Today's song of the day is "Monster Mash"
10.31.2010
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10.28.2010
song of the day - Satanic Satellite
Today's song of the day is "Satanic Satellite" by The Bloody Hollies.
10.27.2010
song of the day - Sweet Pea
Today's song of the day is "Sweet Pea" by Amos Lee. Don't look, just listen.
10.26.2010
poem of the week - Resume by Dorthy Parker
My friend Irene likes to send me a new poem every week - I'm passing it on..
Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live.
Dorothy Parker
Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live.
Dorothy Parker
song of the day - My Baby Just Cares for Me
Today's song of the day is Nina Simone's "My Baby Just Cares for Me" set to a little claymation.
10.25.2010
song of the day - Lovely
Today's song of the day is a bit goofy - but I like it. "Lovely" by PT Walkley and The Adventures of Track Rabbit.
10.23.2010
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10.22.2010
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10.19.2010
poem of the week- Icarus by Edward Field
Only the feathers floating around the hat
Showed that anything more spectacular had occurred
Than the usual drowning. The police preferred to ignore
The confusing aspects of the case,
And the witnesses ran off to a gang war.
So the report filed and forgotten in the archives read simply
“Drowned,” but it was wrong: Icarus
Had swum away, coming at last to the city
Where he rented a house and tended the garden.
“That nice Mr. Hicks” the neighbors called,
Never dreaming that the gray, respectable suit
Concealed arms that had controlled huge wings
Nor that those sad, defeated eyes had once
Compelled the sun. And had he told them
They would have answered with a shocked,
uncomprehending stare.
No, he could not disturb their neat front yards;
Yet all his books insisted that this was a horrible mistake:
What was he doing aging in a suburb?
Can the genius of the hero fall
To the middling stature of the merely talented?
And nightly Icarus probes his wound
And daily in his workshop, curtains carefully drawn,
Constructs small wings and tries to fly
To the lighting fixture on the ceiling:
Fails every time and hates himself for trying.
He had thought himself a hero, had acted heroically,
And dreamt of his fall, the tragic fall of the hero;
But now rides commuter trains,
Serves on various committees,
And wishes he had drowned.
Icarus by Edward Field, b. 1924
Showed that anything more spectacular had occurred
Than the usual drowning. The police preferred to ignore
The confusing aspects of the case,
And the witnesses ran off to a gang war.
So the report filed and forgotten in the archives read simply
“Drowned,” but it was wrong: Icarus
Had swum away, coming at last to the city
Where he rented a house and tended the garden.
“That nice Mr. Hicks” the neighbors called,
Never dreaming that the gray, respectable suit
Concealed arms that had controlled huge wings
Nor that those sad, defeated eyes had once
Compelled the sun. And had he told them
They would have answered with a shocked,
uncomprehending stare.
No, he could not disturb their neat front yards;
Yet all his books insisted that this was a horrible mistake:
What was he doing aging in a suburb?
Can the genius of the hero fall
To the middling stature of the merely talented?
And nightly Icarus probes his wound
And daily in his workshop, curtains carefully drawn,
Constructs small wings and tries to fly
To the lighting fixture on the ceiling:
Fails every time and hates himself for trying.
He had thought himself a hero, had acted heroically,
And dreamt of his fall, the tragic fall of the hero;
But now rides commuter trains,
Serves on various committees,
And wishes he had drowned.
Icarus by Edward Field, b. 1924
10.17.2010
song of the day - Wrecking Ball
Today's song of the day is "Wrecking Ball" by The Knitters - cuz I'm the baddest of them all...
10.16.2010
song of the day - St. Augustine
Today's song of the day is a cover of Band of Horses song "St. Augustine" by a few members of The Vulcans. It's an acoustic version performed on a covered bridge. Very nice.
10.14.2010
10.13.2010
song of the day - When You Love Somebody
Today's song of the day is "When You Love Somebody" by The Fruit Bats.
10.12.2010
song of the day - Don't Think Twice It's Alright
Today's song of the day is "Don't Think Twice It's Alright" by Metric.
10.11.2010
song of the day - Breathe
Today's song of the day is "Breathe" by Telepopmusik - this version filmed around the University of Maryland Campus.
