The Punkasses are cracking me up. Marc found this cartoon that strongly resembles a certain morning routine that a certain cat puts me through. I thought other cat owners could relate:
Better/worse than having a hairball lobbed into your eye? You decide.
Shuffle the songs on your iPod or other MP3 playing device and share with everyone here. There’s a country and rockabilly bent to the first half of the list today.
I feel bad about neglecting Panda Songs, but to make up for it, I linked a couple MP3s in this list and have a bonus up at the bottom.
- “Here Today”—Joey Wildgoose
- “I Still Remember”—Neko Case and Her Boyfriends
- “Crazy Fever”—High Noon
- “Nothin’”—Townes Van Zandt
- “Don’t Fall”—The Chameleons
- “Tommy”—The Morgans
- “Limbs”—Emma Pollock
- “Empty House”—Dee Rangers
- “Didn’t I (Blow Your Mind This Time>”—The Delfonics
- “Mansion In The Valley”—The Ms
Bonus song: “Firing Squad” by Penetration, a 70s punk band with a Rezillos-esque sound and a singer named Pauline Murray who is pretty amazing.
Videos below the fold.
The Dee Rangers:
Neko Case on Austin City Limits:
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I saw that cat cartoon the other day. I am often awakened by my companion kneading me or stomping over me. It continues until I either get up, or roll over on my back so he can sleep in the crook of my arm.
Another all over the place Random Ten:
1. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry - Bob Dylan
2. Never Been Rocked Enough - Delbert McClinton
3. I Married Her Just Because She Looks Like You - Lyle Lovett
4. Young Man (Blues) (Live) - The Who
5. Bluebird Wine - Emmylou Harris
6. Little Bird - Jerry Jeff Walker & the Lost Gonzo Band
7. Nobody Knows My Troubles - Otis Spann
8. Johnny Strikes Up The Band - Warren Zevon
9. Weather Channel - Sheryl Crow
10. Just One Victory - Todd Rundgren
Bonus: Don’t Put Your Hands On Me - Koko Taylor
Eee! That’s our girlcat! Right down the the baseball bat!
My Rainy Random Ten (remember all tracks are live):
01. Comfortably Numb [07:26] — Pink Floyd
02. Midnight Rambler [09:04] — Rolling Stones
03. Since I’ve Been Loving You [08:01] — Led Zeppelin
04. Old Medley [19:32] — Genesis
05. Green Grass and High Tides [20:58] — The Outlaws
06. Seven Bridges Road [03:04] — The Eagles
07. Christine Sixteen [02:46] — Kiss
08. Purple Rain [08:40] — Prince and the Revolution
09. Lovin’ Touchin’ Squeezin’ [07:10] — Journey
10. Thick as a Brick [11:50] — Jethro Tull
1. Opal - Soul Giver
2. Melt Banana - Cracked Plaster Cast
3. Quintron & Miss Pussycat - Fly Like a Rat
4. Love of Diagrams - Pace or the Patience
5. David Bowie - The Width of a Circle
6. Glenn Branca - Light Field (in Consonance)
7. The Beta Band - Pure For
8. The Fire Engines - Meat Whiplash
9. Thurston Moore - Trees Outside the Academy
10. Labradford - Soft Return
The only thing it was missing was the wet nose to the face…that would come right before the baseball bat. Otherwise it was perfect.
That’s our cat, glowworm. Although she probably has the IQ of a gnat, she thinks we’re incredibly dumb. If she could point to her mouth, she would. I have seen her do a little routine where she meows at us until we follow her into the kitchen, where she’ll look pointedly at her empty bowl, then meow, then bite the bag holding her food, then meow at her bowl again. Because, you know, we’d never remember to feed her otherwise.
Oh yeah, the wet nose to the face. Of course, that portion usually happens around five or six in the morning because she’s gotten lonely. If patting our face with her paw doesn’t work, she starts head butting us. And the whole time she’s purring profusely, drooling, and has a sort of glazed over look in her eyes.
