Herbicide
eat it!
eat the flower!
not nearly as tasty
to your mouth as it is your eyes
poison
Parlez Vous Français
fromage
fruit of the cow
old or fresh and nubile
the orange and white of fortéfragrant
Cinquaing
sinking
up-pulled under
psychologically?
up to your eyes in dirt and grime
covered
Cyber Pork
bacncomputer slang
when will it ever end?
"I want this mail but not right now"
come on
Instruction Manual
awake
eat, be merry
shut up during the film
turn off your signal, for fuck’s sake
asleep
Monday, August 27, 2007
An Acrostic Palindrome
Some have said, my dear
And you know this to be true
Thine nighty is quite clear
And utterly see-through
Now, I would suggest
Out of respect for you:
Strap in that ample chest
Conceal those ample boobs
I’ll hate myself near and far
Lord have mercy, I recant!
Libidos, being what they are
Attack me in my pants
Thine bodice of flesh rippling, see
Erects a standstill down below
Momentarily crippling me
Yonder ice-water for a fellow?
Miss, my dear, Mrs. Bosomly Booty
E’ermore you’ve stolen away my heart
Though I rush to consume your beauty
Amply, you’ve given me quite a head start
Let me see again, what I once had decried
Let me see again, what I saw but once before
I am...disappointed; yonder nighty has belied
C-cup bra-size and no measure of wishing more
So ends the mystery of how in your corset you fit
Oh, I wondered that above all else in the world
Noticeably, you look to have slimmed a bit
And that’s fine – you’re a beautiful girl!
Though now I must run along
Alas, my angel, be strong!
Seldom will I allow my telephone to ring long
And you know this to be true
Thine nighty is quite clear
And utterly see-through
Now, I would suggest
Out of respect for you:
Strap in that ample chest
Conceal those ample boobs
I’ll hate myself near and far
Lord have mercy, I recant!
Libidos, being what they are
Attack me in my pants
Thine bodice of flesh rippling, see
Erects a standstill down below
Momentarily crippling me
Yonder ice-water for a fellow?
Miss, my dear, Mrs. Bosomly Booty
E’ermore you’ve stolen away my heart
Though I rush to consume your beauty
Amply, you’ve given me quite a head start
Let me see again, what I once had decried
Let me see again, what I saw but once before
I am...disappointed; yonder nighty has belied
C-cup bra-size and no measure of wishing more
So ends the mystery of how in your corset you fit
Oh, I wondered that above all else in the world
Noticeably, you look to have slimmed a bit
And that’s fine – you’re a beautiful girl!
Though now I must run along
Alas, my angel, be strong!
Seldom will I allow my telephone to ring long
Go Haiku
Tattoo
i have been tattooed
the original gangster
Hervé Villechaize
Hairpiece (Alliteration for Spanish Accents)
filthy lip fungus
fundamentally loathsome
fun for one and all
Lousy
waking up angry
creased face from sleepy frowning
mad dreams are lousy
Malaiziness
lethargic llama
eats only what he can reach
skinny camelid
Profound Profanity/Profane Profundity
dirty cocksucker
cleanliness is ungodly
motherfucking right
i have been tattooed
the original gangster
Hervé Villechaize
Hairpiece (Alliteration for Spanish Accents)
filthy lip fungus
fundamentally loathsome
fun for one and all
Lousy
waking up angry
creased face from sleepy frowning
mad dreams are lousy
Malaiziness
lethargic llama
eats only what he can reach
skinny camelid
Profound Profanity/Profane Profundity
dirty cocksucker
cleanliness is ungodly
motherfucking right
Friday, August 24, 2007
Burning Joints & An Elicitous Ending
Yesterday, my girlfriend accidentally discovered that my fucking hamstring was multi-coloured: bruise-yellow with a few intensely-red snakes of burst capillaries; I say "accidentally" because she emerged from the bedroom to find me completely disrobed at the front door, laying face-down on the carpet, mumbling "razza-frazza" as though channeling Fred Flintstone after he dropped a bowling ball on his foot.
So, off to the doctor I went, and I told her this:
She said, "Well, you won’t be hitting any homeruns for a while."
I said, "You don’t know that! I’ll train, I’ll put in the effort, I’ll heal!"
I said, defiantly, "I’ll be the best again! You just watch me!"
She said, after a moment, "Didn’t you say that you hurt yourself during your YEAR-END tournament?"
I said, "Oh."
I followed that up with, "Right."
She said, "You’re bruising because you did everything but tear your hamstring; as long as you don’t try to aggravate it, you’ll be fine."
I said, "Oh."
I said, in a tiny voice, "Thank you."
