cjhsa: The comment about the giraffe was an attempt at humor. I have tried playing golf two or three times and discovered that I spent most of my day in the woods searching for my ball. A very frustrating game for me. But it is in the genes. Many, many years earlier my dad threw his clubs, bag and all, into a pond on a golf course in Milwaukee.
Are there still Putt-Putts, by the way?
I was just browsing around MySpace - came there after doing a Google Image search for capybara farmer (eh, yeah) - and I found..
a SHEENA AND THE ROKKETS PAGE!!!
mAAAN!!
Here, I sent em a teen-sounding star struck message.. (so you know what i'm talking about):
Quote:Oh my god that is so cool! To find your page when I was just randomly browsing round MySpace in boredom!
Your song Omae Ga Oshi, I found it (ok, I'll admit: I downloaded it w/Soulseek) when searching out all the songs from the compilation "My Girlfriend was a Punk - 18 Gems from around the World". Thats a really good record - and your song is the best one on it. By far! I played it a dozen times on end when I first heard it, last year, addictive!
But you know, since the record notes said it was from 1979 or the like, I would never have guessed you still existed. And still making good music too, judging on those tracks on your page. I like Lemontea!
Hey, good going, congrats - and a belated thank you for having made one of the best punk tunes Ive heard EVER!
Sheena & the Rokkets rocked!
Things Hallmark cards never say
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Heard your wife left you,
How upset you must be.
But don't fret about it.
She moved in with me.
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Looking back over the years
That we've been together,
I can't help but wonder,
"What the heck was I thinking?"
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Congratulations on your wedding day!
Too bad no one likes your husband.
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How could two people as beautiful as you
Have such an ugly baby?
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I've always wanted to have
Someone to hold,
Someone to love.
After having met you .
I've changed my mind.
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I must admit, you brought Religion into my life.
I never believed in Hell until I met you.
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As the days go by, I think of how lucky I am
That you're not here to ruin it for me.
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Congratulations on your promotion.
Before you go would you like to take this knife out of my back?
You'll probably need it again.
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Happy Birthday, Uncle Dad!
(Available only in Tennessee , Kentucky and West Virginia)
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Happy birthday! You look great for your age.
Almost Lifelike!
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When we were together,
You always said you'd die for me.
Now that we've broken up,
I think it's time you kept your promise.
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We have been friends for a very long time .
let's say we stop?
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I'm so miserable without you
it's almost like you're here.
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Congratulations on your new bundle of joy.
Did you ever find out who the father was?
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Your friends and I wanted to do
something special for your birthday.
So we're having you put to sleep.
I just found out I have a 4-day weekend!
Snuggling with the little boyDog and thinking "that's an odd scent for a dog".
Ahhhhhhh, the scent of mrs. hamburger's perfume and hand cream. Appears the little boyDog got lots of snuggles from mrs. hamburger over our four-day weekend.
I got a new architectural rendering assignment today. The first one I did about a month or so ago turned out well and the client was pleased. So much so that he referred me to someone else. Yay!
My daughter (who was in the rollover accident a week and a half ago), and her JV soccer team won their championship soccer game today. She didn't play because she's still pretty banged up, but she did help douse the coach with Gatorade after a 12-2-1 season.
Went to see The Church tonight in the Gödör Club. Another band I didnt even know still existed - but once I saw they were playing here I had to go see them of course!
I'm one of probably a bunch of people who was kissing his first girlfriend by Under the Milky Way Tonight... I still knew all the words, once they started playing it (and they did, eventually).
It was a beautiful concert. There was some weird vibe at first, like there'd been some eeky noise between them just before the start or something, the singer made a coupla sarcastic remarks. Perhaps they really didnt like being the first band to play this night, before the Hungarian band - I dunno, I can imagine (them having been playing for twenty years after all) - but I'm just guessing. They really had little to regret in any case cause they had a delighted, passionate, loving audience.
Lots of Australians, Americans, lots of people who knew their songs (the new ones, yes), beautiful people, happy people. Petite girls beside me dancing, a couple in front of me most cutely giving each other kisses, at one point, on the beat of their favourite song, a little girl sitting on the edge of the stage brought by her father, different people, including a gorgeous peroxide-blonde nouvelle vague girl, tilting elaborate cameras, lots of geeky hardcore fan-looking guys nodding their heads, above us you could see the raindrops cause ripples in the water (there being a pond on top of the glass roof, so Under the Milky Way worked perfectly) - and when at one point I looked behind I saw this field of cellphones being held aloft, picture-taking. Lit-up faces looking up along the side of the stage.
And they were good. Especially the first song and the last song were brilliant, and as the concert got on they got ever more into it, especially the guitarist. It was like the place - a small enough place - was suddenly a lot bigger, like you were in an open space, or in a stadium, or on a long road through the desert. It's desert-rock, kinda, I like that, like those Arizona bands (Giant Sand, Thin White Rope, Calexico). I'd never seen them back then, and they hadnt been in Hungary for like twenty years, so, lucky timing.
They did make me grin when - they were visibly uncomfortable when two guys screamed a song they wanted to hear, and it was both an old one - not those again, you heard them think - and when they started playing one of them, Reptile, but in a revamped version, this one guy was just screaming his head off, and everybody just kinda turned, and he kept on yeeeeheeeeaaaahhhing, and the guitarist just went, "Did you come here for AC/DC?", the singer, "I think we need a doctor here!", but they played it anyway and the guy kept on screaming and everyone else just kinda giggled. I thought that was funny.
I found Deguello (ZZ Top)!
He was behind the sofa the whole time?
It's a CD. I had the case, empty, for I dunno how long. The disc was in a box with old photos.
My first venture into the world unattended since I've been alone.
The nutty sarcastic, droll woman at work, with the wicked sense of humor, who seems like my lost twin except for our politics-- asked me over for drinks after work.
Her husband is one of the most easy going guys--so funny....
They have converted their garage into a crazy bar with funky music memorabilia I could just stroll around and discuss for an hour... The sound system was stupendous, and after far more than my limit, we were harmonizing with CSN and Y.
It was just comfortable, which is the one thing I didn't anticipate. It's just eerie how similar she is to me and he is to my husband.
But: I went somewhere.
And, I survived. A major accomplishment.
Thank you!!!
You make me smile, too!!!
You're going to be just fine, Lash. As I'm sure you know, but I wanted to say it anyway, cuz I admire your pluck.
kickycan wrote:You're going to be just fine, Lash. As I'm sure you know, but I wanted to say it anyway, cuz I admire your pluck.
I didn't see these comments. Thanks so much for the support!!!
<smiles unabashedly>
Kicky--
I don't always know. It's nice to get independant confirmation now and then. :wink:
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My sister-in-law invited us for rib bbq today at 2PM.
Oh, and I just confirmed my flight from SFO to Frankfurt for Tuesday, and I have an aisle seat. It doesn't matter about my seat from Frankfurt to Moscow, because it's only a two hour flight. That was a BIG smile.
They reopened Hotel New York, a classic Budapest landmark that had been closed since sometime in the mid-nineties. It's still amazing, of course. Even just having a cup of tea in the kavehaz is surreally expensive, but you do get an eyeful for that: gold, mirrors and chandeliers dazzle at you from every which way.
It's taken over by an Italian group (Boscoli Luxury Hotels, I think), which means that the menu in the restaurant and kavehaz is, oddly, in Italian and English; but otherwise it's still all Habsburgian indulgence. And their cheese plate is pretty good too (there's this goat's cheese that tastes a bit smoky at first bite, but then oh, the sweet aftertaste).