a couple random things
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Track:The Blues Song
I’ve made the conscious decision to tie one on tonight and deal with the fallout tomorrow. Oddly, or not so oddly, I always make that decision when I’ve been too lazy to make dinner. I wish for once I could decide to have an extra beer on a full stomach. But, whateva, my point is that I have some extra mog time now since I won’t be shuffling off to bed or to worship the boob tube. Heh.That means I have time to share with you some random crap. (Doesn’t that make you happy? Haha.)First of all, Kings of Leon. Everybody else knew about them years ago. Hell, I heard about them years ago and was all “eh.” Then, earlier this year my husband says he’s heard they were good and could I find some, so we could see. I did and we were both “eh.” Then, shit I don’t even know when/where/why, I got some tracks of Aha Shake Heartbreak. I listened on and off for a few months. Then, finally, during another bender, I was cleaning my kitchen at around midnight and the thought struck me that the only way I could get through the task was with Kings of Leon. It took about an hour to clean the kitchen that night because I broke for a lot of ass shaking and top of the lungs serenading of Brody. My dog is in therapy now, but it’s all good. So I got my happy ass on itunes and decided to get more. Thing is, I like them better when I go backwards, which I almost never do. So, I got some tracks off Holy Roller Novocaine and one of Youth and Young Manhood, but I didn’t like what I heard off their latest album. I am almost positive though that I will be here next November talking about how fricken awesome that album is though. Second of all, I went up to my Mom’s for Thanksgiving and while I was there I whined to her about Dale and August EMCDing the parental generation. We took a short commercial break while I explained to her what EMCD meant (Jeez, where has she been? Heh.) and then she broke into one of her glorious maternal moments. I love those because they are always a surprise treat. ;) “Well of course you’ve EMCD’d me darlin’. You turned me onto Dead Milkmen. And your brother turned me onto the Cure.” Me: “But Mom, I listened to the Cure before Nolan was out of diapers (probably not true, I can’t do math in my head).” “Doesn’t matter, I didn’t pay attention to what you listened to back then.”….and we are out of the maternal moment.Regardless, as soon as she said it, I remembered the moment. My mother, brother, and I were in the car a few years ago. My brother is 9 years younger than me and he never outgrew the teenage “I know everything and you are a moron” phase. He was lecturing me on how little I knew about good music…blah blah blah. I threw a Dead Milkmen cd into my Mom’s cd player to drown him out. Now, at this point, you may be thinking he has a point because I chose Dead Milkmen to drown him out. You’re wrong. (Just so you know.) My brother was actually drawn in and we have spent many a happy day since where one of us will randomly start a Dead Milkmen lyric in the middle of someone else’s boring conversation and the other will answer with the next, and so on until we are both singing at the top of our lungs (Loud family. Could be a genetic hearing issue. Don’t know.) Anyway, it was the Blues Song that sold my mother. I don’t even know what it is in particular about that song, but that was the song that sold her on Dead Milkmen. Here it is:
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