She said, "That’s okay."
She said, smiling, "Now, will you please stop calling us?"
I said, "Never!"
So, off to the doctor I went, and I told her this:
She said, "Well, you won’t be hitting any homeruns for a while."
I said, "You don’t know that! I’ll train, I’ll put in the effort, I’ll heal!"
I said, defiantly, "I’ll be the best again! You just watch me!"
She said, after a moment, "Didn’t you say that you hurt yourself during your YEAR-END tournament?"
I said, "Oh."
I followed that up with, "Right."
She said, "You’re bruising because you did everything but tear your hamstring; as long as you don’t try to aggravate it, you’ll be fine."
I said, "Oh."
I said, in a tiny voice, "Thank you."
She said, "That’s okay."
She said, smiling, "Now, will you please stop calling us?"
I said, "Never!"
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Superfly
I left the apartment the other day with my pants’ zipper un-zipped.
This, for the record, was not intentional.
I realized my mistake as I approached the high school (on business, mind you), smiling with righteous embarrassment as I closed my barnyard door.
This, of course, is not how the janitor and his tweenage-daughter saw it.
Janitor:
[appalled]
Whaddya doin’?
Me:
What?
[I look down at my fly]
Oh...
[smile]
Janitor:
"Oh" nothin’.
[steps closer]
D’you think my daughter needs to see that?
Me:
Me awkwardly doing up my pants? Surely she’s seen that before.
[pause]
Well, maybe not me doing up my pants, but...
[awkward pause]
...y’know...
[the Janitor just lets me keep digging]
...well, I’m sure somebody’s done their pants up in her...
[he’s going to kill me]
...um...
[oh, fuck]
...general vicinity.
Janitor:
So, you just happened to have your pants undone in front of a high-school with my daughter standing there?
Me:Yeah.
[frowning]
It could just as well have been a nunnery, a nursery, or a narcotics convention...the point is that my fly was open, and now it isn’t.
[pause]
Who saw me zip up is irrelevant.
[I try to walk into the school, but the Janitor steps in front of me]
Janitor:
Don’t you take another step towards my daughter.
Me:She’s standing between me and the sch...
[I double-take the daughter – her fly is undone]
...erm...
[I look at the daughter again, then I stare at the Janitor until he, too, sees his daughter’s fly undone – there is a looooooooooooong pause, and then the girl, who has been standing and watching, looks down and quickly does up her pants]
Me:
[as I start my now-unobstructed walk into the school, trying to hold in my laughter]
I am OUTRAGED.
This, for the record, was not intentional.
I realized my mistake as I approached the high school (on business, mind you), smiling with righteous embarrassment as I closed my barnyard door.
This, of course, is not how the janitor and his tweenage-daughter saw it.
Janitor:
[appalled]
Whaddya doin’?
Me:
What?
[I look down at my fly]
Oh...
[smile]
Janitor:
"Oh" nothin’.
[steps closer]
D’you think my daughter needs to see that?
Me:
Me awkwardly doing up my pants? Surely she’s seen that before.
[pause]
Well, maybe not me doing up my pants, but...
[awkward pause]
...y’know...
[the Janitor just lets me keep digging]
...well, I’m sure somebody’s done their pants up in her...
[he’s going to kill me]
...um...
[oh, fuck]
...general vicinity.
Janitor:
So, you just happened to have your pants undone in front of a high-school with my daughter standing there?
Me:Yeah.
[frowning]
It could just as well have been a nunnery, a nursery, or a narcotics convention...the point is that my fly was open, and now it isn’t.
[pause]
Who saw me zip up is irrelevant.
[I try to walk into the school, but the Janitor steps in front of me]
Janitor:
Don’t you take another step towards my daughter.
Me:She’s standing between me and the sch...
[I double-take the daughter – her fly is undone]
...erm...
[I look at the daughter again, then I stare at the Janitor until he, too, sees his daughter’s fly undone – there is a looooooooooooong pause, and then the girl, who has been standing and watching, looks down and quickly does up her pants]
Me:
[as I start my now-unobstructed walk into the school, trying to hold in my laughter]
I am OUTRAGED.
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Burning Joints & A Spectacular Spank
I sit here a crumpled mess, repositioning myself every five-to-eight seconds because nothing is comfortable. I’m smoking my girlfriend’s cigarettes and I’m in a tremendous amount of pain...not just because said smokes are ultra-light, but because I hurt myself in our year-end softball tournament this past weekend. There is a mysterious and excruciating pain in my left, non-throwing shoulder, and then there is the hamstring, the muscle in back of my right thigh that feels as though someone is cramming a ball-peen hammer into my tender, though hairy, flesh.