10.09.2010
song of the day - Street Fighting Man
Today's song of the day is "Street Fighting Man" by The Rolling Stones. This is one of my favorite Stones songs.
10.08.2010
10.07.2010
Happy Birthday Free Nunlike Reject
It's been one year since I started this blog. It's been so much fun. Originally, this blog was conceived as a place to put my stories. If you look at the bottom of this page you will see Labels, and story is one of the labels, as well as a lot of other things. My first story was "My Valentine's Repentance and the Mocking Man" posted in October '09. I'm also really proud of "Frank Sinatra, Mickey McDermott and Me" from January of this year and "An Argument for Kindness, Fallaciously Speaking" from February.
Since I started this blog, I've also expanded to include lots of my photographs, some friend's photographs and lately I've been posting a "song of the day" which is usually something I've heard that day that I particularly liked.
I encourage you to start your own blog. It doesn't take much time and it's free. The hardest thing is coming up with a name for the blog. I chose a weird anagram of my name, which is hard even for me to remember. I could have chose better, but it's grown on me.
Thanks for sharing this space with me. Happy Birthday Free Nunlike Reject!
Since I started this blog, I've also expanded to include lots of my photographs, some friend's photographs and lately I've been posting a "song of the day" which is usually something I've heard that day that I particularly liked.
I encourage you to start your own blog. It doesn't take much time and it's free. The hardest thing is coming up with a name for the blog. I chose a weird anagram of my name, which is hard even for me to remember. I could have chose better, but it's grown on me.
Thanks for sharing this space with me. Happy Birthday Free Nunlike Reject!
10.06.2010
10.05.2010
Gone with the Wind goes Reality, Oh Fiddle-Dee-Dee
After reading (OK, listening to) as much of Gone with the Wind as I could stand, I have been inspired by those classically selfish and manipulative Southern sociopaths Scarlett O’Hara and Rhett Butler to create a bunch of Reality Shows. Let’s take a look at a few of them and hope that a network development maven is reading this!
Belles and Beaus
This is a reverse Bachelor or Rock of Love type of thing wherein lovely teen aged Belles attempt to gather as many Beaus as possible at a series of balls and barbecues before they reach 19 years of age and are thus declared spinsters. The Belle who is able to string along the most beaus while eating as little as possible, wearing impossibly tight undergarments and withstanding withering humidity and vicious tongues will be crowned Belle of the County! Extra points will be given for stealing beaus from family members, life-long friends and the less fortunate.
You Rascal You
This is based on Captain Rhett Butler, the impossibly handsome and roguish, man-about-town. This bit will feature a crazed all-out race for fabulous prizes and foreign bank accounts. Each Rascal will be given a boat, a ragtag crew and a map (of sorts). The goal is to run medical supplies, ammunition and luxury items through blockades and unfriendly ports. Greasing of palms and underhanded methods will be encouraged and ultimately rewarded. Just watch out for patriotic stumbling blocks, the occasional jolt of conscience and jeering yokels. Extra points will be awarded for the successful delivery of satin, lace, bonnets, candies and useless trinkets.
Down Home Cooking
This cooking show will feature teams combining amateur chefs and professional survivalists creating something edible and lovely with limited ingredients, particularly dried peas, hominy and smallish fish. Any meat used must be gathered from the wild, or a near by burnt-out plantation. The wilder and smaller the game the better. Think squirrels and chipmunks. Creating passable substitutes for coffee and digging up hidden whiskey barrels is highly encouraged. Plundering of neighbors abandoned gardens will be mandatory as well as liberating chickens, catching loose piglets and milking goats.
Tara – Nothing Else Matters, or There’s No Place Like Home
This is a home improvement/decorating-themed show in which contestants must create some semblance of order after yet more Damned Yankees and lice-infested Confederates tromp through their “plantations” and bust up the place like an old, unused chiffarobe. A feature of this production will be Revenuers and Carpetbaggers thrown in as hosts to evaluate progress, create undue anxiety and show needless replays of scenes shown before the commercial breaks. Extra points will be given for inventiveness, resourcefulness, stick-to-it-iveness as well as the reuse of drapery and rooster feathers.
