Tag: hiking
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Totally Nude
Am I just going for click-bait here with this post title? Am I making any of you taste your lunch sneaking back up in the back of your throat with the thought of me disrobed? At a minimum, are you intrigued enough to keep reading? Well if the answer was yes to any of those…
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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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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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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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Nico Nico in Coconino!
Okay, we’re going to put the Talking Heads song titles away for a post here, because we enjoyed the word play around Nico and our current location. Credit to Kristen for coming up with the post title. I was trying to think of a way to change up “Copa Cabana” to “Coconino”, but to no…
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These Memories Can’t Wait
Okay… when I started writing these travel posts, I thought “Road to Nowhere” was the perfect title. I love the Talking Heads, and it tied in to our plans so nicely. Since then I’ve kind of boxed myself into using Talking Heads song titles for these posts, which wasn’t really my intention. I mentioned last…
Where’s Nico? 