DrW
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TesseracT live. Sort of progressive metal, but with some twists - one of them, odd time signatures. While that leaves a problem for the mosh pit - how do you dance in 17/8? - I find them extremely enjoyable to listen to.
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I've got a feeling from the floorboards up.
Call it a calling if you like that touch,
Call it what you will,
I really don't care too much.
I've got a feeling and I know it's right,
I get it most evenings, if not every night
It sings in the air, it dances like candlelight
And when we play, we play, we play
Mama,
From the floorboards up
And when we dance, we dance, we dance
Papa,
From the floorboards up
And when we sway, we sway and sway,
From the floorboards up
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Well I'm about to get upset from watchin' my TV
Checkin' out the news until my eyeballs fail to see
I mean to say that every day is just another rotten mess
And when it's gonna change, my friend, is anybody's guess
So I'm watchin' and I'm waitin', hopin' for the best
Even think I'll go to prayin' every time I hear 'em sayin'
That there's no way to delay that trouble comin' every day
No way to delay that trouble comin' every day -
With guilt that no man should carry
Heavy enough for me to get buried
I feel death on the road tonight
It's got me to where I wanna run and hideOh I used to dream of oceans and streams
Flowing and growing strong
Where have all
Those days gone -
Arrows of neon and flashing marquees out on Main Street
Chicago, New York, Detroit and it's all on the same street
Your typical city involved in a typical daydream
Hang it up and see what tomorrow bringsDallas, got a soft machine
Houston, too close to New Orleans
New York got the ways and means
But just won't let you be -
RIP.
In concerts, to me Phil Lesh always appeared as the "normal guy" who had by accident run into a group of hippies.
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We are driving on the Autobahn
In front of us is a wide valley
The sun is shining with glittering rays
The driving strip is a grey track
White stripes, green edge
We are switching the radio on
From the speaker it sounds:
We are driving on the Autobahn
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Kevin Ayers - he could write such beautiful melodies. Here is "Lady Rachel".
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I like variety.
My Cousin Vinny
Duck Soup (Marx Brothers)
Stop Making Sense
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Speed
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Here is the gas price development since 1990...
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Here in Lubbock we are now below $2.50 per gallon.
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One of the funniest songs I know. Pink Floyd's Nick Mason does a bit of drumming and producing, and lends his name to the whole project (Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports). However, the song's masterminds are the composer/lyricist/pianist, the late Carla Bley, and Robert Wyatt (ex-Soft Machine) on vocals.
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And then one night I was standing
Looking at the stars
And I heard something that sounded like
A hundred space guitars
The music was so weird it could have
Been the theme from Jaws
Then I saw something flying over my head
I thought it was Santa Claus
But I was wrong
I was wrong
I was real wrong
I was wrong
All along
I was so wrong -
D'Brickashaw Ferguson
While the first name itself is not different from 1000s of others, the history is interesting. His mother was big fan of "The Thorn Birds" (the 1977 McCollough novel and/or the 1983 TV miniseries) where the central character is named Ralph de Bricassart. Well, if you mash this up a bit "de Bricassart" becomes "D'Brickashaw".
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College football - Texas Tech (20 years ago)
Loliki Bongo-Wanga
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… What a drag it is getting old
… "Kids are different today, " I hear every mother say
Mother needs something today to calm her down
And though she's not really ill, there's a little yellow pill
She goes running for the shelter of her mother's little helper
And it helps her on her way, gets her through her busy day -
Riding down the river in an old canoe
A bunch of bugs and an old tennis shoe
Out of the river all ugly and green
The biggest old alligator that I've ever seen
Teeth big and pointed and his eyes were bugging out
Contact the union, put the beggars to route
Screaming and yelling and licking his chops
He never runs he just stumbles and hops
Just out of prison on six dollars bail
Mumbling at ***** and wagging his tail -
Couple of shirts. I liked them very much, but they ended up at Goodwill when cancer/chemotherapy reduced my size from XXXXL to XL/XXL.
Other than that, just underpants. Their waistband wears out pretty quickly.
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I assume that most of you have never heard of the Monks of Doom, a split-off from Camper Van Beethoven. Here is a clip of the MoD covering a song by Fotheringay, John the Gun.
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On 10/7/2024 at 4:13 PM, XXXtraAnchovies said:
a few for the halloweenies
I love CW Stoneking. When I first heard his version of Seven Nation Army, I was convinced that he was an older Black artist. Man, was I wrong...
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The Cardiacs, fronted by the underappreciated genius Tim Smith (1961-2020).
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The NFL and the NFLPA do not agree with your diagnosis, "Doctor" Repulsif.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/41740543/nfl-nflpa-bills-allen-was-properly-evaluated-concussion
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Next Wednesday David Byrne will visit Texas Tech to moderate a discussion about wind power. Well, I do not expect him to sing "Psycho Killer" or "Life During Wartime". Still, I am very much looking forward to see and experience him in person.
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A worried man with a worried mind
No one in front of me and nothing behind
There's a woman on my lap and she's drinking champagne
Got white skin, got assassin's eyes
I'm looking up into the sapphire tinted skies
I'm well dressed, waiting on the last train
Standing on the gallows with my head in a noose
Any minute now I'm expecting all hell to break loose
People are crazy and times are strange
I'm locked in tight, I'm out of range
I used to care, but things have changed
This place ain't doing me any good
I'm in the wrong town, I should be in Hollywood
Fancy Restaurants.........love em or hate em?
in Off the Wall
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Usually, we would not go to such restaurants. However, there had been one exception, a long time ago. When I was a student at the University of Hannover (Germany) we had a group of four coming together once a week to play "Doppelkopf" (a card game) for money; the money would not go to the winner but into a common pool. Once the pool had reached 600 DM ("DeutschMark", before the Euro; at the end of the 1970s, this was a lot of money), we decided to use the funds for a dinner in the only restaurant close to Hannover that had a Michelin star.
The food was excellent; my entree was a half-rack of lamb. However, even more remarkable was the attention we got from the restaurant staff. They certainly noticed that these four students were quite different from their usual clientele. During dessert even the guy in charge for that evening (I never found out if it was the owner himself; there was no google at that time) joined us, and we had an interesting conversation, mostly about the way Michelin awards its stars. On our way out, I admired their collection of truly oversized (around 2.5-5.0 gallons each) bottles of booze (empty, of course). The guy noticed it and asked me which one I liked best, and I pointed to a bottle of Asbach Uralt, a German brandy. He told me to take it, and I used it as vase for sunflowers until I moved to the US in 1990. Altogether, it was a very pleasant experience; however, the occasion was unique.