I drop everything I'm doing when the Hoveround commercial comes on tv. seriously.
round for a reason
i have a strange love for A Flock of Seagulls...
"Space Age Love Song" is in my top 20 favorite songs of all time?
QuoteI drop everything I'm doing when the Hoveround commercial comes on tv. seriously.
That's awesome. I'm that way with the Alum-Alloy infomercial.. It's so soothing. Listening to that lady's extremely calming voice while watching close-ups of people welding shit. Man.
Allum-Alloy rules.
What about the Magic Bullet? I find myself watching that at 2am.
Quotei have a strange love for A Flock of Seagulls...
My 80s coverband just learned "I Ran". Totally fun song to play. I'm borrowing a sweet-ass delay pedal from a friend until I can sell my multi-effects pedal and buy my own delay. There's a deal on a used one here in town that I have my eye on.
Quotei have a strange love for A Flock of Seagulls...
"Space Age Love Song" is in my top 20 favorite songs of all time?
my dearly deceased pappy loved him some flock of seagulls....called them "his favorite band of all time". which, coincidentally, was quite strange as he was 64, worked in a steel mill his whole life, wore nothing but combat boots, and generally lived the army-vet-hunter-militiamen-redneck lifestyle. still can't figure that out. not many hillbillies in PA like Flock of Seagulls. even sported a pin of theirs on his oh-so faded and nontrendy trucker hat at all times.
(scratches head)
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my dearly deceased pappy loved him some flock of seagulls....called them "his favorite band of all time". which, coincidentally, was quite strange as he was 64, worked in a steel mill his whole life, wore nothing but combat boots, and generally lived the army-vet-hunter-militiamen-redneck lifestyle. still can't figure that out. not many hillbillies in PA like Flock of Seagulls. even sported a pin of theirs on his oh-so faded and nontrendy trucker hat at all times.
(scratches head)
Nice post John :)
Quotei have a strange love for A Flock of Seagulls...
"Space Age Love Song" is in my top 20 favorite songs of all time?
I've always loved that song. Thought I might be the only one.
Another one would be Godley and Creme's "Cry". Great 80's music
Avocados are sensuous
i love me some avocados... one of the many cool things (seriously!) about the south is delicious, ripe, fresh avocados.
i love me some guacamole and for an eastern-european jewish chick, i make a mean mole if i do say so myself. recipe? PM me...
confession... i ***LOVE*** infomercials for random stuff. there's a lot of fascinating shit out there at 3am that normal people have never heard of... i love infomercials for time life cd collections, especially this soul one they have now, i'm thinking about getting it... i love the food dehydrator, the rotisserie thingie, the magic bullet is way cool...
all of a sudden feeling like a total loser... ;D
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I've always loved that song. Thought I might be the only one.
i've actually been working on recording an iron and wine style acoustic version of this song. i need to just finish up the one guitar part and mix down and be done with it, and then i'll throw it on myspace.
it's ridiculously mellow though, and i had to quit recording it for a little while, because it put me in a funk. pretty slow, and kind of sad, too, strangely enough. that and i was kind of sleep-deprived. but i put it aside so that i could screw my head back on and never finished it up. maybe i'll do that this week.
I watch Dawson's Creek reruns whenever I can. :o
sometimes i eat ice cream for breakfast.
not today though.
but only because there isn't any. ;)
i like dawson's creek, too. (or, at least, i used to) :-[
I was on the edge of my seat for the last episode too. Pacey or Dawson. That question is more essential than "to be or not to be." Add the hideous music, endless sunsets at the pier, Dawsons incredible movie success and Jen's emotional death scene and you have a classic series ;)
I enjoy the Bee Gees as well.
Mmm, pretty freaky :D
i often dream of trains.
Quotei have a strange love for A Flock of Seagulls...
"Space Age Love Song" is in my top 20 favorite songs of all time?
you know, that's a great song.
I bought that album when it first came out and then I went to the Wendy's drive through, so, sometimes when I am at Wendy's drive through, I think of that song.
I also had another epiphany at the Wendy's drive through....(uh oh, this
has to be a new thread)
I own Bizarre Love Triangle by New Order on vinyl with about 10 variations.
