From reading Goferboy's post... I love 80's music!
It does bring back memories of being able to watch music videos 24 hours a day. As the kids would say, "I want my Mtv."
Like...
Friday, June 30, 2006
Does anyone have a bottle opener?
How many times have you been without a bottle opener, while you are staring at your ice cold beer? Too many, right? Here is a tip I read over at Lifehacker dotcom.
Thursday, June 29, 2006
shopping at waterloo
Chad bought...
I was looking for something similar to Os Mutantes, Y'know, something brazilian-tropicana feel. Jay suggested Grupo Fantasia*. We didn'’t find anything; instead he showed me this brazilian compilation cd
*{edit correction: Grupo Fantasma}
I was looking for something similar to Os Mutantes, Y'know, something brazilian-tropicana feel. Jay suggested Grupo Fantasia*. We didn'’t find anything; instead he showed me this brazilian compilation cd
Tropicalia: A Brazilian Revolution in Sound
*{edit correction: Grupo Fantasma}
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Lipstick vs Lip Balm
I buy lipstick.
I can sample all sorts of lipsticks for hours at a time, especially at Sephora, the store .
Now, do I wear lipstick? Not as often as I'd like to, but I do need to
keep my lips moist with lip balm aka My Chapstick.
It is a must. I do not leave home without lip balm. In the past, I have bought Carmax, Blistex, Burt's Bees Wax, but the best is ChapStick-Cherry flavored. ChapStick is the most reliable brand and inexpensive too.
And I enjoy tinted lip balm, such as Rosebud. I hear it's good for
treating a diaper rash. Who knew? My favorite is a brand called MISO
Pretty.
You can find it at Urban Outfitters, Jubilee in the Heights
and most recently I picked one up at Waterloo records in Austin over the weekend. If you are a girlie-girl, give it a try. It's a great gift idea too.
Let me tell you about Clinique-Almost Lipstick in Black Honey. It is awesome! If I'm in a hurry and don't have time to put any makeup. I'll just dab some on my cheeks and lips.
I can sample all sorts of lipsticks for hours at a time, especially at Sephora, the store .
Now, do I wear lipstick? Not as often as I'd like to, but I do need to
keep my lips moist with lip balm aka My Chapstick.
It is a must. I do not leave home without lip balm. In the past, I have bought Carmax, Blistex, Burt's Bees Wax, but the best is ChapStick-Cherry flavored. ChapStick is the most reliable brand and inexpensive too.
And I enjoy tinted lip balm, such as Rosebud. I hear it's good for
treating a diaper rash. Who knew? My favorite is a brand called MISO
Pretty.
You can find it at Urban Outfitters, Jubilee in the Heights
and most recently I picked one up at Waterloo records in Austin over the weekend. If you are a girlie-girl, give it a try. It's a great gift idea too.
Let me tell you about Clinique-Almost Lipstick in Black Honey. It is awesome! If I'm in a hurry and don't have time to put any makeup. I'll just dab some on my cheeks and lips.
Sunday, June 25, 2006
St. Arnold Pub Crawl - Summer Pils
Friday afternoon we decided to participate in a pub crawl, first stop...
The Brewery Tap
Market Square Bar & Grill. great outdoor patio
PACE PACE PACE
St. Petes Bar. skip to..
The State Bar & Lounge. nice decor
Flying Saucer
Click here to view my flickr pub-crawl as a set and here to read, "Crawling through downtown" by Lance Scott Walker for the Houston Chronicle.
The Brewery Tap
Market Square Bar & Grill. great outdoor patio
PACE PACE PACE
St. Petes Bar. skip to..
The State Bar & Lounge. nice decor
Flying Saucer
Click here to view my flickr pub-crawl as a set and here to read, "Crawling through downtown" by Lance Scott Walker for the Houston Chronicle.
Saturday, June 24, 2006
Barley, the beer-brewing dog.
The other day I went to visit Barley. She is huge and still growing! She can give you a handshake...
