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[Oilcan]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/02/summer-songs-alexandra-petri-satire/

Short sound files for each song.  Funny stuff.

[FlyingVProd]

Some stars in the Music Industry have been doing more humble, real life videos, where they live in cheap small travel trailers, etc, like real people. Here is a video of one example, with the song Exs and Ohs...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uLI6BnVh6w

In real life you can get a job as a cook at the Colt Casino in Battle Mountain, Nevada, and you can make enough money to buy a travel trailer and survive, while you study, and read, and write, etc. You do not need to work 90 hours per week slaving for cash, you can work 40 hours with a nice job as a cook at the casino, you can ride a bicycle, etc, and you can live in a nice simple travel trailer.

Some videos show Lamborghini sports cars, and mansions, but the average guy is never going to achieve all of that, and for the average guy they can get by with a travel trailer and a job as a cook. So, I like the videos where the musicians show the real people in real life, and I like it when they show people living in the travel trailers, etc.

Also of note, people have travel trailers on the Movie Studio Lots. Air Stream is the best, I think. I had a 40 foot travel trailer in Battle Mountain, it was old, but the wood paneling inside was very beautiful.

I like the humble musicians who make videos showing people living in travel trailers, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.

[Oilcan]

Listening to the Merry Widow Waltz, by Lehar.  No particular reason.

It remains my favorite Strauss waltz not composed by Strauss.

A goodly part of my life I thought it actually was Strauss. 

[FlyingVProd]

If one were to make some new "Beach Blanket Bingo" movies, then Skylar Simone would be a good woman to hire for the movies. And Marli Buccola, and others. It could all be shot in Malibu at the Paradise Cove restaurant and on the beach there. Students from the local film schools could help to shoot the films.

Lots of stuff can happen as Newsom lowers taxes for producers.

Salute,

Tony V.

[Oilcan]

Back to topic, please.  Movie thread is right next door.

Oldies station was playing Long Time by Boston.  One of the great arena band songs, love the intro.  Why TF is this band not in the HoF?

[Oilcan]

Per an aside in national news thread, I want to offer members an opportunity to share their Stevie Nicks mondegreens.  Nicks, whose vocal stylings did not always involve annunciating clearly, offered fertile ground for the growth of confusion.

Just like the white winged dove - first heard ca 1980 as Just like the one we love. 

Also

Stand back, stand back
In the medal of maroon
I did not hear from you

[Hairy Lime]

Time makes you bolder,
Children get older,
I'm growing colder too.

Then stop spending so much time outside staring at the snow covered hills!

[Oilcan]

And standing out there until an avalanche buries you betrays a woeful lack of experience with mountain weather.

Fleetwood Mac and Nicks generally had problems with weather.  For example, thunder does NOT only happen when its raining.

Or,

Listen to the wind blow, watch the sun rise
Running in the shadows, damn your love, damn your lies

Clearly that would have been a morning to stay inside, sipping coffee in your bathrobe.  The porch is fine.  But running around in shadowed areas, shouting curses at a toxic relationship can get you police intervention and tension with neighbors.

[Hairy Lime]

And standing out there until an avalanche buries you betrays a woeful lack of experience with mountain weather.

Fleetwood Mac and Nicks generally had problems with weather.  For example, thunder does NOT only happen when its raining.

Or,

Listen to the wind blow, watch the sun rise
Running in the shadows, damn your love, damn your lies

Clearly that would have been a morning to stay inside, sipping coffee in your bathrobe.  The porch is fine.  But running around in shadowed areas, shouting curses at a toxic relationship can get you police intervention and tension with neighbors.

Well, being Arizona born might excuse both her fascination with and lack of understanding of snow covered hills.

[Oilcan]

Yes.

Simon and Garfunkel were usually pretty clear, but I did experience some initial problems with For Emily.  The lyric

What I dream I had
Pressed in organdy
Clothed in crinoline of smoky Burgundy
Softer than the rain 

Landed on my ear as

What I dream I had
Pressed in organ meat
Clothed in criminal of smoky bourbon tea
Softer than the rain

[Hairy Lime]

All I suggest is a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

[Middlesex]

rimshot!

[Hairy Lime]

The NFL is now using the Velvet Fucking Underground and Nico to sell its broadcasts. The Velvet Underground. AND Nico. The 60s are dead.

[Oilcan]

It was exploding plastic inevitable.

[Yankguy1]

She lit a burner on the stove and offered me a pipe.
I thought you'd never say hello, she said,
You look like the silent type.
Then she opened up a book of poems
And handed it to me.
Written by an Italian poet
From the thirteenth century
And every one of them words rang true
And glowed like burning coal
Pouring off of every page
Like it was written in my soul from me to you
Tangled up in blue.