Heh heh . . . today has been a pretty rough day here at work (successful, but rough) and I’m ready to crank up some tunes.
Honey Don’t — Carl Perkins
The Silver Dubloons — The Goon Show
Birdhouse In Your Soul — They Might Be Giants
Darlin’ Be Home Soon — Lovin’ Spoonful
Greenfields — Brothers Four
Hesitation Blues — Holy Modal Rounders
Enough For You — Ron Sunshine & Full Swing
Bombadier March — Matthew H. Phillips and his Circus Band
I’m Satisfied With My Gal — Jim Kweskin and the Jug Band
Zen Gospel Singing — Brian Bowers
That reminds me . . . I need to order a copy of Gigantic, the documentary about TMBG. I saw it in a theater a few years ago and liked it, and every so often think I should order a copy.
I don’t remember how I got to be interested in TMBG, except that I had copies of both Apollo 18 and Flood before I ever moved to Seattle, which was in 1991.
but here’s one not totally random (songs from my “Top Favorites” list that doesn’t include classical favorites):
Juicy — Better Than Ezra (song was used during promos for Deperate Housewives last summer)
Beautiful — Gordon Lightfoot (dedicated this one to the spouse on his last birthday)
Losing My Religion — R.E.M. (remember when the Religious Reich made a big stink about this, when it’s a Southern phrase for being at the end of one’s rope)
Merry-Go-Round — Montrose (an ex-boyfriend put this on a mix tape many moons ago; took me forever to find the album it’s on)
Celebrate Me Home — Kenny Loggins (yeah, this turned up on one of my earlier ones, too…)
West End Girls — Pet Shop Boys (love the beat and the chord progression in the opening)
Jesus Walks — Kanye West (powerful — also have it as my cell ringtone)
Going Underground — The Jam (got hooked on this when I heard it on the “Majority Report” opening)
Just Can’t Get Enough — Depeche Mode (this one always makes me smile 🙂 )
My Humps — Black-Eyed Peas (I love shakin’ all the junk in my trunk to this… 😉 )
Okay, got to get the spouse stirring so we can go have dinner…
Losing My Religion — R.E.M. (remember when the Religious Reich made a big stink about this, when it’s a Southern phrase for being at the end of one’s rope)
Huh. I didn’t know that. You learn something new every day if you’re not careful.
Cash on the Barrelhead – Leftover Salmon
Catalyst – Anna Nalick
Running – No Doubt
That’ll be the Day – Hartford Dillard Hartford
My favorite Mistake – Shery Crow
Sample in a Jar – Phish
Forgiveness – Macy Gray
Perpetual Blues Machine – Keb’ Mo’
Love’s in Need of Love Today – Joan Osborne
From Spink to Correctionville – Leo Kottke/Mike Gordon
I’m reading “A Field Guide to Evangelicals and Their Habitat” which was written by a Christian, but one with a sense of humor. Here’s my favorite passage so far:
The only evangelicals who don’t look forward the Rapture are teenage boys, who desperately want to have sex before the Rapture occurs. Teen evangelical boys usually drift to sleep each night praying fervently that God will delay the Rapture until they can lose their virginity. The threat of Rapture also helps explain the young age at which evangelicals get married and begin breeding.
As a teenager (challenging my religious upbringing…!) I asked my Mom in all seriousness if there was sex in heaven after resurrection.
Her response:
Hmmm..no. Resurrection is of flesh and bone per the New Testament gospel (interpretation) and an erection requires flesh and blood. There was no blood when Jesus was resurrected.
Pass that one on to the youngsters waiting for the rapture.
A pink-buttocked piggy bank whose tail has been replaced with abstract chew toys, is tied to an animal with an extended pink foot, as the two recline on a floral tapestry.
DF, I think you should start a regular Low Vision interpretation diary. People post photos and you interpret them. They have me snorting with laughter in a very unladylike way.
A&E’s Pride and Prejudice (1995)
Notorious
Witness
Citizen Kane
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Mulholland Drive
The Graduate
Groundhog Day
Gone with the Wind
Princess Cariboo
I’m not sure I trust any list of the Top 10 Greatest Movies Of All Time that doesn’t include The Princess Bride and The Sting.
