49 posts from 2008

(I got an email saying I should try to get 10 people to come to the PRFM...I don't even know 10 people!  so I'm putting it here.)

Saturday December 20th 10:00am to 5:00pm
At The Starlight Ballroom / Club Polaris (460 N 9th Street - Just Below 9th and Spring Garden)
All Ages To Enter / 21+ To Drink / Food & Drink Served All Day
$3 Admission Donation / Tables Are Sold Out
 
THE PUNK ROCK FLEA MARKET - CHRISTMAS EDITION !
 

(100+ tables of vendors selling old records, clothes, art, music, food, junk, bicycles, stereo equipment, instruments, automobiles, tools, posters, furniture, computers, skateboards and lots of other stuff ! All proceeds goto making sure that all ages shows remain a reality at the first unitarian church !)
 
It's that time again for the bi-annual (twice a year) PUNK ROCK FLEA MARKET. R5's most popular reoccurring event/show/whatever (by far). They had over 2000 visitors and 100 tables of  old records, clothes, art, music, food, junk, bicycles, stereo equipment, instruments, automobiles, tools, posters, furniture, computers, skateboards and lots of other stuff this past June. It's all going down at The STARLIGHT BALLROOM located at 9th and Spring Garden Sts - a big spacious venue - giving them ability to host over 100 vendors in one single room - including yours truly.
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All proceeds raised will goto the purchase of necessary equipment and supplies to ensure that all ages shows continue to remain a reality at The First Unitarian Church in Philadelphia - mainly an annual payment for their liability insurance policy. Do not let the "name of the event" lead you to believe that it's just punk records, clothes etc. - it's a full on flea market with everything from furniture, to laptops / computers , to stereo equipment, to handmade apparel, to vegan treats, information from various non profit groups, book stores, artists selling their work, bicycles & skateboards and whatever else they can fit onto the ballroom floor at The Starlight Ballroom.

In addition to the normal flea market stuff there will also be a full bar and food service kitchen to make the day go by a little faster.

Sooooo...I'll be there selling (I hope selling!) vintage men's and ladies clothing, maybe some other odds and ends, who knows!  Stop by and buy lots of stuff!  or buy me a beer at least! :-P

originally from Ginger Sister, then Ross, Ancora Impara, Mariser.....

RULES

1. Pick 30 of your favorite movies.
2. Find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them on your blog for everyone to guess.

NO CHEATING.  Guess what you know, don't wikiquote/imdb them.  (I'll post the answers at the bottom as they come in)

HINT #1----(decade made/released) and YES I grew up in the 80s mostly....;-)

HINT #2----like a logic puzzle....#4 and #16 are spoken by the same actor, different movie. #12 and #16 have an actor in common (different than 4 of course).  #19 and #16 have actor in common, (different than 4 and 12).  #22 and #25 have actor in common.  #3 and #9 have actor in common. NOTE:  when I say "ACTOR" it could be a woman or a man.

HINT #3--additional quotes under unguessed ones!!

1. You're like Jerry Lewis, you give me hope to carry on, then you leave me in the lurch while you strap on your six-guns... (80s) 1a.  Laugh-a while you can, monkey-boy.  (different speaker) The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension
    
2. How fast can you run? 
   As fast as a leopard. (80s)  2a.  Sir, I don't think you've got the picture. They, our men, are being cut down before they can get five yards from the trench. (different speaker) Gallipoli
    
3. Not this time. Not this fucking time. No. No no no no no no no no no! No! No no no no no no no no no no no no no! No! Not this fucking time! No fucking way! No fucking way, no fucking way, no fucking way! You've made me look a right cunt!
   
