I agree on all counts. Happy Valentine's Day, ogged.
The ceremonial drinking has been postponed 'til tomorrow.
I love Jesus. He DJ'd my friend's birthday party and was pretty cool about us postdating the check.
2: Did he allow you to postdate it till after the Rapture?
Charlize never shares her but with me.
She doesn't share her butt either.
Yes, the hilarious hijinks of the mentally ill and people from Harvard.
I thought Adnan was drugging her, and that Sam Lufti had been on the outs for a little bit.
Instead of building houses, maybe you should be building land, Ogged. On the ocean.
6: Labs, you say that like "people from Harvard" and "the mentally ill" are two distinct groups.
And who are the people from Harvard in that post? Is there something I never knew about ogged?
Things I love right now:
This week is almost over
THREE DAY WEEKEND!
Holy Fuck and A Place To Bury Strangers are playing in a great, tiny venue on Sunday, and I have two tickets
Getting drunk with awesome friend tomorrow night
After Valentine's Day is over, all the stores will be full of Cadbury's creme eggs
The first time I had a Cadbury's creme egg, I was shocked. I had no idea that candy could be so fucking disgusting.
Conversation hearts are pretty bad too. Although this year I picked one out of the secretary's candy jar, and totally scored with one that reads: "ANGER". After the initial surprise and joy wore off, I looked more closely and saw that the "R" was of course a smeary "L". Still, I'm saving it.
So all of you are going to post about Valentine's Day? Looking forward to seeing apo elevate the discussion.
Charlize never shares her but with me.
Women frequently share their "buts" with me. It's much rarer to be allowed access to their butts.
11: The concession stand at Sally's school play had Spanish-language conversation hearts. They were great: "Llame me".
Holy Fuck and A Place To Bury Strangers are playing in a great, tiny venue on Sunday
This seems like a good place to mention that I saw one of the best shows of my life last night. I don't go to shows often; I try to make sure that the ones I go to will be good, and this was great.
I saw Michael Smith play without a mic, in a lovely little venue that seats about 80 people.
It was absolutely great. Chicago people, go see him when you get a chance.
10: the first photo in the post was taken in Harvard Square, I'm guessing at the Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year parade (although I'm too lazy to look up whether or not Theron was in fact ever WotY).
I'm guessing at the Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year parade (although I'm too lazy to look up whether or not Theron was in fact ever WotY).
Yes and yes.
Good call - this year she joined Rosalind Russell, Mamie Eisenhower and Bernadette Peters in that list of luminaries.
guy who was drugging her
Necessarily bad?
three day weekend
what holiday is Monday or is it Friday?
22: Washington's birthday.
For which federal employees always get a Friday off, whether or not that day happens to actually be Washington's birthday.
Some call it "Presidents' Day" because Lincoln's birthday was also in mid-February.
Er, not Friday, Monday. Shows you how long it's been since I got that day off.
Seems like hardly anyone except federal employees (and public school teachers) gets Presidents' day off. Federal courts are closed, but here at least state courts are open.
Also finance guys like PMP, apparently.
14 state holidays this year (one more than in a non-election year). This public employment thing is really harsh.
Stock exchanges are closed, so we get the day off. Eight holidays a year, including the two days off for Thankgiving (I believe markets actually open for a half-day on the Friday, but our company wisely says "screw that").
That's the thing I really love, semi-random winter holidays providing at least one three-day weekend each month.
Hmph. Just looked it up and I find that I have Monday off. You all are good for something.
25 - Some of us got last Tuesday off for Lincoln's birthday and will get Monday off for myWashington's birthday. Coming so soon after getting MLK day off, it starts to get a little ridiculous. (Oh, I will also get a personal holiday for my birthday, which I can when I choose.)
We have eight company holidays a year, and five of them take place during one 35-day stretch: two at Thanksgiving, two at Christmas, and then New Years. The other 330 days of the year just get the remaining three to split among themselves.
Holy Fuck and A Place To Bury Strangers are playing in a great, tiny venue on Sunday, and I have two tickets
A friend of mine once suggested that an all-time great band-name-alone lineup would be "Fuck/Holy Fuck/!!!". This may or may not be better than my previous ones of "Rodan/Versus/Gadzuki" or "Come/OK Go/The Gones".
Ah, but do you know the truth about Britney Spears?
"Rodan/Versus/Gadzuki"
This one is pretty hard to beat. Now I just want to come up with loads of these.