And there are probably foreign films worthy of being on a top 10 list, but frankly, I don’t know much about foreign films. I took a film class in college 30 some years ago that was about half foreign, but I don’t remember much about them except that we saw La Strada and a German film called Wir Wunderkinder (literally, We Prodigies) about life between the wars.
Since that’s what I grabbed off the party shuffle:
Material Girl-Madonna
Dirty White Boy-Foreigner
Susie Q-Bobby McFerrin
Way Of The World-Genesis
Jerkin’ Back ‘n’ Forth-Devo
Taxman-The Beatles
When Love Goes To War-Berlin
King Of Pain-The Police
Rock ‘n’ Roll High School-The Ramones
Their Way-Bright Morning Star
Hold That Snake-Ry Cooder
Apparently my itunes randomizer has a dirty mind. Or maybe it’s just that sex is one of those major themes in music. It couldn’t be my taste in tunes…could it?
I have so much trouble with those “top 10s of all time” kind of lists… I usually do them by decade, gives me more choice and it’s easier for me. LOL. Anyway, perhaps I’m foreign film freak here, so I’ll suggest 10 great ones for Omir, listed in no particular order. Please note that I’m heavy on the Spanish/French side, for obvious reasons.
8 1/2 –Federico Fellini (most Fellini is great, but if you’ve ever seen Woody Allen’s “Stardust Memories,” then see this, and it will all make sense.)
The 400 Blows Francois Truffaut
Breathless Jean-Luc Godard (my hero)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown Pedro Almodovar (anything by Almodovar is worth seeing and very much fun as well.
Diary of a Chambermaid/or /That Obscure Object of Desire — Luis Bunuel (see all of his you can ever find… they’re getting rarer all the time)
Fitzcarraldo –Werner Herzog (challenging, maddening and insanity inducing)
Baxter –French, forget the director’s name … heart-warming tale of a murderous bull terrier…
Ma Vie en Rose (My Life in Pink) –forgot the director, Belgian, a 7 year old boy searches for the chromosome he didn’t get and which made him a boy…
Red Dwarf (not to be confused with English TV series) another sicko, hilarious Belgian film
Satyricon –Fellini again…just watched it again recently and it never loses that hallucinatory brilliance.
That should keep you busy for a while Omir… holler if you ever want more suggestions… these just flew out of my *$&# on the spur of the moment.
Thanks for the list. I’ve never seen any of those, and may have to go look them up.
But . . . why no Kurosawa on there? After I posted above I slapped my forehead and went “Duh! Kurosawa!” One summer Bravo (I think it was Bravo back before they went commercial) did a bit called Samurai Summer where Newsweek film critic David Ansen introduced a Kurosawa film every week for about three months. I got to see The Forbidden Castle, Rashomon, The Seven Samurai, Ran and I forget what-all else. Very cool stuff. Even now I have “Director:Kurosawa” set as a wish list on my TiVo, but he doesn’t seem to show up very often.
Three other foreign films I thought pretty highly of were Lagaan, an atypical Bollywood piece about a backwater village who, never having played or even seen cricket before, challenge their English occupiers to a cricket match; The Gods Must Be Crazy, a South African piece about a Bushman who receives a gift from the gods (a Coke bottle tossed out the window of a small plane) and his quest to give it back to them; and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Yeah, I know, others have done similar movies, but it was a good story with lots of action, and I’m a sucker for a good story.