I’m completely befuddled as to the former, but an incident from a couple of weeks back explains away the latter: I managed to spank myself in the ass with the bat on the tail-end of a particularly hellacious swing, dropping me like a stone to the delight of one & all...and while I caught the brunt of the bludgeoning on the fleshy part of my right ass-cheek, there was a little twinge, just a pittance of pain, down in the hamstring muscle. Like an earthquake cracking the concrete of a metropolitan community, this "little twinge" gave my hamstring the perfect opportunity to yank itself into a knot during my first at-bat on Saturday, causing all physiological, right-leg-traffic to stop at approximately 8:40am.
Still, adding to my lifelong ledger of legendary performances, I mashed 5 homeruns in 4 games, 80% of which were one-legged...this should come as no surprise because, as most of you know at this point, I am a hero; it’s just too bad that my decrepit, 31-year-old muscles aren’t nearly as heroic.
Also too bad is the unfathomably un-heroic bitching & moaning that my friends & family will have to endure for the next week or so, sighing in deep irritation as I laud myself further for my incredible on-field exploits and courageousatory heroicitude.
Pity them.
An Elicitous Ending
I’m completely befuddled as to the former, but an incident from a couple of weeks back explains away the latter: I managed to spank myself in the ass with the bat on the tail-end of a particularly hellacious swing, dropping me like a stone to the delight of one & all...and while I caught the brunt of the bludgeoning on the fleshy part of my right ass-cheek, there was a little twinge, just a pittance of pain, down in the hamstring muscle. Like an earthquake cracking the concrete of a metropolitan community, this "little twinge" gave my hamstring the perfect opportunity to yank itself into a knot during my first at-bat on Saturday, causing all physiological, right-leg-traffic to stop at approximately 8:40am.
Still, adding to my lifelong ledger of legendary performances, I mashed 5 homeruns in 4 games, 80% of which were one-legged...this should come as no surprise because, as most of you know at this point, I am a hero; it’s just too bad that my decrepit, 31-year-old muscles aren’t nearly as heroic.
Also too bad is the unfathomably un-heroic bitching & moaning that my friends & family will have to endure for the next week or so, sighing in deep irritation as I laud myself further for my incredible on-field exploits and courageousatory heroicitude.
Pity them.
An Elicitous Ending
Compulsively Commensurate Consumption
I finished James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces right before all the Oprah-induced hoopla last year, just before the cries of "liar" rained down on the disgraced author...and so what? Good storytelling has an awful lot to do with exaggeration, and though Frey embellished his stint in rehab and his own heroism, his courage, to an embarrassing degree, well, this much was obvious from a chapter or so into the book.
(Even if you haven’t read the book, you must read the respective parodies written by David Cross & H. Jon Benjamin...fabulous.)
Regardless of the rea$on why Frey fictionalized his own life, I fully identify with his out-and-out NEED to consume, the feeling of over-powering ravenousness...
I, too, need to be over-stimulated, to ingest, but my vices are in the "socially-acceptable" vein, so to speak: caffeine, cigarette-smoke, drama, criticism, adoration...something, y’know, palpable.
Oh, I devour adoration as though it was food; I chew through the supple-though-varied meats of applause, drink in the thirst-quenching lemonade of adulation, suck in the pungent fragrance of affection...
But this need for consumption leads me to the logical conclusion of why meditation is frequently used in addiction-recovery – if you’re a veritable vacuum-cleaner in need of something, why not suck in air?
Oooooooohhhhhhhhhmmmmmmm.
This would be great but for fact that I sit still about as well as an assless man on a bed of nails; I need sedatives to watch a two-hour movie; hell, I get cranky at a red light...but I’m working on it. I’m drinking an unequivocally MASSIVE bottle of water right now, deep breathing like a hippie at an incense-fair, sitting still like a coyote strapped to a chair, legs and back cramping all around me...
Oooooooohhhhhhhhhmmmmmmm.
Self-improvement is a nasty bit of torture, yes...but like many other day-to-day tortures, however, this is necessary if I’m to be around long enough to let my age catch up to my over-ripened curmudgeonly-crankiness.
I’ll let you know if "oooooooohhhhhhhhhmmmmmmm" and smoking in the bath are mutually exclusive.
(Even if you haven’t read the book, you must read the respective parodies written by David Cross & H. Jon Benjamin...fabulous.)
Regardless of the rea$on why Frey fictionalized his own life, I fully identify with his out-and-out NEED to consume, the feeling of over-powering ravenousness...
