Sincere Thingz

 

  Fun show last Saturday!! Thanks to everyone who came out!  

       And thanks to the OC Weekly for the kind words! 

"A man is real, not made of steel."

RIP Robert Casale, Jr. (BOB 2)

1952-2014

170

See what your IQ is here!

And if anyone can tell me what the missing letter is that fits in BOTH boxes (question 19, if it's the same test), please share in comments...

(I marked, 'I don't know' hoping I'd get points for being smart enough to admit that I don't know everything!)
 ;)

SALUD!

Thank you, Maker's Mark, for fighting cancer and my sobriety at the same time!

Read about more health benefits of drinking whiskey here.

"This is our concern, Dude."

 

RIP PSH

The GIFYS!!!

BEHOLD!!

Praise the Lorde!

On related note, I was very pleased to see that Lorde won a couple Grammys. 

She seems like the real deal...  Let's just hope she doesn't pull a Fiona... 

My favorite quote from her so far is:  "Make so much music you have no friends."

Amen.

If the show fits...

Watching parts of the Grammys the other night, I couldn't help but be reminded of this DEVO quote from General Boy:

"Artists and performers are usually good looking guys and girls who couldn't hold a real job. Seeing the world through twisted eyes leads them to "create." Through songs and the like they gain public attention. This does nothing to increase the general welfare of society, but instead it lines the pockets of spiritless sub-humans who should know better but don't. Entertainment is a cancer that we must eradicate. "Art" is sometimes the excuse by which these people perpetuate their cruel and selfish hoax. I ask you to join DEVO's efforts to correct this situation from the inside out. All of you must realize that a few are shepherds but the rest are sheep. It is every citizen's duty to be constantly alert."

HNY!!

2014!!!

Takahiro Iwasaki

Wow!  Take a look at these beautifully crafted, tiny sculptures by Takahiro Iwasaki!  The rest are here.  Enjoy!

Renaissance (of Gentle) Men

I saw these "Rules for Being a Gentleman in 2014" on FB and thought I'd share...

What do you think?  Would you add any?  Take any away?

What if a man wrote "Rules for Being a Lady?"

How about just rules for being human?

"Saturn was NOT a Single Lady"

These have been making the rounds on the internets lately, and as a teacher I found them highly entertaining.

My favorite teacher response is the title of this post...

My favorite student response is, "If I had one hour to live, I'd spend it in this class because it feels like an eternity."

LOL!

Sir Duke

"I am an optimist from where I sit, music is mostly all right, or at least in a healthy state for the future, in spite of the fact that it may sound as though it is being held hostage." -- Duke Ellington

Texas Tea-Pain

Did you know that the pitch-correction program known as Auto-Tune was created by an oil engineer working for Exxon?

Yes, it's true... the "music" of T-Pain (I can only assume that the 'T' is short for 'terrible,' as in the Terrible Pain he causes listeners unfortunate enough to be exposed to his "singing.") is just another glorious byproduct of the American Petroleum Industry!

You know, like catastrophic climate change?  ;)

Don't believe me?  Click here and read the article yourself! (Don't forget to treat yourself to the hilarious video at the bottom of the page with Weird Al explaining the cultural implications of the Auto-Tune phenomenon!)

HE'S BACK!

MAMBA TIME!!

"John the Baptist of the Psychedelic Era"

Interesting interview with R. Crumb talking about his love of old timey music...

Seemed apropos after the previous Bottled Spirits post...

Enjoy it responsibly, here.

The Bottled Spirits Debut!

I surprised my dad for his 75th birthday celebration last Saturday by having my new band, The Bottled Spirits, play a few songs at his party.  Here's our opening number...  enjoy!

"There is no humor in heaven"

Samuel Clemens, American literary treasure and original old man Muppet in the balcony, was born yesterday in 1835.  In honor of his birthday, here are 25 snarky quotes from the master... enjoy!

A few of my favorites:

“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.” — Notebook (1887)

“It is just like man’s vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.” — What is Man?

“Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.” — Following the Equator

HAPPY T-DAY!!

Circular Firing Squad

Thanks for the reminder, Kevin Drum!

Drum (11/13/13):  ...anyone over the age of 40 knows that Clinton lived through an eruption of right-wing rage that was every bit as bad as what Obama has gone through. Even the specific obsessions of the wingers weren't even very different. Health care socialism? Check. Economy-killing taxes? Check. Gay rights destroying America as we know it? Check. Supposed juvenile drug use? Check. Endless faux scandals and corruption? Check. Government shutdown? Check. Deficit hysteria? Check. Ball-busting wife? Check. The similarities, frankly, are pretty stunning."

And yet how often do we liberals say it's worse this time because the President is black?

How often do we write off the Tea Partiers as racists?

And how is that helpful exactly?

Not only is it poisonous to civil dialogue, it seems naive when we need only look back at how the last Democratic administration was treated...  (Clinton murder conspiracies?  Check.) 

Of course racism is still extant in our body politic -- race has played a prominent and punishing role in our country since its inception  -- and elites have used it to divide us down through the annals of history, so...

given this bloody past, shouldn't we treat racial matters with care?

Does it really serve progressive interests to label millions of Americans racists so, uh, liberally?

Because when we assume to know the hearts of millions of fellow citizens and cavalierly (if not claravoyantly) call them racists, we serve the plutocratic desire to divide and conquer.

99% are easy to beat when we're all in a circular firing squad!