Month: November 2011

Random 10 11-18-11

Last week. This week:

  1. “Sunny Came Home” by Shawn Colvin
    She didn’t believe in transcendence

  2. “Since I’ve Been Loving You” by Led Zeppelin, guessed by Kim
    It kinda makes my life a drag
  3. “Mean Disposition” by the Rolling Stones
    I’m going have to stand my ground like Crockett at the Alamo
  4. “The Wrote and the Writ” by Laura Marling
    What of all those wayward priests?
  5. “Time” by Tori Amos (orig. Tom Waits)
    And Napoleon is weeping in a carnival saloon
  6. “Dancing With Myself” by the Donnas (orig. Billy Idol), guessed by Kim
    Well, I wait so long for my love vibration
  7. “All Along the Watchtower” by Bob Dylan, guessed by Clayton
    Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl
  8. “Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth” by Neko Case
    Don’t be tempted by her favors
  9. “He Went to Paris” by Jimmy Buffett, guessed by Clayton
    And four to five years slipped away
  10. “Desperado” by the Eagles, guessed by Clayton
    You know the queen of hearts is always your best bet

Good luck!

Thursday various

  • I could be reading this wrong, but I think the New York Times compared Joe Frazier to Hitler.
  • And Ethel Merman to Kim Kardashian.
  • When is honey not honey? Apparently when it’s most of the honey sold in stores in the U.S.. [via]
  • So presumably you’ve heard of If Day, right? It was “a simulated Nazi invasion of the Canadian city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, and surrounding areas on February 19, 1942.” Yeah, I’d never heard about it before either. [via]
  • And finally, Cormac McCarthy’s Yelp page. Hysterical:

    He pulled another cold french fry from the greasestained Happy Meal box. He ate it slowly. The sun rising behind him over the limestone bluffs. The barren valley and the road winding through it still in morning’s blue shadow. He wiped his hand on his jacket and checked the breech of the big Weatherby. Bullet as long as man’s finger sitting there. He lay down on the blanket, the rifle’s barrel resting on the saddlebag, and glassed downcountry with the telescopic sight. The dusty road was empty. He waited. [via]<.blockquote>