Monday, November 19, 2007
Thanksmixing Things Up
yeah, it’s time for the Thankosity Fest! Once again we commemorate the landing of William Cromwell on Mars, where he created a super-race of morally superior prigs that destroyed the world through boiled vegetables, superior firepower, and self-denial. The first cranksgiving was observed by (sir) Arthur Godfrey in the Broadway revival of Equus, and let’s just say it wasn’t a turkey on the table in that version. Popular fangsgrabbing traditions include gluttony, pemmican, superior firepower, air hockey, and christmas shopping, as for which, jewish christmas is hella early this year so get your dreidel in gear dudes and dudettes.
I’ll be heading out to Porchland on the morrow for to see the maternal and sororal units, a fraternal legalis unit, and I am not going to bother looking up the latin for neice. Okay it’s neptia. So I’ll be seeing the neptial unit too and maybe I had better leave it at that. It’ll be my first TG away from the bay area since, damn, 1989?, and the first, I think, since before that to which I’ve brought nothing but a bottle of wine - and of course my traditional TG mix. For some that’s made of chex cereal, beer nuts and brewer’s yeast, but for me it’s all about the music, baby. It’s been a good year for me music-acquisition-wise, so I’m excited about year’s combination. I’m excited about traveling for the holiday, and about zaq seeing his cousin, and me seeing my family, and being in Ogreyon, and all kinds of good stuff. Excitement abounds.
Frankly, there’s one hell of a lot to be thankful for. You’re part of it too, blogville, so don’t go getting all bashful. Thanks for keeping me honest and productive and entertained and befriended. Enjoy your feast, if you are feasting. If you are not, enjoy what you’re doing anyway! (in the extended entry: the song list for the TG07 mix!)
relish - TG ‘07
The River - the waybacks (live)
Beneath the Piano - the devil makes three
New Shoes - paolo nutini
Mexico - poor man’s whiskey (live)
The Crossing - meg hutchinson
I Drink Beer - dan reeder
Home - marc broussard
Bob - vital information
Micky Fick - art neville
??? - joe jones? I really don’t know where I got this one or what it is or anything. funky groove jazz. it sounds kind of like that other song, until they hit that really funky part. does that help?
Love the Life You Live - black heat
Social Aid and Pleasure Club - subdudes
Man from U.N.C.L.E. - hugo montenegro orchestra
John Lee Supertaster - they might be giants
Iron Man - bud e. luv
Hey Pretty - poe
Seems Like a Lifetime Ago - bill bruford (with annie peacock!)
Kickin’ Up Dust - robert walter’s super heavy organ (live)
Dramatic Theme - pink floyd
it’s eclectic, sometimes jarring, sometimes lulling, and sometimes just plain freaky - not unlike myself, or this great country of ours, or one of the other countries that happens to be great if yours is not. Now get out there and found your bad selves a rigid, intolerant parochial community on the backs of indigenous labor, people! Plymouth rocks, and so can you!
