Whoa, we are way overdue for an open thread. I’ll put some real posts up in a little bit.
Update. Random interesting fact I learned on Johnny Cash’s wiki page after listening to American Routes:
President Nixon became acquainted with Johnny Cash through their mutual friend Billy Graham. On 17 April 1970, at the President’s invitation, the Man in Black gave a concert for an invited audience in the East Room of the White House.
[….]The appearance became the subject of a press-created controversy after a member of the White House staff —presumably someone from the East Wing’s social office— wrote to Cash’s management asking if he would perform three of the most popular cross-over country music songs of the day: Guy Drake’s “Welfare Cadillac,” Merle Haggard’s “Okie from Muskogee” and Cash’s own “A Boy Named Sue.”
When the requests were passed along to Cash, he said that he would be glad to sing “Sue,” but that the other two songs presented a problem.
Cash demurred that he didn’t know the other two songs, but it sounds as though he was just being polite.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
Man…The Badgers’ first drive was strong.
Rob Wolfe
Watching the Huckabee Forum. Holy Shit these AG’s are insane
Omnes Omnibus
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): Ball is a madman tonight.
shoutingattherain
Non-stop up and down the ice action in the Pens/Canes tilt. 1-1 after 2.
General Stuck
fuckin A. I had to hold my bitching about the weather here, for longer than is healthy. Right on the heels of a fairly kick ass winter storm, we got two more in the pipeline, one right after the other. And the second will be the worst of all. I moved to the desert SW for the desert part, and not some winter wonderland to freeze the brass balls of my monkey. And it’s only frickin’ December. We need a Global Warming thread next.
Steeplejack
You rang? I saw the night-owl searchlight symbol against the night sky.
Looking for a car on the Interwebs. There is a Honda Element at CarMax that may have my name on it.
Also, Wisconsin-Michigan State on TV in the background. Need to monitor whether my Sparty brother will be gloating or suicidal tomorrow. He takes it way too seriously.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Omnes Omnibus:
Well, in the first series, anyway.
I turned the last game off when Wisconsin was going in for their second score, didn’t come back until they were going to tie it up. I might have to do the same thing tonight for, Sparty’s sake.
Omnes Omnibus
Who the fuck are the announcers for the Big Ten game? They suck/blow.
lamh35
Been watching Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade on SyFy. Don’t Care what anyone says, IJ&LC is the best film of the franchise…period…Who dares disagree?
John H.
Can you explain why Cash would be uncomfortable singing the other two songs. I might be too young to be in on this info.
Mnemosyne
Getting ready to head over to G’s office Christmas party. They’ve all been saving up all year for it, so it should be pretty nice. (No, the company didn’t give a dime towards it — it’s all the employees’ own money collected over the course of the year).
Best part is that it’s at a hotel that’s three blocks from our house, so we don’t even have to pay for parking. Woot!
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Omnes Omnibus:
Gus Johnson and…(?).
Linda Featheringill
@General Stuck:
Wow. I went to weather dot com to check out the SW deserts. I don’t know how fast those systems are moving but it looks to me like they extend from Canada to Mexico.
AxelFoley
@lamh35:
[coughcoughIndianaJonesandtheTempleofDoomisthebestintheseriescoughcough]
Omnes Omnibus
@John H.: They weren’t his songs.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
And Moo U answers!
Comrade Mary
Okie from Muskogee (Wiki)
Welfare Cadillac lyrics
Johnny Cash was a big old Commie, bless ’em.
Nutella
The Sandusky effort to poison the jury pool continues, with the New York Times printing a creampuff interview. Apparently the reporter never asked him “Did you rape that child?” or “Why did you get naked with children in showers?”. He’s just misunderstood, poor guy.
Linda Featheringill
@John H.:
Copyright questions for one thing. Also, it might be a point of manners to not step on another singer’s hit song.
Comrade Mary
Oops. The link Doug provided contradicts me.
SiubhanDuinne
@General Stuck:
Yes, but CHARLIE!!
J. Michael Neal
Gophers/Sux is 0-0 at the first intermission. The way the game is going, though, I like our chances.
