Luv Cajun food, well actually most any food that's done well, but great Cajun... Is bliss 
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I did! I did!!....and I got hungry.....so my late dinner is a nice bowl of chicken fried rice...yum!!
Ooooh did someone mention food?
I lived there for 12 years. Some of the canals do smell like toilets when the tide is in and they back up. It is a great place for singles / couples though.
The Harvey Canal was always really bad. Part of it is the pollution from the paper-mills (making paper produces the most horrid stench. heh). Some of the best food ever though. I have been around and I still miss the food. sigh. Definitely a MUST visit. Not like any place else in the U.S.
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not to mention the music, right?! 
I lived there for 12 years. Some of the canals do smell like toilets when the tide is in and they back up. It is a great place for young singles / couples though.
That's one thing that I learned from my parents (of course I complained sometimes as a kid) but they really exposed us to different things and we learned (eventually 
) to appreciated new and different things. Mind you this also was done on a modest budget so it wasn't like I was traveling the world My better half grew up military as well, lived overseas and was lucky enough to travel alot of Europe. So we tried our best to install this in our kids
) to appreciated new and different things. Mind you this also was done on a modest budget so it wasn't like I was traveling the world My better half grew up military as well, lived overseas and was lucky enough to travel alot of Europe. So we tried our best to install this in our kids 
The older I get the more quiet I want/need at the end of the dayJust a hectic month Stone!!First the furlough.....then back and catch-up with that mess...then the annual trek for Halloween..then company we haven't seen in 8 years!
...but all is well...it's quiet...and I have a mini tank full of Strawberry Shortcake.....Ahhhh....life is good.....
Speaking of which, did you get those rowdy folk taken care of, Uno? It sucks that people can't get along. . . .
EDIT: Congrats on selling your juice, Joie
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Way off topic, but.......just when you think it can't get any better......Sons of Anarchy!!!!!......holy crap!!......what writing!!
not to mention the music, right?!
If you like blues/jazz, absolutely. I don't though. He he.
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mang, you wuz in the French Quarter for Halloween, and you didn't bother to dress up? what's up wit dat?
i remember being down there once, in late November, got back from scoping out all the bootlegs stores and went for a swim. i'm hopping in the elevator and one of the gals that works there says, "wow, you must be a Yankee!" totally surprised me cuz i do, indeed, have a New England accent. however, i hadn't said a word.
i asked how she knew, "we don't go swimming in November!" she says.heck, i live in Seattle, if it's sunny and 70, that's swimming weather!
4th of July weekend at Arcadia National Park near Bangor Maine...water temp 52 nice!
That's not cold though.
March in Green River Vermont - between that ice there and that ice down there
Washing off after a Lakota sweatlodge. Swim underwater that's less than 35°
That's cold.
What's a Yankee? Ain't that a magazine or a ballteam?
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Sadly I'm a fan of classic rock, rock & roll, hard rock, and some heavy metal stuff. These days I guess it is all considered classic rock. Guess I'm just getting old.
Cinnamon Roll and Sticky Buns is gooood. Reminds me of Cinnabuns. Yum. Uno Mas has me hooked!!!
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Sadly I'm a fan of classic rock, rock & roll, hard rock, and some heavy metal stuff. These days I guess it is all considered classic rock. Guess I'm just getting old.
Cinnamon Roll and Sticky Buns is gooood. Reminds me of Cinnabuns. Yum. Uno Mas has me hooked!!!
Raised on Black Sabbath and my favorite piece of music is Beethoven's 9th Symphony with the 5th right behind it.
Howlin' Wolf to Hank Sr. Jr. AND III
Benny Goodman to Jane's Addiction.
Marshall Tucker to Kitaro to Pantera to Carlos Nakai
Keep your ears and mind open, there's beauty everywhere
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my bad...yankee. that better?
i used to be able to handle the cold waters, not anymore. not sure how much my heat function has gone up, it was 20% in June. i'd probably go into a coma in anything too cold now. (Puget Sound is cold, swimmable, but cold!)
i remember how i hated the warm water in Hawaii. now, i'm watching Hawaii 5-0, thinking...wow, i could actually swim in that!
had an old friend call yesterday. said he's retiring in 4 years, family is moving back to the Philippines and they're taking me with them! i bet the water is warm there. it was a good laugh, like i'll still be alive in 4 years!
Raised on Black Sabbath and my favorite piece of music is Beethoven's 9th Symphony with the 5th right behind it.
Howlin' Wolf to Hank Sr. Jr. AND III
Benny Goodman to Jane's Addiction.
Marshall Tucker to Kitaro to Pantera to Carlos Nakai
Keep your ears and mind open, there's beauty everywhere
I have tried to branch out with my music but I never get very far. I did throw 'Walking in Memphis' on my flash drive recently and enjoyed it. Mostly put it on there so my girl could have a break from listening to my stuff in the car all the time.
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Now that ive reeked enough havoc, I wish I could sit back and vape... But noooooo I'm at work for 6 more hours.
Next week I'm going to bring my stuff to make coils at work.
I'm sad, I haven't heard back from the person on the classies about the reo. I paid last night..Monday.. so was hoping to be lucky and it ship today, tues. So maybe it'll ship today the real today, which is now weds lol
Next week I'm going to bring my stuff to make coils at work.