Other nights, we are treated to what we think Klingon Opera might sound like. She “kills” a toy and then starts screaming bloody murder to let everyone know they can now come and “feast” on it. She’s very proud of herself those nights.
Wow. I just saw the clip and I have to say that using a bat was too harsh. I iwhs that cat would have done a Heathcliff (scratch) him
I’m seeing the Pogues on Sunday night. In honor of that event, here is my Friday Random Pogues Top 10:
1. “Body of an American”
2. “Bottle of Smoke”
3. “USA”
4. “Sick Bed of Cuchullain”
5. “Fairytale of New York”
6. “Billy’s Bones”
7. “Lorelai”
8. “A Pair of Brown Eyes”
9. “If I Should Fall From Grace With God”
and the encore should always be:
10. “Fiesta”
“Eiaaaaiiiiiiii!!!!!”
This set brought to you by Cluster F MIS Management Services
“Out Of Mind” - Peloton
“4000 Days” - Luna
“Hilario” - Viega Y Salazar
“Miles Runs The VooDoo Down” - Miles Davis
“Ode To Isis” - …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
“Devotional” - Tabla Beat Science
“Consideracion” - Ruben Blades
“Golden Years” - David Bowie
“The Itchy Glowbo Glow” - Cocteau Twins
“The Outer Darkness” - Robert Fripp
“The Title is Longer than the Song” Edition
1. “The Birth of the Twins and Padme’s Destiny” — John Williams
2. “Bring It On Home” — Sonny Boy Williamson
3. “Understanding Salesmen” — Eels
4. “Star Wars and Revenge of the Sith” — John Williams
5. “Eagle Hunter” — Frank Klepacki
6. “Yuri Is Taken Prisoner by the Red Partisans” — Maurice Jarre
7. “The Bolt (Suite from the Ballet): Tango — Shostakovich/Chailly
8. “At Friar Laurence’s - Interlude” — Prokofiev/Maazel
9. “”It Was Beautiful” — John Ottman
10. “Army Life” — Richard Pryor
1. You Wrecked My Happy Home (Memphis Minnie)
2. How Sweet It Is (Earl Van Dyke and the Soul Brothers)
3. Twilight (The Raveonettes)
4. Dream All Day (The Posies)
5. Tame the Neighbors (Essential Logic)
6. Long Gone (Eartha Kitt)
7. Bad Moon Rising (The Meteors)
8. Testify (Rage Against the Machine)
9. Making Days Longer (RJD2)
10. Ezekiel Saw The Wheel (The Dixie Hummingbirds)
1) TED LEO - The Ballad of the Sin Eater
2) STARS - Life 2: The Unhappy Ending
3) PROFESSOR LONGHAIR - Mardi Gras in New Orleans
4) THE INCREDIBLE MOSES LEROY - She Can’t Get Any Sleep
5) CAT POWER - Salty Dog
6) THROWING MUSES - Nightdriving
7) BUILT TO SPILL - Distopian Dream Girl
8) NEIL YOUNG - Harvest
9) WEEZER - Say It Ain’t So
10) FOUR TET - Hands
Freeballing edition.
1. “1969″ - The Stooges
2. “Ron” - Slint
3. “Bloodtrocuted” - Dethklok
4. “Pipeline/Kill Time” - Sonic Youth
5. “Stay Close To Me” - Bad Brains
6. “Built For Comfort” - Howlin’ Wolf
7. “Sednalo E Geore” - The Bulgarian Women’s Choir
8. “4th Of July” - X
9. “Killing My Love” - Leslie Parish
10. “Machine Gun” - The Commodores
Bonus: “Shit Creek” - Bad Livers
I divide my songs into many different categories. Weather is one such. When I looked at my first ten songs on the shuffle my songs resembled the mood of today’s weather: rainy. Here it is:
01. Travein’ Man/Beautiful Loser [live] [08:19] — Bob Seger
02. The Sky is Crying [live] [08:01] — George Thorogood
03. Whiskey Rock-a-Roller [live] [04:12] — Lynyrd Skynyrd
04. Backdoor Medley [live] [09:54] — ZZ Top
05. Green Grass and High Tides [live] [20:58] — Outlaws
06. Purple Rain [live] [08:40] — Prince and the Revolution
07. Seven Bridges Road [live] [03:01] — The Eagles
08. Midnight Rambler [live] [09:14] — Rolling Stones
09. Old Medley [live] [19:32] — Genesis
10. Comfortably Numb [live] [07:26] — Pink Floyd
Eight of my ten songs are what I would consider cloudy day songs becasue of the sound.