Mnemosyne
@John H.:
I Googled since I, too, am too young to recognize the songs. “Welfare Cadillac” is pretty much exactly what it sounds like, though I didn’t realize that conservatives had been pushing that story since well before Reagan was talking about “welfare queens.” “Okie from Muskogee” is hippie-punching.
I’m not at all surprised that the guy who wrote “Man in Black” wouldn’t touch those songs with a 10-foot pole.
Villago Delenda Est
The thing about Okie from Muskogee is that Haggard later said it was kind of a spoof.
Of course, naturally, the ultra-square Nixon loved it.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Comrade Mary:
Actually, I think it confirms what you wrote. JC just used the timing of the request as an excuse to sidestep the politics.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
Some good Merle, to cleanse the palate:
Mama Tried
khead
Thread needs pics
We get a visitor.
General Stuck
At least he didn’t pull an Elvis and show up at the WH on a whim. Asking Nixon to deputize him as a ‘federal agent at large” whatever that was, to fight the drug war hippy scourge. Those were heady days, and you just didn’t know what would happen next.
AA+ Bonds
Nixon was the first Republican President without a soul, meaning that Eisenhower was the last Republican President with one.
Steeplejack
Too late for a DVR alert, but Out of the Past started at 8:00 EST on TCM. Great film noir or greatest film noir? Greatest, in my opinion. Nice intro from Robert Osborne and Alec Baldwin tonight.
Pretty good student-made “trailer” here.
SIA
Cole really is funny on twitter
CaseyL
@lamh35: It’s hard to choose between that one and the first Indiana Jones movie. However, we can certainly agree that the second movie was “meh,” and that the fourth one was an abomination in the eyes of the cinema gods.
I’ve got the winter doldrums pretty bad. Being jobless makes it worse, as I get to stay home a lot. (Amazing, the changes the Web has made to job-hunting: one may send ones resumes and cover letters out to all points of the compass without ever actually leaving the sofa.)
My two kitties came into my life in May 2008, so we’ve been together about 3 1/2 years. Altogether, I’ve been unemployed for almost 1 1/2 years of that time. They get Mom to pay attention to them and be at their beck and call much more than most kitties do. It’s funny that what sucks for me is good news for them… at least, as long as the cat food fund remains robust.
Litlebritdifrnt
Immma going to bed shortly, and I am going to be wearing jammies. That tells you all you need to know about the temps in NC right now.
Linda
@John H:
The other 2 songs are full of political content: the Haggard song, a response to 60s counterculture in which he is proud to be opposed to anti-war, drug culture, and the “Welfare Cadillac” song which paints welfare recipients as chislers. While I don’t know about Cash being particularly political, he aligned himself with the underdogs in society, as his Man in Black song attests. I didn’t hear about his request to the Haggard song, but I had heard about not singing “Welfare Cadillac,” and from all accounts he just wasn’t feeling it.
AA+ Bonds
Cash was a shrewd operator. There is no doubt in my mind that he was driven to curse aloud by a request that he play two songs by other artists to appear as though he endorsed Nixon’s point of view. Then he calmed down and offered a white lie as explanation (no pun intended).
This gives you an idea of the birth of the current model of Republican strategy, which happened in Nixon’s White House – the “Silent Majority” bid, telling white Americans, hey, it’s cool, I know all these blacks are getting uppity but you can still be a stealth Kluxer and the White House is right there with you
Suffern ACE
@lamh35: You don’t scare me. Raiders is on the Olympus of the best action movies of all time. Last Crusade is mainly a water sprite.
J. Michael Neal
@khead: Fucking varmints. Deer should be perpetually in season.
SIA
@Steeplejack: Watching it now. Mitchum’s best. Except maybe that one with Jane Russell and Vincent Price.
Steeplejack
@John H.:
It could be as simple as that Cash didn’t want to sing someone else’s material. It would be similarly tactless for the current White House to have Beyoncé perform and ask her to throw in songs by Rihanna and Lady Gaga.
Or it could be that Cash didn’t like the anti-DFH subtext of the other two songs. But the explanation above is reason enough.
Quincy
Gus Johnson and Charles Davis. Davis is the one who says stupid things. Johnson just gets overexcited calling the play-by-play.
