SNIPPETS FROM SPACESHIP ORION

December 12, 2007

Playlists on a Winter Night...

MUSIC LAUNCHES ME INTO ORBIT AND BEYOND.

IT MOVES ME TO DO SILLY THINGS AND TO FEEL GOOD DOING THEM.

OK, maybe music doesn't exactly equal life, but it surely enhances it unlike anything else. If you let it, it flows through every part of your existence. It's like a best friend or lover that's always there.

You can tap on whatever part of its wide-ranging personality or moods you want, at any time, and with one click or press of a button you can hear it speak to you about whatever you desire.

It can tease your ears and brain and plays on your own mood, brightening your day or enriching or magnifying whatever you're feeling into a sensual arousal of the brain that revives memories or whatever you wish.

Music makes me think. And feel. It helps to put me into a rythym and in tune with my thoughts.

I was going to take pix last night of a considerable snowfall here in the Great White North, on a relatively mild night.

But I got busy with blogging and driving my son to his band practice and back and never got around to it.

Nonetheless, I had music playing all night. And here was my playlist.

1. Why, Annie Lennox

2. Don't You (Forget About Me), Simple Minds

3. The Right Thing, Simply Red

4. Leather and Lace, Stevie Nicks

5. Something in the Air, Thunderclap Newman

6. Can't Live Without You, Harry Nilsson

7. Wonderful, Adam Ant

8. Too Little, Too Late, Barenaked Ladies

9. You Will Be Waiting, BNL

10. Lovers in a Dangerous Time, BNL

11. Go Insane, Buckingham/Nicks

12. Glamour Boy, Burton Cummings

13. Don't Make Me Dream About You, Chris Isaak

14. Beautiful World, Coldplay

15. X & Y, Coldplay

16. Ah Leah, Donnie Iris

17. Do You Compute, Iris

18. The Rapper, Iris

19. Over My Head, The Fray

20. How to Save a Life, The Fray

21. Time is the Answer, Frozen Ghost

22. Promises, Promises, Frozen Ghost

23. Alone Again, Naturally, Gilbert O'Sullivan

24. Living Inside Myself, Gino Vanelli

25. Wild Horses, Gino Vanelli

26. Sour Suite, The Guess Who

27. What is Love, Haddaway (see YouTube Vid, it's incredible)

28. All My Life's a Circle, Harry Chapin

29. I am Not My Hair, India.Airie

30. New Sensation, INXS

31. Virtual Insanity, Jamiroquai

32. Time in a Bottle, Jim Croce

33. Imagine, John Lennon

34. Mind Games, John Lennon

35. Clarity, John Mayer

36. Why Georgia, John Mayer

37. Bigger than my Body, John Mayer

38. Neon, John Mayer

39. Constant Craving, kd Lang

40. Endicott, Kid Creole and the Coconuts

IS THERE ONE, OR ARE THERE MAYBE TWO OR THREE SONGS THAT YOU FIND YOURSELF CONSTANTLY CRAVING AND THAT YOU ALWAYS GO BACK TO?

December 10, 2007

Teasing Women Week Tossed to Trash Heap

(Photo illustration courtesy Anna)

I GUESS TEASING IS A SUBJECTIVE THING.

What can I say other than mea culpa?

December 5, 2007

A 50th Birthday for a Blogtown Blowhard

HOBO ESCAPEONS IS 50 ON DECEMBER 6TH, A FACT HE HAS TRUMPETED ON HIS OWN BLOG.

For those of you haven't already stampeded over there, here's a pictorial salute to my bestest friend, including virtually every pic I've ever published on this blog (and some, of him nude, I opted not to).

ENJOY. I will probably invite myself over there sometime this weekend to acknowledge his existence, but mostly so I can get a big hug from his wife and their young son and any other of his family members.

That's him on the right, me on the left, in his backyard pool circa 1979...

As my special surprise birthday gift to Homer, I've included this pic (below) of yet another shaving snafu on the eve of his 50th. I'm sure it will be treasured forever and show my commitment to our lifelong friendship.

Spot him in the middle, at the back, just to the left of the handsome guy in the checkered shirt? Did he tell you he has a penchant for standing elevated like that to raise his height-challenged form above the rest?

December 3, 2007

Birthday Boy Blues

I'VE BEEN SO SERIOUS AND PENSIVE LATELY.

NOTHING LIKE A DINNER OUT WITH THE KIDS TO CHANGE THAT.

So on Sunday night, I brought my daughter and my son out for dinner to celebrate his 16th birthday. And it gave me joy and it made me laugh and snicker in spite of all that's going on around me.

And this, with a few little details pointed out along the way, is a pictorial of that goofy and night...every single picture I took, off-centre or not...

On the left, right beneath my son's ugly face, I'm holding my ancient cellphone...while my two kids are showing off their cellphone/camera/text messaging machines, which put my cellphone to shame, I know...

Below, we are now at the restaurant, which is called Applebees. I can't exactly remember, but I'm sure my daughter is giving me hell about something or other.

My son? Who knows what he's looking at or thinking, if he can think at all...

This shot was taken after I teased my daughter about her fish-hook earrings, the longest and most garish in the solar system, as far as I can tell.

She is accustomed to me making such remarks, which always are true and correct. The neat thing is, she doesn't care what I think.

Attractive girl, isn't she?

Here's my goofy son being, well, goofy, knowing I'm trying to take his picture and covering himself up. I think I gave him sh*t, but it was exactly what I would have done....duh...