So, how y'all doin'?
I'm still at it.
Got the dining room carpet done.Did that whole deal by myself, too.
Moved the shit out, cleaned the room, vinegar rinsed then shampooed the carpet... took me about two and a half hours to get it done. When I rent these things, what I do (specifically because I have cats) is go over the carpets first with a combination of hot water and vinegar.
White vinegar neutralizes "pet odors".
Also makes it so they don't keep "missing" (much like men do, but way worse) and creating the "odors/stains" in the first place. After the vinegar rinse, I go on and use the Rug Doctor shampoo shit and do it again. They say to go a foot a second. I do a foot in about three.
I go a little slower so it "git's 'er done". Besides the dining room, half the living room is done, too. Eric did that, then went to bed. I'm doing the other half in a minute. Or thirty. Or sixty. Then, I'm gonna take a whack at cleaning these two recliners we have... or "mine", anyway. Eric likes the smaller, nicer lookin' one.
So, when I used to sit in the livingroom watching TV (as opposed to spilling my guts here), I had the bigger one.
Cool. Then, along came abooout, what?... oh, I don't know, let's just say "cats in the high double digits, all told" over the years I've had this chair. And, a few of them have done unspeakable things to it. It's so fuckin' ugly now, I keep it, and Eric's chair, draped with matching blue throws.
(Which are currently halfway up the stairs where I slung 'em to be washed eventually, thus exposing my nekkid chair in all it's "MY EYES!!!"-edness.)
('Cause that's what you shriek when you see it uncovered. Much like my... oh, never mind.) This washing of the throws/finishing the laundry thing is, of course, after I drive to the same damned grocery store I've been to approximately 92 times in the last three days. The grocery store that seems to erase my memory every time, as far as me being able to remember gotverdamen (my version of German... I can say it, but not spell it.) laundry soap. And, Coffeemate.
Please, God, don't let me forget the You-damned Coffeemate, necessitating yet another trek to the Giant, okay? Please? You wanna know how much I go to the Giant?
In their "point" thing, I am currently eligible to get 20% off my "next checkout".
I have over 600 points. And, their "points for gas" thing? Where they take 10 cents off every gallon for every hundred points you have?
Well, let's just say I'm aiming for enough points to make that first number in the price a 1. Hell, if it went on long enough, I'd get it all the way down to "free", I bet. Anyway, looks like I'm headed back to the store sooner or later. Good thing I like driving my car.... And, after almost exactly a year, I have finally found the coolest radio station around here. It's 96.1 WSOX.
Their website called them an "oldies" station, but, as much as I LOVE the songs they play, I beg to differ with that "oldies" shit.
And, seeing as to how I'm getting kinda tired of correcting today's teeny-boppers and teenagers on this issue, lem'me explain this, hopefully once and for all. When discussing genres of music, there are really only two that matter enough to be so adamant about. They are "oldies" and "classic rock". These are both kickass forms of music, but they are not the same, not interchangable... they are seperate and distinct from each other. OLDIES are songs from the 50's and 60's.
The soundtrack of American Graffiti is a prime example. CLASSIC ROCK is comprised of some of the best music ever created. It's mostly from the 70's. Bands like Skynyrd, Molly Hatchet, Led Zepplin, Floyd, of course... those kind of guys. It's hard-driving, make-yer-heart-pound, gotta-crank-it UP auditory ambrosia. (And yeah, the band Ambrosia can be included... along with Nazareth and the Stones and AC/DC... oh, stop me, somebody. This could take all night.) Classic rock is NOT from the 50's or 60's.
(Though, there are some covers of oldies that qualify as "classic".)
It is NOT to be called "oldies" EVER. Okay people?
Especially you young ones?
Ya got it? It's so simple... If it has a sixteen minute guitar or drum solo in it at any point that is so friggin' awesome it gives ya a panty-puddle, that's classic rock. If it makes you picture poodles skirts and saddle shoes, it's "oldies"
(And, if you don't know what poodle skirts and saddle shoes are, bite me. "Kay?) And, now that I've explained this for what MUST be the thirteen millionth time, the next time some little peckerweed hears Skynyrd rippin' through "Gim'me Three Steps", or Grand Funk doing "Closer to Home", or "Comfortably Numb" playing in my presence and refers to it as "oldies", even if he's saying, "I love the "oldies"...", I reserve the right to not be held responsible for anything I might do, up to and including tying the little shit to a chair and making him listen to opera really loud til he gets it RIGHT. Okay, now back to this radio station... it is the best station I've listened to in years. I've been listening to 'em since this morning.
