torsdag 1 januari 2009

Ho Ho Ho Motherfuckers

Jaha, då va de nya året insupet. Spenderade gårdagen på en trevlig middag i högdalen följt av ungdomsfest i örnsberg... lustigt att supa med folk som är så pass mycket yngre en själv. Kände mej som en gammal gubbe när jag behövde be nån pojkspoling om hjälp med dom tekniska moderniteterna såsom spotify... well well, full blev jag ju såklart, och de va trevligt överlag.

Några nyårslöften är det inte tal om, förutom att vi ska försöka äta lite bättre och röra oss lite mer. Fick dessutom Wii Fit i julklapp av Hanna, så träning har plötsligt blivit ett nöje.

På lördag drar vi till tyskland och fyller rörbussen med goa grejjer till sara och tobias bröllop. kanske att det blir en och annan flaska till oss också.

Ska som sagt försöka slänga ihop nån form av summering av året som gått, men de e tveksamt om det kommer innan tyskland

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Hana är nu nedsänkt i gelé, de e kul

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Jag har rakat av håret nu, sjukt skönt. Bildbevis kommer kanske senare

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Justin Townes Earle's kommande platta (mars 2009) verkar på förhand bli snorbra, iallafall om My Mama's Eyes är något att gå efter

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Dagens låt:

Eric Bogle - Do You Know Any Dylan (The Traditional Folksinger's Lament for the Passing of the Three-Chord Traditional Folksong)

At the age of nineteen, I was young, I was keen
And I had just one burning ambition
To be a folk singer, a dope-smoking swinger
Singing songs that were steeped in tradition

So I bought a guitar and I practiced real hard
I wasn't much good, but I was willin'
Till to my chagrin, my girlfriend came in
And she said, "Can you sing any Dylan?"

And I said "No, no a thousand times no!
I'd rather see my life blood spillin'
I'll sing anything, even God Save the King
But I just won't sing any Bob Dylan!"

And with my guitar I traveled real far
Trying to gain recognition
I sang "Matty Groves" from St. Paul to Glen Cove
In pubs, clubs, and in seamen's missions

I traveled the road for seven long years
The pace, it really was killin'
And wherever I went from Scotland to Kent
They would say, "Can you sing any Dylan?"

And I said "No, no a thousand times no!
I'd rather see my life blood spillin'
I'll sing anything, even God Save the King
But I just won't sing any Bob Dylan!"

Well I soldiered on but the magic was gone
Leaving naught but a deep sense of failure
So I thought I would go where all failures go
And I took me a ship to Australia

When I landed in Sydney, the sun it shone down
On a view that was lovely and thrilling
But seeing my case, with a smile on his face
Customs said, "Can you sing any Dylan, mate?"

And I said "No, no a thousand times no!
I'd rather see my life blood spillin'
I'll sing anything, even God Save the King
But I just won't sing any Bob Dylan!"

Well ever since then, again and again
They've asked me the same boring question
And I usually reply with a glint in my eye
And a rather indecent suggestion

But the last straw came one night at a local motel
Where I had a young girl who was willin'
Put my hand up her dress, and she said "I'll say yes
If first you will sing me some Dylan"

And I said "No, no a thousand times no!
I'd rather see my life blood spillin'
I'll sing anything, even God Save the King
But I just won't sing any Bob Dylan!"

But I tell you my friend, that was the end
Of all my traditional aspirations
If being a folkie meant giving up nookie
There was one way to end my frustrations

So the very next night at another folk club
Where the audience around me was millin'
I took off my coat and I ruptured my throat
And I sang a song just like Bob Dylan

"Fo-o-o-or the ti-i-i-mes they are a-changi-i-i-ing"

And the audience went wild, man, woman and child
They clapped 'til their poor hands were bleeding
And they said, so to speak, that my style was unique
And just what the folk scene was needing

So all you young folkies who play a guitar
If you want to achieve a top billin'
Just murder good prose and sing through your nose
And then you'll sound just like Bob Dylan

3 kommentarer:

Skrubbaluttan sa...

Fasen vad unga de va. Hur unga var de egentligen? Myndiag ens??

The Fucking Easterbunny sa...

jag gissar på en genomsnittsålder på 18, exklusive oss gamlingar

Anonym sa...

Jag gissar på en genomsnittsålder på 24, jag tycker ni överdriver hur unga dom var. det var ju bara ddet att dom hade en annan stil och ett annat sätt. Många var ju flera år äldre än er.