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.
Yutsano
You can descend melodically on a crescendo. Otherwise yeah you’re contradicting yourself.
asiangrrlMN
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…
zoej
Most definitely download Cake and lots of it.
signed,
a grandmother
The Dangerman
Rosie … Rosie …. this reminds me of somethin’ … oh, yeah, it’s time to put on some Springsteen.
odp
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.
kdaug
The cake is a lie.
ETA @asiangrrlMN: Thwarted again!
Brian S
Their cover of “War Pigs” from B Sides and Rarities ain’t half bad either.
Spaghetti Lee
I’m actually listening to Cake now. Not a big fan of “The Distance”, but I like the whole “Showroom of Compassion” album.
jl
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.
Just Some Fuckhead
Love that song.
Jennifer
My favorite Cake may be Italian Leather Sofa.
PeakVT
Hate, hate, hate, that song. Short Skirt Long Jacket, OTOH, is a blast.
handy
@odp:
I guess “Never There” would have been too obvious?
Xecky Gilchrist
@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.
JGabriel
John Cole:
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.
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John Cole
@PeakVT: Cuz no Chuck fan has ever heard that…
asiangrrlMN
I loooove Cake’s cover of “I Will Survive” almost as much as I love the original.
JGabriel
@John Cole:
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.
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asiangrrlMN
@kdaug: I’m quick like that!
@JGabriel: He liked that chick in Chuck. I remember he’s talked about her more than once.
Omnes Omnibus
I truly hate that song. “Short Skirt, Long Jacket” is tolerable. Okay, I am not a Cake fan. I prefer pie.
PeakVT
@Xecky Gilchrist: It’s just plain dreary.
@John Cole: What the fuck is Chuck?
Yutsano
@Omnes Omnibus: I LIKE PIE!!
Sentient Puddle
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.
danah gaz (fka gaz)
@asiangrrlMN: “cake is a lie…” LOL. I haven’t heard that in so long I forget where it comes from. =) win.
asiangrrlMN
@danah gaz (fka gaz): Portal! Never played it, though.
@JGabriel: Eh. I’m bi, and I don’t like the chick in Chuck.
JGabriel
asiangrrlMN:
True, but even straight chicks like the chick in Chuck. That tells us nothing.
PeakVT:
Chuck.
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danah gaz (fka gaz)
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.
gaz's wife
@danah gaz (fka gaz): How is cake a lie?
Alison
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.
Alison
@gaz’s wife: Gamer nerds know. http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-cake-is-a-lie
danah gaz (fka gaz)
@gaz’s wife: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-cake-is-a-lie
danah gaz (fka gaz)
@Alison: LOL! jynx
Omnes Omnibus
@Alison: The song always sucked.
danah gaz (fka gaz)
@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.
asiangrrlMN
@Omnes Omnibus: SOMEBODY is feeling feisty tonight.
Alison
@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.
Omnes Omnibus
@danah gaz (fka gaz): No offense, but fuck you. And get off my lawn. I remember original punk as it happened.
Origuy
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.
JGabriel
@asiangrrlMN:
I stand corrected. Well, actually, I’m sitting, but you get the picture.
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satanicpanic
This was their best song. After that the novelty of their deadpan singer got old.
Gozer
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.
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: He’s feeling oats. Curiosity is heightened.
JGabriel
@gaz’s wife:
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.
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danah gaz (fka gaz)
@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.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@JGabriel: Also, in one of the levels, the computer promises you cake if you complete it.
Petorado
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.
danah gaz (fka gaz)
@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
suzanne
@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.
Steeplejack
@PeakVT:
Chuck.
“Short Skirt, Long Jacket.”
Omnes Omnibus
@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.
Nicole
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.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Petorado: That’s the one I like too.
Shut the fuck up,
learn to buck up
danah gaz (fka gaz)
@Omnes Omnibus: I was just playing the odds. You’re old and American.
gaz's wife
@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..
JGabriel
@Nicole:
We won the Civil War … not that you’d notice so much from the way Republicans keep trying to re-fight it.
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trollhattan
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.
danah gaz (fka gaz)
@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.
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)
Omnes Omnibus
@danah gaz (fka gaz): If I were fat, I bet my tits would be nicer than yours. So there.
danah gaz (fka gaz)
@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 *
danah gaz (fka gaz)
@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 =)
asiangrrlMN
@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!
Omnes Omnibus
@asiangrrlMN: Umm, what?
Origuy
Cake or Death?
asiangrrlMN
@Origuy: Ahhhhh, you said death! You’re lucky we’re church of England.
Hill Dweller
@Keith:
I had forgotten that fight was happening until seeing the ESPN crawl. Their boxing guy had 119-109 Pacquiao.
Mnemosyne
@asiangrrlMN:
We should have brought more cake.
Clark Addison
@Yutsano: I think you mean descant. But it’s been a while since Choir, though…
asiangrrlMN
@Mnemosyne: I love Eddie Izzard SO MUCH. No flag, no country!
Mnemosyne
@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. ;-)
ditch digger
-double post-
ditch digger
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.
Mister Papercut
@Alison:
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).
Comrade Mary
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
Joey Maloney
I believe the opposite of “crescendo” is “diminuendo”. In music jargon “ascending” and “descending” by default refer to melody. So no, not a contradiction.
LiberalTarian
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.
Lojasmo
@suzanne:
Look into the Chevy cruze or sonic with the 1.3l turbo. Quick, fun, and 41 MPG HWY. American made, also, too.
Abraxas
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.
JoeK
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!
Comradde PhysioProffe
Cake is totally fucken awesome.
snarkyspice
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 :)
What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us? (formerly MarkJ)
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.