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Another Open Thread

by John Cole|  June 9, 201211:28 pm| 82 Comments

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For some reason, there have been requests in the comments for proof of life pictures for Rosie- like I would do anything to mah puppeh! She’s as happy and healthy as can be, and as always, proudly perched on my lap:

She actually spends more time on my lap than Lily does these days, because Lily is so secure she is in her forever home, and likes to relax on the bed underneath the comforter. On the other hand, Rosie is a JRT, so that means I am unable to even walk to the bathroom without her following me, and, as such, is surgically attached to me at all time.

Also, too, I watched a Burn Notice ad for the new season, and it reminded me how much I love this song:

There are so many things I like about that song, from the guitar riffs, the trumpet, the deadpan white boy rap, and the overall edginess, on top of all of that the descending crescendo (did I make that up?) of the background vocals and synth overlays as they enter the chorus, that I wonder if maybe I should buy and download some Cake albums.

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  1. 1.

    Yutsano

    June 9, 2012 at 11:30 pm

    the descending crescendo

    You can descend melodically on a crescendo. Otherwise yeah you’re contradicting yourself.

  2. 2.

    asiangrrlMN

    June 9, 2012 at 11:31 pm

    Awwwww, Rosie is a sweetie, Cole – don’t lie. I’m really glad she’s more secure in her forever home and more chilled than before.

    I like Cake, but cake is a lie…

  3. 3.

    zoej

    June 9, 2012 at 11:35 pm

    Most definitely download Cake and lots of it.
    signed,
    a grandmother

  4. 4.

    The Dangerman

    June 9, 2012 at 11:36 pm

    Rosie … Rosie …. this reminds me of somethin’ … oh, yeah, it’s time to put on some Springsteen.

  5. 5.

    odp

    June 9, 2012 at 11:37 pm

    Buy all the Cake albums. I use “The Distance” as the ringtone when my son calls me . All the songs are quirky and lots of fun.

  6. 6.

    kdaug

    June 9, 2012 at 11:40 pm

    The cake is a lie.

    ETA @asiangrrlMN: Thwarted again!

  7. 7.

    Brian S

    June 9, 2012 at 11:46 pm

    Their cover of “War Pigs” from B Sides and Rarities ain’t half bad either.

  8. 8.

    Spaghetti Lee

    June 9, 2012 at 11:46 pm

    I’m actually listening to Cake now. Not a big fan of “The Distance”, but I like the whole “Showroom of Compassion” album.

  9. 9.

    jl

    June 9, 2012 at 11:48 pm

    Thnx for nice doggie Rosie pic.

    I guess I should go to sleep I’m so tired I’m seeting things. I thought I saw furries in that white boy rap clip.

  10. 10.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    June 9, 2012 at 11:49 pm

    Love that song.

  11. 11.

    Jennifer

    June 9, 2012 at 11:51 pm

    My favorite Cake may be Italian Leather Sofa.

  12. 12.

    PeakVT

    June 9, 2012 at 11:52 pm

    Hate, hate, hate, that song. Short Skirt Long Jacket, OTOH, is a blast.

  13. 13.

    handy

    June 9, 2012 at 11:53 pm

    @odp:

    I guess “Never There” would have been too obvious?

  14. 14.

    Xecky Gilchrist

    June 9, 2012 at 11:57 pm

    @PeakVT: Seconded. In fact, I like pretty much every Cake song I’ve ever heard except Going the Distance, not sure why that one bugs me but it does.

  15. 15.

    JGabriel

    June 9, 2012 at 11:58 pm

    John Cole:

    I wonder if maybe I should buy and download some Cake albums.

    Maybe. Did you like the Chuck theme song? That was by Cake too: Short Skirt / Long Jacket. The verse thoroughly rips off a guitar riff from something I can’t remember(Sweet Jane, maybe?)

    Also, skimmed through Wong Kar Wai’s Chungking Express last night, and now I can’t get California Dreamin’ out of my head.

    .

  16. 16.

    John Cole

    June 10, 2012 at 12:01 am

    @PeakVT: Cuz no Chuck fan has ever heard that…

  17. 17.

    asiangrrlMN

    June 10, 2012 at 12:03 am

    I loooove Cake’s cover of “I Will Survive” almost as much as I love the original.

  18. 18.

