6/9/05
Okay, so there has to be some code I can use for "I really would love to write a blog tonight and have tons to say, but if I don't get some sleep, I'm going to be absolutely useless for Tessa and my daughter tomorrow." Many times I've just plowed ahead and spent the requisite time making sure everyone is slightly entertained, but I've paid for it dearly the next day.
So, on these days, which happen every ten blogs are so, I should just have a CODE WORD that means you guys have to come up with a brilliant topic, or some answerable meme (like my brother Kent's from a few days ago or whatever the knitting gals have cooked up) and go to town, and then I can join in later once Lucy has fallen to sleep on my breastbone.
So, there it is. Anybody have five questions that everyone can answer? Or five answers that everyone can question? First decent one wins.
Posted by Ian Williams at June 9, 2005 09:18 PM5 questions, that's tough, lessee...
1. Multiple Choice: so Ian and Tessa know what to look forward to, which of the following did the Vermont Devil Child (age 2.5) not do in
the last 2 weeks.
A) during the final prayer at his great grandmother's memorial service, escape to run behind the altar and crank the PA, sending feedback through the room
B) in the Detroit airport, yell "Daddy, look" and rip open a locked, behind glass fire extinguisher and then as Dad tried to fix the thing, run into the Women's room
C) with the jacuzzi tub drained, fire up the jets, sending the water in the tubes shooting across all the walls, ceiling and floor of the bathroom
D) jog by his father at 10pm, after escaping from the crib, keys in hand and dart out the front door, into the rain and darkness with only the words: "bye Daddy, go start car..."
E) Trick question, actually the Vermont Devil Child did all of the above.2) where were you and at what point in your life did you discover that Duct Tape and a can of WD-40 can solve any problem?
3) Take Rashad's Jersey number, subtract Rasheed's number and multiply by Dean Smith's win total - what does it add up to? You may not use a seach engine - these numbers are common knowledge.
4) Name the only Presedential election year since 1952 that the Republicans didn't have a Nixon, Dole or Bush on the ticket.
5) Expand on the premise that had Jimi Hendrix survivied at least one more year, Steely Dan would never had come into existence, effectively destroying pop music for the next 30 years. Bonus points for explaining why the Eagles ever existed.
Who said or sang the following?:
1. “…if heartaches were commercials, we’d all be on TV.”
2. “Something doesn’t have to have happened, for it to be true.”
3. “…you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.”
4. “Are you forgetting something Benjamin?”
5. “When you get to the fork in the road… take it!”
Bonus “Rooting for the NY Yankees is like rooting for IBM in the 1970’s.”
A Code? "PNRMTBO"? ("Parental needs require me to beg off?")
1)Why five questions?
2)Why four more?
3)Why do I go on?
4)Why do you go on?
5)Why not?
the answer to #3 of block's post is Bob Dylan. #5 sounds like Yogi bera, but I think it's someone else that is escaping my mind.
Block's #4 is Mrs. Robinson to Benjamin Braddock, The Graduate.
I don't think the answer to his #3 is Bob Dylan. Wasn't it a quote from one of the radicals from the 1960's, like Abbie Hoffman or the Weather Underground folks?
Since I don't have my own blog, I'll take this opportunity to vent about something I'm so pissed about today. So I have a 2004 Subaru Forester and it has 20K miles on it. Yesterday, I popped a tire and went to replace it. Those buttheads made me buy FOUR new tires! They said if I didn't, I'd void my warranty on my AWD!! Can you believe that??? Now I hate my Subaru! Grrrrr......
1. Land animals (all vegetarian); Man; and Woman
2. 36,500
3. Přemysl Pitter
4. June 10, 1984
5. Only when a cat-o-nine-tails doesn't work
Nope, #3 is definitely Dylan
As I generally suck at trivia, I would like to take this opportunity to express my love for my ipod. Now, I know everyone seems to have one, but it is an accomplishment that my cheap but music loving self actually sucked it up and bought one.
It opened an explosion of listening enjoyment of music I haven't heard in ages because I don't have the time to sift through our boxes of old cds every I want a change. So even though I've now gone through all our cds, I am only sitting at 1058 songs with 3942 left. How cool that I have tunes for every mood.
Feeling like groovin? Kanye, 50 cent, L. Hill, Missy Elliot, S 'n P, Beyonce, to the rescue. old school? RUN DMC (You be Illin' any time I want!?) and some Sugarhill Gang.
