I am heading out to do some house hunting and noticed that clearly all the front pagers have experienced the Rapture. So until they come back, I’ll just throw this here.
Apropos of nothing, I love songs about rain.
Open thread.
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I am heading out to do some house hunting and noticed that clearly all the front pagers have experienced the Rapture. So until they come back, I’ll just throw this here.
Apropos of nothing, I love songs about rain.
Open thread.
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Steeplejack (phone)
Brasil ’66, “Chove Chuva (Constant Rain).”
Amir Khalid
The Rain Song by Led Zeppelin. It mentions rain only once.
Mike in NC
After a pretty dry summer, we’re getting several days of rain. Also, too, we don’t get a gradual change of seasons: it goes from 90-100 degrees to 60 degrees overnight and the trees are shedding leaves like it’s the middle of November.
debbie
Or the obvious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5Rjo_imHDE
shell
Pennies From Heaven
Amir Khalid
Some Milli Vanilli.
Schlemazel
rhapsody in the rain
Mark
I love a rainy night. Eddie Rabbit.
The Golux
That Patty Griffin song is from a great album, “1000 Kisses”.
jeffreyw
Thread needz moar!
Dan
The Beatles -Rain.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKmJGXhSmaY
boatboy_srq
Rain
Rain
Radioactive Rain
rain…
dedc79
@Amir Khalid: Of all the Led Zep songs, that’s the one I come back to the most often. Absolutely gorgeous.
My favorite Jayhawks song also concerns the rain.
And my (and everyone’s) favorite Beta Band song.
Dan
The Temptations – I wish it would rain.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-es4Q8AJaU
boatboy_srq
BLEEPing multiple links moderation…
Rain
Rain
rain…
boatboy_srq
Radioactive Rain
Dan
And Greg Allman doing The Beatles Rain.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMuRO1S58Gs
gbear
The Rain Song by The Continental Drifters.
Dan
The Who.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJLf6UCGVj4
Dan
Pearl Jam doing The Who.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=663L-GWQdws
WaterGirl
I love rain. Not the Seattle rains all the time rain, but a nice rain after some nice sunny days. I also love it when TV shows use rain as part of an episode. There was one really powerful episode of West Wing that would not have been the same had it not been raining outside the Whitehouse.
dedc79
It’s nice to Sit & Listen to the Rain
Wag
REM sang about rain, too.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD2R7G3z6WU
Steeplejack
I heard the Sir Douglas Quintet on SiriusXM yesterday (different song), so now I think of “The Rains Came.”
Amir Khalid
Malay pop legend Sudirman Haji Arshad with Hujan (Rain).
Oatler.
@Dan: I’m not listening to “Rain” but Beatles sure sound good on a sunny Saturday morning, getting ready to go to the growers market and check out the hot young things,sorry I mean get some good organic produce.
Steeplejack
Two songs by the Lovin’ Spoonful: “Rain on the Roof” and “Coconut Grove.” The latter not specifically a rain song, but the video sort of makes it so.
Eric U.
the dogs are going insane digging up the yard because of critters. The Elkhound I’m trying hard not to hate just nipped me when I stopped her from tearing out the drain pipe.
Steeplejack
The Dramatics, “In the Rain.”
Zinsky
The lovely and inimitable Nancy Griffiths, with I Wish It Would Rain:
http://youtu.be/p5P5FZ-NhsY
Steeplejack
Perhaps the ultimate maudlin rain song: the Cowsills, “The Rain, the Park and Other Things.”
Steeplejack
A palate-cleanser after the horror that is the Cowsills: Prince, “Purple Rain.” (Surprised it was available.)
Steeplejack
Gordon Lightfoot, “Early Morning Rain.”
Steeplejack
Okay, here’s a question: What is some experience you had that was caused by, enhanced by or directly related to rain?
Baud
@Steeplejack:
Getting wet.
rickstersherpa
Further evidence that 41% of our fellow citizens are absolutely nuts. http://www.eschatonblog.com/2015/09/stopping-canadian-menace.html
Dmbeaster
Hope these songs (and El Nino) bring rain to California.
PurpleGirl
Simon & Garfunkle — their early work is so poetic
Kathy’s Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXZyDtzDJMY
WereBear
@Steeplejack: I took a canoe trip down the Delaware with a group of co-workers, a tradition that dated back several years with a great time for all.
About an hour in, the clouds turned dark and we got the kind of slow and relentless rain that seeps through rainwear and turns the lovely scenery into soggy snapshots.
For the next five hours we gutted it through, and I will never forget sitting at the end, watching the boats getting loaded back up for the trip back to where we parked the cars, still far too wet, but now enjoying the certainty that it would end.
And I still like rain.
Amir Khalid
@Baud:
This.
Steeplejack
@Baud:
That’s the kind of
narrow-minded, literalistincisive thinking that’s going to put you over the top next year. Baud! 2016.Arm The Homeless
Rain King
Lord help me, I am a Counting Crows fan. Perfect Blue Buildings is another favorite of mine.
Pogonip
Hello Juicers, thanks for all the advice about the flea circus. There is too such a thing as a flea lunch, and I was it!
What is the best way to make sure I don’t accidentally carry them into anyone else’s house?
