Pleasure:
Guilty pleasure:
I’m 92 and I don’t get out much. What else should I be listening to?
ETA: This one got lost on the “Bitching” thread, so I’m going to shamelessly plug it again.
by Sarah, Proud and Tall| 112 Comments
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Pleasure:
Guilty pleasure:
I’m 92 and I don’t get out much. What else should I be listening to?
ETA: This one got lost on the “Bitching” thread, so I’m going to shamelessly plug it again.
Comments are closed.
Just Some Fuckhead
I can’t believe ABL has another closed thread! And she’s taunting me!
Goddammit!
bkny
hope you’re keeping tunch fat and happy:
A Cleveland man was attacked by a housecat Friday afternoon and the man’s injuries are so severe that he had to be taken by air ambulance to Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston. …
At some point during the attack, the man and the cat reportedly were injured by a knife the man was holding. The man was taken to Cleveland Regional Medical Center before being transported to Houston.
http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/cleveland/news/article_3f8b7022-782a-11e0-b12d-001cc4c002e0.html
opal
Needs more accordion.
Sarah Proud and Tall
@Just Some Fuckhead:
Have you considered that it might actually be flirting?
Suffern ACE
I had no idea there was any sort of pleasure that you would feel the least bit guilty over…
Comrade Mary
The Bolton hook and the theme from Tiny Wings (how appropriate!) have been sparring in my brain for the spot of top earworm over the past week.
Hey, ABLLLLLLLL! Come out and Plaaaaaa-aaaay…
(Or maybe you gotta keep ’em separated.)
Comrade Mary
Oh.My.God. Look what another Offspring search pulled up. Pretty fly, indeed.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Sarah Proud and Tall:
ORLY??
Sarah Proud and Tall
@Suffern ACE:
It is Michael Fucking Bolton. There are limits to my shamelessness.
burnspbesq
Adele’s not half bad, but I prefer Cara Dillon. Or Gretchen Parlato.
ruemara
OOjami, trust me, would I steer you wrong?
kdaug
The Dog Days Are Over
“Florence writes her best songs when she’s drunk or has a hangover, because that’s when the freedom, the feral music comes, creating itself wildly from the fragments gathered in her notebooks and in her head.”
Earworm of the last fortnight. I’ll give it 5:1 odds it’ll stick in yer head.
freelancer
@Just Some Fuckhead:
Someday (Angry Black) Lady, you’ll
accompanytaunt me.Omnes Omnibus
Prince is a crazy ass dude, but they guy can can put on one hell of a live show. Even if he occasionally gets someone like Doug E. Doug to open for him.
Sarah Proud and Tall
@Just Some Fuckhead:
Yep. Go with that. That will be fun for everyone.
burnspbesq
@Sarah Proud and Tall:
My biggest problem with Bolton? He so thoroughly mangled “Since I Fell for You” that entire generations grew to hate what is actually a great, great song, and never heard Lenny Welch’s original recording.
slag
I hear DougJ does a mean Raspberry Beret.
ETA And since it’s somewhat relevant to this thread, here’s why Ashley Judd is right about hip-hop and rape culture. Because I can…and am an asshole.
Ghanima Atreides
This is the real Jack Sparrow.
How do I know hes real?
He has a blog.
General Stuck
Good music pix. With an girl string section, how cool is that.
Litlebritdifrnt
Reposted from the dead thread below. I have just given the boxers a marrow bone each. Cueball is merrily gumming his (due to his lack of teeth), while Judy went into the bedroom and buried hers in my bed. She is now laying atop of the crumpled up comforter in a princess and the pea sort of way, growling at Cueball everytime he goes near. I hope she lets me in when it is time to go to bed.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Sarah Proud and Tall:
*wets thumb and rubs it sensuously around one glistening nipple*
Yeah. I think you might be right. It kind of looked like she was coming on to me in that picture she posted.
General Stuck
Susan Tedeschi – Don’t Thing Twice
Comrade Mary
Put your nipple away, Fuckhead. SRSLY.
Litlebritdifrnt
@Sarah Proud and Tall:
Speaking of Orly, did you hear about her most recent epic fail trying to insert the POTUS eligibility thing into a lawsuit about offshore drilling in New Orleans? It was brilliant, she had show and tell exhibits and everything, and her cellphone went off twice while she was giving her oral argument. The judge reminded her that she had violated at least three local rules and then let her do her thing. There is a transcript up at The Fogbow from one of the Obots who attended the hearing.
lamh34
Adele’s 21 album is my current fav album. I listen to it whenever I can.
