Back to the grind. It was a slow weekend. Did some yard work – overseeded and fertilized the cornhole pitch in preparation for the coming season – and changed the oil in my car, because driving is good.
I was going to tell you about something new but the Internets has been down most of the morning due to the spring storms that keep rolling through so fact checking has not been easy (yes, I fact check, sometimes). As a result, I’ve just been listening to Ben Harper’s Two Sides of a Gun and trying to stay awake.
I’ve never listened to much Harper. All the hippies I knew really used to like him and I never wanted to have much in common with hippies. Speaking of hippies, there was a funny scene in The Simpsons last night, which is surprising considering how far that show has fallen since Al Jean took over as executive producer. Anyway, Grandpa Simpson wants to commit assisted suicide so they hook him up to a death machine in the shape of a poorly thought out cultural reference. When asked what he would like to see and hear while he dies, Grandpa asks for cops beating up hippies to the sounds of the Glenn Miller Orchestra. I was mildly amused. I then realized that everyone takes shots at hippies because it’s easy and more then likely, there are probably too stoned to understand that most of ‘Merica wants them dead.
When ‘Merica does begin the genocidal cultural cleansing that we all know is coming, I hope that they don’t lump Ben Harper in with the hippies. He is really talented and not as jam-bandy as I remember. The double disc Both Sides of a Gun is split between well-orchestrated acoustic blues-folk ballads and funky rock and roll jams. He goes from sounding a bit Bob Dylan-ish to straight up ripping off the Rolling Stones (the good 1960s/early 70s Stones).
So that’s what I have for Monday. That and I have to keep telling myself, "four more days." Four more days. Four more days. Fore moor days. Four more days. Four. More. Days.
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Stuff to Sample: From Ben Harper’s Both Sides of a Gun “Get It Like You Like It†and the Glenn Miller Orchestra's "In the Mood"
I know this is a little off topic but did you hear about the Simpsons movie coming out. Don’t get me wrong I love the Simpsons, but that showed jumped the shark a long time ago. Hollywood is completely out of fresh ideas; Hollywood has now jumped the shark as a hole.http://www.jumptheshark.com
yeah, I heard. It comes out on my birthday next year. How disappointing.
Get. A. Copy. Editor.
What? Crawled? Up? Your? Hairy? Ass?
I know it's full of mistakes and run-on sentences. I wrote it. Doesn't mean I care.
haha...jumping the shark. I heard that reference for the first time today on Glenn Beck.
O-yeah...'Soylent Green is made out of Humans.'