Here. Let them do all the work.
I mean, they’ve got guitars and stuff, so it’s really only fair.
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Okay. So it doesn’t line up exactly. But it has been running through my head all morning.
Would that be the “Ain’t gonna be the first time this ol’ cowboy’s spent the night alone” line?
Always happy to help.
Flight of the Phoenix
Sadly, the audio kinda sucks, but this puppy might fit pretty well too.
Lonesome Hound
I Shall Return
Added that to my iPod, Pablo.
That too, SW.
Had grand funk already. Otherwise, aces.
Here’s another.
This Old Cowboy got me through a very low point in my life, one of my all-time favorites.
I was hearing a Wham song in my head while reading this.
The harmonies by Andrew Ridgely were to die for.
Jeff,
The sun is over the yardarm, so I’ll hoist a glass to you. Vaya con dios, amigo.
No words.
Don’t know how to link it direct, but try Geronimo here http://www.myspace.com/gibson330 I think it will work with your current frame of mind, Jeff.
How about something to help the feet up, relaxed side of this? Still good after all these decades
Love that song! Thanks for that, Jeff. It’s been years since I heard it. Used to listen to that particular number heading to the North Platte outside Laramie to catch some trout. As soon as we left the pavement, the smoke was lit, and that song was always played at least once. Good times!
Here’s one of myown.
Lets try this again. If it doesn’t work this time I give up.
I dunno — I’ve been hearing the Hampsterdance tune in my head for the last six years.
Soul City.
I’ve been hearing the Hampsterdance tune in my head for the last six years.
I would be gargling lead.
Here’s One.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJlhkhHfjuA&feature=related
Sorry, can’t make decent linky w/ Explorer.
Sdferr,
I thought the scooter/mod thing was one subculture that hadn’t transplanted. Don’t tell me there are hordes of stripey-blazered Lambretta riders in pointy shoes and stay pressed strides buzzing around suburban USA.
All part of the flatlander’s plan, SW, but they’re quiet about it you know. (Rumor has it they’re behind the rise in gas prices.)
Man, it’s been a long time since I commented here, and I see I missed a blog drama (thankfully). So is it going to be another year before Jeff is writing here regularly or what? ;)
Also, in other news, The Silky Pony has admitted to boinking the secretary while Elizabeth “was in remission”.
Is that Amanda chick still around??? (grin)
Rumor has it they’re behind the rise in gas prices.
Then kill them all, and let the Lord look after his own.
Cool. I can gargle backup harmony.
The North Platte is outside Laramie? Musta been good shit..
I am a Lifetime Member of the NRA, but this shit right here is still funny
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=0npOg8TvJuE&feature=related
It’s outside Laramie in much the same way that the Indian Ocean is outside my living room. It’s not in my living room, ergo…
After John Edwards recent admission… I demand bunnies!!
Now hop to it!
(sorry just a bit of nostalgia on my part)
Novella?
Why not a novel? A real, bona fide novel?
I’ll buy the son of a bitch, you can bet your ass on that.
You give me the word, and I’ll sell 847 copies of them too.
Jeff, reread the Fennimore Cooper bit at
http://ww3.telerama.com/~joseph/cooper/cooper.html
You’re too good at writin’ and observin’ to be a blogger Jeff.
Thanks for doing what you must.
We all took you for granted.
These guys totally lose me with the flute.
It’s like Chicago. I want to like Chicago, I really do. But it’s just so… soft.
Comment by Aesclepius on 8/8 @ 5:45 pm #
These guys totally lose me with the flute.
It’s like Chicago. I want to like Chicago, I really do. But it’s just so… soft.
Jethro Tull!
There were no dancing army dillows in that video!
There aren’t any in this one either, but what the heck:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs4y5si8DGs
I hear tell there’s an armadillo that wants to dance.
#30 B Moe
That shit right there is the perfect anthem for the bitter and clingy.
Hallelujah!
Hi, Jeff.
First you post about music, which makes ne feel old enough (my son said the other day: “No, dad. I don’t hate music. I just hate your music), and then it had to be that song!
Great song, but speaking of old cowboys…
I am one way old cowboy, and every time I play out, I am reminded that I am older than most of the audience’s fathers.
How the Hell did this happen? Wasn’t I twenty five about a year ago?
Yeah, I always wanted to like Chicago too,. But as soon as I heard: “As I was walking through the park one day…”, I hated them – forever.
