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1. Do you like the look of your country’s currency (bills and coins)?
I like where it is beginning to go – the new redesign that has some color and different portraits. Damn, I wish I had a head of hair like Old Hickory on the $20.00 bill.
2. Regardless of their actual value, do you like bills or coins better?
Bills – coins weigh me down. That said, I do have an affection for the $1.00 coin. Generally worthless, as most vending machines won’t take them, but I think they are cool looking – and I don’t know why.
strong>3. What is your favorite foreign currency? And why?
The Peso is pretty cool looking. So is the Rupe. I like the Deutsche Mark as well. I am not a fan of the Euro – it looks to EuroMod or something.
4. Do you collect coins or bills? Elaborate.
I don’t collect coins. My dad did and I think mom still has all his coins. He used to work the mail clerk window at the post office and he would come across lots of cool coins along the way. I had a stamp collection as a kid – I guess part of that post office thing. Dad would by entire pages of stamps that included their lot number on the side and as a result the collection, now about 40 years old, is worth some dough.
5. Do you think human society could make do completely without money? Explain.
We will always have money and a world centered around commerce. I don’t think some sort of Star Trek world where money is no longer necessary will ever exist.
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Friday Fives
This week’s Fives come from Lono:
“Lazy style: Grab your mp3 player and put it on full random. Tell us the first 5 – 8 songs. Riff on them, and what they/ the artist is doing on your iPod/ in your life. I found it easy and fun, so my five quickly stretched to about 8.”
So, let’s go. (If you have no mp3 player handy, go with the radio and last five songs.)
1. Wilco/Ashes of American Flags/Yankee Foxtrot Hotel. There is a soundscape throughout this entire album that plays like a black and white travel movie in my head. Tweedy has tremendous pathos in his voice and in his lyrics and yet, behind the cloudy anxiety of the Wilco sound, there is a glimmer of hope in every song.
2. Nils Lofgren/Little on Up/Live Acoustic. I stumbled on this album accidentally and find it to be a great driving album. Nils is one of Springsteen’s guitar players, as well as one of Jackson Browns and one of Neil Young’s. He has been around the business for years and yet his solo work, which is solid and complex, gets little play anywhere. This song is a nice ditty about fatherhood and his relationship to his child and builds in energy as he realizes what the child has given him in life, a liitle bit at a time.
3.Robbie Fulks/I Never Did Like Planes/ Live at Double Door 1/16/04. Robbie has a great country voice and a great way with workds. He is not what you would call traditional country and hardly close the rot that comes out of Nashville and Los Angeles – but he does a great job in recreating the late 60s early 70s country and western sound while singing about modern events.
4. Johnny Cash/Get Rhythm/His 30 Greatest Hits. Johnny. Not a lot has to be said. He is great and an innovator of so much of the modern music scene. This song, covered by a ton of folks has a very early Rock and Roll beat to it. It is considered a country tune now, but it is closer to rockabilly or even early rock and roll.
5. rickie Lee Jones/Beat Angel/ Duchess of Cool. This is from a huge greatest compedium from Rickie Lee. One of my boner girls – that is, girls singers who make me hot and horny. Rickie has such a sexy, jazzy voice. She, Niko Case, Allison Krause and Emmy Lou Harris are my musical-hotness muses.
6. Elvis Presley/O Come All Ye Faithful/ If Every Day Was Like Christmas I don’t have to defend this. It is the holiday season. No, I won’t explain how it got on my M3 player.
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What is the first thing that comes to mind when you read each of these prompts:
1.What was stolen? my youth like curiousity. Last seen 9/10/2008. If found return to the big box of rainbows and unicorns outside my garage – around back.
2. On the blacktop . . a big Leer jet revs its engines beginning the take off. The great thing about my office is it is right next to an airport runway for small corporate jets and small prop air craft and there is a take off about every 10 minutes or so.
3. I have two enemies – Lono, of course and empty calories in such delights as Gummy Bears and Red Vines.
4. Autumn purple . . . leaves are falling on my car.
The wind, moist with rain.
Crap, now I have to wash the thing again.
5. Ice in a shaker.
Gin, a small dash of Vermouth.
A Martini.
Summer is over.
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Friday Fives
1. Who is your current favorite late night talk show person?
I DVR Craig Ferguson and watch him regularly. Probably the most naturally witty hosts and due to the low ratings of his show and late hour, he isn’t afraid to take random and wild chances to get a laugh.
2. Who is your all time late night favorite talk show person
I loved my some Johnny Carson, but alas he doesn’t hold up well over time – some of his shows in reruns aren’t as funny as I remembered. I will always hold a spot in my heart for David Letterman. He is not as consistent as he used to be, but when he is on his game he is hard to beat for the entertainment dollar.
3. Do you have a favorite late night talk show memory?
Watching some old school Letterman on NBC. He used to do this thing where he hand a random wheel and that would decide the show. As a result he interviewed Jane Pauly while both were in dentist chairs, meanwhile “Godzilla” was playing behind him on blue screen. Weird and very funny. There was also the Hunter Thompson interview when they did the entire show in a cheap Times Square Motel. The green room was a closet and HST came stumbling out he was completely incoherent. Good stuff.
4. What do you think, will John Stewart make it in the majors next year?
I presume this means will he replace Conan when Conan goes to the tonight show? It will all come to money and control, I suspect. Jon has a lot of control of the writing and content of his show and that is what makes it good. If he has to give up some of that control to make his show safe for network, he may very well pass.
5. Who would be a great talk show host, beside yourself, famous or otherwise?
Have you seen Paul Rudd on the talk show circuit? Hillarious and very comfortable in that setting. I vote him – and also for Christopher Buckley – witty, smart and well connected – he could bring in some great guests. Either of those would make some good late night entertainment.
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1. Could you live without your phone for 1 week for $500?
Easily. I only use about 300 minutes a month on my cell phone and I have ditched the land line.
2. Whom do you talk to on the phone the most?
Probalby my mother. A weekly hour long call to catch up on the comings and goings on at the ranch. The day to day chatter of Baggs, Wy is precious.
3. Whom do you no longer talk to on the phone but wish you still did?
I had an Army roommate whom I spoke with frequently once I got out of the Army. while in college the two of us was talk on the phone about art, books, music and politics. That friendship has faded over time and I kind of miss the chats.
4. If you could get a hold of one celebrity phone number, whose digits would you want?
Adam Carolla. He is a chatter and laways has somiehting to say. We are the same age, born just days a part and he generally has a similar insight on the world. Of late, through the magic of podcasting, he has become my latest Man Crush.
5. Do you talk on the phone more or less than you used to?
Less. A lot less. I don’t know what drives that. I don’t know if it is because I no longer care what others have to say or whether I no longer have something to say. But either way, I am not usually on the phone.