I have this continuing conflict in me about Kurosawa … I’ve seen most of those titles, and appreciate them as art, but they don’t stick with me. Even though, as we all know, George Lucas pillaged The Hidden Fortress when he did Star Wars. My best explanation is that I’m incurably Western in my orientation and culture. Not that I don’t love some Japanese cinema … Tampopo and A Taxing Woman immediately come to mind… I just dunno. Blame it on my elitist Big 10 education or whatever…
Oh, and a big one I forgot… Hayao Miyazaki, Japan’s esteemed doyen of animation. He does things for me that Kurosawa (and given all due respect) could never do. He won an Oscar for Spirited Away in 2002, and his most recent, Howl’s Moving Castle just came out, and of course I immediately snapped that up. While I’m at it, I’ll suggest 2 more Miyazakis… Nausicca of the Valley of the Winds and Pom Poko, both ecologically oriented fantasies that offer a great message, beautifully realized, and still manage to entertain…
And Lagaan… I love that film… I got it several years ago and it sold me on the better “Bollywood” type films. But I’m a world music kinda guy now and that fit in with the kinds of music I gravitate to these days. Thus, some of my more inexplicable Random 10’s in the Friday lounge.
Anyway, check some of those out, Omir, and feel free to fling flowers or brickbats my way, as the case may be. 🙂
Did Miyazaki do Kiki’s Delivery Service? My granddaughter likes that film, and I enjoyed it just fine but I understand the English dialog isn’t nearly as good as the Japanese.
My daughter saw Howl’s Moving Castle (I haven’t caught up with it yet, although when it comes around on Netflix she will probably inflict it on me) and she really liked it.
Oooh, that’s another great one, NDD. Umberto D is another one of his that really slaps ya with the neo-realism and gets the old tear ducts working.
You’re right to push me back a bit in time to mention pre-60’s stuff. I guess I’ve been away from teaching film too long, and only focus on my own personal fetish directors. Selfish me.
:::crickets chirping:::
I made your shrimp and feta dish again. Damn, it just keeps getting better. But now my hands smell like garlic.
That one is even really the best a day later, I think…the flavors sort of meld together more or something.
Ha ha hahahaha. A day later…like there’s any left.
There is when there’s only 3 people to eat it. 🙂
I hesitate to tell you this: there were only two of us. :::hangs head in shame:::
nevermind.
In my defense I’ll simply add that I only had one shrimp but made up for the loss of volume with extra tomatoes and angel hair pasta.
And, and, I didn’t have lunch…(whining)
But now my hands smell like garlic.
The way you say that, it almost sounds like a bad thing.
Hmmm, now I’m thinking I can use it to my advantage somehow. Maybe I’ll dab some Warfsteiner behind my ears and seduce Mr. Nature.
Mr. Cat definitely thinks it’s an aphrodisiac…or is there another reason he licks my fingers when I’m cooking….????
Heh heh . . . today has been a pretty rough day here at work (successful, but rough) and I’m ready to crank up some tunes.
Honey Don’t — Carl Perkins
The Silver Dubloons — The Goon Show
Birdhouse In Your Soul — They Might Be Giants
Darlin’ Be Home Soon — Lovin’ Spoonful
Greenfields — Brothers Four
Hesitation Blues — Holy Modal Rounders
Enough For You — Ron Sunshine & Full Swing
Bombadier March — Matthew H. Phillips and his Circus Band
I’m Satisfied With My Gal — Jim Kweskin and the Jug Band
Zen Gospel Singing — Brian Bowers
I love They might be Giants…we used to listen to them in my chromatography lab on Friday afternoons when I was in pharmacy school the first time.
That reminds me . . . I need to order a copy of Gigantic, the documentary about TMBG. I saw it in a theater a few years ago and liked it, and every so often think I should order a copy.
I don’t remember how I got to be interested in TMBG, except that I had copies of both Apollo 18 and Flood before I ever moved to Seattle, which was in 1991.
but here’s one not totally random (songs from my “Top Favorites” list that doesn’t include classical favorites):
Okay, got to get the spouse stirring so we can go have dinner…
Losing My Religion — R.E.M. (remember when the Religious Reich made a big stink about this, when it’s a Southern phrase for being at the end of one’s rope)
Huh. I didn’t know that. You learn something new every day if you’re not careful.