Those are absolutely the stupidest lyrics I have ever heard in my life.
Here’s another Cowboy Song
What? Am I that old that no one else remembers this?
Which is very PW flavored (especially the bit of keeping time by slapping a fish against a rock)
Huh,
where the cunt is my decoder ring…
oh crap, where did my link go?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5qcDOAwgtQ
[wanders to the kitchen to check liquor cabinet]
Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, “If I were a Carpenter”
http://tinyurl.com/6xdvkw
I have no idea why I like this so much.
Joseph Spence: Good Morning Mr. Walker
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NORVG9cVyFA
The Obama Campaign in a nutshell:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ5SVDYBNrY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSLa08J6rv4&feature=related
Musically speaking.
“Here’s another Cowboy Song”
I’m sure it’s great, but my beautiful civil war era computer has started to st – st- st- stutter on Youtube. It’s hard to put everything together when the words are unintelligible, and seperated by two seconds per word.
My bad. Never marry a lunatic is all I can say about that. And if you do, threaten her with bodily harm if she takes the new (and costly) Dell.
Bait. That’s what those “things” are!
I’m also having a problem trying to figure out if my landlord is really drunk (and he is a pro), or if there is a thunderstorm approaching.
There is a big difference between the two, I have to say.
Well if it isn’t the old internet 3 year itch syndrome.If it matters any to you Jeff, I have turned a few “liberals” onto you. Apparently they lurk. It is a shame you are getting hosed like this.
Next time let it be a lesson that co-ops are impossible on the internets because there aint no money to be made voicing your wisdom on it.
Late here but that previous posting and the long thread made me pull up Closing Time to listen to before sleep hits.
Whatever the future brings PW has left a mark on my soul. That’s good isn’t it?
KARL! OT. Pretty much…
Well, since I have the F’lng MicroSoft browser, I can’t put a comment on the last post. So this is OT for this post, because I can’t reach the “send” button on the other one
Karl… You are amazing, and I can’t believe that you would let that little shithead thor get to you. He is obviosly a leftard who has no clue about the reality of where America has been, and where the true meaning of freedom comes from.
It couldn’t be from those idiot, racist assholes who wrote the Constitution, could it? We are fighting a losing battle, I think, but that doesn’t mean I will ever give up. I hope you don’t either.
You are too valuable to a shrinking number of people who actually remember what America has done for millions and millions and millions of people. REAL people! I don’t want to say it, but people like thor are the stupidest assholes in this country, and their roots lie with Mao, Stalin, and Pol Pot. They are just way too stupid to see it.
thor has no fucking idea of what we have done as a country, and has had his head filled with bullshit by the leftards since he was born. It’s not quite as bad as the hate the Middle Eastern people fill their children with, but it is along the same lines.
But people like thor (and there are obviously many of them) take no pride in this country or themselves. We are a pile of stinking turds to them. They are the people who should have been on the short bus. I cannot even find the words to express my disdain for people who are too self involved and stupid to even take the time to see what history says about what they wish for.
Well. I’m going down fighting, and I hope you do too.
Don’t give in to these assholes. It looks like we are losing, but fuck it.
I know the difference between right and wrong. So do you.
People like thor have no idea what that even means. “Right and wrong? What’s that?”
Fuck them.
I’m going down fighting, with a smile on my face, because I am lucky enough to have grown up in an America that wasn’t getting butt-fucked by progressives.
I would wear thor’s scorn as a badge of honor. I can’t believe that little pissant upsets you!
Your posts are always interesting, and your “cool” is way up there. As is your sense of humor (a “must” at PW, as far as I am concerned).
Fuck thor. He is of the “new millennium”, and honestly doesn’t know any better. He really doesn’t, and that’s what scares me the most.
He is a new millennium fucktard. It’s hard for me to accept, too, but we need to get used to it. These idiots have no ubderstanding of where America has come from, and truly believe that they have it “down”. Logical people are fucking shitheads! Logic has no place in this “brave new world”, to thor and his mouthbreathing ilk. I am becoming convinced that they don’t even know what the word “logic” means.
Morons. All of them.
thor should be allowed to stay here and make a fool of himself, and his insults to you show nothing more than the fact that you are hitting the right buttons. You are under his skin, and I doubt that anyone here does anything but shake their heads in disbelief when thor attacks you. His attacks on you make absolutely no sense (and am I right to think that thor is black[ish]? I don’t know, but it sure hits me that way).
There are many blacks (and whites, and Latinos, and “whoever’s) who will call anything racist if they want your efforts to be their gain. Sorta what I like to call the “Gimme” syndrome
Thicken up that skin. Everybody here knows who the real racist asshole is. And that name begins with a small “t”.
And it ain’t you! As far as I know, your name begins with a “K”.
Please don’t let a mindless slobberibg moron drive you crazy, or away from PW.
We have to stand up to these demented assholes. We have been running away from them for too long.
Whatever. I always emjoy your stuff, for whatever that is worth…
ROA —
I just got told off by some guy for “vanquishing” my guest bloggers. This is like a bureaucracy, I guess. Once you take someone in, they get to stay forever, or else you’re a fucking asshole for having invited them in the first place.
Personally, my real goal is to let the site die. But on MY terms.
Shhhh. Don’t tell anyone.
“What? Am I that old that no one else remembers this?
Which is very PW flavored (especially the bit of keeping time by slapping a fish against a rock”
Phew!!!!
Being middle aged crazy at 60, for a moment there, I thought that you said “…slapping a fish against my cock”. But then I realized that you most likely don’t have one of those things. And I don’t mean the fish.
Oh well. I guess Jeff has taken his toll on me! That “cock slapping ” stuff has accelerated my dementia.
Know what I mean?
I love this place!
Oh yeah,free help ego train bullshit. The first year is fun, the second a slow death march and by the third year the fangs come out.
I think that since the whole organizational part of it is still relatively new that the like kinds will rise with their road, but until then – these sort of adventures are doomed to failure.
Can you imagine for a second if you were “allowed” to make observations on Russia right now instead of wounded egos?
Have I been vanquished? I did not know that. Get back to me when that happens so I can take note of it. Or not. Either way it’s all good.
They have no effing clue, do they? We stopped because Jeff said stop. We’re cool that way. At least, I want to think I’m cool that way, and I want to think the other guests are cool that way. No hammer came down, or whatever thing someone might think happened happened.
Me? Been drinking a good portion of the night. Not saying it’s right or wrong, just that it is what it is.
Terrible sentence brought to you by Budweiser Clamato CHELADA’S!
“I think that since the whole organizational part of it is still relatively new that the like kinds will rise with their road, but until then – these sort of adventures are doomed to failure.”
My apologies, but you get it.
This is the listen, God Bless the youngin’s, they may love idiots but they know their ears:
http://www.myspace.com/spceco
Hey, Jeff.
Please don’t let this place die.
It may be a pain in the butt to you, but it is an oasis in the desert for the rest of us.
If I didn’t have an insane wife who thinks I am the magic ATM (I also have a son involved, so it ain’t simple), I would try to buy this site. It’s just out of the question right now. (Unfortunately)
I know you are burnt, but this place means a lot to a lot of people (look at your “hits”).
If you truly can’t take it anymore, please don’t just throw it in the dumpster.
I am more depressed than you could ever be, and this place is such a great “vent”. I guess that nobody here has ever noticed my mood swings, right? My comments portray me as the perfect person, don’t they?
I can’t decide whether I am bi-polar, or am afflicted with borderline personality disorder. And sometimes I think I might be just not dealing well with one insane child (who I am married to) who is the mother of my other child. The really neat one.
Please! Don’t let this place go down the drain. There is no place like this on the web.
This is the smartest, funniest, most stimulating blog I have ever seen.
Whatever happens, Jeff, I thank you a million times for the fun I have had here.
I hope someday to meet you, and thank you in person with a Guiness(?) – or three – or four. And maybe – just maybe – a half carafe of scotch.
Thanks, whatever.
TLD
“Comment by sinister trampoline on 8/9 @ 1:00 am #
Hey, Candy’s dog had to go. So did Lenny.”
Well, it’s about fuckin’ time!
Don’t make me go rain semicolons on your fight site. I’ll subclause that motherfucker out.
Well if all this drama was necessary to lead me to Gov’t Mule/Warren Haynes, I say well done. Well done indeed.
In the Soviet days word count was a measure of production. Are you a member of the Union of Poets? Then who said you could be a poet?
If beauty can’t save the world, maybe fawning over me could, eh. Exalting thusly is the only thing that won’t change when there’s nothing else between your ears.
