot of time out of the sun sitting on my butt typing nonsense for the eyes of strangers I will likely never meet, but have a strange and compelling affection for. Rather than doing something constructive with my time."
Here's one that might get me flamed. I think "Piano Man" is one of the worst, most contrived, phony lumps of musical shit I've ever heard.
"Clean up the lawn, you're the garbage man,
Clean up the lawn tonight,
cause we're all in the mood for a bar-b-que,
and our tax money pays you, alright?"
Odd news from the West: One of the most powerful Republicans in Washington State, Jim West, former Senate majority leader and current mayor of Spokane, has just been outed as someone who, in his own words has had "relations with adult men" amid alegations of sexual abuse of minors going back to the 1970s.
West is a kingmaker amongst Washington's conservative Eastern Republicans--or at least he was. He also has been a stauch opponent of legislation to protect gays and lesbians from discrimination, pushed legislation defining marriage for heterosexuals only, and supported legislation that would have prohibited gays and lesbians from working in schools and day-care centers.
I've been here since February of 2003.
Central Scrutinizer - 12:03 pm
That's when I first showed up, midFebruary 2003, about the time of the big protest in NYC against the upcoming war. Posted as ABH then.
Avast ye, mateys!
A U.S. appeals court on Friday threw out new federal rules requiring anti-piracy technology that would have limited how consumers could record and watch their favorite television programs in the future.
The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia overturned rules by the Federal Communications Commission that would have required certain video devices to have technology to prevent copying digital television programs. The court said the FCC overstepped the authority given it by Congress.
There was one about "Lying in bed...", but that's all I can remember right now.
here's one of sir paul's masterpieces:
someone's knockin on the door
somebody ringin the bell
someone's knockin on the door
somebody ringin the bell
do me a favor
open the door
and let em in
i think jackson browne sucks.
(running away.......)
OK, one more tarnished gem before I go....
"Playground in my Mind"
When this old world gets me down and there's no love to be found
I close my eyes and soon I find I'm in a playground in my mind
Where the children laugh and the children play
And we sing a song all day
My name is Michael, I've got a nickel, I've got a nickel shiny and new
I'm gonna buy me all kinds of candy, that's what I'm gonna do
In the wonders that I find in the playground in my mind
In a world that used to be, close your eyes and follow me
Where the children laugh and the children play
And we'll sing a song all day
My girl is Cindy, when we get married we're gonna have a baby or two
We're gonna let them visit their grandma, that's what we're gonna do
Be well Moonbats.
Here's one that might get me flamed. I think "Piano Man" is one of the worst, most contrived, phony lumps of musical shit I've ever heard.
What was that Billy Joel song where he was just reading off news events?
"We are still illegal," instructor Kimberlee Cline said before her 20-minute demonstration. "If we want to be treated as business professionals, we need to act ethically within the industry."
Allright, watertiger, now you've given me a headache....
Avast ye, mateys!
A U.S. appeals court on Friday threw out new federal rules requiring anti-piracy technology that would have limited how consumers could record and watch their favorite television programs in the future.
Arrrrrrrrrr!
abyssgazer-
add:
*starts to open up new browser page, googles furiously for Tom Jones tix, wonders if he's still playing or even alive, is. forgetting. to. breathe...*
Hey you kids! Git offa my lawn!
hey rmj, you stole my line!!
Abyssgazer.
Nice pic. Like the hair.
No, I won't flame you, int argc. It's about damn time somebody was brave enough to point out the obvious about the Sex Pistols. I doubt they thought they didn't suck, at least until the drugs took hold. Their reputation is a tribute to nearly thirty years of hipster bullshit.
B1 Bummer | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 12:12 pm | #
Well, that's true, perhaps they are in some way redeemed by the fact that they knew they sucked. But if I have to listen to one more hipster tell me about how great "Never Mind the Bollocks..." is I think I'm going to puke. With punk, I really don't get on board until the LA scene started.
I've been here since February of 2003.
Central Scrutinizer - 12:03 pm
I got here during the fake turkey incident.
how about that song, "honey?"
don't know who does it, but it goes something like this.
ahem.
"and honey, i miss her..."
thank you! thank you!
WGG:
Yes, and it was Number 1! on Seventy-seven, Double-U ABC (dah-da dah)for EIGHT WEEKS!
The relatively sweet kids' movie 'Andre' had a scene in which the girl-teen's brother couldn't stand listening to it anymore, so he tossed it out the window...she got out of her curlers in a royal snit.
there was one about "lyin in bed"
-mer
could it be this one?
oh ho ho it's magic
you kno-o-ow
never believe it's not so
it's magic
you kno-o-ow
I hate Billy Joel.
Even when he's not wrapping Mercedes Benzes around trees.
The Stones' "Emotional Rescue" always equals Deep Hurting for me.
Timothy, Timothy,
Joe was lookin at youououou
Timothy, Timothy
God what did we doooo?
Roh roh.
Jade is fucking multiple schizoid troll. IGNOR(E)ANCE IS BLISS.
Another 23 Iraqis killed today. Two separate bombing. Damn.
Brandy, you're a fine girl
What a good wife you would be
But my life, my lover, my lady
Is the sea.
SWR:
You know SWR, it was all fun and games. That's all, just fun and games. ANd then you had to pop back in here and say two of the ugliest words in the English language, if found adjacent to one another.
Yeah, that's right. I'm not playing around here but you had to go and write
Billy Joel
And now I'm going to have to poke your eye out.
What was that Billy Joel song where he was just reading off news events?
SWR | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 12:17 pm | #
That was "We Didn't Start the Fire."
Clearly I should have nominated the Billy Joel catalog as well
Her eyes ~
Bobby Goldsboro.
That song, Honey, used to make my dad cry every time he heard it. He just loved that song.
My dad likes to drink a bit, and gets all weepy in the process.
Does anybody remember the urban legend about how Rod Stewart was sent to the emergency room because he swalled 2 gallons of sperm?
SWR | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 11:55 am
an urban legend likely to have been planted by an overzealous PR agent working for him. if you don't think they'd do that sort of thing, you don't know any PR agents.
Nope. Jackson Browne has, does, and always will, in fact, suck.
i hate billy joel too
But is it the worst?
Olivia Newton-John getting physical? 'Wildfire'?
'Her tender lips (her tender lips) were sweeter than HO--NEE...'
So many songs, so little time...
For you are beautiful
And I have loved you dearly
More dearly than the spoken word can tell
Olaf glad and big, I think it's maybe Best of My Love? Maybe?
Olaf glad & big--how do you know all that 70's hit parade. i know all those songs too.
omg!
Bobby Goldsborrough ? Honey
Does anybody remember the urban legend about how Rod Stewart was sent to the emergency room because he swalled 2 gallons of sperm?
This one was making the rounds in the late 70's, IIRC. Supposedly he "seviced" his band just before a show.
Billy Idol's cover of "Heroin" sucks, blows and dies ugly in the void.
Bad 70's songs? Jebus, WAY too many to remember. That was the age of Disco... 'nuff said.
Agreed that most of the Sex Pistols stuff was really realllllllllllly awful. OTOH, there's something charming about the French translation of "Anarchy in the UK" as featured in the "Who Shot Bambi?" album.
i actually like that song about brandy, the fine girl. there are many songs that i like even though they suck.
thanks Vicki--oh yah, bobby goldsboro, he used to make my sister cry, too.
Oh, the musical flame wars I could start...
her eyes,
Well I believe it has been shown that Jackson Browne does suck. But what do you think of his music?
How about that classic C & W tune:
I'm not Lisa.
"Shelton Pony"--MERKIN kills me. Omigod, that's so funny.
Bad songs. How 'bout "The Logical Song"?
Disco- God what a blast dancing every night!
HEY "SHELTON PONY" GUY
NICE JOB STEALING MY USERNAME - POSTING IS DONE ON THE HONOR SYSTEM HERE AND YOU OBVIOUSLY HAVE NONE
FUCK OFF
"Super Bowl Shuffle"
Grew up in Chicago during the 80s. There was no escape
Oh, the musical flame wars I could start...
BlakNo1 | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 12:23 pm | #
Type O Negative is lame.
Didn't you say that you were once a Pumpkinhead? I seem to recall having a conversation with you about that...
here's a terrible 70's song (by a guy who actually is a good songwriter and musician):
wildfire
she ran callin wiiiiiiiildfire
10,000 Quatloos Merkin Patriot used to be King Leopold.
For you are beautiful
And I have loved you dearly
More dearly than the spoken word can tell
John Savage == 12:21 pm
i sang that one, at the 'altar', to the last ex-MRS/DR/PROF WGG, on our wedding day...
fwiw...
