…. it turns out i’ve decided not to post this entry. if you’re really curious, i’ll consider sending it to you. as for the reasons for not posting, sufficed to say, they’re numerous and complicated. i guess all you need to know is that it would have been more of the same….
i can’t say i listen to a whole lot of country, though i will admit to having a few various country mp3s, as well as a copy of a dixie chicks album (i don’t recall which one). having said that, i heard two country songs this weekend, that could not be mistaken to exist in any other genre:
ticks, by brad paisley
and
tequila makes her clothes fall off, by joe nichols
all i could do was laugh and shake my head. (eventually, i’ll find the songs, or links to them, so you can have a listen, words alone can’t quite explain)
quite possibly my favorite opening verse and chorus of all time:
We’ll take ourselves out in the street
And wear the blood in our cheeks
Like red roses
We’ll go from car to sleeping car
And whisper in their sleeping ears
We were here, we were here
We’ll set off the geese of Beverly Road
Hey, love, we’ll get away with it
We’ll run like we’re awesome, totally genius
Hey, love, we’ll get away with it
We’ll run like we’re awesome
by the national, on the album alligator…. and i can’t stop listening to it.
i’m at work.
the day after thanksgiving, while most of the people i know are still sleeping during this day off, i’m sitting here looking for things to keep me busy. while reading some news this morning, i came across an amusing ‘article,’ in the style of the onion. the article is quite entertaining and should amuse anyone who thinks waking up at 5am to fight crowds for christmas deals is insane.
but then, i got to thinking, why is it called ‘black friday?’ i mean, for something that is billed and the biggest shopping day of the year, it sounds a little morbid, don’t you think? of course, i went to wikipedia to get the facts. when entering black friday, you are first directed to a page listing numerous entries with that name. of course, the very first one refers to the day after thanksgiving, so i click on it, but not before scanning the rest of the list. among the black fridays in the list, there’s one that’s a song by megadeath, one that’s the title of a 1993 hindi film, one that refers to a massacre of protesters in iran in ’78, and last but not least, one that refers to an air battle over norway in 1945.
in case you’re interested, at the bottom of the page, there are links to “black days of the week.” the notion alone i find amusing, for some reason.
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday (no black saturday? what’s up with that?)
Sunday
you can check out the ‘thanksgiving’ version of black friday here….
there may be more to come later, as i may post multiple times today, just out of sheer boredom.
i am so completely screwed….