The most unintentionally funny thing I've seen in a while

Quotable

My friend Betsy has a blog and her "Quote Of The Week" for this week comes from none other than yours truly. She should give out some sort of .jpeg trophy graphic for me to adorn my blog with.

Quite an honor.

Records

In the next couple days, I'll begin posting photos of each individual LP in my record collection because I've clearly run out of ideas for things to write about.

In the meantime, enjoy this picture of The Lorax. Suitable for framing.

Random Coincidence

Just a moment ago my iPod, set on random shuffle, played "Keep On Pushin'" by The Impressions immediately followed by "Pushin' Too Hard" by The Seeds.

Sometimes I think my iPod just tries to be cute.

Zo-paper

Here's a desktop wallpaper that I whipped up yesterday for myself featuring the talented and beautiful Zooey Deschanel. I like how it turned out, so I figured I'd share.



I don't even mind anymore that my computer takes about 25 years to finish booting up because this greets me upon logging in.

Twenty More Random iPod Goodies

Maybe I'll do this every Thursday. Here's what I've listened to so far this morning, as randomly selected by my iPod.

If this type of thing doesn't excite you, pretend it's 1986 and you just can't wait for the new episode of Cheers tonight.

1. Ben Kweller - Different But The Same

2. The Beatles - I'll Follow The Sun

3. David Bowie - Five Years

4. Little Anthony & The Imperials - Tears On My Pillow

5. Fleetwood Mac - Tusk

6. Rilo Kiley - The Good That Won't Come Out

7. Sloan - Love Is All Around

8. Eric Clapton - Please Be With Me

9. Roy Orbison - Dream Baby

10. The Beach Boys - How She Boogalooed It

11. Elton John - Love Song

12. The Black Keys - Keep Me

13. The Cars - Let's Go

14. The Watchmen - Try It Sometime

15. Simon & Garfunkel - The Only Living Boy In New York

16. The Thrills - Don't Steal Our Sun

17. Patsy Cline - You're Stronger Than Me

18. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Sure 'Nuff 'N Yes I Do

19. Eddie Holman - Hey There Lonely Girl

20. Tyrone Davis - Turn Back The Hands Of Time

Wow, maybe I'll go for three-in-a-row and post again tomorrow.

May The Force Be With You

Remember these guys?

Stay tuned for further developments...

The Result Of Betsy's Pestering

Earlier this week, Betsy and I started our blogs on the same exact day at nearly the exact same time. She currently has like 45 posts and I have one post consisting of a whopping two words.

Betsy wants to know why I haven't posted anything yet.

Really, I don't know why. Maybe I have nothing to say yet. Maybe I wanted my first "real" post to be super-awesome. Maybe I'm lazy.

Let us take those three possibilities, throw in the Betsy factor, and arrange them into a little equation to explain the post that will follow:

Rich having nothing to say yet (+) Rich feeling lazy this afternoon (-) "super awesome" (x) Betsy's getting on my case about not posting anything (=) My iPod Random Playlist for 1/10/08

Setting my iPod to "shuffle songs" (there are currently 5,175 songs on my iPod) the first twenty tunes played were:

1. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Foxey Lady

2. Pearl Jam - Alive

3. Bad Company - Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy

4. The Animals - The House Of The Rising Sun

5. Charlie Rich - Behind Closed Doors

6. Ray Parker, Jr. - Ghostbusters

7. The Watchmen - No Longer Mine

8. Classics IV - Stormy

9. Bruce Springsteen - Glory Days

10. Fontella Bass - Rescue Me

11. Johnny Rivers - Secret Agent Man

12. Big Boy Pete - Cold Turkey

13. Des'ree - You Gotta Be

14. The Byrds - Lover Of The Bayou (Live)

15. The Koobas - The First Cut Is The Deepest

16. The Beach Boys - Lookin' At Tomorrow (A Welfare Song)

17. Steely Dan - Babylon Sisters

18. Boston - Rock & Roll Band

19. Chicago - Wishing You Were Here

20. The Dandy Warhols - Boys Better

And there you have it.

I want to comment on a few of the above songs.

"Stormy" by Classics IV is one of my all-time favorite songs and I never get tired of hearing it.

"Glory Days" by Bruce Springsteen always bugged me with that line about the ex-high school ballplayer who could "throw that speedball." I've always known that particular pitch to be called a "fastball," but I didn't go to high school in New Jersey.

"You Gotta Be" by Des'ree will always, always remind me of this guy I went to high school with. I remember him singing this song while waiting for the bus one day and when I asked him why, he responded very simply, "I don't know. It just gets me pumped man." I have no idea why this has stuck with me all these years, but it has. I thought it was a funny response.

Lastly, "Lover Of The Bayou" by The Byrds is a knockout live performance and the song I point to when I name Gene Parsons among my all-time favorite drummers.

Well there you have it. Not going to win any awards for this post but considering I was just going to publish the list of twenty and be done with it, I think I've done a good job.

What do you think? Let me know by using the handy "comment" feature down there.

Until next time, here's a random picture of my dog to up the awesomeness around here.

Here we go!

It begins.