New Rockin'? Jet, Green Day, White Stripes, Weezer...
Country Girl? Dixie Chicks, Rascal Flatts...
Sappy and relaxed mood? Neil Diamond, Air Suppy, even a little Celine...I'm sayin' it Loud and Proud!
Cheesy 80's? Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, Debbie Gibson, Milli Vanilli...you bet.
Alt 80's? Erasure, DM, Cure, Smiths, Camouflage, NO, Book of Love, TFF...absolutely.
great tunes from chapel hill days (well, decade). DF in the house! son volt/uncle tupelo/wilco, jolene. even a little of my husbands Archers...
decades of U2. beatles and then some. loads of radiohead. prince, queen. sinatra, etta, soundtracks...represent!
unfortunately, 2yr olds music is on mine as well. can't shuffle in playlists, so every few songs, "wheels on the bus", Raffi, Ralph's World, TMBG, breaks the mood.
so this is what I am doing at work today.
Happy Friday.
Oh, and I even have a little bit of Contemporary Christian, damn it.
Lee, that sounds like an outright lie from the dealer. There is language from auto makers to dealers and repair shops that say aftermarket items MAY effect warranty. The issue with AWD tires is that circumference on all four tires should be within a certain tolerence of each other so it doesnt cause possible damage to the differentials and other AWD parts. If the dealer werent so lazy and interested in making the quick $ they would have measured the circumference of the 3 remainaing tires and see if the new one was within the tolerence. Even if it were slightly out, I doubt there is specific warranty language. The dealer is covering their asses. Corporate car makers send them scary sounding letters that if they perform aftermarket additions that corporate would not be heald liable for damage to parts and systems under warranty. But adding a single factory spec like tire with 20K miles on the other three is not an aftermarket issue. I think you should make them show you the specific warranty clause about AWD.
Although it is true that the Weatermen (subsequently the Weather Underground) took their name from the Dylan lyric.
Thanks Flaco. I thought it sounded like a scam, but I'm heading out of town and had to do something. They were so matter-of-fact and unbending that they really didn't leave me an option. The only thing that made me feel better, was that I bought the tires from someone else!
On a lighter note, I love my ipod, too!! And I've been downloading Audiobooks from itunes for road trips onto my ipod- it rocks!!
When you're tired, instead of writing a blog, you could always just post more cute pictures of Lucy. :)
1) How good will our Tar Heels be this year without May, Felton, McCants, Manuel, the Williams duo, and Scott?
2) Why don't people respond to my Coastopia t-shirt? I wore it over to my cousin's house to play PS2 and drink beer and he didn't even comment. It's not like he's a red stater, he's as much a Coastopian as I am, even if he's never heard of it.
3) Is Episode 3 the best SW movie since Empire?
4) I'm reading a really cool book called "Good Natured - the Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals," by Frans de Waal. The book has convinced me (not that I needed much convincing since I think pretty highly of our ape cousins), but I'm curious what you guys think - is morality a uniquely human convention, or are animals (specifically primates) capable of understanding ethics and morality?
Today's deep thought:
5) Does believing in an omniscient deity/God (not necessarily the Judeo-Christian one) contradict free will in any way?
In other words, if God knows everything we're going to do even before we do it, did we really have a choice?
Scott: super, thought-provoking questions. I can't comment on the first or third, as I don't watch college b-ball and have not seen any SW.
I have no idea why your Coastopia shirt does not provoke shock and awe.
As for the animal/morality question, here are my thoughts: I'm a huge pet person. I don't know too much about primates, but I've grown up with cats, dogs, and most recently a turtle. I've been made fun of for ascribing human emotions to my animals, but at the same time strive to find evolutionary reasons for their behavior. I do believe they (at least the felines/canines) are capable of emotions: fear, guilt, happiness, pride, depression. But in terms of "morality"...I don't think so. I mean, in the wild, pack animals tend to have a "code", or at least a social strata of sorts. But morality implies knowing the difference between right and wrong. A dog will cringe and look guilty if he's caught chewing up a slipper, but only if he's been conditioned that his behavior will result in negative feedback.
