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Thanks SG…….air signs…along with fearless Leo leader holding down the fort.
That’s “Guided By Voices”….so funny, they look soooo old….sort of like, especially over the holidays, when you run into people that you haven’t seen for several years and you think…”wow, they’ve aged a lot”…and then, like an hour later, you’re in the bathroom at Publix, in front of a mirror and it’s like…”Whaaaaaaaa, Holy Mother Truckin’ Crap”, strange because you still “feel” like you did when you were 21, at least I do. Got to love it, the life…..
What’s a dispensary? I suspect it’s a pharmacy, is that correct? I’ve seen twitter posts where folks have followed J Mascis around and tweeted items they have seen him purchase….I’m sort of glad I don’t have folks all up in my shopping business. It’s so freaking cold and wet here, It’s brought me back to BS’ing on Freakscene again. Headed down to FLA tomorrow….anything below 40 crushes my spirit.
This was going around the internets last month…”What Phish sounds like to people who don’t like Phish”….I thought it was brilliant. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNHIFM0Y87c
OH, and I just made myself a nice hot cup of coffee and I lost it, I do that all the time, I wonder if it happens to others or if it’s just some sort of untreated ADD?
I loved mixed up lyrics…..My youngest, Alvaro has an incredible ability to sing on key and hit the melody exactly…and he will sing in the car with the most serious face. His Father is a big Grateful Dead fan…and last year we were driving around and the song “Brown Eyed Women” came on and Alvaro sang as loud as he could “
Brown-eyed women and red grenadine,
The Bible was dusty but The Living was clean.
God of the thunder with the rain pourin’ down,
And it looks like the old man’s gettin’ Down
That is just so good and it’s the way we sing it now Like “Fire on the Mountain” has become “Fire the Accountant” Oh no, my money is all gone…there is only one thing to do…fire the accountant.Thanks SG, I’m a little embarrassed because I haven’t taken the time to read and listen to all the J interviews…Mick Taylor, I’ve actually never heard of him…. :)). Well, actually now, I think I might recall that name. It’s rare that I find a Sag that I don’t somehow look up to, and you SG as a Gemini should feel the same way. Geminis often tend to keep on the “down low” and aren’t really big on “pushing our agenda” or “having our way”…I’m horrible at confrontations. My husband loves the Rolling Stones and even has a soft spot for Keith Richards (fire sign compatibility I guess). We were watching some videos together…and he was saying “How can you be hating on Keith Richards…look at him, he’s an old man…and he’s down on one knee playing the guitar….that’s so cool”….and I was like….”he’s not playing the guitar he is plucking one string, even I could do that on one knee”
I think the Stones biggest hit was Sympathy for the Devil and when you hear that song it has very little guitar in it…and the guitar you hear is fairly simple scratchy stuff. I listened to another recording of the song on youtube that had a lot of guitar and I LIKED IT….I had no idea of Mick Taylor but I just knew it wasn’t Keith Richards on guitar…the playing was softer, smoother and had a nice normal cadence. Listen to the video below, perhaps this is what you are saying about J. If the Stones had always sounded like that, I would have liked them more. It has a “Grateful Dead” kind of sound, with faster, wilder soloing….LOL, that’s a story for another day. Why did this Mick Taylor leave the band, Did he Die? I’ll have some time later on in the day for reading up on that. Oh, and in the youtube video below, that’s another drummer right? Sounds more “upbeat” and “snappy”. Listen to the guitar in this recording. Heck Yes. Well, thanks SG, some things make more sense now. That Keith Richards should have gotten the boot a long time ago….he’s a mess!OMG….I just called Keegan to tell him congratulations (his Mom called me with the news) and he said…”actually it sucks”….”Why”?, I asked, and he said “because it makes me realize how much I hate my band”….Oh, that makes me feel so sad…I told him…”well, there are things that only you can fix” and he said “yeah, but not before January”….if any of you are FB friends of mine, you can see his post. Damn Scorpio…get Happy!
