Musical Interlude and More Snow

Musical Interlude

I always liked the song. The amazing thing about the video is that even though this is early in the "video age" (1980) the girl is not really skanky.




I intended to post just that song but at the end of the YouTube clip is the "related videos" section which listed this:



I had not heard this song in a while and did not know Iris was the performer.

More Snow From Yesterday

I just keep taking snow photos. My enthusiasm is already waning.


Library's Rear Entry


Madison Street in front of the Library looking East.



While I'm At It

A Star Wars version of Ah! Leah!

Just the link.

New CDs and DVDs

New DVD and CD

I just opened the box up.



Tegan and Sara

I screwed up and ordered two copies of the Tegan and Sara CD.



No. No those tattoos don't look trashy at all. Really.

Bands I Know Nothing About, Stooges, That Duck In A Cage

Music CDs

Cosmic Egg by Wolfmother. Australians? I do not remember.

Shock Value II by Timbaland. Rap? Soul? R & B? Dance?

Dear Agony by Breaking Benjamin. Rap? Emo? Half Assed Rock?

DVD

Three Stooges Collector's Edition: discs one and two. Several shorts, a feature film, trailers, and extras.

Non Fiction

Lucille and the XXX Road: around the world man and motorcycle by Jim Oliver. I spoke to Oliver on video while I was in Kansas. Oliver gave a presentation on his trip from Eastern Russia west through Europe on his BMW (named Lucille). Oliver's talk focused on his 1300 miles ride across Siberia and the rough conditions he and his riding partner encountered. What do you bet I'll get a bunch of web hits for the XXX in the title?

I asked Oliver if he would take a smaller bike than his GS model if he did the trip over. Oliver said he would take a smaller bike like an F650 BMW or a KLR650.

Heaven and Hell: my life in The Eagles (1974-2001) by Don Felder. Guitarist for The Eagles tells tales. Felder has a lot of neat behind the scenes tales of life in the band of the money fights with Henley and Frey.

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La's Orchestra Saves the World by Alexander McCall Smith. That duck-in-a-cage-on-a-bicycle is back.

18 Hours of Lesbian Love and Drama, Two Cookbooks

DVD

I wrote earlier that I would likely buy the other seasons of The L Word. I was wrong. I already ordered the discs and forgot about it.

The L Word: the complete fifth season starring Cybill Shepherd, Jennifer Beals, marlee Matlin, Pam Grier, others. "Unresolved romances and long-simmering fulm project finally bear fruit in this season's 12 episodes."

The L Word: the complete final season starring [the same people as before including some lady with a really big mouth]. "All 8 dramatic, provocative and mysterious final season episodes as careers evolve, relationships are tested and friendships end in murder!"

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Family Album by Penelope Lively.

NonFiction

Preserved by Nick Sandler and Johnny Acton. Food preservation books go out well so I bought this new one with fancy photos and AAHHH Sausage! They have a section on SAUSAGE!!.

Mastering the Art of Chinese Cooking by Eileen Yin-Fei Lo. I have bought several new cookbooks this past couple weeks when I remembered I have been real lax on that section of our collection. This book had some good reviews.

The Kinks

What kid doesn't want a machine gun?

It's only -5 Degrees With the Wind So Don't Whine or You'll Make the Canadians Look Good

DVD

District 9 starring [African Guys]. Aliens from space land on Earth and are segregated into crappy neighborhoods in Johannesburg. Trouble happens

(500) Days of Summer with Joseph Gordon-Levitt-Too-Long-Name and Zooey Deschanel. Romantic comedy for chicks.

Little Rascals/Our Gang Discs One and Two. Another repackaging of the shorts. Includes Bear Shooters, Waldo's Last Stand, The Pooch, Derby Day and others.

We used to watch these on television or at birthday parties when my parents would borrow the 8mm films from the library. George McFarland, who played Spanky, spoke at Gustavus when I was a student. I had a conflicting work assignment in the cafeteria that night and was unable to hear his whole presentation. Spanky had some neat stories. He spoke about Buckwheat's career as a film technician and how simple speech therapy would have helped him out as a kid. Alfalfa's post-Our Gang troubles were covered along with the story of his killing in 1959.