And the Badgers really need Ball to avoid getting concussed this time around.
Wow, I looked away for a moment before posting the answer to the announcer question and the thread filled up quick.
Suffern ACE
@General Stuck: Not only was Elvis planning to be a narc, he was going to narc on the Beatles, IIRC.
Linda
More good Merle that I’ve been feeling: If We Make it Through December
DougJ
@John H.:
“Okie” is a tongue-in-cheek dig at hippies that became a rallying cry for Real Murkins despite being clearly tongue-in-cheek. “Welfare Cadillac” is, well, as you can guess, strapping young bucks buying caddies on Uncle Sam’s dime.
Steeplejack
@khead:
Really good watchcat you’ve got there. LOL.
The Dangerman
@Rob Wolfe:
Which explains why they are on the Huckabee Forum.
I’ve been watching (kinda) and, gotta say, they’ve been tougher questioners than the debate moderators; Perry was wandering far afield of the question asked and they called bullshit on him.
Romney should get skewered.
Southern Beale
Had to send the husband to the hockey game without me cuz I’m sick. Please tell me something good ….
lamh35
@AxelFoley: love Temple of Doom, Hate, hate, hate Kate Capshaw and streotypical Asian kid though.
@Suffern ACE: @CaseyL: I’d def chose Raiders above Temple, but obviously NOT above Last Crusade. In fact, ’bout the only reason I watch the last installment if for Karen Allen. IMHO, K. Allen was hands down the best of the “Indie Girls” (ala Bond Girls, are should I say Bond “Women”)
Barring a great “Indie Girl” I just love the interaction between Sean Connery and Harrison Ford. It seemed genuinely father/son-ish…lol
gbear
@John H.:
As Comrade Mary said, Cash wasn’t a redneck. Those two songs were big-time redneck songs.
AA+ Bonds
I have to agree about Merle, the opening line alone of “Okie from Muskogee” establishes it as a self-aware joke
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Suffern ACE:
Which makes this even better.
Steeplejack
@SIA:
His Kind of Woman (1951). I haven’t seen that one. I’ll have to run it down.
Linda Featheringill
@CaseyL:
Reminds me of Beau, hungry, blind in one eye, back quarters that actually didn’t work [although he had no urinary or bowel problems]. Poor kitty. He was obviously hungry but wouldn’t eat dry food even if I softened it with liquids. I found that he really, really liked canned food but could only consume a small amount at a time. The weather was hot and of course we didn’t have air conditioning. So I couldn’t just leave food out for him. Fortunately for him, I was unemployed at the time and so I got up and fed him every 4 hours for three weeks. He filled out. Back legs eventually worked somewhat. He was a sweet and loyal friend. He lived with me for 17 years.
David Koch
New Iowa poll, taken before Herb Caen dropped out, has Gingrich leading with 25% to Paul’s 18% and Mitten’s 16%. Caen had 8%.
Go Newt, Go!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I’m always happy to hear good things about Johnny Cash
@The Dangerman:
How they treat Romney, I imagine, would be a pretty good barometer of where the national party stands on Romney v Gingrich. I wonder if any feelers are out to try and get Mitch Daniels in the race. Is it really too late when the money is limitless?
Cassidy
At work waiting to take my dinner break when Mayhem is fighting.
(another) Josh
Yeah, dunno whether Cash took a stand on the war; but he had established in a couple of Sixties records that he was pro-labor and pro-American Indian; and he was friendly with many DFHs. And he was a Democrat.
khead
@Steeplejack:
Heh. I have one where she’s actually interested in the deer – ok, well sorta – but it’s too fuzzy.
Disgruntled Lurker
They later asked Bob Dylan if he wouldn’t mind stopping by and doing some Eagles covers.
Southern Beale
I met Johnny Cash once, a couple years before he died. I was supposed to be doing an interview but I was so tongue-tied I basically muttered and mumbled the whole time. June could tell I was star struck and was the sweetest thing.
Southern Beale
Wow, so even Ron Paul has some standards:
J. Michael Neal
Gah! Kessel beats the goalie clean but hits the pipe. I still like the way we are playing.
