I don't believe in Peter Pan...Frankenstein or Superman

Anyone know where the title comes from?
How about now?

I think Freddie Mercury proposed using nude men for the video, but that don't work so much...for obvious reasons.

Let that one sink in for a minute Cloutier.

Road trip tomorrow. That's when some of my best (and I use that term very loosely) ideas for my blogs come from. Oft times it's attributed to what I may be listening to at the time. Music is always a good fall back for me. I frequently add thoughts/opinions/clips of songs into the insipid blogs of mine.Here's a case in point...
http://pompatusofpete.blogspot.com/2012/06/put-your-big-toe-in-milk-of-human.html

I've got the same trip coming up tomorrow that inspired that blog. Fingers crossed there's no flying cows this time.

...and this time I'm going to comment on the soundtrack to be before I hit the road... it also gives me a chance to make another list, which, by the way, is also a fairly common fall back on these blogs

One other thing, can't promise this but I'll try not to be redundant (although that has been my middle name since I changed it from Joel when I was about twelve years old).

Let's see how this goes. Maybe some clips, maybe just comments

So, drumroll please....these will be the start of what I'm listening to in the car for about five hours tomorrow.

Ready    Set     Go !

Once in a Lifetime -Talking Heads
     "You may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
     You may find yourself in a beautiful house with a beautiful wife
     You may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?"


I've been thinking lately what a great band this was. I blew off my Babe Ruth All Star game to see these guys during their Stop Making Sense tour. I'm not saying this is what derailed my baseball career. I'm just saying.
David Byrne = Genius.

Montana - Frank Zappa
I'm providing the clip for this one.

The company that I work for posts announcements (when people accept new positions) where they ask you canned questions (or at least they used to, not so sure anymore) like... what's your favorite food...or favorite quote or some such other favorite thing.

After my last job shift, on my announcement Q and A I wanted to work in the line...

"I'm moving to Montana soon, gonna be a dental floss tycoon"

But I didn't. I didn't think anyone would "get it"

I should have.

Coward.

Frank Zappa = Genius

Without You - Harry Nilsson

Harry Nilsson = Genius (just thought I'd get that out of the way early this time)

Unless you're Dana Dodge...or my brother (not sure if either of which reads these blogs), you probably don't know this one.

Hence the clip...

     If loved ones wanted to only play Harry Nilsson songs at my funeral, I would not be upset... and not only because I'd be dead.

Clap for the Wolfman - The Guess Who

My favorite Canadian band. Well after Neil Young. And Joni Mitchell. And the Band. and maybe Bare Naked Ladies...I think you get he picture.

Only other song I know besides the Joker by Steve Miller that has the word pompatus in it.

Blue - The Jayhawks

Maybe one of the most melancholy songs ever written. Noticed I didn't say sad.

It can't be all about rainbows and pinwheels all the time can it ? (and truly when is it ever about rainbows and pinwheels. That doesn't even make sense. I apparently have that analogy mixed with someting else.)

     "Where have all my friends gone. They've all disappeared"

See. Melancholy.

Bungle in the Jungle - Jethro Tull

A couple of reasons.

A) Because there was no Jethro Tull. Right? Everyone knows that's just the name of the band. Don't you?

2) What else rhymes with jungle?

C) Fungal wouldn't have been as good. Would it?

Tightrope - Leon Russell

     "Like a rubber neck giraffe

      you look into my past

      Well maybe you're just to blind to...see"

Love it. I ran into Leon on the sidewalk after seeing a show of his with a dear old friend. I'd ask her what I may have said to him, but I'm not sure she'd remember the encounter.

Good times.

Someday, Someway - Marshall Crenshaw

I love me some Pop music and this is some good pop music.

This one's got sing along written all over it.

My band (Pete and the Bombers) rocks this one out like it's nobody's business.

Annie - Pete Townshend and Ronnie Lane.

Trust me. You don't know this one.

From one of my favorite albums (yes, albums)

Ever.

Please enjoy enjoy this one. It's friggin' beautiful.

Like my daughter Anna.

"Old oaks stand tall, Annie

Seen the world grow small, Annie
But when they fall, Annie, where will we be?

A Girl Like You - The Smithereens

I like the name of the band.

...and I like this song.

