Thursday, July 19, 2007
My name is Rob, I got a real funky concept
Jimmay! turned 40 this past weekend. I went to Austin for the drinking marathon festivities. He invited us to bring our MP3 players and let loose the hounds of nostalgia. Here's the playlist I made:
#1. Happy Birthday -- Altered Images - Listening to Altered Images is like eating a pixie stick.
#2. My Own Way -- Duran Duran - The most underrated Duran Duran song.
#3. Shakin' -- Eddie Money - Jimmy and I shared our secret shame one night while watching MTV. We both like Eddie Money. A big American car on a Friday night, the promise of the first sip of beer...
#4. Hold It Now, Hit It -- Beastie Boys - When they could sample anything. I miss those days.
#5. Shake Your Rump -- Beastie Boys - We must have listened to Paul's Boutique a million times.
#6. I Touch Roses -- Book of Love - A song you would have heard in The World in Austin in 1988.
#7. Black Celebration -- Depeche Mode - Best thing, it's actaully about Guinness.
#8. Panic -- The Smiths - I can remember screaming "hang the deejay" too late one night.
#9. Genius Of Love -- Tom Tom Club - Genius of a song.
#10. Blue Monday -- New Order - Substance was the first CD I owned.
#11. Bizarre Love Triangle -- New Order - I remember dancing with the missus to this song about a million times.
#12. It Takes Two -- Rob Base - The "whoo" and the "yea" from this song mash up with just about any song in the world.
#13. Beats To The Rhyme -- Run-D.M.C. - The missus, Jimmy, and I are close friends of DMC.
#14. Run's House -- Run-D.M.C.
#15. Perfect Way -- Scritti Politti - This should be a throw-away song, but it's still one of my favorites.
#16. How Soon Is Now? -- The Smiths - Every club played this song once a night in the 80s.
#17. Stigmata -- Ministry - This song separates the men from the boys. In Austin, there would be these mainstream kids who would go out for a "New Wave" night and hit the alternative clubs where Jimmy and I lived. When this song came on, you could see that they were thinking that things had gone too far and they were over their heads.
#18. Up The Junction -- Squeeze - There's a Squeeze song for every occasion. This is Jimmy's favorite Squeeze song, in particular the line "begging's not my business."
#19. Up The Creek -- Glenn Tilbrook - It's a song about getting older and yet staying funky. And being stupid. I get it now.
#1. Happy Birthday -- Altered Images - Listening to Altered Images is like eating a pixie stick.
#2. My Own Way -- Duran Duran - The most underrated Duran Duran song.
#3. Shakin' -- Eddie Money - Jimmy and I shared our secret shame one night while watching MTV. We both like Eddie Money. A big American car on a Friday night, the promise of the first sip of beer...
#4. Hold It Now, Hit It -- Beastie Boys - When they could sample anything. I miss those days.
#5. Shake Your Rump -- Beastie Boys - We must have listened to Paul's Boutique a million times.
#6. I Touch Roses -- Book of Love - A song you would have heard in The World in Austin in 1988.
#7. Black Celebration -- Depeche Mode - Best thing, it's actaully about Guinness.
#8. Panic -- The Smiths - I can remember screaming "hang the deejay" too late one night.
#9. Genius Of Love -- Tom Tom Club - Genius of a song.
#10. Blue Monday -- New Order - Substance was the first CD I owned.
#11. Bizarre Love Triangle -- New Order - I remember dancing with the missus to this song about a million times.
#12. It Takes Two -- Rob Base - The "whoo" and the "yea" from this song mash up with just about any song in the world.
#13. Beats To The Rhyme -- Run-D.M.C. - The missus, Jimmy, and I are close friends of DMC.
#14. Run's House -- Run-D.M.C.
#15. Perfect Way -- Scritti Politti - This should be a throw-away song, but it's still one of my favorites.
#16. How Soon Is Now? -- The Smiths - Every club played this song once a night in the 80s.
#17. Stigmata -- Ministry - This song separates the men from the boys. In Austin, there would be these mainstream kids who would go out for a "New Wave" night and hit the alternative clubs where Jimmy and I lived. When this song came on, you could see that they were thinking that things had gone too far and they were over their heads.
#18. Up The Junction -- Squeeze - There's a Squeeze song for every occasion. This is Jimmy's favorite Squeeze song, in particular the line "begging's not my business."
#19. Up The Creek -- Glenn Tilbrook - It's a song about getting older and yet staying funky. And being stupid. I get it now.
Labels: Jimmay, music, Squeeze, The Missus, Weirdness
Monday, February 19, 2007
Let the beat wind you up, and don't stop till your time is up
or; I got the Johnson's Baby Powder and the Polo cologne
Worked out. 30 minutes on the elliptical. Music: Lily Allen, Gwen Stefani, and The Killers. I mentally mash up "When You Were Young" with "Hey Jealousy" by The Gin Blossoms. You kids with your mashups, back in my day, we had to do the mashing up ourselves, by singing over other songs. Jimmy was a big fan of adding "woo" and "yeah" from "It Takes Two" by Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock to just about any song.
Which reminds me of a nickname I was given (adding to the list).
When I was stationed at OSIA, I would get to work by 7:00 AM. I drove the Beltway, it was either wait at work and drink coffee or wait in traffic and sweat being late.
So, after dropping my gear off, I would go around back with a fresh cup of mud and take up my position in the smoking area near the newspaper machines. (WaPo and WaTimes, $0.25 each. What a country.) I would light up and by 7:20 YN1 Vern N. would drive up. He'd walk up, slide the cover off his head, light up a Salem, smile out of the corner of his mouth, and start:
Vern honored me by calling me Rob Base from then on.
I've updated the soundtrack.
Worked out. 30 minutes on the elliptical. Music: Lily Allen, Gwen Stefani, and The Killers. I mentally mash up "When You Were Young" with "Hey Jealousy" by The Gin Blossoms. You kids with your mashups, back in my day, we had to do the mashing up ourselves, by singing over other songs. Jimmy was a big fan of adding "woo" and "yeah" from "It Takes Two" by Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock to just about any song.
Which reminds me of a nickname I was given (adding to the list).
When I was stationed at OSIA, I would get to work by 7:00 AM. I drove the Beltway, it was either wait at work and drink coffee or wait in traffic and sweat being late.
So, after dropping my gear off, I would go around back with a fresh cup of mud and take up my position in the smoking area near the newspaper machines. (WaPo and WaTimes, $0.25 each. What a country.) I would light up and by 7:20 YN1 Vern N. would drive up. He'd walk up, slide the cover off his head, light up a Salem, smile out of the corner of his mouth, and start:
I wanna rock right nowand then I'd start
I'm Rob Base and I came to get downVern was curious about how a white guy from Austin knew all the lyrics to so many rap songs. (When I was in the Navy I would just say I was from Austin, since I lived there five years before I signed up and I had no family in Houston anymore.) I tried to explain to him how I was in high school when rap broke and we all thought it was the greatest thing. I listened to the Roxanne Wars as they unfolded on Magic 102. I used to know all the words to La-Di-Da-Di.
I'm not internationally known
But I'm known to rock the microphone
Because I get stoopid, I mean outrageous
Stay away from me if you're contagious
Vern honored me by calling me Rob Base from then on.
I've updated the soundtrack.
Thursday, January 18, 2007
That's humor
Jimberly
Labels: Brangelina, Celebrity Couple Nicknames, Jimberly, Jimmay, Tomcat