Raven
Merle has these great lyrics in the seldom heard “Proud of What I am”.
I never travel in a hurry, ‘Cause I got nobody waitin’ for me anywhere.
Home is anywhere I’m livin’,
If it’s sleepin’ on some vacant bench in City Square,
Or if I’m workin’ on some road gang,
Or just livin’ off the fat of our great land.
I never been nobody’s idol, But at least I got a title,
And I Take Alot Of Pride In What I Am.
Linnaeus
Montee Ball lookin’ real good in this game.
eemom
@Linda:
yeah, I think Man In Black tells you all you need to know about what Cash really thought.
LIke so many songs from that era, so painfully relevant today that those 40 years might just as well never have passed.
Some love for John Prine too plz. Sam Stone, Flag Decal, and so many others.
Raven
Pride
Gozer
Just got a new phone after having an iPhone for the last 5 years.
Luv my Galaxy s2 and it even works with my ako account.
JGabriel
@Villago Delenda Est:
Yeah, I don’t buy that. Here’s a video of Merle performing in ’68. Whether or not he’s sincere or spoof is besides the point: he’s clearly performing it for an audience that thinks he’s sincere, and giving them the performance they want.
ETA: Haggard may have changed his story about the song after aligning himself with the “outlaw country” scene in the 70’s, but the idea that Okie… was intended as a spoof when it first came out seems far-fetched to me.
.
Steeplejack
@khead:
Yeah, right.
AA+ Bonds
Dave Weigel is talking about Buddy Roemer again as a dark horse because Dave Weigel has nothing better to do with his time until Andrew Breitbart feeds him another “story”, at which point it will mysteriously find its way to the Balloon Juice front page
burnspbesq
@Steeplejack:
In which the winner is granted the right to be mauled by Oregon in the Rose Bowl, with all that entails, and the loser is granted the right to be home for Christmas, because it will already have played in a meaningless bowl game.
Raven
And, of course, Johhny’s anthem to Nam Vets
It Don’t Mean Nuthin, Drive On
eemom
Haggard’s Hungry Eyes. Hear it and weep.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Southern Beale: I think Ron Paul is very sincere in all of his madness. Nutty as he may be, to have stood against the Iraq War and all the related post-9/11 Bush madness was not the act of a political opportunism.
Linnaeus
@burnspbesq:
I wouldn’t be so sure. Oregon was also supposed to maul Ohio State in the 2010 Rose Bowl, and lost that game. MSU has a solid defense and Wisconsin’s O-line is huge.
eemom
@JGabriel:
folks iz complicated. See above.
burnspbesq
@David Koch:
If Freud were here, he would most likely say that your inadvertent reference to a curmudgeonly San Francisco columnist proves something. What that something might be …
Raven
@Linnaeus: There is nothing worse than people arguing about stupid football games.
Steeplejack
@Raven:
Man, that is really similar to “Gentle on My Mind.” Like “If George Harrison could get sued for ‘My Sweet Lord’ . . .” similar.
Jebediah
My big plan for the evening is to go for a long-ish walk, at the end of which will be a bluegrass show. Only question is whether or not I shoot some smoke down my neck before I leave the house.
eemom
@David Koch:
DHS or it didn’t happen.
Linnaeus
@Raven:
Eh, I didn’t think we quite got to the point of arguing.
Raven
@Linnaeus: I was being snarky.
Steeplejack
@Raven:
Heh. I saw what you did there.
Raven
@Steeplejack: You can sue anybody for anything, it’s winning that’s hard.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
Wow! MSU and Wisconsin are pulling out all the stops!
burnspbesq
@Linnaeus:
This year’s Oregon team is better than two years ago. Better QB, better receivers, better linebackers. The Ducks two losses are to the two best teams in college football.
Yes, I said that. USC is better than Bama.
DougJ
@Disgruntled Lurker:
You know, “Tequila Sunrise” and “Lying Eyes’ aren’t so bad.
Raven
@Steeplejack: So did my brother J Michael Neal!
Jebediah
@eemom:
Man, do I love John Prine! I really, really like his post-cancer voice – I like a little individuality or quirk or whatever in a singer, and of course the songs are treasures.
