Huckleberry Closetcase?

Charlie Pierce is the American Homer.

A longish but very worthwhile read;

http://davidsimon.com/stray-penises-and-politicos/

For no particular reason, I give you what “Huckleberry Hound” was named in other languages:

Brazilian Portuguese: Dom Pixote
Bulgarian: Хъкълбери Хрътката
Croatian: Hucky i Prijatelji
Czech: Pes Filipes
Dutch: Huckleberry Hond
Finnish: Hakki-koira
French: Roquet Belles-Oreilles
German: Hucky
Hungarian: Foxi Maxi
Icelandic: Hökki Hundur
Italian: Braccobaldo Bau
Japanese: 珍犬ハックル (Chin-ken Hakkuru)
Polish: Pies Huckleberry
Portuguese: Dom Quixote
Spanish: similar to English
Swedish: Huckleberry Hund / Blåbärsjycken
Turkish: Akıllı Bıdık

The French, by the way, translates to “Pug Pretty Ears”.

However I think the winner and forever champion from this list without question is the Hungarian.

Friday Night Random….

Don and Dewey – It’s A Beautiful Day
Low – Flo Rida featuring T-Pain
Wounded Heart – Bonnie Raitt
Marrakech Express – Crosby Stills and Nash
It Had To Be You – Rod Stewart
In The Midnight – Van Morrison
Peter Pan – Patti Griffin
Long White Cadillac – Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women
Desperados Under The Eaves – Warren Zevon
That’ll Be The Day – Modest Mouse

and a strong recommendation for….

Night Soldiers by Allen Furst. Time and place depiction beyond compare.

1. Take It So Hard – Keith Richards
2. Cry Me a River – Joe Cocker
3. Pay Me My Money Down – Bruce Springsteen
4. Strong Enough – Sheryl Crow
5. Why Should I Be Lonely – Aaron Neville
6. Smoking Gun – Robert Cray
7. Shiver Me Timbers – Tom Waits
8. After the Gold Rush – Neil YOung
9. Window In the Skies – U2
10. Picture Show – John Prine
Bonus: Satisfaction – Otis Redding

Girlfriend – Matthew Sweet
I Hate Music – The Replacements
Suffragette City – David Bowie
Shitlist – L7
New Values – Iggy Pop
I Saw Your Mommy – Suicidal Tendencies
North side Gal – JD McPherson
Girls – Iggy Pop
Bela Lugosi’s Dead – Bauhaus
Kiss With A Fist – Florence + The Machine

For old times' sake:

You Know What My Body Needs – Lonnie Brooks
Lipstick Sunset – John Hiatt
Compostion 305 (+ language improvisation, 44) – Anthony Braxton / Taylor Ho Bynum
Peddlin' Dreams – Maria McKee
Blind Willie McTell – Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman
Desolation Row – Bob Dylan
Hold On – Tom Waits
Waltz For Debbie (Take 2) – Bill Evans
Lola (Live) – The Kinks
40 Shades Of Blue – Black 47

Bonus: Boxcars – Joe Ely

I seem to have a high tolerance for what lots of people think are show-offy self-indulgent messes, so maybe I’ll give it a try. Speaking of which…

After The Ordeal (Genesis)
Neurotica (King Crimson)
Magilla (Phish)
Send Me No Wine (The Moody Blues)
PDA (Interpol)
Love Under Fire (Asia)
Rats (Pearl Jam)
This Is War (Twelfth Night)
Country Yard (The Vines)
Soul Love (David Bowie)

And one more for David, Jill, Paula, and whoever else has been making a hot mess of themselves: One More Saturday Night (The Grateful Dead)

Charles Pierce has officially dubbed Lindsey Graham: Huckleberry Closetcase.

How did I miss this? I thought he was on vacation this week. Unless it was something that he puked out on twitter-twat, which is an abomination in the eyes of a righteous God… (Teh Great Gazoogle was of no help here… 6 whole citations, none of which having anything to do with Charles Pierce.)

The arrogant, douchey eyesore that is Guy Fieri took a pretty good beatdown from a NYT food critic this week about his gigantic new restaurant-type thing in Manhattan. Prolly needed a few stitches after getting slapped around like that…

From the iFun:

Meat Loaf — Two out of Three Ain’t Bad
Scott Merrill — How to Survive [Threepenny Opera, 1954]
Nellie McKay — Mean to Me [tip of the hat to TBogg for that]
War — The Cisco Kid
Suzy Boguss with Dave Edmunds — It Doesnt Matter Anymore
Muddy Waters — I Feel Like Going Home
John Astin — Wedding Song [3d Op again]
Procul Harum — All This and More [live version]
Arch Hall Jr & the Archers — Stairfall
Beaux Freres — Home Sweet Home

And as a bonus (cheating a bit) Frank Sinatra — You’d Be So Nice to Come Home to, from After Hours with Bill Miller at the Piano, radio broadcasts from the early 1950s that demonstrate just how brilliant Sinatra was when all he did was sing.

