Posted in Imports from old blogs on Jul 27th, 2006
Boy howdy, do I ever love to sleep. I really do. I think my life would be about 78% better if I could take a nap every day, from 2:00 p.m. to about 3:30. I used to schedule my days to allow for this when I was in college and consequently felt peppier and sassier […]
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Posted in Imports from old blogs on Jul 26th, 2006
Just came across a seriously cool old documentary short about drag racing in SoCal in the early 1950s. I'm bookmarking it to show my dad when my folks come to visit this weekend, but I'm sharing it here, too, as I suspect a few people here will dig it.
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Posted in Imports from old blogs on Jul 23rd, 2006
What does the city smell like today? This is a question I have to ask every morning, out on the front porch. Is the air soupy with humidity with a languid sweetness coming up from the lawn. Is there a disturbing, meaty, dog-food pong emanating from the East Bottoms? Maybe there's dank smoke from a […]
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Posted in Imports from old blogs on Jul 22nd, 2006
David Bowie performing with NIN, “Hurt”. Creepy, depressing, yet strangely erotic, I think.
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Posted in Imports from old blogs on Jul 21st, 2006
Here are three songs in one video, from celebrated songwriter Cindy Walker. We've got Election Day, Bearcat Mountain Gal, and Ti-Ay-Yippie-Aye. Be sure to check out her facial expressions, especially in Bearcat Mountain Gal. SO cute! Here's a much more newer, rock/swing country number Let Me Stop & Drink About It as performed by The […]
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Posted in Imports from old blogs on Jul 20th, 2006
More butt-shaking reggaeton goodness right here Daddy Yankee, “Rompe”
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Posted in Imports from old blogs on Jul 14th, 2006
Jimi Hendrix's classic, re-interpreted in the classical Japanese ondo style. Check it out For reference, here is a more traditional ondo and here is Jimi's Purple Haze. Fookin' awesome fusion, if you ask me.
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Posted in Imports from old blogs on Jul 13th, 2006
This may become a tradition here for me, as I tend to surf You Tube before I go to work for the music video to whatever song is in my head. And so, today, I present to you, one of the dead sexiest songs of all time and memory: The Pointer Sisters' “Slow Hand”
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Posted in Imports from old blogs on Jul 12th, 2006
Christi and I were the only women who competed in the Huffy Toss. I think her pitch got about 6″ further than mine did. Neither of us won, but we had fun. I don't do any of this stuff for results, just for the excuse to be out riding and socializing. One of the fellows […]
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Posted in Imports from old blogs on Jul 12th, 2006
Can anyone recommend me a few more songs that will jive with DiVinyls' “Touch Myself” and Cyndi Lauper's “She Bop” My notion is to make a mix CD on a theme…if I can come up with about a dozen masturbation-themed songs. I think this could be amusing.
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