"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Jul 31st, 2006
Why is it, when you'd like to make a good impression regarding something, everything that can possibly foul it up goes wrong? You invite a new friend over to your house, and your cat barfs in her handbag, or you start a new job, and find out that you'd sat on gum at the bus […]
Posted in huffy, Imports from old blogs on Jul 30th, 2006
15 years ago, I was a 13-year-old (almost 14-year-old) kid who’d been saving up birthday money, babysitting money, and any other cash that came my way because I wanted a new bicycle, by golly. I’d been alternating between riding an outgrown stingray-knockoff (20-inch wheels) and an oversized Schwinn Continental, neither of which was a satisfactory […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Jul 22nd, 2006
David Bowie performing with NIN, “Hurt”. Creepy, depressing, yet strangely erotic, I think.
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 […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Jul 20th, 2006
More butt-shaking reggaeton goodness right here Daddy Yankee, “Rompe”
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.
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”