…BTW, if my first list shows up, disregard that one. This RT is the real one.
Haha, awesome cartoon. Scratching my feet is another tactic my one cat employs.
My kitty prefers teeth. It took me about a month of this to realize that biting is kitty speak for “THAT MALE ONE HAS NOT YET FILLED MY EATING BOWL, SO I GUESS YOU’LL DO.”
I’d rather our cat not get any ideas…
Charlie Watts - The Homosexuals
No Feelings 4 Cher - Go Home Productions
Texture Hunter - Tinapple
Beatle Bones ‘N Smokin’ Stones - Capt. Beefheart & the Magic Band
Trust Us [Studio 1, London, 5/6/68] - Capt. Beefheart & the Magic Band
Everything Happens to Me [Take 3][#] - Thelonious Monk
Castle Walk - Europe’s Society Orchestra
This Angry Young Man Aint Angry No More - Sparks
Damaged Goods - Gang of Four
The Tubeless Tire Swing, side 2 - Service Station Sal
My cat has the same routine, but it ends with him sitting on my chest, drool dripping down my neck, and eventually with him placing his paw over my closed eyelid, then ever so slowly extending his claws. Wakes me up every time.
iPod this time, not the desktop, as I haven’t been playing enough at home to advance the shuffle very far.
Orphean Wing - The Cruxshadows
Prove My Love - Violent Femmes
The Modern World - The Jam
Soul to Bleed - Carfax Abbey
Do The Blitz - The Damned
Did It All For You - The Tossers
Submission Complete - Bad Religion
Poetically Pathetic - Amber Pacific
Down In It - Nine Inch Nails
1000 Umbrellas - XTC
that cartoon is spot-on. it has now been gifted onto several friends websites. damn cats!
I hear Swervedriver’s doing a reunion tour- just as an aside. Saw the Oh, So, Hot, Adam Franklin this past Monday, or something like that. I was too starstruck to speak.
I really must get some of my old Swervedriver loaded onto my IPOD.
1. Poster Children- “He’s My Star’
2. Calla- “Le Gusta El Fuego’
3. Minor Threat- “Sob Story”
4. Multiple Cat- “English” remixed Mixy-Mixy version.
5. Lillingtons- “Don’t Trust the Humanoids”
6. Mason Proper- “The World is Smaller Than You Think”
7. Tornavalanche- “Agent/Boyfriend”
8. Dead Low Tide- “Navy Buttons”- but MCD were so much better! I heart you anyway, Spencer Moody!
9. Blonde Redhead- “The Dress”
10. Delta 5- “Delta 5″
Random up to late dancing to Architecture in Helsinki and some IPOD battle, bonus:
Jawbreaker- “Lurker II: Dark Son of Night”
It’s not a wet nose to the face; it’s a wet nose in the ear.
1. Double Helixed Scepter — Melechesh
2. Goetic Shadow Cabinet — Caina
3. A Good Thing Gone — Harvey Milk
4. Music Like Escaping Gas — This Heat
5. Tir Nan Og — Alcest
6. Death Mass — Negative Plane
7. Frozen Epitaph — Glaciial
8. Piste — Shogun Kunitoki
9. Macrosolutions to Microproblems — Voivod
10. Shot Down — Nine Black Alps
Swervedriver rules. Those darker forces just ain’t real.
We don’t let our cats into the bedroom, so instead they fling themselves bodily against the door trying to open it. And when a 12-pound cat throws himself against a flimsy apartment door, the whole building knows what he’s doing.
