Songwriting redux ad nauseum
Last night saw another bout of song-writing frenzy from two of the main members of the band. It is possible one other was writing lyrics as well, but that would be over the Atlantic somewhere, as she was flying off to Oz until the end of the month.
The reason song-writing happened last night instead of tomorrow is that a few of our number are doing things for the annual Halmark/Interflora-profit-day. As we are not a death metal band, that was an acceptable reason for postponing the weekly band get-together. Little did Perry know that his kitchen table would be the scene of such creative activity. Of course, the downside for Perry was that his wine supply was in danger of disappearing.
There may, in fact, be some interesting developments in our efforts to get a deal. It will be, as is the nature of the band, not the normal way of doing it. Incidentally, a well-known and well respected musician/blogger had this to say about my lyrics.
I thought they were cool as hell – funny, with the just right mix of tongue-in-cheekiness and seriousness to them. You’re a far better lyricist than I.
The band members were rather chuffed to hear such kind words from a veteran rock & roller. In fact, his kind words have inspired at least one reluctant lyricist to produce. I am, truth be told, avoiding the chore of typing in the lyrics from last night. Tom is a rather clever chap, but his hand-writing is appalling…it is doctor-level bad.
Alas our songwriting contest has not been successful, and we have only one entry as of yet. That entry is from our own J. Pearce.
Not having learnt my lesson from the songwriting contest, I propose another one. The band’s current moniker, Growing Old Disgracefully, could be seen by some as rather ponderous, nay pretentious. (Never mind being a bugger to get on band merchandise.) Alas, we have not been able to come up with a better option. So I would like you lot to give it a shot. If the band uses the name, whoever suggests it will recieve credit on the album and a free copy of our first CD. I will post any suggestions that come in…if there are enough of them we will have a poll.
Update: We could always let Jack Black do it for us with his band name generator.
11 commentsSex party descrimination
Just in case you didn’t think athletes and their coaches think they’re special, there is a telling story from Colorado. It seems a former coach thinks the U of Colorado will not attract the right caliber of players if they don’t have sex parties for them.
Well, I have to tell you that my performance academically was greatly improved when I was getting my leg over. I would bet that every other non-athlete, male or female, could say the same thing. Why shouldn’t all students have access to these parties? Surely all students should be striving to do the best as they possibly can.
Well, maybe these parties might prevent neanderthal football players from going out and raping young women as they are wont to do.
Comments are off for this postRandom musings…on a homohass
Lame excuse:
___, I am sorry I was pain in the ass last night, but I had a bad day and then had to see Andrew Ian Dodge.
He is not the first to invoke the “Dodge defence” for misbehaviour. In fact, over my life, this defence has been used for everything from fights to unintended shags to a nasty hang-over. What makes this person so amusing is how the cretin continued.
This bloke, who is a member of a well-known and very old Masschusetts family, (no, not the Marshes) bleats on to whomever will listen that I am gay. He refuses to have anything to do with me because of it. The irony, of course, is that this man is the campiest thing outside of the Heaven nightclub. Two gay men (both out) who have met the guy were sure he was one of them (ie, via gaydar). Besides being such a total tosser and a homohass, this bloke is the living imbodiement of the “priviledged American” abroad. You know the sort that makes the cunning linguist in you want to lose your US accent p.d.q.
All I can say is that I wish the noxious little oik the luck of the 13th!
5 commentsBen on Valentine’s Day
It’s long, cynical, and rather amusing.
Comments are off for this postRise of the (shopping) machines
Today, I had the pleasure of using a self-serve check-out at the local Sainsbury’s. It was jolly good fun, and I did not crash the bloody thing. (I can crash mobile phones with great ease. I can even crash laptops without even touching them.) There is one tiny flaw, however. You cannot scan booze without a cashier to approve you. Anyway, I enjoyed using it and plan to do so again very soon.
1 commentBlogcritics is TWO !!
And with any luck, in my guise as Marty, we can make sure it has a ‘terrible twos’ kinda year (a terribly good one, that is). Why don’t you head over and wish Eric and Co good luck?
Comments are off for this postDrugs summit tries to find solutions
“Today, heroin and other high-profile drugs are a big problem for cities and towns. ‘The war on drugs is an abject and dismal failure,’ said Jack Cole, executive director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. In Cole’s 26-year profession as a state trooper in New Jersey, he has seen the changing drug scene first hand. In 1970, his first year on the job, it cost $6 for a single hit of heroin and ‘hard drugs were almost unheard of’ at the time. By 1980, however, it cost just $3.90 for a hit, and the purity of the drug had doubled. In 1999, the cost plummeted to just 80 cents and the purity level rose to 38 percent. Cole said alternative policies must be pursued when it comes to the war on drugs, regarding regulation and control that can ‘save lives’ by educating the public earlier.” (02/12/04)
I wonder if anyone at these forums will have the guts to suggest that we legalise all drugs? It’s time to face facts that the war on drugs is a total failure. After al, it is easier and cheaper to get drugs these days than it was at the beginning of this disasterous program. It’s time to return to opium dens and legalised drugs. Legalise them, tax them, and let people makes choices for themselves without making the drug lords rich. Link found via Rational Review.
Read more Comments are off for this postJanet Jackson naked row moves to Capitol Hill
“Janet Jackson’s Super Bowl exposure was ‘a new low for prime- time television,’ the government’s chief broadcast regulator told lawmakers Wednesday. The Super Bowl halftime show featured a duet by Jackson and Justin Timberlake that ended with Timberlake tearing off part of Jackson’s top and exposing her right breast to 90 million TV viewers.” (02/11/04)
This comes via Rational Review. I would have to say this entire row marks a new low for daftness in US culture. Guess none of these people who are bleating so much have seen MTV or VH1 lately.
1 commentWhen will suicide bombs stop?
