New Year's Calibration
Jan. 1st, 2007 06:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fredxmertz
Happy 2007: the year of DOING STUFF, not GETTING STUFF. and it will be topped off with Xmas 07, the BUY NOTHING XMAS!
(Nuxie gasps in horror!)
the 07 Tournament of Roses Parade was STORMED by troopers of all nations, as the grand marshall was George Lucas.
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Mertz might be playing tin whistle, banjo, and harmonica in a pirate music group here in Eugene. The unfortunate name of the group has nothing whatever to do with pirates , tho... 'AUDIO ACOUSTICA'. I will be doing a CD of the 'Puddletown Pattys' but there will be some lineup changes.
I turn 37 on 1/9/07. the Tom Waits tribute show is at Sam Bond's on 1/13/07 & I'm hoping to get 'Audio Acoustica' to do a number or 2. HAPPY BASTARDS are playing Friday 1/5/07 @ Le Sous Sol and 1/7/07 at Tiny Tavern.
I plan on paying much closer attention to MERTX Jr's academic life, due to his poor grades at 1st term. His advisor has not repllied to either of the 2 emails I've sent, but I've had some contact with the Vice Principal and a Counselor - we've got a meeting set for Friday and my son will be tested for A.D.D. on thursday...
hope everyone had great holidays, much love and respect,
XOX
MERTZ
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Oh yes sir! The month of the birthdays.
Date: 2007-01-02 03:19 am (UTC)Re: Oh yes sir! The month of the birthdays.
Date: 2007-01-02 03:56 am (UTC)how's show biznatch?
give MERTZ love to the fam and crew.
greasy crawdad guts and bilge water to you!
& happy birth day you impotent pup, you insolent mongrel weenbag
XOX
Chinatown bumboat (by SALTY DICK)
I was strolling down Sand Street one fine summer night
And I spied a fair damsel as she hove in sight.
I ran up my number, to which she replied,
"I'm a Chinatown bumboat going out with the tide,
"I'm a Chinatown bumboat going out with the tide."
I passed her a hawser and took her in tow,
We crossed down the way like a couple should go.
We turned in an alley not too clean or neat,
And we dropped out mudhooks at the end of the street. (2 times)
She then led me up to a third-story floor,
And in her fine stateroom I soon laid her o'er.
She cleaned up her courses and her red flag downhaul,
Laid her lily-white hand on me reeftackle-fall. (2 times)
I gazed in her sternsheets, saw plenty of room,
And into her hullpipe I shoved my jibboom.
With her fenders o'erhanging like a bent scupper's lip,
Pretty Polly's a pirate who scuttled my ship. (2 times)
She rolled and she pitched like a ship in a storm,
And cried out, "Oh, sailor, you're doing me harm!
You're in the wrong port!" she cried out in alarm.
Well, the wrong port be damned, any port in a storm. (2 times)
She burnt down me rigging clean down to the hull,
And back to the sickbay me punt I did scull.
With me foregaps all bent and me mainmast unstrung,
The doctor said, "Sailor, yer jibboom is sprung." (2 times)
Now I'm lying in sickbay, me stern to the wall,
The Chinatown bumboat the cause of it all.
It's ashes to ashes and dust unto dust,
Tell me, where is the woman a sailor can trust? (2 times)
http://cdbaby.com/cd/saltydick
Sailors, like any exclusively male community, have probably always sung "dirty" songs. Even a cursory perusal of the available literature reveals ribald songs from cowboys, soldiers, rugby players, boy scouts. The available literature is scanty, however, since few folksong collectors preserved material of this nature. It is, therefore, one of the last branches of folk music that still relies primarily on oral transmission. If you want to learn songs that deal frankly with sexual themes, find a group of men without the company of women, open up a bottle or two, and stay close until the singing begins.
For seamen, the enforced abstinence of sea voyages created a pressure that found an outlet in the singing of bawdy songs. Much material has been lost to us, but there remains a small body of song of maritime provenance that is still pure and unbowdlerized. It is my intention with this recording to preserve a few of these gems, to probe this back channel of sea music. These are songs from both the merchant service and naval tradition, songs of long ago as well as of today, and songs from all corners of the English-speaking maritime world.
Re: Oh yes sir! The month of the birthdays.
Date: 2007-01-02 05:49 am (UTC)Re: Oh yes sir! The month of the birthdays.
Date: 2007-01-03 01:46 am (UTC)like that there squinty eyed fella with the genetical materials
hereditary hari kari
theres peoples like that here!
lil mposum eyd mushroom folks...
no subject
Date: 2007-01-03 03:15 am (UTC)Happy New Year!!
That sounds like a most titilating band
Re: Oh yes sir! The month of the birthdays.
Date: 2007-01-03 05:02 am (UTC)Back to the issue at hand....What the fuck did you say?
Re: Oh yes sir! The month of the birthdays.
Date: 2007-01-04 06:27 am (UTC)having contributed to the populations of two great nations
swashbuckling swordfight, battling with our stiff rapiers.
en garde
and get your hand off my leg
i'm january 9, capricorn. i like long walks by the seashore and salty testicle scabs.
i share a birthday with tricky dick Nixon, Joan 'I slept with bob marley' Baez and Rock God Sadist butt whipper JIMMY PAGE
(cue super heavy Led Zep riff)
but I just play the banjo..... like I SAID! playing banjo lowers your IQ and your credit rating, prolonged exposure may deplete your DNA
Re: Oh yes sir! The month of the birthdays.
Date: 2007-01-04 03:08 pm (UTC)I'm January 31st, an Aquarius, a tiger by the Chinese calender, strained cabbage by the Irish Collander. I can't spell. My throat is really sore and it's all your fault Mr. Mononucleosis. I like hot peppers and walks in the exercise yard.
Good morning Eugene!