Long Day

[richardf8]

Woke up, lettered two Cat-Tharsis strips, went out to breakfast and the art store (for new Bristol and Tech-Pen cartridges. Question - anyone who uses Rapidographs, do you like them? Hate them? Consider them worth the care-and-feeding, or prefer to use nylon/felt tips (like Zigs or PITT)).

Came home and started the Mower so morgan1 could cut the grass (old injuries of hers make pulling a rip-cord a bad thing). Borrowed Morgan's keys to go into the house so I could use the bathroom, filter some water, and get drawing supplies so I can pencil the strip outside. That was when Morgan put her fist through the window in the back door.

Well that sort of adjusted some priorities. I let Morgan in and she cleaned and dressed her wounds. Meanwhile, I cleaned up the glass and picked it out of the doorframe. Went to the Hardware store for a new pane, some glazing putty and nails. Took it home and realized I had left no tolerance in the dimensions so we went back out to the HW store to get 1/4" trimmed from each dimension on the glass (and more gas for the mower.) We got the door reglazed in about an hour and half all-told, and by then it was time to go to a party our former neighbors were having for a number of family birthdays. (3 Geminis in one family).

After that we went to dinner at a place we hadn't been to in a while, and discovered that they are using their profits to advance an agenda we oppose. Basically donating to one of those "clinics" where they persuade young women to forgo high school and college and carry a pregnancy to term so that they can later be labeled "welfare queens" and abandoned by the very people who thought that baby was so all-fired important until the moment it left her womb.

So I deleted the entry for the restaurant from Good Eating (I will not turn my resources toward advancing an agenda I oppose) and donated the cost of our meal to Pro-Choice Minnesota.

I did get my Maudlin, Slit-Your-Wrists, Anti-War Bush Mix assemble (though I don't know if it's complete yet). Currently it contains:

1. And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda (Eric Bogle, performed by The Pogues).
2. 1916 (Motorhead)
3. When The Tigers Broke Free (Pink Floyd - Roger Waters)
4. Story of Isaac (Leonard Cohen)
5. Traveling Soldier (The Dixie Chicks)
6. My Youngest Son Came Home Today (Billy Bragg)
7. Go Down, Congress (The Fugs)

Oyster Band's "Love Vigilante" might go on to, but the tune's a bit bouncy.

Any other suggestions?

Comments

[kevinjdog.livejournal.com]

Ugh, yeah. I would hate to find out a favored place of mine was donating to something that I was strongly against.

As to the music... heh. It's interesting that you chose that R. Waters tune over anything from "The Final Cut", like "The Gunners Dream" or "The Fletcher Memorial Home" (but Roger mentions Reagan, and he was so well loved). I would also choose "The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing" from Frank Zappa's You Are What You Is (an album very much in the heavily political vein of R. Waters' most vehement work, except it's goofier).

[richardf8]

"Tigers" was chosen because it's a near seamless segue from 1916 - the beats match, the overall tone is similar, even the instrumentation is similar. I've been wanting to make this segue for about 10 years and I finally got both tunes in the same place at the same time to do it. Most of the tunes of "The Final Cut" would work, but having already given Waters a voice, I don't want to give him too much of a voice, because, y'know, his grief is just so much more profound than anyone else's. ;)

I think I'll check out the Zappa piece. I also want to dig up a copy of "Johnny we Hardly Knew Ye," which I feel must be somewhere in either my vinyl collection or Morgan's.

[morgan1.livejournal.com]

Arlo Guthrie's "When a Soldier Makes it Home" might also fit. Also "Brave Bombadier" by Boiled in Lead. (Although as I recall no one dies maudlinly in either of those.)

I suppose "I Ain't Marchin' Anymore" is angry, rather than maudlin.

[richardf8]

Except all the people the "Brave Bombadier" drops his bombs on. Bring it home, I haven't got a song that really deals with "collateral damage" yet, and that's a good one.

[kevinjdog.livejournal.com]

Oops... okay, I just reread your post, and that song isn't so much anti-war as anti-trickle-down-support-the-Christian-right-at-any-cost. "Dumb All Over" from the same album fits the mode more, but it's not exactly a "fun" song to listen to, as it's mostly Frankie rapping over a steady rhythm.

[richardf8]

Is Zappa ever really "fun" to listen to? I found copy of Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye, but the Recording Engineer needs killed. Exact opposite issue as what Mako cited with the new Rush album. The recording engineer apparently thought it would be oh so artsy to slooooowly pot up from -40db to saturation. One has to strain to listen to over half the song. I'm thinking of running it through a compresor to tighten it up a bit, but it's on vinyl, so all the comp will do is magnify the record-noise in the quiter portions.

[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

My mom has opposed Domino's for the same reason, altho we're not sure it still has the same leader or the same leader's campaign. In truth, we wouldn't expect to eat there often anyway.

And my dad decided to avoid Pizza Hut when he saw Rush Limbaugh in an ad for it. What is this with pizzerias and politics?

[richardf8]

Domino's has been sold, and its owner has started up a Catholic college somewhere in the south IIRC. I don't know who owns it now.

I've always thought Domino's pizza fairly dreadful, politics aside.

As for Rush Limbaugh endorsing food outlets. . . well, I figure a guy who cuts as fine a figure as Rush must know a thing or two about food, y'know? Locally he's endorsed a place called Shelly's Wood Roast, and I tried it. It was passable. A few months later it gave a bunch of people food poisoning. Go Figure!

[richardf8]

Oh, and Pizza Hut is owned by Yum! Foods. They also own Taco Bell and KFC. The food has gotten pretty uniformly bad across the board; I remember a time when KFC was a treat and Taco Bell pretty good Mexican.