Raven
@burnspbesq: Step back away from the bong barrister.
Linnaeus
@burnspbesq:
Yes, they are a better team this year. They should be favored in the Rose Bowl. I just don’t think it will be an easy win for Oregon. They lucked out in getting to play UCLA instead of USC in the Pac-12 championship. Not their fault, of course, but…
DougJ
@eemom:
I agree.
Raven
@Jebediah: Souvenirs
Linnaeus
@Raven:
Oh. Sorry. It must be the beer.
Southern Beale
I think I’ve been commenting on the wrong thread.
This is what I get for being sick. Bah.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@burnspbesq:
Nah, the loser will get something like the Citrus or Outback Bowl.
David Koch
@burnspbesq: it proves I’m mocking Palin’s hilarious repeated misuse of Herb Caen to describe Herman Cain.
eemom
@DougJ:
have you ever heard The Last Resort?
Raven
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): Capitol One!
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Raven: What a great response, and the only rational explanation for such a nonsensical comment. Thanks for that dawg.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Raven:
WhatEVER!
Raven
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): I had my share of those kind of comments a few threads back and I’m sober as a judge!
eemom
@Jebediah:
totally agree. That album where he re-did all his old songs — name escapes me at the moment, but it came out in 2005 or so — is pure gold.
J. Michael Neal
Gophers outshoot North Dakota 14-4 in the second, but still can’t put the puck in. Some very good goaltending by a kid I’ve never seen before, plus some bad bounces. I still like our chances, but the longer this thing is scoreless, the more nervous I get.
burnspbesq
@Raven:
Really? Bama’s secondary can’t cover Woods or Lee, and its front seven can’t get consistent pressure on Barkley against a line that has three future first round draft picks. It’ll be 60-50, because Bama will be able to run on USC’s undersized outside linebackers, but USC will make just enough stops to win.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Raven:
The Grace L. Ferguson Airline and Storm Door Company Bowl
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@eemom: True that it’s infinitely better than OccupyDougJ’s choices. Or did he forget to sign in as a troll for that comment?
Raven
@burnspbesq: On your Weii maybe cuz that’s the only place it will happen.
Hey, you oughta run out and see my bro’s Floyd Band at the Key Club!
J. Michael Neal
@burnspbesq: USC 19, Minnesota 17
No one that almost figures out how to lose to the Gophers belongs in any discussion of the Top 5. Note that this rule knocks Sparty out of any talk, too.
Anoniminous
@General Stuck:
Don’t bitch, we need the moisture.
Meanwhile here is a Chinese Communist Youth Song to cheer you up.
(I’ve noticed Chinese Communist Youth songs have been, somehow, overlooked in previous Open Threads and it is high time that lack was filled.)
burnspbesq
Anyone here subscribe to MOG? If yes, how good is it as a music-discovery tool (as opposed to feeding you what you already know you like)?
Raven
@J. Michael Neal: And then there’s the Illini!
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@J. Michael Neal:
No horse wins the Belmont on a full sprint.
Steeplejack
@Raven:
Well, whoever sued George Harrison won that suit.
. . . It was over “He’s So Fine.” The judge found Harrison had committed “subconscious plagiarism.”
I think it’s bullshit, but I couldn’t help but notice the similarity between Haggard’s song and Hartford’s.
eemom
@DougJ:
also too, Don Henley solo. One would think Dirty Laundry would be, like, anthemic to you.
Raven
Hey, anybody have any experience with LED xmas lights? I bought one roll for big bucks and it’s not nearly enough. Before I buy more I need to know if they burn as often as the old style?
DougJ
@eemom:
No, but it sounds bit too much like Billy Joel’s “She’s Got A Way About Her” for me.
Steeplejack
@DougJ:
“Lying Eyes” is a great song. It’s like the national anthem of cheating. Or used to be.
burnspbesq
Thread needs dogs!
J. Michael Neal
FUCK! Kelly Terry forgets to play defense and the Sux score.
eemom
@Steeplejack:
no, not bullshit at all. That subconscious shit is real, and actually quite interesting. Harrison of all people had no reason to steal anything.