.
You
Light
Up
My
Life.
Remember when Billy Hole got all serious and heavy on us with "The Nylon Curtain," or whatever? PRESSURE! do-dee-doo-dee-doo-dee-doo, ad nauseum. Then he gave us such jems as "Uptown Girl"-you know he can't afford to buy her pearls-and "Tell her about it"-tell her all your crazy dreams. I need to go suck on a tailpipe to eradicate the part of brain that has seen fit to retain that stuff, at the expense of, say, algebra.
The Candy Man.
[urrrk... urrrrrk... eyes roll back in head, limbs jerk convulsively]
worst song ever,"my way" worst streched rhymed lyric,"not in a shy way"hate it ,it sobers you up no matter how many drinks
One song I still love to hear (and I mean this seriously) is:
I THINK I LOVE YOU!
Thank you, Keith Partridge, Thank you.
Tena, there's a great moment in the movie, Scotland, PA, where "I'm Not Lisa" starts on the jukebox and Mac, the protagonist, gets up and kicks the jukebox so that it plays "Bad Company" instead.
Absolutely vile song that makes me dumber just knowing its around: "Convoy."
John | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 12:07 pm
you forgot about "disco duck"!
she ran callin wiiiiiiiildfire
I did that once after dancing all night.
they took he whole cherokee nation....
put on on this reservation.....
CHEROKEE Pepole
(going to go gargle now)
Yeah, no fair stealing the satire troll's handle.
...C'mon now! "She's a lady, woah-oh, woah-oh, woah...
For "lady," substitute "call girl" (and for "little," "high-priced")... not only is the song more enjoyable that way, it's closer to the truth!
i actually like that song about brandy, the fine girl.
I once had a student who said that when her dad was driving her mom to the hospital he heard that song, and so when she was born he named her "Brandy."
All I could think was "Good thing he didn't hear 'MacArthur Park.'"
you forgot about "disco duck"!
r@d@r
Shit. Now you made me remember it.
*shakes fist in Internet Tough Guy Rage!*
Of course I'm late, as I'm a left coaster, but good morning!
I heard Barbara Bradley Haggerty's schtick yesterday, and it pissed me off--I'm glad I wasn't the only one. BBH does NOT seem to understand what a threat these nudniks pose.
Are you satisfied with the apology from runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks?
I'm still waiting for CNN's apology.
int argc- We did have a convo about that, but I'm not a pumpkinhead. I think James Iha has moved up in the world since then.
Barry Freed. Stop it, you!
Tena--Don't forget "I'm the Happiest Girl in the Whole USA" and "I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden."
Absolutely vile song that makes me dumber just knowing its around: "Convoy."
Nope. Convoy's a great song about the revolutionary potential of the American working-class.
Well, we laid a strip for the jersey shore
And prepared to cross the line
I could see the bridge was lined with bears
But I didn’t have a dog-goned dime.
I says, pig pen, this here’s the rubber duck.
We just ain’t a-gonna pay no toll.
So we crashed the gate doing ninety-eight
I says let them truckers roll, 10-4.
/ducks
int argc, Smiling Conqueror | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 12:09 pm |
r@d@r [curses, as his sailing combat boot misses int argc's head by frustrating inches]
Donovan:
I like my shirt. I like my shirt.
I like my pants. I like my pants.
[thumpthumpthump... sound of arms and legs flailing uncontrollably]
"you forgot about "disco duck"!"
At least you KNEW 'Disco Duck' was a joke
I once had a student who said that when her dad was driving her mom to the hospital he heard that song, and so when she was born he named her "Brandy."
All I could think was "Good thing he didn't hear 'MacArthur Park.'"
Or the Fug's "River of Shit"
Any truckin' song pretty much sucks by definition. Jes' watch ol' Bandit run!
I hate MacArthur Park.
Who gives a fuck if Richard Harris sang/spoke it? And who gives a fuck if someone left the cake out in the rain and you don't think that you can take it cuz it took so long to bake it and you'll never have that recipe again?
God, I hate that song. Now it's stuck in my head. Thersites, I blame you.
everybody was kung fu fighting
and the moves were fast as lightning
they took he whole cherokee nation....
put on on this reservation.....
CHEROKEE Pepole
(going to go gargle now)
Heartbeat, it's a lovebeat...
Does sound a far sight better than: "I spend a lot of time out of the sun sitting on my butt typing nonsense for the eyes of strangers I will likely never meet, but have a strange and compelling affection for. Rather than doing something constructive with my time."
Rmj, Wandering Aengus
I feel abusurdly flattered.
My ten year old got sent to the school office for singing, probably loudly, "Every Sperm is Sacred," in the lunchroom. Apparently, In my discussion with the principal, who seemed rather amused at the whole thing, it was revealed that it wasn't the parody exclusionary religious message that offended the little narc, but the word "sperm." I asked if that meant she shouldn't wear her "Vagina Monologues" t-shirt (she doesn't really have one), and hear a major spit take on the other end of the line.
Must reiterate that whole there-are-some-things-we-can-say/sing-at-home-
that-we-cannont-say/sing-at-school message again.
New poll up at cnn:
Should the man who found a severed finger in a pint of custard have returned the digit right away?"
Yes
No
I was laughing so hard, I couldn't bring myself to check results.
Sorry about that WGG, hope I didn't step on your toes...and to tell you the truth, love has caused me to do many a sappy thing myself...
"Shelton Pony" was a namestealer? Damn! Sorry Merkin. You're the dude.
Hate to do this, but...
It's a Saturday morning confusion
If you think you can sleep, it's illusion
'cause you'll probably get a rude intrusion from Harry the dog
Harry the dog is as big as can be
'n' Harry the dog had puppies last week
We couldn't tell if it's a he or a she, now we know
It's a Saturday morning confusion
If I could just get to the bathroom
And get a cold rag and an aspirin to help how I feel
But here come the twins and they're screamin' at me
What is the deal to turn off the TV?
"Go ask your mother and quietly, your daddy is ill"...
B1 Bummer | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 12:12 pm
r@d@r [curses as other boot misses B1 too]
God, I hate that song. Now it's stuck in my head. Thersites, I blame you.
Vicki
Misery loves company.
Good morning, Vicki!
"Just think of what we could accomplish if we checked our pride at the door, if collectively we all spent less time taking credit and more time deserving it. If we spent less time ducking responsibility and more time welcoming it. If we spent less time on our soapboxes and more time on our knees."
Who said it?
Another song I hated, by Melanie:
I've got a brand new pair of rollerskates, you've got a brand new key...
Confession: I actually enjoyed Steve Martin's 'King Tut' for the joke it was.
(Hangs head in shame.)
Convoy's a great song about the revolutionary potential of the American working-class.
Err. Woody Guthrie might like a word with you.
Convoy's as faux-populist crap as the mindless patriotic sewage that has woven its way into Toby Keith's song.
someone mentioned "convoy" upthread. really bad song, but the guy who did it actually did a few other songs that were good that weren't hits. i really liked " wolf creek pass".
Did anybody here yesterday comment on the bill in Ohio that would require sex offenders to put pink license plates on their cars?
Eschatonian comings and goings. I got here in late 2003/early 2004, I think. Who's been here the longest?
mid-2003, and I've often regretted that Haloscan doesn't archive, cause I'd love to be able to access some of the classic threads (e.g. the post-fake Turkey threads, etc.). Also some of the then regular commenters who haven't been seen much (pixie, magenta, etc.).
My got here in August 1975. What I did was I got an old TV screen and some masking tape. I put a piece of tape on the top of the screen and wrote "Eschaton" on it.
Beneath it I taped an index card. I scribbled "HaloScan" on it, and right under that I wrote "First!"
What's funny is that a week later I got a letter telling me that comments were disabled.
I hear they've got the internet on computers now.
Oh, and I don't know if it's already been mentioned but:
Theme song from Greatest American Hero.
you are so...
beautiful.
to me.
can't you see?
(gagging)
Yup, Tom Tomorrow led me here as well, talking about this guy called Atrios who took the wind out of Trent Lott's sails.
Not from the beginning, but close to it.
I like your site, Jon.
I particularly find this link interesting.
Looks like the rest of the world is getting ready to gang up on us if Bolton gets to the UN and starts banging his shoe on the table about North Korea.
If we default on all our debtors- does that mean they send over the collection agents?
Holden--that couldn't possibly have been Dear Leader...
Run joey run, joey run...
So proud to be living. So proud to die. Maybe someday when they learn, Cherokee nation will return.
