Thursday, July 24th, 2008
This is written with Andy Pratt’s song Avenging Annie as its base – for you youngsters who didn’t listen to WPLR in the Seventies, I have the song on CD. Just don’t make me sing this – Andy used way too much falsetto in his song.
Ode to Bambi
She was born in Milford’s shelter.
She was the runt of the bunch.
She reminded folks of Yoda,
But she couldn’t do any stunts.
Jeannette brought her home one day,
And Bambi became her name.
When she swallowed Laurie’s earring,
That’s how she earned her fame.
Diamond eater she became.
Well, this is the ode to Bambi.
She’s a diamond-eating dog.
For such a “very sickly” pup,
How did she last this long?
She loved to frolic in the snow,
Wrestling holds not so much.
She’d freak out at the door bell,
And want to help you with your lunch.
She never learned to heel at all
When you took her for a walk.
Laurie almost bought her a stroller –
I could not believe such talk.
Well, this is the ode to Bambi.
She’s a diamond-eating dog.
For such a “very sickly” pup,
How did she last this long?
Well, there won’t be barking anymore
When the mailman comes to call.
Her legacy will live beyond
All those pictures on the wall.
And now she’s running fancy free,
Back to sleeping in someone’s bed.
She’ll be fondly held in memories
In all her loved ones’ heads.
Well, this is the ode to Bambi.
She’s a diamond-eating dog.
For such a “very sickly” pup,
How did she last this long?
How did she last this long?
How did she last this long?
She was loved and spoiled by a lot of people in her 16-1/2 years, that’s how!
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
We had to put Bambi to sleep today. She had a stroke on Sunday and got progressively worse as the week went on. She was a good pup and a good friend and I am really going to miss her. I have no doubt that she is up in heaven smiling and sleeping peacefully between my grandparents which i always thought was her favorite place to be. I love you Bambi.
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Well the new Paul Westerberg album came out yesterday and unless you are an avid viewer of his personal website you would have had no idea until today when Billboard.com published an article about it. Its called 49:00 which is the amount of minutes the album runs and is available for the time being as a $.49 download at amazon.com. Thats a penny a minute folks. Even though I dont have a job i can still afford to but new music from Paul Westerberg at this price. Is it worth a penny a minute? Totally. The album comes as one mp3 file, is 1 track, contains no liner notes song titles or lyrics, and when i say that the songs run right into each with out pauses or break i actually mean that most of the time they overlap each other and you lose the end of one song and the beginning of another all in one shot. There are a few occasions where it seems like there are several songs playing at once, however this only for second or two, so it may just be Pauls attempt at a sound-scape. The songs that are audible though are perfectly lo-fi and terrible. Vintage Westerberg and great if you like that sort of thing which i do. I dont know if i ever had a list of my alltime funniest songs but if i did a song I will call ‘Everything’s Stupid’ which comes drunkenly staggering in halfway through the set, would be #2 on my list right behind ‘I like Traffic Lights,’ by The Monty Python. The lyrics of the song are literally ‘Everythings stupid/ everythings stupid/ everythings stupid/ whatever it means.’ I dont know if he is trying to be funny but i find it hilarious. So in short, if you have $.49 and the ability to download music you might as well get yourself 49:00. even if you dont like it, which im sure many people will not, what have you really lost? Thats right only $.49. Im sure in this economy some people might be loathe to waste that kind of dough but those are the same people who will run out and buy the new Miley Cyrus record in their H3 Hummers. Im not sure what that has to do with anything but those people make me mad. Keep on Chooglin’!
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
There is a new tune up on the myspace, www.myspace.com/combinationofthings. Its called State of Mind and I wrote it in about 15 minutes last week. It is quite literally about all of the things that were going on inside my head at the moment of its creation. I also happen to be listening to Eddie Vedder’s soundtrack to Into the Wild and the soundtrack to Body of War a lot recently. If you listen to the song Im sure you will see why that information is relevant.
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
A couple of weeks ago I bought on ebay an advanced readers copy, the kind they send out to reviewers and such, of Paul Austers newest book called Man in the Dark. It doesnt come out until august but I have been having trouble getting into anything recently and i have found that I can always read anything by Paul Auster. If I start it i have to finish. even if it is a repeat read, halfway through the book i seem to forget how it ends and the strange mystery that surrounds all of his books takes me over and im hooked. The book finally came on Monday, Im not going to leave a negative comment or anything since it only cost me $.99 plus $2.99 for shipping, and i read it today. It isnt the best thing he has ever written, that honor goes to the New York Trilogy and The Invention of Solitude however it is the first book i have read by him that struck me on any kind of personal level. There is a song on the Elvis Costello record Trust called Pretty Words and one of the lyrics is “You’re loosening all the screws that hold the hinges on my life.” Man in the Dark is about three people who at various points in the their lives are finding those screws. The 72 year old invalid narrator tells himself stories at night when he cant fall asleep to, unsuccessfully, keep himself from thinking about all of the tragedies that have befallen him and his family, His grand-daughter watches classic films, it appears as if they are all from the Criterion Collection, to keep herself from thinking about the death of the man she loved who was working as a contractor in Iraq, and his daughter is writing a biography of Rose Hawthorne as a way to remind herself that it is possible to start your life one way and finish it in a completely different one. yet, throughout the book Auster is always quick to give us examples of how small and fragile those screws can sometimes be and how a life in chaos and a life in harmony are not all that different from one another. Like i said, it isnt the best book he has ever written but it might be one of my favorites.
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
My new favorite show on television is Video Yearbook on Fuse. They show half hour blocks of videos from the early 90’s through 2007. I have no use for anything after 1999 but everything before that is a much needed blast from the past. It brings me back to a time when everything they played on Mtv could be classified in some way as ‘good.’ Even the worst songs from tht era are better than anything that is on the radio or Mtv or VH1 today. Remember ‘Cumbersome’ by Seven Mary Three? That song is terrible but is it better than everything 3 Doors Down or Kid Rock have ever put out? You know it is.
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