I think the most important thing to consider is that I think morality can only exist in a society. A person on a deserted island will have no concept of morality, because determining what is moral is always in terms of the other members of the society. So I think defining society has to come first. And I don't consider a pack of lions or a group of apes a "society". In fact, the first two definitions of society in the dictionary involve the word "human"; the third uses the word "culture", which I think implies human, but I could be wrong.
Just thinkin out loud.
Addendum: I also don't believe in homosexuality among animals...at least not as we casually define it. I believe that animals are capable of love, but not of being "in love". I don't think romantic love exists in the animal kingdom.
Go ahead...
These share the involvement or collarboration of one person. Who?
1. In Cold Blood (the film)
2. Frank Sinatra (the singer)
3. Ironside (the tv series)
4. Count Basie (the musician)
5. Jacques Brel (the singer)
That's collaboration (also worked for Vichy).
Quincy Jones?
scruggs:
Correct! Quincy Jones's career achievements are pretty amazing.
well, I knew 1, 3, & 4, so knew I had a shot!
Code word? Why not "Toto?"
It was good enough for Leon Staton, and he was a total bulamug....
Keep it simple like the clapper:
Blogon, Blogoff.
Deb, what happened June 10, 1984?
Block, how are we supposed to know a John Prine quote?
I thought my questions were pretty easy, but noboby tried to answer them...
1. E - he did all those things
2. depends on your own experience
3. 32-30=2 x 879 = 1758
4. 1964
5. Hendrix had begun on what was his most important work - integrating jazz into his music. His death left that work unfinished. Who knows where he would have gone with it, but somewhere significant is likely the case.So this unfinished work led others to attempt to pick up on his cues, making jazz a part of pop music, but jazz is, by nature, not poppy. Many other worked it the awful field of jazz-fusion, which is really a misnomer - the correct term for these people is 'guitar mastubators' and they have taken their place as part of the forgotten history already. But then there was Steely Dan, who linked jazz and pop in a manner that rivals things like fingernails on a blackboard. Copycat musicians arrived on the scene, creating a body of work that I like to call Ready-For-Muzak.
But people bought it anyway, it made them feel that they now had some appreciation of jazz, which made them feel superior to those listening to the regular bad pop music.
Steely Dan killed jazz. Steely Dan killed rock. Sure there are some acts that are worth seeking out, but they are hard to find and will be playing in small dingy clubs to a few people. Jazz evolved into the likes of Manhattan Transfer, David Sanborn and Sting. If these people treated a dog like they treat jazz, you would turn them in for animal abuse. Jazz is dead - there will never be another Coltrane, Monk or Davis, but bad pop, adult-contemporary and noodling jam bands will continue, rocketing music to new lows, sending the only bastions of originality into the even more obscure.
The part about the Eagles is extra credit involving baby boomers and soft rock.
I love Norah Jones!
ok, just andrew -a few quick, oversimplified comments on your "5 questions" answers:
"So this unfinished work led others to attempt to pick up on his (Hendrix') cues, making jazz a part of pop music, but jazz is, by nature, not poppy."
Actually, Jazz music at its origin *was* american pop music. Louie, Duke, the Count etc. all valued, loved, and appreciated great pop songs. They understood how important a great song can be in connecting with an audience. When Dizzy, Bird and co. later took jazz into the more creative, challenging, cerebral territory of be-bop, early R&B and rock'n'roll stepped into the void to provide great pop songs for dancing, radio, and mass consumption in general.
The idea that jazz and pop are (and are always meant to be) mutually exclusive is not true - Jazz is at the root of american pop music, just as blues music is at the root of jazz.
"Steely Dan killed jazz. Steely Dan killed rock. Sure there are some acts that are worth seeking out, but they are hard to find and will be playing in small dingy clubs to a few people... Jazz is dead - there will never be another Coltrane, Monk or Davis, but bad pop, adult-contemporary and noodling jam bands will continue, rocketing music to new lows, sending the only bastions of originality into the even more obscure."
IMHO, the only thing Steely Dan is guilty of is making records that many people have enjoyed for a long time... black folks, white folks, jazz-heads and rockers alike. That there are/will be no more giants in jazz is also questionable to me. There are folks still out there gigging right now who will be remembered as real innovators. One example: Trombonist Fred Wesley - He helped to create the blueprint for funk music as the musical director of the JBs in the 70s.
I'm not saying that there isn't alot of crap out there... there is.
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If you're still checking back: on June 10, 1984, the Celtics beat the Lakers in a Game 7 shocker.