Well if all this drama was necessary to lead me to Gov’t Mule/Warren Haynes, I say well done. Well done indeed.
Now there’s another one that knows.
Boy, those Chinese sure put the Nazis to shame last night, innit?
Don’t know, as I didn’t watch, BB. Was it entertaining on a spectacle level, at least?
I watched Hellboy II in a crowded urban theatre, myself. Sorta eh, IMHO.
“Was it entertaining on a spectacle level, at least?”
Oh, man. Yes. You missed a fucking show. Think about the North Korean mass games, except more high-concept and slightly less creepy but much more intimidating. Sarkozy was drunk, Rudd (or someone else?) was accompanied by some jolly fat woman who was even drunker, Bush looked like he would have preferred to be somewhere else, which is odd because the family has long loved them some China, and the commentators were like something out of “Best In Show.” Meanwhile, someone had the bright idea of dressing up the U.S. team like they were on their way to a boat party in the Hamptons, which actually may have scared some of the other countries, which, of course, is the point of all this anyway.
Towards the end, you really get the feeling, “Oh, fuck, there are a lot of these people and they’re the most competent adversaries we’ve had since the Germans.” But then, when the Chinese roll out their giant squadron, they’re led by that very tall Chinese basketball player – who himself is being led by a cute little victim of the recent earthquake – and you think, “Ah. They’re just as scared of their own people as we ought to be of them. They’re politicking.”
But then they pull off this Triumph-o-the-Will stunt towards the end, followed by the greatest fireworks display since Dresden, and you wonder, “Are we working on some sort of nano weapons, just in case?” We’d better be.
“I watched Hellboy II in a crowded urban theatre, myself. Sorta eh, IMHO.”
What’d you expect? They even fucked up Batman.
Well, jeez.
I did see/hear, distractedly, a little of the pre-spectacle commentary from the talking news-heads. It seemed like a great pile of poo was coming out of the set kinda like that swampy girl from the movie what killed folks who saw her on MTV or whatever. But like poo. It really stunk that bad.
Matt Lauer and the rest were like, “boo hoo, earthquakes and stuff” and it sounded very like the Chinese told ’em not to get too political or anything. But who knows with those tools.
“Ah. They’re just as scared of their own people as we ought to be of them. They’re politicking.â€Â
I watched a bit of it with a friend who is in love with the place and he said the same thing, industrialization and privatization have started a ball rolling over there that the old powers have realized they can’t stop, only slow a bit to make the transition easier. He saw many subtleties in the presentation aimed at the Chinese people, which is pretty amazing in itself if you think of it. Not many years ago at all I doubt the government would have given a good damn what their own people thought of such a thing.
“Not many years ago at all I doubt the government would have given a good damn what their own people thought of such a thing.”
Absolutely. The ball is rolling. It’s not rolling in the sort of romantic way we’d like, as the majority of the protests that have broken out aren’t exactly concerned with metaphysics so much as they are with waste treatment plants and industrial runoff, but, again, lots of great revolutions were fueled in part by mundane matters like taxation just as much as they were by representation.
And now, everyone’s got cell phones… with cameras on them. No fascist is safe from YouTube, as one of our local cops found out last week.
I really hope you’re right, B Moe.
I’ve met a lot of sifus and people from that diaspora and heard about some of the awful shit they went through to preserve their heritage and to get here. Major falls from grace in a lot of cases, all undeserved.
I’ll always be indebted to their sacrifice and generosity of soul for teaching me, a gweilo, the arts they risked so much for, and I hope they or their kids can go home again when/if they want to.
cranky-d
Vanguished? I just found that line on the other thread … I had already gone to bed last night (after a nice dinner date with hubby… prime rib – rare!, drinks … heaven)
I don’t feel ‘vanguished’ either. I’ve already put a new post in the Pub about Cindy Sheehan getting enough signatures to qualify to run against Nancy Pelosi this fall (only in San Francisco!!! Make some popcorn and watch those two crazy bitches go at it) and I’m going to work on more. What that and St. Amanda of Fornicatus, the Unhappy Feminist sputtering in Pastor Edwards defense, there’s a target rich enviroment out there.
and I’m still going to write about it!
I don’t remember leaving either of those comments. I’m sure I did, though.
It’s so awesome when Pablo brings the Beat Farmers. Especially when Buddy was young and feeling mean! Thanks man, I’ll spend the next two hours watching videos and mssing the Falcons game.