Musical Interlude

Musical Interlude

I had this song bopping around in my head. The Housemartins were neat in that they would mix their peppy music and harmonies with wicked and pointed social commentary.

Pile of Stuff, Chocolate Thing, Lousy Coffee

AudioBook on CD

Take Two by Karen Kingsbury. 8 CDs at 9.5 hours. Independent movie producers compete against Hollywood for the rights to an inspirational novel.

Made-Up Stories Printed Onto Paper and Then Bound Together with Cloth and Glue (with cover interpretations by me)

La's Orchestra Saves the World by Alexander McCall Smith. A duck and two chickens travel across China in a cage is strapped to the back of a bicycle.

Divine Misdemeanors by Laurell K. Hamilton. Famed gladiator Vealinus, who wears a nail tied to his neck, is purchased and wooed by a sexy vampire.

Promised World by Lisa Tucker. Two kids on summer vacation hang out at a lake, tell fart jokes, and pick berries.

Pursuit of Honor by Vince Flynn. Special Agent Mack O'Connor Guimbetto discovers a conspiracy by the leading secular humanist, liberal in Congress who is making deals with Al Queda in an attempt to advance his political career and destroy America.

The Fleet Street Murders by Charles Finch. A Conservative Member of Parliament and disgraced Cabinet Minister arranges for his banking associates to be murdered rather than have them reveal his avarice and trade in African sex slaves.

Once in a Blue Moon by Eileen Goudge. Brenda O'Aden has lived alone on the rural coast of Massachusetts ever since being left at the alter ten years ago. Will the arrival of handsome, mysterious, emotionally wounded, and famous painter Hakeem "Haiku" Callahan give her a chance at healing not only herself but Haiku as well? How Brenda make it? Can Haiku paint art again? Read it to find out.

A Troubled Piece by L.M. Elliott. A YA book. Richard O'Theobald returns to his former German home after serving with the U.S. Army during World War Two. Is his former girlfriend, Gerta, still alive? What of Gerta's Nazi father?

Change-Up: mystery at the World Series by John Feinstein. A YA book. Josh O'Finklestein has the best job a kid could have, Bat Boy for the famed New York Long Socks during the World Series. But, when famed pitcher Kick O'Shanter is poisoned before Game 3 can Josh use his insider knowledge to help his police detective dad solve the crime?

NonFiction

Cookbooks (with Fiction styled plotlines by me)

Cooking Dirty: a story of life, sex, love and death in the kitchen by Jason Sheehan. New chef Silvio O'Smith heads to Los Angeles for a dream job but is quickly fired and forced to take a job as a the caterer for the set of a porn movie.

Clean Food: a seasonal guide to eating close to the source: with more than 200 recipes for a healthy and sustainable you by Terry Walters. New age farmer and cook Terry O'Porcupine brings fresh produce and delightful food to the suspicious, close-minded people of Shattuck, New York and produces a sea change in their thinking.

Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child. Socialite Elizabeth O'Cornelia is a neophyte to the ways of cooking and lesbian love. During a trip to the famed Egouts de Cuisine school in Dijon she learns about both.

The Best of America's Test Kitchen 2010: the year's best recipes, equipment reviews, and tasting. Fern O'Jefferson finds out that the secret ingredient in famous chef Gary Bond's New Orleans Schoolhouse Hot Dish is not pork.

Baked: new frontiers in baking by Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito. Matt O'Pinto spends his time smoking marijuana rather than facing life.

New American Table by Marcus Samuelsson. Sven O'Spyderco discovers life in lower Manhattan is much different than his hometown of Borglundsen, Denmark.

Chocolate Thing

This appeared this morning.



This morning's coffee was lousy.

More Christmas Novels and the Pyramids in Rock Lake

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Under the Dome by Stephen King.

Christmas List by Richard Paul Evans.

Knit the Season by Kate Jacobs.

Creed Country Christmas by Linda Lael Miller.

NonFiction

Lost Pyramids of Rock Lake: Wisconsin's sunken civilization by Frank Joseph. Are there pyramids and remnants of copper mining on the bottom of Rock Lake? That's what this guy and some other people claimi. Ask that guy who works at Sentry - I cannot recall his name - and he'll tell you more than you want to know.
I bought two copies of Lost Pyramids to replace older copies that have worn out or gone missing.

