1. Thanks to Ann Kellett for the Little Miss Sunshine and Flags of Our Fathers DVDs. I’m looking forward to both of them. My wife saw LMS on a flight a few months back and assures me I’ll like it. And if anybody’d know, she would.
2. All these years, I’ve been crediting Nazareth for “Love Hurts.” How foolish I feel. Is there nothing Gram Parsons didn’t have his fingers in? update: Including, evidently, the Everly Brothers’ song book. Boudleaux Bryant, eh? Well, then, double whammy!
3. John Kerry’s treatment of Ambassador nominee Sam Fox, who donated money to the Swift Boat Vets for Truth, is hardly surprising. Kerry, after all, bends the world around his own ego—so the fact that he went after Fox for something completely unrelated to the position for which the St Louis businessman was nominated is rather par for the course with Kerry. That aside, I highlight the story because I loved the opening lines. From the WSJ opinion page:
The country long ago moved beyond John Kerry’s Presidential ambitions, but the Senator, as he seems never to tire of reminding us, has not. Now Mr. Kerry’s throbbing grievances jeopardize President Bush’s nominee for U.S. Ambassador to Belgium.
”Throbbing grievances,” you can be sure, will be making an appearance here at some point. And I’ll probably try to take credit for it.
The rest of the story is for subscriber’s only. So sorry for the tease. (h/t Terry Hastings)
4. Speaking of Ed Asner, there’s a guy with a set of throbbing grievances, eh wot? See? Cake.
5. And speaking of throbbing grievances, this Corporal Sanchez story—for all certain Dems are salivating over how it might hurt Republicans by enraging their base—promises to bring back a cherished protein wisdom friend: THE GAY PORN COCK OF LIES!
6. You know, BECAUSE OF THE HYPOCRISY!
7. Reached for comment, former GAY PORN COCK OF LIES referent Jeff Gannon/Guckert noted of Corporal Sanchez: “Jesus, God, man! That’s quite a salami he’s carrying around in his goody bag! And by ‘salami,’ I mean, of course, ‘GIANT COCK’!”
8. Self-rising crust? Don’t believe the hype. Turns out you need to apply heat and time. Chalk another one up to the marketing charlatans.
9. And now for something serious. Two words: Buy a fucking gun. (h/t CJ Burch)
Wouldn’t that be another awesome name for a band?
I was hoping against hope. At least that vein hasn’t run dry.
Is that dirty?
“Tonight on Saturday Night Live, musical guests Corporal Sanchez and the Throbbing Grievances!”
Jeff, “Love Hurts” was recorded originally by the Everly Brothers. Although, the Emmylou version with Gram is pretty sweet.
The song, by the way, was written by Boudleaux Bryant
Even worse for me, otcconan.
j.d. – Have other veins run dry? Because I’m trying, I really am.
Got the gun. Where do I get the bumpersticker?
For some odd reason, all I could see in my mind’s eye was a scene from The Robe. You know, the one where the Roman Emperor kills a slave and then clutches Christ’s robe proclaiming “Rise!” at the dead slave. Then he get’s p.o.’d that the “magic” doesn’t work… I can just see Jeff, in a “Kiss the Cook” apron, waving an oven mitted hand at the offending crust, proclaiming, “Rise!”…
Heh.
Jeff: that was more of a dick joke (vein?) than a comment on your skills, which I’ve been following since the beginning.
Bit of a stretch, now that I read it back.
Thanks, j.d. You’re a stand up guy.
Re: #10. A guy with a bumpersticker like that already has the gun, you can bet on it. This is Georgia we’re talking about, remember.
Damn. I meant “Re: #9,” now that I look more closely.
Went off half-cocked, so to speak…..
I wouldn’t be surprised if the Sanchez thing blows up big time. The way I understand the gay agitators that I’m in touch with, Jeff Gannon was a bit of a Merry Prankster, almost forgiven for giving a black eye to both the administration and the Washington press corps. Matt Sanchez seems to have crossed some line that is hard to comprehend. All I can say is, sucks to be him. So to speak.
Don’t feel bad, Jeff, I knew the Everly’s first recorded it, but didn’t know they didn’t write it. I had to wiki it before I credited them with writing it, and that’s when I found out Bryant wrote it (he also wrote “Bye Bye, Love” for them).
Still, the Nazareth version is the best, and highest charting take on the song. And the coolest use of the ebow ever.
I’m in that greater metro area. Although I am southern born & bred, I’m really no more stereotypically southern than a hazelnut frappucino. Yet, I hope that whatever jihadist accosts that guy, the jihadist comes away with a new hole in his nose.
I think a word got misspelled there, but not to worry—I read it properly.
Evil Ed from Fright Night went on to be a gay porn star.
And I don’t think that hurt William Ragsdale’s career one bit.
So.
The kind that lets him sneeze backward?
Stephen Geoffreys
And my friends wonder why I keep coming back here to read comments…
The kind that lets him sneeze backward?
Sneeze his brains out, you might say.
I am not being very clear today – is the cold medicine I think – it’s Stephen Geoffreys, not William Ragsdale, who is rumored to have done porn.
1. No “Dirty Sanchez” references yet? Must I do everything myself?
2. Emmylou Harris survived Gram Parsons to duet with a buckskin-clad Elvis Costello.
3. Wikipedia has your list of covers, including the great Roy Orbison.
Too bad Gram Parsons didn’t survive Gram Parsons. Great songwriter. “Hickory Wind” is bad-ass.
Okay, but inquiring minds want to know: is it 8” CUT?
Too close to another band name.
Apparently not.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Jeff, hated Flags Of Our Fathers.
The scenes on Iwo are amazing, but damn, I’m sorry, transporting reactionary leftist, cheese-eating surrender monkey dialogue back to 1944 sucks great big donkey balls.
{Wailing speech by someone introducing the Marines to an adoring crowd}
[paraphrase]
“Oh my goodness the war has gone on soooooo long and people are tired of the war and the Japanese are such a wily enemy!!!!”
It’s bullshit, and it really pissed me off.
It must be the historian in me.
The book, btw, was mesmerizing.
Apparently, compared to Mr. Sanchez, we’re all “half-cocked”.
Yes, I know, speak for myself.
And Chris Sarandon became a prince in one of the greatest movies evar!
I’ve got the Elvis Costello/Emmylou version of the song, it’s good. But I hate Elvis Costello.
I just do, I think it’s because of the “enforced coolness” of Elvis Costello in the late 80’s and all of that “King of America” bullshit. The records looked cool in the stack and made me look hip but I thought the were unlistenable.
And none of the versions are as fascinating as the “Zoo Pals” commercial that managed to distract my two year old into running pantsless into the living room and pissing all over the floor while he danced around like Michelle Kwan on GHB.
Now I’ve got some spot-cleaning to do.
Later
1. I tend to hang with hardcore music snobs, so there really wasn’t an enforced coolness about EC in the late 80s; he was considered pretty mainstream.
2. But on a decidedly more uncool note, here’s an e-bow link.
LMS was a good movie. Very strange, but good. It reminded me of something that would be directed/produced by Wes Anderson’s evil, crack-addict twin, if he had one.