"Just think of what we could accomplish if we checked our pride at the door, if collectively we all spent less time taking credit and more time deserving it. If we spent less time ducking responsibility and more time welcoming it. If we spent less time on our soapboxes and more time on our knees."
Who said it?
Holden Caulfield
Da Bugman! What do I win?
everybody was kung fu fighting
and the moves were fast as lightning
Olaf glad and big
Yes, the song in which they rhymed "frightening" with "timing".
Thersites, I blame you.
Oh, but Vicki, you're once, twice, THREE TIMES a lady.
My favorite rendition of "MacArthur Park" is the one performed by Apu's neice in the talent show episode of the Simpsons.
Just think of what we could accomplish if we checked our pride at the door, if collectively we all spent less time taking credit and more time deserving it.
Why, this was the Bugman after smoking some crack and trying to sound human.
And with the "on our knees" remark, he's obviously saying we should enjoy a lot more oral sex.
i know someone axed about this yesterday
A year later, Smarty Jones is living large
By JIM LITKE, AP Sports Writer
May 6, 2005
MIDWAY, Ky. (AP) -- The love affair hasn't cooled one bit. A year after he set the nation's heart fluttering, Smarty Jones still possesses the looks, charm and self-assuredness of a champion. A movie is already in the works. And now, on top of all that, he's got ... the life.
Retired at stud on a breeding farm in the rolling hills near Lexington, barely an hour's drive east from the Churchill Downs racetrack where a Derby victory in 2004 catapulted Smarty Jones into America's sporting constellation forever, the 4-year-old chestnut spends his days lounging, lunching and -- how to put this delicately? -- loving.
Hi RMJ!
Left Rev, loved that story. Indeed, every sperm is sacred if you're a sperm whale, I suppose.
B1 Bummer | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 12:16 pm
OK, putting my boots back on: Thanks for having the courage to diss the completely reprehensible, yet inexplicably popular, pianoman billy joel. i hate that guy so much it makes me sick. and i've lost many friends over that particular debate.
i felt a tiny flicker of compassion for him when his manager/best friend ripped him off of his millions. but it went out fast the minute i heard his next song.
You won't get me, I'm part of the union! Till the day I die!
Who said it?
Even the Devil can cite Scripture for his own purposes. (Seen your post already, HC)
Hey! the 70's was when Al Green was not a reverend yet. Holy smoke on that water.
OK, remember that song "Junkfood Junkie"? It was bad enough, but I remember seeing Marilyn McCoo and Mr. Marilyn McCoo singing that song on Solid Gold. It pops in my head from time to time.
The horror.
Crap News Network
Dammit, it's Chicken Noodle News!!
Thanks for having the courage to diss the completely reprehensible, yet inexplicably popular, pianoman billy joel. i hate that guy so much it makes me sick. and i've lost many friends over that particular debate.
I once knew that a relationship was over when my girlfriend started pretending to like Billy Joel. She knew how much I hated him and she did it to spite me.
Da Bugman! What do I win?
left rev., Jolly MenaceM
My pony! (What else?)
Who said it?
Holden Caulfield
Don't tell me.
Tom DeLay.
Kelley B--it's all about the Benjamins, isn't it? Wow, we managed to corporatize the planet.
c.w. mccall was the composer of "convoy" and "wolf creek pass"
Just got the message machine at the East Waynesville Baptist Church. I said, "God is near. And he's gonna smote your intolerant dumbasses first. Just kidding, there is no God. Scary huh?"
Nice country we got here.
echo valley 26809....
i used to call that number all the time.
her eyes | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 12:17 pm
no need to run away. jackson browne's a lousy wife beater.
however..."saturate before using" remains, inexplicably, a favorite from my early youth.
proof that the forebrain is not yet fully developed in adolescence.
Meh. Beaten to it.
Nobody has mentioned Mr. Manilow yet...
Regarding arrival times...I also got here from Tom Tomorrow, don't remember exactly when, but I distinctly remember "Preznit give me turkee"
most gratuitously lugubrious 'pop song of all time
patches...by dickie lee:
Down by the river that flows by the coal yards stand wooden houses with shutters torn down. There lives a girl everybody calls Patches. Patches my darling of old Shantytown.
We planned to marry when June brought the summer I couldn't wait to make Patches my bride now I don't see how that ever can happen. My folks say no and my heart breaks inside.
Patches oh what can I do I swear I'll always love you but a girl from that place would just bring me disgrace so my folks won't let me love you.
Each night I cry as I think of that shanty and pretty patches there watching the door. She doesn't know that I can't come to see her Patches must think that I love her no more.
I hear a neighbor telling my father he says a girl name of Patches was found floating face down in that dirty old river that flows by the coal yards in old Shantytown.
Patches oh what can I do I swear I'll always love you. It may not be right but I'll join you tonight. Patches I'm coming to you.
fascinated to learn more of Dickie Lee's ouvre?
Dickey Lee - Tell Laura I Love Her Dickey Lee - Crystal Chandeliers
Dickey Lee - Never Ending Song Of Love
Dickey Lee - Laurie (Strange Things Happen) --Steve Goodman's cover of this is phenomenally funny)
Dickey Lee - I Saw Linda Yesterday Dickey Lee - Ballad Of A Teenage Queen
Dickey Lee - Ebony Eyes
etc...
Billy, don't be a hero. Don't be a fool with your life...
i liked the greatest american hero song. liked the show too.
Billy, don't be a hero. Don't be a fool with your life...
BlakNo1 | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 12:37 pm | #
Wasn't that written during the Vietnam War too?
Focus--that's great news! I wasn't the least bit sad to lose Reagan that week, but man, Smarty Jones losing the Triple Crown...that was tough. What a horse! What a life! And don't you wish you were living it?
her eyes - oh god I could kill you for that "You are so beautiful" piece of shit.
Oy oy oy!
Everything I've ever heard from Billy Joel sounded like ass. Compared to him, Hall and Oates are awesome.
No, I won't flame you, int argc. It's about damn time somebody was brave enough to point out the obvious about the Sex Pistols. I doubt they thought they didn't suck, at least until the drugs took hold. Their reputation is a tribute to nearly thirty years of hipster bullshit.
B1 Bummer | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 12:12 pm | #
Well, that's true, perhaps they are in some way redeemed by the fact that they knew they sucked. But if I have to listen to one more hipster tell me about how great "Never Mind the Bollocks..." is I think I'm going to puke. With punk, I really don't get on board until the LA scene started.
int argc, Smiling Conqueror | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 12:18 pm | #
Well puke away you poseurs. Because that really is one of the greatest rock n' roll albums of all time.
And yeah, the swindle's part of the deal.
One thing about the Pistols, I'll never hate any of them for selling out. I'll never have to feel that fucking sick empty hole punched in my gut feeling, the one that empties you of so much that you valued even if a bunch of it was over-zealous youthful idealism, no, I'll never get that feeling from anything that Johnny or Malcolm or the other surviving Pistols do no matter what it is, say, Popemobile driver at the Golden Corral, I'll never ever ever get that feeling from that, they'll never ever ever let me down the way I felt uttterly and completely betrayed and even personally humiliated when I heard The Clash's "London Calling" yeah Fucking "London Calling" The supreme anti-Thatcherite, anti-neoliberal anthem being used in a MOTHERFUCKING JAGUAR Commercial!
JAGUAR!?!?!?!
Any kind of commercial use would be bad but that was a knife in the gut and a wrenching twist.
And thereby depriving me of the ability to MOURN YOUR OWN FUCKING DEATH JOE STRUMMER! Less than a year later!?
Why did you do that? Why did you feel you needed to do that?
So don't even start talking to me about punk or what's hip or a pose,
I'll only gob on you while I'm full-bore ranting, and then I'll demonstrate how to slam dance.
btw,
since atrios is away...are we having any kitty blogging tonight?
who is minding the kitties?
Hehe, all this reminds me of Dave Barry's foray into the world of bad songs. His choice for all-time worst was MacArthur Park, and I'm inclined to agree. One of the contestants on the newest American Idol sang it a few weeks back - if the world was just, she would have been booted then and there. Or maybe she'll win because it's just one more sign of the Apocalypse.
(Check out my homepage for Dave's column).
I know I've been coming here for more than a year, back before I was an old married lady...
oh, and belated grats to pie & chica toxica (enjoy all the area's fine, fine art!!)
By JIM LITKE, AP Sports Writer
[snip]
A year after he set the nation's heart fluttering, Smarty Jones still possesses the looks, charm and self-assuredness of a champion.
We must find out if Jim Litke is a Repub; if so, we have a fourth (or is it fifth) donor for the Republican Petting Zoo, announced here yesterday.