“Huckleberry Closetcase” – a formulated phrase for the ages. Brought this bit to mind.

And I have known the eyes already, known them all–
The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,
And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,
When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,
Then how should I begin
To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?
And how should I presume?

Telegraph Avenue made me want one of those damn cream cakes at 11:15pm when Taste of Denmark ain’t even remotely open. DAMN YOU CHABON.

In a move symbolic of the Repuke reaction to the election, a third grader throws a crying tantrum because Rmoney lost –

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJn467qVZgw&feature=plcp

Still more mature than everyone on Fox.

Ahhhh… A morning dose of zettai ryouiki. Thanks!

Tirara – Group Doueh
The Great Pretender – Jimmy Parkinson
Fullsuvollivus (Fools of All of Us) – Keith Jarrett
No Path Back – Byeongwoo Lee
Small Eddy – BBC Sound Effects
Last Christmas – Berk & The Virtual Band
One for My Baby – Frank Sinatra
Asiko Mi Ni – The Nigerian Police Force Band
Danza de la Molinera – Paco de Lucia
Walkin’ Thru the Park – Muddy Waters
Non-cheating bonus: Bill Monroe’s New Muleskinner Blues (because when you don’t cheat, bluegrass happens)

Opt1m1sm – Two Seconds to Midnight
I’m Not the Girl - Angela McCluskey
Drips – Se7en
You Never Give Me Your Money – The Beatles
So Far Away – Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris in Concert
Every Breath You Take – The Police
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas – Frank Sinatra
Lie to Me – Stacy Wilde
Georgia on My Mind – Ray Charles
Girlfriend is Better – Talking Heads

bonus:
All or Nothing at All – Diana Krall

Huh. Just started Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk last night. Good to know.

In the past 12 months, about 25 bands have cancelled tours in Australia. Madonna told her fans she had to spend more time with her four children; Lana Del Rey said she was “not ready to tour”(before rescheduling months later); George Michael said he was suffering from anxiety and Smash Mouth claimed they had a “scheduling conflict”(they are thought to be rescheduling, too).

But one of Australia’s leading promoters, Michael Chugg, said a band’s reason for cancelling a tour could generally be linked to poor sales.
As a promoter, Chugg – who runs Chugg Entertainment – would rather cancel a tour than have an empty hall. But he said bands should be transparent as to why they are cancelling. “A couple of times we have cancelled. Bands should just say there was lack of f—ing audience interest.”

Other reasons for tours not drawing well: ridiculous ticket fees that equal out to buying a extra ticket. I used to go to about a dozen concerts a year, but the fees have about killed it for me. I tend to stick with smaller clubs and smaller bands while assembly line-like venues like the House of Blues are a non-starter for me. I am a HUGE Beth Orton fan and even though she rarely tours, I couldn’t make myself go to see her recently because it was at HOB.

As for the high ticket/big venue shows, it would have to be an extraordinary show, like a reunited Replacements, to get me to go.

Yup, yup and yup.

Yay, Shakira’s bum.

Steve Savard: “The Rams were not very good at all this afternoon.” Unbelievably, the Jets still have a chance in the mad scrum of 4-6 teams in the AFC if one of the two nameless 6-3 teams falter.

I’ve got 100 pages to go in Telegraph Avenue. I am giving it a lot of credit because TNC is in the acknowledgements and you can see his influence in how the black characters are portrayed. If this was Tom Wolfe every black character would be a caricature. It is also so vividly written that it blew all the Hugo candidates out of the water. But so far a spinning record seems to be a metaphor for the whole story. It looks as if everything is going to happen and nothing is going to happen at once. If Chabon had thought that Nat and Archy could come up with a really clever plot to save the store, you would have had an exciting story, but he hasn’t gone that way yet.

Telegraph Avenue does seem to be turning out to be my least favorite Chabon novel, making still better and more interesting than 97 percent of the crap the critics love to slobber over.

Haven’t done this in a while…

The Real McCoy……………The Silencers
You Can Find It ………….Ben Graves
Three Hopeful Thoughts ……Rilo Kiley
Are You Down? ……………Lucinda Williams
Through The Glass ………..Susan Werner
Somewhere(West Side Story) ..Tom Waits
Top of the World …………Dixie Chicks
If I Had a Boat ………….Lyle Lovett
Ingrid Bergman …………..Billy Bragg&Wilco
I Want To Be With You Always John Prine
bonus: Wild Night ………..Van Morrison

Fun, we should do this more often…