With A Little Help From My Friends - Joe Cocker

My one job has XM Satellite Radio (which is rumored to be merging with Sirius and if that's the case I may have to subscribe). If I'm lucky they'll leave it on the '50s on 5 for the better part of my four hour shift. I don't think I've gone an entire shift rockin' with the likes of Bill Haley and Frank Sinatra because it always changes to the fucking Blend (channel 25). Somebody up there doesn't like me (and this bad pun works because I work in the basement). At least, thank goodness, they stopped changing it to the Heart.

Yesterday was different. Someone thought it would be a great idea to leave it on Escape (channel 78) which can be described in two words: elevator music.

Now, I'm fan of almost all genres of music. Elevator music is tolerable when that's all you've got to listen to, but for four straight hours is does get to you a bit. You haven't lived until you've heard "My Generation" done by an orchestra. I jest about that last bit, but I will say that one in ten songs was either a Beatles song or a Simon & Garfunkel song. I actually liked the version of "With a Little Help from My Friends" as it was light, peppy and very swingin' sixties-ish. The part that most disturbed me was that I knew 95% of the songs the various string ensembles played. "Strawberry Fields Forever" followed by "Bali Ha'i" followed by "Volare". Had they all been done by the original artists I would have been in heaven.

I tried to escape from Escape when I hit the large room that holds two Fender speakers. On the days I work alone I pop on whatever cd or cassettes that they have in their collection because it's there and I like good music (yeah, yeah). Having heard most of the good tapes/cds I was elated to find a Bobby Darin greatest hits album. I put it in the cd player and turned on the speakers and....nothing. No sound was coming out and I didn't want to bother with the speaker controls as I'm pretty sure I shouldn't be playing their music on their equipment in the first place. I'm the just the housekeeper. What? I put everything back, where I found it, when I'm finished.

And that's it. No funny ending, moment of insanity or salvation. A bit anti-climatic, eh?

I think next time I'll bring along Rachel Fuller's album (Cigarettes & Housework) as I've still to hear the entire thing.

Alcohol - Brad Paisley

I saw David Bowie's bit on Extras again today. It's so funny! If you haven't seen it, do. Mother didn't find it funny at all, but she also fell asleep through This Is Spinal Tap.

Anyway, someone mentioned that Daniel Radcliffe had been on the show so I, of course, had to seek it out and watch it. I was more than pleasantly surprised and laughing the whole way through. After that I watched the Orlando Bloom and Kate Winslet bits when they were on and realized a few things:

1. Ricky Gervais is a comedic genius.
2. Extras will now be added to British tv shows I need to own.
3. I need a region-free dvd player.

The major thing that came to mind after watching these few clips (YouTube can be good for something else besides drama!) was that Roger Daltrey should go on this show. We all know he's got a killer sense of humor and, apparently, so does Ricky. It would almost be a sin if Roger didn't go on the show. So now I've got to somehow get the idea to both Roger and Ricky before the show gets canceled or some odd thing.

How Do You Sleep? - John Lennon

Though I already have a journal on LiveJournal, I thought I'd create a Blogger to follow Pete Townshend's blog and possibly Ken's who in considering keeping one to do live Who updates while in Tampa. I encouraged him to do so because I think it would be fun. I used to do that sort of thing with my cellphone & LiveJournal. No one really cared.

I really love the title of this blog. It's very political, though I'm not a very political person. I watch the Daily Show and Colbert Report and I sometimes pay attention when some news/talk radio show is on, but that's about it. I try not to get into politics because a) I'm not very informed about them and b) I really don't care, though I am against guns. If there's one thing I will stand against it's that.

In early 1981, the coroner's office gave me back John's belongings in a plain brown paper bag. John was the 'The King of the World'. John -- who had everything a man could ever want -- came back to me in a brown paper bag in the end. - Yoko Ono

If that doesn't want to make you pro-gun control then I don't know what will. That's one of my favorite quotes because it says so much in three short sentences. And it somewhat inspired the "artwork" I created on the right. I call it "Last Lennon" as everything in it was his last. The last photograph taken of him, the last autograph he signed, the last thing he saw (and thing he would remember for the all too short last minutes of his life), and his bloody glasses. Yoko Ono took the image of his glasses as the album cover for her "Season of Glass" LP. I've not actually heard the album, but I love the image. Is that strange?