Sunday, June 18, 2006
Saturday, June 10, 2006
Friday, June 09, 2006
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
06-06-06 DVD Releases
Jesus is Magic - Sarah Silverman. I haven't yet had the pleasure to see this movie, but I soon will. Maybe I will learn something...like Doug Henning was a prophet? Well, God did show him the way to immortality.
Anyway, I used to not really care much for Sarah Silverman. Why? I only knew of her from the Saturday Night Live cast in the early 90's. 'Nuff said. Anyway, over the years I got to watch some of her comedy stuff, her work with Mr. Show, and realized she is a hilarious bitch.
UPDATE: I survived 06-06-06. I did not survive through Jesus is Magic DVD. And I didn't learn anything.
NO MORE WIRE HANGERS!!!
Sunday, June 04, 2006
Swimming over to Fishtankonia
fishtankonia
Originally uploaded by solcookie.
a gathering of friends on a saturday night. good times. good times.
Friday, June 02, 2006
go rent a movie
'cause it's Friday; you ain't got no job...
Stark Raving Mad. Seann William Scott at his best, ever. Watch the trailer here
Waiting. If you ever waited on tables, you'd understand. If you didn't, you still will.... Watch the trailer here
Stark Raving Mad. Seann William Scott at his best, ever. Watch the trailer here
Waiting. If you ever waited on tables, you'd understand. If you didn't, you still will.... Watch the trailer here
Monday, May 29, 2006
Before PONG there was...
.....Ed Hall. It is unfortunate I did not know about Ed Hall, but I am glad Jay introduced me to PONG.
Back in 2003 Ed Hall did a reunion show with both drummers. Check it out here from Fishtankonia.
------------------------------
Chad: What are you and Jay watching?
Cookie: The Ed Hall reunion clip. Y’know, the show we missed in Austin that Jay went to...
Chad: Oh Jay, sorry we didn’t go to the Ed Hall reunion show.
Jay: Don’t apologize to me. I’m not sorry.
Cookie: laughing
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Back in 2003 Ed Hall did a reunion show with both drummers. Check it out here from Fishtankonia.
------------------------------
Chad: What are you and Jay watching?
Cookie: The Ed Hall reunion clip. Y’know, the show we missed in Austin that Jay went to...
Chad: Oh Jay, sorry we didn’t go to the Ed Hall reunion show.
Jay: Don’t apologize to me. I’m not sorry.
Cookie: laughing
-----------------------------
Friday, May 26, 2006
Fly Like an Eagle
A sexy interview....
From houstonpress.com
Originally published by Houston Press 2006-05-25
©2005 New Times, Inc. All rights reserved.
Fly Like an Eagle
Jesse Hughes proves too sexy for his band, too sexy for his band
By Annie Zaleski
------------------
Who / What:
Eagles of Death Metal
Music Genre:
Rock/Pop
Details:
Saturday, May 27
Where:
Warehouse Live, 813 St. Emanuel, 713-225-LIVE
------------------
When the Eagles of Death Metal were touring with the Strokes in April, mistaking them for a headlining act was all too easy. Raucous audiences raised devil horns and beers alike for the band's sleazy, sexed-up tunes; think the Rolling Stones having a forbidden tryst with glam rockers and Foreigner. Vocalist Jesse Hughes (whose porn-star mustache, aviator shades and tight shirts make him resemble the Village People's cop) leered about "ladies" and tossed off a suitable number of F-bombs, as hulking Queens of the Stone Age front man Josh Homme (who co-founded the group) drummed furiously behind him.
When reached in NYC, Hughes and the rest of the Eagles -- sans Homme, who isn't on this current tour -- are en route to their hotel, the night before an appearance on Late Night with David Letterman. But the facial-hair-laden front man still took the time to discuss the genesis of their new CD, Death By Sexy, and to prove himself an appropriately alluring phone conversationalist.
Jesse Hughes: How you doin', baby?
Annie Zaleski: I'm doing pretty good.
