Elie's Expositions

Musical Monday #118

2009-11-23T12:17:00.002-05:00

Welcome to the 118th edition of Musical Monday, the weekly quiz that Soccer Dad and I alternate hosting. As always, the challenge is to identify the title and artist of each song quote below, as well as the common theme of the entire set of songs.

Sorry I've been late in providing the solutions to my previous two MMs - I'll try to get to them today. Meanwhile, here's this week's:

1) "It shakes all over like a jelly fish"
2) "Hanging out shirts in the dirty breeze"
3) "Don't run and hide, just come on, come on"
4) "Now why ain't you playin' outside?"
5) "All this aggravation ain't satisfactioning me"
6) "Anyway, it only really hurts you when you laugh"
7) "She belonged to that man, José"
8) "She left me with a broken heart and won her victory"
9) "And I want you to be my acrobat"
10) "And now you come collapsin' back"
11) "Somewhere we lost the key, so little left for you and me"
12) "See the man with the lonely eyes, oh take his hand, you'll be surprised"
13) "Talked out, let's have it talked out"
14) "Stars fading but I linger on, dear"
15) "And she purrs like a kitten till the lake pipes roar"
16) "But it was Saturday night, I guess that makes it all right"
17) "Put on a ragged sweatshirt, I'll take you where you want me to"
18) "And lookin' in the mirror there were fools at either hand"
19) "I'm all confused, you must've put a thing on me"
20) "I remember the first time, I was lonely without her"
21) "But it's always me that ends up getting wet"
22) "The bigger the dog, well the harder the bite"
23) "I run for the bus dear, while riding I think of us dear"
24) "Our lives are made in these small hours"
25) "If I could turn the page, in time then I'd rearrange"
26) "Life without your Maserati is grounds for suicide"
27) "My love-a, I was wrong-a, to try to love two"
28) "Yes, I'm certain that it happens all the time"
29) "Cooking fresh food for a husband's just a drag"
30) "Young girls they do get weary, wearing that same old shaggy dress"
31) "It didn't have much of a plot"
32) "The willow turns his back on inclement weather"
33) "Think that you know what to do, impossible, yes, but it's true"
34) "I'm gonna' keep my sheep suit on"
35) "Her wallet's filled with pictures, she gets 'em one by one"
36) "The pool's in but the patio ain't dry"
37) "Out of sight in the night out of sight in the day"
38) "Why leave the life I love here in the great state of Maine?"
39) "Another day goes by, and still the children cry"
40) "Butterflies and zebras and moonbeams and fairy tales"
41) "He's the king around town, dancing, glancing"
42) "Along came Jim Dandy, and they snuck right out of the door"=
43) "One told a lie about another's best friend"
44) "I'm like a helpless child left in a cradle"

Good luck and enjoy!

Musical Monday #116

2009-11-09T11:21:00.002-05:00

Welcome to the 116th edition of Musical Monday, the weekly quiz that Soccer Dad and I alternate hosting. As always, the challenge is to identify the title and artist of each song quote below, as well as the common theme of the entire set of songs.

I could say much more about the timeliness of the theme, but I'll hold off for now. Just to note that the second group of songs (24-32) go with a somewhat lesser version/variation of the theme, with the very last song just barely making it (which is sort of its point!)

1) "He said, kill it before it grows"
2) "I'm goin' way down south, way down to Mexico way"
3) "Get high and watch the tube"
4) "Don't touch me I'm a real live wire"
5) "What reason do you need to be shown?"
6) "Don't ever ride on the devil's knee, Mama said"
7) "And Miss Patty Valentine just nodded her head"
8) "So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye"
9) "And now MacHeath spends just like a sailor"
10) "Wrapped up in a black cat cloak"
11) "Yeah, she could drag me, over the rainbow"
12) "You just do it with a little more finesse"
13) "That equipment you got's so outdated"
14) "I bet there's rich folk eatin' in a fancy dining car"
15) "Right through the hardwood door"
16) "The night was clear and the moon was yellow"
17) "And slapped the sheriff on the back with a smile"
18) "He jacked the little bitty baby"
19) "Well sir, I guess there's just a meanness in this world"
20) "Two feets they come a creepin', like a black cat do"
21) "In the land of the dollar bill"
22) "He took in the four a.m. show at the Clark"
23) "Painting testimonial pictures"

24) "A scene badly written in which I must play"
25) "Well he never had a sweetheart"
26) "I crossed my old man back in Oregon"
27) "I miss my baby and the, good fun"
28) "So I might as well begin to put some action in my life"
29) "Not a Gatlin boy was standing"
30) "You got problems in your life of love"
31) "And remember, just don't smile"
32) "And that's not to mention the aerial photography"

Good luck and enjoy!

Musical Monday #114

2009-10-26T13:17:00.002-04:00

Welcome to the 114th edition of Musical Monday, the weekly quiz that Soccer Dad and I alternate hosting. As always, the challenge is to identify the title and artist of each song quote below, as well as the common theme of the entire set of songs.

This week I'm revisiting a theme that was used for one of the earliest MM's (extra credit to the first player who finds it!). Since Soccer Dad and I were a lot less experienced, not to mention less ambitious, back then, I thought this was well worth a second go-round. However, I was careful not to repeat any of the songs used in that original theme, so even long time players should view this as essentially all-new.

Each pair (or triad in some cases) of songs below goes together, and collectively all these sub-groups relate to a single overall theme.

1a) "We smoked the last one an hour ago"
1b) "We huddle close, hang on to a dream"

2a) "I work till I ache my bones"
2b) "And your friends baby, they treat you like a guest"

3a) "In the stillness of remembering what you had"
3b) "Pictures in an empty room"

4a) "Making vows that just can't work right"
4b) "Despite all the computations"

5a) "What you need you have to borrow"
5b) "I can catch the moon in my hands"

6a) "If I had those golden dreams, of my yesterdays"
6b) "Strollin' in the park, watchin' winter turn to spring"

7a) "Leave this heart of clay"
7b) "I know your game, what you're about"

8a) "Worry, why do I let myself worry?"
8b) "That kinda lovin' turns a man to a slave"

9a) "When your day is done, and you wanna' ride on"
9b) "You look like you could be forty-five!"

10a) "Fiery gems for you, only for you"
10b) "Mother has to iron his shirt"

11a) "It's just a cakewalk, twisting baby"
11b) "Fat man sitting on a little stool"

12a) "And the rocks might melt, and the sea may burn"
12b) "Can't keep my mind from the circling skies"

13a) "Now we go steady to the pictures"
13b) "They don't bark and they don't bite"

14a) "Heaven knows it wasn't you who set me free"
14b) "Once I had a dream, I could lean upon"

15a) "How was I to know you would upset me?"
15b) "Used to bow our heads then, wonder why"

16a) "All the servants in your new hotel"
16b) "It's a pocket full of misery, and trouble on the wind"

18a) "I've seen what I could not recognize"
18b) "Don't end your faith in love because of what he's done"

18a) "It's a long road, when you face the world alone"
18b) "I'm not gonna stand here and wait"

19a) "Haven't I the right to make it up girl?"
19b) "When your world has been shattered, ain't nothin' else matters"

20a) "Have you come to raise the dead?"
20b) "Yes, it's the saddest experience you'll ever know"

21a) "After all this time I don't know why"
21b) "Look what you've done to me, me and my whole world"

22a) "Easy then to tell weak from strong"
22b) "Once there were trenches and walls"

23a) "...have your passports ready....Rome..."
23b) "You're up in the sky, make everyone cry"

24a) "The coolerator was jammed with TV dinners and ginger ale"
24b) "Do the ashes of desire for you remain like the sea?"

