Spreading Santorum

Peach jam is nasty.

No one wants Santorum salmonella.

@karen marie has her eyes tight shut: Wouldn’t the Santorum household jam be more like a marmelaide, you know – with chunks in it?

@JNOV: Sorry, but whenever I see your avatar thingy, I think it looks like the incubation of a baseball inside what my momma called the “baby hatch”. Intentional?

@flypaper: Heh. It is a baseball — it’s the Phillies logo. You know how we have those crazy baseball fans here on this site. We’ve got one whose team might have their first winning season in 18 consecutive years. Then we have the Let Timmy Smoke contingent who will be hosting the Phils tomorrow through Sunday. After the series with the Phils, The Smokin’ Tims will then shit all over The 18-year-losers. All I have to say about the Dodgers is that they are not in last place, and I love DodgerBlue, so no snark. They’re like the Amy Winehouse of MLB.

The rabbit is alive; many men breathe a sigh of relief. ;-)

@JNOV: +1

Which house? The Virginia house that they really live in or the Pennsylvania house they claim to live in while leaching on-line charter school dollars from PA? Or has all that changed since he lost his senate seat?

Damn. They must have a lot of peach trees. We’ve got 4 and only racoons and birds get to eat the damn fruit.

@karen marie has her eyes tight shut: Really?I love peach jam. When it’s not too sweet.

@JNOV: Yours truly will be at the Timmy “Fuck Yeah!” Smokers v. Nabeesco Pirates game next week when it’s the Giants’ Second Annual Grateful Dead Day. I’m sure Mr. Cynica and Mr. baked would be jealous to hear that Mickey Hart and Phil Lesh are singing the National Anthem, and Bob Weir and mega-Deadhead/ex-LA sports dude Bill Walton are performing the 7th Inning stretch. And yes, we got the special tickets for the fugly-ass bobble heads of dancing rainbow bears. And yes, last year I got a total contact high sitting in the bleachers and strangers passed many a joint (I’m nervous about smoking something passed to me by a stranger).

TJ/ Vote for “Khaaaaaaannnn!!!”

@SanFranLefty: I really have never understood that whole Dead thing. Never. Yes, strangers will fuck you up. That’s how I learned about illy. I was illin’. I’ll take your bobble head if you don’t want it. :-D

@flypaper: I much like your screen name.

@SanFranLefty: Phil is going to sing?Good time to make a bathroom run.

@JNOV: Danke schön. Family lore has it that an ancestor invented it, so birthday parties featured streamers of the sh*t.

@flypaper: Ha! I went to a prep school for awhile where damn near every kid was related to someone important. I said my grandmother invented velcro. Yay for no Google in 1979!

TJ/Goodspeed and God Bless, Bubba Smith. Way too short a run…

@Dodgerblue: Phil is phine, it’s Mickey and the fucking bongo drums that make me want to slit my wrists. And don’t get me started on “space” during the shows.

The space parts of Dead shows test my relationship.

@SanFranLefty: I agree with Dodge, since Phil has always been a butthole personality wise. I can’t even imagine sitting through an entire show, some 22 years since my last one. Back then, the space jams were necessary – I think with alcohol they’d just make me snooze.

I like the fact that whatshizname (*effects of too much “space” causing temporary memory lapse*) has aged well to the point that he almost looks as old as he is supposed to be (and channels Jerry’s look rather nicely). Didn’t he sign on when he was like 15?

Speaking of the Dead, I heard some Jorma Kaukonen on the radio when I was on vacay in Maui. Now that’s some shit right there…

@Nabisco: Time out. Jorma = Jefferson Airplane and later Hot Tuna, not the Grateful Dead. And yes, the guy can play.

@flypaper: Birthday parties with flypaper streamers?? My god. That’s amazing.

with all this dead talk, i have to mention a band i have recently been pleasantly exposed to. thievery corporation will be out west for all you folks next month in LA, san diego, and oakland. give them a listen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCD99jMMuh0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04bg9IC9N6w

i came across them while pandora-ing a band called radio citizen.

@SanFranLefty: All of the Dead related efforts at the Star Spangled Banner have been pretty decent. However, I love the Space pieces, so my opinions should be taken with many grains of salt.

I agree with SFL’s views on excessive drum usage. I have yet to hear an interesting rock drum solo, and the Dead’s drummers are/were no exception.

@jwmcsame: They are a huge part of the music scene here in DC, both in terms of their own output and the number of clubs they own.

@SanFranLefty: Mr Cyn wears headphones. I could never last if I had to listen to that stuff. I never was into music, but exposure to Dead shows made me HATE it.

@Mistress Cynica: I get tired of trying to have conversations with Mr. SFL while he’s wearing headphones. I’m about to institute a rule that he can’t wear headphones for more than 1 hour in my presence because it is incredibly rude when I try to have a conversation with him. He listens to two shows a day at work and another one on his commute, so it’s not like I’m depriving him of his Dead with this impending rule.