I, too, need to be over-stimulated, to ingest, but my vices are in the "socially-acceptable" vein, so to speak: caffeine, cigarette-smoke, drama, criticism, adoration...something, y’know, palpable.
Oh, I devour adoration as though it was food; I chew through the supple-though-varied meats of applause, drink in the thirst-quenching lemonade of adulation, suck in the pungent fragrance of affection...
But this need for consumption leads me to the logical conclusion of why meditation is frequently used in addiction-recovery – if you’re a veritable vacuum-cleaner in need of something, why not suck in air?
Oooooooohhhhhhhhhmmmmmmm.
This would be great but for fact that I sit still about as well as an assless man on a bed of nails; I need sedatives to watch a two-hour movie; hell, I get cranky at a red light...but I’m working on it. I’m drinking an unequivocally MASSIVE bottle of water right now, deep breathing like a hippie at an incense-fair, sitting still like a coyote strapped to a chair, legs and back cramping all around me...
Oooooooohhhhhhhhhmmmmmmm.
Self-improvement is a nasty bit of torture, yes...but like many other day-to-day tortures, however, this is necessary if I’m to be around long enough to let my age catch up to my over-ripened curmudgeonly-crankiness.
I’ll let you know if "oooooooohhhhhhhhhmmmmmmm" and smoking in the bath are mutually exclusive.
Monday, August 20, 2007
Love Bugs
There were two orange-tinged black bugs attached at the ass in the parking lot, moving and jittering, like bugs, but gingerly, like lovers...
I knelt down softly and said:
"Hey, bugs."
They stopped; I continued with a question:
"Are you guys fucking?"
They answered with twisting, twitching motions, seemingly pulling away from each other, almost as though embarrassed to be copulating in public, in a parking lot no less, and I contemplated pulling them apart just in case their togetherness was accidental...upon closer inspection, however, nothing about it looked accidental.
No, they were most certainly enjoying themselves but for my presence, so I took off.
Onward, lovers!
I knelt down softly and said:
"Hey, bugs."
They stopped; I continued with a question:
"Are you guys fucking?"
They answered with twisting, twitching motions, seemingly pulling away from each other, almost as though embarrassed to be copulating in public, in a parking lot no less, and I contemplated pulling them apart just in case their togetherness was accidental...upon closer inspection, however, nothing about it looked accidental.
No, they were most certainly enjoying themselves but for my presence, so I took off.
Onward, lovers!
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Bloggerthong 1: Religiosity
*Blog-a-thon! I totally forgot, and am an unbelievable douchebag for doing so.
Shit shit shit!
All right, buckaroos, as far as I can tell (because I haven’t really read the rules NOR paid even one red cent as of yet), we’re blogging for breast-cancer...well, not for breast-cancer, I don’t think.
Moving on.
Here are the other chaps/chapettes blogging against breast-cancer, I’m assuming, and votes are appreciated for one and all:
Bella - Patti - Nathan - Erin - Jason - Michael
Now that we’re all caught up, on with the (hastily-written) show; the topic? Religion.
I wrote once that religion is a disease...and while I still believe this to be true, the question remains as to what kind of disease religion would be were one to take said question literally.
Is it like the mumps, or the measles? Is it like herpes, or, failing that, chicken-pox?
What about Tourette’s syndrome? Maybe religion is a disorder of some kind, a problem of some kind of bipolar, obsessive-compulsive, or attention-deficit origin...or perhaps it’s a self-inflicted "disease" like alcoholism.
Me? Well, I think I’ve got it figured out.
Religion, as a disease, is of a hemorrhoidal nature - a complete and utter pain in the ass.
Here are some extremely well thought-out comparisons:
Religion is uncomfortable, as are hemorrhoids;
Religion has a way of making you feel bad, both physically and psychically, and hemorrhoids do the same but from your ass;
Religion makes you spend innumerable hours reading, as does a painful poo, or a proctologist’s waiting room;
Religion is a way to distract and avoid more important issues, as is the case with hemorrhoids if brought up at a cocktail party;
Religion asks for faith because logic doesn’t work within a belief-structure, while faith in the human body’s ability to heal itself is all you have while the hemorrhoids eat away at your ass, ignoring the logic that tells you to buy reinforced underpants;
Religious people are creepy and weird.
Oh, and so are hemorrhoids.
Shit shit shit!
All right, buckaroos, as far as I can tell (because I haven’t really read the rules NOR paid even one red cent as of yet), we’re blogging for breast-cancer...well, not for breast-cancer, I don’t think.
Moving on.
Here are the other chaps/chapettes blogging against breast-cancer, I’m assuming, and votes are appreciated for one and all:
Bella - Patti - Nathan - Erin - Jason - Michael
Now that we’re all caught up, on with the (hastily-written) show; the topic? Religion.