4. But, like everyone else I grew up in large part thanks to my mother. If she were only here today... I'd say, "Hey, ma, what are you doing here? You've been dead for nine years!" (80s) 4a. But seriously, you should've seen my mother. She was wonderful. Blonde, beautiful, intelligent, alcoholic. We used to drink milk together after school. Mine was homogenized. Hers was loaded.  (same speaker, next line in dialogue) 
5. It happens sometimes. People just explode. Natural causes. (80s)  5a.  Duke, let's go do some crimes. (different speaker) Repo Man 
   
6. This is Mr. Jessup, whose name isn't really Jessup, who says he's from Palm Springs but doesn't have a tan.
7. Don't call me Elvis! If you can't use my proper name, why don't you try "Carl Perkins, Jr." or something? (80s)
8. I'm drunk. It's a pleasure to stay drunk when your little boy's been killed. (50s)  8a.  What will you give me for a basket of kisses? (different speaker) The Bad Seed 
   
9. You mean this isn't the first time a crime lord asked you to kill the gay son of a rival gangster to pay off a debt that belongs to a friend whose place you're staying in as a result of losing your job, your apartment, and finding your girlfriend in bed with another guy? (2000s)  9a. (I don't know how i can make it easier!) A Kansas City Shuffle is when everybody looks right, you go left. (different speaker) Lucky Number Slevin 
    
   
10. He is no driver, he is the undertaker. (2000s) 10a. Okay. Now I'm going to do his teeth and cut off his fingers. You might want to leave room.  (different speaker) Eastern Promises 
    
11. Until you do right by me, everything you even think about gonna fail!
    
12. What's on your feeble mind Duane? (70s)  12a. Nothin's really been right since Sam the Lion died. (different speaker) The Last Picture Show
     
    
13.  If you were any thinner, you wouldn't exist.

14. We can turn beans into peas!

    We could make beans into peas!  (80s)  14a. Mom! Dad! It's evil! Don't touch it! (different speaker) Time Bandits 
    

15. If God made it that way, you'd all be pissing in your faces!
16. I should get one of those signs that says "One of these days I'm gonna get organezized". (70s)
17.  He took me to a psychiatrist one time, to calm me down... the psychiatrist said I was the healthiest person he'd ever talked to, so Marty fired him. (80s)  17a. You think I'm funny, I'm an asshole? No no no... what's funny is HER... what's funny is, I had you two followed, because if it's not you she's sleeping with, it's someone else... what's funny is, when she gives you that LOOK, and says, 'I don't know what you're talkin' about, Ray, I ain't done nothin' funny'... but the funniest thing to ME is... you think SHE came back HERE for YOU... THAT'S what's FUCKIN' FUNNY! (different speaker) Blood Simple
    
18.  I am your neighbor and a liar. By the way, do you have Zoe's number? (2000s) 18a. Hi, and welcome back to another episode of "Télévision Educative". Tonight, I'll show you how dreams are prepared.  (same speaker, different scene) The Science Of Sleep  
    
19. You had sex with my prom date. (80s)  19a. See that's all I want to do Billy-Boy. I want to leap of this pier and fly high in the air with hang with the wind and drift through the clouds, and at night, with the Moon full and the sea wild, I meet my lover high on a cliff and we'd swoop down into the ocean and swim all the way touch the bottom up through the dark water and break the surface. Then we'd fly to Jamaica for Pina Colatas... God, I wish I could do that. (different speaker) Stealing Home 
     
    
20. Umm... , do you have "The Texas Chainsaw Mascara"? (90s) 20a. Oh, you can't do that with a ping-pong ball! (same speaker, different scene) The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert 
     
    
21. Behind every good man there is a woman, and that woman was Martha Washington, man, and everyday George would come home, she would have a big fat bowl waiting for him, man, when he come in the door, man, she was a hip, hip, hip lady, man. (90s)  21a. Now fry like bacon, you little freshman piggies. Fry! (different speaker) 
     
    
22. You're worth more dead than alive!
23. The rose goes in the front, big guy.
24.  It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Van. 
     