JH: You sound pretty good, can I just say that right now?
AZ: Thank you very much, I've been told that before...
JH: Well, it's easy to say, 'cause it's true.
AZ: People are into this record.
JH: Oh, thank you. We had a lot of fun recording it, it was the best album I've ever been a part of so far.
AZ: What made it the best one?
JH: I got to get a little sexier on it. And so far it seems like girls really like dancing to it, and that's really why I did it.
AZ: That's the best rock and roll music, when you get people to shake their asses.
JH: That's the whole point. When you get a big boy party -- I'm not putting anyone down -- but if it's like Limp Bizkit or Syndrome of a Down or whatever they're called, it's a big boy party and it's a bunch of sweaty dudes. But if you really focus just on girls, let them smile and have a good time and remind them how beautiful and wonderful you think they are, then boys are happy and everyone's having a good time.
AZ: People are really getting what you guys are doing. I think on the first record, people were almost like, "Oh, ironic rock, like the Darkness."
JH: There's very little ironic about us. There's very little complicated about us. We have a formula: Go on stage, shake your dick as hard as you can, and hopefully everyone will like it.
AZ: You recorded the record in 12 days.
JH: That was a wild recording process. I don't think I slept the entire 12 days. That's no joke. It was a lot of little rock and roll beauties and sweet baby girls and sugar bears running in and out of the studio. There was a lot of that kind of action taking place. We had a lot of great moments of, I don't know, studio magic...Hey, I'm going into a tunnel now, baby, so don't go anywhere, girl. You can still hear me?
AZ: Yup, I can hear you.
JH: We had these great moments of inspiration where...we were mostly an ingredient along with drugs and everything else in making this album. It's hard to pinpoint something I could tell you without being arrested. [to bandmates in background] What do you guys think was the greatest part about recording the album? [background talking] Yeah, the couch was great. Just being in Sound City, which is where they recorded Fleetwood Mac's Rumours. Also I set up my vocal booth exactly where Rick Springfield recorded "Jessie's Girl," so I was trying to capture some of that magic.
[Connection is lost, and Jesse has to call back.]
JH: Annie, I lost you, I was so sad.
AZ: It's all good. You out of the tunnel?
JH: Yes, baby, we're out of the tunnel. I gotta tell you, I'm actually a little nervous because you sound really hot and you have such a great speaking voice, it keeps throwing me off. [laughs]
AZ: I used to do radio in college; people used to tell me to do radio full time.
JH: I just want you to be my phone girl. [laughs] Please, baby, let's just go out on the phone.
AZ: Speaking of that, is your album cover an homage to Loverboy?
JH: Wow, that's really funny you should say that. That's specifically what inspired it, that and Sticky Fingers and Too Fast for Love. The Loverboy is the pose. I came up with that idea. It was like, what was Loverboy fucking doing anyway? Who are they advertising to, a dude in pink hot pants? Give me a fucking break.
AZ: Did you always know you wanted to be in a band?
JH: It's weird, I always had a feeling, I always had a sensation. But my passion was always in politics. I was obsessed with music as a child; my first concert was KISS, my daddy was a rock and roller. I loved the Rolling Stones from the time I was a little boy, T. Rex. I loved Fleetwood Mac. Politics was my passion. I graduated from Clemson University with a degree in journalism. I worked for Gannett News Service, I worked for the Associated Press. I finally ended up back home working for our hometown paper, The Desert Sun, doing some political work for Sonny Bono and his wife, Mary. I got married, had a kid, yadda yadda. Then I got divorced and it was a very horrific, horrible, life-changing divorce. I lost, like, 60 pounds, my friend Josh showed up and said, "Hey, you want to make a record?" So I wrote the first record in, like, a week.
AZ: That's, like, every journalist's dream. "All right, I'll become a rock star."
JH: I was 30 years old, I had nothing to lose. It was like rock and roll called me. I woke up and I had this amazing mustache overnight, a pair of leather gloves, a cape and black leather boots. And I don't even really, honey, know where they came from.
