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One Way Out – Twice!
I’ve always loved this particular tune. I grew up listening to the Allman Brothers version, and count it as one of my favorites. Like a lot of great rock&roll tunes, though, it has an interesting...
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Uncommonday Morning Blues – Ian Anderson Learns to Play the Flute
The hey-day for Jethro Tull would have to be the 1970s, though I always thought they got a lot more airplay after the classic rock stations began to form in the late 80s. They sort of peaked as an...
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An Uncommon Musical Instrument – The Theremin
To the best of my knowledge, there is but one instrument that can be played without touching it in any way. It was invented in 1920 by Léon Theremin, and yes, it’s called a Theremin. The idea occurred...
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A Little Monday Morning Demotivation with the Mountain Goats
It might be that I am a bad person, but for some reason this song fills me with joy and happiness. So, naturally, I wanted to share the joy. :)
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Hey Geezer, What Rhymes With Masses?
“Hey Geezer, what rhymes with masses?” My friend, Mike, likes to make fun of the lyrics. I laugh, because It’s a fair cop. That doesn’t stop me from loving this song. It’s crude, and it’s angry, and...
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An Uncommon Love Song
Roses are red, Violets are blue. Love songs bore me, How about you? …but I’ll make an exception when foreplay begins with dentures. (Thanks to Maria Falvey for help with this epic poem.)
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An Uncommon Physics Lesson!
I need some help waking up today, so I’m gonna turn to my favorite lyrical terrorist, M. C. Hawking. I hear he has a side-line as a theoretical physicist or something, which helps to explain the...
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Moby Dick Reimagined with 20% More Recursion
I have fond memories of Zeppelin, the dreaded version of course. Don’t worry I love the leaded version of zeppelin too, but there is something about an Elvis impersonator belting out Robert Plants...
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An Uncommon Car Phone (Among Other Things)
I think we’ll just let this one speak for itself.
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An Uncommon Request
I could never tell what tune it was that my mother wanted me to play. For years she would ask me to play “the song.” Asked what song she wanted me to play, Mom would say “the one that goes...
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An Uncommon Elf
Wondering who this is? Well it’s Ronnie James Dio and his old band. …no his REALLY old band. This was Dio before Black Sabbath, before Rainbow, and well before Satan made his way into the man’s...
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An Uncommon Doodler
Have y’all heard of Vi Hart? I’m not really sure what she does, except that it involves math and brilliance. Here is one of her better ones. …and her expose on SpongeBob SquarePants can be found here:...
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Uncommonly Slow on the Uptake
Sometimes it takes a moment or three to get a joke. And sometimes it takes about a decade and a half. I think I was about 9 when I watched Yellow Submarine. I didn’t know much about the Beatles at the...
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Nothing to See Here, Just a Middle-Aged Guy Bitching About Kids These Days...
See kids, this is how you scare the old folks. …at least it worked for awhile. Kids these days are so Goddamn normal. Their music doesn’t even bother me. Back in my day we used to walk six miles,...
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Okay, ….the Full Lemmy Story!
Me with less fat and more hair. (Apparently, someone had gotten a karaoke machine for Christmas that year.) In an earlier post, I mentioned that the most famous person ever to speak to me was Lemmy...
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Black and Blue
I’ve been thinking about what Stacy Dash said about black history month, and I think I agree with her. We shouldn’t have black history month. Let’s put getting rid of it on the agenda. We’ll do that...
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The Hip Show (Guest Post)
My friend, Lorien Crow, recently shared some thoughts with me on last tour of the The Tragically Hip. As I enjoyed reading them, I asked if I could also share them here. She has graciously agreed to...
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The Political Theology of Theodore Nuge
Not believing in souls myself, perhaps I am a bit naive about the subject. I tend to assume that ensoulment is a pretty sweeping kind of project. Everyone either has one, or they don’t. That’s my usual...
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