SFAW
@Steeplejack:
I see your Cowsills, and raise you an Albus Dumbledore
Plus, something a little better.
SFAW
Is your state open carry? Do you have the appropriate hunting license? Also, make sure you’re wearing appropriate clothing to prevent getting shot by other (less careful) house hunters.
Do you need to flush them, or are they out in the open?
FlyingToaster
Still drought-y up here in the Hub; our block party starts in 5 minutes. I spent the morning w/ WarriorGirl at music classes, so HerrDoktor made some kind of middle-eastern salad roll-up, which I plan on eating in about 15 minutes.
Our street has been abruptly removed from the detour path, which is confusing people (the through-street at our end is under construction), but I am glad to have one day without it. There are still metal plates alongside our house which make going to sleep a little difficult.
Jackhammering is still happening up the hill, and it looks like they’ll be finishing up the lower end this coming week, in preparation for repaving. The upper half of the street (just beyond todays gas-main-digging-out) has been scraped to dirt and the first layer put down; they need to put in the updated utility accesses and finish paving this coming week. Then in October it will be the lower half’s turn :)
Baud
@Steeplejack:
It’s a heartwarming tale that everyone can relate to.
Cervantes
@Pogonip:
Do it on purpose.
Roger Moore
@Amir Khalid:
When the Levee Breaks
Cervantes
Rain.
Steeplejack
@WereBear:
I had a similar experience in college, on the Current River in the Ozarks. Nothing like being rained on in the wild to make you realize the enormity of the weather—any weather. You can’t just duck into the car or a building to get out of it. You have to endure it for as long as it lasts.
Pogonip
@Cervantes: The guilty party already has her own fleas (she shared with me).
Steeplejack
@SFAW:
Oh, hell to the no!
WereBear
@Pogonip: Did you hear about the diatomaceous earth/freeze the vacuum bag thing for the home?
MomSense
@Pogonip:
Nuke them. It’s the only way to be sure.
We had them a couple years ago and it was horrific. It was months of washing and vacuuming everything constantly. I tried the bomb and it just made me sick but didn’t touch the fleas.
Cervantes
More rain.
Steeplejack
Eric Clapton, “Let It Rain.”
SFAW
@Steeplejack:
That’s what you get for inflicting the Cowsills on us.
If I believed in God, I would have asked Him to smite you. Since I don’t, I had to do my own smiting.
MomSense
@WereBear:
I switched to diatomaceous earth and it worked better than the bomb. You have to get the fine powder, though.
Anything that can be washed in hot water should be. Apple cider vinegar and water for non-carpeted floors works well, too.
Cervantes
Useful rain.
Roger Moore
@SFAW:
Most house hunters hire an expert guide to help them hunt.
gogol's wife
Shirley, I Love to Walk in the Rain. Lovely Harold Spina song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihS1IgvxTF4
divF
@Dmbeaster:
Me too. I’d like to not have to consider the environmental impact every time I flush the toilet.
I love classic film noir, but one of the minor irritations of such movies set in California (think The Big Sleep) is the extent to which it is always raining. It just doesn’t rain that much here.
Arm The Homeless
@Roger Moore: I affirm this. What happened to Americuh when we are over 50 comments in and noone has mentioned this? Shameful
How about some Fogerty, Someday Never Comes
WereBear
Fortunately, I Wish It Would Rain won the earworm contest. Or I would have to do some smiting myself.
Steeplejack
Brook Benton, “Rainy Night in Georgia.”
Steeplejack
@SFAW:
I was well and truly smitten—er, smited. Smote. Yeah, smote.
Cervantes
Red rain.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
Dunno if it’s been mentioned yet, Muddy Waters – After the Rain (39:00).
Cheers,
Scott.
Cervantes
Weather report.
Steeplejack
Dee Clark, “Raindrops.”
SFAW
@Arm The Homeless:
Speaking of Fogerty, although it’s not really about rain, I guess.
Cervantes
Rain and shine.
SFAW
@Steeplejack:
As Allan Sherman would say, I should give up smoting.
Amir Khalid
Creedence: Have You Ever Seen The Rain?
Steeplejack
@Steeplejack:
FYWP. Apparently it didn’t like the URL. Trying again.
Dee Clark, “Raindrops.”
ThresherK
Back in the ’70s people did things like entire an entire side of a double album about rain.
Hey, am I too old if I start kvetching about how nobody knows how to produce a “pop recording” any longer?
Even avoiding radio’s audio compression, or lossy MP3s, each of which turns lots of things to crap, there’s just an encroaching sameness on so many things that seems to destroy volume difference, to my ears. Is it simply the style with KidsTheseDays, or am I imagining it?
And I’m not an audiophile.
Arm The Homeless
@Steeplejack: That was a tasty track. Saved for future listening.
I need more spice though. How about Come Rain or Come Shine
Jordan Rules
Some great songs coming down in here!
Cervantes
Prospect of rain.
Steeplejack
I guess this counts: Lena Horne, “Stormy Weather.”
Steeplejack
@ThresherK:
It’s not just you. Maybe our ears are old and tired.
Comrade Luke
How has no one mentioned the Eurythmics?
Here’s an offbeat version, and here’s the original.
