Love isn't brains, children, it's blood, blood screaming inside you to work its will.

Spike ,'Sleeper'


Natter 48 Contiguous States of Denial  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


sarameg - Dec 16, 2006 5:23:55 pm PST #6719 of 10007

Fortitude.

Allyson, suggest to you SIL that when he gets in his debate phase, that you become the grand arbitrator. As in, when they get into the argument cycle, they call you to break it. I totally love getting phone calls from the neph demanding I settle a debate over whether he can eat canned carrots (yuk!) for dinner or whether the yellow power ranger kills ants. Plus, it get me "OKBYE ILOVEYOU." which ...just... melt.


sarameg - Dec 16, 2006 5:42:14 pm PST #6720 of 10007

I just heard a version of "Oops, I did it again" that was..interesting. Richard Thompson. Not pop, at all.


DavidS - Dec 16, 2006 5:51:10 pm PST #6721 of 10007
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I just heard a version of "Oops, I did it again" that was..interesting. Richard Thompson. Not pop, at all.

And really perfectly in keeping with his ouevre which includes such lyrics as "I feel so good tonight / I want to break somebody's heart."


sarameg - Dec 16, 2006 6:05:01 pm PST #6722 of 10007

I don't know him from anywhere but my local public radio saturday night.

OK, I've just affirmed to myself I am the most neurotic travel-person ever. I swear, I'm turning into my Aunt Mary, and that's not good. I just want everything clear, you know? And that makes me insane. I think it must have to do with my lack of cellphone. Back in the pre-cell days, my plans and alternate strategies made sense. Now that everyone but me has cells, it comes across as insane. Mmrph.


DavidS - Dec 16, 2006 6:08:27 pm PST #6723 of 10007
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I don't know him from anywhere but my local public radio saturday night.

Well, he's got quite the cult following as both a songwriter and a guitarist. He's written many dark and beautiful songs and he plays like nobody else - tart and economical or genuinely majestic.


sarameg - Dec 16, 2006 6:12:42 pm PST #6724 of 10007

Interesting. Basically my music exposure comes from Sat. night at 88.1 (wypr) and then in the car, the local towson music public radio station, 89.7 (wtmd) which makes me happy even if it earworms me with that damned thank you changing lanes song. Which I'm still irked about.


Laga - Dec 16, 2006 6:18:32 pm PST #6725 of 10007
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

Help! Does anyone know where one could find a decent bodhran that is authentic to late period (for my sister who's in the SCA) in the Los Angeles area? The place we ordered from can't ship in time for Christmas!


Hayden - Dec 16, 2006 6:41:02 pm PST #6726 of 10007
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

Sarameg, you might even know a guy writing a book about Mr. Thompson who could possibly hook you up with a best-of mix.


Liese S. - Dec 16, 2006 7:00:49 pm PST #6727 of 10007
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Hee! Have we seen this Japanese Matrix Ping Pong? The SO passed along the link.


Ailleann - Dec 16, 2006 7:00:54 pm PST #6728 of 10007
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda

Now that everyone but me has cells, it comes across as insane.

This is me wrt getting a group of people in different cars from Place A to Place B. I like to get everyone to stand in one place for five seconds and hear the route so that we all know where we're going. But everyone always says, "Don't worry, we have cell phones!" Yeah, sure, but..... I just don't like getting lost.