Dead Nazi Cookbooks

DVD

Inglorious Basterds starring Brad Pitt and other people. American soldier's kill Nazis during World War Two. I have avoided reading about this and watching previews because I would like everything to be a surprise.

The Hangover starring Heather Graham. Guys wake up after a huge night out and need to find out what happened. You can watch another version of this by picking up Dude, Where's My Car?

Easy Virtue starring Jessica Biel, Kristin Scott Thomas and Colin Firth. Young American wife is taken home to her husband family's rich English estate. Comedic episodes of culture clash and in-laws clash.

NonFiction

How to Cook Everything: 2,000 simple recipes for great food by Mark Bittman. Tenth anniversary edition.

BakeWise: the hows and whys of successful baking with over 200 magnificent recipes by Shirley O. Corriher.

A16: food + wine by Nate Appleman and Shelley Lindgren. Recipes from the owners of a restaurant in San Francisco.

What to Read 33: Megan Abbott and Amy Belasen/Jacob Osborn

What to Read 33




I was quite impressed with Abbott's novel. In fact, the more I remember my conversation with Abbott the more I like her as a person. I imagine this may color my judgment of the novel but the book was still good anyway.

Snow and Large Print

Snow

A snow storm is traveling through Southern Wisconsin. We remain open.









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U is for Undertow by Sue Grafton. Lady detective from California investigates deadly doings.


Trial by Fire by J.A. Jance. Lady detective from Arizona investigates deadly doings.

Photographic Interlude

This is probably too big for proper formatting on our blog but I will not bother to check.

Hip-Shaker, Magic-Maker, Life-Taker

Music on CD

She Wolf by Shakira. Colombian singer sings songs.

Songs to Celebrate 25 Days of Christmas by various artists/ Mickey Rooney, Jimmy Durante, and others sing songs of Christmas.

DVD

Adventureland starring Kristen Wiig. College guy has summer job at tacky amusement park. Meets girl. Bill Crider liked it, here are his comments.

Public Enemies starring Johnny Depp and Batman. Actors dress nice and shoot lots of blanks while pretending to be Dillinger and Purvis.

I asked Ruth the Page if she had seen Public Enemies yet. She said "Nope" and went on to say she had never heard of the movie.
"Really?" I say. "They filmed it over in Cottage Grove or somewhere. They shot a scene at the Capitol building, too."
Ruth says, "Nope, never heard of it."

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince starring [English types]. Scary evil wizard tries to kill kind and good wizards with wizardry.

NonFiction

Birthday Cakes for Kids by Annie Rigg. Cake recipes for fantastic birthday cakes that no one will make.

Audiobook on CD

I, Alex Cross by James Patterson. 6 CDs at 7 hours. Relative of Cross is murdered. Cross investigates.

Filterless Coffee

I ran out of filters and experimented.

Tattooed Man Butt is Doing Crystal Meth with Vince Lombardi and Watching Avatar

NonFiction

Inside the Tattoo Circus: a journey through the modern world of tattoos by Kristian Misser. Tons of color photos illustrating the work of current artists, styles, themes, and more. The lady on the cover looks like author Christa Faust. I emailed Faust and told her that. I'm probably on her ignore list now.

Open: an autobiography by Andre Agassi and [unnamed ghost writer]. Champion tennis player Agassi had a really, really crappy father and hates tennis. So he started doing crystal meth and married a German.

That First Season: how Vince Lombardi took the worst team in the NFL and set it on the path to glory by John Eisenberg. This is Wisconsin, I am required to buy it. You know who else should buy this? The Buffalo Bills.

Avatar: a field guide to Pandora by Maria Wilhelm and Dirk Mathison. "A confidential report on the biological and social history of Pandora." This movie came from a comic book? A video game?

Super Freakonimcs: global cooling, patriotic prostitutes and why suicide bombers should buy life insurance by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. One of those hippies over at Madison Public wrote about this book and openly baited me in the blog title. Sometimes those hippies can be smart, because it worked.

What the Dog Saw: and other adventures by Malcolm Gladwell. Science or something.