I wrote once that religion is a disease...and while I still believe this to be true, the question remains as to what kind of disease religion would be were one to take said question literally.
Is it like the mumps, or the measles? Is it like herpes, or, failing that, chicken-pox?
What about Tourette’s syndrome? Maybe religion is a disorder of some kind, a problem of some kind of bipolar, obsessive-compulsive, or attention-deficit origin...or perhaps it’s a self-inflicted "disease" like alcoholism.
Me? Well, I think I’ve got it figured out.
Religion, as a disease, is of a hemorrhoidal nature - a complete and utter pain in the ass.
Here are some extremely well thought-out comparisons:
Religion is uncomfortable, as are hemorrhoids;
Religion has a way of making you feel bad, both physically and psychically, and hemorrhoids do the same but from your ass;
Religion makes you spend innumerable hours reading, as does a painful poo, or a proctologist’s waiting room;
Religion is a way to distract and avoid more important issues, as is the case with hemorrhoids if brought up at a cocktail party;
Religion asks for faith because logic doesn’t work within a belief-structure, while faith in the human body’s ability to heal itself is all you have while the hemorrhoids eat away at your ass, ignoring the logic that tells you to buy reinforced underpants;
Religious people are creepy and weird.
Oh, and so are hemorrhoids.
Satan Spawn
I’m still getting the cold fingers of terror crawling up my back.
It was a week ago when this woman of indeterminate age, this woman with the flowered, pink bonnet, this woman whom I would wager an age-guess, based solely on general decay, of 145 but for the obvious ambulatory qualities she displayed, this woman limped past my car on a rainy afternoon.
This woman with the apple-sized bonnet-knot hovering in front of her panting maw – was she gasping for air? Gnawing on her bonnet-knot? Gnashing her teeth? – this woman had eyes of black; not pupil-black, or iris-black, but absence-of-white-black...black-black, like a convex void of nothingness.
Mouth agape behind a possibly-chewed bonnet-knot, this woman looked at me with those demon-eyes...and again, and again, the devil herself staring into my car, filling me with horror and bewilderment, an unblinking affirmation that I had unknowingly committed some base-level wrong, and that she alone knew it was me...
As I sat at the intersection, unable to complete my turn because of the varied complexities and flawed ratios involved in dealing with this woman’s distracting visage, a crooked math-problem detailing the effect of an external-oddity on functioning motor-skills, this woman with the night-eyes looked back at me twelve times.
I counted.
Fear twisted down my arms like coils; a single rivulet of sweat ran down my nose; I hadn’t done anything but stop at my stopsign in a particularly suave-fashion, but I felt as though this woman was one look away from unleashing all manner of hell on me.
Obviously stunned, it took a helpful horn-blast from the irate Jeep behind for me to tear my eyes from this woman’s form that was gently fading into damp silhouette.
Perhaps it was my tried & true lifestyle-choice of Over-Caffeination + Lack of Sleep = Propulsive Paranoia...or perhaps, in West-Hammertown, I was visited by the Spawn of Satan.
It was a week ago when this woman of indeterminate age, this woman with the flowered, pink bonnet, this woman whom I would wager an age-guess, based solely on general decay, of 145 but for the obvious ambulatory qualities she displayed, this woman limped past my car on a rainy afternoon.
This woman with the apple-sized bonnet-knot hovering in front of her panting maw – was she gasping for air? Gnawing on her bonnet-knot? Gnashing her teeth? – this woman had eyes of black; not pupil-black, or iris-black, but absence-of-white-black...black-black, like a convex void of nothingness.
Mouth agape behind a possibly-chewed bonnet-knot, this woman looked at me with those demon-eyes...and again, and again, the devil herself staring into my car, filling me with horror and bewilderment, an unblinking affirmation that I had unknowingly committed some base-level wrong, and that she alone knew it was me...
As I sat at the intersection, unable to complete my turn because of the varied complexities and flawed ratios involved in dealing with this woman’s distracting visage, a crooked math-problem detailing the effect of an external-oddity on functioning motor-skills, this woman with the night-eyes looked back at me twelve times.
I counted.
Fear twisted down my arms like coils; a single rivulet of sweat ran down my nose; I hadn’t done anything but stop at my stopsign in a particularly suave-fashion, but I felt as though this woman was one look away from unleashing all manner of hell on me.
Obviously stunned, it took a helpful horn-blast from the irate Jeep behind for me to tear my eyes from this woman’s form that was gently fading into damp silhouette.