And having nothing to do with rain, but just because I love Annie Lennox – Under Pressure with David Bowie.
Arm The Homeless
May I submit, English Summer Rain
I love me some Placebo.
burnspbesq
@ThresherK:
You’re not imagining it. The Loudness Wars are a thing.
Steeplejack
@Arm The Homeless:
Perhaps spicy, like nacho cheese is spicy: Oran “Juice” Jones, “The Rain.” A cautionary tale.
jeffreyw
Moar dammit! Moar!
Steeplejack
@Cervantes, @Steeplejack:
Missed it by that much!
Just One More Canuck
@Amir Khalid: If it keeps on raining, levee’s gonna break
Steeplejack
@jeffreyw:
That’s quite a clutter of cats.
Sleeping pets are the best.
TaMara (BHF)
@SFAW:
@Roger Moore:
Roger is correct, you need a good guide, but today, I’m camouflaged as I hunt the ever popular Open Houses, hoping to not be noticed until it’s time to strike.
To the rest of you, it’s going to take me a week to listen to all the rain songs you posted. I never knew there were so many – (and I already had a good 10 in my list)
Carry on…
debbie
@Steeplejack:
Crashing my mom’s Mustang into a fire hydrant a week after getting my license. Which is probably why I like the Ann Peebles song.
Germy Shoemangler
@TaMara (BHF):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNf7Y7Z5Jq8
Written by the legendary Felice and Boudleaux Bryant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIonrjunl2Q
Performed by the incomparable Billy Murray
“A Peanut Sits on a Railroad Track, it’s heart was all a flutter, the train came roaring round the curve, toot toot, peanut butter.”
Steeplejack
Stylish Manhattan rain: Nicky Holland, “Ladykiller.”
I thought this song didn’t have rain in it but should have it—maybe I added it in mental post-production—but then it did show up: “raindrops to tbe Bowery.”
Another Stranger
CCR also:
Who’ll Stop The Rain; Have You Ever Seen the Rain
Great songs to hear on the road in a rainy day…
benw
November Rain (youtube). Don’t you think that you need someone?
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
SWV – Rain
WereBear
It is my theory that Corporate Music finds catering to different tastes an unnecessary demand of the consumer which interferes with maximum profit. So now everything is blended towards some kind of uber-Musik that I call Music Chow.
Just as all dogs are supposed to eat dog chow, we are all supposed to listen to Music Chow!
Imagine elevator music stamping on a human ear… forever.
SFAW
@TaMara (BHF):
As long as you don’t get injured by those city-clickers-what-think-they-knows-how-to-hunt-but-actually-are-dangers-to-others, I can rest easier.
Happy hunting!
Steeplejack
Damn, how could I forget the King! Elvis, “Kentucky Rain.” My aged mother would be appalled.
Cervantes
Enough rain?
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
Boney James – After The Rain
SFAW
@Steeplejack:
That’s what you get for “phoning it in” via shoe-phone.
Arm The Homeless
@Steeplejack: That should be classified as a hate crime. It’s Terribad
Here, something more soothing. Wonderful
CaseyL
Dan Fogelberg, though it isn’t rain at the beginning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar9Ip7pSqEg
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
Bob James – Rain
Amir Khalid
@Steeplejack:
Nope. You had it right the first time: you want the past participle, and it’s “smitten”. I know it rhymes with “kitten” and smells of teens and puppy love, but trust me on this.
Steeplejack
J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers, “Last Kiss.”
Yes! Another one where I thought I added the rain myself.
Man, the cover art in this video looks like cause of death is serial killer, not auto accident. Recheck the M.E.’s autopsy.
ETA: Terry Stafford, “Suspicion.” No rain, but, damn, it fits right here.
Steeplejack
@SFAW:
I blame KAOS.
FlipYrWhig
The Alarm, Rain in the Summertime
jeffreyw
That’s Mister Chihuahua Guy, pal!
Arm The Homeless
We may be reaching now, but I needed my Toto. “Can’t you hear the thunder? Better take cover”
jeffreyw
Here comes another one… keep smilin’!
Cervantes
Finally, the sun is out.
Steeplejack
Two takes on “Stormy Monday.” Lou Rawls, jazzy. The Allman Brothers Band, bluesy.
Steeplejack
@Amir Khalid:
Amir, c’mon, you know I know that. I was going for the joke. Sheesh.
RedDirtGirl
Love Patty Griffin! Lately, I’ve been listening to this at bedtime
https://rain.today/
Steeplejack
Okay, getting to the
bottomlower part of the barrel: the Cascades, “Rhythm of the Rain.”Eddie Rabbitt, “I Love a Rainy Night.”
Amir Khalid
@Steeplejack:
Yeah, I do know that; but people have a tendency to make fun of that poor little word “smitten”, and I just felt sorry for it.
Steeplejack
Jay and the Americans, “Walkin’ in the Rain.
JKC
Pretty much any Tom Waits song.
Steeplejack
Okay, this is not bottom-of-the-barrel: the Hollies, “Bus Stop.”
Suzanne
HAHAHA. This week, I was hoping for rain, and so I started listening to songs with “Rain” in the title. So I was listening to Luke Bryan’s “Rain Is A Good Thing”.
GOD.