I don't hate Phil Collins as much as I should :-[
QuoteI don't hate Phil Collins as much as I should :-[
LOL!!!!
You should be ashamed of yourself ;)
The Bee Gees have never meant anything positive to me.
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The old trains or the newer bullet trains?
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my dearly deceased pappy loved him some flock of seagulls....called them "his favorite band of all time". which, coincidentally, was quite strange as he was 64, worked in a steel mill his whole life, wore nothing but combat boots, and generally lived the army-vet-hunter-militiamen-redneck lifestyle. still can't figure that out. not many hillbillies in PA like Flock of Seagulls. even sported a pin of theirs on his oh-so faded and nontrendy trucker hat at all times.
(scratches head)
Conaway, wow, what a great story. You know, I got in to a discussion about dads last night at a party and thought of your post. This is my pure specuIation: I would guess that the Score brothers (founders of Flock of Seagulls), who were from Liverpool,
probably had a working class dad? That there is some deep, perhaps even subconscious component to their music that relates to that life that their dad had, which is very similiar to your own dad's life? But in their pursuit for a break from that (both musically and style wise) so they played that sort of techno rock and wore outlandish clothes,
not what the working class men in Liverpool (or PA) could easily identify with. But, that deeper sound and feeling totally came from their dad, and your dad got it?
I know that's a wild speculation, but I'd like to think that's how your dad got into FOS. (and again, what an amazing story. Thanks for sharing that one).
Hey Tom, when i was with whothrewthecake at Walgreen's the other night (buying some incredibly RAD coozies) they were playing Space Age Love Song over the loud speaker. It was quite the Saturday night.
i think i need to hang out with you guys. too bad y'all er in texas.
more like, too bad you're up north where you can't have nice ladies pour you some good, southern tea.
i have a confession: i have found myself saying "i'm fixin' to" or "I might could" in social situations where it could be awkward.
"I'm fixin to..." I love that!
I'm going to try my best to use that expression real soon ;D
Quotei have a confession: i have found myself saying "i'm fixin' to" or "I might could" in social situations where it could be awkward.
corey talks like that. ;D
corey's wife makes great sweet tea.
i bet you ladies do, too.
i had good tea in kentucky at .. what's that heinz brothers or something? it was nice and peachy. but it wasn't sweet.
I don't say "'m fixin' to", but my wife does. :)
And she DOES make some awesome sweet-tea.
QuoteI don't say "'m fixin' to", but my wife does. :)
And she DOES make some awesome sweet-tea.
i confess that every time i come home from the south, i talk like you guys. i confess that i do it when i'm there, too. ;)
i confess that i really love the people i know in the southern united states.
The South has a wonderful magic to it.
The other day, a friend asked if I had memorized Bob Dylan's entire song catalog, including lyrics and tablature. I told them that memorizing that "would be like eating a whale with a fork and a knife." Why did I say that? Why do Southerners feel the right to make up sayings? We're awesome.
but see, we also get that liberty to make up crazy (alebit, perfect) shit like that.
i say "we" because i was born in memphis, and after my parent's divorced, my dad moved to Nashville a few years later...then Hunstville, AL and now Atlanta's suburbs. So I'm still half southern. Plus, I go to school in Nashville. So I'm almost all the way there.
I can fake the drawl like you'd never know, too.
(i kinda wanna marry a southern girl? if only for the extra hospitality?)
Quote(i kinda wanna marry a southern girl? if only for the extra hospitality?)
you're darn right you do.
I love the song Careless Whispers by Wham and I know this is Off topic and all but I think Jim could do sweet things with that song.
QuoteI love the song Careless Whispers by Wham and I know this is Off topic and all but I think Jim could do sweet things with that song.
i sang that song in a recording booth in grade nine. i think i still have the tape somewhere.
i also did walkin' on sunshine.
okay, fuck. i did faith, too. i had a thing for george michael.
fuck even further, i also did bette midler's the rose.
okay? damn.