Wanted to share with you guys, something funny to me. A Sagittarius friend of mine just got her nursing degree this week…and I was thinking…OMG, a Sag nurse, how funny would that be…because you know, at least here in Athens, nurses are So NICE. They smile and tuck you in and give you encouragement…but I want to see my December 8th friend practice her style of nursing. I know her well, I can only imagine her saying things like..”You are too damn fat, that’s the real reason you are here in the hospital” or how about in labor and delivery…”You have such a beautiful baby, his Dad is a real loser, but the baby is cute” and I can imagine an occasional “Oh stop whining and shut the F*ck up!” (of course,she would never say these things for real (at least I think not) but it’s going to take some kind of prayer for her to not speak her truth. (LO double L)
I did remember that J’s birthday was on Saturday! His birthday this year fell on the the full moon…in astrology your birthday is the day the sun returns to it’s position at the time of birth and when you have a full moon on your birthday that means an interesting year ahead. Anyway, I have a friend named Bonnie Reeves who is also born on December 10th. I was lucky to celebrate with her this Saturday and I have a birthday wish for J Mascis. Bonnie turned 70 this year and she is one of the most incredible 70 year old folks I know. She, like J, has been gray since she was in her 30’s but her energy level is crazy off the chain. Bonnie still climbs up and over fences. She rides horses,she can carry 60 pound bags. She bikes like two or three miles a day (almost every day). She was playing soccer with us recently and you wanted her on your team! Bonnie and my Mother shared friends in common (That’s how I met her) If my Mom were alive they would be only 1 year apart in age. I can tell you, there is no way my Mom could do the things that Bonnie does at 70, even when she was 50! I was speaking to Bonnie’s husband and he said that it’s her Sagittarius ways that make her keep moving. If she stands still for too long she gets restless and when she gets restless….well, he said, you just don’t want a restless Sag because they were born restless, so too much down time and things can get whacky. He said “My God, if she doesn’t have something to do we all pay the price, so better that she keep being able to move so as not to get into any real trouble.” So my birthday wish for J is that he still has that sort of energy at 70! Then he can keep playing music. I think it is a December 10th sort of thing, Bonnie wanted to drive with me down to Anna Maria Island, Florida and that’s an 8 hour drive, I told her I can’t drive 8 hours straight anymore so we would have to split the driving and she said…I’ll drive the whole way…and she could have!
Long live the J. Alright back to work.Wow..isn’t this the greatest time of the year?…The whole floor of the Earth in the back of my house is covered in yellow pecan leaves and the air is so crisp and cold. The kids are getting excited about the Thanksgiving Holidays. We will get some much needed down time. We’ll have have coffee, tea, and lots of food and friends and time to just sit around the fire and relax and be with each other. Tonight my Scorpio daughter is celebrating her birthday with several other girls and they are all outside around the fire…that’s why, when I came back to listen to this song again and I saw the camp fire comment…I thought about how beautiful things are right now and I wish everyone here a sweet transition into Winter. As we all start to tumble around in in the darker, shorter days, I hope everyone can enjoy that feeling of closeness and love that starts to manifest. So many things to be Thankful for this Thanksgiving. My oldest daughter came down the road this afternoon after she got off her bus and the wind was blowing huge swarms of leaves across the sky. She came in the door and I had warm tea, cookies and a fire in the fireplace waiting for them and she said to me “Mama, I love it!! and I asked her “What do you love?” and she said…”everything…this time of the year”. Awww, thank God for kids who reflect back to you, what you have been filling them up with for years. That’s not to say, I’ve only reflected positive things to them as we have plenty of indolence and daydreaming and a whole lot more that goes on around here but still I’m so Thankful. Happy Thanksgiving time Y’all.