Glorious Dead Hunters
This is an "investigating the paranormal" type of show featuring a regular cast of characters, their gadgets, vehicles and a few hot chicks to draw the male viewer. These Glorious Dead Hunters will visit antebellum plantations, civil war battlefields and the oldest cemeteries the South has to offer hunting for the ghosts of the glorious confederate soldiers. Occasional forays into the North may be Incorporated into the show mix as hunting sites are run through faster than you can say Goober Peas. No prizes will be given. This is science, damn it!
May the games begin!
Damned Yankees
This is an obstacle-course style show featuring contestant families competing against other families in a series of obstacles with increasing difficulty as the season progresses. Watch as loose networks of masters and servants try to overcome impediments in the form of low food stocks, pillaged live stock, fire, drought, sickness, old horses with broken-down carts, taxes, laziness, disease and finally irascible Damned Yankees to reach the finish line and claim the prize, a full belly and warm bed.
Belles and Beaus
This is a reverse Bachelor or Rock of Love type of thing wherein lovely teen aged Belles attempt to gather as many Beaus as possible at a series of balls and barbecues before they reach 19 years of age and are thus declared spinsters. The Belle who is able to string along the most beaus while eating as little as possible, wearing impossibly tight undergarments and withstanding withering humidity and vicious tongues will be crowned Belle of the County! Extra points will be given for stealing beaus from family members, life-long friends and the less fortunate.
You Rascal You
This is based on Captain Rhett Butler, the impossibly handsome and roguish, man-about-town. This bit will feature a crazed all-out race for fabulous prizes and foreign bank accounts. Each Rascal will be given a boat, a ragtag crew and a map (of sorts). The goal is to run medical supplies, ammunition and luxury items through blockades and unfriendly ports. Greasing of palms and underhanded methods will be encouraged and ultimately rewarded. Just watch out for patriotic stumbling blocks, the occasional jolt of conscience and jeering yokels. Extra points will be awarded for the successful delivery of satin, lace, bonnets, candies and useless trinkets.
Down Home Cooking
This cooking show will feature teams combining amateur chefs and professional survivalists creating something edible and lovely with limited ingredients, particularly dried peas, hominy and smallish fish. Any meat used must be gathered from the wild, or a near by burnt-out plantation. The wilder and smaller the game the better. Think squirrels and chipmunks. Creating passable substitutes for coffee and digging up hidden whiskey barrels is highly encouraged. Plundering of neighbors abandoned gardens will be mandatory as well as liberating chickens, catching loose piglets and milking goats.
Tara – Nothing Else Matters, or There’s No Place Like Home
This is a home improvement/decorating-themed show in which contestants must create some semblance of order after yet more Damned Yankees and lice-infested Confederates tromp through their “plantations” and bust up the place like an old, unused chiffarobe. A feature of this production will be Revenuers and Carpetbaggers thrown in as hosts to evaluate progress, create undue anxiety and show needless replays of scenes shown before the commercial breaks. Extra points will be given for inventiveness, resourcefulness, stick-to-it-iveness as well as the reuse of drapery and rooster feathers.
Glorious Dead Hunters
This is an "investigating the paranormal" type of show featuring a regular cast of characters, their gadgets, vehicles and a few hot chicks to draw the male viewer. These Glorious Dead Hunters will visit antebellum plantations, civil war battlefields and the oldest cemeteries the South has to offer hunting for the ghosts of the glorious confederate soldiers. Occasional forays into the North may be Incorporated into the show mix as hunting sites are run through faster than you can say Goober Peas. No prizes will be given. This is science, damn it!
May the games begin!
10.04.2010
song of the day - The Go-Nuts - come on and get your snack on!
Today's song of the day is a few of them from "The Go-Nuts".
You haven't lived until you've been shot with a SNACK GUN!
You haven't lived until you've been shot with a SNACK GUN!
10.01.2010
song of the day - Human Fly
Hello October! Today's song of the day is "Human Fly" by The Cramps, set to footage from the movie. Double Creepy October Fun!
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