Sunday, June 16, 2013
Scorpions- Dust In The Wind (Acoustic version)
The Scorpions doing a Kansas cover live a couple years ago.
Mind officially blown.
Friday, June 14, 2013
True Romance - The Sicilian Scene in HD
For those of you not familiar with the quote from the previous post here is the scene in the movie,
True Romance, that it's taken from.
Brilliant.
It's the best Tarantino movie ever because Tarantino just wrote the screenplay and someone else directed.
True Romance is a fantastic movie - quirky, funny, offbeat, with an incredible cast that includes:
Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette (a young, smokin' hot Patrica Arquette, Walken, Hopper, James Gandolfini, Brad Pitt, Gary Oldman, Sam Jackson, and many others.
Hopper and Walken give a brilliant performances here.
Watch and learn friends.
Heeeerrre, KittyKittyKitty!
A dog's job is to stay outside on the porch and bark at strangers.
Mikey finds immense satisfaction in his craft.
He is a bite trained German Shepherd after all.
This morning as I was posting Ray LaMontagne clips I looked up to see a snarling Mikey slowly rising to his feet and begin creeping towards the driveway.
I jumped up from behind the computer while shouting, "NEIN!!!!"
I made it to Mikey's side just in time to grab hold of his collar before he charged the poor AT & T service tech, who at that very second was back peddling up the drive while frantically reaching for his
"Bear Mace".
The man was white as a ghost and at 9:30 he was already covered in sweat and needed to a take a union break to recompose himself.
Damn I love this dog.
It's the second day that we've had AT & T here and the second day that Mikey has scared the Holy BeJezzus out of them.
Having a 100 pound, trained, German Shepherd bare his teeth and give you that low, guttural, growl while he puts the death stare on ya' and readies to pounce
"is no kinda fun and, what Mikey's got for you, that's as good as it's ever gonna get, and it ain't ever gonna get that good again."
Good Boy!
Editor's Update:
I took Mikey out for our morning walk and ran into "Dim Sum's" mother.
"Dim Sum" is the Korean lady across the street.
She seems nice enough, though I've never talked to her.
Mikey likes her mom who is extremely Korean and speaks little English.
When we turned the corner at North Highland and Virginia there was "Dim Sum's" mom with a big smile, patting her knees with both hands, shouting,
"Here kitty kitty kitty!!! Here kitty kitty kitty kitty!!!" in her special dialect.
Mikey was confused but he smiled and danced around for her just the same.
See?
He's not an indiscriminate monster.
Didn't even bother correcting her. He just enjoyed the moment, said his hellos, and moved on.
Ray LaMontagne - Shelter [Live]
"Shelter"
I guess you don't need it
I guess you don't want me to repeat it
But everything I have to give I'll give to you
It's not like we planned it
You tried to stay, but you could not stand it
To see me shut down slow
as though it was an easy thing to do
Listen when
All of this around us'll fall over
I tell you what we're gonna do
You will shelter me my love
And I will shelter you
I will shelter you
I left you heartbroken, but not until those very words were spoken
Has anybody ever made such a fool out of you
It's hard to believe it
Even as my eyes do see it
The very things that make you live are killing you
Listen when all of this around us'll fall over
I tell you what we're gonna do
You will shelter me my love
I will shelter you
Listen when
All of this around us'll fall over
I tell you what we're gonna do
Hey you will shelter me my love
I will shelter you
If you shelter me too
I will shelter you
I will shelter you
Ray LaMontagne - "Jolene" and "Trouble" studio performance
Ray LaMontagne's first album is brilliant and these are 2 of my favorites performed live.
Thursday, June 13, 2013
FIRE LAKE BOB SEGER
Something about this song has got me a bit spellbound today.
Maybe it's b/c thematically it's about running off on your motorcycle and going out to see the world, something I can relate to.
But lyrically it's much different than other Seger tunes.
Check below:
Fire Lake
Who's gonna ride that chrome three wheelerWho's gonna make that first mistake
Who wants to wear those gypsy leathers
All the way to Fire Lake
Who wants to break the news about Uncle Joe
You remember Uncle Joe
He was the one afraid to cut the cake
Who wants to tell poor Aunt Sarah
Joe's run off to Fire Lake
Joe's run off to Fire Lake
Who wants to brave those bronze beauties
Lying in the sun
With their long soft hair falling
Flying as they run
Oh they smile so shy
And they flirt so well
And they lay you down so fast
Till you look straight up and say
Oh Lord
Am I really here at last
Who wants to play those eights and aces
Who wants a raise
Who needs a stake
Who wants to take that long shot gamble
And head out to Fire Lake
Head out
Who wants to go to Fire Lake
And head out
Who wants to go to Fire Lake
Head out
Out to Fire Lake
Who's gonna do it
Found these explanations of the songs this morning:
http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/8506/
My Opinion:
Uncle Joe is Old School Biker. Has a custom chromed out three wheeler because he's getting on in years. Probably a '49 Pan Head Stroker or something nice like that. Kick start only.Wears old school Gypsy leathers (25 yr old Schott jacket, chaps and steel toed Red Wing engineer boots) as opposed to the new embossed, Chinese made, commercialized crap the new guys wear. Fire Lake is just a nice ride up the canyon. Plenty of young, good looking women to check out. They lay you down so fast because every biker eventually has to lay his bike down to avoid smacking into a green painted cager or to keep from going over the high side. That he was afraid to cut the cake means that he never did settle down and marry his Old Lady, Sarah (cutting the wedding cake at the wedding reception). It would have restricted his freedom too much. Uncle Joe was an Outlaw Biker.
The real deal.
The Outlaw, Wild Bill Hickok, was shot from behind by Jack McCall in Deadwood, South Dakota, while holding a poker hand consisting of 2 black aces, 2 black eights and the deuce of spades. This is known as "The Dead Man's Hand".
If you have ever been to a Bob Seger concert, you would have noticed that at least 50% of those attending are bikers. I don't know any bikers who don't like Bob Seger.
Flag Bolioon April 15, 2013 Link
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well lets see bob seger is from michigan and fire lake refers to torch lake in michigan which by the way was voted second most beutiful lake in the world by national gegraphic and gypsy leathers has any one heard of the gypsy jokers m.c. and that they were alomost taken out of existance by the hells angels and uncle joe was a survier hence the chrome three wheeler and aces n eights dead mans hand go blue check out puremichigan420@youtube
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MSG Roy Benavidez speech 1991
I don't know how I went from a little spell of melancholy to tales of Medal of Honor recipients but
JEEZ-US, just listen to this guy's story.
He is one badass dude.
And from Texas.
Like that.
Viet Nam Vet, SF Medal of Honor recipient on CBS Evening News with Katie...
Do the math on this guy:
5 tours of duty in Vietnam.
Wounded 14 times.
Nominated for the Medal of Honor 3 times.
Holy Cow!
Bob Seger - Against the Wind
For some reason I had a touch of the "nostalgia" this morning.
Maybe even a hint of "melancholy".
That's a good word.
Melancholy.
Melllllinnkawllly.
Me-lin-chol-y.
Mel-in-cho-ly.
Anyhooooo......
Against the Wind by Bob Seger seemed to hit all the right notes this morning.
He's one of those artists that, if you're of a certain age, you know all of his stuff by heart from years of hearing it on FM radio, but it's not until you get to a certain age do you feel like seeking him out.
It's one of those oddities of getting old.
At first you sorta reject something that seemed like it was always there and then you start getting misty about it when it's gone.
Dang ol' life anyhow.
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