25. What's a logical explanation for a woman taking a trip with no luggage? (50s) 25 a. Those two yellow zinnias at the end, they're shorter now. Now since when do flowers grow *shorter* over the course of two weeks? Something's buried there. (different speaker) 
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26. We've hit the jackpot, lads! We've got God-knows-how-much of this stinking weed, a shitload of cash... and a traffic warden. (90s) 
27. This is Ohio. If you don't have a brewski in your hand you might as well be wearing a dress. 
28. Don't tell me that was it, Arnie! I mean, you gotta be kidding! That what I had you come up here for? I don't believe it! I mean she, she shows up outta nowhere without a car, without a map. She ain't got nothing but a suitcase filled with men's clothing. How come? How come she act so funny like she was gonna stay here forever? And with no clothes?! No! I don't like it! It don't make no sense at all! No, no, no, no, no! It don't make no sense! (80s) (imdb doesn't have any other quotes for this movie that would help.) Bagdad Cafe
    
29. Hey, Trav, don't knock her up! (80s)  29a.  YOU SAID MOMS DON'T LEAVE. (same speaker, different scene) Overboard (which apparently I went here)
     
    
30. When I was growing up, if we wanted a Jacuzzi, we had to fart in the tub. 

GOOD LUCK!

I have no idea how easy or hard these are...and it's not really my favorite movies, either, but I liked all of them a lot! 

I will be back in a few hours! Must get some cleaning done.

ANSWERS: 
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1.  The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai (no one)

2.  Gallipoli (no one)

3.  Sexy Beast (little niggy)

4.  The King Of Comedy (little niggy)

5. Repo Man (no one)

6.  To Live and Die In LA (M)

7.  Mystery Train (hotrod)

8.  The Bad Seed (my nod to Nick Cave) (no one)

9.  Lucky Number Slevin (no one)

10.  Eastern Promises (Naked Viggo no one)

11.  The Color Purple (M)

12.  The Las Picture Show

13.  The Machinist (little niggy)

14.  Time Bandits (no one)

15.  The Goonies (little niggy)

16.  Taxi Driver (hotrod)

17.  Blood Simple (no one)

18.  The Science of Sleep (no one)

19.  Stealing Home (no one)

20.  The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (no one)

21.  Dazed and Confused (Inspirational Place)

22.  It's A Wonderful Life (M)

23.  Bull Durham (M)

24.  A Clockwork Orange (little niggy)

25.  Rear Window (Inspirational Place)

26.  Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (little niggy)

27.  Heathers (hotrod)

28.  Bagdad Cafe (no one)

29.  Overboard (no one)

30.  Trading Places (mariser)

Oh how I loves me some YepRoc.  Okay they don't have the biggest names out there but they have Robyn Hitchcock, Paul Weller and my boy Simple Kid.  That's plenty!

Here is the link to the page.

Here is the list to see if you want to click on the link.  Some of these you can stream through the site and decide how much you like it.  I highly recommend Simple Kid 2 and Paul Weller Illumination.

The bolded ones, I believe will come with the digital CD, meaning, you will get the mp3s of them immediately so you don't have to wait to listen. EXTRA BARGAIN!

American Princes - Little Spaces

Big Sandy & His Flyrite Boys - Turntable Matinee

The Bigger Lovers - This Affair Never Happened...

Bob Mould - Body Of Song

Caitlin Cary - I'm Staying Out

Chatham County Line - Speed of the Whippoorwill

Claire Holley - Claire Holley

The Countdown Quartet - The Countdown Quartet

Dolorean - You Can't Win

The Fleshtones - Do You Swing?

The Forty-Fives - High Life High Volume

The Go-Betweens - That Striped Sunlight Sound

The Golden Dogs - Big Eye Little Eye

The Gourds - Noble Creatures

Heavy Trash - Heavy Trash

Heloise & the Savoir Faire - Trash, Rats, and Microphones

Ian Hunter - Shrunken Heads

Jason Ringenberg - Empire Builders

Jennyanykind - I Need You

Jim Lauderdale - Country Super Hits, Vol. 1

John Doe - Forever Hasn't Happened Yet

Kristin Hersh - Learn To Sing Like A Star

Laika & the Cosmonauts - Laika Sex Machine

Th' Legendary Shack*Shakers - Believe

Marah - 20,000 Streets Under The Sky

The Mayflies USA - The Pity List

The Minus 5 - Down With Wilco

The Moaners - Blackwing Yalobusha

Paul Weller - Illumination

Radio Birdman - Zeno Beach

Robbie Fulks - Georgia Hard

Robert Skoro - That These Things Could Be Ours

Robyn Hitchcock - Spooked

Rock Plaza Central - Are We Not Horses

The Sadies - Stories Often Told

Simple Kid - 2

Sloan - Never Hear The End Of It

Southern Culture On The Skids - Doublewide and Live

The Standard - Albatross

Tres Chicas - Bloom, Red & The Ordinary Girl

Two Dollar Pistols - You Ruined Everything

You Am I - Convicts

What are you waiting for???