25a) "Both my feet's too long"
25b) "I got a wink and a smile from a flashy filly"

26a) "We were young and we were improvin'"
26b) "Stone age love and strange sounds too"

27a) "Nothing else to do but close my mind"
27b) "I'm tired of making out on the telephone"

28a) "Your gall is never-ending"
28b) "Hey hung up old Mr. Normal"

29a) "Gotta new fool, ha! I like it like that!"
29b) "And your mind, your tiny mind"
29c) "Romeo and Juliet, Samson and Delilah"

30a) "Show me, all your charms"
30b) "I'm weak and I've gone hazy yeah"
30c) "Feel for the winter, but don't have a cold heart"

31a) "Drowning me in your promises, better left unsaid"
31b) "Her style is new but the face is the same"
31c) "Get to the morning and you never call"

32a) "Without your love - a dog without a bone"
32b) "Like a charmed hour and a haunted song"
32c) "Memory seeps from my veins, let me be empty"

33a) "If the puppet makes you smile"
33b) "Hear the dogs howling out of key"
33c) "Don't bother to pack your bags, or your map"

34a) "Racing around to come up behind you again"
34b) "Goodbye my love, the tide waits for me"
34c) "Children killing in the street, dying for the color of red"

35a) "Insisting that the world be turnin' our way"
35b) "And my dear mother left me when I was quite young"
35c) "Your grandpa's cane, it turns into a sword"

These last few sets require bending the rules a bit:

36a) "And the saviors who are fast asleep"
36b) "But half a love is all I feel"
36c) "It’s driving me mad, it’s driving me mad"

37a) "The man in the dark will bring another attack"
37b) "Pack his raincoat, show him out"

38a) "Your mood is like a circus wheel"
39b) "With eight seconds left in overtime"

39a) "With his maps and his medals laid out on the floor"
39b) "How can there be such a sinister plan?"

40a) "Music, high and sweet, then she just blew away"
40b) "She was hung in the student gallery"
40c) "She's the same little girl who used to hang around my door"

Good luck and enjoy!

Musical Monday #112

2009-10-12T08:51:00.004-04:00

Welcome to the 112th edition of Musical Monday, the weekly quiz that Soccer Dad and I alternate hosting. As always, the challenge is to identify the title and artist of each song quote below, as well as the common theme of the entire set of songs. Sorry to both players and co-host for missing my turn last week! Between the Jewish holidays and my non-voluntary work "holiday", I just didn't have the time or energy for it!

This week's MM has three sub-groups of songs, which all contribute to a single overall theme, though in somewhat different ways.

1) "Grease monkey, ex-junky, winner of the fight"
2) "It seems to me I could live my life, a lot better than I think I am"
3) "Some going down to Stovell wearing trouble on their shirts"
4) "Rain pourin' down, I swing my hammer"
5) "If it ain't no pencil pusher, then it got to be a honky-tonk queen"
6) "Thought I could have my cake and eat it too"
7) "They hurt you at home and they hit you at school"
8) "Like the castle in its corner in a medieval game"
9) "You lazy mother, your hands are clean"
10) "Twenty five years have come and gone, and she's seen a lot of tears"
11) "You can get it wrong and still you think that it's all right"

12) "How many people do I help, just by sitting on the shelf?"
13) "To any port or foreign shore"
14) "I lived the life of a drifter, waiting for the day"
15) "Breakfast where the news is read, television children fed"
16) "Tons of gold for which they'd kill"
17) "Sing any so song that you want me to sing to you"
18) "From F.L.A. to Frisco Bay, and everywhere in between"
19) "I've been waiting to awaken from these dreams"
20) "Take a drink from his special cup"
21) "All night long, we would sing that stupid song"
22) "And even though I'm full of sin"
23) "Eating from TV trays, tuned into to Happy Days"
24) "How was I to know, she was with the Russians too?"
25) "He mumbles a prayer and it ends with a smile"
26) "Through a glass eye your throne, is the one danger zone"
27) "In a cabin on a hill in Butcher Holler"
28) "A-through the back yard we'd go walkin'"
29) "Where the New York City winters aren't bleeding me"
30) "Put out your problems with the cat"
31) "Don't ask me what I want it for"
32) "I won't toe your line today"
33) "Long shot at that jumping sign, invisible shivers running down my spine"
34) "Why's it takin' such a long time, for me to hear from that boy of mine?"
35) "A lifetime spent preparing for the journey"
36) "Nor do the wind, the sun or the rain"
37) "Alimony, alimony payin' your bills"
38) "And all this science I don't understand"
39) "Who never had time for a wife"
40) "A thousand miles can lead so many ways"
41) "Pretty eyed, pirate smile"

42) "Every morning about this time she get me out of my bed"
43) "My woman done left and took all of the reasons"
44) "Keeping my eye on the keyhole"
45) "Met our mothers at the USO"
46) "He came home too drunk from mixin' tanqueray and wine"
47) "Well, he hands you a nickel, he hands you a dime"
48) "Grandma's on the front porch swing with a bible in her hand"
49) "The man in the silk suit hurries by"
50) "The place that I was born, on the lakeside"

Good luck and enjoy!

Downsized And Heading Back Up

2009-10-06T09:24:00.002-04:00

Wanted to let my blog friends know that I've been laid off from my job, effective this past Friday - after 24 years at the same company! Loyalty and experience count for absolutely nothing in today's corporate world - or likely, count against you.

I have much more to say about this, but for the immediate future things will be a bit crazy and disorganized here on Elie's Expositions as they are in Elie's larger life. I know I'm late for this week's Musical Monday, which may end up becoming next week's Musical Monday. But on the bright side, I'll likely have more time - and hopefully more inclination - to get back into more regular blogging again. Meanwhile, happy Sukkos! May the holiday continue to bring with it pleasant weather... and pleasanter tidings.

Happy 5770!

2009-09-18T17:52:00.002-04:00

A gebenchte New Year to all my readers! May we all be incribed in the book of life for 5770, and may we be blessed with a year of good health, prosperity, and happiness.

Musical Monday #110

2009-09-14T09:28:00.002-04:00

Welcome to the 110th edition of Musical Monday, the weekly quiz that Soccer Dad and I alternate hosting. As always, the challenge is to identify the title and artist of each song quote below, as well as the common theme of the entire set of songs.

It's a somewhat super-sized edition this week, one of those themes that grew in the researching. Thought there is a single theme, the breaks between groups of songs will become clear once it is ID'ed. A couple of additional guidelines: In every case, I'm looking for one particular version of the song, usually but not necessarily the most well-known. Also, you may ignore the definite article in all cases.

