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Tik Tok: WHY DID SHE BECOME FAMOUS OFF THIS; good tune, describing/celebrating terrible people :/
Ke$ha was, at one point, part of the LA punk scene. Later, she decided to send a demo CD to BMI, which included a variety of genres of music, including an intentionally terrible parody of modern radio hip-hop. No one at BMI got the joke, and, thinking the track was pure genius, BMI signed her. After being signed, Ke$ha decided that she liked getting paid for basically just screwing around in a recording booth and acting like a jackass. The jury's out as to whether or not she's started believing her own act.
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I listen to music, that actual people play, about actual things and problems, not the rich people b%~$%$@% "Oh no I don't have enough shoes or champagne, whatever shall I do" that populates today's pop (s~+%) music :-D
Hipster!
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I work in a toy store, there is no way I'm ever clicking on One Direction, ever. :-D
The local Walgreens used to sell One Direction bobbleheads right next to the checkout aisle. They became much-sought-after items among the local irony-obsessed punk community.
No, I'm not making this up.
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I heard a song by sleeping with sirens and thought the lead singer was female....ok technically it was king for a day by piercing the veil....which is the only song I like by them. I was confused.....
Now I'm confused.
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How does Google know things? I was looking at a map of San Francisco, and it had a marker on the Metreon with Dec 21 4:30. I got Star Wars tickets there for that day and time off Fandango, but how does Google know that?
Probably the same reason that Google knows I'm going to be looking up "He Tried To Kill Me With A Forklift" when I type in "he t--."
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My daughter likes Katy Perry, her music is okay in a pop superficial way, not much to say other then "gimmie gimmie gimmie!"
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Work quote of the day, an exchange between newbie "Jeff" and journeyman "Carl"--
Carl: "And we all know that Jeff here ain't no Albert Einstein..."
Jeff: "Hey! I'm way smarter than Einstein! I'm like a rocket guy, or something. Rocket scientist. Yeah."
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Burglary update #3: GC has decided that the best recourse for for her theft problem is to lock all the first-floor sliding glass doors in the apartment complex. None of the windows or man-doors are to remain locked, and the thefts all occurred in the garages and job trailer. Progress!
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Make sure to also secure all grand pianos to the cranes with rusty chains haphazardly tied.
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Google knows me as the guy that wants to kill all the Fleas.
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Make sure to also secure all grand pianos to the cranes with rusty chains haphazardly tied.
Cranes? This ain't no high-budget operation here, man.
I once watched a guy in a JLG lift trying to bring a bunch of pallets of shingles up to the roof, but the lift kept rocking back and forth, so they had to get another guy to put the bucket of his excavator on the back of the lift so that it wouldn't fall over. Super-high-tech, right?
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I've seen scarier. :-)
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I like that the one individual who insinuated the other to be unintelligent in David's story not only used the word "ain't", but a double negative as well.
I'm not a Grammar Nazi, except with people who claim intellectual superiority.
For example: a friend of mine received his teaching certificate in English, and proceeded to talk about how he can now officially correct others when they're speaking wrong on Facebook; legal requisites to get annoyed with your/you're/yore mixups, and the like.
I pointed out that, in that paragraph of announcement, he ended one sentence with a preposition, and he used "me" in a subject phrase where "I" should have been used.
It was thoroughly enjoyable.
I don't do it to most people, though. Nobody likes that guy. (Also, I know people would just wait to pounce on me for the same.)
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There are entirely too many parents at Pea Bear's winter concert with Duck Dynasty beards.
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There are entirely too many parents at Pea Bear's winter concert with Duck Dynasty beards.
Think of them as ZZ Top beards, if that helps.
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No, it's just ironic hipster parents trying to out ironic each other.
And looking like a+%%~@+s doing it.
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No, it's just ironic hipster parents trying to out ironic each other.
And looking like a!@#~*#s doing it.
Is this like monks competing to out-serene each other? 'Cause I'd watch a Survivor version of hipstering as long as no one ever gets to leave the island.