I will probably be partaking in Radio Birdman, The Moaners, Dolorean, and definitely Robyn Hitchcock, and probably others!  and OMG I just ordered a Nick Cave CD and the new Ryan Adams and the Cardinals today too! Aieeee! somebody stop me!

Uhhhh I just jinxed myself.  The site is super slow.  Like it was taking 5 or 10 minutes to load a page and now it won't do anything.

I posted this before, as did W. B. Mook.   It's from an album put out way back in 2001.  I can't listen to this song without thinking of it as as The Sarah Palin Song, by Nick Cave Nick Cave Nick Cave.

 

Here are the lyrics.  Sing along if you like.

GOD IS IN THE HOUSE

We believe the cables and the wires

We've split the wood and stoked the fires

We've lit our town so there is no place for crime to hide

Our little church is painted white

and in the safety of the night

We all go quiet as a mouse

for the word is out

that God is in the house

God is in the house

God is in the house

No cause for worry now

God is in the House

 

Moral sneaks in the White House

Computer geeks in the school house

Drug freaks in the crack house

We don't have that stuff here

We got a tiny little force

Yeah but we need them of course

For the kittens in the trees

And at night we're on our knees

As quiet as a mouse

For God is in the house

God is in the house

God is in the house

And no one's left in doubt

God is in the house

 

Homos roaming the streets in packs

Queer bashers with tire jacks

Lesbian counterattacks

That stuff is for the big cities

Our town is very pretty

We have a pretty little square

We have a woman for a mayor

Our policy is firm but fair

Now that God is in the house

God is in the house

God is in the house

Any day now he'll come out

God is in the house

(all right)

~violin~

Well-meaning little therapists

Goose-stepping, 12-stepping, teetotalitarianists

The tipsy, the reeling, and the drop-down pissed

We got no time for that stuff here

Zero crime and no fear

And we've bred all our kittens white

So that you can see them in the night

~(whispers)~

And at night we're on our knees

As quiet as a mouse

Since the word got out

From the north down to the south

For no one's left in doubt

There's no fear about

If we all hold hands and very quietly shout

Hallelujah!

God is in the house

God is in the house

Oh I wish he would come out

God is in the house

Not in the stinking election (though he probably wants that too but I' don't know) but on his PWOJECT WUNWAY SURVEY.

Is it Kenley that's wrong with the show this year?  you decide.

I tried, Mookster.  Can I call you Mookster? (I have been all along, I hope it's not a problem) Or do you prefer Senator Mook?

I okayed it with The Dogsitter and.....

Arbed and I have planned a lil weekend jaunt to The Windy City for Thursday October 9th till Sunday October 12th.  That is the weekend of Canadian Thanksgiving (do they serve frozen turkey?  I forgot to ask) and Columbus Day weekend or whatever they are calling it anymore in the US.

Michellemybelle has already been notified of this and I thought I would put it out there for anyone else in the area who will be around those days that might want to meet up with us Voxy ladies. 

Also, any suggestions of where to eat, stay, or play are very welcome!

I used $234 of my American Airlines voucher and have $266 remaining till April 21st, when it expires.  W00t!

(I haven't listened to this song yet, so I hope it's not bashing Chicago.  There's another song on the album called 'Tennessee Sucks')

 

I might have to do it again.  It's THAT much fun.

Not really, but it wasn't too bad.  Like swallowing pills, snorkeling, a visit to the gyno, even parallel parking sometimes, it's mind over matter.

I still feel congested though, which is why I might have to give it another whirl.  I don't feel any better or worse.  Maybe my boogie snots are just really baked-on caked-on and I need some Easy-off or something.  Maybe that guy the Mookster linked me up to was onto something neti-ing bourbon.  Though the thought of wasting bourbon on my boogies is bothersome.

