Phish knows what time it is:
@msmallmon @miklasz @BernieShow Over here at Chaifetz Arena, Phish opened set 2 with Gloria straight into the Rolling Stones Loving Cup. Cup fever everywhere!! pic.twitter.com/NAi3N69qeL— Nathan Thomas (@mizzounate) June 13, 2019
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Bruins looked slow and disjointed last night. (Which could describe me most days) The Blues kicked their ass.
ReplyDeleteSome days the blues kick my ass.
ReplyDeletenot entirely sure what game squeaky watched. bruins dominated the first two periods and had way more scoring chances. just couldn't get anything past binnington. blues were the better team in the third.
ReplyDeleteIs Gloria a St Louis song?
ReplyDeleteBoth Phish and Vampire Weekend paid tribute to the St. Louis Blues’ Stanley Cup victory on Wednesday with respective live versions of Laura Branigan’s 1982 synth-pop anthem “Gloria,” which the hockey team used this season as their post-victory locker room song.
ReplyDeleteSteely Dan did a version of “East St. Louis Toodle-oo” and wrote and recorded “Deacon Blues.” That medley would have been appropriate.
ReplyDeleteThey should’ve played a cooler song, like Deep Blue Something’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
ReplyDeleteI like that song more than I should
ReplyDeletei remember the film
ReplyDeletedeep purple is right out?
ReplyDeletebecause this works . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnNSyX7nXuQ
and this comment strand is all the hockey news i will ingest until next year.
ReplyDeleteLaura Branigan vid = cutting edge. The slow motion at the 2 min mark is gold.
ReplyDeleteThey should've played "Ante Up."
ReplyDeleteFWIW, my 5-year-old daughter loves "Gloria."
ReplyDeleteIt was 1982, Danimal. Video technology advanced a lot in the next decade. Case in point: Timmy T.
ReplyDeleteThanks Whit. Helpful
ReplyDeleteJust when you thought Koepka's hat game couldn't get worse.
i'm pretty pumped for this game. and i'm tired as fuck and have been all day. take the under on how many minutes i last before i fall asleep.
ReplyDeleteAlas, DraftKings did not have a line on sleepy squirrels. But I did take the Warriors giving three. Not feeling great about that right now. Steph needs to wake up.
ReplyDeleteI also got Koepka +1100 and DJ +850.
one of our cats had dental surgery today. the vet prescribed a painkiller that turns out is 30x stronger than morphine. given how painful it was to pay the $1200 the procedure cost, i might take some of those good drugs for myself.
ReplyDeleteI’ve been at one of the Universal resorts all day (Loews Pacific) for the first of a free three day work trip that my wife won. Had to schmooze a bunch of people at a reception this evening. I could go downstairs and have some beers at the bar whilst watching this game. Better yet, I’m gonna sit in this room and sip whiskey after a few the wax pen I hit when I went to grab ice.
ReplyDeleteSonja Curry...still fine as hell.
ReplyDeleteKlay Thompson is damn superstar.
ReplyDeleteThe injuries in this series have gone plaid. This is dumb.
ReplyDeleteAt a karaoke bar in Virginia Beach. A girl is singing deep blues something breakfast at Tiffany’s. Its awesome.
ReplyDeleteThat song got some run back in the day. And as I recall, I think we all kinda liked it.
ReplyDeleteExcept Zman and Rootsy and Marls, who were musical elitists. Actually, I think most folks hated it and three of us played it over and over to annoy them. And to rock out.
I can indulge that song in a good ol' hate listen, but then I'm annoyed that it's stuck in my head. In fact, it's in my head now. Thanks guys!
ReplyDeletethat song is a huge 'music as memory' trigger for me. when i first started dating my wife, i was listening a lot to a mix that my sister had made for me. it included 'breakfast at tiffany's'. heard that song a lot driving from my house to my then-girlfriend's and back. i'll always have a soft spot for it.
ReplyDeleteon a different note, is it possible to simultaneously believe that toronto earned/deserved that title and that they wouldn't have won it if kevin durant was healthy?
ReplyDeleteOf course. That's the kind of discussion/debate that used to occupy our afternoons in the Pit.
ReplyDelete...and what also occupies daytime ESPN networks that are extremely hard-pressed for content and who are like we can't believe we have several networks of sports running 24 frickin hours a day and are you serious wtf do we put on all day so we might as well have Colin Cowherd and Skip Bayless and all the rest of the mouthpieces hash out an unproveable, impossible to definitively settle topic for 5 to 30 minutes a pop.
I am a horrific singer, but that didn't stop me from making an ass of myself at the coolest karaoke bar in Nashville, and maybe the universe, a couple of weeks ago. Really whiffed on the song choice...chose to go with something no one could sing along to.
ReplyDeletePlayed a quick 9 this morning and playing Sun. Father's Day does not occur enough.
Stayed in a newish hip area - Wedgewood Houston....the karaoke bar ...Santa's Pub....cash only, $2 beers, and a makeshift double wide trailer. Whitney...it is your spot.
ReplyDeleteso now we all have to guess danimal's song, don't we? it wasn't 'friends in low places' or 'you never even called me by my name' or 'breakfast at tiffany's'. i'm going with 'careless whisper'.
