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General – Page 13 – Chris Flannery

General

Dear Dick Yuengling,

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Dick, you got the goods, we all know it. Let’s not fuck around anymore with the bullshit beers. Your porter isn’t that good, and your black & tan is only passable. Obviously, in Pottsville, Premium means shitty. So please just make regular Lager and your best beer: Lord Chesterfield Ale.

Why can’t I buy this in a case anywhere in Eastern PA? You’re not marketing this product hard enough!

Stop making Light Lager, Premium Lager, and Premium Light Lager focus on the Old Lord.

Respectfully,

Chris

V/A There is Some Fun Going Forward (1972)

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I was searching for more Clifford T. Ward (after liking what I heard on the Zigzag Junkshop Comp.) and came across a Dandelion Records Compilation from 1972, which was reissued with a bunch of extra tracks. There is wide range of soft to heavy rock with some experimental noise to boot (Vorblifa).

I recommend.

If you can read Portuguese: read this blog. (links to rapidshare)

wiki link

Time for Zero Growth

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“Overrun World. Davis does not think such appalling correctives need ever become necessary. Instead, he feels, futurists should accept the fact that persuasion, not family planning, is the answer to population growth. He suggests economic persuaders to encourage the postponement of marriage and the limitation of births within marriage. How? Among other methods, by charging substantial fees for marriage licenses; levying a “child tax”; taxing single persons less than married ones; eliminating tax exemptions for children; legalizing abortion and sterilization.

As extreme as Davis’s suggestions are, he sees them as the best alternative to a world overrun by people.”

Time Magazine, 1967

I think I need a perm…

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“Why don’t you put in some permanent waves
You’ll look smooth, you’ll look cool, you’ll be laughing
You’ll get lots of dates, you’ll be made, you’ll get laid
You’ll get out and about, you’ll be laughing
Oh, you’ll be O.K. once you get those permanent waves”

         – Ray Davies, The Kinks “Permanent Waves” on the album Misfits (1978)

Disney World – 20 years ago

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I haven’t been to Disney World since 1988. I was 8. These are the few incidents I remember:

  • It was disgustingly hot.
  • Epcot Center was terrible, we waited in line in Germany to get a giant hot dog. We stayed there all day just to watch fireworks at the end.
  • Future World was very creepy, at this point in my life I hated all vegetables, but especially those that had been grown to 5x their normal size.
  • I was deathly afraid to ride Space Mountain, I closed my eyes for most of it.
  • I was very excited to ride Thunder Mountain.
  • For some reason or another, our camera didn’t work (not atypical in our family) – so my father purchased pre-made slides from many Disney attractions. Thus we have no photographs of us as a family in Orlando.
  • We ran into our dentist outside the Hall of Presidents. He eventually made copies of all his videos in Orlando for us. It was somewhat awkward to watch videos of things you kinda experienced through the lens people you barely knew.
  • There was a penny arcade, nothing cost less than a quarter.
  • Many people told us how great Orlando would be next year, once they opened Universal Studios.
  • I liked It’s A Small World more than Pirates of The Caribbean.
  • Having a parade everyday for no reason makes no sense. What made less sense was why we had to see it multiple times.
  • I did get a Mickey Mouse hat (the fake ears) with my name embroidered on the back.
  • We waited in line to eat at the Country Bear Jamboree for what must have been hours (I think with reservations). I fell asleep at the table with my face on an empty plate throughout the entire thing. Apparently I slept through the entire table playing music on pots, pans, and washboards.
  • We saw Shamu at SeaWorld, we left after half a day because it was too hot and we wanted to go back to the hotel to swim.
  • Michael Jackson’s 3D movie (Captain EO) was neat, nothing bad could ever happen him.
  • On the trip home, my parents asked my sisters and me how we liked the trip and we each replied that we would have preferred to go to the shore instead. This infuriated our parents. Disney World has barely been talked about since.
  • I secretly wanted to go Space Camp.

A special day…

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Today is the first day I have ever heard a Leonard Cohen song on the radio. Considering I’ve been listening to Leonard Cohen’s music for 10 years, that is somewhat remarkable. He is in the RRHOF – so obviously his populatrity or importance demands some airplay… its not like I’m upset for not hearing Gentle Giant on the radio.

WFMU (Jersey City, NJ, freeform radio 9:16 pm).

followed by Barclay James Harvest, and Brian Eno… is this rediculous or what?

new rule for concerts

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new rule: audience shall not clap 20 seconds after the song begins, and shall remain quiet until the song has concluded, or the performer makes an obvious and reasonable (and deserved) call from the crowd for participation.

this goes to you Old Timers. you havent heard the song in 20 years, you forgot the first verse… when he hits the refrain you finally realize that the song he’s playing is track 2 on his greatest hits… too late! you missed it. let it go. why interrupt a song to let everyone else know that you just figured out what song it was? you should be embarassed. sit in silence as punishment and hopefully he’ll play that song that once made you think you were the deepest twenty-something around. or just clap earlier with the rest of the real fans.

b’cause

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typing b-‘-c-a-u-s-e saves you absolutely no time compared to b-e-c-a-u-s-e. therefore it should never be employed and those who employ it are clearly d’uchebags.

Mad Men – Pigeons Scene

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I had heard great things about Mad Men over the past few months, but never had the opportunity to see it. After tracking the first season down, I cozied up for a marathon this weekend. Top-notch. Great show recommended to all.

I’m not sure how many people smoked and drank back in 1960, but by my calculations, every single character on this show should be dead from emphysema or cirrhosis of the liver by 2008.

My favorite scene so far was the ending of the episode where Betty goes back to modeling and Don gets an offer from a competing ad firm. After the Draper’s neighbor threatens to shoot their golden retriever, Polly, for killing/catching one of his pet pigeons, Betty, in her nightgown with a cigarette in her mouth, takes out her son’s bb gun and starts taking shots at the pigeons as they fly over her house: