Song of the Day: The Velvet Underground - I'm Waiting for the Man

The Velvet Underground - I'm Waiting for the Man

one album it's on is The Velvet Underground and Nico, however if you've got the cash, I recommend getting the excellent box set Peel Slowly and See - it has outtakes and is just a superb collection all the way around. I am missing one of the cds from the set...a casualty from my divorce, I think, (although he can't find it either).

Again, this is another band that set the standard - and the tone, the sound - for so many bands that are out now that are achieving even marginal success.

One good site I found that has an interesting bio on the band is www.lemanszone.dk - the English translation page of the VU bio

Song of the Day: Violent Femmes - Add It Up

Violent Femmes - Add It Up
from the album Violent Femmes

As a total product of the 80's, I remember dancing in front of the mirror singing along to this song one day when my Mom walked in the room... I was what, 10? I don't know how long she was standing there, listening to her 4th-grader thrash around singing "Why can't I get just one fuck?" until she tapped me on the shoulder and asked, horrified, "What the HELL are you listening to?"

She had the rest of the 80's to ask that same question many times over...I think I'll hit a few of those beloved songs that gave my mother gray hair in the coming week.

What I wasn't able to explain at the time was that I was listening to what would soon be known as one of the staples of youth angst for my generation - and for many generations to come. Hell, it's just damn good music, and I can relate as much to it now as I could when I was in my teens...
I'm not sure how much I related to the angst part at age 10; I think that was more just because it was on the radio a lot and I thought it was cool. At that time boys were interesting, but I wasn't quite concerned with wanting to get into their pants...or why I couldn't get just ONE screw.

Now, that's a different story. LOL

Song of the Day: Kool & the Gang - Open Sesame

Kool & the Gang - Open Sesame

One great album it's on is the Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack

I used to dance around the house to this album when I was a little kid...I had it on vinyl (still do) and this song was always my favorite. It reminded me of the Bugs Bunny cartoon when Bugs and Daffy find the genie in the lamp...



I dunno, I'm just a nutjob.

Nina Is Better (Thank God)...I'm A Little Under the Weather, Though

Thanks to all who have been asking about my little girlie-girl cat, Nina, whose undiagnosed diabetes almost killed her last week.



As of this writing, she has been in the hospital for about a week and a half, but thanks to God, the doctors, people's prayers and good gris-gris, and her sheer orneriness to live, I think she's going to pull through. They're just trying to find the right amount/type of insulin - and it's been tricky with her.

I have a lot to learn about Feline Diabetes in the weeks ahead. No doubt I'll end up posting more about it as I learn.

Sorry to be MIA, I'm starting to make a comeback...I fell into a spell of vertigo, and I've been dizzy as hell. I've had that awful feeling you get when you've had about 20 too many cocktails in an evening and are trying to either walk or lay down - both are nearly impossible. It isn't quite that bad, but let's just say that I walk around like a drunk person when I'm sober - and I've actually been a little scared going down stairs. This has been going on for almost a week.

I went to see a doctor...the guy was like, "Well, you have vertigo."

Um, no shit, Doc - gee, I suppose I could be a doctor too, since you make it look so freakin' easy.

So, I suppose it's just stress from my cat's illness, but we'll see.

In the meantime, I'm finding all these cool things I want to write about and comment on, but then I get very tired...I'm starting to catch up a bit. Will have more Music and little blurbs. In the meantime, please keep hitting those links on the right. Dribblingwitt always has something fun, my galpal at Views From A Broad will never cease to delight, and Jackson West's Obsessive Compulsion is guaranteed to hit the spot.

I know I haven't posted about 9/11 yet, and I will (and will pull the ripple in space/time and simply change the date); I have a few words on the matter (my brother was in one of the towers - he survived, but simply living in NYC makes it very vivid indeed), but my thoughts are on getting better - both Nina and myself, and writing about something as important as this topic requires thought process that I hope to have in the next few days.

Stephen Baldwin Prays for Tom Cruise As They Both Wait for Mothership

OldFart54 sent this tasty tidbit to me today during work:

In a recent interview with Radar Online, the youngest (and soon to be most overweight) of the Baldwin brothers, Stephen, who is supposedly born-again, claimed that of those stars in Hollywood that he prays for, "...Tom Cruise is probably Number 1...I'd love to break bread with him and pray with him."

