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Buck Owens and His Buckaroos - “Before You Go” (1966)
I believe I’d trade a nut or two to play guitar like Don Rich.
Bakersfield Sound, bitches. Look. It. Up.
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Hank Williams - “Hey, Good Lookin’”
Like maybe half a dozen of Hank Williams’s songs, I think this one’s just about perfect.
I’m free and ready,
So we can go steady.
How’s about savin’ all your time for me?
No more lookin’.
I know I been tooken.
How’s about keepin’ steady company?I’m gonna throw my datebook over the fence,
And buy me one for five or ten cents.
I’ll keep it ‘til it’s covered with age,
‘Cause I’m writin’ your name down on every page.Gold. Just ask Chairman Zimmerman:
I became aware that in Hank’s recorded songs were the archetype rules of poetic songwriting. The architectural forms are like marble pillars and they had to be there. Even his words - all of the syllables are divided up so they make perfect mathematical sense. You can learn a lot about the structure of songwriting by listening to his records. — Bob Dylan
Amen.
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Some Long-Overdue Correctioning
This site is dedicated to informing people about words that are not verbs, even though people misuse them that way. You have to pick one of the non-verbs about which this site knows:
Neat idea. It’s about time computer professionals demand people stop constantly (mis)using words like, “lockdown” and “pickup” as verbs.
Me? My pet peeve is, “pedantic.” I hate when people use that wrong.
As in, “Please permit me a few moments to pedantic your harmlessly imprecise use of this absurdly opaque industry jargon.”
Because, I’m pretty sure that’s not a verb.
And, frankly, an industry as august as IT should never tolerate a semantic holocaust of this proportion without making a web page.
Glad someone’s finally heroing this issue with such infomationifying homepaging.
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Do I get a badge?
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Patti Smith Group - “Horses” (Live, 1976)
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Because, it’s really important to have goals.
If whatever the fuck these things are made me feel the slightest twinge of enhanced self-esteem, my next merit badge would feature a silhouette of a sad guy with a revolver in his mouth.
Sponsored, perhaps, by the Smith & Wesson® “Unlock Your Xtreme!™” Social Networking Gunmunity.
Man. It’s just so excruciating to me to imagine what your life must be like when a 160-pixel .PNG sponsored by a company that manufactures pens feels like a win.
In fact, it’s so excruciating that I’m never going think about it again.
Do I get a badge for that?
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Them - “Gloria” (1966)
By age 21, Van Morrison already looked permanently angry and 50.
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