Perhaps it was my tried & true lifestyle-choice of Over-Caffeination + Lack of Sleep = Propulsive Paranoia...or perhaps, in West-Hammertown, I was visited by the Spawn of Satan.
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
100
Oh, Blogspot...here we are again; another milestone, another chance for me to use a number in my post-title, another in a long line of chances to write something so overwhelmingly self-indulgent that, well ahead of schedule, my being is threatening its eventual fade into an ether of self-involvement, a solipsistic limbo of Me.
No matter; this is my one-hundredth post, and it comes just in time for my birthday...and if one cannot indulge on (or the day before) one’s birthday, well, what in the world is a birthday good for?
In honour of said birthday, sure to be a cantankerous celebration of 31 years of injecting myself into other people’s conversations, here now is a list: a hundred-song lifetime soundtrack, alphabetized into ten-song increments for your enjoyment.
Please note, however, that while it might be apropos to divine some not-so-cryptic meanings from these song-titles alone, I like to think of this playlist as more of a musical life-encapsulation, an easy-fix for the question of what to play at my funeral – a funeral that will, no doubt, battle for the title of Longest Ever if my will is followed to the letter.
(Speaking of which, and without getting too morbid, I want my feelings known: there is a statue of Jesus Christ kneeling and spreading His arms to the mountains on the west-side of Hammertown; I wish to be cremated into an empty coffee-grounds receptacle, a la The Big Lebowski, and dumped over said statue’s head...just for your, and my own, edification.)
Herewith, the soundtrack:
The Air-Conditioned Nightmare – Mr. Bungle
Alone – Ben Harper
Big Day Out – Fun Lovin’ Criminals
Black – Pearl Jam
Black Steel - Tricky
B.O.B. – Outkast
Book of the Month – LovageBorn Again - Marilyn Manson
Born To Run – K-OsBullet With Butterfly Wings – The Smashing Pumpkins
Burn – Nine Inch Nails
Burning Inside - Ministry
Caffeine – Faith No More
Capt Midnight – Tomahawk
Chowder – The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
C’mon Billy – PJ Harvey
Cold Sweat – James Brown
Coma – Guns n’ Roses
Count Five or Six - CorneliusDarkness – Rage Against the Machine
The Day Brings - Brad
Denial Twist - The White Stripes
Do You Realize?? – The Flaming Lips
Do You Wanna Get Heavy? – The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Effect and Cause - The White Stripes
Eulogy – Tool
Everlong – Foo Fighters
Exit Music (For a Film) – Radiohead
Fight Song – Marilyn MansonFight the Power – Public Enemy
First It Giveth – Queens of the Stone AgeFuck Her Gently – Tenacious D
Gave Up (Remix) – Nine Inch Nails
Get Down Lover – The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Get It Together – Beastie Boys
Go – Pearl Jam
God Hates A Coward - Tomahawk
Go-Go Gadget Gospel – Gnarls Barkley
Good God – KornThe Good In Everyone – Sloan
Hail, Hail - Pearl Jam
Happiness Is A Warm Gun – The BeatlesHere To Stay – Korn
Hitchin’ A Ride – Green Day
I Can’t Stand Myself (When You Touch Me) – James Brown
I Could Have Lied – Red Hot Chili Peppers
I’m Not The Only One – Filter
I Wanna Be Sedated – The Ramones
I Wish You Were Here – Incubus
Jerk-Off - Tool
Jesus Christ Pose - SoundgardenJizzlobber – Faith No MoreJudith – A Perfect Circle
Just Like You – Rollins Band
Let the Rhythm Hit ‘Em – Eric B & Rakim
Liberation Frequency - Refused
Longview – Green Day
Mama Told Me Not To Come – Three Dog Night
Mountain Song – Jane’s Addiction
Mr. Brownstone – Guns n’ Roses
Napoleon – Ani DiFrancoNatural Born Killaz – Dr. Dre & Ice CubeNew Way Home – Foo Fighters
Old Friend – Rancid
Parallel – Bad Religion
Penitentiary Philosophy – Erykah Badu
The Perfect Drug – Nine Inch Nails
Porch – Pearl Jam
Rabbit In Your Headlights - UNKLE
Ratfinks, Suicide Tanks and Cannibal Girls – White Zombie
Rearviewmirror – Pearl Jam
Redemption Song – Bob Marley
Revolver – Rage Against the Machine
Rosemary’s Baby - Fantomas
Runnin’ – The Pharcyde
Sadness – Porno For Pyros
Say It Ain’t So - Weezer
Sexx Laws – Beck
Sir Duke – Stevie Wonder
(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay – Otis Redding
Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana
Somethin’ Hot – The Afghan Whigs
Sonnet – The Verve
Sweet Euphoria – Chris Cornell
Teardrop – Massive Attack
There’s Been An Accident – Twilight Singers
Think – James Brown
Third Eye - Tool
This Lonely Place – Goldfinger
Tonight’s the Night – Neil Young
Tribute – Tenacious D
True Love Waits – Radiohead
21st Century (Digital Boy) – Bad Religion
Untouchable Face – Ani DiFranco
Ugly In The Morning – Faith No More
We’re Not Alone – Peeping Tom
When Will They Shoot? – Ice Cube
White Belt – Rocket From The Crypt
Windowlicker – Aphex Twin
You Got Me – The Roots
No matter; this is my one-hundredth post, and it comes just in time for my birthday...and if one cannot indulge on (or the day before) one’s birthday, well, what in the world is a birthday good for?