(For those who missed it, as of yet we have three animals on display: Rick Santorum's dog, John Cornyn's box turtle, and Dubya's well milked horse. There were several suggestions involving Liddy Dole, but the zookepers are still examining their, um, qualifications.)
I once knew that a relationship was over when my girlfriend started pretending to like Billy Joel. She knew how much I hated him and she did it to spite me.
SWR | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 12:35 pm | #
Wow, what a diabolical torture. I like the way your girlfriend thinks.
(Seen your post already, HC)
Rmj, Wandering Aengus
While I may compare favorably with JimmyJeff in all candor I'm not sure "post" is appropriate.
her eyes - oh god I could kill you for that "You are so beautiful" piece of shit.
Oy oy oy!
Tena
Ahhhh....schadenfreude....it's a beautiful feeling.
Excuse me if this has already been posted, but have you read this over at dailykos
"In the Ghetto," by Elvis.
Dammit, it's Chicken Noodle News!!
Smitty Werbenmanjensen | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 12:35 pm | #
The Criminally Negligent Network?
Can't be worse than the noxious "The Night Chicago Died" by Paper Lace: contrary to its lyrics, there is NO "East Side of Chicago."
DJ
Sure there is, we just call it Lake Michigan.
Also you forgot "Brandy".
What was that Billy Joel song where he was just reading off news events?
We Didn't Start the Fire, which is one of those songs where somebody thinks they're making a Big Important Point but it just really sounds incredibly shallow.
Kind of like that song "Cult of Personality" by what's-his-name.
PLEASE IGNORE THE LAST POST THAT WAS SINED BY MY HANDLE HE IS THE REEL NAMESTEELER NOT ME
THE ONLY REASON I FELT I HAD TO GO PUBIC WITH THE SHELTON PONY RUMOR WAS TOO KNIP IT IN THE BUD SO TO SPEEK AND MAKE CHRISTOL CLEAR I NEVER WOOD UNDER ANY CIRCUMSATNCE ALLOW MYSELF TO BE FUCKED BY ANYTHING THAT HAD MORE THAN TO LEGS
I once knew that a relationship was over when my girlfriend started pretending to like Billy Joel. She knew how much I hated him and she did it to spite me.
SWR | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 12:35 pm | #
Wow, what a diabolical torture. I like the way your girlfriend thinks.
abyssgazer | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 12:38 pm | #
She didn't actually listen to him, just picking fights when I dissed him.
Me: Oh fuck. Billy Joel. Turn the radio off.
She: No. Leave it on. I kind of like it.
Me: You're fucking kidding me.
She: What. What's so bad about it?
Me: AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Alrighty, then. It still sucks, though.
Tena...sorry, had to be done.
and who could forget this immortal classic:
everybody wang-chung tonight?
"In the Ghetto," by Elvis.
John | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 12:39 pm | #
Do not diss the King.
My pony! (What else?)
Holden Caulfield
Ohhhh! I'll love him and squeeze him and call him George.
Years of thereapy have enabled me to get the title, artist and most of the lyrics out of my head, except "Billy Joe came down the river and made a woman out of me". If this rings any bells, please silence them immeadiately.
See the tree how big it's grown but friend it hasn't been too long
It wasn't big
I laughed at her and she got mad the first day that she planted it
Was just a twig
Then the first snow came and she ran out to brush the snow away
So it wouldn't die
Came running in all excited slipped and almost hurt herself
and laughed till I cried
She was always young at heart kinda dumb and kinda smart
And I loved her so
And I surprised her with a puppy kept me up all Christmas Eve
Two years ago
And t would sure embarrass her I came in from working late
Cause she would know
That she'd been sitting there and crying over some sad and silly
Late late show
And honey I miss you and I'm being good
I'd love to be with you if only I could
oh yes they call him the streak (doobedeedoobedee)
fastest thing on two feet (doobedeedoobedee)
"billy" was indeed written during the Vietnam war.
And I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know HEY!
Probably the most gratuitously lugubrious 'pop song of all time
Patches...by dickie lee:
Down by the river that flows by the coal yards stand wooden houses with shutters torn down. There lives a girl everybody calls Patches. Patches my darling of old Shantytown.
We planned to marry when June brought the summer I couldn't wait to make Patches my bride now I don't see how that ever can happen. My folks say no and my heart breaks inside.
Patches oh what can I do I swear I'll always love you but a girl from that place would just bring me disgrace so my folks won't let me love you.
Each night I cry as I think of that shanty and pretty patches there watching the door. She doesn't know that I can't come to see her Patches must think that I love her no more.
I hear a neighbor telling my father he says a girl name of Patches was found floating face down in that dirty old river that flows by the coal yards in old Shantytown.
Patches oh what can I do I swear I'll always love you. It may not be right but I'll join you tonight. Patches I'm coming to you.
fascinated to learn more of Dickie Lee's ouvre?
Dickey Lee - Tell Laura I Love Her Dickey Lee - Crystal Chandeliers
Dickey Lee - Never Ending Song Of Love
Dickey Lee - Laurie (Strange Things Happen) --Steve Goodman's cover of this is phenomenally funny)
Dickey Lee - I Saw Linda Yesterday Dickey Lee - Ballad Of A Teenage Queen
Dickey Lee - Ebony Eyes
etc...
Ok Ok - I absolutely loathe Proud Mary and Blue Bayou.
Just loathe them both - I don't care who does those songs, even Tina Turner doing Proud Mary doesn't redeem it.
It stinks.
And Blue Bayou is enough to make my fillings ache.
Chicken Noodle News
ROFLMFAO
prefect
i know way too much about bad music.
Kind of like that song "Cult of Personality" by what's-his-name.
I get what you mean, but I loved "Cult of Personality" and all of Loving Colour's first album.
"CoP" was probably the loudest thing I ever heard when it came out, and for that, I dug it.
Can't be worse than the noxious "The Night Chicago Died" by Paper Lace: contrary to its lyrics, there is NO "East Side of Chicago."
DJ
Well, anoyone can make a mistake.
[Psst - Bono, MLK, Jr., was murdered in the evening].
this probably doesn't really count, but everything by neil diamond sucks.
I actually liked Jackson Brown's Pretender album. Nothing before it or after it, though.
As for Billy Joel, well, at least twice a week, it's nine o'clock on a Saturday.
worst song? how about Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler and Robin Moore's Ballad of the Green Beret? Written in the 60s, but it sure got too much airtime in the 70s.
Fighting soldiers from the sky
Fearless men who jump and die
Men who mean just what they say
The brave men of the Green Beret
CHORUS:
Silver wings upon their chest
These are men, America's best
One hundred men will test today
But only three win the Green Beret
Trained to live off nature's land
Trained in combat, hand-to-hand
Men who fight by night and day
Courage peak from the Green Berets
CHORUS
Back at home a young wife waits
Her Green Beret has met his fate
He has died for those oppressed
Leaving her his last request
Put silver wings on my son's chest
Make him one of America's best
He'll be a man they'll test one day
Have him win the Green Beret
I once knew that a relationship was over when my girlfriend started pretending to like Billy Joel. She knew how much I hated him and she did it to spite me.
SWR | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 12:35 pm | #
Wow, what a diabolical torture. I like the way your girlfriend thinks.
abyssgazer | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 12:38 pm |
Just get your hands on a pile of Rush and maybe some Foghat albums. She'll stop real quick. Or you'll find yourself without a girlfriend.
Which will be double the torture since you'll have Captain Jack going through your head for weeks.
Chicken Noodle News
ROFLMFAO
perfect
Ohhhh! I'll love him and squeeze him and call him George.
It's a good day. It's Friday, and Lying Bastard's out of the country. Now if we could just find some way to keep him out.
this probably doesn't really count, but everything by neil diamond sucks
You are the chair, I am the moon... or am I misremembering that??
bobby goldsboro had one called "Watching Scotty Grow", which was almost as lame as Honey. And, ahem, variety show.
Wasn't he the "God didn't make little green apples and it don't rain in Indianapolis in the summertime" guy?
[Psst - Bono, MLK, Jr., was murdered in the evening].
Holden Caulfield
Well, it was morning in Ireland, right?
Olaf,
UNless it's covered by Johnny Cash.
this probably doesn't really count, but everything by neil diamond sucks.
Olaf glad and big | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 12:43 pm | #
oh yeah, the diamond bites!
Ok Ok - I absolutely loathe Proud Mary and Blue Bayou.
Completely agree with you, Tena. And while I was a big fan of Linda Ronstadt's back in the day, her rendition of Blue Bayou sucked dick the way Bush strokes horse cock. It's pretty hard to make Blue Bayou sound good no matter who is singing that song.
Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler and Robin Moore's Ballad of the Green Beret?
There is a jukebaox in a bar just outside of Ft. Sam in San Antonio that has that song on three times. I (very) briefly dated a GB wannabe who would play that travesty for hours at a time while I kicked his butt in pool.
Arggh. Bad memories begone.
This thread is becoming painful.
we can dance. we can dance. everybody look at your hands.
or...
su-su-sudiooo!!!
[evidence that the 80's were probably worse than the 70's...]
Now if we could just find some way to keep him out.
Lock the door and lower the blinds?
FUCK HALOSCAN
BUSH TOO
Sorry, Wang Chung did have a couple of good songs, so I can almost forgive Everybody Wang Chung. Dance Hall Days is still a good song - don't care what anyone says.
And True Love ain't bad, either.
It's a good day. It's Friday, and Lying Bastard's out of the country. Now if we could just find some way to keep him out.
Fed ;;up
Good for us, bad for them.
Barry, in re: the Sex Pistols
Johnny Rotten "recently appeared on a British reality television series called “I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here!,” " according to the linked article.
cite
Sid Vicious was a joke.
I feel your pain about The Clash, though... if there's one London punk band I could get behind, it's them.
It's a good thing no one can see the embarassed grin on my face as I realize I know every one of the songs being refered to here!
I was lead here in late '03 from Salon. Lots of folks there kept mentioning this "Atrios" guy and I figured I'd check him out - I might learn a few things.
Boy howdy, have I ever. Thanks to you Atriots, I and my SO are more politically aware then we've ever been. There's a lot of wisom floating around these posts...
and now:
"Touch the breeeeeeze
Catch my love as it goes saaaaiiiling..."
AAAAAAUUUGGGH!!!!
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this probably doesn't really count, but everything by neil diamond sucks
You are the chair, I am the moon... or am I misremembering that??
Yeah, I think that's what SNL was satirizing with their Neil Diamond meets Bigfoot duo.
i like blue bayou if roy orbison's singing it. can't stand proud mary.
Anyone remember Bobby Sherman?
Hey Little Woman, better make up your mind...
Shane MacGowan's version of "Cracklin' Rose" is THE SHIT. Greatest cover ever.
blue bayou sounds like bad screeching.
abyssgazer...you beat me to it. "Watching Scotty Grow" is truly wretched, as is the country song "Don't Take the Girl."
I've seen Living Colour 4 times, and I'll be happy to see them again 4 more times.
Did anyone mention "We Built This City" yet?
I felt uttterly and completely betrayed and even personally humiliated when I heard The Clash's "London Calling" yeah Fucking "London Calling" The supreme anti-Thatcherite, anti-neoliberal anthem being used in a MOTHERFUCKING JAGUAR Commercial!
Fuck that: A Jane's Addiction song is being used to promote Coors now.
bobby goldsboro had one called "Watching Scotty Grow",
The gaggle theme song.
and who could forget this immortal classic:
everybody wang-chung tonight?
her eyes | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 12:40 pm
Okay, NOW you should start running.
Thersites led me to Eschaton. He'd sit on the couch, hunched over his laptop, reading for hours and laughing out loud. Finally, I said, "What the fuck are you doing?" The rest is history, natch.
New news up at EschaCon!
"Every where around the world...they're coming to america!"
My mother did a dance aerobics number to that tune when her group performed at the Wrold's Fair in Knoxvill, TN, 1984. Mom looked great, but the music haunted me all summer when she practiced.
That was the year I began to listen to Judas Priest.
Did anyone mention "We Built This City" yet?
Not ashamed to admit I kinda like that one. What?
Go Ajai! Thanks for the link, Shaw.
That this kid was arrested is simply outrageous. Does anyone doubt now that we live in a totalitarian state?
I have always detested Phil Collins.
Love Peter Gabriel though with a passion I cannot always contain.
You'd have to be pretty clueless to think the Sex Pistols weren't any good. They were rough, raw, unskilled and unrehearsed, but they were brilliant. They started a f'n movement fer fucks sake (yes, it's arguable, but the Sex Pistols started it all off).
Brilliant stuff.
Think of all the utter crap that is around today, exemplified by Blink 182. Do you think they would sound like they did if the Sex Pistols didn't exist? This isn't an indication that the Sex Pistols were bad, rather that they were brilliant, and it's taken the consumer-rock industry an entire generation to co-opt the sound and turn it into a product, crap, which is garbage.
So where was I...
If you doubt the brilliance of the Sex Pistols, try getting into Public Image Limited. It's extremely hard work at first, because it sounds awful, but when you train yourself to it it's absolutely sublime.
And yes the Sex Pistols "sold out" in their mega-tour a few years ago. But the "sell-out" was a raised middle finger in the face of the wankers who bitch and whine about people "selling out". The Sex Pistols never sold out, they took advantage of an opportunity for some easy cash. It's not like they were doing anything else at the time, and they didn't slob anyone's knob to do it.
the worst song?
well, that bullshit by asscroft comes to mind..
and that song atrios posted a couple of months back with the alice cooper look alike, that song is worse than any bad seventies song.
by far.
Neil Diamond: "They're coming to America...TODAY!"
A Jane's Addiction song is being used to promote Coors now.
A favorite Onion headline: "Song about Heroin Used to Promote Bank"
Bobby Sherman
Used to love him on Here Come the Brides ?
Listening to Cash's cover of "Solitary Man" was like hearing a different song. Damn, I miss that man.
Fuck that: A Jane's Addiction song is being used to promote Coors now.
Led Zep's Rock-n-Roll promoting Cadilac....
John Bonham returned from the dead and immediately aspirated some of Jimmy Page's vomit.
Okay, we've truly entered the postmodern blog age when our parody troll has a namestealer.
And don't know if this has been posted yet, via dKos, Santorum to be investigated for tax breaks.
Seems he was claiming his dog as an, um, dependent.
Okay, no actually, it has to do with his claiming the house he doesn't live in outside Pittsburgh as his primary residence.
julie julie julie do you love me?
i never could see what all the swooning was about with bobby sherman.
alone again naturally--gilbert o'sullivan. that was one guy i was glad to see alone.
vicki, i hate phil collins too.
Fuck that: A Jane's Addiction song is being used to promote Coors now.
Smitty Werbenmanjensen | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 12:48 pm | #
Let's not forget "Lust for Life" in all those Carnival Cruiselines commercials.
"Liberal media" notices stinking rotting fish head:
WASHINGTON May 6, 2005 — In President Bush's first 10 months, GOP fundraiser Jack Abramoff and his lobbying team logged nearly 200 contacts with the new administration as they pressed for friendly hires at federal agencies and sought to keep the Northern Mariana Islands exempt from the minimum wage and other laws, records show.
The meetings between Abramoff's lobbying team and the administration ranged from Attorney General John Ashcroft to policy advisers in Vice President Dick Cheney's office, according to his lobbying firm billing records.
Abramoff, a $100,000-plus fundraiser for Bush, is now under criminal investigation for some of his lobbying work. His firm boasted its lobbying team helped revise a section of the Republican Party's 2000 platform to make it favorable to its island client.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/w...TC-
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"Everybody was kung-fu fighting..."
And little big kitty blogging...
We will,
We will,
Rock you!
Did anyone mention "We Built This City" yet?
John | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 12:47 pm
you're the frist. however, i was about to mention that blind melon song that turns me into a homicidal maniac whenever i hear it. too bad shannon hoon overdosed, i would have loved to caress him lovingly with a hatchet.
Love Peter Gabriel though with a passion I cannot always contain.
You and me both.
A few days after the tsunami, my local cool radio station (www.kexp.org) played PG's "Here Comes the Flood." Just wept openly for minutes afterward.
According to my daughter, "Bohemian Rhapsody" is way overated
the sex pistols didn't start anything. they just reminded people that rock was always about being a punk to begin with.
And nobody mentions Tiny Tim's greatest hits?
Who did that song "Last Date?" It was about teenagers in a car wreck. Truly awful.
The "Falsh Gordon," soundtrack has to rate up thre with the worst. So bad, it was hysterical.
A Jane's Addiction song is being used to promote Coors now.
Smitty Werbenmanjensen | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 12:48 pm
which one - "nothing's shocking" with the line sex is violent? or something from "been caught stealing"?
a beer commercial that condoned shoplifting might actually be a winner with me.
Anybody out there up for a Terry Jacks medley?
Wait EschaCon is going to be in Philly over Labor Day weekend?
Crap, will be in Vegas for a wedding.
Oh well, I hope there'll be pictures. *cough* Vestal Vespa *cough*
Meant "Flash Gordon," of course.