It just reeks of douche-bro. The logic is hilarious. Trucks. Drinking. Country girls. Kinda made me hot.
Steeplejack
@Arm The Homeless:
Okay, talk about hate crimes . . .
ThresherK (GPad)
@burnspbesq: Yeah, but is that only for the cool kids with their grunge-to-alternate modern rock, speed Dethklok metal, and drop the bass hip hop? I mean to address ordinary pop, which isn’t a casualty of the loudness wars, nor is it living out its retirement thru the mush filter of the radio station playing lite and easy workplace favorites.
I guess I am at a vocabulary shortage to describe what I mean. Someone has done the research, and I will look for it.
Steeplejack
Lou Christie, “Rhapsody in the Rain.”
Oh, hell, why not: “Lightnin’ Strikes.”
PurpleGirl
@jeffreyw: Tank mew for all the pet pictures. The are all so squeeable. Gotta go open a kitten cam now.
Steeplejack
The Walker Brothers, “The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore.” Rain not stated but strongly implied.
Steeplejack
The Ronettes’ take on “Walking in the Rain.”
joel hanes
@ThresherK:
Back in the ’70s people did things like entire an entire side of a double album about rain.
In 1968, Hendrix sandwiched “1983 A Merman I Should Turn To Be” and “Moon Turn The Tides” between “Rainy Day, Dream All Day” and “Still Raining, Still Dreaming”; beautiful sax work with the guitar, and the perfect thing to put on the box on a raw, wet day about an hour after dropping acid.
Could not find Hendrix doing it on YouTube.
Suzanne
@Steeplejack: Experience caused by rain: hydroplaning into an intersection in Tucson, a city that floods easily due to a lack of storm sewers. Narrowly avoided a wreck. Scared the piss outta me.
Roger Moore
How can the thread have gone on this long without anyone bringing up Singing in the Rain?
Steeplejack
@efgoldman:
Betty’s on the road. Feel free to hijack this thread. At this point I’m trying to think of Gregorian chants having to do with rain.
Oops, wait, what have we here: the Fortunes, “Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again.”
Steeplejack
Been racking my brain for some jazz.
Wes Montgomery, “Here’s That Rainy Day.”
Or Bill Evans’s version.
jeffreyw
@PurpleGirl: You’re welcome!
Germy Shoemangler
@Roger Moore: My favorite Singing In The Rain:
Cliff Edwards – 1929
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Tx6CXxOoko
Steeplejack
@joel hanes:
Thank you! Knew there was some Hendrix but was blanking. I’ll see if I can find it.
ETA: No can do. The Hendrix estate music goons seem to be worse than Prince’s.
Steeplejack
@Roger Moore:
Somebody did (Cervantes?), just didn’t tag it by name.
Germy Shoemangler
@Steeplejack:
Someone filmed a Hendrix biopic and they weren’t allowed to use any of his music! Challenging, to say the least.
skerry
Peter Gabriel Red Rain
lamh36
Booman gets it!
No Tears for John Boehner
by BooMan
Germy Shoemangler
Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayGkA-vxrMc
Brilliant recording by the Ink Spots (with Ella Fitzgerald)
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
Roger Smith – Can You Stand The Rain
Steeplejack
@Roger Moore:
It was SFAW.
raven
You know a marching band is bad ass when they stretch for 10 minutes before the halftime show. The Human Juke Box of Southern University was great!
Steeplejack
Beth Hart, “Caught Out in the Rain.”
Germy Shoemangler
@raven: Human Jukebox! They’re excellent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vy-ZxTMQf4
WaterGirl
@jeffreyw: oh, those two are so sweet! My evil neighbors just got a new puppy, and he is adorable.
lamh36
@raven: “Often imitated but never duplicated”!
If things had worked our better, I would have been a SUBR alum…but alas it wasn’t meant to be But I still consider SUBR my alma mater.
Steeplejack
John Mellen Cougarcamp, “Rain on the Scarecrow.”
My brain is firing on autopilot. I can’t make it stop.
lamh36
@Germy Shoemangler: I happened upon an article written about this game, but really written about the halftime show.
They talked to SUBR band leader and discussed the band and how they use these game to showcase the brand. They don’t expect SUBR to win against this big schools, but it’s a great way to get the band’s name out there and the opposing schools pay the band to perform for the halftime.
Steeplejack
The Rolling Stones, “Rain Fall Down.”
Omnes Omnibus
Cowboy Junkies, Southern Rain.
Germy Shoemangler
@Steeplejack:
Raincheck – Duke Ellington
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUuVhiAAb7Q
Steeplejack
@Germy Shoemangler:
This is similar to my issue with Jersey Boys (the movie). You’re doing a sort of biopic about the Four Seasons, and you don’t use the original music?!
I saw it only on HBO, so maybe I’m wrong, but it seemed that they had the actors sing the songs. If ever there was an occasion to have them lip-sync the original versions, that was it.
raven
@lamh36: It was a real treat to have a chance to see them live.
raven
@lamh36: Maybe this one?
Southern University band has ‘something special’ for Georgia fans
Germy Shoemangler
@Steeplejack: I didn’t see the film. I also didn’t see the recent John Cusack Beach Boys film, so I don’t know how the music was handled.
Hollywood biopics of musicians are tricky.
