* Musical Pick: One actually that came from the randomizer, this evening..
Fine Young Cannibals “The Raw and the Cooked” from February of 1989. When this album first came out Donna and myself were just getting started… we got engaged. It became a hit for them about late summer of the year… and happened to be the tape… yes, I still use lots of cassette tape, to this day… we had in the player as we drove off on our honeymoon. As it happened, it was cued up to side 2 cut one, “Don’t look back”… a song about a couple just starting out. So, you can imagine, it’s an old favorite for both of us. For us, it’s a great reminder of those days. Musically speaking, they sound to me to have a lot of skiffle but with a harder edge. Vocally, Roland Gift reminds me more of the Invictus label days… groups like Chairmen of the Board, and so on, than anything else. Of course, “She Drives Me Crazy”, is perhaps a single woman opening Ref with a recognized Billy factor on a scale with Iron Butterfly’s “InnaGoddaDavida”. Definitely in the top 50 of the albums of the entire decade of the ’80’s. Sadly, the balance of the group’s output… there are other problems for the IRS label, didn’t come up to this one. They never could match it. all too often, the first effort of a group constitutes the pinnacle of their record of work. Boston, for example. Such is life in the music world. (Shrug)
I told you these musical picks were gonna be a little eccentric….
* Idiocy in wing-tips himself, Jonathan Chait in the LA times asks:
Why so threatened by a union card?
A look at the U.S. auto industry, versus the auto industries which are not unionized, ought to give you the answer. That is, assuming you have the intelligence to understand those circumstances. Based on this and past writings, I rather doubt you do.
* To those asking, Alex is doing much better, thanks, and is to return to school come Monday. There’s always the Nervous mother syndrome… worries about how Al’s going to adapt is situation to the school. I’m not all that worried, but I admit that part of me is glad that she is. In some ways, I think I’d think less of her, if she wasn’t.
* As a treat we did some railfanning, as I suggested we would, yesterday. However, 35 to 40 mile an hour winds of the west, along with a driving snow, did little to aid us in getting some presentable pics. Still, Alex loved it; It’s his first time out in a few weeks.
* If the far left thinks that we’re not going to be at war, if a Democrat goes into the White House, they’d better think again. Or perhaps a better think for the first time. Dave Newbart at the Chicago Sun Times is reporting that Barrack Obama is now on record as saying the military option shouldn’t be taken off the table with Iran. to my mind, all this proves is that the democrats know what a threat we are under. However, they are so bent on regaining power, that they are using their positions to enforce failure in Iraq. which, I think I should point out, is going to ensure that we are at war for a long, long time. that’s something that could have been avoided if they had been Americans first, instead of Democrats first.
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