    JGabriel

    June 10, 2012 at 12:03 am

    @John Cole:

    Cuz no Chuck fan has ever heard that…

    Okaaay, you already knew that. Like how the fuck are we supposed to know? All ya ever talk about is listenin’ to Little Feat and the Dead like some leftover sixties stoner.

    .

  19. 19.

    asiangrrlMN

    June 10, 2012 at 12:04 am

    @kdaug: I’m quick like that!

    @JGabriel: He liked that chick in Chuck. I remember he’s talked about her more than once.

  20. 20.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 10, 2012 at 12:05 am

    I truly hate that song. “Short Skirt, Long Jacket” is tolerable. Okay, I am not a Cake fan. I prefer pie.

  21. 21.

    PeakVT

    June 10, 2012 at 12:06 am

    @Xecky Gilchrist: It’s just plain dreary.

    @John Cole: What the fuck is Chuck?

  22. 22.

    Yutsano

    June 10, 2012 at 12:08 am

    @Omnes Omnibus: I LIKE PIE!!

  23. 23.

    Sentient Puddle

    June 10, 2012 at 12:08 am

    I’ve always seen Cake as one of those bands where if you hear one of their songs and like it, you’ll like everything else they do. Little surprised at the number of people saying they hate one but like another.

    Anyway, yes, go buy Cake.

  24. 24.

    danah gaz (fka gaz)

    June 10, 2012 at 12:09 am

    @asiangrrlMN: “cake is a lie…” LOL. I haven’t heard that in so long I forget where it comes from. =) win.

  25. 25.

    asiangrrlMN

    June 10, 2012 at 12:11 am

    @danah gaz (fka gaz): Portal! Never played it, though.

    @JGabriel: Eh. I’m bi, and I don’t like the chick in Chuck.

  26. 26.

    JGabriel

    June 10, 2012 at 12:11 am

    asiangrrlMN:

    He liked that chick in Chuck.

    True, but even straight chicks like the chick in Chuck. That tells us nothing.

    PeakVT:

    What the fuck is Chuck?

    Chuck.

    .

  27. 27.

    danah gaz (fka gaz)

    June 10, 2012 at 12:21 am

    For some reason Cake makes me want to listen to Beck.

    I think I like them though. Although the the choppy vocal delivery (I imagine it’s deliberate) is unsettling at points. It’s twitchy. Both in the song above and in the “I Will Survive” cover. I think I like it. It bothers me, but in a good way? Hard to explain.

  28. 28.

    gaz's wife

    June 10, 2012 at 12:22 am

    @danah gaz (fka gaz): How is cake a lie?

  29. 29.

    Alison

    June 10, 2012 at 12:22 am

    Ha, like others I can’t stand that song. When I first saw the commercial, I thought “The fuck are they using this old ass song for? And an annoying as all get out old ass song, at that.” I think the problem was a common one, that the song itself wasn’t so bad but it got played SO GOD DAMN MUCH on the radio (and I actually listened to radio a decent amount at the time) that I grew to despise it.

  30. 30.

    Alison

    June 10, 2012 at 12:23 am

    @gaz’s wife: Gamer nerds know. http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-cake-is-a-lie

  31. 31.

    danah gaz (fka gaz)

    June 10, 2012 at 12:24 am

    @gaz’s wife: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-cake-is-a-lie

  32. 32.

    danah gaz (fka gaz)

    June 10, 2012 at 12:25 am

    @Alison: LOL! jynx

  33. 33.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 10, 2012 at 12:26 am

    @Alison: The song always sucked.

  34. 34.

    danah gaz (fka gaz)

    June 10, 2012 at 12:28 am

    @Alison: I had no idea it was that old. I knew I had heard it before, but it’s been around since 1996? sheesh. I feel old.

  35. 35.

    asiangrrlMN

    June 10, 2012 at 12:31 am

    @Omnes Omnibus: SOMEBODY is feeling feisty tonight.

  36. 36.

    Alison

    June 10, 2012 at 12:31 am

    @danah gaz (fka gaz): Haha, GMTA!
    @Omnes Omnibus: Yeah, you’re right. I was trying to be nice, but…no, it sucked.

    @danah gaz (fka gaz): Indeed. I was in high school. Fucking hell…I feel old.

  37. 37.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 10, 2012 at 12:33 am

    @danah gaz (fka gaz): No offense, but fuck you. And get off my lawn. I remember original punk as it happened.

  38. 38.