I remember when Clint Eastwood directed his Charlie Parker film, they took old Bird records and digitally erased his background musicians, then dubbed in new accompaniment to Bird’s playing.
Steeplejack
I thought there was a Django Reinhardt song about rain, but I can’t find it. I did find Rêve Bohème’s Django-influenced “Rain Waltz.”
raven
@Steeplejack: Seen “The Sweet and Lowdown”?
jeffreyw
I Think I Left My Cat Out In The Rain by Bad Cat Daddy and the MeowTones.
rikyrah
Because the President thought he was the President.
And acted like the President.
And carried out the duties of the President.
who does he think he is….The President of the United States?
BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
………………….
Byron YorkVerified account
@ByronYork
And that’s what Obama has done. Put Boehner in untenable position, as the Speaker’s base grew increasingly frustrated.
delk
Only happy when…
Steeplejack
@Germy Shoemangler:
LOL, I was trying to come up with a Beach Boys song about rain, but they were fun, fun, fun in the sun, sun, sun all the damn time.
It’s got to be tough to do a movie about artists who are known primarily through recordings. “Recreating” their music almost inevitably will sound a little off, no matter how good the performers are. I think I would err on the side of using original recordings and lip-sync.
Eastwood’s approach with Charlie Parker was probably pretty good. Those original recordings are pretty noisy. But sublime. Charlie Parker (with Miles Davis), “Bird of Paradise.”
Steeplejack
@raven:
The Woody Allen movie? Yeah, that was great.
WaterGirl
@rikyrah: Well, he’s half right. Boehner was in untenable position, but it was the right-wing crazies who put him there.
Germy Shoemangler
@Steeplejack: Here’s something I didn’t understand about the movie:
The mute girl who the guitarist falls for. It is explained she had a viral fever, and this is why she is mute. She can hear his music.
Don’t some fevers cause deafness? She can hear, but not speak after her illness?
Germy Shoemangler
@Steeplejack: Beach Boys “Pitter Patter”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNSCBztgu9A
Steeplejack
Okay, Bird is soothing my fevered brain.
“My Old Flame.”
“Embraceable You.”
raven
@Germy Shoemangler: I have a friend who is deaf and is a dance teacher, she feels the bass.
Steeplejack
@Steeplejack:
Bird Parker and I went down in the flames of moderation. Probably an objectionable YouTube link. Too tired to fix. Damn you, FYWP!
rikyrah
just dust in my eyes…just dust.
Nolan Harrison III ✔ @NolanHarrison74
Cam Newton heard about an early Halloween party for a boy with cancer, so he showed up with an ice cream truck http://ht.ly/SH8bn
raven
Samantha Morton was so wonderful and Penn was such an asshole.
Steeplejack
@Germy Shoemangler:
I got nothing. I haven’t seen the movie since I saw it in the theater in, what, 1999?
But, yes, you can be mute without being deaf. I don’t remember how they explained it in the movie.
Germy Shoemangler
@raven: I had an uncle who was deaf, his wife was also deaf. When they’d visit I’d watch them communicate with each other sign language. Fascinating to watch. They were both born deaf.
kdaug
Ain’t seen if this’s been posted yet:
Yaz, Midnight
Germy Shoemangler
I read recently that Robert Redford went deaf while filming his latest movie about the guy who is stuck in the ocean on his boat. All the water sprayed on him infected his ears.
Germy Shoemangler
@Steeplejack: I haven’t seen Sweet & Lowdown since the theatrical release, and I remember the plot was that she’d had some viral illness.
I remember thinking that Woody was confused. Folks go deaf from viral fevers, but they aren’t struck mute with their hearing intact.
But it was a lovely film about an unlovable character. I liked the Django “cameo” where Penn faints. I also liked his tacky stage entrance on the giant star, when he is too inebriated to handle it.
Steeplejack
@raven:
Yup.
I hope your Dawgs are rested and ready for ’Bama next week, now that their warm-up games are over. Is that the game when you’re going to be in California?
raven
@Steeplejack: I don’t think they did.
Bruuuuce
So much rain that here comes the flood (twice, even)
raven
@Steeplejack: Yup. Trips all set and at least I get to watch. It’s either our room in Irvine or the Orange County Bulldog Club at the Santa Ana Wild Wings.
Steeplejack
@Germy Shoemangler:
I dated a woman who was an ASL interpreter. She could hear, but she had been raised by two deaf parents. She said she dreamed in sign language. (I think that meant that everybody used ASL in her dreams.)
raven
@Steeplejack: This conversation makes me think of that fake sing dude at the Mandela funeral!
rikyrah
Allan Brauer @allanbrauer
Today’s Republican Party, in Two Stories — The People’s View http://www.thepeoplesview.net/main/2015/9/26/todays-republican-party-in-two-stories#.VgbyDbBprFY.twitter … cc @tbogg @ByronYork
2:29 PM – 26 Sep 2015
Germy Shoemangler
I am losing my hearing. If I’m still around ten or fifteen years from now, I’ll most likely be completely deaf. I should learn ASL. Most likely, I’ll just scribble notes. Or just text everyone.
raven
sign
kdaug
@Steeplejack: “When the cowboys and Arabs draw down in the cool dusty air of the city boardroom…”
Great album
Steeplejack
@raven:
They did a couple of great sketches about that on SNL. Mayor Bloomberg and Governor Christie.