He'd probably also pray that Tom gets him a gig.

Photo: Defamer.com

Even if Tom is out on his ear, he's about as much of a freakish curiosity as Joseph Merrick, Michael Jackson, and tragic road accidents. The morbidly curious Roman in all of us will always buy tickets - and so, although Paramount may have finally come to their senses, the public still salivates...and so even being in the same room with Cruise might sprinkle a little fairy dust (ahem) on Baldwin.



He could use it. I have a feeling that his new book, The Unusual Suspect, which is all about how a womanizing coke whore saw the light and became born-again, (no, it's not about George W.; it's about Baldwin himself) might not be a best-seller. And let's face it; of all the brothers, he was probably the least talented...at least at acting.

What is really hilarious, though, is that during his interview, despite all his newfound knowledge of the house of God, he could only come up with six of the ten commandments.

Hey, that's better than me. I just know there's something in there about not boinking your neighbor's wife while trying to kill someone as you say the lord's name in vain.

Song of the Day: Bill Withers: Use Me (Live)

Bill Withers - Use Me (Live)

from the album Live At Carnegie Hall

It's really a great version of the song. He's so kind to the audience, really appreciates them...they go nuts and he does an extended version of the song. NICE.

Nina's Catster Page

Nina is still in critical condition, but they called me last night and said that her blood pressure is up (yay!) and that her glucose levels are down in the 200's, whereas they were off the charts in the 1000's before.

If you would like to visit her Catster Page, please do so.

I'll have Songs of the Day up again soon, as well as tidbits of my madness; I think the first thing I'll write about is animal diabetes and what to look for, followed by WHY THE FUCK THEY CHARGE SO MUCH FUCKING MONEY FOR VET VISITS AND MAKE YOU DECIDE BETWEEN NOT PAYING RENT AND PUTTING YOUR ANIMAL TO SLEEP - (pause for brief sigh) but right now I hope you continue to puruse my archives and read Ornery Woman and the other links to the right. A latest one is Earsucker.com, which is very entertaining and a hoot n' a half. Don't forget to stop by Jump in the Ocean, as well. For lots of mp3s, please visit Pure Mania. I would add the html here, but I'm damn tired, so just look to the right for the link.

My animals are my children, and although I consider myself a full time blogger, they come first. I'm on little sleep, lots of tears, and a few beers...and homer go sleep now.

Thanks for your thoughts, love, best wishes, and understanding.

D


UPDATE: I screwed up the html on that because I was half-blind from crying. The page is http://www.catster.com/?89182 and I fixed the html on here.

:)

My Cat Nina Is Very, Very Sick

Nina Mouse
Originally uploaded by Billychic.

Please, regardless of any religious or philosphical beliefs, please pray or send out good vibes to my little girl Nina...

I arrived home after a four day weekend (I had friends come in and check on the cats and feed them and change water and hang out) to find Nina unable to walk or eat or drink.

Unbeknownst to me, she was pre-diabetic, and she fell into an almost diabetic coma state while I was away for the weekend (I had left her with friends and she didn't get sick until they had left my home). I rushed her to the doctor the next morning.

The doctors don't know if she'll make it... She is only 7 or 8 (I found her on my doorstep many years ago) and has a lot of life left in her if she can pull through. I just want my little girl home with me...and I'll give her shots happily for the rest of her life. Please, please send your good thoughts her way.

She is barely hanging on and her blood pressure keeps dropping every time they take her off fluids. I am battling demons of guilt about how I let this happen and didn't see it coming...and worrying how I'm going to pay for it, and I don't even know if she'll make it. They want to charge thousands - fucking thousands for a few days in the vet hospital.

I shall rant about it on Ornery Woman, probably, when I'm feeling up to it. Right now I'm just sick and depressed and mournful.

I just want my little girl to come home. I'll give her all the shots she needs for the rest of her life - which, if she makes it, could be a long one. She's young.

I would gladly give a kidney for one of my pets - some days they are the only reason I can find to get out of bed. I just hope she knows how much I love her.

I'm going to the vet today after work, where I will lick her nose and kiss her and tell her what a beautiful Ni Ni Girlie Girl she is...and hope that she makes it.

Please pray for her.