Passed on without comment

Wild Thing, watching Julie Andrews performing in The King and I on Youtube:

"I wish I was her."

Hmmm.

Friday Random Ten: Skipping the Details Edition

1. "I Won't Back Down"--Johnny Cash, American III: Solitary Man. Not my favorite song on this record; one of his few covers from this period that doesn't improve on the original.

2. "In the Backseat"--Arcade Fire, Funeral.

3. "On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever)"--Frank Sinatra, Strangers in the Night.

4. "Fishermen, Strawberry and Devil Crab"--Miles Davis, Porgy and Bess. Ah, very nice.

5. "All Mine"--Portishead, Portishead.

6. "I Hate Banks"--Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper, Frenzy. Crude populism at its best.

7. "Ronnie and Neil"--Drive-By Truckers, Southern Rock Opera.

8. "Don't Hurt Me"--The Spectacular Fantastic, Goes Underground.

9. "Promising Actress"--John Vanderslice, Cellar Door.

10. "Lay Down the Law"--My Dad is Dead, Let's Skip the Details.

Flavors for discerning consumers

Wild Thing ate his first gummy bears tonight. Sorting through them prior to biting, he began guessing their flavors. The yellow: "banana." The red? "Raspberry."

He picked up the bright green one, quizzically.

"Cucumber?"

Evaluation

Wild Thing, teasingly: "Daddy, you're lame!"

Me: "WT, that's not a nice thing to say. Where did you learn that?"

WT: (pause... then) "Daddy, what does 'lame' mean?"

Me: "Um ... well, I guess it means 'not very good.'"

WT: "Oh. So you mean broccoli is lame to me?"

I will be your hero

Superman's powers, according to Wild Thing:

1. Super hammock-pushing ability.
2. Super tree-climbing ability.
3. Super marching-band-leading ability.
4. Very strong.

Friday!

1. Subterranean Homesick Blues--Bob Dylan, Bringing It All Back Home.
2. Buford Stick (The Legend of Sheriff Buford Pusser)--Drive-By Truckers, The Dirty South.
3. In the Ghetto--Elvis Presley, The Essential.
4. Hold On Magnolia--Songs: Ohia, The Magnolia Electric Co.
5. Your Song--Elton John, Very Best of.
6. "She Belongs to Me"--Bob Dylan, Bringing it All Back Home.
7. Moon Dreams--Miles Davis, Birth of the Cool.
8. If I Have To Go--Tom Waits, Orphans.
9. Sweet Lady--Tim Hardin, Person to Person.
Peter Mulvey - Every Word Except Goodbye, The Trouble with Poets.

New directions in international cuisine

Wild Thing tonight was keeping the Overworked Spouse in "jail." Her sentence: 100 minutes for "running into the street."

It being dinnertime, he summoned me to provide OS with a meal.

OS: "What sort of food is this, Wild Thing?"

WT: "It's veterinarian food."

OS: "You mean vegetarian?"

WT: "Um, yeah."

OS: "What would veterinarian food be?"

WT: "Oh, you know. Like Caribbean food! At the Caribbean restaurant!"

Friday Random Ten: Long Goodbyes edition

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1. "World War III," Dos Gringos, Live at the Sand Trap.
2. "Johnny Come Home"--Fine Young Cannibals, These People Are Nuts!
3. "Lazy Man"--Essex Green, The Long Goodbye.
4. "Dead and Lovely"--Tom Waits, Real Gone.
5. "Ngalam"--Orchestra Baobab, Pirate's Choice.
6. "Three O'Clock in the Morning"--Dexter Gordon, The Blue Note Years.
7. "Onukpa Scwarpo"--Bokoor Band, Bokoor Beats. I haven't the faintest idea where this came from, but it's quite nice--lo-fi and rhythmic.
8. "Dollars and Cents"--Radiohead, Amnesiac.
9. "Sounds Better in the Song"--Drive-by Truckers, Decoration Day.
10. "Dumb I Am"--Nina Nastatia, On Leaving.
11. "Irene"--Leadbelly, Leadbelly's Last Sessions.