Roger Moore
@Germy Shoemangler:
Or maybe they’ll have good enough cochlear implants to fix your hearing.
p.a.
Not rain per se but I coincidentally I am rocking this.
Germy Shoemangler
@Roger Moore: From what I understand, the implants don’t really sound like normal hearing. More like a buzzing radio transmission. I was told by someone with an implant he really couldn’t appreciate music anymore.
Maybe the technology will improve in 15 years.
raven
@Steeplejack: Yes!
Steeplejack
@p.a.:
One of my favorite REM songs.
p.a.
@Roger Moore: just not the same since Clockwork Orange.
raven
@Germy Shoemangler: I have a really expensive “Re Sound” hear aid. I can hear every fucking bird from here to Alabama but I can’t hear my ole lady.
Steeplejack
@kdaug:
LOL.
Steeplejack
@raven:
Maybe you need to get the “nag” band checked.
raven
@Steeplejack: If she nagged I would! Right now there are 4 painters here. They worked until 7:30 the last 2 night and I have no idea about tonight. They are doing a really nice job and I hate to sit here watching football but that’s the drill.
Ruckus
@Steeplejack:
Racing a 1000cc motorcycle in the rain. The entire day was “enhanced” by the experience. Also the rest of my life. Glad I did it, didn’t want to ever do it again.
Also 10 days crossing the Atlantic in a small ship during a major winter storm. Done it a few times without the storm, doesn’t have nearly the same effect.
Steeplejack
Is there such a thing as a latchkey blog? The front-pagers should have gotten a babysitter before they all went away.
raven
@Steeplejack: My house in the rain, 1968.
Germy Shoemangler
@Steeplejack: They left some milk in the fridge, there’s snacks on the table, and emergency numbers over there next to the phone.
Ruckus
@Germy Shoemangler:
That’s no fun.
Germy Shoemangler
@Ruckus: I found dad’s gun! Let’s play William Tell!
kdaug
@Germy Shoemangler: Just stay off the roof, keep your clothes on, and note that the mops are strictly off-limits.
Mustard hunt in an hour.
maurinsky
Didn’t read any of the other comments yet, but In The Pouring Rain by Spottiswoode and his Enemies, lovely little song featuring rain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M519e6-NL_o
Steeplejack
@Ruckus:
I like being on the water in “weather,” but I’ll take a pass on the Atlantic in winter.
My brother was on destroyers (late ’70s-early ’80s) and tells some woolly stories. Forrest Sherman (DD-931) was one of his boats.
Steeplejack
@raven:
Man, those old canvas tents. So heavy, and the smell!
Ruckus
@raven:
Mine a few years later had water all around it all the time, but we didn’t have to stand around in it. Unless it got serious.
raven
@Steeplejack: “A Measureless Peril: America in the Fight for the Atlantic, the Longest Battle of World War II” is a really interesting book. After my dad died I made contact with one of his shipmates (USS Crosby, APD-17/DD-164. I recored an hour long late that was mostly about the ship and the 30+ landings in the Pacific. With all that, at one point he said, “thank god we weren’t in the Atlantic.”!
raven
@Steeplejack: GP Mediums.
Ruckus
@Germy Shoemangler:
No thanks, been shot at enough times to last me.
raven
@Ruckus: Nice craft, one of those “new tin cans” my old man would say. I see it had a gravity davit. I assume that was not a landing boat like the LCPR’s on the APD’s?
Ruckus
@Steeplejack:
That was a really old boat by that time. Was stationed in Charleston, SC with one of those and it was a wreck in the early 70s. Not one hull plate was it’s original shape, the gear was way out of date and operationally it was a disaster. Trying to have a 500-600 ship navy with crap equipment is just a political bullshit game. Ships way undermanned, equipment very expensive to maintain/replace because technology passes them by. The hairpiece who came up with that should be dragged across the Atlantic in winter by a rope tightly tied around his wedding tackle at 17 knots.
Origuy
@raven:
They’ll charge you more if you insist on helping.
raven
@Origuy: I’m staying out of it to the point that I just went out and used the porta-can!
raven
@efgoldman: Why not, we can get you to explain the intricacies of DI football scheduling. I never knew that teams played patsies .
dan
Gordon Lightfoot – In the Early Morning Rain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pqttl9aWm0
raven
@efgoldman: I’m exhausted from hearing about him.
Ruckus
@raven:
No, just a captains gig and a whaleboat. The difference being the captains gig had a canopy and better seating, used only by officers. OK rode in it once to go over to the USS America to get parts. Not allowed to arrive or depart onto the officers gangplank on the America, had to be taken around to the aft gangplank, which is for lesser beings. Which of course meant having to walk almost the entire length of the ship carrying stuff both ways.
raven
@dan: I like PP&M’s version too.
dan
Now THIS is pretty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucVkmQt1Yn0
raven
@Ruckus: I can see it above the davit but the square stern made me wonder.
