Will you kids quiet down in there? <iframe width=”425″ height=”349″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/DmV0TcTNJ3o” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe> It’s all coming back to me now – an aging Eva Peron, drunk and in a teeny weeny bikini trying to pick up a very young and very green Officer Chief of Staff called Augusto Pinochet. The horror.
Music
Karaoke and guilty pleasures
I’m busy refereeing a paper today, so I don’t have time for a real post, but I’d like to thank all of you for your karaoke suggestions. I have to say, though, that as much as I like Night Moves, Bob Seeger is just a bridge too far for me. Ditto Bob Dylan, at least …
Saturday Morning Open Thread
Emmylou Harris has released a new album, Hard Bargain, which is good news to me at least. Couldn’t find a decent YT of her telling the (rescue) story behind “Big Black Dog”, so you’ll have to settle for this instead… __ What’s up for a May weekend, apart from Julia Ward Howe’s pacifist-feminist holiday?
We gonna ride the boogie
As long as John is doing embarrassing blegs this evening, thought I’d do one too. I’ve gotten into doing some karaoke recently. Last week I killed with Easy Like Sunday Morning, did a solid Honky Tonk Woman, and flailed with 1999. Next week I plan to reprise Easy Like Sunday Morning and add Rock With …
Early Morning Open Thread
__ I was looking for a listenable version of Tom Paxton’s “The Hostage” (for Sunday’s NIXONLAND discussion), and found this instead. For curious youngsters, the song he mentions at the end of this clip is called “Talking Vietnam Pot Luck Blues”…
Kitty MacLennane
One of my coworkers just received a CD consisting entirely of Irish drinking songs about cats. What are all you hep cats about to today?
Sunday Morning Open Thread
__ To those who celebrate it, Happy Easter! __ (Yeah, well, I didn’t use it when commentor Purple Girl sent it for the Year of the Rabbit, and this seemed as good an excuse as any.) __ Who’s got plans?