Raven
@Steeplejack: Yea, I have a good friend who sued Zep.
Steeplejack
@eemom:
For “unknown” Eagles I like “Bitter Creek.”
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Steeplejack:
And what would ice hockey games be without Heartache Tonight blaring throughout the arena following a fight?
Raven
@burnspbesq: Aw, the big boy looks like my long lost Mr Big! Check out these dudes that we ran into at the beach.
eemom
@DougJ:
um, please go back and listen all the way through, or I shall be forced to conclude that you are insane.
burnspbesq
Thread also needs Canadian gurls who sing real purty
J. Michael Neal
Terry makes up for it with a breakaway that at least draws a hooking call. Only a hell of a save prevented her from scoring anyway.
Steeplejack
@Anoniminous:
Thank you, comrade.
eemom
@Raven:
no. They suck, like all LEDs.
Steeplejack
@eemom:
I meant bullshit that Harrison had to pay.
Raven
@eemom: No they don’t burn out or no, take them back and get regular?
Steeplejack
@burnspbesq:
Linky no work. You fix.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@burnspbesq:
Your link no work.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Steeplejack:
Meh. It isn’t like Harrison died poor. Not even close.
Raven
@Steeplejack: See what you think of Dazed and Confused.
Anoniminous
@Anoniminous:
Of course they’ve up’ed their game over the decades.
J. Michael Neal
Gophs down by one and now playing stupid. Lots of passes to no one.
Nerull
Typical LED lifetimes are often over a decade of continuous use.
burnspbesq
@Steeplejack:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v91L8kthcEE
Raven
@Nerull: I guess I wasn’t sure if “burning out” is what traditional xmas lights do that make random sections of lights on a long string go out.
burnspbesq
My favorite Eagles song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joFwe2OVZes
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@burnspbesq: I was hoping you were going to link Kathleen Edwards.
The Dangerman
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Well, after waiting for Romney at the end, there was no skewering; looking back at Newt, who started the program, and his treatment, well, they may have been tougher on him than Romney. Certainly, from my view from the cheap seats, Romney got a bit of a pass in this one.
Also, since it’s Championship Saturday, for those wondering about the mindset of UCLA athletics, this crossed my path this evening:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjsLuLG2gXo
Steeplejack
@Raven:
It sounds like Jake Holmes has more of a case than the Chiffons. There’s (apparently) a direct connection between Holmes and Jimmy Page, which wasn’t argued in the Harrison case.
Is this your friend? How did the suit turn out?
Raven
@Steeplejack: It was settled :)
Nutella
New Yorkers: your tax dollars at work.
Punchy
Why can my kid be completely bulletproof in a noisy restaurant, sleeping soundly through myriad noises, smells, and jostles, but upon arriving home to peace and quiet, she explodes in fits of tears and sobs?
Steeplejack
@eemom:
That’s a good Eagles song, but when I need a Don Henley fix my needs are pretty much covered by “The End of the Innocence.”
Steeplejack
@Punchy:
Um, she likes the noise?
J. Michael Neal
Shit. North Dakota gets a lucky bounce that prevents the tying goal from going in by inches and then put it into an empty net from 190 feet. Sometimes you’re snakebit.
Suffern ACE
@The Dangerman: Yeah, they are AGs and three of the candidates (Newt and Perry) have made it very clear that they don’t respect the court system. I think it was Perry who basically said he’d fire judges that disagreed with him and try to limit their terms (har har har) and Newt says he is going to defund the 9th circuit (har har har). They may be conservative AGs, but they aren’t going to really be enthused about backing candidates who want to mess around with the authority of the courts as an independent and co-equal branch.
Punchy
@Steeplejack: Perhaps she’ll be a Justin Bieber roadie in a few years.
burnspbesq
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
I am putty in the hands of pretty girls with Les Pauls.
Steeplejack
@Anoniminous:
I think there has been some capitalist-roader backsliding there, comrade.
burnspbesq
Duke plays for the national championship in women’s soccer tomorrow. Yes, we are stoked.
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@Steeplejack: “Bitter Creek” is one of my faves also. Along with Doolin-Dalton on the same album.
