I think a bunch of people in funny clothes, with funny hairdos, who don’t know the slightest thing about soap just decided to get more attention.
Apparently some unwashed dork thought it’d be cool to add another sign to the zodiac. The new one is called “Ophiuchus”, like leo the lion or cancer the crab, this is probably like some stupid space-turnip. Here’s the article so you can pretend it has ANY affect on your life whatsoever.
He was the bass player for Japan, Rain Tree Crow, Dali’s Car, Gary Numan & Tubeway Army, No-Man and many others. I’m particularly fond of an album he did with Yoshihiro Hanno in 2000 called Liquid Glass. If you haven’t heard me play it once in a while, you probably aren’t listening. Mick Karn was heralded throughout music, even in the standard jazz genre’s as one of the best bass players around. He was also proficient with very odd (to my liking) implementation of woodwinds in rock music. He was very good at clarinet and bassoon. He used them a lot in the music he made in the 90’s with Jansen/Barbieri/Karn (or JBK) which was the instrumentalists from the band Japan.
Nobody sounds like this guy playing bass… NOBODY. If you don’t believe the power of this, try you tube’ing his name and look at all the people trying to play his bass lines.
This video is actually fun to watch and listen to. You can really hear the quality in the sound Mick Karn was driving at. Listen to this guy try to teach a Mick Karn bass line. He’s doing “Cantonese Boy” from Japan. Just the sound of the fretless bass played in this fashion gives me freakin goose bumps.
I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m gonna miss Mick Karn.
My cat is in renal failure. I have to give him I.V. fluids and will get his blood checked on Friday to see if its even worth continuing.
Right now my head is telling me the rational things, but my heart is feeling like this:
Gonna do what I can to help my furry companion, but I think its just a question of time.
Pud kept me from being lonely during the day, and I don’t know what I am going to do when he is gone. Another cat just doesn’t cut it to me right now because old ironsides is one of a kind…
A confession: My only exposure to the food services industry was working as a busboy at a Bonanza steak house in the mall while I was in high school. One of my favorite dishes was their chicken catalina. I love catalina dressing. This is a cheap and easy way to do chicken. I tried to cook for the first time in a while and I made it with this quicky recipe. Thanks go to:
1. My complete and total lack of talent and cash.
2. Denise for advice and laughs.
3. Liz for leaving some of her cookwear behind (Thanks for the big wok with a handle!)
Here’s the recipe:
2 chicken breasts, boned and split (get the cheap boneless one’s on sale at the Ac-A-Me! 1 pound will do fine for 2 people. If you are a hungry fat ass’d couple, get 1.5 pound for 2 people.)
1/2 pkg. dry onion soup mix (I buy the generic)
6 oz. Catalina salad dressing (Or as much as you can stand. The more the better for my taste. Makes more juice!)
Put chicken in a casserole dish (one of them glass pyrex jobs) which has been sprayed with Pam (or just put some olive oil on a paper towel and rub down the casserole dish).
Good Old Standby
Sprinkle chicken breasts with 1/2 package dry onion soup mix.
Pour 6 ounces Catalina salad dressing over chicken.
Best if you let this sit for a while to marinate! Makes the chicken taste more Catalina’y. I also chop a handful of nasty stinky white onions into the dish. This makes it more onion’y and clears the sinuses a bit.
Cover (with aluminum “ferrl”) and bake at 350 degrees for 45 to 50 minutes. Good served with rice (the cheap stuff).
Yummo on yer cheap ass’d budget! Note: The catalina juice in the casserole dish is great to yum up the rice a bit!