AZ: People do sleep-walking and sleep-driving. Maybe you did sleep-shopping.
JH: The gods of rock bestowed it to me. The cape was made by the gods of rock themselves, I'm pretty sure.
AZ: What is the care of your mustache? It seems the focal point of your look.
JH: It's my Samson hair, baby. I don't really know if you can characterize it as a mustache. I think technically it's a soft boomerang of love. I don't wear one; I own it. Like Tom Selleck, Sam Elliott, baby.
AZ: That's quite a mustache to aspire to.
JH: It's like, "Dude, I'm a man, check it out." That's what it's about, baby. [laughs] What did you think when you saw it in St. Louis?
AZ: I was kind of like, honestly, you look like an extra actor from CHiPs.
JH: Totally. I like to think of myself as an up-and-coming star in the adult industry.
AZ: I can see that, too. Well, you are infiltrating a different kind of TV with the TV commercials [for Wendy's, Payless Shoes, etc.].
JH: This really ain't no Bible study, we didn't come here to save whales, this is rock and roll. We came here to have a good time and hang out with ladies.
From houstonpress.com
Originally published by Houston Press 2006-05-25
©2005 New Times, Inc. All rights reserved.
Fly Like an Eagle
Jesse Hughes proves too sexy for his band, too sexy for his band
By Annie Zaleski
------------------
Who / What:
Eagles of Death Metal
Music Genre:
Rock/Pop
Details:
Saturday, May 27
Where:
Warehouse Live, 813 St. Emanuel, 713-225-LIVE
------------------
When the Eagles of Death Metal were touring with the Strokes in April, mistaking them for a headlining act was all too easy. Raucous audiences raised devil horns and beers alike for the band's sleazy, sexed-up tunes; think the Rolling Stones having a forbidden tryst with glam rockers and Foreigner. Vocalist Jesse Hughes (whose porn-star mustache, aviator shades and tight shirts make him resemble the Village People's cop) leered about "ladies" and tossed off a suitable number of F-bombs, as hulking Queens of the Stone Age front man Josh Homme (who co-founded the group) drummed furiously behind him.
When reached in NYC, Hughes and the rest of the Eagles -- sans Homme, who isn't on this current tour -- are en route to their hotel, the night before an appearance on Late Night with David Letterman. But the facial-hair-laden front man still took the time to discuss the genesis of their new CD, Death By Sexy, and to prove himself an appropriately alluring phone conversationalist.
Jesse Hughes: How you doin', baby?
Annie Zaleski: I'm doing pretty good.
JH: You sound pretty good, can I just say that right now?
AZ: Thank you very much, I've been told that before...
JH: Well, it's easy to say, 'cause it's true.
AZ: People are into this record.
JH: Oh, thank you. We had a lot of fun recording it, it was the best album I've ever been a part of so far.
AZ: What made it the best one?
JH: I got to get a little sexier on it. And so far it seems like girls really like dancing to it, and that's really why I did it.
AZ: That's the best rock and roll music, when you get people to shake their asses.
JH: That's the whole point. When you get a big boy party -- I'm not putting anyone down -- but if it's like Limp Bizkit or Syndrome of a Down or whatever they're called, it's a big boy party and it's a bunch of sweaty dudes. But if you really focus just on girls, let them smile and have a good time and remind them how beautiful and wonderful you think they are, then boys are happy and everyone's having a good time.
AZ: People are really getting what you guys are doing. I think on the first record, people were almost like, "Oh, ironic rock, like the Darkness."
JH: There's very little ironic about us. There's very little complicated about us. We have a formula: Go on stage, shake your dick as hard as you can, and hopefully everyone will like it.
AZ: You recorded the record in 12 days.
JH: That was a wild recording process. I don't think I slept the entire 12 days. That's no joke. It was a lot of little rock and roll beauties and sweet baby girls and sugar bears running in and out of the studio. There was a lot of that kind of action taking place. We had a lot of great moments of, I don't know, studio magic...Hey, I'm going into a tunnel now, baby, so don't go anywhere, girl. You can still hear me?