1) "Then she did a dip, almost broke my hip"
2) "The boy whose name is Nicorino"

3) "Glowing like the metal on the edge of a knife"
4) "And not some puppet on a string"
5) "Thunder is your night light, magic is your dream"
6) "You say you're love is bona fide"
7) "Until happiness is just an illusion"
8) "That don't matter, he said, 'cause it's all the same"
9) "These four walls are closing in, think of the fix you put me in"
10) "And I always carry a purse"
11) "Well I'll be damned, here comes your ghost again"
12) "I can see a new horizon underneath the blazing sky"
13) "Over silbury hill, through the solar field"
14) "Take my tears and that's not nearly all"
15) "It was the same old song, with a melancholy sound"

16) "In a world of persecution, that is burning in its greed"
17) "To see the total eclipse of the sun"
18) "You are the reason I've been waiting so long"
19) "We were young and wild and free"
20) "And I should've been gone, after all your words of steel"
21) "He misses a step and cuts his hand"
22) "Mommy served in the WACS in the Philippines"
23) "It's an enemy to all mankind"
24) "Love is a banquet on which we feed"
25) "You don't know what you been a-missin'"
26) "A Cadillac a-rollin' on an open road"
27) "Bing bang, I saw the whole gang"
28) "Why can't he see, how blind can he be?"
29) "Like sugar and spice, so nice, so nice"
30) "You'll never be mine, I'm wasting my time"
31) "Forget about the past and all your sorrows"
32) "It controls me, makes me do all the things I do for you"
33) "It suits me fine that you treat me like a child"
34) "In the shape of an 'L' on her forehead"
35) "She said I was the tiger she wanted to tame"
36) "There's no way they could have made two"
37) "We've known each other since we're nine or ten"
38) "...can do the boogaloo like I do"
39) "Steam in the subway, earth is afire"
40) "I see us on the shore beneath the bright sunshine"
41) "Could it be finally I'm turning for home?"
42) "Without you, there'd be no sun in my sky"
43) "Worry, why do I let myself worry?"
44) "It's a long way down, and it's a leap of faith"
45) "If you want my future forget my past"
46) "Remember dancing at the high school hop?"
47) "You can stretch right up and touch the sky"
48) "Get hung up feed the ducks with a bun"
49) "I know you've been taken, afraid to hurt again"
50) "You like the movies, and I like T.V."
51) "You have won all my money, and my brand new Stetson hat"
52) "We were cruisin' home from the Beatles concert"
53) "I got no natural rhythm"
54) "Is this Nutsy land so good?"
55) "White sugar don't touch my lips"
56) "And there I stood with a arrow in my back"

57) "Thirteen month old baby"
58) "I should have changed that stupid lock"
59) "You like to think that you're immune to the stuff"
60) "If you're not into yoga"
61) "Your mama and daddy say it's a shame, it's a downright disgrace"
62) "Sitting on the doorstep of the house I can't afford"
63) "Maybe I'm an open book because I know you're mine"
64) "Maybe I didn't hold you all those lonely, lonely times"
65) "I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was balin' hay"
66) "I'll love you 'till the clover has lost its perfume"
67) "My one and only prayer is that someday you'll care"
68) "At first she's gonna come on strong"

69) "The fire's in their eyes and their words are really clear"
70) "But I had to do some breakin' through"
71) "She wants to return those things I bought her"
72) "Walking fast, faces pass, and I'm home bound"

73) "And my soul has been psychedelicized"

Good luck and enjoy!

Musical Monday #108

2009-08-31T08:03:00.002-04:00

Welcome to the 108th edition of Musical Monday, the weekly quiz that Soccer Dad and I alternate hosting. As always, the challenge is to identify the title and artist of each song quote below, as well as the common theme of the entire set of songs.

This week's edition is a collaborative effort, from an idea originally by Soccer Dad. It was fun working on this together, though I will miss one of my best players this week!

No sub-groups, though the last half-dozen stretch the rules just a bit!

1) "Do I what? Will I what?"
2) "We take all kinds of pills, that give us all kind of thrills"
3) "Cause the boy she loves is a Romeo"
4) "You say your Mom ain't at home, you can't let me in"
5) "But he stronger than a country hoss"
6) "He works in the saddle and he sleeps in the canyons"
7) "You change your passion for glory"
8) "Your mom busted in and said, 'What's that noise?'"
9) "He gets me my drinks for free"
10) "True love means planning a life for two"
11) "And in your voice I hear a choir of carousels"
12) "It was raining hard in 'Frisco"
13) "Dynamite with a laser beam"
14) "And take a long ride on my motor bike"
15) "It's been a year now and it's getting so much better"
16) "I felt a little like a dying clown"
17) "I tell you man he's living there still"
18) "Sunday morning you don't look right"
19) "Two spirits dancing so strange"
20) "Sending Roses And Your Silly Dreams"
21) "A Mexican cutie" (Note: Not the original!)
22) "So if you're feeling low, turn up your radio"
23) "And I've been in the Washington Zoo"
24) "I threw a rockabilly party on my last birthday"
25) "Planned to go to Swarthmore"
26) "Chose a gun and threw away the sword"
27) "We're just tryin' to be friendly"
28) "Feel the rhythm, check the ride"
29) "In Houston we just started a new dance"
30) "But on the 7th day he made me"
31) "When you gonna play 'Smokin' In The ...'?"
32) "And become a bad piano playing man"
33) "I'm not expecting to grow flowers in the desert"
34) "Cuban army surplus or refusing all third lights"
35) "He smoked a big cigar, drove a Cadillac car"
36) "I wait outside the pilgrims door, with insufficient schemes"
37) "He doesn't dig poetry"
38) "And did we tell you the name of the game, boy?"
39) "I'm flat broke but I don't care"
40) "I eat more chicken, any man ever seen"
41) "East and west of the Rio Grande"

Good luck and enjoy!

Musical Monday #106

2009-08-17T13:10:00.003-04:00

Welcome to the 106th edition of Musical Monday, the weekly quiz that Soccer Dad and I alternate hosting. As always, the challenge is to identify the title and artist of each song quote below, as well as the common theme of the entire set of songs.

If it were a couple of days ago, the obvious theme for this edition would be the 40th anniversary of Woodstock, but I'd guess by now, practically everyone has heard their share of Woodstock tunes and recollections on the radio and TV. So I went elsewhere, to a relevant, but quite a bit less obvious theme. Extra credit to whomever guesses my reason (or comes up with a better one again!) for using the theme this week.

1) "After all I'm forever in your debt"
2) "And you're afraid to let your eyes meet mine"
3) "But it's wisdom born of pain"
4) "Be back before it melts in the pan"
5) "I can sense your needs, like rain on to the seeds"
6) "Over night scenes, dinner and wine, Saturday girls"
7) "It's not so much your pretty face I see"
8) "You'd be weak as a lamb"
9) "She don't give the boys the eye"
10) "Is throw shadows at you"
11) "This is the only way that we should fly"
12) "Temptation falls in your path, no hesitation why you ask"
13) "Oh shucks, I'm just an average guy"
14) "You didn't have to leave me with that beer in my face"
15) "Yes, don't turn your back on me, baby"
16) "There's a hole in my head where the rain comes in"
17) "I can see me a tall dark stranger, giving you what you hadn't planned"
18) "Crazy laughter in another room"
19) "Pick up the pieces and go home"
20) "Sparkle someone else’s eyes"
21) "I don't want much, the good Lord's earth beneath my feet"
22) "Let’s change the mood from glad to sadness"
23) "Rising from the neon gloom, shining like a crazy moon"
24) "I look in your eyes, just like the rain"
25) "Like a country mornin', all snuggled in dew"
26) "I've been livin' on a dead-end street"
27) "Are you lonely just like me?"
28) "Sitting in a nest of bad men"
29) "When your conscience hits, you knock it back with pills"
30) "Time goes by and you're sharing an apartment"
31) "I know many fine feathered friends"
32) "Rags, the sailor's only daughter, a child of the water"
33) "There was a time when you needed someone to count on"
34) "But if they get a chance they'll end it for sure"
35) "I turn away from the wall, I stumble and fall"
36) "There's a band of gold that shines waiting"
37) "He'd give up all his comfort, sleep out in the rain"
38) "And every time it happens, it just convinces me more"
39) "Hear every thought, see every dream"
40) "With her fog, her amphetamine and her pearls"
41) "I ain't gonna act politically correct"
42) "When my soul was in the lost-and-found"
43) "Never runnin' in the streets, leavin' me alone"
44) "She can make the birds sing harmony"
45) "In the government yard in trenchtown"

Good luck and enjoy!

