Past Rambling: September 2006

Snoogedy Boogedy Bam Bam Bam

It's been a weird week.  First, I woke up Chinese.  I know I've always had Chinese tendencies, but man it really stuck this time.  OK, I'm just kidding, I'm not Chinese, but you know it's kind of fun to be someone else sometimes.  Soon, I will have to leave the body/identity of Tiki Tiki Tembo and go back to being just plain me.

[Insert scratching record sound here.]

Well, we'll see who I turn out to be next anyway.  So, live it up T-to-the-3, cuz soon you will RIP.

I've been in sick-limbo this week.  I kinda feel like I'm getting sick, but not really sure if I'm getting sick or if it is allergies.  Sara & Erica have been sick & breathing my same air, so I may be sick because of them or maybe they have allergies too.  So I don't know.  Then my Dr. has been driving me crazy because I had to have about 2001 different tests & they all came back "unremarkable" which means she don't know what the fuck is up but there is definitely something up so she's just going to give me random medication for 3 months at a time until we figure something out or I croak.  Random medication is ok if it something fun, but so far it's nothing that makes for fun reactions with alcohol.  So, I went to pick up my random Rx tonight & waited for 20 minutes before the stupid fuckers even walked over to the window to wait on us - the huddled mass- & they said, oh we don't have that one done yet, so crap, I just wasted another 20 minutes of my life.  Thanks for that Walgreens.

As you may have noticed, I don't really have a topic this time, but there is nothing wrong with rambling is there?  You've made it this far.

So I got my new Fak-I-Pod this week.  I've been aching for an iPod-type device for ever so long & the opportunity came to use my dad's credit card without his knowledge & hell yeah I jumped on that like mint chocolate chip ice cream.  So this new device which must remain nameless, since I don't remember what it is, has been ever so fun.  The earbuds it came with were apparently designed for Sasquatch because they are gi-normous and kind give me a migraine or maybe the loudness is giving me motion sickness or maybe sara & erica passed the plague on to me, but anyway they make my ear holes hurt.  I know there are worse holes to have hurt, but still, are anyone's ear holes really that big?  But, I love it & although it was pretty cheap, it is 1GB & holds all the songs I have found a way to download without paying any $ for so far in my lifetime.  One unfortunate dilemma is that a lot of times I downloaded songs assuming that they were formatted so that media products could recognize the Title & Artist names and ta-daa, hell no they aren't so I have about 125 songs that I like but have no idea who sang them.

I have found some by Googling lyrics, but since so much of what I listen to is not mainstream that's not working for all of the songs.  The freaky little Libra in me is not liking having these songs that have no titles or artists, but I'm constantly battling with that OCD side of me that has to have everything a certain way or else it picks at me.  Maybe if they ever come get me for pirating, my subpeona will list some of the artists whose songs I've downloaded. Since most of them are one level above garage band, I seriously doubt it.

But the said device makes me happy because I realized when I brought it home that it comes with a magic cord.  This magic cord was the answer to my prayers & I didn't even know that it existed until I was opening the package (with a chainsaw, I might add).  Anyway, the cord plugs into the headphone jack of an audio device and plugs into my new toy & allows the new toy to record from the headphone jack & make MP3s.  This allowed me to finally get my Keely Zoo onto mp3 before Mother Nature dissolved the cassettes which has been my constant fear for years.  Robb had already provided mp3s of Flake, so I'm pretty much set for life.  So, if you ever see my convulsing somewhere and I have giant foam covered balls shoved in my ears, I'm prolly rockin' out to one of Larry's Flake riffs or I've got Keely Zoo cranked.  I will never, ever grow out of Tebo Creek (KZ), Anger, or Hanniken (both Flake).

It's not about being trapped in the past.  It's about recognizing that certain songs have been so good that you never grow weary of listening to them.  As someone who has loved music since I was old enough to slip a 45 onto my portable record player with fancy disco lights that I got for Christmas when I was about 4, my taste has changed 1000 times, there have been 100s of "flavor of the week" songs, but only a select handful are songs that no matter what, I would die without.  I had this friend when I was in high school...  Actually, it was my friend's sister in law, but she loved In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida so much that she owned over 50 of the exact same cassette and if we went to a store that had that cassette, even if it was a gas station, she would buy a new one every single time.  It was crazy.

So, if you've made it this far reading my ramblings, you should post a comment and include a song or a list of songs that you would die without.  I don't care if it is embarassing.  I grew up in the Tipper Gore/PMRC era, I don't allow hating on music.  If you don't know what I mean by the Tipper Gore/PMRC era, well kiss my ass because you are probably too young to know what an evil bitch she is.  [Fuck Tipper Gore!]  But I must digress, because you don't want me to get started on how The Gore's threaten to destroy Earth (my only political view that I've ever cared enough about to discuss in public).

So I will start.  If you blow Pepsi out your nose when you see some of the songs, well, that's your own fault:

Van Halen (the real VH) - Ice Cream Man
Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated (Jared Leto had a great version too & he's way hotter!)
Pretty Much Anybody - O Holy Night
Flake - Hanniken the Manniqen
Keely Zoo - Tebo Creek
Ricky Springfield - Jesse's Girl (although Nick always sang it better)
Phil Collins - Separate Lives
Megadeth - Hook in Mouth (I've actually written term papers about this song!)
Kenny Rogers - Love the World Away
a-ha - Take on Me
Eminem - Till I Collapse
John Lennon - Imagine
Godley & Cream - Cry (The video makes the song)
Lovehammers - Trees
Radiohead - Creep
The Glove & Ice T - Reckless (if you have an mp3 of this song I will prolly do about anything you want in trade - & if you think I'm joking about the anything part...try me.)
Weezer - Say it Ain't So (the whole Blue Album, actually)
Unknown Stuntman - Porno Attractive (The newest edition to my list --- go to their page on MySpace right fucking now & listen)
Barclay Martin - Ben Harper's Two Hands (He should pay you to record this Barclay, because you put him to shame with your version)
Eminem - Till I Collapse

OK, I have to stop.  Maybe next time we'll list the songs that if we hear them one more freakin' time we're going to take hostages and prolly kill half of them before being taken out by a sniper.  Yeah, Tears for Fears, I'm talking to you.

Word to your mutha...