Local Boy Makes Good
MJ was last year’s reluctant golden boy. I wore the record out, and love this video. He’s from Asheville, so my kid and I went to his record release at a record store and I saw him two nights at the Orange Peel.
Please Listen to My Demo
More details here.
Ladies and Gentlemen The Blurs
New Hives!
This timely ditty should get your pulse moving. New album coming this August!
We’re Only As Good As The Songs We Don’t Play
A Study In Contrasts
I must have stumbled across the Renfield feed with this one. Had to look up Peter Maxwell Davies.
From Dundee Tae Ye
The top ten Scottish bands, in order, are these:
1. The Fratellis
2. The Jesus and Mary Chain
3. The View
4. Teenage Fanclub
5. The Vaselines
6. Belle & Sebastian
7. Camera Obscura
8. Nazareth
9. Franz Ferdinand
10. Aztec Camera
Big Country is disqualified because their best song has their own name in it.
Honorable mention to Bay City Rollers because I grew up in the 70’s, and Jethro Tull because Ian Anderson is a Scot.
I will now listen to your complaints about this stupid list.
Latin Football Cheers
Football season is over of course, but you can use these for any sport. It’s not like Latin had a real equivalent for “touchdown” anyway.
Sequimini, sequimini, facite ut pilam relinquat!
Pursue them, pursue them, make them relinquish the ball!
Illos repellite, expellite, compellite ad fugiendum!
Repel them, expel them, compel them to retreat!
Utinam vincamus!
Oh, would that we would score!
Volebamus atque volemus pilam trans metas deponi!
We have been wanting and shall continue to want a touchdown!
Those are from Latin For All Occasions, by Henry Beard, a Classics major who went on to co-found National Lampoon. For years people gave me books like that.
Here’s a bonus (under “LATIN AT THE AIRPORT”) that might come in handy as we enter the imperial era:
Recedite, plebes! Gero rem imperialem!
Stand aside, plebeians! I am on imperial business!
Mixed Emotions
On the one hand, Sir Paul is still out there doing it on his terms, at almost 83 years old!
On the other … yeesh …