(via Kuzma)
Decided. Next loner trip: CA for my birthday in January. I’m antsy and booking this week.

“Boogaloo Santa Claus” by J.D. McDonald

01. Jimmy Reed - Christmas Present Blues
02. Electric Jungle - Funky Funky Christmas
03. Funk Machine - Soul Santa
04. Milly & Silly - Gettin’ Down For Xmas
05. The Harlem Children’s Chorus - Black Christmas
06. Wild Honey - Angel’s Christmas
07. Captain Elmo McKenzie & The Roosters - Home On Christmas Day
08. Soul Saints Orchestra - Santa’s Got A Bag Of Soul
09. J.D. McDonald - Boogaloo Santa Claus
10. Zebra - Christmas Morning (Sean Bonniwell Re-Edit)
11. Harvey Averne Band - Let’s Get It Together This Christmas
12. Jimmy Jules & The Nuclear Soul System - The New Year
13. The Black On White Affair - Auld Lang Syne
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“Our street, our house, is only a couple of blocks north of the Fountain of Youth, or at least what Ponce De Leon believed was the Fountain of Youth, and is now a national archaeological park. Open daily from 9AM to 5PM (closed Christmas Day), the Fountain is actually a natural spring coming up from the Anastasia aquifer, which also supplies us with out tap water. This is my favourite feature of the house. Every morning I wake up, shower, brush my teeth, make coffee with water coming from an aquifer, which supplies a spring, that 500 years ago a Spaniard believed gave those who drank from it eternal youth. I’ve gotten in the habit of taking short walks around the block, mostly when my stomach feels upset. At night you can hear an owl somewhere up in the trees. I wouldn’t be surprised if the majority of front doors in the neighborhood were left unlocked. We’ve signed a year lease, but if the owner would sell the house to us, if we had the money she was asking for, we would buy it.” (via Tom Gabel’s blog)

I’m not a big fan of Against Me! but Tom’s posts about the Northern parts of Florida always make me ache for a weekend trip.

girlgroups:

“Boy, What’ll You Do Then?” by Denise & Co. (1966)

“The Denise record has legendary status in garage/psych circles. The only known copy (before this current one surfaced) was in the hands of an eccentric collector, who let a cassette recording of it slip out in the mid-1980s. The song circulated amongst various folks and eventually ended up, in dubious sound quality, as the lead track on the first volume of Girls In the Garage, a bootleg LP series issued in the wake of similar compilations like Nuggets etc, but focusing on, all-women garage records of the 60s. At that time (circa 1988) the tune was known as “Take Me As I Am”, and the bootleggers had no clue who “Denise & Co” were, or where they were from. Some years later, the record was correctly identified as “Boy What’ll You Do Then” in an article in Bay Area 60s fanzine Cream Puff War, where it was revealed that the backing was provided by Berkeley garage band the Answer, and that lead singer “Denise” was Denise Kaufman, future Merry Prankster and founding member of the Ace Of Cups, the pioneering all-women psych outfit who graced the ballrooms of late 1960s San Francisco. A wild child who blew harp on the streets of Berkeley and partied with the Hells Angels, Denise had written “Boy What’ll You Do Then” as “a total attitude song”, in response to an ex-boyfriend who had insisted they settle down.” (via Ace Records)

girlgroups:

“All I Want For Christmas Is A Beatle” by Dora Bryan (1963)

All I want for Christmas is a Beatle
Not a teddy bear, just a Beatle
I told mum nothing else would do
There are four, so she can have one too
I don’t care which ever one she gets me
Ringo, Paul, John, George, they’re all the same

Something like this for my birthday but less classy, more skanky.

Y’all ready for Jersey Shore?

jjae:

jgh:

vindicatedc:

Not to be ingorant, but I vaguely remember from High School (my last general American history class) that the USA split over other issues that probably shouldn’t be boiled down to just freeing the slaves.

I mean, I know it was a factor but I get a little uncomfortable when people discuss how war is used to free people - when the government was moving right along ok with some slaverly but had other things to consider.

Now I feel uncomfortable writing this post - I’m really trying not to offend.

I’m no history expert, but what I do know is that “The War of Northern Aggression was about other issues” is the standard party line of those still sympathetic to Dixie.

The argument I hear from them is usually “It was about state’s individual freedoms!”

To which I answer: “Freedom to do what?”

I’m sure there were other peripheral reasons. Slavery was the biggie.

Tariffs on foreign imports (which hurt the South and benefited the North).

Let me put it this way, you can’t rely on human idealism.  There are self-interests involved in any idealistic action.  Slavery was the key for the Civil War, but the engine behind it was an economic interest.

I recommend reading “The Great Tax Wars” by Steven R. Weisman.

“Fever” covered by The Cramps

GPOYW- When I wore bags the size of my body

NY style cheesecake with apricot glaze from Toojay’s Deli. Happy Birthday dad.