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In Honor of Nigel Tufnel Day, this Movie Villain Takes it to 11!
Most movie villains would be content to achieve a ten out of ten on a villain rating. Not this one. No, Nigel Tufnel isn’t satisfied with that kind of mediocre performance. His villainy is always one...
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A Few Smiles, a Tear, and a Laugh
Every now and then the net gives you something really beautiful. I’m particularly fond of Stumbleupon these days. In any event, here are a few of my favorite finds. No special point to be made; I just...
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A Rambling Little Bit About Rock Lyrics
So, I’m tooling around Vegas a couple weeks back, listening to Ozzie’s Boneyard when I hear this story about the origin of No More Tears. Apparently, Ozzie was in the bathtub, so the story goes, when...
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One Way Out – Twice!
I’ve always loved this particular tune. I grew up listening to the Allman Brothers version, and count it as one of my favorites. Like a lot of great rock&roll tunes, though, it has an interesting...
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Hey Geezer, What Rhymes With Masses?
“Hey Geezer, what rhymes with masses?” My friend, Mike, likes to make fun of the lyrics. I laugh, because It’s a fair cop. That doesn’t stop me from loving this song. It’s crude, and it’s angry, and...
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An Uncommon Love Song
Roses are red, Violets are blue. Love songs bore me, How about you? …but I’ll make an exception when foreplay begins with dentures. (Thanks to Maria Falvey for help with this epic poem.)
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An Uncommon Physics Lesson!
I need some help waking up today, so I’m gonna turn to my favorite lyrical terrorist, M. C. Hawking. I hear he has a side-line as a theoretical physicist or something, which helps to explain the...
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Uncommonday: Great Show, but Who is the Drummer?
“Can anybody play the drums? Can anybody play the drums? I mean somebody good.” These aren’t the words one would expect to hear at a major rock concert, but that is exactly what Pete Townsend asked the...
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A Little Monday Sermon Called, ‘Bales of Cocaine’
What the Hell is a Rockabilly band doing claiming the Cramps as a major influence, opening for Ministry, and working with Paul Leary of the Butthole Surfers? None of these things would seem to add up...
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Uncommonday Morning Blues – Ian Anderson Learns to Play the Flute
The hey-day for Jethro Tull would have to be the 1970s, though I always thought they got a lot more airplay after the classic rock stations began to form in the late 80s. They sort of peaked as an...
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An Uncommon Musical Instrument – The Theremin
To the best of my knowledge, there is but one instrument that can be played without touching it in any way. It was invented in 1920 by Léon Theremin, and yes, it’s called a Theremin. The idea occurred...
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A Little Monday Morning Demotivation with the Mountain Goats
It might be that I am a bad person, but for some reason this song fills me with joy and happiness. So, naturally, I wanted to share the joy.
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Moby Dick Reimagined with 20% More Recursion
I have fond memories of Zeppelin, the dreaded version of course. Don’t worry I love the leaded version of zeppelin too, but there is something about an Elvis impersonator belting out Robert Plants...
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An Uncommon Car Phone (Among Other Things)
I think we’ll just let this one speak for itself.
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An Uncommon Request
I could never tell what tune it was that my mother wanted me to play. For years she would ask me to play “the song.” Asked what song she wanted me to play, Mom would say “the one that goes...
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An Uncommon Elf
Wondering who this is? Well it’s Ronnie James Dio and his old band. …no his REALLY old band. This was Dio before Black Sabbath, before Rainbow, and well before Satan made his way into the man’s...
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Uncommonly Slow on the Uptake
Sometimes it takes a moment or three to get a joke. And sometimes it takes about a decade and a half. I think I was about 9 when I watched Yellow Submarine. I didn’t know much about the Beatles at the...
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So, Adam Sandler, Yeah…
By now the story is pretty well known. A number of Native Americans recently walked off the set of an Adam Sandler movie (The Ridiculous Six) citing offensive jokes as the deal-breaker triggering their...
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Nothing to See Here, Just a Middle-Aged Guy Bitching About Kids These Days...
See kids, this is how you scare the old folks. …at least it worked for awhile. Kids these days are so Goddamn normal. Their music doesn’t even bother me. Back in my day we used to walk six miles,...
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