I Painted My Fridge Red: Midnight Music Club # 4 - Dan Hicks

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Midnight Music Club # 4 - Dan Hicks - I Scare Myself

He may be the only really hip person there is. Dan Hicks was with San Francisco band The Charlatans and left in 1968 to form Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks with violinist David LaFlamme. This band was a cult favorite because of their both funny and wonderful original songs. My favorite release from that time is "Last Train To Hicksville." Dan works with only the best players and singers and the way they work is amazing. In a live show the music is enhanced by their low key antics. Here's the band doing "I Scare Myself" :

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Anonymous said...: check out his fresh version of quirky with this video for "Tangled Tales" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TnjPYyzwvM; February 28, 2009 at 1:06 AM

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If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on tv telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it — Frank Zappa

What amazes me is that for such passion as most conservatives show on the abortion issue, the living don't seem to merit much sympathy.

I made my peace with the death of Michael Jackson years ago, when he stopped making music and started producing high-gloss, unlistenable turds and became the Official Were-Wraith of Pop, a hollow and ghost-like husk, into which goopy, vulgar celebrity was poured in order to give him the semblance of animation. Anyway, now that husk no longer shambles around our dimension, but sadly, I think think the uncontaminated soul of a troubled genius left this plane a long time ago. Sadly, there'll likely be a freakshow blitz of borderline repugnant post-death exploitation all over the media now, so our memory of the alien ant farm that took up residence inside MJ is likely to persist over that of the sweet kid who dizzyingly catapulted R&B ahead into the future - Jason Linkins of The Huffington Post

The GOP is now the perfect size to drown in a bathtub.

"Peace hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew."~ John Greenleaf Whittier

John Adams said, "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."

Your own worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. - Thomas Paine

Seek those who find your road agreeable, your personality and mind stimulating, your philosophy acceptable, and your experience helpful. Let those who do not, seek their own kind - Jean Henri Fabre

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted--John Lennon

Proverbs 11:22: Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman without good sense. ( lipstick was not yet invented )

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.-Theodore Roosevelt

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it. - Mark Twain

The wise are driven by reason; ordinary minds, by experience; the stupid, by necessity, and brutes by instinct - Cicero

There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats. - Albert Schweitzer

With a big ol’ lie And a flag and a pie , and a mom and a bible , most folks are liable to buy any line any place any time - Frank Zappa

An English man, and Irish man and a Scotsman all walk into a bar, and the bartender says,"What is this? Some kind of a joke... ? "

If you're being chased by a police dog ...try not to go through a tunnel, then on to a little seesaw, then jump through a hoop of fire. They're trained for that

The religious fanatics didn't buy the republican party because it was virtuous, they bought it because it was for sale

You see the whole culture. Nazis, deodorant salesmen, wrestlers, beauty contests, a talk show. Can you imagine the level of a mind that watches wrestling? But the worst are the fundamentalist preachers. Third grade con men telling the poor suckers that watch them that they speak with Jesus, and to please send in money. Money, money, money! If Jesus came back and saw what's going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up. - Frederick from Hanna and Her Sisters

Get informed, and let it change you. - wonderingmind42's chemistry professor

Lou reed said " Our first album ( Velvet Underground ) only sold about 40,000 copies but everyone that bought it started a band "

"Time! Time! What is time? The Swiss manufacture it. The French hoard it. Italians want it. Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Do you know what I say? I say time is a crook." -- O'Hara (Peter Lorre) in Beat The Devil

"Did you know that every day, Mexican gays sneak into this country and unplug our brain-dead ladies?" - Homer Simpson, relaying info he heard on FOX News

Nine tenths of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain in a way that annoys his fellows

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned

You people don't understand. If we stop the surge, gas will go to $12 a gallon, we will all be enslaved by Iranian hordes, your children will get AIDS, you will lose your job, and your penis will no longer function. They are coming to kill your children with nuclear missles strapped to their backs and with bees shooting out of their mouths. Wake up!

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful implanted in the human soul --Johann Wolfgang Goethe

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.-- Martin Luther King Jr.

I loved the Beverly Hillbillies, remember Ellie Mae petting her furry critter down by the cement pond ?

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. - Carl Sagan

If God took acid , would he see people ?

The only thing to be ashamed of about masterbation is doing it badly - Sigmund Freud

I hope a wolf eats you and shits you in a green puddle

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they get up in the morning that's as good as they're going to feel all day - Frank Sinatra

I have to decide how far I want to go with a woman who wears Dora The Explorer panties that were clearly made for an obese child - One of the Baldwin brothers on a TV show

Forgiveness means giving up all hope of a better past...

' We are not inspirational and we are not "special". We are people with disabilities, equal members of our communities.' - John Lorence of Tri County Patriots for Independent Living

Don't step on my feet, I won't step on your feet

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Thursday, February 12, 2009

Midnight Music Club # 4 - Dan Hicks - I Scare Myself

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