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First Week/Last Week… Carefree
So this week’s title comes not from the Muppets, but from the Talking Heads’ debut album, “Talking Heads: 77”, which not surprisingly came out in 1977. In general, I think it’s a bad idea to put the year into the title or lyrics – it makes it feel dated. “Tonight we’re gonna party like it’s…
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Perfect World
Okay, I probably could have used this title almost any week along this trip, in all fairness. This was the last song on the A side of the Talking Heads’ best selling album, Little Creatures. For those of you who don’t know what an A side is, you’re too young to be reading this blog.…
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Cool Water
This week, I’m going with the last song on the last album the Talking Heads ever recorded – “Cool Water” from their swan song, Naked. “But Ken – why ‘Cool Water’?” you may be asking. Well… as David Byrne observed in the Heads hit “Once in a Lifetime”, “there is water at the bottom of…
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Making Flippy Floppy
I’m opting for another song from the classic ‘Speaking in Tongues’ album to keep the Talking Heads streak going for at least one more week. But why reference flippy floppy? Well for two reasons… that you’ll learn about later on in this post. But first, for those who may be wondering where Nico is, and…
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Moon Rocks
Okay… let’s go with kind of a ‘deep cut’ for this week’s post title. “Moon Rocks” was on the Talking Heads’ wonderful ‘Speaking in Tongues’ album. By why name this post ‘Moon Rocks’? Well to answer that, let’s start with another question…. “where’s Nico?” Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument! Since we last chatted about our travels,…
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Employee Unappreciation Week
My last gig before retiring was with a midwestern bank. It was a great company, and I worked with a lot of great folks. One thing they were big on was appreciation – which I totally get. I’m big on focusing on the things I have to be appreciative about. It seemed like every couple…
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April in Paris
Okay… I’m taking a one-post Talking Heads hiatus, but I thought this Ella Fitzgerald/Count Basie classic would be the perfect title for this post, aside from two minor facts: first off, we didn’t get to our most recent destination until May first, so we didn’t exactly get there in April, and second of all… well,…
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Five Not Great Super Powers
I’m not one to watch super hero movies. They’re just not my thing. I’ve seen a few over the years and get the idea, but it all seems so unrealistic. Kristen and I were discussing Spiderman this week, and if the guy was truly like a spider, we realized he should be shooting those webs…
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Wild Wild Life
Okay… so when the Talking Heads were kind of at their peak, David Byrne decided to make a movie called ‘True Stories’, and the whole band shows up in the film at one point or another. Wild Wild Life was kind of the hit single from the soundtrack. Here’s an odd bit of trivia –…
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Top Five Movies as Ranked by Sam Elliott’s Hair
So I mentioned a few weeks back when I gave a review of the new Roadhouse movie that I have a borderline obsessive man crush on Sam Elliott. As this trip has progressed, I’ve stopped shaving and I’m not planning on getting a haircut any time too soon, in the fruitless hopes that I could…
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