FLASH! AH AHHHHH! SAVIOR OF THE UNIVERSE!
Ah Watertiger--such pretty kitties!
Led Zep's Rock-n-Roll promoting Cadillac....
Led Zep wasn't Caddy's agency's first choice.
See the tagline "Break Through"? Agency tried to get rights to The Doors' "Break On Through". Two of the three surviving members were OK with the idea. However, the drummer's response was something along the lines of "I don't care how much money you offer me. I'm not gonna help sell gas-guzzling monster SUVs!". That killed the deal.
Also, Plant and Paige are Caddy fans...
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i work on the 70th floor of an office building, and i just saw a butterfly outside my window. i didn't know butterflies could fly that high. that's at least 700 feet in the air. i guess you learn something new every day.
Love Peter Gabriel though with a passion I cannot always contain.
Vicki
"Passion" album = was a sure way to get to second base in school.
int, argc
Frankly I would be disappointed in Johnny if he didn't fully take advantage of "Reality TV" shows for publicity whoring purposes.
See, he'll never let me down.
Sid Vicious was a joke, but it was a real gut buster.
Back in the day, there was a lot of Sid Lives kind of crap. My line was always Sid Vicious is rotting in the grave. Food for fucking worms.
He had nothing on Johnny Thunders though. I sure hope he donated his body to science because it was a miracle he lived even half as long as he eventually did.
Say one bad word about Joey or Dee Dee Ramone though and I'll personally hunt you down and administer Louisville Slugger beating.
(*Lamenting Dee Dee's stupidity vis-a-vis the heroin habit that finally killed him is fine by me though.)
Current CNN Poll:
Are you satisfied with the apology from runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks?
Yes
No
Where's option #3?
Imagine how many millions of people would, if given the option, choose this response:
Fuck you for asking.
If you include country, Tim McGraw and Toby Keith each have several candidates for the title.
It's that time again...
VIERNES CHUCHA BLOGGING!
a.k.a. Friday Dog-Blogging
.
And yes the Sex Pistols "sold out" in their mega-tour a few years ago. But the "sell-out" was a raised middle finger in the face of the wankers who bitch and whine about people "selling out". The Sex Pistols never sold out, they took advantage of an opportunity for some easy cash. It's not like they were doing anything else at the time, and they didn't slob anyone's knob to do it.
Magnum | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 12:49 pm | #
I have to say that, in all seriousness, "I'm so punk I sold out" is the most convoluted logic I've ever heard a fellow lib utter.
I don't deny that they had a large impact on music; I'm simply saying that their music is rubbish, and that they were a bunch of untalented drug addicts. Now, it's very important that they got people thinking "hey, if untalented drug addicts can get famous, maybe I can too." The DIY ethic that punk brought to music is probably its most valuable contribution.
/loves lo-fi
//fires up a Mountain Goats album
Love Peter Gabriel though with a passion I cannot always contain.
Ah, thank you.
"The Hum-Drum." "Solisbury Hill." and, in a pinch, "Supper's Ready."
Now I can purge the short-term memory banks of the long-term nightmares.
I was about to reach for the Sondheim. Nothing clears tha air like songs about murderous barbers, but it's a bit extreme....
*cough* Meatloaf *cough*
I agree with those who say the Sex Pistols couldn't sell out any more than Spinal Tap could. (Magnum gets it precisely right IMHO.) It was always, from the beginning, elaborate (or not so elaborate) theater. And damn catchy tunes; as our Professor of PowerPop Mary noted on her blog yesterday, the Sex Pistols really are more PowerPop than Punk.
And regarding PIL, I can't tell you how many times over the past five years Johnny L. wailing "Anger is an Energy" has played over and over in my head.
I have always detested Phil Collins.
Love Peter Gabriel though with a passion I cannot always contain.
Vicki | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 12:49 pm
me too, although even he has songs that require forgiveness: "shock the monkey" comes to mind, although the video is great.
at one time i wanted to BE peter gabriel, but i still haven't worked out the equations to make my interdimensional travel machine function properly...
Anybody out there up for a Terry Jacks medley?
see shots contest post.
Phil Collins sucks ass.
And, I'd sooner listen to a 2-hour tape of Joey Ramone burping and farting than the Sex Pistols, except for "big tits across america". That bit is hilarious.
Okay, I cop that I love Queen and I love Bohemian Rhapsody. It makes me laugh every time I hear it, and I have heard it thousands of times. I miss Freddie M.
I can appreciate the Sex Pistols, although they are hard on the ears.
And I did enjoy Here Come the Brides (I was 8 or 9 when that show came on, I believe). I loved the gal who played...I can't remember her name, I think the name of the actress was Bridget something.
Option #4 Who gives a shit?
Oooh, I'm having another 70s bad tv flashback. OK, remember Helen Reddy had that song "I Am Woman", a really bad song; and Mac Davis had another bad song called "Baby, Don't Get Hooked On Me" (" 'cause I'll just use you, then I'll you free"). So, Helen, the feminist, has Mac on her variety show and she sings that song to him. I guess to prove that women can be jerks just as well as men?
Nightmare fuel.
I was led to Eschaton by Media Whores Online, must be over two years ago. I started reading regularly around the time of the troubles with -- fuck, can't remember his name -- that guy who was sacked because of his comments about Hollywood Jews propagating violent films -- the trouble with Atrios was that this guy wanted to sue Atrios because of some comments that people were making in Haloscan and this guy was going to blow Atrios's cover. His name slips me, but we all know who I'm talking about.
I was led to Media Whores Online by Bartcop. I found Bartcop in Google.
"basketball jones". i actually like that one though.
Too many comments chasing too few threads.
Did anyone mention Nike using The Beatles' Revolution to sell sweatshop-made sneakers? John Lennon was rolling in his grave for that one...
A Jane's Addiction song is being used to promote Coors now.
Smitty Werbenmanjensen | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 12:48 pm
which one - "nothing's shocking" with the line sex is violent? or something from "been caught stealing"?
r@d@r
"Mountain Song".
I'm going to go listen to some old school Bob Marley and the Wailers now.
Her name was Bridget Hanley and she played "Candy."
Budweiser used the Ramones' "Blitzkreig Bop" years ago in a commercial where a Buttwiper-bedecked semi morphed into a race car...
What.
The.
FUCK?
(Now, COORS I could see using this song. )
Wang Chung did have a couple of good songs, so I can almost forgive Everybody Wang Chung.
I'm Wang Chunging right now. Aren't you?
Oh yeah and the middle brother was David Soul right?
This will get me into trouble, no doubt, but I really don't like John Fogerty. I really don't like Fogerty a whole whole lot.
this guy wanted to sue Atrios because of some comments that people were making in Haloscan and this guy was going to blow Atrios's cover. His name slips me, but we all know who I'm talking about.
Magnum
Luskin?
"Teddy Bear" by Red Sovine. 'Nuff said.
My absolute dream Las Vegas show would have (somehow co-mingled) Blue Man Group, Cirque du Soleil, and Peter Gabriel.
Oh, and Audrey Tautou next to me, whispering in languid French sensual perfection.
everybody run
the homecoming queen's got a gun
i like that one too. it's kind of embarrassing how many of these shitty songs i like.
Current CNN Poll:
Are you satisfied with the apology from runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks?
Yes
No
Where's option #3?
Imagine how many millions of people would, if given the option, choose this response:
Fuck you for asking.
Thank you Seraphiel. Perhaps Atrios could put up a competing poll with this option?
ha, sdf! Just caught that PIL song on The Alternative last night, in fact!
And thanks for the props!
I have not read the thread so i don't know if this has been posted.
http://dailykos.com/story/2005/5...5/5/211218/
4946
The US has finaly gone crazy.
First the catholics would not serve Kerry communion now the babtist will not let a Dem. inside the church.
I just have to say: Fuck Kerry for this:
U.S. Sen. John Kerry, visiting Louisiana for a forum on children's health care, criticized the Massachusetts Democratic Party for its expected approval of a statement in the party platform in support of same-sex marriage.
"I think it's a mistake," Kerry said. "I think it's the wrong thing, and I'm not sure it reflects the broad view of the Democratic Party in our state."
Asshole.
i can hear the words in my head, can't remember the group....
i bin thru the dessert on a horse with no name, it felt good to be out of the rain, in the dessert you do't remember your name, cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain.
la la laaalaala la la la la la
which one - "nothing's shocking" with the line sex is violent? or something from "been caught stealing"?
Mountain Song (Coming down the mountain ....)
Say one bad word about Joey or Dee Dee Ramone though and I'll personally hunt you down and administer Louisville Slugger beating.