You have such a wide variety of music, cali.
that when I did a Random 10 at Street Prophets, I came up with both Rick Springfield and the Partridge Family… blushes prettily
Cash on the Barrelhead – Leftover Salmon
Catalyst – Anna Nalick
Running – No Doubt
That’ll be the Day – Hartford Dillard Hartford
My favorite Mistake – Shery Crow
Sample in a Jar – Phish
Forgiveness – Macy Gray
Perpetual Blues Machine – Keb’ Mo’
Love’s in Need of Love Today – Joan Osborne
From Spink to Correctionville – Leo Kottke/Mike Gordon
I’m reading “A Field Guide to Evangelicals and Their Habitat” which was written by a Christian, but one with a sense of humor. Here’s my favorite passage so far:
That is funny…
Too funny….
As a teenager (challenging my religious upbringing…!) I asked my Mom in all seriousness if there was sex in heaven after resurrection.
Her response:
Pass that one on to the youngsters waiting for the rapture.
Dragging a bit here tonight…work to take home…and taxes for clients this weekend.
If I’m not around much someone else’s taxes are taking up my time.
And….I’m at conference part of Sunday and all day Monday and Tuesday….with my boss. So…no wifi laptop blogging.
I’ll be in and out tonight….
it is a puppy “in drag,” with articficial flowers on its little head!
Yep – that ‘drag’ would be my sorry ass!
Although as soon as I have another scotch and I won’t care!
Cause I’m in pootie kind of mood tonight…
Drinks on tap…
I’m hanging around with my pootie tonight.
and kitty loves to lay in the pile of warm clothes that need folding. Fortunately I’m used to cat fur on everything!
I’m not able to fold laundry when the new kitty is around. She pounces on everything!
n/t
I’ve been calling her Smoochy since all she wants to do is kiss my face.
And she probably won’t outgrow the habit either!
A pink-buttocked piggy bank whose tail has been replaced with abstract chew toys, is tied to an animal with an extended pink foot, as the two recline on a floral tapestry.
{{{laughing!}}}
DF, I think you should start a regular Low Vision interpretation diary. People post photos and you interpret them. They have me snorting with laughter in a very unladylike way.
A panda nose is ensnared by a terra cotta urn.
Top Ten Great Films of All Time:
A&E’s Pride and Prejudice (1995)
Notorious
Witness
Citizen Kane
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Mulholland Drive
The Graduate
Groundhog Day
Gone with the Wind
Princess Cariboo
I’m ashamed to say I haven’t seen most of those.
I’ve seen:
Sunshine
Gone with the Wind
Groundhog Day
The Graduate
I’d add:
Shawshank Redemption
Circle of Friends
The Station Agent
I’ve seen Shawshank. Awesome.
The Graduate definitely has the best soundtrack.
Here here. You can’t go wrong with Simon and Garfunkel.
I also give mad propz to Harold and Maude (Cat Stevens) and Brother Sun, Sister Moon (Donovan) for their soundtracks.
Casablanca
The Big Sleep
I’m not sure I trust any list of the Top 10 Greatest Movies Of All Time that doesn’t include The Princess Bride and The Sting.
And there are probably foreign films worthy of being on a top 10 list, but frankly, I don’t know much about foreign films. I took a film class in college 30 some years ago that was about half foreign, but I don’t remember much about them except that we saw La Strada and a German film called Wir Wunderkinder (literally, We Prodigies) about life between the wars.
How could I forget The Princess Bride?!
And my favorite bad movie is Christmas Vacation.
Oh yeah, that’s hilarious.
liberty to model my BooTrib T-shirt today at the rally for justice
More pics here!
Making me wish I was younger and single.
Way cool t-shirt too!
some music for the lounge.
Since that’s what I grabbed off the party shuffle:
Material Girl-Madonna
Dirty White Boy-Foreigner
Susie Q-Bobby McFerrin
Way Of The World-Genesis
Jerkin’ Back ‘n’ Forth-Devo
Taxman-The Beatles
When Love Goes To War-Berlin
King Of Pain-The Police
Rock ‘n’ Roll High School-The Ramones
Their Way-Bright Morning Star
Hold That Snake-Ry Cooder
Do I sense a theme there between “Hold that Snake” and “Jerkin’ Back and Forth?” I guess we can’t leave out “Dirty White Boy.” 🙂
Apparently my itunes randomizer has a dirty mind. Or maybe it’s just that sex is one of those major themes in music. It couldn’t be my taste in tunes…could it?
