Listen:
“String Bean Jean” by Belle & Sebastian from Dog On Wheels
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Image search results for String Bean Jean - above image is from the first page of results (and was originally from HERE).
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In the recent past these songs were featured in Hit-or-miss posts:
“Buzz Fledderjohn” by Tom Waits
“Pump up the Bass” by DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
“Jet City Woman” by Queensrÿche
“II. In Taberna: Estuans Interius” by Carl Orff
“Dangerous” by Frente!
“Keep Their Heads Ringing” by Dr. Dre
“At It Again” by Sublime
“The Day I Tried To Live” by Soundgarden
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EAR FARM’s Hit-or-miss is a weekly feature (every Tuesday) wherein the EF music library is put on shuffle, the song that plays is then searched (using the song title) on Google images and a resulting photo (plus an MP3 of the song) is posted. You can see all of EAR FARM’s Hit-or-miss posts thus far right HERE.
Wallowing in self-absorption this past week, focusing entirely too much on my injury, I created the following mix. The song order kind of tells the story of how I became a crippled wiffle ball legend. You can listen HERE. Read more…
“Backyards” by Broken Social Scene which clocks in at 8:14
“Sticks and stones may break my bones but wiffle ball will never hurt me.”
Right? No. Actually, it’s words. “Words will never hurt me” is the correct second half of the battle cry of the undersized that’s heard in backyards across the US every summer. It means: “Yell at me all you want, you big bully, but your words won’t be breaking these bones, no sir.” It’s a passive resistance meant to reassure those who can’t yet defend themselves. In truth, I always paid the phrase little to no mind. But it rang in my head like a TV jingle because I had a strange fascination with the breaking of bones as a child. I’d say it over and over in my mind (”sticks and stones, break my bones…”) and imagine the sticks and the stones and the breaking of bones and what that must feel and sound like. I didn’t think it “fun” but definitely found the whole idea of fractures “neat.” Which could be a result of me always wanting what I couldn’t have (my friends were all breaking bones and getting casts -cool!- but not me); or, probably was just standard macabre little boyishness. Regardless, given the collective reaction to the story I’m about to tell you, you might think the axiom was meant to be about the impotency of wiffle ball rather than inability of language to crush anything other than one’s spirit.
Here’s what I’ve been telling people this past week that’s had them all equally perplexed: “I broke my arm in two places playing f’ing wiffle ball.”
And the standard response: “You broke your arm playing wiffle ball?! How the….???”
That’s right, I did. I broke my arm playing wiffle ball. And this is how it happened… Read more…
Listen:
“Buzz Fledderjohn” by Tom Waits from Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
View:
Image search results for Buzz Fledderjohn - above image is from the first page of results (and was originally from HERE).
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In the recent past these songs were featured in Hit-or-miss posts:
“Pump up the Bass” by DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
“Jet City Woman” by Queensrÿche
“II. In Taberna: Estuans Interius” by Carl Orff
“Dangerous” by Frente!
“Keep Their Heads Ringing” by Dr. Dre
“At It Again” by Sublime
“The Day I Tried To Live” by Soundgarden
“I’m Comin’ Down” by Primal Scream
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EAR FARM’s Hit-or-miss is a weekly feature (every Tuesday) wherein the EF music library is put on shuffle, the song that plays is then searched (using the song title) on Google images and a resulting photo (plus an MP3 of the song) is posted. You can see all of EAR FARM’s Hit-or-miss posts thus far right HERE.
“Change” by Oingo Boingo which clocks in at 15:59
“CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN” - Barack Obama 2008 Presidential campaign slogan
The North Carolina Presidential Primary has never mattered. This is why I’d never participated before, why I wasn’t even sure if Independents could vote in the primary when asked (they can), and why I got super extra-excited when it started looking more and more as though nothing was going to be decided for the Democratic Presidential candidates until, at least, sometime after May 6th. Heck, at the rate this thing is going the Democrats may not have their official candidate until 2012, but the party took a large step forward this past Tuesday in North Carolina… Read more…
Listen:
“Pump up the Bass” by DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince from He’s The DJ, I’m The Rapper
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Image search results for Pump up the Bass - above image is from the third page of results (and was originally from HERE).
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In the recent past these songs were featured in Hit-or-miss posts:
“Jet City Woman” by Queensrÿche
“II. In Taberna: Estuans Interius” by Carl Orff
“Dangerous” by Frente!
“Keep Their Heads Ringing” by Dr. Dre
“At It Again” by Sublime
“The Day I Tried To Live” by Soundgarden
“I’m Comin’ Down” by Primal Scream
“I See Spiders When I Close My Eyes” by The Boy Least Likely To
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EAR FARM’s Hit-or-miss is a weekly feature (every Tuesday) wherein the EF music library is put on shuffle, the song that plays is then searched (using the song title) on Google images and a resulting photo (plus an MP3 of the song) is posted. You can see all of EAR FARM’s Hit-or-miss posts thus far right HERE.
by Shel Silverstein
And you know what I tell you is true.
He loved to watch his TV set
Almost as much as you.He watched all day, he watched all night
Till he grew pale and lean,
From “The Early Show” to “The Late Late Show”
And all the shows between.He watched till his eyes were frozen wide,
And his bottom grew into his chair.