@Dave H: Oh I know that. It’s just that when a Deadhead says “I listen to a lot of bands, not just the Dead”, s/he usually means Tuna and maybe some of that newer Phish stuff.

@SFL: you have conversations? Wow.

@Nabisco: the other band mr cyn listens to is Janes Addiction, which I hate even more.

@Mistress Cynica: Wow, JA is a stretch – tell him I’m impressed.

We need to find you some music you can get behind. Do you like singer/songwriters? Jazz? Polka?

I imagine some Nina Simone or Billie Holiday piped into your wine-sipping, garden getaway.

@Nabisco: Unfair smear. Of course we Deadheads are used to it.

The last 10 artists on my IPod (shuffle mode) are:

The Unthanks
The Band
Lucinda Williams
Steve Kimock
Carrie Rodriguez
Little Feat
Grateful Dead
Leonard Cohen
Anna Calvi
Grateful Dead (yes 2 out of 10)

@Nabisco: Mostly, music makes me nervous, except for Bach. What I really like are water sounds–rain, the ocean, even the fountain in the back yard. That soothes me. More and more, all man-made sound is just noise as far as I’m concerned. I’d as soon listen to sirens as Jane’s Addiction.

@Mistress Cynica: Gabrielli, “Music for Brass” = metal \m/ !

@Walking Still: the most geeked out teabagger in my office snuck into my house one night when i had others over. while he was sponging up my beers and getting his ass kicked at pool, i noticed he knew every, yes every word on waiting for columbus (that’s live little feat, for those who may not know). so even though he is a geeked out teabagger, i cut him a little bit of slack now.

@Mistress Cynica: agreed. i prefer ice picks to the ears over janes addiction.

@jwmcsame: I can’t stand Perry Ferrell’s voice. In addition to whatever else he does, guitarist Dave Navarro also directed a pron movie.

@jwmcsame: Like Dixie Chicken and all that?

@redmanlaw: I would sooner have expected him to star in one than to direct one.

@mellbell: It might smear his eye makeup.

@jwmcsame: You should have made him listen to Strawberry Flats (first Little Feat album) – one of the better songs about hippie paranoia.

“They’re stopping everyone who looks too weird at the school bus Texas roadblock”

@redmanlaw: all that and more
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK_hftXn4dk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_nFwwjBlEc&feature=related

@Walking Still: like many young (30ish) tennessee teabaggers, this guy smokes dope. and par for the course it always happens to be someone elses smoke. he tells stories of past high rollin’ days but never backs it up with his own shit for others to share. same with beer. he shows up to an all-nighter with a six pack. work works out about the same for dude. it’s the governments fault he can’t keep a job after the first three months draw runs out. typical teabagger.

@jwmcsame: Takes me back to the old free form radio days of the 70s.

@Mistress Cynica: I can only deal with Been Caught Stealing because it reminds me of The Art of Noise for some reason. The rest I’ve heard? Meh.

ADD: There might be some Porno for Pyros I like, but nothing comes to mind. I like Perry Farrell, but I don’t know why.

@Walking Still and jwmcsame: Haha! I saw Little Feat at some Scottish Rite Mason Building Basketball Court in Collingswood. 2004ish? Oh, hey! They’re coming back!

@Walking Still: My iTunes shuffle embarrassment:

Jill Scott (One is the Magic #)
RHCP (Higher Ground)
(Oh, this is bad) Ottmar Liebert (Whispering Hills)
Fuel (Hideaway)
Bill Withers (Lean on Me)
Public Enemy (Terminator X to the Edge of Panic)
The Polyphonic Spree (It’s the Sun) — I really like this one
India.Arie (Outro – Acoustic Soul)
B.C. Smith (Charles Bronson)
(Oh, this is really bad) Dishwalla (Counting Blue Cars), but in Dishwalla’s defence, they play the hell out of DP’s Policy of Truth. Hooverphonic Shake[s] the Disease damn good, and I love God Lives Underwater’s Fly on the Windscreen.

@JNOV: A three-bagger of Bill Withers, Public Enemy and Polyphonic Spree is not to be sneered at.

@Walking Still: I think anyone who wanted to join the Spree could, even if they couldn’t sing well. I like Bill. My son and I used to belt Lovely Day in the car. I just wish he didn’t beat the shit out of his GF (Withers, not my kid).

OK, people. I tried but I haven’t understood but one tenth of what’s writes here. But that’s OK. I read it with relish and love the language.

@Mistress Cynica: I like Bach if I can dance around the room. Might I suggest you give Handel a shot? If you don’t know his work it’s sumptuous without being annoying. And he is the best composer for the voice in English till Britten. When I was studying it was his and Britten’s music I loved to sing most. There is what they call the singing line: you hear it in a violin when it’s being well-played. But I am always thrilled when I think that most instruments imitate the human voice in one way or another.

