On May 22nd, 2016, a clutch of (unfortunately yellow) party balloons floated into the airspace above the White House, causing an immediate lockdown at the residence of the most powerful man in the known universe. That’s a banner day for the Balloon Party’s influence(not a proper name for the party where the balloons were festively […]
Author: pirategeorge
Heavy and bearded, but nonthreatning; like if a woodland recluse was your Tooth Fairy. Music and food addict. Pigs and ponies.
Letters Of Note: 5/23/2016
Birthday Power Trio Of The Day: Albert Bouchard(1947, Blue Oyster Cult) on drums, Guy Fletcher(1960, mostly notable with Dire Straits) on keyboards, and Patti Labelle(1944, cocaine and soul food) on vocals. Patti’s gonna want to have her way, and I’m not gonna stop her. No funny business here; those other two guys are just there […]
A Brief Note Pertaining To Vomit
Please note that I’ve puked to the point that all the muscles in my neck are strained, too much so to comfortably look at the laptop. Your long-form will appear after another edit, this weekend. Did Lemmy’s neck feel like this from the posture he sang in? Is this why he was always drunk/ is […]
Letters Of Note: 5/19/2016
Birthday Power Quintet Of The Day: Jane Wielden(1958, The Go-Go’s) on guitar; Steve Currie(1947, T-Rex) on bass; and vocalists Joe Cocker(1944), Cher(1946), and Trevor George Smith, Jr., aka Busta Rhymes(1972, Leaders Of The New School). This will work. This will work! And I’m gonna make them do a cover of “Talk Dirty To Me,” by […]
Sounds Like!(5/18/2016)
Homonym: “Red”, by King Crimson & “Red”, by Okkervil River First, a caveat: this isn’t the video you really need to see for this song, but the original material is pretty well scrubbed off the internet. So here you go: Why not this video? Because it is the 90’s band, still looking and sounding pretty […]
Letters Of Note:5/17/2016
Birthday Power Quartet Of The Day: Jim Moginie(1956, Midnight Oil mainly but try his weirdo album, The Blessing, he made with some flute player named Andy Richardson that goes by “Howlin’ Wind”…I know, just try it) on guitar, Mark Mothersbaugh(1950, Devo) on drum machine/mechanical percussion, Martika(1969, Kids Incorporated), and Rick Wakeman(1949, Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe) […]
Letters Of Note:5/16/2016
Birthday Power Trio Of The Day: Robert Fripp(1946, of various fames) on guitar, Krist Novoselic(1965, of Nirvana) on bass, and Billy Cobham(1944, associated with various funky people, but my heart wants to remind you that he played on the Shaft soundtrack) on drums. This would work! Maybe! If no one’s egos clashed! Maybe not! Damn […]
A Brief Note Pertaining to The Soundtrack of A Hilarious Clerical Error
So, long story short: I’m handcuffed in the back of a patrol car and the officer puts on the local Classic Rock Radio station. And, being a Tuesday, federal law dictates that it is a Two-fer Tuesday on every Classic Rock Radio station in America. We’ve been having a friendly conversation, but whenever a song […]
Boring, Boring Rock Arsenal: The Oboe
When? The oboe was developed by the French in the 17th century, taking an already silly instrument with a tone fit only for military outdoor signal calling and enemy intimidation, the shawm, and making it over complicated. This is why most French preparations for duck involve some sort of steampunk contraption and leftover gynecological tools […]
Boring, Boring Rock Arsenal: The Theremin
When? The theremin was invented in 1920, which is why it slyly is shown as background furniture on the cover of all of your Decopunk graphic novels. [NOTE: I’ve made every attempt to be factual and accurate, if irreverently so, in all of my “insightful humor” posts. Be warned, though, that the propaganda machines behind both the […]
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