Musical Monday #104

2009-08-03T11:19:00.002-04:00

Welcome to the 104th edition of Musical Monday, the weekly quiz that Soccer Dad and I alternate hosting. As always, the challenge is to identify the title and artist of each song quote below, as well as the common theme of the entire set of songs.

It's been a hectic last couple of weeks for me, so this edition is a bit trimmer than usual, but hopefully still a challenge! There are three groups of songs (1-19, 20-24, 25-30), each relating to the same overall theme, though in slightly different ways. Various songs in the third group also connect with the first or the second group (and in one case, with both!)

1) "I wanna lock you up in my closet"
2) "What to do on a night like this, music sweet I can't resist"
3) "We took the vows of man and wife"
4) "Can we make a secret rendezvous?"
5) "For all the dreams and schemes, people are as they seem"
6) "Danger in the shape of something wild"
7) "Just get yourself untied, are you gonna do it?"
8) "New York was cold and damp, TV is just a blank"
9) "She took the Greyhound at the general store"
10) "Almost rang the phone off the wall"
11) "Should I get in touch with the FBI?"
12) "It's got to be a quarter to 4"
13) "Well she's my woman of gold, and she's not very old"
14) "She likes her tapes on 10"
15) "Oh man, I think the clock is slow!"
16) "First of the fall and then she goes back"
17) "I was dying just to ask for a taste"
18) "How do you like the way he rocks and the way he rolls?"
19) "That Model A Vitimix makes it look like a pup"

20) "Has high blood pressure got a hold on me?"
21) "And that would wipe this smile right from my face"
22) "The pressure's high, just to stay alive"
23) "But nothing is real, and no one can feel like you"
24) "The land here is strong, strong beneath my feet"

25) "Blame the caffeine for all the 5 am phone calls"
26) "She sees my good deeds"
27) "Why'd you slip around secretly?"
28) "Doing all the things that makes my heart sing"
29) "Where the water tastes like wine"
30) "Ain't no doubt, we are here to party"

Good luck and enjoy!

PS: I know I still owe the answers for MM #102 - hope to add them sometime today.

Musical Monday #103 - For Soccer Dad

2009-07-28T17:56:00.002-04:00

It's Soccer Dad's turn this week, and while he did post MM #103 on schedule, his blog site has not be able to receive comments. So he asked me to post it here as well, so you can play as usual and enter your guesses on this post.

As always, the challenge is to identify the title and artist of each song quote below, as well as the common theme of the entire set of songs:

1) This big dollar town can drag you right down, if you go it alone
2) Yeah there's a storm on the loose sirens in my head
3) Oh and in the heat of rapture when I feel the cold winds blow
4) And the colors in my rainbow turn blue
5) weren't you the one who tried to hurt me with goodbye
6) And there's whiskers on my chin
7) There's a mirror moving inside my mind
8) Bad boy knows where to find her, Runs the light, sneaks up behind her
9) Foolin' around, hitting the town, growing my hair
10) Stella sits in Rio
11) Hollywood ain't paved with gold, it's just a trick of light
12) Wanna have a simple moonshine, Wanna sing along on a song or two
13) Look at me, Gotta load on my back
14) You whisper something softly, I'm not meant to hear
15) So if you want to get to where you let the feeling roll
16) Once I dreamed in a dream I would find you, never thought that the dream would come true
17) Time is the essence, time is the season
18) Frame me and hang me on the wall
19) and talk about the teachers that you hate
20) You can't say you're in it, no, until you reach the limit
21) I would surely buy you a Cadillac
22) Dont be so circumscribed, are you gonna do it
23) Man, my head was spinning when I saw your feat
24) Untouchable memories seem to keep haunting me
25) Wasted days, and sleepless nights, and I cant wait to see you again
26) Don't you know you're sleeping in the spotlight
27) Standing in the cold rain, Feeling like a clown.
28) It's getting late they're waiting outside you're gonna run away
29) We live in a world, of carnivals and clowns, and buildings to the sky, that make us want to fly
30) Her hair so brilliant that it hurt my eyes
31) I will wash the dishes while you go have a beer

Musical Monday #102

2009-07-20T09:12:00.004-04:00

Welcome to the 102nd edition of Musical Monday, the weekly quiz that Soccer Dad and I alternate hosting. As always, the challenge is to identify the title and artist of each song quote below, as well as the common theme of the entire set of songs.

The obvious theme for this edition would have been the moon, in honor of today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. However - with what was clearly a "lunatic" lack of foresight - I already used up that theme a bit over over a year ago, for MM #48. Oh well, no use mooning over lost opportunities.

Getting back to today's MM, there are three groups of songs (1-28, 29-37, 38-53) with separate sub-themes, each of which contributes to the overall theme (which does have some timeliness, though much less directly than the moon landing!) I'll also note although the three sub-themes are distinct, there is:
- One song in the second group which would also fit the first group
- One song in the third group which would also fit the second group
- And another song in the third group which would fit all three groups!

1) "You don't need a penny just to hang around"
2) "In the pool halls, the hustlers and the losers"
3) "It was always cold, no sun shine"
4) "And if you'd care to take a dare"
5) "You want to stay out with your fancy friends"
6) "It's a love that had no past"
7) "The sun ain't nearly on the rise"
8) "But your love is a common occurrence"
9) "I can't find, oh the right romantic line"
10) "If I should doubt myself, if I'm losing ground"
11) "Cop on the corner, look he's starting to write"
12) "Ford's about to drop, she won't do no more"
13) "Though your hurt is gone, mine's hanging on inside"
14) "Believe in your brother, have faith in man"
15) "You got to hidey-hidey-hide"
16) "She could drag me over the rainbow"
17) "The queen of Corona"
18) "I'm blushing brighter than a Valentine"
19) "I’m sick and tired of you setting me up, yeah"
20) "You could stand me up at the gates of hell"
21) "Here comes the banker and the lawyer and the cop"
22) "Nightime's flyers feel their pains"
23) "Three hundred sixty five degrees"
24) "Make a little love"
25) "That it looks like up to me"
26) "Sweet surrender on the quayside"
27) "And I've tasted the bitterness of my own tears"
28) "Anybody here see the noise, see the fear"

29) "The squirming dog who's just had her day"
30) "People walking above"
31) "Lonely as I am, together we cry"
32) "A big bad woman's gonna carry me to my grave"
33) "Watching some good friends screaming let me out"
34) "When I was young people spoke of immorality"
35) "The telephone is ringing, you got me on the run"
36) "And the wild man, he laid the thunder down"
37) "One day when the boss get hungry"

38) "She had sightless eyes, telling me no lies"
39) "I can still feel the breeze that rustles through the trees"
40) "He was six-foot-four and full of muscles"
41) "He don't show what goes on in his head"
42) "Reach for a star and I'll show you a plan"
43) "But the point is probably moot"
44) "You can hear your five selections for a quarter"
45) "You can bend but never break me"
46) "Even my old man looks good"
47) "Why do all the boys just pass you by?"
48) "Words as weapons sharper than knives"
49) "To pay the rent, to pay our share"
50) "But you turn right over to the T.V. page"
51) "Lower the curtain down in Memphis"
52) "A winter palace from the Arabian Nights"
53) "You're the sun who makes me shine"

Good luck and enjoy!