My dogs used to do the on-the-bed-off-the-bed, on-the-bed-off-the-bed thing until I got up and fed them. The thing was, they started this routine a little earlier every morning. The day they woke me up at 4:30am was the day I decided to change feeding time to when I got home from work at night. I started feeding them half in the morning and half in the evening, gradually shifting more and more to the evening feeding until the morning feeding was gone. Worked pretty well for me.
1) Goldfrapp - Yes Sir I Can Boogie
2) The Dark Horse Project - Unrequited
3) Beck - The Horrible Fanfare/Landslide/Exoskeleton
4) The Cure - Play for Today
5) Desmond Dekker - Beautiful and Dangerous
6) James Brown - Sex Machine
7) Desmond Dekker - Go and Tell My People
8) Southern Culture on the Skids - Voodoo Cadillac
9) Lil Wayne - Weezy Baby
10) The Beatles - Run For Your Life
Bonus 11th: Queens of the Stone Age - You Would Know
I usually have three very large cats piled on top of me by morning, begging me not to get up.
Weird mix - (in)Consistent with a chewy center:
1. Going Down the Road Feeling Bad - Woody Guthrie
2. Deliver Us - Elvis Costello
3. Skrip, Klezmeri, Skripe - Tim Sparks
4. Peach Tree Man - Michale Bloomfield
5. Home Sweet Home - The Breaux Freres
6. So Lonely - Tim Buckley
7. Vein of Stars - The Flaming Lips
8. Sometimes it Doesn’t Work/The Lucky Cap/The Potato Tree - Seelyhoo
9. Time of the Season - The Zombies
10. Talking Hard Work - Woody Guthrie
Joe P., your cat has style.
My cat would lie down next to your ear and purr very loudly.
Random 10?
Freedom Of Choice by Devo
Modern Love by David Bowie
There’s A Story In Your Voice by Elvis Costello & The Imposters
The Trick Is To Keep Breathing by Garbage
Midnight Confessions by The Grass Roots
Lady Madonna by The Beatles
Shoplifters Of The World Unite by The Smiths
Sweet Dreams by Tori Amos
Me And My Baby by Ten Years After
How Many More Times by Led Zeppelin
36-24-36 by Violent Femmes
It’s a Dream by Neil Young
Somebody help me out here please…
There’s this new EvoPsych Bingo, the Libertarian Troll Bingo and there was another one I think, like MRA Bingo or something? Anyone know where I can get my hands on that third one?
Amanda, another Friday with the Chameleons? You ROCK.
@haydn60- great taste! The Homosexuals are fantastic!
1. “Stuck” -Magazine
2. “American Guitars” -The Auteurs
3. “Liberty Ship”- The Las
4. “Citizens”- Josef K
5. “The Endless Plain of Fortune”-John Cale
6. “Of All the Things We’ve Made”- Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
7. “His Aging Miss Idaho”-Pinetop Seven
8. “Baby Boomerang”- T.REX
9.” Went Crazy”- Teardrop Explodes
10. “Blow Away”-Jobriath
I’ll see your cat with baseball bat and raise three more cats, one with a pissing problem, one with insane dandruff, and one mealtime screamer.
My bed is nothing like that cartoon. Imagine four cats, a dog, and a husband…
1) Laura Veirs, “Ohio Clouds”
2) Loose Fragments, “Lordosis”
3) R.E.M., “King of Comedy”
4) Beatles, “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da”
5) Lucinda Williams, “Like a Rose”
6) Superchunk, “Every Single Instinct”
7) Melvins, “Ever Since My Accident”
8) Sleater-Kinney, “You’re No Rock and Roll Fun” (Farewell show)
9) Beatles, “Doctor Robert”
10) The Errant Strike, “Black Curtains”
“Magazine” - Afghan Whigs
“Dirty Knife” - Neko Case
“Jail Guitar Doors” - The Clash
“Tangled Up In Blue” - Bob Dylan
“Doing It Right” - Go Team
“Wolf Like Me” - TV On the Radio
“2541″ - Grant Hart
“No Cars Go” - Arcade Fire
“She’s In A Bad Mood” - Sonic Youth
“Modern Love” - David Bowie
1. “The Next Step”- Sleeping States
2. “The Boy With The Thorn in His Side”- The Smiths
3. “Living Dead”- U.K. Subs
4. “Chicks and Dicks”- Junior Senior
5. “Lives of Crime”- Fruit Bats
6. “Pardon Me”- The Blow
7. “Never Had No One Ever”- The Smiths
8. “Red Right Hands”- Harlem Shakes
9. “Sex, War and Robots”- Super Furry Animals
10. “Orange Blossom Special”- Johnny Cash
We had a cat who would wake us up with a single claw, sitting on us and deliberately giving a poke to the face.