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I've seen scarier. :-)
Is this "two extension ladders propped on top of each other" scary, or "hydraulics fail in boom lift, so lift operator ties himself to the bucket with a harness strap and finishes his shift hanging upside-down" scary?
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Meh. People talk how they talk.
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I've seen scarier. :-)Is this "two extension ladders propped on top of each other" scary, or "hydraulics fail in boom lift, so lift operator ties himself to the bucket with a harness strap and finishes his shift hanging upside-down" scary?
More like here's a burned out house, a shovel, a rickety ramp up to the truck (No dumpster), oh and those clumps of fur, yeah those were the dogs, I'll check up on you later.
That's the day I became a stay at home dad.
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Hey everybody!
waves a wing.
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The concert went very well, now that they're in middle school, you can actually tell what they're playing, and this one kid was totally getting into playing his upright bass, that kid's gonna be in a band someday.
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Hey everybody!
waves a wing.
sup
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Hey everybody!
waves a wing.
It's a bird.
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It's a bird.Hey everybody!
waves a wing.
No, it's a plane.
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No, it's a plane.It's a bird.Hey everybody!
waves a wing.
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Tik Tok: WHY DID SHE BECOME FAMOUS OFF THIS; good tune, describing/celebrating terrible people :/
Ke$ha was, at one point, part of the LA punk scene. Later, she decided to send a demo CD to BMI, which included a variety of genres of music, including an intentionally terrible parody of modern radio hip-hop. No one at BMI got the joke, and, thinking the track was pure genius, BMI signed her. After being signed, Ke$ha decided that she liked getting paid for basically just screwing around in a recording booth and acting like a jackass. The jury's out as to whether or not she's started believing her own act.
... the saddest part is that I believe this.
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Can he tell you that, if you're not in Vegas.
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Well, I'm now well past where I last watched in RvB. This story got grim pretty quick. I mean the humor's still definitely there, but the overall tone of the show got really serious with actual plot and storytelling.
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Funny work story
** spoiler omitted **
My favorite:
Q: "Why don't you have to work overtime like the rest of us?"
A: "Because when I'm working I focus on what I'm getting paid to do and I get that done BEFORE goofing off..."I would never claim that I don't goof off at work (this post is evidence enough to the contrary). I just first make sure that I've done enough work to make my boss happy, THEN I goof off...
this can be very difficult to see from the outside looking in. Certainly been on both sides of that window professionally. On the down side, this is how old boys networks get started, on the positive side, it's how people develop good time management.
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Tik Tok: WHY DID SHE BECOME FAMOUS OFF THIS; good tune, describing/celebrating terrible people :/Ke$ha was, at one point, part of the LA punk scene. Later, she decided to send a demo CD to BMI, which included a variety of genres of music, including an intentionally terrible parody of modern radio hip-hop. No one at BMI got the joke, and, thinking the track was pure genius, BMI signed her. After being signed, Ke$ha decided that she liked getting paid for basically just screwing around in a recording booth and acting like a jackass. The jury's out as to whether or not she's started believing her own act.
interesting. Marketing tends to trump talent quite often (which is a talent by itself). That said, if there is anything high school band taught me(especially band vs orchestra) it is that power resides where people think it resides- skill is only one part of the equation.
Then again I've been reading a LOT of M20 in the past 24 hours so I'm a bit coffee table philosophy at the moment.
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Hey everybody!
waves a wing.
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Hey Freehold, I introduced John to Bon Chon yesterday. It was delicious.
would that I could have been there to initiate my new brother in the mysteries of deep fried deliciousness.
Well, I'm now well past where I last watched in RvB. This story got grim pretty quick. I mean the humor's still definitely there, but the overall tone of the show got really serious with actual plot and storytelling.
And finished.
Man. Those last four episodes or so. Man. Just... man.
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Christmas is just around the corner....and Yule, and Kwanzaa, the solstice, and I think Chanukah already started. Is anyone excited? Since I spent Thanksgiving with my family, we don't really have plans this year.
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Hells yeah!
As the prophet Easy-E once said "Merry Motherf+++ing Christmas everyone!"
