Bulletin Board of Bad Behavior

Saw the Proclaimers (of 'I would walk 500 miles...' ie new wave stalker song) last night at the Crocodile. They were good but it was not my cup of tea. They are nerdy new wave Scots who rock it out.

The just love to sing and wail on those guitars. They kept thanking IBM and Disney for making their lives so much better. IBM paid for a song in a commercial and Disney used a song in Shrek. Millions of dollars they never got from the pop singles. They were pretty funny and their scotch accents were really thick.

Anybody like them? They just seem so uncool and even daringly so. So when I thought of them as a 'new wave' folk band I got to think of 'new wave' and the French term that spawned it 'nouvelle vague'.

Nouvelel vague translated literally 'new vagueness' not 'new wave'. Why do we English speakers fuck so much latin-based beauty up so badly?

'New wave' is meaningless while 'new vagueness' sounds mysterious and cool like its supposed to be. I wanna move to another country.

I just never could stand that song about the 500 miles. I don't care if they're from Scotland or Timbuk 2. It's a shame, really.

"But I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
To be the man who walked 1,000 miles
To fall down at your door"

Sounds like a stalker song to me.

But no really... the Proclaimers are a rare breed of nerds who rock. When they play you can tell they love it and know what they're doing.

Still I agree that they're not very good.

But granted I don't like very many things.

yes but as a dj I know that at a wedding if you play Shout, Hey Ya, That Proclaimer song, that Chumbawama song- 'I get knocked down, I get up again, I drink a lager drink, I drink a cider drink', and Nevermind, you have everyone from grannies to 10-year-old kids shaking their groove thing, and it's all in good fun, dweebs like me dancing to hip hop and indie! see i dance too.

i need a dj

I'll do it for free, as long as you fly me down there, let me crash on your floor and hit on the maid of honor. are you really getting married?

Sloth always said marriage equals death and I always said marriage is great. now he is married to a wondeful woman whom I love dearly. at the end of the cocaine nights she and I were always the last ones still up playing records, drinking beer, and snorting the carpet.

yes, im really getting married. I'll see what I can work out, I think that would be cool as hell to have you dj.

Congratulations! That photo is very Paxacidus, but I suggest forthe actual wedding photos that you hold a beer in one hand, your wife in the other, and have her hold a copy of McCutcheon's "Burnt Roof of Mouth". A nice added touch would be some pills sitting ona table next to you.

Seriously, congratulations and good luck to you and your sexy fiance

I think the Mav man has a crush on your girl. so we know one guy who won't be invited. Even though Mav has a great woman of his own, who was just visiting me, by the way, and that Mav is very well behaved. better than me in fact. go figure.

really though, rabbit, you have done very well for yourself and all happiness to you and yours.

and I'd fucking love to DJ. I'll even pay $20o towards a ticket if you pick me and my gear up from the airport. When is the wedding?

Congratulations on your marriage. Here is a slice of Tommy advice for your wedding day......

At some point in the post ceremony festivities take your charming bride (Name?) to one side. Stand off away from the others and take in the whole scene together. Make a point of trying to remember everything that you see. Then plant a giant smacker on her. Many years later when you remember the occasion together you will be able to recall the same scene and the same kiss. Trust me it is a very cool thing to do.

Time to get back to being a miserable bastard.

Hey terror of the Midwest you in Ohio yet?

Thanks Tommy, Ill keep that in mind.

ok mc, I'll let you know whats goin on as soon as I figure it out. Hopefully we can work something out. I'll keep you posted.