that they do, Dr. Locrian. I used to say: If I ever get married, Swervedriver’s playing my wedding.
Maybe I should just concentrate on trying to marry Londoner-accented Adam, now. Not sure how the boyfriend would feel about that, though.
Joe P said:
My cat has the same routine, but it ends with him sitting on my chest, drool dripping down my neck, and eventually with him placing his paw over my closed eyelid, then ever so slowly extending his claws. Wakes me up every time.
Joe P, you must have adopted my cat’s littermate. Oliver doesn’t do the claw on the eye but the drool and the slow extension of claws seems quite familiar. Oliver would rather knead my hair. Quite a rats’ nest.
That cartoon was amusing. Nice to know that cats are the same the world over.
“How far can too far go?” edition
10. The Cramps - “Can Your Pussy Do The Dog?”
9. Tibby Edwards - C’est si Tout
8. Johnny Cash - “Get Rhythm”
7. Freddy Fender - “Wasted Days and Wasted Nights”
6. Wanda Jackson - “Honey Bop”
5. Chuck Berry “Maybellene”
4. The Blasters “Marie Marie”
3. Robert Johnson “Hellhound on my trail”
2. Screamin’ Jay Hawkins - “I hear Voices”
1. “The Cramps” - “Human Fly”
Bonus Cramps track “Aloha From Hell”
Lazy Day Edition:
1. Just a Friend - Biz Markie
2. Vivo Sonhando - Getz/Gilberto
3. Pu44yf00t1n’ - Brainiac
4. Spiral Architect - Black Sabbath
5. Happiness is a Warm Gun - The Breeders
6. Moonshiner - Cat Power
7. New Pleasures - Richard Hell
8. The Best Parts - The Jesus Lizard
9. Everything Reminds Me of Her - Elliott Smith
10. Following Through - Dismemberment Plan
And the bonus: Great Cop - Fugazi
1. Lester Young - I’ve Found a New Baby
2. Dandelion - Weird Out
3. Choralschola of the Niederaltaicher Scholaren - Kyrie - Rex acterno
4. Firesign Theatre - The News Drought Continues
5. The Beatles - Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand
6. John Martyn - Head and Heart
7. Kate Bush - Somewhere In Between
8. Artie Shaw - Summertime
9. Van Morrison - Contemplation Rose
10. Randy Newman - Rednecks
Not that I could beat that finish, but 11. Brewer & Shipley - Have A Good Life
Yes, the wet nose in the ear….there’s also the draping-over-the-neck (with said wet nose pushed up under one’s chin.)
It was better than the hairball up until the cat used its claws. When the bat was employed, I was like “Damn! ….yeah, I think I’d be more comfortable with partially digested fur blasted onto my cornea, thank you very much…”
My cat used to climb on top of me and knead like that before going to sleep. I miss him.
1. Lumidee f. Busta Rhymes - Never Leave You
2. Beastie Boys - Brouhaha
3. INXS & Jimmy Barnes - Good Times
4. Ramones - California Sun
5. Skid Row - Youth Gone Wild
6. Pet Shop Boys - Suburbia
7. Queensryche - Last Time In Paris
8. KMFDM - Rules
9. Sweet - Love Is Like Oxygen
10. George Harrison - Got My Mind Set On You
And as a bonus, a song that’s not on my playlist yet but which I *MUST HAVE* now that I’ve heard it:
Felix Da Housecat: Silver Screen-Shower Scene