Happy New Year!

 

Merry Christmas

 Merry Christmas from all at Schloss Drang to you and yours!

And as always, please remember those deployed away from home.

Dammnit

 RIP, Jimmy Buffet.

I m sure he's enjoying a cheeseburger in Paradise. Washed down, no doubt, with a margarita.

Happy New Year

 

Update: meant to add this link: Auld Lang Syne in Yiddish

As much because it includes the lyrics in Scots, with a Sassenach, er, English translation. 

"Trying to Reason with Hurricane Season"

 June 1st marks the "official" start of hurricane season.

I declined to participate when it came time to renew my affiliation with The Salt Mine's response apparatus. I'm getting to old to bunk on troop ships or a cot in a tent some place...

Earworm 06/15/2018

Memorial Day Earworms

While Pibroch* (or Piobaireachd) simply means "piping" in Scots Gaelic, nowadays it is commonly used in the context of  lament or memorial...









*Wikipedia link

2017, man...

Sure hope 2018 isn't saying "Oh, yeah? Hold my beer and watch this!"

The full version of the traditional New Year's song is rarely heard...

Wikipedia article about Auld Lang Syne, with lyrics.

I did not know that Will ye no come back again? (also and more properly Bonnie Charlie) is traditionally an accompanying song, but it is, so...

Planning...

This year? It's easy.

I'll be working...

All Hallows Earworm, V

Maybe you won't think this fits, but I always felt it had an eerie feel to it.

All Hallows Earworm, IV

It's a creepy Halloween version of a creepy song about a...


(A more straightforward rendition, albeit also not in the style of the original by Postmodern Jukebox, here. And may I just say, Puddles Pity Party is awesome -- this recording is not typical -- and Postmodern Jukebox is awesome, and when they get together, Awesome Critical Mass is reached.)

All Hallows Earworm, III

(Yeah, I know, cell phone commercial... But if a song inspired by Voudon and/or Santeria isn't appropriate for All Hallows Eve...)(BTW, Desi Arnaz did a pretty good rendition, too, including one on the show with Lucy, but I think Peggy Lee's is spookier.)

All Hallows Earworm II

All Hallows Earworm, I

earworm 10/15/2017

I can now report that the building the movie was set in is gone, but the Caribbean Club, a bar in which some scenes were shot, is still there.

There's a big sign that says "Smoking Permitted", another one that says "No Dogs Allowed", and a couple of big old hounds flaked out on the floor.

The wooden carving by the door labeled "Bogart" looked more like Edward G. to me, to be honest.

Earworm 6/30/2017

My last couple of years of college we hung out at The Fiddlers Green Pub in Ypsilanti. They'd have folk singers, mostly Irish Rebel Tunes, although Marty Burke sang a bit of everything.

This was one.

Alas Marty never cut an album, although there was a lot of not-quite-bootleg tapes floating around. (Folks would sit in the front row with their boom boxes taping stuff with his full knowledge. At least a couple of these were processed well enough to be demos, but so far as I know they never got a hearing...)

Too bad. Marty had a lot to do with developing my rather eclectic musical tastes...

Earworm, 06/16/2017

Earworm, 06/14/2017

For a very good friend who got some very good news today.*


*Technically yesterday, but when you work my weird schedule...
Also, her family member's not out of the woods, but much, much better than yesterday.
Technically the day before yesterday, etc., etc.

Earworm, 06/11/2017 EDIT

Heck of a song for a Sunday, but you don't choose the earworm, the earworm chooses you. Ditto for the day and time.

I was quite the Kristofferson fan 'way back when. Had all his albums. I liked his writing, and while his singing voice was never the best it was good enough if the tune and the lyrics were right.

EDIT TO ADD: I was going to add something about him having been diagnosed with Alzheimers.  Glad I didn't, because apparently that was incorrect, what he really has is Lyme Disease, and related memory loss. (A Kris Kristofferson concert that felt like a goodbye | Astro Awani)

Earworm 06/09/2017