LYRICS PLAYLIST THING!
(sort of)

Wicked Little Town" -- Tommy Gnosis
"There's no mystical design, no cosmic lover preassigned

Stumpside -Rasputina
"Just ask for nothing, you get what you get. I asked for something; I've not got it yet."

Medication -- Modest Mouse
"So you go to the library to get yourself a book and you look and you look but you didn't find anything to read."

Count Olaf -- Gothic Archies
"Run run run run run run or Die die die die die die die."

Free Money -- Patti Smith
"Scoop the pearls up from the sea, cash them in and buy you everything you need."

Going to Georgia - The Mountain Goats
"The most remarkable thing about you standing in the doorway is that it's you and that you're standing in the doorway."

Me and My Charms -- Kristin Hersh
"And when the lights go out I pick the angel of I only have two left feet."

(get ready for a lot of Bikini Kill)

Bloody Icecream -- Bikini Kill
"I've got another good one for you. We are turning cursive letters into knives."

For Tammy Rae -- Bikini Kill
"I know it's cold outside, but when we're together, I got nothing to hide."

Rest in Pissedoffedness -- Bikinin Kill
"Don't tell me it don't matter, don't tell me it don't matter, don't tell me I've had three days to get over it. It won't go away."

Peach Plum Pear -- Joanna Newsome
"This is unlike the story it was written to be."

We laugh at danger(and break all the rules) -- Against Me!
The Wholse Damn Song!

It was a birthday gift
of a Mexican Telecaster
And from this day on I will play along
to all my young pioneers records
And there will be a poetry spoken silently between me and the stereo
I'll work mornings
and you can work through the night
Mary, there is no hope for us
If this GM van don't make it
across the state line
we might as well lay down and die
Because if Florida takes us
we're taking everyone down with us
Where we're coming from
will be the death us
And I cannot help but hold on
to a handful of times
when what was spoken
was a revolution in itself,
and what we were doing
was the only thing that mattered
And how good it felt
to kill the memory of nights spent
holding your shirt for the smell
I heard you used to cry
when you made love to him
but this band will play on
Because all we can do is what we've always done.
And on and on and on





posted by Barnacle |
 

in my ear: for tammy rae, bikini kill, and soon it will probably be we laugh at danger(and break all the rules) by against me!

It's extremely common knowledge that I don't blog anymore but I've done things worth telling my friends about, but without a prepared speecyh, my tongue could get tied --into a pretty bow, but tied nonetheless! So you all know what happened the first week of hoiday break because it happened to all of us. Granted, we may all have different versions of our experiences ranging from the ecstatic to the tragic, but I'm still skipping that part and heading to the turning point. This was driving to Mississippi. I slept the whole way. ("Fascinating!" said the hushed voices.)Upon our arrival, two grandparents, that will in the future be referred to as Granny and Grandaddy, stodd framed in the door way.
Interesting facts: Grandaddy plays the "mouth organ," and I got a "mouthn organ" for Christmas. I can hardly ever understand a word he says for his is a language of quiet roughness, but he hardly speaks. Granny, however, speaks all the time. She thinks June looks like a cat.
When we had finished unloading the vehicle and were only just catching out breaths, Granny pulled down her encyclopedia to show us that it said that cairn terriers have unique features that make them look like cats. Mom got sick --the flu, maybe-- and substituted her secret cup of port for niquil or something. There was no James Bond marathon, but one channel was showing "A Christmas Story" nonstop, which we watch every year by mistake. We avoided it this year, and watched a Frank Capra marathon, or at least I did. Everyone was in bed by the time it ended.
Then we had Christmas. We gave Granny and Grandaddy robes which I think they liked. I got a hat, a sweater, and a t shirt with the tootize roll pop owl from the old commercials. (Mr. Owl, how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootzi roll pop?) Granny told me I lost weight, and that I used to be kind of chubby, and was also really surprised Alanna's size small clothes fit, even though Alanna always gets size small. Hey, she's the one that feeds me bacon, whipcream, and petrified cheerios. This lady wanted me to take a picture of th centerpiece at dinner, but due to a full memory card, it's been deleted.
Then we drove to Georgia to have Christmas with them. On the way, I got a little sleep and listened to Margeret Cho's book on tape to discover her life is much sadder than I'd thought, which is saying something. Alanna and I tried to watch It's Been a Hard Day's Night on her new laptop --yes, she had a new laptop-- but it ran out of battery. I love Ringo.

Will continue later. Don't want to make you stay here.





posted by Barnacle |