    Origuy

    June 10, 2012 at 12:34 am

    When Steve Benen moved to Rachel Maddow’s blog, he took This Week in God with him, a weekly look at religion in America. This week he links to a report from Right Wing Watch about Tony Perkins’ latest reason to be outraged. A video made to promote tourism to the USA has a brief scene of a man with his arm around another man, riding a bus. If you blink, you miss it. Apparently, Perkins thinks this is another instance of Obama’s plan to debauch America.
    Watch the video, it has a lot of nice images and Rosanne Cash has a pretty voice.

  39. 39.

    JGabriel

    June 10, 2012 at 12:35 am

    @asiangrrlMN:

    I’m bi, and I don’t like the chick in Chuck.

    I stand corrected. Well, actually, I’m sitting, but you get the picture.

    .

  40. 40.

    satanicpanic

    June 10, 2012 at 12:36 am

    This was their best song. After that the novelty of their deadpan singer got old.

  41. 41.

    Gozer

    June 10, 2012 at 12:36 am

    Just got done with a party at our house for a friend who just got a prestigious literary award. I made a couple pots of gumbo and we had like 6 bottles of champagne and several bottles of wine.

    Dr. Mrs. and I finished cleaning and I think I’ll play a few rounds of Battlefield 3 and hibernate tomorrow.

  42. 42.

    Yutsano

    June 10, 2012 at 12:40 am

    @asiangrrlMN: He’s feeling oats. Curiosity is heightened.

  43. 43.

    JGabriel

    June 10, 2012 at 12:41 am

    @gaz’s wife:

    How is cake a lie?

    It’s from the video game Portal. As you try to escape an experimental training and testing compound using a gun that creates portals, you repeatedly come across graffiti scrawls from a previous test subject, or subjects, that says, “The cake is a lie.”

    Obviously, the cake is a metaphor for the promises of corporate rewards — although it is kind of sweetly literalized if you make it to the end credits of the game.

    .

  44. 44.

    danah gaz (fka gaz)

    June 10, 2012 at 12:42 am

    @Omnes Omnibus: Good for you. Let me know how recalling your glory days works out, you old fat fuck.

    =)

    PS: Mike Skinner is the new Joey Ramone. – and his stuff is actually pretty dated now too. But I love him just the same.

  45. 45.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    June 10, 2012 at 12:44 am

    @JGabriel: Also, in one of the levels, the computer promises you cake if you complete it.

  46. 46.

    Petorado

    June 10, 2012 at 12:45 am

    The Cake song that always gets me is Nugget. Yeah, they say STFU in it a lot, but some days the song just hits home.

  47. 47.

    danah gaz (fka gaz)

    June 10, 2012 at 12:50 am

    @danah gaz (fka gaz): Speaking of which – for the drinkers on the thread

    Too Much Brandy – The Streets
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buG9fXAM0II

    And the aftermath… chronicled here:
    Empty Cans – The Streets
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2i0Nw3NDBU

  48. 48.

    suzanne

    June 10, 2012 at 12:51 am

    @Alison: Concur. “The Distance” has always irritated me, even when I was fifteen and listening to the radio as if it could deliver me from the private Idaho (and literal Arizona) that I was “living” in. However, “Short Skirt Long Jacket” is adorable and fabulous.

    My husband and I are car shopping this weekend. His 1999 Civic took its final shit a month ago, and now we need something. Looked at an 2006 Civic Hybrid today. Liked it a lot, for the price. My friend recently got a Nissan LEAF and is trying to convince me to get one, but the sticker price is ludicrous. However, anything I can do to stop supplementing the Venezuelan economy would thrill me.

    Sigh.

  49. 49.

    Steeplejack

    June 10, 2012 at 12:54 am

    @PeakVT:

    Chuck.

    “Short Skirt, Long Jacket.”

  50. 50.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 10, 2012 at 12:55 am

    @danah gaz (fka gaz): What makes you think I am fat?

    @Yutsano: The pure dipshittery over the WI Recall caused me to lose some reticence.

  51. 51.

    Nicole

    June 10, 2012 at 12:57 am

    Got back from the Belmont Stakes and am now finishing some work I have left to do.

    Beautiful day at the racetrack. I’ll Have Another’s withdrawal from the Belmont (and retirement) due to a minor now, but potentially significant injury if he continued to race, was a bummer, as it meant no Triple Crown, but the connections did what was best for the horse. There were some pretty hilarious conspiracy theories floating, though. And a lot of free I’ll Have Another buttons and posters that no one wanted.