Too Big to Fail: the inside story of how Wall Street and Washington fought to save the financial system - and themselves by Andrew Ross Sorkin. Take your blood pressure medication before you start reading.

Little Stevens Underground Garage Update

Little Steven Loves Locksley. Van Zandt likes to play songs by Locksley. I only mention this because Locksley started out in Madison.

Fiction

Trial by Fire by J.A. Jance. Nun helps out hospital patient with amnesia. Patient's would be killer puts nun in his sights.

U is for Undertow by Sue Grafton. Add ingredients, shake, bake, let it cool.

Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword of Avalon by Diana L. Paxson. Swords and stuff.

Southern Lights by Danielle Steel.

DVDs: Four Comedy, Five Action, and More Ray Liotta

DVD

Funny People starring Eric Bana. Bana started as a stand-up comedian in Australia until he played the lead in Chopper. This movie has something to do with a dying comedian.

Bruno starring Sacha Baron Cohen. Gay Austrian causes trouble. Remember the nude fight and chase scene in Borat? That was funny.

G.I. Joe: the rise of Cobra starring [embarrassed actors]. Soldiers use CGI to defeat "the mysterious and evil Cobra organization" and try and start a franchise.

Terminator: Salvation starring Batman. John Connor kills robots with a flattop AR.

The Line starring Ray Liotta and Andy Garcia. Hired killer with an AR is after a drug baron in Tijuana.

My Sister's Keeper with Cameron Diaz, Alec Baldwin. Organ harvesting.

Angels and Demons starring Tom Hanks, Obi-Wan Kenobi, That Swedish Dude. Religious intrigue and the Illuminati set amongst a huge Hollywood budget.

The Proposal starring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds. I wonder if they made Reynolds take his shirt off like in all those swords and fists movies he is in.

You're Welcome America: a final night with George W. Bush starring Will Ferrell. Ferrell's stage show that will " shock and awe you into uncontrollable laughter."

Spy Kids 2 starring blahblahblah. The last copy broke.

11 DVDs: Ray Liotta, Space Creatures, Hairy Dudes, Whores

DVD

Futurama: Bender's Game starring [voices]. The Planet Express crew sneaks into a dark-matter mine for spaceship fuel and find some underground, medieval place.

X-Origins: Wolverine starring A Couple Australian Dudes. Guys with muscles fight.

Arthur Hailey's Detective starring Tom Berenger, Cybill Shepherd. Television movie from 2005 with Berenger as a priest turned cop who agrees to meet a serial killer on death row.

Killshot with Diane Lane, Mickey Rourke, Thomas Jane, Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Married couple witness murder and go into witness protection. Hitman comes after them. The novel by Elmore Leonard was real good.

Crank 2: High Voltage starring Jason Statham, Amy Smart. Gratuitous pistol posing on the DVD case.

State of Play with Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck, others. Journalist in D.C. discovers conspiracy while investigating the murder of a Senator's assistant.

Futurama: into the wild green yonder starring [the same voices]. Funny, animated adventures.

Winter of Frozen Dreams starring Thora Birch, Keith Carradine. Biochemistry student doubles as a prostitute and commits murder. Based on the Barbara Hoffman case in Madison. Link. Link.

Anvil: the story of Anvil starring {Anvil]. Canadian metal band refuses to give up.

Girlfriend Experience starring Sasha Grey. Manhattan prostitute offers the "girlfriend experience" with 'companionship and conversation' as if she were really the guy's loving girlfriend.

Observe and Report starring Ray Liotta, Seth Rogen, Anna Faris. Mall guard wants to catch flasher, get a job with the police department, and have sex with a cosmetics salesgirl.

Lesbians, Swords, Inspiration, YA SciFi, Little Steven

DVD

L Word: the complete third season starring Pam Grier. Revisit the tightly-knit circle of freinds in Los Angeles' lesbian community as they struggle to make sense of a world filled with love, children, tattoos, families, weddings, funerals, the 'c-word', and sometimes even men.
The first and second season of L-Word check out pretty well so I figure I'll end up getting all the seasons.

Little Steven's Underground Garage

Episode 399: Thanksgiving '09. I'm listening to last Saturday's show. Songs with "bird" are being featured, including Morris Day and The Beatles. You'll likely need to log in first to listen.