33: Wow. I had no idea that anyone got both Presidents and MLK. Our city - and I think most places - simply gave up Presidents' Day when MLK Day came along. I believe that conservatives complain about this, trying hard not to sound racist about it (and generally failing, of course).
Creme Eggs are lovely. You can even get Creme Egg bars now - like a Dairy Milk bar but each brick has a bit of that yummy filling in it.
Our city - and I think most places - simply gave up Presidents' Day when MLK Day came along.
Really? We have one day for Presidents' Day, plus MLK Day. I had thought this was standard most places.
This one is pretty hard to beat. Now I just want to come up with loads of these.
It would have been a pretty good show, too. (Gadzuki were a Pittsburgh math rock band around the same time as Hurl; I think they were based at Pitt.)
Rodan/Versus/Gadzuki
Sure, if you're going to include Versus, you can do anything.
Super Furry Animals/Versus/Killdozer
Earth/Versus/The Locust
Parliament/Versus/Fun Lovin' Criminals
Morphine/Versus/Placebo
Guess Who / Space Humpin' $19.99 / What?
A friend of mine once suggested that an all-time great band-name-alone lineup would be "Fuck/Holy Fuck/!!!".
I had a friend who heard on the radio that the F.U.s were playing a concert. He went to the concert and it turns out that it wasn't the F.U.'s (from boston) but was instead the Fuck Yous (from LA) whose name was shortened by the announcer for FCC reasons.
Oh wait, the band isn't called "What?", it's called "Why?".
Space Humpin $19.99!
I'm so glad that band lives on in infamy.
Cryptic Ned,
i don't know the difference between that two english editions of Kharms
have you read this site?
hope you'll enjoy
Gaye Bykers on Acid/KISS/The Dickies
if M/tch reads this thread I predict he'll be playing the "form funny phrases by combining the names of three bands" game for the next couple months.
Finally figured out the first band for this one!
Ohio Players / Love / Big Black / Can
The Exploited/Destroy/The Business
Integrity/Saves The Day/At the Drive-In
A bill that might very easily have existed, in 1997 or so, as I recall.
We Are Scientists / And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead / Editors
Wham!/The Police/Arrested Development
She Wants Revenge / Why? / Beats the Hell out of Me
We used to get (when I was in school) Lincoln's Birthday and Washington's birthday as separate holidays. I think that MLK day existed in Massachusetts before it became a national holiday, but I'm not sure.
49: A few years ago I noticed that a lot of bands had three-word names, usually of the form adjective-adjective-plural noun. (E.g., Super Furry Animals, Young Fresh Fellows, New Bomb Turks, etc.) I went on for *months* collecting names.
Fine Young Cannibals/Tribe 8/The Reverend Horton Heat
42: Morphine/Versus/Placebo? Surely this should be Heroin/Morphine/Placebo.
The Grateful Dead/Suck/Anal Solvent
Gay Witch Abortion/Bad Religion/Bad Plus
After Valentine's Day is over, all the stores will be full of Cadbury's creme mini eggs.
They're milk chocolate, but I swear they're so deliciously addictive I'm glad they're not available all year.
(I don't play on these obscure band name threads, but I'll send M/tch on over.)
They're milk chocolate, but I swear they're so deliciously addictive I'm glad they're not available all year.
Seconded. Those things have to be laced with something.
Heroin/Morphine/Placebo.
Heroin/Morphine/Codeine, don't you mean?
if M/tch reads this thread I predict he'll be playing the "form funny phrases by combining the names of three bands" game for the next couple months.
Sadly, I just don't have the time right now, and I really need to sleep tonight, so I'm not even going to start. Y'all have come up with some great ones though! minneapolitan in particular shows great promise in this important art form.
Morphine/Versus/Placebo? Surely this should be Heroin/Morphine/Placebo.
I was thinking more like a clinical trial.
I keep thinking of more and more of these.
Grizzly Bear / Come / Fucked Up / My Morning Jacket
A Band of Bees / Sting / A Band of Horses
Grizzly Bear/Versus/Twink
Tool/Saws/Appendix Out
But Grizzly Bear already includes a twink!
The band "Battles" is suddenly extremely useful.
Sun City Girls/Fuck/People
The Fucking Champs/Fuck the Facts/
Hand Fed Babies/Buried Inside/Two Separate Gorillas
Irepress/Foetus/Massacre [playing an anti-abortion rally, I guess]
[any grammatically plural group you don't like]/Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat
Must they all be sentences?