    And it’s hard to root against the Belmont winner, Union Rags- his owner, paralyzed in a car accident in 1960 (when she was interning on the Kennedy campaign), today won her first big race with a horse she sold and then bought back because she dreamt that he was going to be her “big” horse, and the trainer, Michael Matz, is a former Olympic equestrian who, years ago, rescued three kids from the wreckage of a plane crash. Seriously. So, some days the good guys win.

    As my husband put it, nice to see a “Union” win SOMETHING.

  52. 52.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    June 10, 2012 at 12:57 am

    @Petorado: That’s the one I like too.

    Shut the fuck up,
    learn to buck up

  53. 53.

    danah gaz (fka gaz)

    June 10, 2012 at 1:04 am

    @Omnes Omnibus: I was just playing the odds. You’re old and American.

  54. 54.

    gaz's wife

    June 10, 2012 at 1:05 am

    @danah gaz (fka gaz): Ohhh… now I’m sad!! What have I been doing all these years? Why did I try so hard? Now I get no cake..

  55. 55.

    JGabriel

    June 10, 2012 at 1:09 am

    @Nicole:

    As my husband put it, nice to see a “Union” win SOMETHING.

    We won the Civil War … not that you’d notice so much from the way Republicans keep trying to re-fight it.

    .

  56. 56.

    trollhattan

    June 10, 2012 at 1:09 am

    Cake are local boys, but so are Tesla so I think we’ll call it a draw.

    Fam is at Dizzyland and I have COMPLETE CONTROL of the house and its stuff, so I unwrapped my dusty Bluray of “Stop Making Sense” and blasted it tonight. My doggie curled up right in front of my teevee and the center channel speaker, despite the sound being on “11”–she’d rather be with me than retain her hearing, I guess.

    What an amazing movie/concert/band. Damn.

  57. 57.

    danah gaz (fka gaz)

    June 10, 2012 at 1:11 am

    @JGabriel: Like the few white trash neighbors I have, I just try to ignore them, and my life is better for it. They add nothing of value to the human experience. They aren’t worth my mental energy.

  58. 58.

    Keith

    June 10, 2012 at 1:11 am

    I’m not a fan of Manny Pacquiao and think Mayweather will pick him apart, but he got royally jobbed vs. Tim Bradley tonight. Good card though, except for the Arce fight ending way too early (and it was shaping up to be brutal)

  59. 59.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 10, 2012 at 1:11 am

    @danah gaz (fka gaz): If I were fat, I bet my tits would be nicer than yours. So there.

  60. 60.

    danah gaz (fka gaz)

    June 10, 2012 at 1:13 am

    @gaz’s wife: I’ve been telling you this for over 15 years and now that you see some meme on the internet you finally believe me?

    * headdesk *

  61. 61.

    danah gaz (fka gaz)

    June 10, 2012 at 1:15 am

    @Omnes Omnibus: Heh. I’m working on the fat, but my tits aren’t the problem, my ass was. Luckily I’ve put on weight since then. Also, I wish I was fat. Getting closer though =)

  62. 62.

    asiangrrlMN

    June 10, 2012 at 1:17 am

    @Yutsano: I’d like to feel HIS oats! Wait, what?!?

    @JGabriel: I haz weird taste, so I’ve been told.

    @Omnes Omnibus: I like big butts, and I cannot lie! Oh, and POUTINE!

  63. 63.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 10, 2012 at 1:19 am

    @asiangrrlMN: Umm, what?

  64. 64.

    Origuy

    June 10, 2012 at 1:28 am

    Cake or Death?

  65. 65.

    asiangrrlMN

    June 10, 2012 at 1:57 am

    @Origuy: Ahhhhh, you said death! You’re lucky we’re church of England.

  66. 66.

    Hill Dweller

    June 10, 2012 at 1:59 am

    @Keith:

    I’m not a fan of Manny Pacquiao and think Mayweather will pick him apart, but he got royally jobbed vs. Tim Bradley tonight. Good card though, except for the Arce fight ending way too early (and it was shaping up to be brutal)

    I had forgotten that fight was happening until seeing the ESPN crawl. Their boxing guy had 119-109 Pacquiao.

  67. 67.

    Mnemosyne

    June 10, 2012 at 2:07 am

    @asiangrrlMN:

    We should have brought more cake.

  68. 68.