ReplyDeleteTop Songs with Meals in Them
ReplyDelete5-Piece Chicken Dinner - Beastie Boys
Breakfast in America - Supertramp
Dinner Bell - They Might Be Giants
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Deep Blue Something
Beans for Breakfast - Johnny Cash
Breakfast in Bed - Mayer Hawthorne
Breakfast in Bed - UB40 and Chrissie Hynde
Dinner and a Movie - Phish
A Growing Boy Needs His Lunch - Dead Kennedys
Girls Just Want to Have Lunch - Weird Al
Worst:
I Wish Lunch Could Last Forever - Jimmy Buffett
We can sing along to Careless Whisper!
ReplyDeleteDanimal, it sounds ideal. I'm in. The karaoke bar in Va Beach last night is such a cheesedump but it was great. Our friend Vicky is in town and asked to go. She crushed some Jovi and we dueted Looking Glass "Brandy." I took the Man in Black's rendition of "Hurt" for a mediocre spin.
"a song no one could sing along to"
ReplyDeleteHmmm... "Billie Jean"? Because people saw the documentary? (Don't.)
Gonna need more of a hint.
'black coffee in bed' should count, whit
ReplyDeleteDan said Wedgewood. Heehee.
ReplyDeleteThat's a good one.
ReplyDeleteAlso, this amused me:
http://guinnesseats.com/feature/24-song-titles-that-are-instantly-improved-by-adding-the-word-sausage
What about Live at the BBQ?
ReplyDeleteI meant that as a good meal song, not a sausage song. Although I guess that works too.
ReplyDeleteNo one could sing along to cuz the song I picked, though not obscure to us, was never a big hit. The album was their debut album - 1983. I think at least a few of us - the older fellas, know just about every song on the album.
ReplyDeletedanimal sang 'crazy' by patsy cline
ReplyDeleteBut whippersnappers who comprised 3 out of 4 at Santa's Pub, seemingly had no previous exposure to said band/songs. They have now though!
ReplyDeleteWhit dog is going to guess this by noon. I think.
ReplyDeletethe album will be guessed...probably not the song
ReplyDeletedanimal sang 'catapult' from murmur
ReplyDeleteDanimal sang “Dancing Street” off Katrina and the Waves debut album
ReplyDeleteNot a bad album guess Rob, but wrong. TJ, bad both ways.
ReplyDeleteRobbie - I should have you know we began using a Thomson Reuters product this week - Contract Express. Congratulations.
It's not a country song in case you're thinking that genre
ReplyDeletei hope you were thinking about that while you were singing 'kiss off' by the violent femmes.
ReplyDeleteWhen Doves Cry? It's Raining Men?
ReplyDeleteLike a Virgin? She-Bop?
ReplyDeleteRob wins absolutely nothing, but did guess both album and song! And before noon. Way to go Roberto!
ReplyDeleteSeek and Destroy off Kill 'Em All? Not likely.
ReplyDeleteNot a song title, but “chop your breakfast on a mirror” from Metallica’s Master of Puppets is a bad-ass verse in a badder-ass tune.
ReplyDeleteWow! Awesome job, Robbie Robb.
ReplyDeleteThey do it all the time, yeah, yeah
ReplyDeleteYeah, they do it all the time, yeah, yeah
That should've been an excellent karaoke choice, D-train. The crowd could sing the yeah yeahs and get into it... Lame.
My last karaoke was January 2012. Wife and I are w/ the kids at an all-inclusive in Turks & Caicos. We found out the lobby bar in our building was having a karaoke night. We did the “put the kids down by 9 and then quietly drink wine” thing for a while. I became overserved and my wife became underwhelmed. She went to sleep. I charged down to the bar and put my name/tune on. A couple rednecks got a big response to “Take This Job and Shove It” right before me. I went up next and did When You Were Young by The Killers with 110% effort. Crowd did not buy in. I knew and doubled down, passionately screaming to the strangers. Song ends, nobody laughs, I pass the mic back and walk out of the bar. For four minutes, I was a superstar.
ReplyDeleteThe TR experience in a nutshell.
ReplyDeleteI got 'em going a little bit on the chorus. Comparatively though, it was just a little light.
ReplyDeleteWe’ve been at Volcano Bay since 10 am. Orlando in the summer is the land of bad tattoos. It’s a nice water park though.
ReplyDeleteI’m still laughing at TRaoke
ReplyDeleteI wanna party with that guy. And all you others too.
ReplyDeleteI had that cassette tape Danimal--loved it
ReplyDeleteAnd I think we all need to have a karaoke night with TR soon
Amid his epic trail walking, Rootsy joined Zman, Me, Los Hermanos Carlos and some others (I think) in a bizarre karaoke night in Manhattan. Was ‘97 or ‘98. I remember we had our own room and I crushed Patience by GnR. Not a party tune, but a fun one to bellow. Bad musical decisions were abundant. I remember very little.
ReplyDeleteI have a vivid recollection of TRaoke doing G’n’R “Patience” in Manhattan in 1998 when Zman drove out and drove dirty hiker trash ass into NYC for a little dose of culture. He was truly feeling it that night.
ReplyDeleteI think jspec was there too. I know we ate at Katz’s, and I truly appreciated the holdover pastrami they give you when you order.
ReplyDeleteI’ll confirm that you crushed it, except for the whistling.
I think Whip It and Summer Wind were involved.
ReplyDeletehi gheorghies!
ReplyDeleteSounds like Gheorghaoke needs to happen
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