My corner of the house.
The Missus doesn't share my taste in Art, but what can you expect from a woman who claims to not like The Fall.
Really Sugar?
My best friend was in here last night...he hadn't been around since I hung the pictures. He didn't even notice. What are you gonna do....he thinks grits are best made with water and that butter is optional.
How did I come to be surrounded by cretins...lovable as they all are?
I love the word cretin, kinda sounds like it might be related to critter, a small furry creature from out of space that are cute, while being mildly malevolent at the same time, sorta the premise to a B-movie that Spielberg would allow his name to be associated with, but only in the credit distancing - though still royalty valid - capacity of Executive Director; never director simpliciter. Cretin, although often a term of abuse, etymologically speaking, actually has a more benevolent connotation than is common to modern application; according to dictionary.com: "from French crétin, from Swiss French crestin, from Latin Chrīstiānus Christian, alluding to the humanity of such people, despite their handicaps." One of my dad's favourite insults, as he didn't approve of vulgarisms when cussing. Habit never really caught on with me though. He also told me "never use words you don't understand", but I think under appreciated the complexity of meaning and understanding, as well as context sensitivity and how, even up until this day, there have been no entirely successful theory-based accounts of how one can entirely codify context in the absence of common patterns of usage. Somehow I never felt it apposite to bring this observation up in father-son conversation.
ReplyDeleteI just realised I don't know who The Fall are. Yes, I heard of em. But I couldn't tail-pin a tune to their donkey body, if you'll excuse the partially and unsuccessfully mixed metaphor. I know somewhere you made a Kerouac-type free-form video monologue denouncing Adam's philistinism WRT them, I think.
ReplyDeleteI had thought, prior to googling, that they may be behind the tune Dulce Decorum; however, that turns out to be The Damned. You can see how my brain works largely on free-association: The Damned are "fallen"; hence subject to the condition of having undergone "The Fall" = same thing sorta. But my mental quirks aside. You should do an educational post for us noobs.
http://youtu.be/xi5h9Di_lx4
I should explain, the Acid Dance movement and Manchester Scene largely bypassed me in silence. I was into jazz-fusion at the time :-O
ReplyDeleteYou better not be pulling my leg...I've just lost a death struggle over five bucks with the Kitty Glitter penny slot machine at Boomtown Casino...I'm in no mood to have my leg pulled. Are you actually and specifically asking me to talk at length about The Fall?
ReplyDeleteI'm also picking up on a tacit encouragement to go forward with that Happy Monday's post I've been mulling.
ReplyDeleteAdam...with an already alarming truancy rate...will never come back again.
Oh don't let him get on a rant about the fall, the north, SEC football or Florida football. I don't have that much time on my hands to read that post.
ReplyDeleteIf i really wanted a nasty rant about the north for these pages...I'd just turn it over to you in about a month. Give you a weekly segment until June.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of SEC football...what did Scott Van Pelt say yesterday, after being at the Florida/Alabama game..."I know The South's not the only place that has pageantry and passion for the game but, it's like ice tea and BBQ, it just tastes better in The South."
Serious: I've heard the name, but I couldn't put a tune to them; I have pretty wide music knowledge, although some bands have been known to slip through. I've deliberately not gone googled; I'm interested in your posting a couple of songs that are representative, rather than an extensive catalogue. If I said I was unaware of Happy Mondays, then I really would be twisting your melon man. I assume "melon" here is a reference to one's head, rather than the other common connotation of lady's appendages, since it is not in the plural form.
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ReplyDeleteGo here for now.
I still don't know how to work this pad well enough to give subject it's due.
We'll get to it....soon.
My gues is our numbers will be 50,000 and One when this is all sorted oiut.
"I couldn't tail-pin a tune to their donkey body"
ReplyDeleteYou let me know how finding a tune in there goes then Nat, and good luck, it has always been totally lost on me. I think the fact that I have my own hash tag speaks volumes, though I will add it is his label not mine.
My truancy is in part now caused by the fact that I am unable to comment on here at work, the smooth wall firewall sees you as a threat...
I'ma bad boy.
ReplyDeleteI could prolly make a tag that says...Adam Hates On Bedbugs and, while he might concede that while he does indeed hate bedbugs he hadn't actually said so.
I wish I had a nickel for every time I've heard..."your words not mine".
It's one of his most admirable qualities.
Yeah you take a Nickle for that, and I'll have that for everytime you answer a question with a question of you own, and we'll both retire somewhere expensive.
ReplyDelete"I'm sorry. Do what now?" is a call for clarification not technically a question.
ReplyDeleteI was serious about my admiration.
We could also do with a nickle each for sematics too... this is turning out to be a lucrative retirement!
ReplyDeleteIt labels dude, you know me and labels, I work with archaeologists and historians and they terrible for it! They stem from simplification, and have assumptions based on them! Yoda would not be happy!
On another note, you now seem to have been unblocked from work, congratulations!
But my reputation...
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