I fear I may have already, when I said that I didn't like any pre-LA punk.
Hmm, I don't really like any post-LA punk, either.
I like LA punk
THE ONLY REASON I FELT I HAD TO GO PUBIC WITH THE SHELTON PONY RUMOR WAS TOO KNIP IT IN THE BUD SO TO SPEEK AND MAKE CHRISTOL CLEAR I NEVER WOOD UNDER ANY CIRCUMSATNCE ALLOW MYSELF TO BE FUCKED BY ANYTHING THAT HAD MORE THAN TO LEGS
This is the funniest damn post I've ever read.
Shouldn't this just stop all the trolls in their tracks? It won't, I know, cuz they won't get it, but stil...
Creedence rocks!
Hey Netflix fans
They have a few Peter Gabriel videos to rent.
Anyone remember dead teenager songs such as this?:
TELL LAURA I LOVE HER
(Jeff Barry/Ben Raleigh)
Laura and Tommy were lovers
He wanted to give her everything
Flowers, presents and most of all, a wedding ring
He saw a sign for a stock car race
A thousand dollar prize it read
He couldn't get Laura on the phone
So to her mother Tommy said
Tell Laura I love her, tell Laura I need her
Tell Laura I may be late
I've something to do that cannot wait
He drove his car to the racing grounds
He was the youngest driver there
The crowd roared as they started the race
'Round the track they drove at a deadly pace
No one knows what happened that day
How his car overturned in flames
But as they pulled him from the twisted wreck
With his dying breath, they heard him say
Tell Laura I love her, tell Laura I need her
Tell Laura not to cry
My love for her will never die
And in the chapel where Laura prays
For her Tommy who passed away
It was just for Laura he lived and died
Alone in the chapel she can hear him cry
Tell Laura I love her, tell Laura I need her
Tell Laura not to cry
My love for her will never die
everybody run
the homecoming queen's got a gun
i like that one too. it's kind of embarrassing how many of these shitty songs i like.
Olaf glad and big
Anything by Julie Brown is worth memorializing.
Gonna have to go home tonight and find the downloads of her stuff. Been too long since "Earth girls are easy."
And I can tell everyone: "I did it...for Johnny!"
Best parody of a bad '50's ballad ever written.
I might have a different perspective on "Cult of Personality" if the lyric mentioned Malcolm X or MLK.
I'm not a musician, but someone who is once told me that he thought the Sex Pistols were talentless until he tried to play their stuff.
Gimlet,
yeah, that's him.
Um, Blue Dragon, Atrios posted it on this site...
This will get me into trouble, no doubt, but I really don't like John Fogerty. I really don't like Fogerty a whole whole lot.
Stunned silence.
More stunned silence, followed by significant amounts of uncomprehension.
Yet more silence (of the stunned kind), mixing with ample helpings of disbelief.
*cough* Meatloaf *cough*
left rev., Jolly Menace | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 12:55 pm
like a bat outta hell i'll be gone before the mornin' comes/
when the night is over, like a bat outta hell, i'll be gone, gone, gone...
and a nice screaming guitar solo from producer todd rundgren...
and i just have to say this. i am a very good musician, with professional experience and training going back decades. i can confirm that glen matlock, steve jones and paul cook were three of the greatest session musicians to walk the face of the earth. and if you can watch films of johnny's performances without feeling your heart pound from the intensity of his venom, you probably have been smoking too many far out crops.
yeah. there goes my street cred.
horse with no name
America.
Smarty Jones...
What a horse! What a life! And don't you wish you were living it?
What? Living in a smelly barn and having sex with horses? No thanks I'll pass on that one.
RMJ, any other attorneys on thread: is it common for bail to be increased after one is arraigned? This has happened to the daughter's ex-bf. The charge is CA PC 211, which is robbery.
all those sappy john denver songs. rocky mountain high, calypso. i like country roads though.
thnak you BlakNo1
I will not get involved in the "sex Pistols suck" versus the "Sex Pistols rock" discussion. I know everyone will be surprised by this decision, but I feel strongly about it.
Influence is an amazing, subtle thing, though,
I have to disagree on the John Fogerty issue, as well. I <3 CCR.
Come on, how can you listen to Fortunate Son and NOT think of the preznit?
that guy who was sacked because of his comments about Hollywood Jews propagating violent films -- the trouble with Atrios was that this guy wanted to sue Atrios because of some comments that people were making in Haloscan and this guy was going to blow Atrios's cover. His name slips me, but we all know who I'm talking about.
That would be Donald "Gollum the Stalker" Luskin.
Didn't know about the Jew stuff, though
I've been lurking (and occasionally commenting) here since the Atrios vs. Luskin story on slashdot back in 2003 (http://shorl.com/getebevosuju). I don't have the attention span to follow these long threads, though.
I also have a major internet crush on Athenae.
And in the 10th grade, I starred as Tom Jones (in the play, silly).
Bobo's World
from the Timesleader.com:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Maryland woman who told authorities U.S. Rep. Don Sherwood choked her in his Washington apartment has hired a law firm and says police have refused to give her a copy of her 911 call.
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A Washington Metropolitan Police report states that Ore told police she locked herself in a bathroom and called 911 after Sherwood “choked her for no apparent reason” while giving her a backrub in his D Street apartment.
Sherwood, 64, told police he was giving Ore a backrub when she “jumped up” and ran to the bathroom, the report stated.
Was a falafal involved??? More at 11.
Blue Dragon | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 1:01 pm |
Holy crap.
Even the pastors are saying it:
Teetering on the Brink of Theocracy
Magnum gets it.
They had a really great sound, even though Sid probably was the worst bass player that ever lived.
The thing about their sound, it was, to steal a line, a different kind of tension. At every moment it threatened to come completely apart, yet it never did. Amazing really.
Other great English bands:
The Fall
X-Ray Spex
Eater
I should stop....
Really what was said about the Pistols is undeserved and should instead be levelled at Billy Idol where it would be the truth.
"Ever get the feeling you've been had?"
ANd no quarter will be given to Patti Smith disparagers, I don't care what crazy shit she might say.
The "Falsh Gordon," soundtrack has to rate up thre with the worst. So bad, it was hysterical.
left rev., Jolly Menace
I'm not a Queen fan at all but I very much like the Flash Gordon soundtrack. You're not going to find me listening to it at home but as far as music fitting a movie, I thought it was right on.
And yes, I also liked the movie.
"Mountain Song".
Yoshimi | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 12:57 pm |
that's funny. coors selling beer with a song in which the singer tells his fans to kill themselves.
"cash in now honey! cash in this minute!"
i guess a lot of people didn't pick up on that.....
America:
On the first part of the journey
I was looking at all the life
There were plants and birds and rocks and things
There was sand and hills and rings
The first thing I met was a fly with a buzz
And the sky with no clouds
The heat was hot and the ground was dry
But the air was full of sound
I've been through the desert on a horse with no name
It felt good to be out of the rain
In the desert you can remember your name
'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain
La, la ...
After two days in the desert sun
My skin began to turn red
After three days in the desert fun
I was looking at a river bed
And the story it told of a river that flowed
Made me sad to think it was dead
You see I've been through the desert on a horse with no name
It felt good to be out of the rain
In the desert you can remember your name
'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain
La, la ...
After nine days I let the horse run free
'Cause the desert had turned to sea
There were plants and birds and rocks and things
there was sand and hills and rings
The ocean is a desert with it's life underground
And a perfect disguise above
Under the cities lies a heart made of ground
But the humans will give no love
You see I've been through the desert on a horse with no name
It felt good to be out of the rain
In the desert you can remember your name
'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain
La, la ...
Omigod- Chicago
Fogerty is a nice man, though, Vicki. But small, maybe 5'8". ANd he hates GWB, so he's got that going for him.
Meatloaf is interesting because he's really more of a performance artist than a rocker.
Loved him in Rocky Horror.
"The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle" needs to be on DVD.
The Pistols were always farce, and very well played.
That would be Donald "Gollum the Stalker" Luskin.
Didn't know about the Jew stuff, though
Aren't you mixing Easterbrook and Luskin?
I'm not a musician, but someone who is once told me that he thought the Sex Pistols were talentless until he tried to play their stuff.
He wasn't trying very hard.
"blister in the sun", by the violent femmes. not a bad song, really, but god i have heard it way too many times.
Barry Freed,
You know our boy steve simels WORSHIPS Patti Smith, right? Google their names together--you'll see what I mean.
NYMary, I like Fogerty.
Tena isn't a fan.
U.S. Sen. John Kerry, visiting Louisiana for a forum on children's health care, criticized the Massachusetts Democratic Party for its expected approval of a statement in the party platform in support of same-sex marriage.
"I think it's a mistake," Kerry said. "I think it's the wrong thing, and I'm not sure it reflects the broad view of the Democratic Party in our state."
It's because of shit like that, that I changed my registration to independent.
Hasta luego, beloved moonbats...
gots me some bidness to take care of...
will check back later, ceteris paribus...tho probably not before the sund drops below the yardarm...
cheers, dears...
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I will not get involved in the "sex Pistols suck" versus the "Sex Pistols rock" discussion. I know everyone will be surprised by this decision, but I feel strongly about it.
Well, to live up to their own aesthetic, the Sex Pistols kinda have to suck in order to rock, so the question is moot.
Also, fuck John Kerry!
"It's, it's, a Ballroom Blitz"
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Some female Eschatonian (possibly even Vicki?) has had a groupie thing with a member of Chicago. (Correct me if I'm wrong, Vic--it came up this summer.
all those sappy john denver songs. rocky mountain high, calypso. i like country roads though.
Dammit. I wanted to see Denver in concert and was actually checking the internets to see when he dropped his plane in the drink a week or two later. At least he went doing something he really loved.
Well, Eddie Money's "Take Me Home Tonight" where Eddie says,
"I've gotta hunger, yeh, it's a Hunger"
...That Eddie, he's a GENIUS!!
OH, and the "Lord's Prayer", the lyrics are very weak.
You would (wood?) thinx the Horsie jokes might have helped a bit...
Nope:
http://tinyurl.com/bjjm9
Really what was said about the Pistols is undeserved and should instead be levelled at Billy Idol where it would be the truth.
I'll give you that one. Or at least part of it: Billy Idol was bullshit, and way worse than the Sex Pistols.
ANd no quarter will be given to Patti Smith disparagers, I don't care what crazy shit she might say.
Barry Freed | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 1:06 pm | #
And that one too, actually.
""blister in the sun", by the violent femmes. not a bad song, really, but god i have heard it way too many times."
"Add it Up" is a way better song. I heart the VFs.
that horse with no name--what happened on days three thru eight? i've always wondered???
I will not get involved in the "sex Pistols suck" versus the "Sex Pistols rock" discussion.
Macs rOOl! PCs R tha suXXorz!
yeah. we shouldn't have gone there.
but we always do.
Billy Idol - fakest punk evah.
Meatloaf is interesting because he's really more of a performance artist than a rocker.
Loved him in Rocky Horror.
Vicki
Picky, picky, picky!
Meatloaf again?
NYMary, I like Fogerty.
Tena isn't a fan.
Vicki
D'oh! I am so easily confused. Next you're gonna tell me she nailed the Chicago guy....
anybody can play the sex pistols stuff with like, an afternoon of training.
OK really tho- compare lyrics of Horse with No Name with say, 50 Cent/Candy Shop
Omigod- Chicago
Footloose | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 1:07 pm | #
"If you leave me now, you take away the very heart of me. Whoo-ooo-whooo--ooo, baby, please don't go."
Something like that. Don't want to remember it too well, if you know what I mean.
but we always do.
r@d@r | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 1:10 pm | #
Oh hell no, let's not have that!
What do you think this is, Fark? ONE flamewar per thread.
wot r@d@r said too.
Try to play some of The Fall's stuff too. Also very deceptively easy.
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int argc
That's cool. I like it too. That's not what I meant.
I was married to someone who was involved in that scene. LA vs NYC punk wars were a ritual.
Also, fuck John Kerry!
rorschach | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 1:09 pm | #
Are we all catching now?
Aren't you mixing Easterbrook and Luskin?
I wasn't mixin anybody. Luskin's just the dude who threatend Atrios with a defamation lawsuit b/c he posted a link to something about Luskin titled Diary of a Stalker, or sumthin' like that. And part of the implied threat was that he would get the precious Gene/Sydney Lyons/Blumenthal secret identity revealed.
Woohoo - I just scored again with the Dallas paper. An asshole wrote the other day and managed to leap from Democrats and the courts to Democrats supporting pornography in such a way that it made Democrats look like pornographers.
So I wrote a response. Just heard it's going to be printed.
I think that's the 7th in the last year.
The guy was bitching about "Tyranny of the minority" - us. He fucked up by saying that we had crammed things down their throats starting with Civil Rights. I said we sure did and we were proud of it. Hope that doesn't get cut from the letter.
Ahem
"Come Sail Away"
i loved that horses song by patti smith.
Howard Dean should walk right up to Kerry and smack the taste out of his mouth, fucking douche.
""blister in the sun", by the violent femmes. not a bad song, really, but god i have heard it way too many times."
"Add it Up" is a way better song. I heart the VFs.
Sallyh
Two ex-girlfriends of mine, oddly enough, made out with the lead singer of the Violent Femmes...
Gang of Four are playing live on KEXP today (2pm Pacific, 5pm Eastern) and they stream it all. They just had The Comas on, and Sloan are on in 2 hours.
Gang of Four. love love love em.
Go Tena!!!
NYMary ~
You've got mail. Just something I was curious about.
I wasn't mixin anybody. Luskin's just the dude who threatend Atrios with a defamation lawsuit b/c he posted a link to something about Luskin titled Diary of a Stalker, or sumthin' like that.
Right. But the Hollywood Jews line was Easterbrook, not Luskin.
Sallyh:
Tax the churches into penury; i can think of nothing they contribute that i would miss...
And burn the ones that won't comply...
And imprison their preachers...
jist fuck 'em...
i lived in ny in the 80s and at punk shows, if the band started showing off, doing stuff that required some proficiency or musicianship, the audience would start throwing shit at them and yelling "fuck that! play some shitty punk rock!"
NYMary - No, I didn't nail the Chicago guy. I nailed Frank Beard of ZZTop. When we were both teenagers.
What do you think this is, Fark? ONE flamewar per thread.
int argc, Smiling Conqueror | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 1:12 pm
that's what i call the soft bigotry of low expectations. think big! let's have us an octuple helix of crossposting multithemed flames hopping from thousand post thread to thousand post thread!
i think i need some more mellaril in my cocktail...
"Questions 67 & 68" was playing on the grocery stores' muzak last night, and it seriously fucked up all my dreams. AAARRGGHHHHH!!!!
Even the pastors are saying it:
Teetering on the Brink of Theocracy
Thank you, Madame La Poissoniere. I've linked that at my blog, for later discussion.
Now, I must leave your fine company, and get some papers graded.
Yar boo sucks.
Ahem
"Come Sail Away"
The flexibility of the mind is a wonderful, terrible thing. When I was 13 I thought Styx was the cat's pajamas.
Billy Idol - fakest punk evah.
BlakNo1
Yeah, no doubt. We used to CRACK THE HELL UP when he sang "One hundred punks - ROOOOOOOOL!"
So lame.
Try to play some of The Fall's stuff too. Also very deceptively easy.
You're messing up the paintwork at the Hotel Blodel, you carry-bag man you...
My Uncle used to deal with Meatloaf through a charity he was involved with. He was never sure what to call him, so he just called him "Mr. Loaf".
That's cool. I like it too. That's not what I meant.
I was just realizing that rather than liking most punk, I really only like that kind. Give me some Black Flag and Circle Jerks... ooh, and Suicidal Tendencies. Did I make it seem like I was, I dunno, sneering about it? Didn't mean to
I was married to someone who was involved in that scene. LA vs NYC punk wars were a ritual.
Barry Freed | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 1:12 pm | #
I can only imagine!
Aren't you mixing Easterbrook and Luskin?
Yes, it's all blurry. Easterbrook was the one sacked from two separate gigs for his Jewy comments, and Luskin was the one who was going to blow Atrios's cover. Now I'm almost interested enough to look back in history to see what it was that Luskin and Atrios got in a snit with each other about.
horses by patti smith.
One of my favorite tv shows,millennium to be precise, used that song to great effect in their 2nd season finale.
Back later, peace.
It was me, NYMary. The band was Scraps, and I was scrumping the bass player.
Like god 26 -27 years ago!
The flexibility of the mind is a wonderful, terrible thing. When I was 13 I thought Styx was the cat's pajamas.
Yup. When I was 13, I thought Sting was cool. Now, he strikes me as a banal wanker.
Is it Styx that does Beth? Hate that song from here ---------to there!
Howard Dean should walk right up to Kerry and smack the taste out of his mouth, fucking douche.
BlakNo1 | Email | Homepage | 05.06.05 - 1:14 pm | #
So good it needed to be repeated.
Oh, and thank you Iowa!