    Clark Addison

    June 10, 2012 at 2:14 am

    @Yutsano: I think you mean descant. But it’s been a while since Choir, though…

  69. 69.

    asiangrrlMN

    June 10, 2012 at 2:14 am

    @Mnemosyne: I love Eddie Izzard SO MUCH. No flag, no country!

  70. 70.

    Mnemosyne

    June 10, 2012 at 2:34 am

    @asiangrrlMN:

    I would probably have no clue who Eddie Izzard is if G hadn’t made me watch “Dressed to Kill.” Yet another of the many reasons I sat on him until he agreed to get married. ;-)

  71. 71.

    ditch digger

    June 10, 2012 at 2:41 am

    -double post-

  72. 72.

    ditch digger

    June 10, 2012 at 2:42 am

    Cake is great, in lots of different situtaions. They take their time between albums and really do put out a complete set of songs, their deeper tracks are often better than the ones that make the radio (Frank Sinatra, Sheep go to Heaven, Satan is my Motor etc.), not a lot of bands I could say that about nowadays. ‘Long Time’ off Showroom is sweet, give it a listen if you haven’t yet.

  73. 73.

    Mister Papercut

    June 10, 2012 at 3:19 am

    @Alison:

    @gaz’s wife: Gamer nerds know. http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-cake-is-a-lie

    BTW, at the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, “The Cake is a Lie” had a damn good showing among the posters, including one of my group’s. We needed something in a pinch, and it turned out to be the one that people stopped us most often to take a picture of.

    In fact, I’d bet at least half of people’s signs were Internet-meme based, which, I’ll be honest, was a little strange to have them take on physical form and be all around you (the person who wore a paper costume of the trollface guy did give me life, though).

  74. 74.

    Comrade Mary

    June 10, 2012 at 4:17 am

    I love love LOVE CAKE.

    For those of you who hate the vocals: Teenage Pregnancy (instrumental only and fucking glorious)

    For everyone else: Long Time

  75. 75.

    Joey Maloney

    June 10, 2012 at 7:24 am

    I believe the opposite of “crescendo” is “diminuendo”. In music jargon “ascending” and “descending” by default refer to melody. So no, not a contradiction.

  76. 76.

    LiberalTarian

    June 10, 2012 at 8:59 am

    Way back in the day I sat on their stage and drank at the Cattle Club during their show. So fun.

    Their early days were definitely inspired. Rock n roll lifestyle is great, but so is mr mastodon farms.

  77. 77.

    Lojasmo

    June 10, 2012 at 9:30 am

    @suzanne:

    Look into the Chevy cruze or sonic with the 1.3l turbo. Quick, fun, and 41 MPG HWY. American made, also, too.

  78. 78.

    Abraxas

    June 10, 2012 at 2:31 pm

    You should download them all because they’re a great band, but if you can’t or aren’t inclined, you should at least get 1996’s Fashion Nugget. Fantastic album.

  79. 79.

    JoeK

    June 10, 2012 at 4:49 pm

    I just love Cake. Yesterday my SO was rockin’ some Neil Diamond in her new Nissan Leaf, which is cool with me, except afterwards I had “Sweet Caroline” stuck in mah hed for the rest of the day. But I hit on the perfect solution: I started singing it in the style of Cake, and it was so awesome that it drove the original right outta there. I think that would work for pretty much any song. A few weeks ago I had “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” wedged in there for like three days straight, and I’ve been afraid to even think of that song since. But just now I thought of it, then Caked it, and it was just as wonderful as I was expecting!

  80. 80.

    Comradde PhysioProffe

    June 10, 2012 at 5:03 pm

    Cake is totally fucken awesome.

  81. 81.

    snarkyspice

    June 11, 2012 at 3:12 am

    I can’t believe that it makes me so happy to see a happy little dog 3,000 miles away, but it does anyway.

    I followed Rosie’s story from the beginning and was rooting for you to keep her back in the days when most people were telling you to give up. She just seemed like she needed you so much. To hear now that all is well … well, it just melts my heart. Thanks for being such a good guy :)

  82. 82.

    What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us? (formerly MarkJ)

    June 11, 2012 at 10:20 am

    Consider me a Cake fan. Their cover of I Will Survive is fantastic. Comfort Eagle is a blast start to finish. But…no love for Sad Songs and Waltzes? That is a fantastic country song. Also Stickshifts and Safetybelts.

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