Love her.
BTW, any Adele fans out there, check out Rolling Stone’s interview with Adele. It was very good. Homegirl actually has very bad stage fright.
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
You should be listening to Evanescence.
Ethereal vocals and heavy metal guitar. Yes, I know, the band broke up, but the guitarists found a vocalist who sounds like Amy Lee and reformed as “We Are the Fallen” and Amy Lee found some more guitars and will have an album out Real Soon Now.
They’re both great. It’s like one of my favorite bands reproduced by fission! Woo hoo!!!
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh34: I am okay with her; Mme Omnibus loves her. It can be a bit much.
harris collingwood
you don’t look a day over 90, timeless houri. you should be listening to:
robert plant – band of joy
posies – blood/candy
holy ghost! – holy ghost!
school of seven bells – disconnect from desire
neil young – le noise
that’s just the newish stuff. add the beatles mono remasters, the judee sill reissues, the new live leonard cohen, and the resissue of the cure’s disintegration and that will keep you going until, say, 102.
thanks to everyone who offered me good wishes. you help me more than you’ll ever know. and the shelters thank you for your donations. i got this great long handwritten note from the director of the shelter from which my sister adopted Trixie and Mr Chompers.
i’ll try to be a more reliable commenter, now that i’m coming out of my stupor, now and then.
Hungry Joe
The National — anything from “High Violet.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prpw4nfSpxE
Just Some Fuckhead
@Comrade Mary: Don’t be a playa hata baby. Just groove to the Barry White LP.
jacy
WP hates me.
Music? Colin Hay.
Violet
@Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason: “We Are the Fallen” got that American Idol contestant, Carly Smithson, to be their singer.
Sarah Proud and Tall
@lamh34:
Adele fans must watch her appearance on the Graham Norton Show. She’s utterly unaffected, charming and hilarious. With bonus Miranda.
Gina
@Comrade Mary: What the…? I don’t even…WOW.
handy
@Hungry Joe:
I’m partial to Conversation 16 and Terrible Love, but there are several good choices on that one.
Comrade Mary
@Just Some Fuckhead: Hmpph!
Well, I did like this one.
But this by George McCrae beats it all to hell. Jesus, look at those pants, will you? And sing along, you bastard. Sing it out loud.
jl
I never cease to wonder that some people never cease to wonder at the whimsical behavior of Balloon Juice front page posters. That is what they do, dammit.
lamh34
@Omnes Omnibus: I think it’s a combo of her persona and her obvious effort to make it about her instrument, i.e. her voice, and NOT about looks, dance hooks, or choreographed moves.
It’s no longer the era where it was okay to dance, but you HAD to sing too. People forget that Michael Jackson was a great dancer, but he’s singing, especially his Jackson 5 days, but also his earlier solo work and even some of his “wacko Jacko” work, was pretty good too.
I think it’s a recent phenom that the voice in no longer the thing that makes or breaks an artist, back in the day, it wasn’t okay to be cute or pretty and just be able to carry a tune and make a hot video (I kinda blame MJ for that, his video work is kinda what started the now commonplace choreographed videos now-a-days…blame that on Thriller, IMHO) you also need to carry those damn notes live.
I find it funny how much scandal and ridicule Milli Vanilli received back in the day, when darn near everybody seems to “auto-tune” themselves to death (…Ke$ha, J-Lo, Britney). If only Milli and Vanill had waited a bit, they could have auto-tuned their own voices and be a hit.
I like that Adele has said that her voice is the focus, so she makes a conscious effort to not have all the theatrics that are usually involved in videos today. I appreciate her for that consideration.
Sorry, about my soapbox…lol
Just Some Fuckhead
@Comrade Mary:
mmmhmmm
Hawes
Hey, John, did you see that Hines Ward’s dance partner was injured? Apparently he threw a crackback block at her during the flamenco.
lamh34
@Sarah Proud and Tall: OH, I love Graham Norton’s Show. If I ever make it to England, I’d love to be in the audience.
MikeJ
@slag:
When I imagine him singing it, it’s more Warren Zevon with REM(aka Hindu Love Gods) than Prince. Which is cool, ’cause I love that album, but it ain’t prince.
Hal
I really like Adele too, but if I hear Rolling in the Deep one more time…
Set Fire to the Rain and Someone Like You are great, and get no airplay. Why is that?
Cat Lady
Raphael Siddiq if you miss Motown.
