Gnarls Barkley...
No real reason for this selection other than the fact I like the tune. We could maintain the WX is making us crazy or that there's some connection between this tune and Former Happy Days. But we won't go to either place, we'll just pop open another Sammy Adams Winter Ale instead and enjoy the tune.
I think the day calls for a second cigar, too. It's kinda-sorta out of character for me to do more than one cigar per day, but I've been prone to do more than one since the humidor got fat. Which kinda reminds me of that sayin': too much is just enough. Or sumthin' like that.
"too much is just enough."
ReplyDeleteI'm with you on that one. The English poet William Blake had two takes on this idea:
1. "Enough, or too much!"
2. "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."
Too much is a pinch shy of just enough on some days. This must be one of those days.
ReplyDeleteThe English poet William Blake had two takes on this idea:...
ReplyDeleteI'm SO glad you drop by, Dan. If it weren't for you (and google) I'd be hopelessly illiterate. Or more so than I am, anyhoo. I can vouch for Blake's second thought, though, having been through the "too much" phase a lot more than I should have.
Moogie: Today is one of "those days," indeed.
I was not reminded of William Blake, although I have read lots of his work :) Instead, I thought about Commader Cody and "Too Much Fun," which then reminded me of Joe Ely singing "West Texas Waltz." Joe did not sing about too much fun, but had a great line that went something like: Only two things I like better than milkshakes and malts...One is dancin' like the dickens to the West Texas Waltz...
ReplyDeleteFunny how my mind works sometimes!
"I'd be hopelessly illiterate."
ReplyDeleteI beg to differ, sir. I stop by EIP regularly because (outside of VDH) it is the most literate and well written blog or website I visit. That's no BS.
Re: "the palace of wisdom."
That epigram does make a lot of common sense. In one view it's a justification of risk taking by means of "one learns from his mistakes" logic. As in the now wise person saying (after an all night debauch) "I ain't doin' THAT again. Ever!"
Great song! For cute laughs do a YouTube search on Guinea Pigs and Gnarls. You'll find a video of the Piggies "singing" along to Crazy.
ReplyDeleteSilliness abounds.
A friend of mine, since graduated to the spirit world, used to play drums as a hobby. I was learning how to play the guitar (probably for 20 years off and on).
ReplyDeleteAfter a bit, he talked me into buying a bass guitar from the pawn shop (his advise was I needed fewer strings to confuse me).
Years later we must have spent hours trying to lay down this beat onto an old cassette two-track recorder he had found at a pawn shop (drums on track one, bass on track two). We were computer stupid. I still remember when this song came out.
We never succeeded, but had a lot of fun trying. The beat on this is pure rock and roll.
I don't think either of realized it was probably an electronic drum machine. I read in the wiki article it was done in one-take. Yea right! Maybe the voice-over.
Groovy, ta-dum, I love that two-beat drum sound used throughout.
wv:tackship to port!, no wait, to starboard!, no wait! to...
I like the song--it grows on you.
ReplyDelete"Too much of a good thing is wonderful!"
-----Mae West
Bec: LaMontagne has been on my Amazon wish-list for quite a while; I first heard him on Pandora some time ago. I really need to clean up that wish list! Thanks for that link. I too, like Gnarls version the best, and I've heard a couple of other versions.
ReplyDeleteFunny how my mind works sometimes!
Well, Lou, if your mind leads you to Joe Ely that ain't a bad thing!
Dan: You make me blush, but thank you for the kind words!
Silliness abounds.
Silly is GOOD! I liked the G. Pigs. A lot.
Anon: That's a good story, but is the bass REALLY easier to play? (I wouldn't know)
Virgil: And Ms. West was RIGHT.
Re: Bass easier to play
ReplyDeleteTo me it's easier, but it's also more demanding. In that you have to be the funk, and being a white blond Scandinavian I may be missing a chromosome to funk correctly :-)
There's some neat youtube videos of a lot of talented teachers.