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I think we all had the same thought when we saw this video back in 1987 or whatever — that big-haired redhead in the parking garage is going slap Chuck Finely around someday…

I heard this on 98 Rock while I was going out for my roast beast sammich at Harris Teeter today. It holds up [...]

This Screaming Trees song was an earworm yesterday, so I post it today:

When I sang a few bars to reacquaint my wife with it, my son laughed a lot.

Keeping the theme of songs dealing with Penn State opponents for Music Tuesday this football season can be a little tricky. For example, I was unaware of any Iowa musicians, so I had to look at Wikipedia. The Everly Brothers came up, so I figured they’d be as good as anyone. The Nittany Lions play [...]

If you name-check Penn State’s upcoming opponent in a song, you get to be on Music Tuesday. I am sure that is what Walter Becker and Donald Fagan were thinking when they wrote “Deacon Blues.” It isn’t my favorite Steely Dan song, but not a bad one either.
You probably thought I was going to play [...]

I’m bringing back Music Tuesday for football season with a theme — each week’s edition will be tangentially related Penn State’s opponent. This week is easy — Bruce Springsteen’s “Youngstown” since the Nittany Lions are playing Youngstown State.
Next week’s won’t be so depressing.

Remember when I used to do Music Tuesday weekly? Good times, just haven’t been doing it lately. Anyway, on a whim, I searched YouTube for a live-ish version of the Jane’s Addiction song, “So, What.” The now defunct Revolution 101.1 in State College used to play this frequently — it was the only place I [...]

When he was growing up on the Lower East Side of New York City, Jim Carroll like to shoot hoops, heroin. He wrote The Basketball Diaries and started a band. “People Who Died” was his best known song. He died the other day at age 60.
Jim Carroll, PeopleWhoDied
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Sometime in the late 1970s, Elvis Costello got banned from Saturday Night Live for some reason after playing “Radio Radio.” He and SNL have since made up and he crashed a Beastie Boys on the program apperance a while back. Clearly, he was predicting the demise of the Mike O’Meara Show and WJFK when he [...]

Today is Bastille Day, so I’ll celebrate with the best rendition of the French National Anthem. The Ombudsman is celebrating by being in France right now, lucky them. Anyway, this was one of the great scenes in Casablanca. How typical of Nazis to get mad because people were having fun.
Speaking of fun

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My wife bought a new shower curtain for our son’s bathroom. Upon seeing it, I immediately thought of this particular song:

“So Long and Thanks For All the Fish” may have been the best part of the movie “The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.” No, I take that back, Zooey Deschanel was the best part.
I reviewed [...]