Hungry Joe
@handy
And “Afraid of Everyone” and “Bloodbuzz Ohio.” I’ve reached this odd point where everybody but The National sounds like crap. It’ll pass, I know, but …
Sarah Proud and Tall
@Comrade Mary:
That is very disturbing.
Just Some Fuckhead
@MikeJ:
Yes, but he pronounces “beret” as bah-rett, so it’s a little awkward.
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh34: The soapbox speech was fine. What is weird is that Mme Omnibus, who, of course, has few flaws and all of them tiny, can be a bit judgmental of other women’s looks. With Adele, however, she reacts like she would to Aretha or Janis; you know, Aretha can wear any goddamned hat or dress she wants, she’s Aretha, damn it.
Hawes
Here’s a nice light song about insufferable heartbreak from Iron and Wine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcZ0kAEbxsU
Sarah Proud and Tall
@bkny:
@Hawes:
Sadly, I’m not John. Although as I am an unmarried 92 year old with a dicky knee who never gets out of the house, I can see how you could get us mixed up.
Hawes
@Sarah Proud and Tall: Sorry, thought this was an open thread. I shall commit myself to appropriate musical selections…
Just Some Fuckhead
@Sarah Proud and Tall:
John goes out one night a week to play bingo. Climb down off his nuts.
Comrade Mary
I caught Adele singing live this spring on Q, where the host, Jian Ghomeishi, practically prostrated himself at her feet. She deserved it.
Her attempt at a station ID.
Someone Like You.
Hawes
This is an OK song (from OK GO, of course) but the video can be watched a 1000 times
MikeJ
@Just Some Fuckhead: Everytime I walk through the grocery store I find myself singing about a Raspberry sorbet, the kind you buy in a groc-er-ree store, and if it was warm she wouldn’t eat much more.
Sarah Proud and Tall
@Hawes:
Talk about whatever you wish. It was just that you started your post with “Hey, John”, so I thought you may have mistaken him for me…
piratedan
well this is the organization I wanted to join when I grew up…. but lamentably I found out I couldn’t because I wasn’t British…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8leqISFyUCM&feature=related
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@Violet: Yeah, I knew that, but who wants to admit that they like contestants from American Idol?
Well … me. Kelly Clarkson’s my Guilty Pleasure.
Corner Stone
@Hawes: That’s just quality ballbusting.
I don’t care what some fictional female 92 yr old DougJ has to say.
Omnes Omnibus
@piratedan: Uma Thurman was in it.
Sorry, that movie was an abomination. They drank tea all the time. Tea. In the Avengers.
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@Sarah Proud and Tall: Oh snap! (as these young ones say)
I bet John felt that one sting without even being logged on.
Just Some Fuckhead
Been a rough day for me. Broke up with one of my girlfriends and it didn’t go well. Little firecracker fell in love, I think. Anyway, she started calling the house – no idea how she got the number – and she thought my 10 year old son was the girl with whom I was cheating on her. I don’t know what she said to him but now he wants to know what a “cunt” is.
Love is a many splintered thing.
Hawes
@Corner Stone: It isn’t Jesus’ General’s Mom?
I hear she’s 92 on the absolute scale of womanly virtue.
tim serbo
@harris collingwood: A-A-A-a-a-a-a-n-n-n-d-d-d-d so much for my anonymity.
amor and bunnies vincent omnia
piratedan
also it’s time for a slow dance…. so grab your honey and take a slow turn on the dance floor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63nlhoda2MY&feature=BFa&list=FLLItjmb4Ikyc&index=19
lamh34
@Omnes Omnibus: Oh, I’ll admit, that the fact that Adele ain’t a size 0 makes me love her more. I hate on Beyonce not so much cause she has a bad voice, Beyonce is actually a damn good singer, but I am so jealous of her “boogie” as RuPaul would say…lol.
The fact the Adele has a voice that even Beyonce says “reminds her of God” and NOT a “bootylicious” (to some) body like Beyonce makes me love her more…lol.
BBW need to stick together…lol.
piratedan
@Omnes Omnibus: I know, the disappointment was palpable when they attempted to bring that to the big screen, Fiennes was okay I suppose, and perhaps they thought that they had the look down with Uma but she generated none of that playful warmth that Rigg brought to the part.
Omnes Omnibus
@piratedan: I have that turntable. A Bang and Olufsen from the mid 80s.
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@piratedan: Every guy in my Junior High School had a hopeless crush on Diana Rigg. My brother bought a Lotus Elan, largely because of that show.