Steeplejack
@Punchy:
A parent can dream.
burnspbesq
@Steeplejack:
Great song, but I associate it with Bruce Hornsby.
My favorite Henley song?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IVE1LguNJw
eemom
@Raven:
no, they’re ugly — weird and unnatural. Yes, take them back and get regular.
Steeplejack
@Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason:
This got me thinking how Desperado was a pretty good album and I hadn’t thought about it in a long time. I picked up a case of Eagles fatigue somewhere.
“Bitter Creek” is connected to America’s “Donkey Jaw” in the early-’70s-big-guitar-strummin’ section of my brain.
eemom
also, Hotel California, mocked as it is, is still a pretty good tune. After all, our very own Cole saw fit to make “you can check out any time you like” one of the taglines.
Come to think of it — where IS Cole?
Steeplejack
@burnspbesq:
I love Bruce Hornsby, but Henley’s voice is perfect for that song.
My Hornsby needs are slaked by “The Way It Is.” An obvious choice, but sometimes obvious is good. And it has some “We are the 99%” resonance.
“New York Minute” is a great song.
goblue72
@raven – I tried LED tree lights. They look like crapola.
And go Badgers. As a Wolverine, the Spartans can bite me.
Steeplejack
@eemom:
Well, if it’s Saturday night and he’s not here, he’s probably yelling in all caps on Twitter.
Raven
@eemom: These are for outside but I think I’ll do as you suggest. thx
Moonbatman
Too bad it took U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke heroic resignation to show the wingnuts as ‘willing stooges for the Gun Lobby’.
eemom
better late than never, some appreciation for the post title.
Sweet sounds, indeed.
Corner Stone
@Punchy: Wait until they are 5 and start solving for X and you have no idea why, or what the fuck is going on. That is way more disturbing.
Raven
@Corner Stone: Tigers are on fire. Bad day in this house.
burnspbesq
Listening to the “new” J.D. Souther record (from earlier this year). Liking it.
Corner Stone
@Raven: I hope it’s LSU and OKSU.
Raven
@Corner Stone: I don’t think there’s any way. The Tide seems to be rolling in.
Steeplejack
@burnspbesq:
It’s a nice segue from the songs in this thread.
Corner Stone
@Raven: Talk about boring. I would’ve liked Oregon or OK St. vs. LSU.
Who the hell wants to see another 12 – 9 Championship game?
Raven
@Corner Stone: You watching this Big 10 Championship? Barn burner!
Corner Stone
@Raven: I love Montee “Big” Ball.
Omnes Omnibus
@Raven: That was suspenseful.
Nerull
That hit on the punter has got to be the dumbest penalty I’ve seen in ages. What were they thinking? They might have won without that mistake.
Capn America
Can somebody explain to me why Cash had a song called “Ship Those N***ers back to Africa”? Was it tongue in cheek like Okie from Muskogee, did he mean it, or did he sing it because somebody else wrote it for him and he had no choice?
RadioOne
I don’t think Merle Haggard ever intended “Okie from Muskogee” to be ironic. But I also don’t think he ever anticipated the culture wars and how they would affect the political landscape in the United States.
It’s still one of the great country songs of the 60’s.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Capn America: appears to be a myth, a song by a guy calling himself “Johnny Rebel” who sounded like Cash.
Jebediah
@Jebediah:
pre-show smoke=yes
observation: being high does NOT negatively affect my enjoyment of live bluegrass, which I apparently love.
Lojasmo
@Jebediah:
I would have brought one for the walk. Of course, depending on your state, it could spell trouble. Here in MN simple possession is a petty misdemeanor.
arclite
@DougJ:
I don’t know why, but any sentence with “strapping young bucks” in it cracks me up.
Jebediah
@Lojasmo:
I’m in So Cal… I think it is just a ticket now. I did bring one for the walk home, but chickened out on lighting it up – it wasn’t late enough, too many people out and about. And I didn’t really need one for the walk there – even with two detours on the way, I was still very lit up when I got there. The show was pretty great.
Paul in KY
@JGabriel: He said he wrote it to make some money. Figured it would sell well.