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Ramble On - Or How I Get Through This Life
Today I was reading Aaron Adams Lame Ass Blog regarding Halloween and thinking about Halloween rituals when I was growing up. Good Lord how the times have changed. My parents would dress my sister and I up and we would go with a large group of neighborhood kids to every house in the neighborhood. One year I dressed up as Captain Hook and my sister was Tinkerbell. I loved the idea of wearing a hook and torturing my sister and the neighborhood "lost boys" who actually dressed the part. My best friend dressed up as Peter Pan. He caught a lot of shit because of that. In my neighborhood any boy kid called "peter", dressed in tights, in Texas,.... was just asking for a beat down. If he had really had the ability to fly then maybe he would have been able to save himself.
My son loved Halloween and because his birthday is a week before, we would always have a big Halloween themed birthday party for him each year. I would pull out all of the stops...costumes, Halloween themed food, music, games, and decorations. Now, I spend Halloween quietly. My neighborhood never gets a lot of trick or treaters so I usually end up going to a movie or concert
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This morning I woke up way too early .... but did so with a purpose. I woke up happy. I’m no richer, thinner, more attractive or better loved than I was yesterday (that I know of, anyway). My to-do list is no shorter and my patience no longer than it was 24 hours ago.
Yes, you could say I’m also grateful for all of this stuff and that gratitude is the key to feeling good. I won’t lie—it’s a big component. Happiness isn’t even the ultimate goal—the letting go of it is. It is the slowing down and appreciating these moments
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Today is my mother's birthday. She loves music, though she was kind of square to mainstream in her tastes. My mom was a teenager in the '50s and was in her 20s in the '60s, she was a kind of counter culture June Cleaver. She dressed up to clean the house but wore no bra. She sewed clothes, costumes, and completed crafts but would not be caught dead at Women's Club or any other "women's only group." She was the Koolaid mom but scared the neighborhood kids with her quiet temper.
She loved music. She and my dad are GREAT dancers. They are western swing, square and round dancers. In addition she was a poodle-skirt wearing squeaky clean American bandstand dancer. She taught me to dance when I was just a teeny-tiny bit of a thing
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Today is my son's 22nd birthday. We spent the day together and as always laughed, ate at our favorite places, and talked music. It was a wonderful day! Junior you are definitely the best thing I've ever done!
The son put together a list of his favortie all time songs in honor of his birthday
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'Surf Rock' originated in Southern California in the early '60s where the sport of surfing and the "followers" became a sub-culture of their own. The surf "sound" uses a generous amount of 'reverb', fast staccato picking, and use of the 'whammy bar' to to generate the excitement of rushing down crashing waves. Band following this vibe include 'The Ventures', The Surfaris, The Chantays, and The Tornadoes. In '62 & '63 the Beach Boys and Jan & Dean recorded harmony-filled songs and ballads with the surfing theme. After its peak year of 1963, the instrumental surf-rock style gradually faded from prominence, while the vocal-oriented surf-rock style began to shift towards 'hot-rod' music, which consequently had the potential for even broader national appeal. In the 1990s, the popularity of the soundtrack from the movie "Pulp Fiction" (1994) brought about a whole new generation of instrumental Surf Rock bands, such as 'The Blue Stingrays', 'The Aqua Velvets', 'The Mel-Tones', & 'The Bomboras'. Today there are hundreds of 'Surf Rock' bands from around the world keeping the old school sound alive.
Here are some of my favs
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Today's post is dedicated to my friend David at Mind Orgasms. Buddy your blog will be sorely missed so I thought I would memorialize the occasion with a few tunes that remind me of your time here at Orble ;0)
MWLB
PS. Dusk thanks for the idea. After reading your post I realized that I needed to pay my respects in my own way (I linked to your post down below
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Well Autumn weather is finally coming to Texas. Temperatures are finally dipping, the leaves aren't changing yet. The seasons move forward in the song as we meander through to winter. It's the imagery of a very leafy and cold fall that stays in listeners' minds after hearing these songs. I look forward to brown, orange, and yellow leaves blowing across the roads.
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Many people equate folk music with Joni Mitchell, Peter, Paul, and Mary, etc.... I believe that beards and acoustic guitars do not necessarily folk music make. Folk music is, as the name suggests, music of the people — it is inextricably connected to the geography and culture of the musicians who birth it, while (in America, anyway) simultaneously drawing on stories and forms that can be traced back to the middle ages. It deals in the base fears and hopes that lurk in our collective consciousness, in what is gloriously, bitterly, shockingly human. It is a rich and complex music, and can not just cooked up by some kids in Brooklyn with a banjo. Usually. (No disprespect Mr. Dylan).
Thanks to Morris for the pic
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Enough said. After counting my many blessings (and I have many), I decided to do a little mix tape therapy!
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Today one of my guys came into the office sporting a "Real men wear eyeliner" t shirt . I guess that makeup for males has come a long way since the days when a bit of shadow would have dumped a dude forever in sissyland. The only makeup my guy friends would have worn back in the day was directly proportional to the amount of alcohol they had ingested prior to makeup application (unless they were going to an Alice Cooper concert!). It seems to me that the once former territory of only glam rockers and showmen, well-applied guyliner is slowly but surely becoming more socially acceptable for heterosexual men who ascribe to metrosexualism, glamour, and general fabulousness. I even saw this video of Pete Wentz talking about guyliner on YouTube Link to video
Anthony Burch wrote a hilarious posting on Double Viking discussing this scourge of manliness Link to Article
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Friends
I enjoyed your comments so much regarding my previous post regarding bands with insect names...it got me to thinking...what about bands with animal names:
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Friends
I am embarrassed to say that I was watching a documentary about Roaches and as gross as they are, I just couldn't turn the channel:
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Today I decided that I would pay my cell phone bill in person (something I don't usually do). As I drove up to the store I noticed throngs of many angry customers standing outside the store. I noticed large signs on the windows that said "Network Down". Customers were shouting at the staff. I know that this is just an example of the power and limitations of wireless devices and networks but jeez give it a break. It ain't the end of times...God almighty it is just a cellphone.
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I have just finished reading Nick Bromell’s novel “Tomorrow Never Knows”. Historians and others have described the sixties as an explosion of democracy, a youthful challenge to established authority in the state, the university and the family, a renewal that, in its sweep and intensity, ranks beside the eras of Andrew Jackson and the New Deal. Music occupies the center of this history for many because it articulated the crucial concept of the decade, "participatory democracy."
We have many good books on the events and movements and ideas of the sixties, most of which agree that the music was important in expressing the spirit and energy of the times. This author wants to do something else -- to put the music of the sixties at the center of the story by seeking to recapture what he calls "the primal scene" of listening to rock music: in the dorm room or the bedroom, alone or with friends, listening with intense concentration -- smoking dope or dropping acid -- seeking to understand loneliness and injustice and the fundamental instability of everything
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