After JCS, I switched to the radio and this was the station it was tuned to.
I don't know who put it there.
Wasn't me.
Til now, I listened to 98.5 and that wasn't very often.
They aren't that great. Too many annoying local commercials and they play the same songs every day at nearly the same time every day.
It gets old... quick. Anyway, since I turned the radio on, this station has not played one single song all day that's made me go "ugh, change it". The Hustle
Spirit in the Sky
Suger, Sugar
The Bee Gee's disco stuff
Barry White
The Eagles, Hotel California and others
JIMMY BUFFET, even (and oh yeah I did holler, "Here ya go, Rob!" when I heard the first few notes of
It's from the 70's.
Or, more to the point, it's from when I was a kid and what I listened to as a kid is NOTNOTNOT, now or eeeeever, "oldies". What I listened to as a kid that was "the oldies" for me (for the rest of forever) were Motown, Buddy Holly, Ritchie and the Big Booper too... basically, again, the soundtrack to American Graffiti. Or La Bamba. Whatever. Summer in the City
Cherry Hill Park
Do You Believe in Magic
Build Me Up, Buttercup
etc. That stuff was called "the oldies" even back then.
And, that's what the oldies still are today... Motown, et al. But, this radio station is so close to perfect, I'll let it slide THIS ONCE.
Only these people are exempt from my campaign to make understood (to the nth degree) the difference between the two. And, right now, they're playing "If you want it, here it is".
You know... "If you want it, here it is.
But, you'd better hurry 'cause it's goin' fast..." I haven't heard some of the songs I've heard today for years. Like THIS ONE... now it's "You're my Soul and Inspiration" by The Righteous Brothers.
*swoon* Maaaan... *fanning self rapidly for the duration of this song* Well.
Thanks guys.
Now I don't know if I wanna finish the carpets or go get laid... Ah, now it's Bowie...
"Ch-ch-ch-changes", so cleaning it is.
Can't leave the area with Bowie on. Besides, this living room carpet looks so nice again... I wanna finish it.
Then do those chairs.
Then, put all the displaced shit back, but maybe not in exactly the same places. (I've already started that... I've switched a few things around so far. Looks really cool, much better.) Then, there's the rest of the... kitchen.
*giggle* For as much as I got done in there earlier, there's still a lot more that needs to be done. Okay... now here we go, a perfect example of what's NOT an oldie that this station is now playing... "Witchy Woman", by the Eagles. "Witchy Woman" is so not from the 50's or 60's.
Therefore, it does not qualify as an oldie, and I don't care if the program director IS still in diapers, he's so young, and thinks it does. Still... great to hear it. Oh fer Christ's sake...
The DJ was just saying what is coming up next, after these commercials, and he named a coupla good ones, then said, "And, one song the NFL has banned... Or, not "banned", but have asked the stadiums and people not to use anymore... Gary Glitter." Hey now... I know what song they mean and that song ain't got shit to do with the mess Giltter is in, so, wtf? Hah.
And, here it is... Pardon me while I chair-dance for a few... This song reminds me of another one I love... that Cherokee song... "Cherokee people, Cherokee pride. So proud to live, so proud to die..." That one, yeah. Another one I miss and don't even know how much til I hear it again. Oh, "The Joker".
Cool.
(What's a "pompadus"? As in: "of love"?) Alright...
before I sit here all friggin' night, listing every song I like that they play (which is just about all of 'em), I'm going back to the cleaning before I stiffen up like a dick fulla Viagra. Peace *clicks "save" with "Just an Old-Fashioned Love Song" playing now in the background*
I know I'm supposed to be done here, but, man....
They're playing KC and the Sunshine Band!!!!! "Do a little dance, make a little love. Get down tonight..." I LOVE THIS RADIO STATION!!!!!!!!!!!Comments
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I know just what you mean. My playlist is made up of mostly oldies, the best classic rock and a few from after the 80"s. Totals 700 songs.
Posted by: tl at September 15, 2006 10:05 AM (qpq8r)
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