In honour of said birthday, sure to be a cantankerous celebration of 31 years of injecting myself into other people’s conversations, here now is a list: a hundred-song lifetime soundtrack, alphabetized into ten-song increments for your enjoyment.
Please note, however, that while it might be apropos to divine some not-so-cryptic meanings from these song-titles alone, I like to think of this playlist as more of a musical life-encapsulation, an easy-fix for the question of what to play at my funeral – a funeral that will, no doubt, battle for the title of Longest Ever if my will is followed to the letter.
(Speaking of which, and without getting too morbid, I want my feelings known: there is a statue of Jesus Christ kneeling and spreading His arms to the mountains on the west-side of Hammertown; I wish to be cremated into an empty coffee-grounds receptacle, a la The Big Lebowski, and dumped over said statue’s head...just for your, and my own, edification.)
Herewith, the soundtrack:
The Air-Conditioned Nightmare – Mr. Bungle
Alone – Ben Harper
Big Day Out – Fun Lovin’ Criminals
Black – Pearl Jam
Black Steel - Tricky
B.O.B. – Outkast
Book of the Month – LovageBorn Again - Marilyn Manson
Born To Run – K-OsBullet With Butterfly Wings – The Smashing Pumpkins
Burn – Nine Inch Nails
Burning Inside - Ministry
Caffeine – Faith No More
Capt Midnight – Tomahawk
Chowder – The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
C’mon Billy – PJ Harvey
Cold Sweat – James Brown
Coma – Guns n’ Roses
Count Five or Six - CorneliusDarkness – Rage Against the Machine
The Day Brings - Brad
Denial Twist - The White Stripes
Do You Realize?? – The Flaming Lips
Do You Wanna Get Heavy? – The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Effect and Cause - The White Stripes
Eulogy – Tool
Everlong – Foo Fighters
Exit Music (For a Film) – Radiohead
Fight Song – Marilyn MansonFight the Power – Public Enemy
First It Giveth – Queens of the Stone AgeFuck Her Gently – Tenacious D
Gave Up (Remix) – Nine Inch Nails
Get Down Lover – The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Get It Together – Beastie Boys
Go – Pearl Jam
God Hates A Coward - Tomahawk
Go-Go Gadget Gospel – Gnarls Barkley
Good God – KornThe Good In Everyone – Sloan
Hail, Hail - Pearl Jam
Happiness Is A Warm Gun – The BeatlesHere To Stay – Korn
Hitchin’ A Ride – Green Day
I Can’t Stand Myself (When You Touch Me) – James Brown
I Could Have Lied – Red Hot Chili Peppers
I’m Not The Only One – Filter
I Wanna Be Sedated – The Ramones
I Wish You Were Here – Incubus
Jerk-Off - Tool
Jesus Christ Pose - SoundgardenJizzlobber – Faith No MoreJudith – A Perfect Circle
Just Like You – Rollins Band
Let the Rhythm Hit ‘Em – Eric B & Rakim
Liberation Frequency - Refused
Longview – Green Day
Mama Told Me Not To Come – Three Dog Night
Mountain Song – Jane’s Addiction
Mr. Brownstone – Guns n’ Roses
Napoleon – Ani DiFrancoNatural Born Killaz – Dr. Dre & Ice CubeNew Way Home – Foo Fighters
Old Friend – Rancid
Parallel – Bad Religion
Penitentiary Philosophy – Erykah Badu
The Perfect Drug – Nine Inch Nails
Porch – Pearl Jam
Rabbit In Your Headlights - UNKLE
Ratfinks, Suicide Tanks and Cannibal Girls – White Zombie
Rearviewmirror – Pearl Jam
Redemption Song – Bob Marley
Revolver – Rage Against the Machine
Rosemary’s Baby - Fantomas
Runnin’ – The Pharcyde
Sadness – Porno For Pyros
Say It Ain’t So - Weezer
Sexx Laws – Beck
Sir Duke – Stevie Wonder
(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay – Otis Redding
Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana
Somethin’ Hot – The Afghan Whigs
Sonnet – The Verve
Sweet Euphoria – Chris Cornell
Teardrop – Massive Attack
There’s Been An Accident – Twilight Singers
Think – James Brown
Third Eye - Tool
This Lonely Place – Goldfinger
Tonight’s the Night – Neil Young
Tribute – Tenacious D
True Love Waits – Radiohead
21st Century (Digital Boy) – Bad Religion
Untouchable Face – Ani DiFranco
Ugly In The Morning – Faith No More
We’re Not Alone – Peeping Tom
When Will They Shoot? – Ice Cube
White Belt – Rocket From The Crypt
Windowlicker – Aphex Twin
You Got Me – The Roots
Thursday, August 2, 2007
Burning Joints & A Cutting Comeuppance
For the record, I am an RBI machine; I drive in runs like they’re carpooling; I bring ‘em home like they’re your 18-year-old daughter and I’m four hours past curfew; I plate ‘em like I’m cooking for the Royal Family...