Came to Southern Shelter to listen again to the Sebadoh show. I didn’t know the names of the songs so this was a way for me to familiarize myself with what I had heard again. I needed a second listen. It should be mentioned, if you don’t already know, that Sebadoh was chosen by Jeff Mangnum for his All Tomorrows Parties thing….Jeff’s a smart guy….that said….I’m still trying to put my finger on a few things. Link for the show below.
http://southernshelter.com/2011/11/out-of-towners-sebadoh-40-watt-club-11711/
Wow, I know I told Tony that I would put a photo of the Sun up here and I haven’t, I did try but it wont upload…and I know I said I was going to write up my own little review of the Dinosaur Jr Bug show from Atlanta and I haven’t…but I did sort of say the recording spoke for itself so yikes, Sweet A, Thursdays and Fridays are the busiest days of the week for me and so I don’t have time right now to think about that show because it is surely going to take some thinking mixed with a tempering of words.
I really will try…..when I’m finished working for the day…I promise I will come here and write about the music…I saw that show with fresh eyes I think, because I had no idea what I was walking into. I’ve had the opportunity to do that more lately, that is go to a show in which I know nothing about the music or the musicians. It’s kind of a cool way to see music..you come in with no preconceived ideas. Sort of an okay, lets see what cha got. Works for me.
Your faithful Gemini friend..S. (Awwwww)
Artemide…I found a great video of a classic example of what happens to a Sagittarius when they live alone in the woods…This guy is Strobe Connell, Brian Crum and John Robinson and Corey PIne Shane (all of my woodsy loner Sag friends) all mixed into one person.
This is what living in the woods alone can do to you. It’s worth watching to the end because laying on the ground sleeping is something I have actually witnessed with one of those Sag hermits….driving down the dirt entrance of his house and my heart starting beating fast and I thought…Oh, my God, he’s dead…but no…he said he was just too tired to make it back to the house that night. Funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3Oi_0zIwhs&feature=related
My husband just reminded of the king of all the “living off the land Free” Sag Hermits here in Athens…a shout out to Rick San Miguel…he’s actually homeless right now, and perfectly happy, sleeping under bridges in a tent and showering when we pick him up and say “Hey, San Miguel..you need a shower” He makes money to eat playing the guitar in the streets of Athens…singing mostly songs about God, Love and Freedom. Totally perfect for a Sag, I could make that up but it’s absolutely true
Sag Hermit…Rick San Miguel working it in Athens. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sic1k4pajos
Hey Tony,That was a fun video to watch…..That was the spot I often would stand in to listen to Dinosaur Jr and Fog etc……and it wasn’t until I was older and went to a show with my guy that I really even noticed that I couldn’t hear the vocals that well and I told him “the most highly esteemed greatness”, who was standing next to me, (well I remember that I yelled in his ear)…”I don’t think J’s mic is working all that well”…and he was like…”Stef, you really are that stupid, huh?” and he grabbed my shoulders and pushed me to the back of the room”….and I was like…”Oh, I see it’s working now!”
Tony, don’t worry I’m sure most of the guys here would love to post something like…
Hey Stefka…… ~X( %-(
but I did just realize something this AM…It might not be your brain processing as much as it is a punctuation problem. I see sometimes that if I add a few words and some commas and such to your sentences that I can sort of see what you were trying to say.
What about FuzzBoxGirl……I say…. =D> :X !
“The most highly esteemed greatness” was not as impressed as I was….after I showed him her cool demo he said to me..”Why do I feel the need to make a doctors appointment..right away?” It must be, under the bravado, he has..never mind…he just loves to talk smack…I suppose I’m still charmed by it.
Oh, and I’m not getting one. Tony, I did find the price and I showed my husband and told him I wanted one and he laughed at me and said if I really wanted one he would make it for me…out of, Oh, I don’t know, stuff laying around. I could even CHOOSE the song I wanted on the bottom. It wouldn’t be exactly reversed engineered but I would not be able to tell the difference because I wouldn’t be using it anyway.
After seeing the Meat Puppets the other day and now this cool fuzz thing….I wish I could learn to play the guitar but it’s just way more effort that I would ever want to put forth (or as Terence Mckenna would say….it’s not attracting me enough) but DAMN…..it’s so FREAKIN COOL!