I'm sad, I haven't heard back from the person on the classies about the reo. I paid last night..Monday.. so was hoping to be lucky and it ship today, tues. So maybe it'll ship today the real today, which is now weds lol
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I have tried to branch out with my music but I never get very far. I did throw 'Walking in Memphis' on my flash drive recently and enjoyed it. Mostly put it on there so my girl could have a break from listening to my stuff in the car all the time.
It ain't a far leap from classic rock to blues.
Johnny Winter produced and played on Muddy Waters' albums in the 70s.
That would be a good place to get your feet wet.
Rock is evolved blues basically. Some is evolved jazz, prog is rock/classical.
Start collecting records by buying buttloads by the ton for dirt cheap off craigslist.
Play them amd sell what you don't like.
I made a bunch of money when I needed it and collected about 1500 records for a couple of hundred bucks after the dust settled.
It's good exposure to more than slightly odd but thoroughly entertaining music.
You haven't lived until you hear stoned 1960s Bill Cosby sing Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
I have to agree. Classic rock absolutely has its roots in the blues. I learned my love for the blues while living in Kansas City.....smokey clubs full of people of all ages, and the music......the music.......the kind where you cannot sit still......your body just has to move. I live for the blues!....you're right, beauty can be found in all forms of music. But for me, on the most primal level, the blues move me to my very core.
It ain't a far leap from classic rock to blues.
Johnny Winter produced and played on Muddy Waters' albums in the 70s.
That would be a good place to get your feet wet.
Rock is evolved blues basically. Some is evolved jazz, prog is rock/classical.
Start collecting records by buying buttloads by the ton for dirt cheap off craigslist.
Play them amd sell what you don't like.
I made a bunch of money when I needed it and collected about 1500 records for a couple of hundred bucks after the dust settled.
It's good exposure to more than slightly odd but thoroughly entertaining music.
You haven't lived until you hear stoned 1960s Bill Cosby sing Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
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Well no wonder he is giving it away. I wouldn't want to vape anything that had been soaked in motor oil either. I don't care if it was burnt off with a torch!
. (Uh...dolphin.)my bad...yankee. that better?
i used to be able to handle the cold waters, not anymore. not sure how much my heat function has gone up, it was 20% in June. i'd probably go into a coma in anything too cold now. (Puget Sound is cold, swimmable, but cold!)
i remember how i hated the warm water in Hawaii. now, i'm watching Hawaii 5-0, thinking...wow, i could actually swim in that!
had an old friend call yesterday. said he's retiring in 4 years, family is moving back to the Philippines and they're taking me with them! i bet the water is warm there. it was a good laugh, like i'll still be alive in 4 years!
If the water ain't at least 82 degrees it's too cold. I had a pool a few years ago and the temp used to get up towards 90 degrees. That was sweet in 110 degree weather.
Very much seconded.
I've always been an odd duck musically. The Beatles were the first band that I really loved, and from the very beginning, I wanted to know how they got that sound... where did it come *from*? The truth is, there's always an answer to that question. It's just that the answer is far too simple to sound good in an interview. Go listen to their influences. Not just the stuff you like... the stuff you hate, too. When other kids were listening to New Kids On the Block and Paula Abdul and telling me how dumb the Beatles were, I was digging through library books trying to connect those threads. Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Little Richard, Glenn Miller (Paul's dad loved big band, so Paul was surrounded by that, too), god, where can I find recordings of old music hall songs?!
When I was about 13, Paul had a radio show called Oobu Joobu where he actually played all of that stuff - that was the point - and it was the maddest, most amazing and eclectic mix ever - just anything he felt like from his personal record collection dating back to when he was a kid. He played some Beatles bootlegs, too, and that was fun, but the best bits were always the "here's this guy you've never heard of, my uncle brought this record back from America for me in 1955 or something" moments. By the end of that summer, with all the oddball stuff filled in by Paul himself, I could trace the Beatles' musical DNA.
No one cared but me, because the Beatles were *deeply* uncool at the time. I didn't mind.
Then came the Beatles Anthology, and my favorite moment in the whole masterpiece is when they manage to demonstrate, musically, why the Beatles became THE BEATLES and not just another one hit wonder. George Harrison talks about how The Shadows and other skiffle-type groups were really big at the time, and then the Beatles came back from Hamburg with this "new sound" that wasn't really original (they weren't the only band playing Hamburg that sounded like that) and certainly wasn't new (at the time, they were still covering the same songs everyone else was - Money, Long Tall Sally, etc). But the moment the Anthology actually puts those sounds right next to each other for you - that "plinka plinka plinka" (no disrespect to The Shadows) next to what the Beatles *were* doing... holy crap. Where did these guys *come* from? You can hear it. It's dramatic. All those disparate influences boiled down in a crucible of constant Hamburg "mach schau."
The clip I'm referring to is here, for the interested (skip to about the 4:38 mark if you don't have time for the whole thing):
After the Anthology came out, of course, the Beatles were "cool" again with a bunch of kids who the very week before were asking me who Sgt Pepper was and why he was on my shirt. I repeatedly got asked how my Beatles knowledge got so encyclopedic... the answer, of course, was that it happened almost by accident, while I was trying to trace that musical DNA.
I'm reminded of all this because Oobu Joobu was where I first heard Bill Cosby's cover of Sgt. Pepper. And the Beatle Barkers (dogs barking Beatles songs - done before autotune, back when that kind of thing was impressive)... Paul loves strange covers.
TL;DR - tracing the influences of your favorite band(s) is really fun. You won't like everything they mention, but when you're done, you'll appreciate your favorite band(s) on a whole new level.
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