YES it’s co-ed, beer-league, pitch-to-your-own-team softball, and YES I take advantage of the fact that I’m cheetah-being-chased-by-a-Ferrari fast and most co-ed, beer-league outfield arms are suspect, at best...but did YOU drive in 8 runs tonight?
On TWO Grand Slams?
Based on this, I won my second go-round with the Michael Alfred Potts Non-Gender Specific Wednesday Night 3 Pitch Softball Player of the Game Award of Excellence, and a mighty cheer went up, along with the karaoke-like strains of "Rock You Like a Hurricane", which has, hilariously, become our (my?) theme-song...
So, this award, this beautiful monstrosity of three separate trophies glued together as one completely fabulous Über-Trophy, well, we each carve our names into the base when we win it; I was doing so tonight, adding a coquettish "X2" next to my name, when I plunged my exacto-knife into the top of my left thumb so thoroughly that I could’ve used said digit as a letter-holder.
To anyone who has tried to open up an individually-wrapped bandage with one-hand, let me just say that my empathy is boundless; I looked like a one-legged raccoon trying to get into a child-proof bottle of Tylenol. Plus, I got a little freaked-out using my mouth to tear into the bandage-wrapper, as I had put my bleeding thumb in said maw first, and then spread diluted-blood onto the disinfectant-white of said wrapper, leaving me believing, somehow, that I had cut into a thumb-artery that connected to my intestinal-wall, causing me to, again somehow, cough up blood from shock and effort alone...
This is a cautionary-tale for hypochondriacs and right-thinking braggarts alike: if you carry a little too much cock-a-doodle-doo in your swagger, you WILL cut your thumb open.
That’s just the way it works.
A Spectacular Spank
YES it’s co-ed, beer-league, pitch-to-your-own-team softball, and YES I take advantage of the fact that I’m cheetah-being-chased-by-a-Ferrari fast and most co-ed, beer-league outfield arms are suspect, at best...but did YOU drive in 8 runs tonight?
On TWO Grand Slams?
Based on this, I won my second go-round with the Michael Alfred Potts Non-Gender Specific Wednesday Night 3 Pitch Softball Player of the Game Award of Excellence, and a mighty cheer went up, along with the karaoke-like strains of "Rock You Like a Hurricane", which has, hilariously, become our (my?) theme-song...
So, this award, this beautiful monstrosity of three separate trophies glued together as one completely fabulous Über-Trophy, well, we each carve our names into the base when we win it; I was doing so tonight, adding a coquettish "X2" next to my name, when I plunged my exacto-knife into the top of my left thumb so thoroughly that I could’ve used said digit as a letter-holder.
To anyone who has tried to open up an individually-wrapped bandage with one-hand, let me just say that my empathy is boundless; I looked like a one-legged raccoon trying to get into a child-proof bottle of Tylenol. Plus, I got a little freaked-out using my mouth to tear into the bandage-wrapper, as I had put my bleeding thumb in said maw first, and then spread diluted-blood onto the disinfectant-white of said wrapper, leaving me believing, somehow, that I had cut into a thumb-artery that connected to my intestinal-wall, causing me to, again somehow, cough up blood from shock and effort alone...
This is a cautionary-tale for hypochondriacs and right-thinking braggarts alike: if you carry a little too much cock-a-doodle-doo in your swagger, you WILL cut your thumb open.
That’s just the way it works.
A Spectacular Spank
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