So I'm stacking up some wood yesterday and come along this chunk of wood and I'm like..."Wow!" and thought to myself... I should save that... so I did. I stuck it out on the front steps and when I saw DellMarie next I told her about the cool piece of wood she needs to go check out... she comes back in and says, "yeah? So what?"... so I figured she is spawn of the devil and filled with hate... you decide if this is worthy of at least a "yeah, that's cool man" or not. Here it is.... Some other pics from the afternoon...
So... final touches on the TomTEN lineup are being made... yet to be determined if we'll have new additions to the lineup... but promises to have a few suprises. If I haven't announced it yet... TomTEN goes down JULY 17... be there and bring a friend!
And finally... the song of the week goes to.... Deer Tick (since it's that time of year)... with Easy.
What the hell. So May 7th, my birthday, brings a freakin' snowstorm... we got like 2+ inches that stuck on the ground... so if it was actually cold enough where the first 2 inches didn't melt on contact, we would have had 4+ inches of snow... May 7th.... only in Minnesota... I'm not complaining though... keeps things interesting... could you imagine living in Arizona... today it was 88 degrees. Tomorrow it will be 87 degrees. This weekend it will be 88 degrees again....ugh. One of these pictures is during the day of the snow and one is at night after it really started to stick as you can faintly see in the background.
So DellMarie and I watched a little CSI Miami tonight and I came up with a great drinking game for that show... If you've ever watched it... Horatio Cane, the lead detective dude played by David Curruso of NYPD Blue fame, has a tendency of saying a dramatic line, putting on sunglasses and then walking off the camera shot. Example.... Cane says,"The verdict is in Frank, (puts on sunglasses) but the jury is out." and then he walks off screen... every freakin scene he does ends this way... If you took a drink every time this happened you wouldn't be awake to see the end of the show.
So I decide to YouTube it and there is a plethera of Heratio Cane one-liners but the best part is that there is a bunch of folks contributing their own... like "Sir, there was semen found on the victim's lips. CANE: "Sometimes the truth (puts on sunglasses) is hard to swallow." or "Sir we found the victim's penis in a jar of peanut butter. CANE: "Well you could say (puts on sunglasses) he was fucking nuts." Check it out... hilarious. Play the game too - you'll be like teenage wasteland... "We're all wasted!"
Alright, so song of the week goes to The Swell Season... "Low Rising"... diggin' ths soulfullness of this one...
Yup... just 5 weeks until SKOOLS OUT FOR SUMMER!!! It'll go by like a blink of an eye... and so will summer. So, haven't been doing much lately... preparing for the gardening season and TomTEN. I mentioned to the kids at school that I'm looking to buy a PortaPotty and they were all very curious as to why... and one of my All-Stars says, "Why didn't you just ask us to steal you one... you know we're bad kids." So I'll be working up the official logo for TomTEN this week... again, we're rocking it on JULY 17... mark your calendars with ink!
So this week I'll throw down a quick Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down (thanks to C. Strehlo)
Thumbs Up: The #8 Canadiens ousting the #1 Washington Caps Thumbs Down: the entire being of all things Detroit Red Wings
Thumbs Up: Catching Zach Galifianakis on Saturday Night Live last night - if you want a few laughs... the guy is hilarious! Thumbs Down: Being home at 10:30 on a Saturday night
Thumbs Up: DellMarie becoming a vegetarian Thumbs Down: DellMarie becoming a vegetarian
Thumbs Up: The Deadliest Catch (yeah, I'm way late... just discovered it like six months ago) Thumbs Down: DellMarie watching Dancing with the "Stars"
Thumbs Up: The famous Duluth Homegrown Festival this week (130+ local bands at a crapload of venues in Duluth) Thumbs Down: Having to get up at 6:00 every morning this week
Thumbs Up: The smelt I fried up last night Thumbs Down: The smell of the smelt package in garbage this morning
Alright, so if you are a avid DOOW reader, you'll notice I updated my 5 tunes... and you'll obviously get the theme. So with that, the song of the week goes to Hank Williams III with a live version of "Country Heros"... check it out.
We will have details soon... and invites and official logos and so on....
Sounds like we'll have a similar line up as last year... working on a a new act or two... should be a great time. Spread the word... invite your friends... we're less than three months out!
Hey peoples... In honor of EARTH DAY today... we'll go with John Gorka doing "Houses in the Fields"... a bit of a cheesy video but a great message.... all I have to say is (as John says).... "THE SPACES WON'T BE SPACES ANYMORE"... ... ... Peace.
So... back in the day I lived and died for MTV's Headbangers Ball... some of you younger folks may not even know what the hell that is.... anyway, now I'm rockin' out to Bob Dylan, the Avett Brothers and Dr. Dog... BUT... I'd like to pay some tribute - good, bad or ugly, to my teenage past.... so here we have........... the top (or bottom) three best (or worst - more likely worst) videos from the very late 80's or very early 90's.... oh, and no matter how painful it is... watch the WHOLE VIDEO!!! here we go... At number three... GOTHIC SLAM rocking "Who Died and Made You God?"
And number two... we'll go with M.O.D blasting out the screw-you-to-fluffy-hair-rock "True Colors"
And the number one greatest horse-shit video in Headbangers Ball history (at least until I can remember one that is worse....and that will probably take 3 minutes) goes to.... Yankee Rose by David Lee Roth...yeah, they actually played this on HBB - and to be honest it isn't in the same genre as the other two videos but Roth shaking ass, thrusting his man-ness at you and pretending his microphone is a penis...all I can say is ... ENJOY!
Hey peoples... didn't have to work all all this week... spring break at the schoolhouse... ya'll need to make a career change and get a job in education... you won't get rich but it's just much easier on your constitution.
So HAPPY EASTER to everyone... DellMarie and I didn't make the trip on down to the metropolis to celebrate with the family... instead we opted to have a little Easter of our own here with some nice crab and parmesean stuffed mushrooms for dinner... can't wait.
The TomTEN date is tentatively scheduled.... pencil in your calendars for Saturday, July 17. The dingwop will be BIGGER AN BETTER than last year... or your money back!
Oh, almost forgot... the title of the post... in a sure sign spring has sprung... we saw one of these guys today flying around the backyard... good to see... and quite a beautiful bird to see...
So with hockey season wrapping up and the NHL heading into playoffs, I'm augmenting my Song of the Week this week and going with something special for all you hockey fans out there... or even Pulp Fiction fans... or even Samuel L. Jackson fans... Think my new band name might be... Inglewood Jack