I sang Whitney Houston's Greatest Love Of All at karaoke last weekend as a joke. My wife, who usually enjoys my Elvis renditions etc didn't see the humour & found it very hard to hide her embarrassment :-[
QuoteI sang Whitney Houston's Greatest Love Of All at karaoke last weekend as a joke. My wife, who usually enjoys my Elvis renditions etc didn't see the humour & found it very hard to hide her embarrassment :-[
"It's hard to choose a favorite among so many great tracks, but "The Greatest Love of All" is one of the best, most powerful songs ever written about self-preservation, dignity. Its universal message crosses all boundaries and instills one with the hope that it's not too late to better ourselves"
I salute you Dragonboy. That is a brave musical choice!
I knew you'd get it! Cheers Patrick, you're the coolest! ;)
QuoteI sang Whitney Houston's Greatest Love Of All at karaoke last weekend as a joke. My wife, who usually enjoys my Elvis renditions etc didn't see the humour & found it very hard to hide her embarrassment :-[
once, when I was at a karaoke bar, a lady got up to sing that one. There were audible groans.
But by the end of the song, the bar patrons were - literally - arm-in-arm singing along at the top of our voices. (thanks, in large part, to lots of beer and saki!)
I won a Karaoke with "Not Your Stepping Stone"
QuoteI knew you'd get it! Cheers Patrick, you're the coolest! ;)
"Like all the songs on "Whitney", it's played by a terrific backup studio band with Narada on drum machine, Wolter Afanasieff on the synthesizer and synth bass, Corrado Rustici on synth guitar, and someone listed as Bongo Bob on percussion programming and drum sampling."
"It's jazzy modern feel harcks back not only to purveyors of modern jazz like Michael Jackson and Sade but also to other artists like Miles Davis, Paul Butterfield and Bobby McFerrin."
;D Damn, that chapter was priceless.
PS: "She sings it, and we believe it" 8)
There are a couple of Christopher Cross songs that I really like :-[
QuoteThere are a couple of Christopher Cross songs that I really like :-[
I don't even know who that guy is. Please illustrate why this embarrasses you :)
QuoteI don't even know who that guy is. Please illustrate why this embarrasses you :)
Hmm, it doesn't get much more MOR or AOR than Christopher Cross + the guy has a thing about flamingos :-[
Confession: I am wearing a Neil Diamond shirt at this very moment.
Confession: I'm caressing my dukes of hazzard "General Lee" matchbox car that I just found that I had since I was like 6yrs old. It's got scratches and peeled paint and it's missing a wheel and for some reason that makes me even more happy about finding it. I drove that son of a bitch into the ground.......apparently.
QuoteConfession: I am wearing a Neil Diamond shirt at this very moment.
Nothing to be ashamed of there D - wear that shirt with pride!
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the guy has a thing about flamingos :-[
:o
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Need I go on? :-[
HAHA - that's my best post ever right there ;D
I watch the Young and the Restless.
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Need I go on? :-[
That was enlightening! Indeed, it looks safe to say that he actually has a thing about flamingo's...
QuoteThere are a couple of Christopher Cross songs that I really like :-[
I rode with some friends once that played R&B for like 4 hours and finally "Sailing" came on and I felt like I had gone to Rock 'n Roll Heaven!
Is Christopher Coss the Mackdaddy or the Daddymack?
I saw Christopher Cross at the 2nd "Day of Rock and Roll" at the Superdome in 1980. He got booed pretty heavily as we patiently awaited Foriegner, Chep Trick and The Eagles...
QuoteI saw Christopher Cross at the 2nd "Day of Rock and Roll" at the Superdome in 1980. He got booed pretty heavily as we patiently awaited Foriegner, Chep Trick and The Eagles...
Haha, not surprising though really, is it? There's nothing Rock & Roll about Christopher Cross! That said, are Foriegner Rock & Roll? I think I'm gonna spin I Wanna Know What Love Is right now...
PS Welcome back Tracy - how was you trip?
1980 was before all the Know What Love Is crap, when Foriegner was still trying to rock their way into making a living; Dirty White Boy, Long Way From Home, etc...
Had a great trip, thanks for asking. If you have the chance to get to South Dakota (Black Hills, Badlands) do so.
QuoteConfession: I'm caressing my dukes of hazzard "General Lee" matchbox car that I just found that I had since I was like 6yrs old. It's got scratches and peeled paint and it's missing a wheel and for some reason that makes me even more happy about finding it. I drove that son of a bitch into the ground.......apparently.
Are the little tiny wheels filled with dirt?