AudioBooks

Eldest by Christopher Paolini. 20 CDs at 23 hours, 27 minutes. Maybe this is a replacement.

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. Not sure where this came from, I thought we had it already.

Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. How do you steal lightning? Listen and let me know. No, don't let me know. I don't really care.

Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan. Oh. This is that series with Gods and demigods and other mythological stuff thrown into the present day with teenaged characters.

Feed by M.T. Anderson. I read this for the high school's book club. The next book club meeting is discussing something like Pride and Prejudice so I won't be there unless I read the zombie version.

Dead author, Wisconsin author, Pickling

Fiction

Deadly Deals by Fern Michaels. I misread this title at Deadly Seals. Now that would be a novel. Maybe the seals could fight crocodiles.

First Lord's Fury by Jim Butcher. Part of a series. The guy on the cover is a Roman-legionnaire-looking-dude with a flaming sword.

Breathless by Dean Koontz. Koontz writes another novel with a dog in it. The dog silhouette on the cover looks like an Irish Wolfhound. The flyleaf says I am right.

Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton. A tale of violence in 1665 in the Caribbean that, according to the flyleaf, was finished before Crichton keeled over.

Hollywood Moon by Joseph Wambaugh. I use to to read all of Wambaugh's Southern California cop novels. Then Wambaugh started to focus on non-fiction and I just never got back into his novels.

NonFiction

Against Medical Advice: one family's struggle with an agonizing medical mystery by James Patterson and Hal Friedman.

Imperial Cruise: a secret history of empire and war by James Bradley. Story of the ambassadorial cruise by Secretary of War William Howard Taft in 1905. The secret agreements of which helped start the trouble that led to World War Two.

Here's the Deal: don't touch me by Howie Mandel. I have never thought he was that funny.

Surviving a Layoff: a week-be-week guide to getting your life back together by Lita Epstein, MBA.

The Joy of Pickling: 250 flavor-packed recipes for vegetables and more from the garden or market, revised edition by Linda Ziedrich. Books on food preservation checkout pretty well here.

Knock'Em Dead Resumes, 8th edition by Martin Yate, C.P.C.

Advanced Home Wiring, 2nd edition by [corporate author]. Don't kill yourself.

Barbie, the First 50 Years:1959 through 1989 and beyond: identification and value guide, 3rd Edition by Stefanie Deutsch and Bettina Dorfmann. I flipped through this and saw the Barbie Ferrari. I'm not sure if I ever heard that John Hiatt song or not.

Cranberry Bread (for Me), Sarah Palin (for You)

Cranberry Bread

Carolyn made cranberry bread.




Coffee

I made coffee.



Music CDs

I Told You I Was Freaky by Flight of the Conchords. Kiwis sings songs. I watched part of an episode of their show. It was boring. Stephanie the Library Assistant said she likes the show.

Southern Voice by Tim McGraw. Guy in hat and white t-shirt sings songs.

Kiss and Tell by Selena Gomez. Disney Channel "tweener" sings songs.

Ghost Written Fiction

The Wrecker by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott. Cussler is admirable in giving the other guy credit.

I, Alex Cross by James Patterson. Patterson is also good about giving ghost writers credit. But, no one else is listed on the cover or the LOC cataloging info so I suppose he did this one himself.

Ghost Written NonFiction

Going Rogue: an American life by Sarah Palin. What's the deal with her former son-in-law to-be? That guy's behavior has been sleazy. I thought about being "snarky" and listing this under Ghost Written Fiction. Hey, it is a political memoir after all.

AudioBooks on CD

Last Song by Nichols Sparks. 11 CDs at 12 hours. Yuch.

A Change in Altitude by Anita Shreve. 8 CDs at 9 hours. My first reaction is "Yuch." Hhowever, the novel is set in Africa and Mount Kenya so my second reaction is, "Eh."

Lost Symbol by Dan Brown. 14 Cds at 17.5 hours. I tell my kids, "If you can't say anything nice then don't say anything at all." I should follow my own advice.

Musical Interlude

More people should try out Teddy Thompson. We have three of his CDs.




The like the full band version better but could not embed it.