This is the best song anybody ever wrote. Evah. Sung by a counter-tenor. A voice that’s become very fashionable. Jarousskey is sexy and lyric. I love his voice best singing more modern music but this is very beautiful. In the opera it’s sung by a mezzo as Xerxes. So this is a bit of a cheat.

This is a splendid performance of Handel at his most playfully melodic. The woman is Xerxes: the man is some layabout or other on loan from Monty Pytho n from the looks of his chin. His part would have been written for a castrati, the Justin Biebers of their time, but the counter-tenor is pretty terrific.

Here is Ombra mai fu sung in place in the opera. By the same mezzo, Ann Murray. Handel wrote to an italian libretto because in those days the opera could only exist in Italian. This fine production by Nicholas Hytner is translated into an unfortunately facetious English by Hytner since the English National Opera has a policy of performing all operas in English save Montiverdi’s. To which one might want to say WTF? But I’m telling you the impact of Valkyrie when you can understand what’s going on is enormous. The dispute about the foolishness of Xerxes singing an aria of such gorgeousness to a potted palm is to am a clear indicator of why the English are jerks. Clearly the intent is for the ruler to enter and throw himself to kiss the dirt at the roots of the tree that sheltered his childhood but whatever. It’s divine no matter how you cut it. And not easy to sing: long rising sobbing arcs that lead the unwary to bring too much chest into the passagio flatting the top notes and causing grief all round. All of which speaks of emotion, which the English detest.

End of lecture. (I really need to speak to someone about the whole pompous thing.) BTW. I need to pick your brains. Tango Alfa Romeo in the other place.

@Benedick HRH KFC:

Handel.

OMFG.

I hope that some day I will have a sugar mommy or daddy to pay for the food at Trader Joe’s while I spend a year devouring the works of Handel, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and Vivaldi. I’m sure the more edu-makated of you sneer at what I find to be the most beautiful and soothing of music, but before I get to your level, I find myself saying “it sounds pretty” — much like I’m in my painting class saying how I find Hockney and Pissaro’s portraits amazing.

Who would’ve thought a girl born in the trailer park would ever have those words coming out of her mouth, let alone, feel self-conscious for sounding like a rube for liking Bach and Hockney.

Progress, or something.

Musicals! Dancing villagers in Dolly Parton’s mountain top village!
Snap to it, Benedick…

OK, people. I tried but I haven’t understood but one tenth of what’s writes here. But that’s OK. I read it with relish and love the language.

@Mistress Cynica: I like Bach if I can dance around the room. Might I suggest you give Handel a shot? If you don’t know his work it’s sumptuous without being annoying. And he is the best composer for the voice in English till Britten. When I was studying it was his and Britten’s music I loved to sing most. There is what they call the singing line: you hear it in a violin when it’s being well-played. But I am always thrilled when I think that most instruments imitate the human voice in one way or another.

This is the best song anyone ever wrote. Sung by a counter-tenor. A voice that’s become very fashionable. Jarousskey is sexy and lyric. I love his voice best singing more modern music but this is very beautiful. In the opera it’s sung by a mezzo as Xerxes. So this is a bit of a cheat.

@JNOV: ipod shuffle:
1. What I see – Lacuna Coil. Italian Goth metal w/female singer
2. Soul on Fire – H.I.M. – I turned Son of RML on to him. Sort of like a Finnish Ian Astburty from the Cult but artier
3. Substitute – the WHO (Live at Leeds!)
4. Serve the Servant – Nirvana – an all time fave
5. It Could Be Sweet – Portishead, from Dummy. Actually fits my mood now
6. Parabol – Tool – There’s a part in this one that sounds like the sun rising over the desert. Very uplifting and meaningful to me
7. Passenger – Deftones – Harsh and hard, driving, Chino floats on top and gets all Tool-y then metal! \m/ (feat. Maynard from Tool)
8. All Out of Time, All Into Space – Isis – Ambient as fuck
9. Five Minutes Alone – Pantera – New Wave of American Heavy Metal. A song about what you would do with some fuckhead if you had the chance. xt up on Shuffle is I’m Broken by Pantera, so I’m skipping to
10. Mambo Inferno by a Cuban band called Conjunto Casino from a cd I got from the public library called Mambo Cubano

@SanFranLefty: And then I get more Pantera for No. 11 (Dom/Hollow). I love Baroque music. Telemann, Bok, Gabreilli . . . and here I am coming from the rez and having lived in various Sun Belt cities.

Just punched up some Jobim/bossa nova on the shuffle. The drummer is really working hard on this tune. Now Garden of Light by Isis which is some some very thoughtful, beautiful metal ambient metal before it gets all heavy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEu-8hjxpog

then to Al Green . . .

@redmanlaw: :-D

Sorry about the double post. I couldn’t get the linques right in the first and didn’t think they’d worked. So we got a double dose of the pompous.