AZ: Yup, I can hear you.
JH: We had these great moments of inspiration where...we were mostly an ingredient along with drugs and everything else in making this album. It's hard to pinpoint something I could tell you without being arrested. [to bandmates in background] What do you guys think was the greatest part about recording the album? [background talking] Yeah, the couch was great. Just being in Sound City, which is where they recorded Fleetwood Mac's Rumours. Also I set up my vocal booth exactly where Rick Springfield recorded "Jessie's Girl," so I was trying to capture some of that magic.
[Connection is lost, and Jesse has to call back.]
JH: Annie, I lost you, I was so sad.
AZ: It's all good. You out of the tunnel?
JH: Yes, baby, we're out of the tunnel. I gotta tell you, I'm actually a little nervous because you sound really hot and you have such a great speaking voice, it keeps throwing me off. [laughs]
AZ: I used to do radio in college; people used to tell me to do radio full time.
JH: I just want you to be my phone girl. [laughs] Please, baby, let's just go out on the phone.
AZ: Speaking of that, is your album cover an homage to Loverboy?
JH: Wow, that's really funny you should say that. That's specifically what inspired it, that and Sticky Fingers and Too Fast for Love. The Loverboy is the pose. I came up with that idea. It was like, what was Loverboy fucking doing anyway? Who are they advertising to, a dude in pink hot pants? Give me a fucking break.
AZ: Did you always know you wanted to be in a band?
JH: It's weird, I always had a feeling, I always had a sensation. But my passion was always in politics. I was obsessed with music as a child; my first concert was KISS, my daddy was a rock and roller. I loved the Rolling Stones from the time I was a little boy, T. Rex. I loved Fleetwood Mac. Politics was my passion. I graduated from Clemson University with a degree in journalism. I worked for Gannett News Service, I worked for the Associated Press. I finally ended up back home working for our hometown paper, The Desert Sun, doing some political work for Sonny Bono and his wife, Mary. I got married, had a kid, yadda yadda. Then I got divorced and it was a very horrific, horrible, life-changing divorce. I lost, like, 60 pounds, my friend Josh showed up and said, "Hey, you want to make a record?" So I wrote the first record in, like, a week.
AZ: That's, like, every journalist's dream. "All right, I'll become a rock star."
JH: I was 30 years old, I had nothing to lose. It was like rock and roll called me. I woke up and I had this amazing mustache overnight, a pair of leather gloves, a cape and black leather boots. And I don't even really, honey, know where they came from.
AZ: People do sleep-walking and sleep-driving. Maybe you did sleep-shopping.
JH: The gods of rock bestowed it to me. The cape was made by the gods of rock themselves, I'm pretty sure.
AZ: What is the care of your mustache? It seems the focal point of your look.
JH: It's my Samson hair, baby. I don't really know if you can characterize it as a mustache. I think technically it's a soft boomerang of love. I don't wear one; I own it. Like Tom Selleck, Sam Elliott, baby.
AZ: That's quite a mustache to aspire to.
JH: It's like, "Dude, I'm a man, check it out." That's what it's about, baby. [laughs] What did you think when you saw it in St. Louis?
AZ: I was kind of like, honestly, you look like an extra actor from CHiPs.
JH: Totally. I like to think of myself as an up-and-coming star in the adult industry.
AZ: I can see that, too. Well, you are infiltrating a different kind of TV with the TV commercials [for Wendy's, Payless Shoes, etc.].
JH: This really ain't no Bible study, we didn't come here to save whales, this is rock and roll. We came here to have a good time and hang out with ladies.
Saturday, May 20, 2006
NO POTTY BREAKS!
NO POTTY BREAKS!
Originally uploaded by solcookie.
Too funny!!
Saw this sign when we took Chica to the vet.
Read on...
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