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Imma spend Christmas/New Year's ensuring I'm caught up with my schoolwork and finalizing my small business accounting for 2015.
Good times, good times...
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Can he tell you that, if you're not in Vegas.He could tell me, last I heard he was driving a cab in vegas
But what happens in Vegas...
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Wait! What's happening in Vegas? That place is in the desert, who would want to go to the desert.
Seems made up to me.
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Tik Tok: WHY DID SHE BECOME FAMOUS OFF THIS; good tune, describing/celebrating terrible people :/Ke$ha was, at one point, part of the LA punk scene. Later, she decided to send a demo CD to BMI, which included a variety of genres of music, including an intentionally terrible parody of modern radio hip-hop. No one at BMI got the joke, and, thinking the track was pure genius, BMI signed her. After being signed, Ke$ha decided that she liked getting paid for basically just screwing around in a recording booth and acting like a jackass. The jury's out as to whether or not she's started believing her own act.
I still remember the Beastie Boys being a really pretty crappy punk band until they released a "parody" rap song...
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I still remember the Beastie Boys being a really pretty crappy punk band until they released a "parody" rap song...Tik Tok: WHY DID SHE BECOME FAMOUS OFF THIS; good tune, describing/celebrating terrible people :/Ke$ha was, at one point, part of the LA punk scene. Later, she decided to send a demo CD to BMI, which included a variety of genres of music, including an intentionally terrible parody of modern radio hip-hop. No one at BMI got the joke, and, thinking the track was pure genius, BMI signed her. After being signed, Ke$ha decided that she liked getting paid for basically just screwing around in a recording booth and acting like a jackass. The jury's out as to whether or not she's started believing her own act.
almost forgot about that....
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Dwight Yoakum used to be in a punk band.
Tom Morello was in a band with Eddie Vedder when Vedder left to join Pearl Jam, called Bad Radio I believe.
Tom Morello also tried out to be the Guitarist for Poison when their guitarist quit, but was told he "didn't have the right look"
I also have a CD with Tom Morello and Chad Smith (drummer of the Chilli Peppers) playing " Wu-Tang Clan ain't Nothin' to F&#~ Wit" with the Wu-Tang Clan.
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I still remember the Beastie Boys being a really pretty crappy punk band until they released a "parody" rap song...Tik Tok: WHY DID SHE BECOME FAMOUS OFF THIS; good tune, describing/celebrating terrible people :/Ke$ha was, at one point, part of the LA punk scene. Later, she decided to send a demo CD to BMI, which included a variety of genres of music, including an intentionally terrible parody of modern radio hip-hop. No one at BMI got the joke, and, thinking the track was pure genius, BMI signed her. After being signed, Ke$ha decided that she liked getting paid for basically just screwing around in a recording booth and acting like a jackass. The jury's out as to whether or not she's started believing her own act.
And then they became a pretty crappy rap band. Seriously.
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My mom went to high school with Cheap Trick, with my aunt having dated most of the original line up.
One of my best friends in high school, his dad's motorcycle gang sold drugs to Cheap Trick.
It's a small (f*+!ed up) world.
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And then they became a pretty crappy rap band. Seriously.I still remember the Beastie Boys being a really pretty crappy punk band until they released a "parody" rap song...Tik Tok: WHY DID SHE BECOME FAMOUS OFF THIS; good tune, describing/celebrating terrible people :/Ke$ha was, at one point, part of the LA punk scene. Later, she decided to send a demo CD to BMI, which included a variety of genres of music, including an intentionally terrible parody of modern radio hip-hop. No one at BMI got the joke, and, thinking the track was pure genius, BMI signed her. After being signed, Ke$ha decided that she liked getting paid for basically just screwing around in a recording booth and acting like a jackass. The jury's out as to whether or not she's started believing her own act.
Gotta disagree there, love the Beastie Boys.
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I took my grown children to see Santa Claus and the Ice Cream Bunny at the theater yesterday. So, it was actually the RiffTrax version of the movie, and it was absolutely hilarious.