Shoeteen #1, is moving out. Road trip tomorrow to set her up at college. She made a mixtape for some of her friends & here are some of the highlights. Bit short of time, so let’s make it a quiz (mainly so I don’t have to fiddle with those pesky wp player tags). Any other tune suggestions welcome.
1- Ramones
2 -I know it, i know it, can’t place it….
3- Alice Cooper
7- Beasties
9- White Stripes
11 – Don’t know, but it’s lovely.
12 – Green Day
Suggestions -
erm-
Police – Don’t Stand so Close To Me
Van Halen – Hot For Teacher (kind of awful tho)
Sam Cooke – Wonderful World
Shoey – If i violated any protocol posting answers, feel free to delete the first post.
Nope, it’s a quiz (wrong on the Beasties though).
Congratulations, ShoeTeen!! Must be a strange feeling for you. I can’t even imagine.
PERFECTLY put, steen. Goes from me too, Shoey. I look at my eldest daughter (not 9 for another fortnight), and cannot begin to contemplate my home without her. Scary.
Going to be a bittersweet & emotional rollercoaster ride for us all
You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
Kahlil Gibran – On Children
Mrs Maki and I (OK they’re not mine, but I brought them up) have always found this poem very helpful for perspective when they go away.
That is pretty
Just working off of Amylee’s starter
4. Hot chip?
5. Black Box Recorder?
7. Don’t think it’s the Beasties, not sure who it is
10. Lily Allen?
11. 5 years Time!! Noah and the Whale
I answered all of those with a teenage inflection?
Actually, I just wasn’t confident in my responses.
2-Chuck Berry?
4- Hot Chip- Boy From School
7- Sounds familiar, but it’s not the Beasties, is Shoeteen1 going all the way to California?
10-Mark Ronson and Lily Allen covering the Kaiser Chiefs I think
11- Noah & The Whale – 5 Years Time
Meant to say congratulations to Shoetten and Shoegazers for completing part 1.
4 ‘Spill pints each for Amy & Steen
& 1 to Ejay for Hot Chip
Not going quite that far – North Carolina. Did give up quite a few scholarships by going out of state. It’s a very good school though. Kid done good.
Duke then? Major congrats to Shoeteen. Keep forgetting you’re on this side of the pond. No wonder you’re up with those of us on the night shift.
Tell me that the Beasties, or at least one or two of them, aren’t at least part of #7?
Dunno how into oldies Shoeteen is but the BB’s are good for a few -
Beach Boys – Graduation Day and Be True to YOur School (both a bit too unrealistic for my own school years, let alone kids today).
Nah (way too pricey), she’s going to be a Tar Heel.
So can you get basketball tickets? March Madness should be fun.
I only know
2 Chuck Berry – School Days
3 Alice Cooper – School Is Out
Congrats to Shoeteen!
Think Ejay pipped you on Chuck, TFD. Thanks for playing & the congrats.
Well, duh
Oopsy, don’t sip the Hot Chip pint yet Ejay, it’s really Steens. Here’s the Berry pint.
3 left
You should watch this one though Shoey- if only for Stanley Clarke’s curled lip as the session guitarist fluffs his intro and he’s suddenly cut off. Plus the mutual gurning between Clarke and the keytar wielding George Duke.
I liked it. Rae would never go for it though, haircuts may get a giggle – one of her best friends is the proud owner of a super-fro. Kids these days, huh?
7. Paper Tongues – I only know this ’cause one of the teachers I work with is
a) a whole lot younger than me
b) is from N Carolina
c) insists on listening to Paper Tongues in my car when I drive him back to the office from a class we teach together a couple of days a week.
Congrats to the Shoeys and I hope shoeteen enjoys college as much as I did!!
No respect. Not like the old days, when a ‘fro meant something. And a guy with a ‘fro could let a Keytar wobble in his lap and leer suggestively, without the fear of being giggled at.
Thank god somebody is keeping Keytar love alive for the next generation.
Oi, Nilpferd, is a capiscum what I think it is? (or is that just an australian thing?)
I like how SHoey got us all to fill in the names of bands and songs for him. And yeah! I’d love to whitewash your fence! Where do I start?
capiscum.. sounds latin.. that fits with all your fancy US uni’s and their magnum cum laudas.
Food-wise we used to put diced capsicums into the (look away now) mince (you can look again) when I was a boy.. I only started calling them peppers once I got to the big city and met some chefs… or at the very latest, when I read my graduation pressy from my parents (Sundays at Moosewood).
Wouldn’t offer to do that fence if I were you. There’s a pretty but unbelievably vicious bastard of a borgainvillia draped over a lot of it.
Name that tune works out great with the overly complex player we now have to live with.
One to go, methinks.
Capiscum! The word is oddly stuck in my head. I don’t even know if I’m pronouncing it correctly. I thought it might be a pepper, from the pictures that went with it. I bought a new vegetarian cookbook (well, not new, because I got it in a used book store.) Turns out to be Australian. It’s not bad, anyway. Just kidding.
It’s pronounced Cap-si-cum. (you might be deliberately spelling it wrongly, but if not, you’ve transposed the i and the s). Most of my early cooking knowledge comes from Australian cook books, we were about 10 yrs behind them in terms of sophistication when it came to gastronomic development.
capsicums, eggplants and avocado formed part of the eighties new wave of cooking down under, replacing tinned peas, tinned carrots, frozen beans, and cabbage salad.
Not deliberately spelling it wrong, just a poor reader, apparently. Capsicum is even more fun to say, though.
Strangest thread-jack ever! Australian vegetable pronunciations as mis-read by American vegetarians.
Miss you over on the mothership, Nilpferd.
Cheers steen. I doubt I have anything to contribute this weekend though, RR wise. I’ve got some cooking and lazing around planned, instead. (It’s only a couple of weeks until we go on holiday, and I have to get in shape)
8. is lovely. If no-one knows it, I want to be told, Shoey.
Hang-on-to-hats time – it’s Coldplay!
‘Tis called:
“Postcards from far away”
OH … MY … GOD!
Shoey – the chorus for DBT’s Outfit is directed at a son leaving for a life as a musician on the road, but fits here too:
Don’t call what you’re wearing an outfit.
Don’t ever say your car is broke.
Don’t worry about losing your accent,
a Southern Man tells better jokes.
Have fun but stay clear of the needle.
Call home on your sister’s birthday.
Don’t tell them you’re bigger than Jesus,
don’t give it away.
Or, if you’re feeling melancholy, there’s always Lucero’s When You Decided To Leave. The subject of that one is actually a spouse, not a daughter, but what the hell: the line
“…as long as you come home” brings a lump to my throat