Musical Monday #100!

2009-07-06T08:00:00.001-04:00

Welcome to the 100th edition of Musical Monday, the weekly quiz that Soccer Dad and I alternate hosting. Our usual challenge is for you to identify the title and artist of each song quote, as well as the common theme of the entire set of songs. However, your MM co-authors are running a special, two-part theme in honor of MM's centennial, and thus, those who have been participating in MM #99 at Soccer Dad's blog already know today's theme (and if you haven't been participating, there's still a few songs left to get on #99, so get over there pronto, then come back!). So as an extra-credit assignment today, please share your favorite couple of past MMs from each of the two host blogs!

Before getting to today's quotes, I'd like to add my thanks to Soccer Dad's for our regular players - Clayton, Laura, TRN, Yitzchak, Gail, ral315, Benjie, and SJ - and for all of the occasional participants as well. It's always fun putting these puzzles together, but a lot more fun watching you solve them each week! And of course, my most heartfelt gratitude to my friend of now 30+ years, David aka Soccer Dad, who offered me the chance to share the weekly hosting of this terrific game, starting way back with MM#6!

Just a quick note on the song groups below: My implementation of the theme is just slightly different than David's: the first song in each set will be the one which connects to each of the others.

Without further ado!

1) "Rejoice, rejoice, we have no choice"
2) "I was soaring ever higher"

3) "And a monkey kinda' digs bananas"
4) "What will become of the restless kind?"

5) "Mr. MD"
6) "Cuz I'm a man, I got my pride"

7) "If I were you, I'd realize that I"
8) "Look at me, you never look at me"

9) "Forget your lust for the rich man's gold"
10) "Well maybe I'd kill you, or maybe I'd be true"

11) "You're so like the lady with the mystic smile"
12) "Subway's no way for a good man to go down"

13) "Paint myself in blue and red and black and gray"
14) "Because she's got her own obligations"

15) "I am broken like an arrow, forgive me"
16) "Iridescent socks with the same color shirt"

17) "Hot ashes for trees"
18) "Same old show in a different town on another time"

19) "I know that she's no peasant"
20) "She can take you or leave you"

21) "I can't sleep, I keep dreaming of losing you"
22) "We would stay there 'till her sister rang the evening bell"

23) "You could have been anyone to me"
24) "My cat is purring, and scratches my skin"

25) "Remember when we lost the keys?"
26) "There's a very strange vibration, piercing me right to the core"

27) "I remember the first time I was lonely without her"
28) "It's a big enough umbrella"

29) "See, don't ever set me free"
30) "You treat me badly, I love you madly"

31) "She loves to move, she loves to groove"
32) "Your words are weak and they don't mean a thing"

(This next pair bends the rules just a bit, but it was too good to pass up!)
33) "I guess nobody ever really done me"
34) "Frozen here on the ladder of my life"

35) "We're gonna' stimulate some action"
36) "I come alive in the neon light"
37) "There's not a soul out there"

38) "To hold me, to scold me"
39) "But she grew up tall and she grew up right"
40) "But don't forget who's taking you home"

41) "Till the heavens stop the rain"
42) "And oh, the joy that floods my soul!"
43) "We used to laugh at the wind behind us"

44) "There's no point escaping, I don't worry anymore"
45) "Let's find the key and turn this engine on"
46) "Miner's lady, stranger to blue water"

47) "Live for today, gone tomorrow, that's me, HaHaHaaaaaa!"
48) "Well, the undertaker drew a heavy sigh"
49) "And talk is cheap when the story is good"

50) "I never meant any harm to you"
51) "Born and raised in South Detroit"
52) "Like a tiger, defying the laws of gravity"
53) "Keep on with the force" (no, this isn't by Yoda... or Obi-Wan!)

54) "The drunken politician leaps"
55) "Then someone picked you from the bunch"
56) "It's driving me mad, it's driving me mad"
57) "Put on a brand new shirt"

58) "But I'm not one of them, you know I'm not!"
59) "So send me a salami, and try to smile somehow"
60) "I said, warden, warden, warden"
61) "All of the nights we’d harmonize till dawn"

62) "Dancing to the rhythm in our heart and soul"
63) "A cat named Frankenstein"
64) "And I know that motor wagon is ready to fly"
65) "But put a man six feet in a hole"
66) "A handful of grease in her hair"

67) "And yesterday I saw you kissing tiny flowers"
68) "Ah-huh Ah-huh"
69) "Hearts of fire creates love desire"
70) "My mother reads her magazines"
71) "I've overcome the blow"

(This last group could probably have been expanded into a full theme all it's own!)
72) "I was playin' around, feeling down, hittin' the beer"
73) "Treasure these few words 'till we're together"
74) "Sidewalk crouches at her feet"
75) "I hold my pillow to my head"
76) "When it feels like sorrow is your only friend"
77) "Moon appears to shine and light the sky"
78) "No first of spring, no song to sing"
79) "Ease my troubles, that's what you do"
80) "The words just came out wrong"

Enjoy, good luck, and thanks again for being part of our weekly fun and games!

Musical Son Day #2

2009-06-28T20:34:00.004-04:00

Some videos of the now AWARD-Winning act, and soon to be musical sensation, The Flip. Shalom and his bandmates took 2nd place (out of ~10 performers) in our town street fair this past Thursday evening! Watch the videos below, and note the lead singer's channeling of Mick Jagger on Ed Sullivan as he resignedly - and, well, Flip-pantly - alters a lyric to avoid offending a key demographic (read: a certain bandmate's parents (no, not me for heaven's sake!))

Let it Be

Encore: Knocking On Heaven's Door

Musical Monday #98

2009-06-22T11:21:00.002-04:00

Welcome to the 98th edition of Musical Monday, the weekly quiz that Soccer Dad and I alternate hosting. As always, the challenge is to identify the title and artist of each song quote below, as well as the common theme of the entire set of songs.

All fifty songs relate to a single theme today, but it is worth noting that the last five on the list belong to a different musical genre than the rest.

And yes, I know I'm very late with the answers to last week's MM; hopefully you'll see them later today.

