Chance Bliss

I really can’t tell the different between the two.

Went to Dunkin Donuts this morning to get iced coffee and this is the first thing I hear when I turn on the radio.

Merry Christmas!

If I had this singer’s falsetto, I would constantly use it in meetings with the offshore development team in India.

“We should use PHP with MySQLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!”

Can anything rock harder than this? Nice simple rock n roll with crazy punk/goth chicks (aka SuicideGirls).

I always loved punk band names. The best ones combine sex, violence, humor, and disgust. One of the standard conventions is to slam together something mundane or sacred with something violent or digesting. Some of my favorites are Sex Pistols, Bad Brains, The Dead Milkmen, Suicidal Tendencies, Buzzcocks, Reagan Youth and of course The Dead Kennedys.

Just for the hell of it, I tried to come up with a punk band name generator. I create three columns in excel and sprinkled them with famous names, military terms and a bunch of random everyday words, then used a formula to randomize. Here are the first 20 I pulled (some could be New Wave or Death Metal):

1. Sputnik Conspiracy College
2. Truman Assault Organ
3. Strike Attrition Angel
4. Fidel Angel
5. Commie Suburb
6. Malta Drama
7. Strike Days
8. War Echo
9. Counter Jesus
10. Yalta Theory Daughter
11. Bogart Society
12. Cuban Death Stranger
13. Watergate Mexican
14. Trench Baron
15. Travolta Imperial Race
16. Secret Race
17. Khrushchev Prayer Tendencies
18. Superpower Eisenhower
19. Nuclear Forces Mother
20. Stalin Ragtime Marriage

Update! I forgot the most important part! Dirty words!

1. Washington Prayer Prick (My Favorite!)
2. Petersburg Muff
3. Stalin’s Cock
4. Dick Citizen
5. Warsaw Ass Dolls
6. Nixon Slut Society
7. Vomit Twat (Ouch!)
8. Stallone Asscore
9. Jefferson Shit Oi!
10. War Fucks Bitch (WFB for short)

My parent’s force me to go to camp one year when I was about 10. The first week was at the beach which wasn’t too bad. I got to surf, swim and fish. However, the second week was in the mountains. A decrepit yellow school bus came to pick me up. The driver was probably in his late 70s. His cowboy boots should have tip me off. For the entire agonizing trip up the steep mountains, everyone had to listen to country music and him yelling at us to “Sit the hell down!”. During that 4 hour trip, this was the one song that got stuck in my head and is still there today. Only death will release from it’s clutches. BTW…thanks for bring it up Alison!

Daddy’s Hands by Holly Dunn
I remember daddy’s hands
folded silently in prayer
And reachin’ out to hold me,
when I had a nightmare
You could read quite a story
in the callous’ and lines
Years of work and worry
had left their mark behind

I remember daddy’s hands
how they held my mama tight
And patted my back
for something done right
There are things that I’d forgotten
that I loved about the man
But I’ll always remember
the love in daddy’s hands…

Chorus
Daddy’s hands were soft and kind
when I was cryin’
Daddy’s hands were hard as steel
when I’d done wrong
Daddy’s hands weren’t always gentle
but I’ve come to understand
There was always love in daddy’s hands.

I remember daddy’s hands
workin’ ’til they bled
Sacrificed unselfishly
just to keep us all fed
If I could do things over, I’d live my life again
And never take for granted
the love in daddy’s hands

If I had a list of heroes, Les Paul would be at the top. He was an amazing inventor (electric guitar and multi-track recording) and guitar player. Also I love the fact that he named his first guitar “The Log” which Gibson originally turned down saying it was “a broomstick with pick-ups”. It sounds like he lived an amazing life.

Two people have mentioned Richard “Dick” Cheese to me in the past week so I guess I’ll post a video for those who haven’t heard him.

Reading his booking info page. It’s hilarious. My wedding reception would have been even more awesome if he was there. Oh wait, I missed my wedding’s cocktail hour because I forgot my pants at home. Long story.

The second verse of Bon Jovi’s “Wanted dead or alive” translated from English to Japanese, the back to English using Babel Fish.

Original English version
Sometimes I sleep, sometimes it’s not for days
And the people I meet always go their separate ways
Sometimes you tell the day by the bottle that you drink
And times when you’re alone all you do is think.

Japanese back to English version
As for occasionally me, occasionally it you sleep, many days there is no
And the people where I meet go always their another methods.
It is day with the thing bottle which occasionally is drunk.
And time you think re-just entirely, it is.

Personally, I like the second one much better. Here’s Trimuph the insult comic dog puppet and his translation of Bon Jovi.