Central Planning
If you’re still looking for rain songs, try Billy Joel’s Falling of the Rain. Clicking the link button crashes chrome on my iPhone so here’s the YouTube url: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gHxfwE1SkZc
raven
@efgoldman: It’s different with a 12 game schedule. They used to play one and now it’s three.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Ruckus:
My brother said it was like working in a really bad, dirty factory—and being forced to live there, too.
I think the Sherman was finally decommissioned around 1982.
Germy Shoemangler
“Kevin McCarthy is Eric Cantor with ten less IQ points,” right-wing radio host Mark Levin told Breitbart this morning. “The Republican establishment never learned their lesson after Cantor … They replaced Cantor with McCarthy, who is a wheeler and dealer — he is not a principled conservative … My concern now is that they will do the same thing.”
Cervantes
@Steeplejack (phone):
And finally scrapped last year.
BGinCHI
Anyone watching the Rugby World Cup??
Wales Win!! Over England at Twyckenham.
What a fucking match.
Ruckus
@raven:
For landing craft was stationed on this for 2 months, discharged off this POS. Had a deck well with a huge tailgate that lowered and they would fill tanks and lower the entire ship deeper into the water and just drive landing craft inside. Between the boats and helicopters I understand things when pretty fast. However, the pumps didn’t work so only the tailgate could be lowered, not the entire ship.
raven
Dee Clark Raindops
Steeplejack (phone)
@Origuy:
Yeah, I think it costs extra just to watch.
raven
@Ruckus: Different world! The APD was a stop gap at the start of WWII while they developed the LST. The troops liked them because they rode so low in the water and they didn’t have to climb very far like they did on other transports. They also could go in close because they didn’t draw much water.
Ruckus
@Germy Shoemangler:
he is not a principled conservative …
WTF does principled conservative even mean? An even bigger, more obnoxious asshole?
Ruckus
@raven:
Bet living on that was a hoot.
raven
@Ruckus: It is impossible to find any photo’s below deck, The best thing I have about life aboard them is a sort of comic book a guy did. The shaft ran right through the crew quarters and I can’t imagine what it was like trying to sleep down there.
Germy Shoemangler
@Ruckus:
Republicans in disarray!
Ruckus
@Steeplejack (phone):
As I’ve said here before I gave tours on a WWII sub in San Diego when I was in school. What that was like living on compared to the DDG I was on was staggering. And the LPD in the picture was a luxury hotel compared to the DDG. The old DDs were a lot like the subs with slightly more room. There is always noise, the ship running the water rushing by, the vent fans. You are living inside a working machine, one in which you are mostly an after thought.
ChrisH
I’m seeing ads for Scott Walker on the site. Poor PAC’s are spending money even though he’s already dropped out of the race.
Mike in NC
@Steeplejack: I had a department head who did a tour on that ship in the 70s. Apparently not a “lucky” one. He said during an overhaul in Boston someone painted over the letters on her stern to read REST HER.
James E Powell
@Germy Shoemangler:
Whenever a RW darling goes down, we learn he or she was never a true or principled conservative.
Conservatism can never fail, it can only be failed.
Roger Moore
@efgoldman:
I think it also matters who your patsies are. Some of the schools schedule complete pushovers for their non-conference games, even I-AA (or whatever they’re calling it now) teams, and some of them schedule actual quality opponents. I think there should be some kind of advantage to scheduling a challenging schedule instead of a weak one, but there doesn’t seem to be one.
Ruckus
@raven:
On the DDG we had 2 motor generators for power for our gear and the missile gear. The right side shaft ran under these. We turned 440V 60hz 3 phase into 400V 400hz single phase with them. Working on the generators under way was just slightly dangerous. Most of the things we had to do would never pass an OSHA inspection. Just the thought of many of the procedures we did would probably give an OSHA inspector a heart attack.
SoupCatcher
@efgoldman:
Teams like Pat Hill’s Fresno State squads, or Chris Peterson’s at Boise State – who would play anyone, anytime, anywhere – are few and far between.
OmerosPeanut
Remy Zero, Life in Rain
Richard Hawley, Just Like The Rain
Eric S.
I love me a good rain but there was no rain in Chicago today. The softball team won a double header. First time we haven’t rained out in 3 weeks (Labor Day makes 4 weeks of no ball but that wasn’t rain.)
Ruckus
@efgoldman:
I was relying on the “older” folks even knowing what an OSHA inspector even was. Thinking of finding one is a fools game.
shell
Just checked in…guess Tamara is right. All the other front pagers must be out for the weekend.
Some good movies tonight. The Man Who Would Be King on TCM at 8.
Gandhi on PBS at 9
John Revolta
a wheeler and dealer
Huh. I thought this was what a politician DOES but whaddoIknow.
raven
@Eric S.: Kitten Ball?
Frankensteinbeck
@Ruckus:
Someone who does not acknowledge any practical realities whatsoever, acting solely on dogma. I think the context of how the term has been used is pretty clear. One of the most important ways it is used is that if you ever compromise on anything with Obama, you are no longer a ‘principled conservative.’ Believing that a government shutdown or debt default needs to be avoided strips you of ‘principled conservative’ status. Conservative dogma states that if their legislators refuse to vote for any budget that doesn’t contain everything conservatives want, then they will get everything they want, a magical world where the US is top dog, everyone worships and respects conservatives for their strength and wisdom, and everyone gets exactly the level of wealth conservatives think they deserve.
