Friday Fives
1. Tell us a good bar story!
This involves Reverend Ed. (don’t they all – I am leaving him two of three of the best ones). We were at Guv’s Park on a hot Saturday afternoon in the fall, as I remember it. We had been on a bit of binge already and hunkered down into another bar that day and ordered a round of beers and some scotch. We were on a real scotch kick back then and all totalled we had about six glasses of scotch and about four beers. The good waitress was getting concerned because we hadn’t had any food (she didn’t know we had eaten earlier) and she decided to cut us off. She said she would go call us cab to get us home (it was 4 o’ clock in the afternoon. We were just getting started!) As she left, we threw a bunch of money on the table and snuck out of the place and back to our car and headed to Ed’s place to keep up some epic drinking. We are both still proud of the day we were kicked out of Guv’s Park.
2. What are your favorite album covers of all time?
The iconic pose of Travolta on the cover of the Saturday Night Fever Album. The Police Syncronicity album (There were three different covers with alternating stripes, very ahead of its time, I suppose), The Beatles “White Album” – genius. The original album cover to The Beatles Revolver – the one with the bloody dolls. The Who – Who’s Next.
3. List your favorite insult!
Fuck you!
Are you done?
Wow, you thought of that yourself?
It’s important when telling a story to have a point (thanks to Ed!)
4. You’ve got to “go away” for a while and you’re only allowed to
bring 5 movies on DVD. What would they be?
I think this ground has been covered in the Friday Fives, but they would be
1. Casablanca – A great story of hope and friendship.
2. Creator – A great debate on the meaning of life.
3. Say Anything – A Lloyd meets girl story.
4. The Blues Brothers – You can use your time away to learn the songs and dances.
5. Apocoplyse Now! Redux – If you are going away for a while, why not a movie that takes a while to watch.
5. What are some of the worst lyrics (lines or entire songs) in music
history? Please cite examples.
1. Hungry Heart – Springsteen (Got a wife and kids in Baltimore, Jack.) ps, I love this song.
2. I think I’m Turning Japanese – The Vapors (’nuff said)
3. I Gave Her a Ring (She gave me the finger) – – Steven Fromholz (Oh, do listen and sing along.)
4. Baby I’m-A Want You – Bread (It makes no kind of sense)
5. All The Young Dudes – Mott The Hoople (I have no earthly idea what this song is really about.)
1. Not a bar story, but I did barf on Jack Gormley’s shoes at the stroke of midnight, New Years Eve 1997. BAM!
2. The Exotic Moods of Les Baxter. Big Sandy’s Feelin’ Kinda Lucky. Social D’s self-titled.
3. You couldn’t pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were on the heel.
4. LOTR trilogy (that counts as one!), Sixteen Candles, Road Racers, Breakfast Club and my Very Own Pixar Box Set. I know, I kinda cheated.
5. “Things are going great, and they’re only getting better. I’m doing all right, getting good grades
The future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades” Worst. Song. Of. All. Time. “Heading for the nineties, Living in the wild wild west. The wild wild west” Second. Worst. Song. Of. All. Time.
I’d have to say one of my favorite bar stories involves the punchline, “But Roy, they weren’t going to take the *sign*!” If memory serves, this may actually have been our next stop after getting 86’d from Gov’s Park!
I have reason to believe that Ian Hunter/ Mott gem is a tale about the young folk.
I just tried to do my Fives and after typing it not only said I had too many characters, but it erased everything. I give up.
I thought of a good bar story. It involves Club 404 circa 1997. We were all dressed up (Ed, Roy, help me out with the details) and quite possibly headed to a Slim show. At any rate, our glam-a-riffic posse saunter in, faced with a small group of slightly haggard-looking regulars. One of them looks at us in awe (I kid not) and asked “Wow.. are you guys from the movies?” I wonder just how high his BAC was.
We really could dedicate a blog to our bar crawling memories. And that ain’t ego talking, it’s my liver.
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I guess one good one (out of many) is our departed friend Craig Barrett swinging his bondage belt around in Timbers (a jock/hick bar in Gunnison) screaming, “Fuck you hiiiiiicks!”…and me having to physically *intervene* with several big hicks to get us out safely. The image is priceless.
I guess Minor Threat S/T. An obviously frustrated young punk, sitting on a stair with his head buried in his arms. Hoping for the best, yet knowing it’ll never come. It is truly perfect. (It was later ripped off by commercial-punks Rancid on their “…And Out Come the Wolves” LP. Fuck that.
”Fuck Off” always seems to get the point across.
1. The Shining.
2. Full Metal Jacket.
3. The Big Lebowski.
4. The Usual Suspects.
5. Best in Show.
well, I could throw in any # of Beastie BoysÂ’ songs hereÂ….not saying I donÂ’t like them, but they are essentially an insult to hip-hop lyricists.
1. Tell us a good bar story!
A recent favorite of mine involves a great comeback delivered by Reid to a drunk, antagonistic frat boy that followed us out of Adega (quite unwarranted, might I add). He started following us and Reid stopped him short, to which the rocket scientist said, “what..you wanna rock’n’roll”….to which Reid replied, dead-pan, “what are you, fucking guns’n’roses?” We all walked away laughing our asses off.
2. What are your favorite album covers of all time?
Joy Division – Closer, Slayer – South of Heaven, Sunny Day Real Estate – The Rising Tide, Dead Can Dance – Spleen and Ideal & Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
3. List your favorite insult!
Why donÂ’t you play hide and go fuck yourself.
4. You’ve got to “go away” for a while and you’re only allowed to
bring 5 movies on DVD. What would they be?
High Fidelity, Marnie (Hitchcock), LOTR trilogy, Henry V and The Triplets of Bellville (for an eclectic mix)
5. What are some of the worst lyrics (lines or entire songs) in music
history? Please cite examples.
Not only is the chorus dumb (“too shy shy, hush hush, eye to eye”), so is the band’s name, Kajagoogoo