Entries Tagged as 'The Rolling Stones'
Cranky gets an education, a list
Things I learned from watching most of the 832-part History of Rock and Roll on VH1 Classics:
1. The song “Carrie Ann” was written about Marianne Faithful.
2. “Do You Believe in Magic” came out in like 1965 and not in about 1985 like I had always assumed, also the band who sings it, The Lovin’ Spoonful [...]
I’ll blow your nose, then I’ll blow your mind
I synced up Eurydice this morning so I could have the new podcasts of The New Yorker and “This American Life” for my commute. It was then that I learned that I had listened to that damn New Pornographers’ album twenty-six times. “Go Places” rocketed to the top of my Top 25 Most Played list [...]
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1. if i could have dirty, dirty sex with mick jagger’s voice (and not him, because he’s kinda old, even though his snaky hips are dead sexy), i would.
2. i’ve officially started the procrastination portion of my next short story writing excursion. the story is due on March 30th.
3. i am going to have to [...]
the rolling stones, the replacements, elvis costello and random spoojing
did i forget to mention how i totally wanted to hump whomever was playing the jukebox at grumpy’s on thursday night? whoever put their money in the record machine was serving up a nice mix of The Replacements (Nobody, Alex Chilton, Here Comes a Regular), Elvis Costello, AND AND AND The Rolling Stones!
i know! clearly [...]
don’t move your lips, just shake your hips
if the meme is good enough for tito, it’s good enough for me. besides it’s early on a sunday morning, i just had some pizza and i need something to write about.
usually i am really bad at these shuffle things, because i cheat all the time. if it’s a song i don’t want to admit [...]
this is why they call them online journals, because you can write stupid stuff that means nothing to nobody but you because you want to remember it
way back when we used to be cool, Mel, ChiliD, and I used to play the island game. this was a game where you got to populate some tropical island with six to ten people you’d like to spend a lot of intimate time with. we had great gobs of fun playing the game, because [...]
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i synched up Roland with Ogden this morning for the first time, in what felt like ages. i had to get the dresden dolls album onto Roland. once i got to work i took a gander at the Top 25 Most Played songs. I was surprised by quite a few of them. I had no [...]
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