 A power pop classic (if there's such a thing)

     "I'll say anything you want to hear

      I'll see everything through
      I'll do anything I have to do
      Just to win the love of a girl like you, a girl like you"

Don't Know Why - Norah Jones
   Sexy and sultry and breathy and lovely and more
       "Out across the endless sea
         I would die in ecstasy
         But I'll be a bag of bones
         Driving down the road alone"
I'm feeling it.

There. Those will at least get me in to Massachusetts.


...and I gots to get up early tomorrow.

Maybe I can finish this from the road tomorrow or the next day.

But then again, perhaps not.

If this inspires you to discover at least one of these songs, my job here is done.

So it goes.

Why must you mock me so?

I'm speaking of music...and where it can take you

The Little River Band.
They're following me.

Not exactly in the upper echelon of Rock Gods.
1. Beatles
2. Stones
3. Little River Band

...not quite.

I don't know anyone whose favorite band is LRB (using initials going forward).
I don't know anyone that owns a LRB album...or cassette..or CD..or has ever downloaded a song by them.

Yet they torment me.

The song that was playing on my alarm this morning was this....

Lady.

It had just started and I only heard the first couple of lines...
"Look around you, look up here
Take time to make time
Make time to be there"

Then I shut the alarm off, pulled myself out of bed and commenced to the bathroom (promise not to get graphic).




In my grogginess I found myself subconciously reaching for the rest of the lyrics to that song. 15 seconds later as I was standing there (don't make me paint the picture any more than that), and I caught myself running through the rest of the lyrics.

"A long time ago
I had a lady to love
She made me think of things
I never thought of
Now she's gone and I'm on my own
A love song has come into my mind
A love song
It was there all the time"

and then it really kicked in....or should I say I kicked in.

I thought to myself "Why"? "Why do I know these words"? "How can I know these words"? "Should I tell anyone I know these words"?...and more importantly,  "What day is it"? (Roughly in that order).

It dawned on me that this wasn't the only LRB song that I had recently heard.

There was "Lonesome Loser" the other day.
I won't bother with the lyrics because I know you're already singing them in your head.


Before that I came across "Reminiscing" and it got me to thinking that I do an awful lot of that.

A day or two before that was "Cool Change" and I even thought to myself, "That's not too bad"...and it wasn't. It's got all of these images about sailing (which I don't do) and overall extremely syrupy sweet lyrics, but I do like the use of the words "It's time for a cool change".

Not all that surprising, unfortunately.

Speaking of reminiscing, that brings me back to this...

Scene:
Outside on the lawn of a corporate office with about twenty other coworkers
Purpose:
"Team building exercise"
Mission:
Build trust by telling the group something about you that no one in the group knows.

So we go round the circle.
It gets to me.
I unleash this corker.

"I know every word to every song in the movie Grease"


Well, I did. I might still.

What I didn't mention was I also knew every word to every song on the White Album...or Joe's Garage....or Dark Side of the Moon..or , I don't know, even Pet Sounds.

But everyone probably already knew that.

...which leads me here...

This whole next paragraph is going to be in parentheses, because I feel my use of parentheses is sort of like my pulling you aside and whispering in your ear. At least that how I picture it.

(Speaking of songs from Grease has anyone caught the horrendous use of the Grease song "Summer Nights" to promote Nissan's new Summer Savings Event(!!!). I've never been a fan of pulling a rock or pop song into a commercial but the liberties taken with this one are atrocious. Actually the twisted lyrics only last about fifteen seconds, but it is the most excrutiatingly painful 15 seconds anyone can endure. It's the commercial equivalent to waterboarding. What's worse is the faux fun everyone appears to be having at the dealership. It's like an Osmond family variety show skit gone horribly wrong in so many ways. It makes me curse out loud. I threw the television off the roof of my house the last time it came on. It was worth it. The next time I see it I might do something really drastic.)

That being said here it is. I'll leave the room while it plays. I can't afford to stuff my computer into the garbage disposal.

Enjoy.

Jesus, even the frozen fame just made me throw up in my mouth a little bit.

Where was I?

Oh, what I was going to add to the brief conversation I had with myself standing in front of the toilet was the thought "How did I get here?"

Which briefly interupted my LRB joyfest in front of the toilet with Talking Heads "Once in a Lifetime"

I'll leave you with this...Turn this one up!

There's that's more like it.

Same as it ever was.