Did you inadvertently choose the ‘home alone with Maxim magazine’ mix?
You’d think it, but actually it was a random library grab and I’m currently home with spouse.
I have so much trouble with those “top 10s of all time” kind of lists… I usually do them by decade, gives me more choice and it’s easier for me. LOL. Anyway, perhaps I’m foreign film freak here, so I’ll suggest 10 great ones for Omir, listed in no particular order. Please note that I’m heavy on the Spanish/French side, for obvious reasons.
That should keep you busy for a while Omir… holler if you ever want more suggestions… these just flew out of my *$&# on the spur of the moment.
Thanks for the list. I’ve never seen any of those, and may have to go look them up.
But . . . why no Kurosawa on there? After I posted above I slapped my forehead and went “Duh! Kurosawa!” One summer Bravo (I think it was Bravo back before they went commercial) did a bit called Samurai Summer where Newsweek film critic David Ansen introduced a Kurosawa film every week for about three months. I got to see The Forbidden Castle, Rashomon, The Seven Samurai, Ran and I forget what-all else. Very cool stuff. Even now I have “Director:Kurosawa” set as a wish list on my TiVo, but he doesn’t seem to show up very often.
Three other foreign films I thought pretty highly of were Lagaan, an atypical Bollywood piece about a backwater village who, never having played or even seen cricket before, challenge their English occupiers to a cricket match; The Gods Must Be Crazy, a South African piece about a Bushman who receives a gift from the gods (a Coke bottle tossed out the window of a small plane) and his quest to give it back to them; and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Yeah, I know, others have done similar movies, but it was a good story with lots of action, and I’m a sucker for a good story.
I have this continuing conflict in me about Kurosawa … I’ve seen most of those titles, and appreciate them as art, but they don’t stick with me. Even though, as we all know, George Lucas pillaged The Hidden Fortress when he did Star Wars. My best explanation is that I’m incurably Western in my orientation and culture. Not that I don’t love some Japanese cinema … Tampopo and A Taxing Woman immediately come to mind… I just dunno. Blame it on my elitist Big 10 education or whatever…
Oh, and a big one I forgot… Hayao Miyazaki, Japan’s esteemed doyen of animation. He does things for me that Kurosawa (and given all due respect) could never do. He won an Oscar for Spirited Away in 2002, and his most recent, Howl’s Moving Castle just came out, and of course I immediately snapped that up. While I’m at it, I’ll suggest 2 more Miyazakis… Nausicca of the Valley of the Winds and Pom Poko, both ecologically oriented fantasies that offer a great message, beautifully realized, and still manage to entertain…
And Lagaan… I love that film… I got it several years ago and it sold me on the better “Bollywood” type films. But I’m a world music kinda guy now and that fit in with the kinds of music I gravitate to these days. Thus, some of my more inexplicable Random 10’s in the Friday lounge.
Anyway, check some of those out, Omir, and feel free to fling flowers or brickbats my way, as the case may be. 🙂
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Did Miyazaki do Kiki’s Delivery Service? My granddaughter likes that film, and I enjoyed it just fine but I understand the English dialog isn’t nearly as good as the Japanese.
My daughter saw Howl’s Moving Castle (I haven’t caught up with it yet, although when it comes around on Netflix she will probably inflict it on me) and she really liked it.
The Bicycle Thief
Oooh, that’s another great one, NDD. Umberto D is another one of his that really slaps ya with the neo-realism and gets the old tear ducts working.
You’re right to push me back a bit in time to mention pre-60’s stuff. I guess I’ve been away from teaching film too long, and only focus on my own personal fetish directors. Selfish me.
Umberto D yet.
Il Postino very much.
Gotta run now… Bill Maher is on in a few minutes, and I never miss it… hope some of you guys are up later! Don’t start the orgy w/out me, ok? 🙂