Show at the Carousel Lounge

The Dentones will be pairing up with the Love Vandals again this Friday at the Carousel Lounge. Our slot is from about 9:30 until midnight.

Come enjoy a cold beer and some cool tunes!

Aha!

Movie Reviews

If this is even true, it might help explain the woefully low number of visits and comments this blog tends to attract. It's probably just too much work to wade through all this "ho-hummery". Meanwhile, one of my favorite blogs out there was rated as "Junior High" which, though shocking, is much less so than the "Elementary School" rating given to a blog that I consider to be especially thoughtful and well-written.

Go figure.

BTW-- I have no idea what this "movie reviews" business is all about.

33 Days

Spring is over, though it did a pretty good job of preparing us for a nice, scorching Central Texas summer. The Heat Wave of 2008 will start its 33rd day tomorrow, and we have already had 15 days of triple-digit temperatures. The average for normal summer is just 11 for the WHOLE summer.

This doesn't bode well.

A first time for everything...

This is my first go at a meme. It's called the "Flikr Meme" and I got it from Bookhart.

Here's how to play:

a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd's Mosaic Maker.

The Questions:

1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One Word to describe you.
12. Where are you from?

I'm Voting Republican

Thanks, Ann E. Willow, for this one!

Time to Come

It's been a long time since a post, but not a long time since the idea for a post has come my way from the ether. Sadly (and lamely), since these ideas have involved such things as downloading pictures from our camera, and I have done that fairly recently and have not cleared the memory chip and don't want duplicate files filling up our hard drive, I loop and loop again into a state of non-action.

So, here is my place-holder. A cheap and easy post.

In the early 90s our band had a back up singer who shall here be known as La Quekki. Among her many noteworthy attributes was a sort of bludgeon-like sexual aggressiveness that inspired the first (prosaic) line of this song. There really was a dream. There really was someone trying to push the envelope. However, there was never really any chance of any sort of "time to come" that involved La Quekki and Yours Truly.



Time to Come (1992)

I had a dream last night
and you were in it--
you held yourself right up to me and said
'come on and get it'
you said 'hey, boy'
'hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, boy'
and I said, 'yeah'

well now I must admit it was a temptation,
but let it come as no surprise or great revelation
that you really make my heart break
the way you underestimate
the time it takes just to sit and wait for the right time
time to come

bridge:
I cast my mind back through the years
and i racked my brain, trying to refind the essence of time that was gone.
And I stumbled as blind, with contempt for the day
looking over my shoulder with rose-colored glasses and frowns


even Solomon in all his glory
would never dare to shake a stick
at a morning glory--
the kind that we would just walk by
and even trample down,
the kind that we would just walk by
dreaming dreams of kings

I had a dream last night
and you were in it--
you held yourself right up to me and said
'come on and get it'
you said 'hey, boy'
'hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, boy'
and I said, 'yeah'
I said, 'yeah'
I said, 'yeah'
I said, 'yeah'

Sermon 1989

The following is the text of a sermon I heard in Hillsborough, North
Carolina in the Spring of 1989.

No kidding.
-----

People, you are not concerned in what you're doing in now! You are not
concerned in what you're doing in right now! When the world is going to
take care of itself, boy, is it going to take care of itself. And it's
going to take a year from now.

I'm the one who's going to pay the price for what I don't have, and I'm
going to get my life straightened out. Something is great, something can be
great, and I want it. That's what the world can have.

This is the kind of business I'm trying to be a friend in. This is the kind
of business I'm trying to be a friend in, and I am wanted!

There is one thing I really wanted to say in this world, and I couldn't get
a start.

This is how it spreads out, this is how it's going to spread out, and this
is how it really should spread out. When something is feeling in danger
and you don't know it, you've got to give this world a chance.

I want something to happen. I want nice things to happen. I show it that
way. I want more things to happen. I want nice things to happen because
it shows that. And you want things to happen for you and things to happen
for the world.

That's how you appreciate something-- you want it to happen. Now you know
it, that more things can happen. I know a change can happen. A change in
my life.