Omnes Omnibus
@piratedan: I think Clive Owen and Keira Knightley could do it.
piratedan
@Omnes Omnibus: well equipment that stands the test of time for those of us that enjoy that total immersion in music is well worth the coin.
tim serbo
@Comrade Mary: oh yes oh yes yes i said yes again yes…where was i! rock your baby is so great. that vocal, fuck. kc and the sunshine band avant la lettre. they had the sound down from the off, didn’t they?
Joel
@Comrade Mary: In the vein of the Wu Tang reference, this link is more appropriate.
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@piratedan: Yeah, that one. And http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-idDbIfGvw, for the best absolute clincher slow dance ever.
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason: Oops, blew the link reference. Sorry ’bout that.
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
@Sarah Proud and Tall:
that is not shameless, this, this is shameless
Jewish Steel
Hilariously salacious rapper Lady, Twerk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPhYRtK0fBU
Warning: NSFW. NSF Home. Probably NSF anywhere. Definitely NSFJSF. He seems a trifle overheated right now.
piratedan
@Omnes Omnibus: well I would even be willing to see what Daniel Craig or Mark Strong might do, I think Knightly could do it, but I also think that Emma Stone, Emma Watson or even Thandie Newton
Just Some Fuckhead
This is the song me and DougJ are going to do as a duet at the first Balloon Juice karaoke night. We’re still arguing over who does which part.
piratedan
@Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason: I loved the series, the way that they shot it, you’d think that England’s population was equivalent to Greenlands’ ;-)
piratedan
@Just Some Fuckhead: what this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7movKfyTBII
was already taken?
Just Some Fuckhead
@piratedan: We don’t have a midget.
Omnes Omnibus
@Just Some Fuckhead: Little person, you insensitive twit!
Just Some Fuckhead
@Omnes Omnibus:
Sorry Miss Manners. A fuckhead would never use “little person” where midget clearly belongs.
Just Some Fuckhead
Sorry, looks like Omnes has killed another thread.
Comrade Mary
@Just Some Fuckhead: Aw. I was hoping it was this.
(You do have the wig and the comedy breasts, don’t you? And Doug could dress up as Dolly.)
handy
@piratedan:
That was covered a few days ago in one of the threads about the wingtard freakout over Common at the White House.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Comrade Mary: I’m only a 32 a cup but I’m pretty sure DougJ is sporting at least Bs.
Comrade Mary
@Just Some Fuckhead: Stephen Fry has you both beat. Wankers.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Comrade Mary: With me only a 32 a and DougJ no more than a B, neither one of us can do Dolly or Kenny. Any other music suggestions?
Omnes Omnibus
@Just Some Fuckhead: This for a duet.
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
@Just Some Fuckhead:
well there is this, you could reverse dedicate it to eemom
tricia yearwood
srv
What should be my upper limit for scalped tix to see Adele?
Comrade Mary
@Just Some Fuckhead: How’s your French?
Omnes Omnibus
Raveonettes.
burnspbesq
@MikeJ:
Holy crap, a Hindu Love Gods sighting!
burnspbesq
@srv:
“What should be my upper limit for scalped tix to see Adele?”
How much money could you get if you pawned everything you own?
burnspbesq
The new Airborne Toxic Event and Fleet Foxes records are both really good.
jinxtigr
D:
Sarah, what the hell was that?
opal
Smoosh.
Just because.
srv
@burnspbesq: I guess I can afford it.
Origuy
Start Wearing Purple!
LM
If you’re in a Brit band mood, there are recent albums from These New Puritans and The Klaxons.
And if you’re in a French band mood, there are new albums from Yelle and Malajube.
Valdivia
Late to the thread. I’ve been listening to a lot of latin music these past couple of weeks. This is in my constant rotation. I know, I just can’t quit the cheesy stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qExd-3oCTl4
Valdivia
@Just Some Fuckhead:
you’re still killing me with those song selections!
opal
@Just Some Fuckhead:
It’s always about you, isn’t it?
srv
When the fuck did Ken become a Telly Savalas look alike?
Turgidson
New Fleet Foxes ftw. Enjoyed last year (deerhunter and beach house albums especially) more than this year so far. But there’s still time.
jake the snake
Got you all beat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZutNGdcqH0&feature=player_detailpage
BruceFromOhio
Combat Rock, by the Clash.
Anything by Black Flag or Henry Rollins.
Night Train, Oscar Peterson.
Yutsano
@Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason:
Carrie Underwood. There I said it.
Just Some Fuckhead
@opal:
Gah, you noticed that too? I guess I just have moxie.