I have to say I was expecting more.  Blood clots, bugs, maybe an old birds nest, at least some globby brown boogie snots!  Come ON, I know you can do better than that, O Schnozz de Cranky.

The little plastic neti pot from CVS is kinda cute.  But the seams of the plastic are right at the tip that you stick into your nostril.  Owchie.  Mind over matter.  I must have small nostrils or something.  I don't know.  I just like saying Nostril.  There should be a band called Nostril. 

anyway.  You mix up the little nose-douche mixture they give you in the neti pot, lukewarm water, tilt your head forward a little, put the spout to one nostril, tilt your head to the side, breathe through your mouth, breathe through your mouth, breathe through your mouth, and then tip the pot and let it ride.  Wet and wild baby, Wet and wild.  Okay, not really.

The first moment, you get a slight sensation of that knocked-down-by-a-big-wave-in-the-ocean-and-snarfed-up-seawater feeling, but it's just a hint.  It's NOTHING as bad as fricking EAR DROPS.  *shudder*  Then after a second or two, it starts flowing out the other side.  Into the sink, if you were smart enough to do this over the sink and not your laptop or something.  And if you are me, the stream will change direction and start rolling down your cheek and chin and you will try to refrain from laughing and snarfing.  Mind over matter!  Then, after what seems like half a gallon of water, but is only like a cup (if that) you are done, you blow out the remaining stuff and then blow your nose and repeat with the other side.

They tell the n00bs to use a half packet of mixture on each side, then graduate to a whole packet per.  So maybe I will try it again only with the full packet.  Maybe some of the birds nests and caked on goobers have loosened up after the trial run.

Maybe I just need surgery on this deviated septum, or maybe just a massage at the spa for my neck.

Oh what the heck, I'm going for Round Two.  I have nothing better to do tonight.

Update:  Round Two, right side completed:

EARS HURT POPPING OWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

does that mean they are clearing up or the nose douche mix went into my ear.

Update #2: both schnostrils done:

Okay, I used a full packet of the saline mix.  It's pretty hardcore, I am glad I didn't do it full strength first time around.  It felt a lot more like inhaling ocean water only without the plankton hopefully.  And the ear thing---it only popped on the left, and it really fricking hurt, but I suppose it's a good thing because my hearing seemed to pop in and out a little better too.  But yeah...Full solution is a little worse.  Still no funky debris though.  I have to say I am a bit saddened by that.  I KNOW some of the crap I've horked up in the past.  There should be some dried bloody phlegmglobbers back there.

Verdict:  I'm addicted.  All right, that's an exaggeration.  I think I will probably try to do this once a week.  I might do it a few days in a row to see if I can get to a point where I feel a difference, and then go to once a week for maintenance.  Really though, my nasal spray does a pretty good job, for less $$ and is a little less Egyptian-pulling-the brains-through-the-nose-feeling.  We'll see. 

 

That is all.

I go hot and cold with looking at my Statcounter results.  I won't look at it for months and then I do and I'm addicted for a few days.  It's interesting to see who is looking at what.

Anyway, I just noticed a few entries from Laredo TX.  Well, one of my *other* internet friends is from Laredo, so that always sparks my interest, but I temporarily forget that she lives in NV now.  Anyway, what was the person in Laredo looking at?  This book.  The one I randomly bought in April in Alpine, TX, where, coincidentally, the author taught for a while at Sul Ross State U.  The statcounter shows that the ISP is from Laredo Community College, where the author, Keith Bowden, currently (as far as I know) teaches.  So, maybe he was googling himself or his book and came here.  (Or maybe it was one of his students.)  That would be cool.  He's actually from SE Pennsylvania, too, but I don't know where, he didn't say in the book.  So, hi! loved the book! (if that was you, Mr. Bowden, peeking at my Vox!) ;-)

Thank you for adding the Philadelphia date to your tour.

Now I'm as happy as a little girl.

So, apparently, is mariser, who will be flying out here from BFE, KY to bask in all your glory with me.

It still hasn't sunk in completely.

But I thank you, Mariser thanks you, even my revolting little chihuahua thanks you.

Also, thank you for The Proposition.

 

Yours truly,

c. pants