1) "In the stillness of remembering what you had"
2) "Pull myself together, put on a new face"
3) "Reach for the golden ring, reach for the sky"
4) "Half my life is in books' written pages"
5) "You're a princess, chains around you"
6) "Two spirits dancing so strange"
7) "Someday I don't know how, I hope you'll hear my plea"
8) "Only trouble is, gee whiz"
9) "There must be peace and understanding sometime"
10) "A candy-colored clown they call the sandman"
11) "Well, I can't tell lies, cause they're listening to me"
12) "Check my vital signs to know I'm still alive"
13) "What a day, a year, a laugh it is!"
14) "Wondering if Mother Earth will survive"
15) "Help me to forget today's pain"
16) "You know the preacher likes the cold"
17) "Here am I, I'm taking a chance"
18) "How to put it together, how to say it right"
19) "We've walked along St. Thomas beach a million times"
20) "You could tell I was no debutante"
21) "I feel like I'm heading up to a cardiac arrest"
22) "And fall on my face on somebody's new-mowed lawn"
23) "Without dollar one to spend"
24) "And when he's lonesome and feeling loved starved"
25) "Try to catch the deluge in a paper cup"
26) "Stars fading but I linger on, dear"
27) "Moving sidewalks, I don't see under my feet"
28) "The room was empty as I staggered from my bed"
29) "We couldn't tear ourselves away"
30) "I walk without a cut through a stained glass wall"
31) "When you're so downhearted and misunderstood"
32) "I must be looking for something, something sacred I lost"
33) "Travel the world and the seven seas"
34) "And I know you've got the ashes to prove it"
35) "Deep water all around me, circle sharks all about"
36) "Concerning myself and the first few friends I had"
37) "First night so long, a state of mind, what can go wrong"
38) "I hit cruise control and rubbed my eyes"
39) "She took my new sunglasses and my old jean jacket"
40) "I wonder if these heavy eyes can face the unknown?"
41) "Here to share with one another, father, brother, sister, mother"
42) "Rain pourin' down, I swing my hammer"
43) "They may laugh at you and call you green"
44) "And my destination makes it worth the while"
45) "And I will lose myself in palaces of sand"
46) "The gleam in your eyes is so familiar a gleam"
47) "No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing"
48) "A crash of drums, a flash of light"
49) "To run... where the brave dare not go"
50) "There was a time, when love was blind, and the world was a song"

Good luck and enjoy!

Musical Monday #96

2009-06-08T09:46:00.004-04:00

Welcome to the 96th edition of Musical Monday, the weekly quiz that Soccer Dad and I alternate hosting. As always, the challenge is to identify the title and artist of each song quote below, as well as the common theme of the entire set of songs.

The two groups of songs today (1-10, 11-42) are distinct sub-themes, but both relate to an overall theme.

1) "And when the sun comes up, I'll be on top"
2) "Time can bend your knee"
3) "I want to hear the children sing"
4) "All we can offer them is a page in some magazine"
5) "A stairway to darkness in the blink of an eye"
6) "But he turned out to be like every other man"
7) "Outside I'm masquerading"
8) "It's only there trying to fool the public"
9) "If we could start anew, I wouldn't hesitate"
10) "Seems like overnight, we see the world in a different light"

11) "I can't talk to people that I meet"
12) "She sits alone by a lamppost"
13) "I put my daughter on my knee, and she say, 'Daddy what's wrong?'"
14) "I need your smile, child like the one I once knew"
15) "Who'll take all your pain, honey your heartache, too?"
16) "Playing piano for the children of the king"
17) "How can I explain the fear you feel inside?"
18) "Shame on you, you told me lies"
19) "Well, it hurt me so to see them dance together"
20) "In the government yard in trenchtown"
21) "I've said too much, been too unkind"
22) "Dream if you can a courtyard"
23) "Don't the moon look good, mama?"
24) "Well, I saw your sign and I missed you there"
25) "You are living a reality I left years ago"
26) "Talk to me softly, there is something in your eyes"
27) "You girl, you've always been mistreated, cheated"
28) "They left behind her dreams among the litter"
29) "Couldn't stay all my life down at heel"
30) "The night-time shadows disappear"
31) "You know that I'll wait, as long as it takes"
32) "Break a heart, break a heart of stone"
33) "Neither could change their headstrong ways"
34) "She saw the look in his eyes, 'n she knew better"
35) "Love wasn't much of a friend of mine"
36) "I could smile for a while"
37) "I pray the Lord that I'll grow stronger"
38) "I've got my pride and I know how to hide"
39) "And then before you know where you are, you're sayin' goodbye"
40) "I'm in the middle of nowhere, near the end of the line"
41) "She'll take your money, she'll wreck your world"
42) "And emeralds from mountains thrust toward the sky"

Good luck and enjoy!

Musical Monday #94

2009-05-25T09:45:00.005-04:00

Welcome to the 94th edition of Musical Monday, the weekly quiz that Soccer Dad and I alternate hosting. As always, the challenge is to identify the title and artist of each song quote below, as well as the common theme of the entire set of songs.

Couple of notes/ground rules for today's edition:
- There are three sub-groups of songs - 1-10, 11-29, and 30-50. These all relate to the same theme, but in a different manner, or perhaps to a different extent.
- Although I often select topics with a particular relevance to either current events or the number of the MM edition, there is no such (intended) connection this time.
- For each song below, I'm intending a particular version - generally, but not necessarily, the most famous/well known.
- There is an extra credit item to identify, besides title and artist, for each song below. Once the theme is guessed, the extra credit assignment should be clear, though getting the answers will definitely be easier for some of them, harder for others.

1) "If it's a mirror you want, just look into my eyes"
2) "I got my rock moves and I don't need you"
3) "With orders to identify"
4) "I'm crying icicles instead of tears"
5) "I been running trying to get hung up in my mind"
6) "Real loose like a long necked goose"
7) "Won't you do your sister's will?"
8) "By the garden of the willow tree"
9) "It's a rainy afternoon in 1990"
10) "We don't follow fashion; that would be a joke"

11) "And they made you change your name"
12) "And we got no innocence"
13) "You don't have to shout or leap about"
14) "All my teeth, North and South"
15) "At those who shout her name and steal her clothes"
16) "So I look for the light in the pouring rain"
17) "Birds singing in the sycamore tree"
18) "Tell me no secrets, tell me some lies"
19) "Summertime will be a love-in there"
20) "As I walk along, I wonder what went wrong"
21) "Tied up in sorrow, lost in my soul"
22) "Let me see the lines on your hand"
23) "Thinkin' 'bout a life of crime"
24) "Give him two arms to cling to"
25) "I can cast a spell with secrets you can't tell"
26) "That's when Billy would take me walkin'"
27) "You should see my, my little Sis"
28) "There's beauty up above, and things we never take notice of"
29) "It's really you, but no one ever discovers"

30) "They never did like Mama's homemade dress"
31) "Soy capitan"
32) "Preachers, keep on preachin'"
33) "Just like Ronnie sang: Be my little baby!"
34) "Still in the dress she used to wear"
35) "And now MacHeath spends just like a sailor"
36) "Don't tell them to grow up and out of it"
37) "He was born in the summer of his 27th year"
38) "I was born the son of a lawless man"
39) "Beware that hooded old man at the rudder"
40) "But your empty eyes seem to pass me by"
41) "And take a band like the Church Street Five"
42) "Is it in your kiss or just because you're sweet?"
43) "Inventing lovers on the phone"
44) "Mellow as the month of May"
45) "He smiled so I got up and asked for his name"
46) "And so you're back, from outer space"
47) "It ain't nothing but a heartbreaker"
48) "It was a warm spring night at the old town hall"
49) "I play along with the charade"
50) "I can only receive, I can listen to you"

Good luck and enjoy!

Musical Son Day #1

2009-05-17T18:21:00.006-04:00

Let it be... the first rough cut demo from The Flip, a soon-to-be-famous band featuring, on keyboards, one Shalom Rosenfeld! The Flip is available for weddings and bar mitzvahs - at least until they start selling out Madison Square Garden. Meanwhile, you can tell everyone you heard them first here!

