There ain't no need for ya...
I'm sitting at work enjoying the Clash. I think "Straight to Hell" may be one of my favorite songs of all time. Powerful stuff and a nice, mournful groove. The live version is pretty good too. One of my great regrets in life is never checking out Joe Strummer live on one of the many opportunities that came and went.
To answer some "viewer mail" for continuity sake: Yes, I have a banjo. This was a necessary purchase, obviously. It's fun to pick out tunes, and I've enjoyed the banjo since first coming across such tunes as "The Rainbow Connection" by Kermit the Frog and "Pussy" by Bill Wyman. It's not really easy, but not terribly hard either, coming from guitar and bass.
Perhaps the worst thing about working overnights is there's no convienient time to drink alcohol. I'm not really in the mood when I get out at 6am to drink a pint or take a swig of Jameson's. Drinking before work would be a nightmare of epic proportions. So it's all gotta be saved for the weekends. This past Saturday I was at the newly christened "Twin River" formerly "Lincoln Park" formerly "Lincoln Downs" and formerly probably something before that too. Through my smoothass work connections some friends and I hit up the Jackie Martling stand up comedy show at "Catch a Rising Star", a pretty nice new comedy club in the renovated part of the "not a casino". The only problem with this is walking through the gaggle of geriatric blue hairs dragging oxygen tanks in tandem with their Newport Lights 100s. The main floor is the last place people can smoke indoors, and it's pretty gross getting hit with the wall of cancer after not having to deal with it for the past several years.
Anyway, we ended up with another friend of ours who was working "Hot 106 Night" at the Irish pub down the hall from the comedy club. She looked pretty funny up there peddling Hot 106 prize packs with a classic rock/Irish soundtrack behind her. Anyway, after she got off duty, she matched me carbomb for carbomb and everyone got fairly wrecked. Fun times.
This is my Friday (well i guess it is technically Friday now...but, I'm off until next week anyway) so I am more antsy to get out of here than usual. Hence me rambling off as I am. Being on vacation next week doesn't help things either.
Fuck it. Anyways, go easy...step lightly...stay free.
To answer some "viewer mail" for continuity sake: Yes, I have a banjo. This was a necessary purchase, obviously. It's fun to pick out tunes, and I've enjoyed the banjo since first coming across such tunes as "The Rainbow Connection" by Kermit the Frog and "Pussy" by Bill Wyman. It's not really easy, but not terribly hard either, coming from guitar and bass.
Perhaps the worst thing about working overnights is there's no convienient time to drink alcohol. I'm not really in the mood when I get out at 6am to drink a pint or take a swig of Jameson's. Drinking before work would be a nightmare of epic proportions. So it's all gotta be saved for the weekends. This past Saturday I was at the newly christened "Twin River" formerly "Lincoln Park" formerly "Lincoln Downs" and formerly probably something before that too. Through my smoothass work connections some friends and I hit up the Jackie Martling stand up comedy show at "Catch a Rising Star", a pretty nice new comedy club in the renovated part of the "not a casino". The only problem with this is walking through the gaggle of geriatric blue hairs dragging oxygen tanks in tandem with their Newport Lights 100s. The main floor is the last place people can smoke indoors, and it's pretty gross getting hit with the wall of cancer after not having to deal with it for the past several years.
Anyway, we ended up with another friend of ours who was working "Hot 106 Night" at the Irish pub down the hall from the comedy club. She looked pretty funny up there peddling Hot 106 prize packs with a classic rock/Irish soundtrack behind her. Anyway, after she got off duty, she matched me carbomb for carbomb and everyone got fairly wrecked. Fun times.
This is my Friday (well i guess it is technically Friday now...but, I'm off until next week anyway) so I am more antsy to get out of here than usual. Hence me rambling off as I am. Being on vacation next week doesn't help things either.
Fuck it. Anyways, go easy...step lightly...stay free.
posted by Doug MacGunnigle at 4/06/2007 12:23:00 AM
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