National Health/No Doctors/Experimental Dental School/Painkiller
Hand Fed Babies/Buried Inside/Two Separate Gorillas
Brilliant.
Sure, if w-lfs-n is going to bring in the world's most obscure bands. I consciously held back on using "I Farm" and "Your Mom".
Hey, is this a good thread for a music question? Yes, it is.
So, I finally saw the movie Once which was great, and now I want the music, but there are too many choices. Do I want:
a) the Once soundtrack
b) Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova's The Swell Season
c) The Frames' The Cost
Can anyone advise?
Music by the actual band The Frames is very bombastic and melodramatic. They really did sound just like Coldplay (without the electronic elements) several years before Coldplay existed.
Probably the soundtrack. But I don't know anything about the Swell Season.
People who have actually heard more than one of said albums should also weigh in.
mrh, IIRC there are also some sweet/silly interview excerpts with Glen and Marketa up on YouTube. Kind of fun if you like that sort of thing.
Adam Ant/Eve/Happy Apple/Whitesnake/The Fall
Bananarama/Chumbawamba/Bow Wow Wow
Buena Vista Social Club/Seal
Ground Zero/Tricky/Massive Attack
Hawkwind/Eek-A-Mouse
The Bloodhound Gang/The Pointer Sisters
The Mamas and the Papas/Wire/Cash
The Rolling Stones/Cold Crush Brothers
10,000 Maniacs / Love / Mr. President
Lightning Bolt/Michelle Schocked/Electric Wizard
Twisted Sister / Circle Jerks / New Kids on the Block
The President of the United State of America / Electro-Cute / Eagles of Death Metal
Bush / The Rapture / Young Republic / D.O.A.
stiff little fingers/boys entrance/the velvet underground
roger/wilco
boy sets fire/kiss the girl/the flaming lips
A day too late, but:
The Killers / The Knife / My Bloody Valentine
I remember, back when "The Astronaut's Wife" came out, I read an article by some ass complaining about the awful workload of being an Academy member at Oscar time. One was deluged, he wrote, simply deluged with "the most ludicrous proposals for Oscar nominations. Charlize Theron for Best Actress? Please."
A decade later, the joke's on him.
I read an article by some ass complaining about the awful workload of being an Academy member at Oscar time.
The actual solution to this is that most of them don't see most of the movies.
It's a shame I missed this game yesterday, so I'll keep adding them as they pop into my head:
the boy least likely to/touch/the new wet kojak
Yes/Ween/Can!
The Beat Farmers/Meat Puppets
Sneaker Pimps/Rush/Travelling Wilburys
Jesus & Mary Chain/Earth, Wind, and Fire
Foreigner / Styx / Nine-Inch Nails / N-Dubz / Korn / Hole
The Fabulous Thunderbirds / Massacre / A Flock of Seagulls
The band "Fuck Buttons" might be useful in this game.
Weather Report / 98 Degrees / Hot Hot Heat
Weather Report / Early November / Wet, Wet, Wet
Weather Report / Decembrists / The Boredoms
The Libertines / Finger Eleven / Dirty Pretty Things
Sisters of Mercy / Rise Against / The Faith Healers / Taking Back Sunday
The New Pornographers / Embrace / Super Furry Animals
The Flaming Lips/They Eat Their Own/Red Hot Chili Peppers
Monster Movie / Stars / Fine Young Cannibals
Beastie Boys / Chainsaw Kittens
Social Deviantz / Guided by Voices / Fuel / Suicidal Tendencies
The Beta Band / Battles / The Band
(yes, that's another Versus.)
The Dirty Projectors / Blur / Midnight Movies
98 reminds me that I haven't listened to Silent Shout in a while.
Hurl / The Knife / Stabbing Westward / My Life with the Thrill Kill Cult
Holy Fuck / The Mothers of Invention / Kick
i like silent shout too
many bands i never knew existed and never listened to, but too lazy to look up
a stranger asked me yesterday what i was reading
i couldn't answer him coherently
he wrote down the book title and the author's name
so surprising
OK, one more and then I'm done with this game...
Swingout Sister / Strokes / The Brothers Johnson
Survivor / Faces / Death From Above / Throbbing Gristle
Heart / Massive Attack / Strokes / Cephalic Carnage / Entombed
The Mamas and the Papas/KISS/The Offspring
Mississippi John Hurt/The Turtles
The Byrds/Phish/The Damned/Styx
The Weavers/Rage Against the Machine