Musical Monday #92

2009-05-11T10:02:00.004-04:00

Welcome to the 92nd edition of Musical Monday, the weekly quiz that Soccer Dad and I alternate hosting. As always, the challenge is to identify the title and artist of each song quote below, as well as the common theme of the entire set of songs. However, this week's MM is a bit off the beaten path, so here a a few additional rules/clues:
- The are five groups of songs separated by spaces: 1-30, 31-41, 42-47, 48-57, and 58-60. Find the sub-theme of each group, which all relate to the overall theme of the MM, but in different ways. Note also that although an apparent solution for the overall theme might quickly emerge, the correct answer is more specific. There is an additional clue to the exact theme below, but it is not in any individual item.
- For all the song groups (except possible the 3rd), I'm looking for a particular version of the song in question, usually the most well-know.
- For the first group only, in addition to the artist/title, try to identify the album on which the song first appeared. You'll soon see why this extra requirement is relevant!

All that said, here goes:
1) "But I have to laugh when she reveals me"
2) "Between you and me and the Staten Island ferry"
3) "Who never had time for a wife"
4) "Well he never had a sweetheart"
5) "But you just can't wait for that call"
6) "Electric babies, blue-jeaned and jaded"
7) "Like another can of beans"
8) "Some will just be now and then"
9) "And he's proud of his scars"
10) "They all bought Cadillacs and left there long ago"
11) "Though you drown in good intentions"
12) "And a couple of paintings from Sears"
13) "Some say it's better but I say it ain't"
14) "Go on and cry in your coffee"
15) "Melodrama's so much fun"
16) "Hardly anyone has seen how good I am"
17) "I've been stranded in the combat zone"
18) "Should I get a set of white wall tires?"
19) "So the graduations hang on the wall"
20) "Sesame Street, what does it mean?"
21) "I'm that voice you're hearing in the hall"
22) "And there's only one good way to reassure"
23) "And I'll walk away a fool or a king"
24) "With her high top sneakers of Italian design"
25) "There are giants out there in the canyons"
26) "Maybe I've set myself up for the kill"
27) "Raise up a multiplex and we will make a sacrifice"
28) "I go walking in my sleep, through the valley of fear"
29) "So I could catch my breath and face the world again"
30) "But I got street savoir faire"

31) "Hey little sister shot gun"
32) "I'm not tryin' to be your highness"
33) "She dashed by me in painted on jeans"
34) "Holding hands, making all kinds of plans"
35) "You can burn my clothes when I'm gone"
36) "Freezin' a moment, leave me paralyzed"
37) "But I don't fit in her society"
38) "It would sure do me good, to do you good"
39) "The birds in the sky would be sad and lonely"
40) "Turn your radio on, and find a slow grooving song"
41) "Did you think I could hate you, or raise my hands to you?"

42) "Who will dance on the floor in the round?"
43) "I heard his fiancee got a letter"
44) "I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge"
45) "On the mountain was a treasure"
46) "He's got evil in his eyes, got a reason to despise"
47) "And Circus Boy dances like a monkey on barbed wire"

48) "And all this science I don't understand"
49) "You're the meanest old woman that I've ever seen"
50) "When some sad old dream reminds you"
51) "Well they passed a law in '64"
52) "Thirteen month old baby broke the looking glass"
53) "You broke my will, but what a thrill!"
54) "She almost drives me crazy"
55) "But all of those vows you made were never to be"
56) "A shadow of a man, a face through a window"
57) "Now you look so unhappy, and I feel like a fool"

58) "So when you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong"
59) "40,000 men and women everyday"
60) "I wish I could be as carefree and wild"

Good luck and enjoy!

Musical Monday #90

2009-04-27T10:52:00.002-04:00

Welcome to the 90th edition of Musical Monday, the weekly quiz that Soccer Dad and I alternate hosting. Speaking of which, if you haven't already, please check out last week's MM #89 at Soccer Dad - it's one of the best ones either of us has done so far, and there are still a good few song clues to guess!

Back to this week's, somewhat more workaday MM. As always, the challenge is to identify the title and artist of each song quote below, as well as the common theme of the entire set of songs. Note that there are three groups of songs today, 1-24, 25-27, and 28-30. Each group has its own separate sub-theme, which together represent clues to the overall theme of this week's MM, as well as - hopefully - illuminating the reason/timing for its selection.

1) "Alone in your electric chair"
2) "Look, what's your game baby?"
3) "You've done all the taking, it's your turn to give"
4) "I wanna tell you a story every man oughta know"
5) "They drove you or you drove them crazy"
6) "But I must admit it got the best of me"
7) "It ain't no use in calling out my name, gal"
8) "You've been as constant as a Northern Star"
9) "Make future plans, don't dream about yesterday"
10) "My head was in a bad place"
11) "Quarter moon walking through the Milky Way"
12) "Far too many sins to mention"
13) "Comes to a fix, not afraid to fight"
14) "We were lying together in a silver lining"
15) "I need a little heart and affection, cause love needs a little romance"
16) "So you think your schooling's phoney"
17) "Whisper to me softly, breathe words upon my skin"
18) "And I was in crazy motion till you calmed me down"
19) "You missed two classes and no homework"
20) "When you're alone and in a corner"
21) "I never was much good at coming on real strong"
22) "Think about the love that burns within my heart for you"
23) "When I come home baby, now (night and day)"
24) "Your friends tell you there's no future in loving a married man"

25) "Blinky thumps the gut bass, and solos for a while"
26) "He sees everything and nothing at all"
27) "Count all the bees in the hive"

28) "I don't know why my heart flips, I only know it does"
29) "Now I'm playing it real straight, and yes I cut my hair"
30) "I wandered the highways from Dublin to Berkeley"

Good luck and enjoy!

Musical Monday #88

2009-04-06T09:02:00.002-04:00

Welcome to the 88th edition of Musical Monday, the weekly quiz that Soccer Dad and I alternate hosting. As always, the challenge is to identify the title and artist of each song quote below, as well as the common theme of the entire set of songs. Extra credit this time to the first to identify the reason I chose this theme!

There's just one theme today, though there is somewhat of an order to subsets of songs that fit it in slightly different ways.

1) "The smiles returning to the faces"
2) "A suitcase and trunk"
3) "Can you feel it now that spring has come?"
4) "But you misread my meaning when I met you"
5) "Looking at the barrel of an Armalite"
6) "But don't forget that love's a game"
7) "I cried when she said, 'I don't feel the same way'"
8) "Loneliness is a coat you wear"
9) "And though I lose a friend, in the end you will know"
10) "Too much wine and too much song"
11) "My girl and me, we will stay right by the sea"
12) "Like an old dusty road, I get weary from the load"
13) "When you're on a holiday, you can't find the words to say"
14) "So I'm stuck here watching TV"
15) "Afraid of what you'd find if you took a look inside"
16) "In my eyes indisposed, in disguise as no one knows"
17) "Everybody's laughing, everybody's happy"
18) "Want you to know, I'm a rainbow too now"
19) "Where is my spirit? I'm nowhere near it"
20) "A gigantic nuclear furnace"
21) "Took the high dive into your brain"
22) "So I can watch you live and breathe your storylines"
23) "Thank you for that smile upon your face"
24) "And I can't sail my yacht, he's taken everything I've got" (no, this isn't by Bernie Madoff)
25) "No more falsehoods or derisions"
26) "Now don't want you back for the weekend"
27) "It's the morning and just we two"
28) "I'm so proud to know that she is mine"
29) "And this house just ain't no home anytime she goes away"
30) "I'd give to you a day just like today"
31) "Everybody's hustlin' just to have a little scene"
32) "Because you came to my rescue"
33) "When I awoke, dear, I was mistaken"
34) "We'll walk barefoot on life's gravel together"
35) "Make me feel fine when I'm feelin' wrongly down"
36) "He was just a hired hand"
37) "Only change will bring you out of the darkness"
38) "Laden with happiness and tears"
39) "Dirty old river, must you keep rolling?"
40) "I can't believe our warlord's dead"
41) "Oh, carry my loved one home safely to me"
42) "She's been looking like a queen in a sailor's dream"

Good luck and enjoy!