Cripes. It’s a suicide cult, isn’t it?
shell
Weve had nearly perfect fall weather for a week…But looks like rains coming Sunday night. Just in time to muck up any chance of viewing the lunar eclipse.
JPL
@Frankensteinbeck: It means that you need to hide your money under the mattress.
Morzer
@Frankensteinbeck:
Not often enough.
Ruckus
@Frankensteinbeck:
Cripes. It’s a suicide cult, isn’t it?
Yes, yes it is.
If they had any idea of what their policies result in, long term they might see the folly of it all. But then their short term money gains would be slightly less and we can’t have that, can we.
Frankensteinbeck
@JPL:
Historically, ‘cult member’ and ‘mark’ might as well be synonymous.
gene108
@Ruckus:
True Conservatives are the most persecuted group in America. They are beset by the horrors of the secular world, which is ramming an unChristian non-Conservative anti-American agenda down their throats, whether they like it or not.
A principled conservative will stand up for these persecuted voiceless people, who have no one they can turn to with any political power and demand the secular world conform to a more True Conservative agenda.
For example the term “Happy Holidays” will be outlawed and “Merry Christmas” will become a mandatory greeting after Thanksgiving and until Christmas. Thus the War on Christmas* will finally be won for True Conservatives.
Also righted will be other wrongs rammed down their throat, since 1789, like child labor laws, due process and search and seizure laws and basically the 4th, 8th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 19th, 24th and 26th Amendments, which keeps principled conservatives hands tied in implementing an agenda that represents True Conservatives’ values.
* Of course British, Australian and others who say “Happy Christmas” will be corrected politely and told it’s Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and if they still don’t understand how English was meant to be spoken, well they’ll be penalties for not saying Merry Christmas that can be handed down.
Ruckus
@Morzer:
It’s still a suicide cult, just using different means to the end. It’s an if we can’t have everything we are taking you with us play.
gene108
@JPL:
Hahahahahaha……
Principled conservatives know paper money is worthless.
Keeping gold or silver (if you are poor and can’t afford gold) under your mattress will destroy your mattress, unless you build a hidden gold safe in the shape of a box spring, for example, and put the mattress on top of it.
Of course your stupid wife will no longer be able rearrange the bedroom furniture, because once the gold safe goes in it stays put.
Ruckus
@efgoldman:
Most likely you are right. But they are fucking lunatic crazy, as opposed to sociopathic. Both illnesses, different manifestations.
Steeplejack (phone)
Mom’s home! New thread upstairs.
Frankensteinbeck
@efgoldman:
And the one thing the Chamber of Commerce did NOT want was even a risk of debt default. Medicaid expansion is also very pro-business, and opposition to it demonstrates just how much even rich people are willing to hurt themselves to spite a black man.
Roger Moore
@efgoldman:
I’m pretty glad that my alma mater is in the Div III SCIAC, and didn’t even have a football team. We somehow managed to get NCAA probation, though.
Cervantes
@Ruckus:
It means me.
Whereas you are a squish.
And she is a stinking hypocrite who should be burned at the stake with the liberals.
p.a.
@Roger Moore: isn’t it good money for the patsies to play in the 80,000+ seat stadia? Or do the majors screw them out of the money and it’s just about the exposure?
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@Ruckus:
So we can strike you off the list of Jim Webb for President supporters then?
;-)
Cheers,
Scott.
Cervantes
@efgoldman:
For good reason. Games had not been well attended for a while; the program was losing millions of dollars annually. At the time men were only 40% of the student body, and many of them were from other countries. Title IX rules had to be met, so football had to go.
Small irony.
Steeplejack (phone)
@p.a.:
The patsies get a big payday and exposure. The perceived issue is the big teams padding their records with easy wins.
Ruckus
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet:
Yes.
Roger Moore
@p.a.:
I guess I care more about the competition than about the money. There’s something grossly wrong with a team lining up a game that they know they’re going to lose so they can pick up some extra money. I think they should be trying to play competitive games, and the money should be secondary. I also find the lack of inter-conference games frustrating because it leaves open the question of the relative conference strengths. Rankings depend critically on the relative strengths of the conferences, but we don’t have a solid grasp of those because there aren’t enough games between quality schools in different conferences to know that with any confidence.
Ruckus
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet:
We, as you probably well know have a military that at the least costs more than everyone else’s combined. We have 10 major aircraft carriers, the rest of the world combined? 10 and they are not super carriers, most are for helicopters. It goes on and on like this. We spend over 700 billion a year on the military. If you add in the NSA, etc it goes a lot higher.
It brings the old nuclear age question into mind, how many times over do you need to be able to destroy the world, surly once is enough.
Lamh36
@raven: yes that’s the ine
mclaren
@Ruckus:
Sir, you simply do not understand America’s grand military strategy.
We must be able to fight and lose four different wars simultaneously — and to teenage kids who use bolt-action rifles.
Nothing less will do.
Central Planning
@efgoldman:
Mine (RIT) dropped it about 35 years ago. Motto is “Undefeated since 1980!”
Bill Murray
True Believers — The Rain Won’t Help You When It’s Over
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW4BbbH22rs
Jenny
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