On Dec 5, 9:20*pm, --Bryan > wrote:
> On Dec 5, 3:12*pm, sf > wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:26:56 -0800, Dan Abel > wrote:
> > >In article >,
> > > blake murphy > wrote:
>
> > >> On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:09:31 -0800, Dan Abel wrote:
>
> > >> > In article >,
> > >> > *blake murphy > wrote:
>
> > >> >> On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 08:21:28 -0800 (PST), Food Snob® wrote:
>
> > >> >>> And give desperate old farts like you a sexual kick? *I don't think
> > >> >>> so.
>
> > >> >> i'm not the callow young punk who seems to be a control freak.
>
> If I were interested in really controlling people, I wouldn't waste
> time insulting folks on Usenet.
>
>
>
> > >> > Control freak? *Maybe. *I'll bet his wife gets an equal turn at the
> > >> > horsewhip, though. *
>
> We get along really well. *No whips at all.
>
> > >> > Callow young punk? *I don't know where you get that.
>
> I think he was contrasting my exaggerated youth with his (admittedly)
> exaggerated age.
> **
>
> > >> > They've been married 23 years. *He's admitted that his mug shot is not
> > >> > very current (although obviously more current than Sheldon or Steve
> > >> > Wertz).
>
> There is a current (last May) photo on Flickr:http://www.flickr.com/photos/15522299@N08/3498497572/
>
>
>
> > >> callow young punk is as callow young punk does. *
>
> > >I looked that up in my dictionary (you've probably noticed I do that a
> > >lot). *The whole phrase wasn't in there. *Both "callow" and "punk" refer
> > >to young and inexperienced.
>
> > Look up this word... "redundant". *I think he was trying to make a
> > point. * *Youth is in the eye of the beholder, callow is an
> > excellent descriptive word and isn't bobo a punk rocker?
>
> Callow is indeed an excellent word, and Blake is obviously rather
> literate. *However it doesn't describe me very well. *I'm not going to
> go into details, but I've certainly had experiences.
>
> I'm a punk rocker in the sense that that became a self descriptor in
> 1977. *Prior to that I called myself Rock'n Roller. *Neither was
> dependent upon my making music, but just being hugely into it in a
> subculture sort of way: the whole Bewlay Brothers, meta Rock'n Roll
> thing, with Mott the Hoople and Lou Reed and the Rolling Stones, Neil
> Young...I had thought for a couple of years that the Neil Young song,
> Ohio, was at least the first among equals of great songs, but "punk"
> took Neil Young and the rest to new levels of socio-political anger,
> and I'm not talking about the generalized anger of post punk, but
> coherent stuff, like the early Clash singles.
> The Bonobos project--which is pretty much over--was a synthesis of all
> that.
>
> I just copied this playlist from an old post. *It was for my wife and
> my 20th anniversary party:
>
> S&G-Sound of Silence
> Zombies-She's Not There
> * * * *-Time of the Season
> MtH-The Moon Upstairs
> * *-Ready for Love
> * *-Pearl & Roy
> The Who-Baba O'Reilly
> * * * *-I Can See for Miles
> * * * *-Pictures of Lily
> The Kinks-Lola
> Animals-We Gotta Get Out of This Place
> Void-Oids-Blank Generation
> Patti Smith-GLORIA
> Sex Pistols-Holidays in the Sun
> * * * * * *-Who Killed Bambi
> The Clash-Remote Control
> * * * * *-Complete Control
> * * * * *-White Man in a Ham...
> * * * * *-City of the Dead
> * * * * *-London Calling
> The Damned-Neat, Neat,Neat
> * * * * * -New Rose
> White Stripes-7 Nation Army
> Bowie-Suffragette City
> * * *-Rebel, Rebel
> Gun Club-Sex Beat
> Hollies-Carrie Ann
> * * * *-Bus Stop
> Circle Jerks-Jerks on 45
> Raspberries-Go All the Way
> Black Flag-TV Party
> Chuck Berry-Johnny B. Goode
> Shondells-Crimson&Clover
> Stones-Paint it Black
> * * * -Let it Bleed
> * * * -Sister Morphine
> * * * -Rocks Off
> Weirdos-We've Got the Neutron Bomb
> * * * *-A Life of Crime
> Little Richard-Tutti Fruitty
> NY Dolls-Who are the Mystery Girls?
> Monkees-Pleasant Valley Sunday
> Stooges-I Wanna Be Your Dog
> VU-Heroin
> * -Lady Godiva's Operation
> Ian Dury-Sweet Gene Vincent
> Association-Along Comes Mary
> Neil Young-Ohio
> * * * * * -Cowgirl in the Sand
> Cream-Tales of Brave Ulysses
> * * *-White Room
> Jimi Hendrix-Bold as Love
> 45 Grave-Partytime!
> Bob Dylan-Memphis Blues Again
>
>
>
> Anyone who is not familiar with any of the songs on there should seek
> them out. *Good stuff. *I don't really differentiate between them as
> being separate genres. *There is something there that unifies them.

Yeah there's something that unifies all of them! GREATNESS!!

It's like Steve Winwood said in an interview I heard years ago,
there's basically two kinds of music: good and bad. Of the songs I
know of (which is most) I didn't see a bad song on your list, Bryan!

Good food and good music: two things I can always count on at Bryan's
place! Which I'll be visiting in the near future too!

John Kuthe...

NP: Temptations, "Papa Was A Rolling Stone" (Pandora One ROCKS!)