Displaying 2,791 To 2,820 Of 3,373 Comments Today’s Historic House Vote on HCR – LIVE FEED AND BLOG Killer quote from Nancy Pelosi, about Mr. Orange (Boehner): “Some people will do anything for the insurance companies.” » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 22, 2010 @ 8:57 pm Few things less agreeable than watered down, tepid tea. » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 21, 2010 @ 9:49 pm As Steve Colbert says, “I love Glenn Beck’s sanity…sniff…and I FEAR for it!” » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 21, 2010 @ 9:26 pm Deal! Have fun in those red shorts! » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 21, 2010 @ 9:23 pm It’s armistice. Beck and InSannity are gearing up for their loudest and most batshit crazy bloviations yet, no doubt. Crank up the Tear Machine, Glenn! » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 21, 2010 @ 9:07 pm Kismet! » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 21, 2010 @ 8:58 pm I’ve got next year’s Halloween costume all picked out! » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 21, 2010 @ 8:57 pm Yup, yup…and I see a little Karl Rove in there too! » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 20, 2010 @ 8:27 pm Uh oh. Floodgates have been opened, it seems. » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 20, 2010 @ 8:26 pm Thanks, Adlib. We Can Work It Out, right, Q? » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 20, 2010 @ 8:25 pm Yeah, and then John and Yoko’s “Sleep In” for peace. By all accounts, John was downright ferret-like in his love of sleep. » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 20, 2010 @ 8:23 pm Ain’t it the truth! » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 20, 2010 @ 8:06 pm Yeah, prolly…. » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 20, 2010 @ 8:06 pm Thanks, K! Revolver is such a fantastic album, although each song is almost unforgivably short. I want them to go on and on! Those birds could sing! (And Your Bird Can Sing reference….) It will be a sad day when nobody makes the replaceable parts to old style record players anymore…. » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 20, 2010 @ 7:49 pm You’re right! “You want to go out for walkies, » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 20, 2010 @ 7:46 pm thumbs up, KQ. “Undefinable” is the perfect description. » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 20, 2010 @ 7:05 pm Oh, that! That’s the Monkey from “Everybody’s Got Something to Hide (except for me and my monkey)”. (heaves sigh of relief) » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 20, 2010 @ 6:57 pm It’s basically lifted from Klaus Voormann’s masterpiece, the cover of Revolver, with the animals substituting for the myriad images of The Beatles that Voormann cut and pasted into the middle. The animals are closest to the one who wrote or sang about them. For instance, Ringo sang Yellow Submarine and wrote Octopus’ Garden. George wrote and sang “Piggies”. John sang about the lizard, the Walrus (eponymous, of course), Henry the Horse, the monkey (Everybody’s got something to hide, ‘cept for me and my…) and the penguins kicking Edgar Allan Poe. » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 20, 2010 @ 6:43 pm You’re sweet and adorable! » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 20, 2010 @ 6:38 pm Well here’s another clue for you all; the walrus was Kiba. » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 20, 2010 @ 6:38 pm Yeah, that’s the album where animals were chosen so intentionally to reflect humans’ faults and foibles. It’s pure satire in that sense, where The Beatles were doing something more organic, just letting the animals speak for them. Except for “Piggies” of course, which could almost be a Roger Waters’ song. » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 20, 2010 @ 6:37 pm Great, Cher….but let me correct you a tad. The “sheepdog” IS from that song, but it’s also “Martha” from The White Album. And that’s not a frog, it’s a lizard. “She’s well acquainted with the velvet touch of a hand like a lizard on a window pane” from “Happiness Is A Warm Gun”. Henry the Horse is right, of Corse! » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 20, 2010 @ 6:35 pm Interesting. I never thought about that, because I always thought the Susan Boyle story was somewhat manufactured, or at least massaged. But I see exactly what you’re saying. People love stories. And The Beatles were exactly that, a story. That’s why it must have been a real shock to the system when John sang, on his first solo album, “The dream is over, and so dear friends, you’ll just have to carry on….” » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 20, 2010 @ 6:32 pm What? You guys! They’re PENGUINS! Oh, the shame. My penguins look like ferrets! Back to art school! » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 20, 2010 @ 6:29 pm Wow, I wonder if at the time(s) you were witnessing history being made. Lucky you! » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 20, 2010 @ 6:28 pm I was going to hold off on posting this, because I posted recently, but this one seems to dovetail so well with KQ’s music page that I couldn’t wait! » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 20, 2010 @ 4:13 am Sinatra:The Best is Yet to Come httpsh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y-qYhu51GM » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 20, 2010 @ 4:24 am Great article, Cher, and powerful visual. Is it yours? I recall that a. you are an artist, and b. you said that your work is “dark” so I’m suspicious. If so, take credit! Reminds me of the story about heaven and hell. The exact same scene, a pot of food, and handles too long for people to place the food in their own mouths. In hell, they starve. In heaven, they feed each other. » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 19, 2010 @ 3:28 am I haven’t, but I will have to check this out. Thanks! » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 17, 2010 @ 6:20 pm I could never! She generally sleeps on my lap as I write these things! » Posted By whatsthatsound On March 17, 2010 @ 5:33 pmComments Posted By whatsthatsound
Yowza!
And, “Eight Times a Day”, as in
Eight times a Day!”
Paul sang about his own dog, Martha, Rocky Raccoon and Blackbird. You did pretty good, for a Dylan fan.;)
The quote about wanting a labor force and getting real, actual human beings is so poignant. That’s the way this sorry world works, and each of us is the lesser for it. People don’t come first anymore, if they ever did. Profits, productivity, power; those are the words that drive the current madness that we euphemistically refer to as “civilization”. Thank God for people like AlphaBitch. In a saner world, they would be the folks running things.
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