Steeling from the Rich

2009-04-01T12:41:00.005-04:00

Though I'm a lifelong Redskins fan, I couldn't help feeling bad for the Steelers after reading this. And as a Yankees fan, I'm outraged at the last paragraph! "Rest assured I was on the internet within minutes, registering my disgust throughout the world..." (can you ID this quote?)

Pittsburgh, PA.

The Super Bowl XLIII Champion Pittsburgh Steelers, the only team to win six titles, will soon be losing half of those trophies. After a meeting between NFL Commissioner Rodger Gadel and President Barack Obama, Obama decided to redistribute half of their Steeler Super Bowl victories and trophies to less fortunate teams in the league.

“We live everyday in the country that invented the Super Bowl.” said Obama “We are not about to lose this Great American tradition in the wake of these difficult times.” Obama’s plan calls for the Steelers, who are a successful NFL team, to give half of their Super Bowl trophies to teams that are not successful or have not been as successful as the Steelers. “The Detroit Lions are just as much a part of the same fiber of the NFL as the Steelers and they should, no rather will, be entitled to a Super Bowl Trophy as well.” Obama explains in his plan that he has imposed on Godel and the NFL.

The Pittsburgh Steelers, who by virtue of hard work, excellent team play, stellar draft choices, responsible investing of free agents, careful hiring of coaches and excellent community service and commitment to their fans, has prospered greatly during the past 30 years and have won six Super Bowl Trophies. But President Barack Obama’s plan calls for the Pittsburgh Steelers to carry the larger burden of the NFL’s less successful teams. Obama went on to further proclaim, “In these difficult times we are all in this to work together. We must reclaim the NFL Championship Dream for every team, for every city and for every fan.”

“My plan will not affect 31 of the 32 teams in the league.” Obama assures. That’s over 95 percent of the teams in the NFL will not have to worry about loosing any Super Bowl Trophies. “The worst teams in the NFL and the teams that can’t seem to get a break and win a championship will no longer have to worry about going without a title.” Obama promises. “We are a country and league of hope. We all need to make a change. It does not matter the color of the teams uniforms, the personal decisions that the teams make or their performance but rather if they are a member of this great American league.”

The Super Bowl XLIII trophy will be redistributed to the 0-16 Detroit Lions. Through no fault of their own incompetence, the Lions could not manage a victory all season and this trophy will help ease the pain of their lack of performance and give them hope once again. The redistribution of Super Bowl XL trophy will go directly to the Steeler’s division rival the Cincinnati Bengals. The Bengals who also have fallen on hard times have never won a Super Bowl. This victory will bring a smile to hundreds of Bengal fans all over the world as they can now celebrate. Finally, one of the Steeler’s two Super Bowl victories over the Dallas Cowboys will go back to the Cowboys since the league needs to provide hope in the face of difficulty and provide hope in the face of uncertainty. This is a heavy burden for the Steelers but together we can all prosper.

All hope is not lost for Pittsburgh fans, Barack Obama has another plan in place. Obama has meet with MLB and commissioner Bud Selig on a similar plan. The New York Yankees will redistribute two of their world series trophies to the Pittsburgh Pirates as a supplement to their loosing 16 straight seasons and counting. This plan will help stimulate the Pirates and enable them to regain the American Dream. Barack Obama will be meeting with the NHL and Michael Phelps in the upcoming weeks as this issue is high on his agenda for “Hope and Change.”

PS: April Fool! (I hope!) H/T Snopes

Passover Food

2009-03-27T16:16:00.001-04:00

This Passover, treat your guests with Passover
Cake & Desserts, thank your host with a Passover
Gift Baskets and delight your kids with Passover
Candy or with Passover
Chocolate.
All from Oh! Nuts. As the leading source for kosher candy, chocolates, nuts and
gifts, Oh! Nuts is fully stocked with all your Passover Food and Passover Seder
needs.

Musical Monday #86

2009-03-23T10:45:00.005-04:00

Welcome to the 86th edition of Musical Monday, the weekly quiz that Soccer Dad and I alternate hosting. As always, the challenge is to identify the title and artist of each song quote below, as well as the common theme of the entire set of songs.

This week there are three groups of songs, demarcated by spaces. Each group has a separate theme of its own, which, when taken together, will point to the overall theme of this week's Musical Monday. Yes, I know the middle group contains just one song (#33), but I'm quite sure you clever folks do still have a good chance of solving the puzzle!

1) "We were liberated from the fold, that's all"
2) "But she gets it while she can"
3) "Gonna' hang me up in the doorway"
4) "Yeah, the bad guys know us"
5) "I ain't got time for true confessions"
6) "And if I do I know the way there"
7) "I pound on the windows like a bee inside a jar"
8) "My favorite flavor, cherry red"
9) "Sometimes you keep busy reaching out for something"
10) "Ivanhoe and Lancelot, they don't envy me"
11) "And pocket full of keys that have no bounds"
12) "We are but a moment's sunlight, fading in the grass"
13) "I'm thinking about the fireworks that go off when you smile"
14) "And she'll cry just to think I'd really leave her"
15) "I love too hard my friends sometimes say"
16) "How white my shirts could be"
17) "I've got no time for trivialities"
18) "Will you walk away from a fool and his money?"
19) "I nearly died from hospitality"
20) "If you wanna play hide and seek with love"
21) "She throws the want ads right my way"
22) "You wave it like a flag, you wear it like a crown"
23) "Where we can get together, and ease up our mind"
24) "In my mind you have taken up permanent space"
25) "Lovely is fhe feelin' now, fever, temperatures risin' now"
26) "I can build a castle from a single grain of sand"
27) "We're all sensitive people with so much to give"
28) "The one that made me shiver, made my knees start to quiver"
29) "He says, it's three a.m., there's too much noise"
30) "Watched his hair been turnin' grey"
31) "You say you hungry, I give you meat"
32) "So bar maid bring a pitcher, another round o' brew"

33) "But I say, please listen when I say" OR "And not me but the people they say"

34) "Makes you give in and cry"
35) "There's some kind of magic inside you"
36) "Maybe I'm an open book because I know you're mine"
37) "That fatal kiss is all we need"
38) "See him surface in every shadow"
39) "You play with words, you play with love"
40) "A pretty face can hide an evil mind"

Good luck and enjoy!

Blasts From Purim Past

2009-03-10T14:57:00.009-04:00

Sorry folks! I had this brilliant, erudite, hilarious Purim spiel all written and set to post last night. We went out to megillah reading, and Sandy, insulted at being left behind, ate my entire post! I think I may be taking that Korean restaurant up on their offer after all...

Above you see Sandy, pleading for clemency after finishing off all those delicious electrons! :-)

So now that I've found a scape-dog for my laziness, here are some links to my past Purim posts for you to enjoy again. They might be leftovers, but hopefully still tasty!

5766: You Might Be Yeshivish

5767: Dear Abby (Abie?), Boro Park Style

5768: Ain't It a Shem

5768: Maseches Grynegznham

And for good measure, yesterday's Purim-themed Musical Monday!

HAPPY PURIM 5769!!