And his chin turned into a tuning dial,
And antennae grew out of his hair.
And his face to a TV screen.
And two knobs saying “VERT.” and “HORIZ.”
Grew where his ears had been.And he grew a plug that looked like a tail
So we plugged in little Jim.
And now instead of him watching TV
We all sit around and watch him.
“Blues For The Barbecue” by Count Basie which clocks in at 10:28
“Where’s the f#@*ing sauce?!”
The first time I ever tried North Carolina-style barbecue that’s all that kept going through my mind. That and the question “why”: Why did these people hand me salad dressing (vinegar sauce) when I asked for some barbecue sauce? Why was everybody drinking “sweetea” by the half gallon? Why did our neighbor suggest this particular restaurant? (It was a local fast food spot, not unlike McDowell’s excepting that they served really terrible and cheap pulled pork and spoiled cole slaw instead of ripping off McDonald’s.) Why did I feel like I’d just landed on another planet? Wasn’t this still America?? All I wanted was some barbecue!
And that’s precisely what my folks and I were having, we just didn’t know what Carolina barbecue was back then. At the time, it didn’t even occur to us that there might be different regional variations of barbecue. Heck, to us barbecue was an event, not an entrée. “Come over to our barbecue for some burgers and hot dogs!” What did we know? We were new to the area - carpetbaggers - and I was but a wee child with minimal knowledge of the art of North Carolina barbecue. And, it is an art form. In time I’d learn. Read more…
Listen:
“Jet City Woman” by Queensrÿche from Empire
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Image search results for Jet City Woman - above image is from the tenth page of results (and was originally from HERE).
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In the recent past these songs were featured in Hit-or-miss posts:
“II. In Taberna: Estuans Interius” by Carl Orff
“Dangerous” by Frente!
“Keep Their Heads Ringing” by Dr. Dre
“At It Again” by Sublime
“The Day I Tried To Live” by Soundgarden
“I’m Comin’ Down” by Primal Scream
“I See Spiders When I Close My Eyes” by The Boy Least Likely To
“Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t've)?” by Buzzcocks
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EAR FARM’s Hit-or-miss is a weekly feature (every Tuesday) wherein the EF music library is put on shuffle, the song that plays is then searched (using the song title) on Google images and a resulting photo (plus an MP3 of the song) is posted. You can see all of EAR FARM’s Hit-or-miss posts thus far right HERE.
Joshua Allen recently wrote a piece in The Morning News claiming that the perfect song length is precisely 2:42, and after going through the exercise of putting together the following mix, I’m inclined to agree. The quality of songs in my library at the 2:41, 2:42, and 2:43 marks is rather outstanding. So how was I able to whittle down this week’s mux to a mere 12 songs? Because I rule. Also because I made rules. Read more…
“You’ve Got to Want to Be a Star” by The Besnard Lakes which clocks in at 9:32
A real housewife of New York City lives in my neighborhood.
That one there in the picture, with the wind-blown hair and smug grin. She’s mugging like that because she thinks you might recognize her, and dammit she’s worked hard for that rewarding whiff of self-satisfaction. She may have failed in her attempts to become a serious actress (save for her role as “Lead Toothpick” in a music video) but real stars never say die. They keep hustling and persisting and persevering, because to be a star, you’ve got to want to be a star!
(How do I know that she played “Lead Toothpick”? Well, wanting to be a star means mastering the art of self-promotion, like running a web-page devoted to yourself , or even more exploitative, of your whole family. Icky)
And so it goes…she wanted to be a star so badly she opened up her neighborhood, her home, her entire LIFE – which includes two kids, a French au pair and a husband (whose own nefarious hunt for fame rivals hers) – to prying television cameras in order to gain a bit of recognition… Read more…
Listen:
“II. In Taberna: Estuans Interius” by Carl Orff from Carmina Burana
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Image search results for II. In Taberna: Estuans Interius - above image is from the first page of results (and was originally from HERE).
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In the recent past these songs were featured in Hit-or-miss posts:
“Dangerous” by Frente!
“Keep Their Heads Ringing” by Dr. Dre
“At It Again” by Sublime
“The Day I Tried To Live” by Soundgarden
“I’m Comin’ Down” by Primal Scream
“I See Spiders When I Close My Eyes” by The Boy Least Likely To
“Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t've)?” by Buzzcocks
“I Would Work If I Could” by Brian Michael Roff And The Deer
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EAR FARM’s Hit-or-miss is a weekly feature (every Tuesday) wherein the EF music library is put on shuffle, the song that plays is then searched (using the song title) on Google images and a resulting photo (plus an MP3 of the song) is posted. You can see all of EAR FARM’s Hit-or-miss posts thus far right HERE.
EAR FARM’s fourth mix mux is 100% self-indulgent. It’s my personal top 12 favorite songs to play (I play guitar, rather than drums or vocals) in the video game Rock Band (full list of Rock Band songs HERE). So it stands to reason that this mux is all about rocking, shredding, finger-tapping, and making that guitar solo face. Check out the songs featured in this mix listed below and listen to the mix itself HERE. Read more…
