4 posts tagged “qotd”

How did you pick your Vox name? Does it mean something? 
Submitted by LeendaDLL.  

Well, my real name in the real life, the meat world, is Samuel.  I got the nickname "Mule" from my friends playing on different pronunciations of it: Sam-mule.  It's oddly fitting as I'm stubborn and enjoy long silent walks with a heavy pack on my back.  I also am a highly psychic mutant that wasn't part of Hari Seldon't plan.  (Or was I?)

I started a Typepad blog at www.TheMewl.com, figuring that with all the blogs out there, my voice would be no louder than a mewl.  When it came to the Vox page Six Apart invited me to try, I decided to call this place "Burrito" which means little burro, or little donkey.  And being a city boy I never really thought if there was a difference between a mule and a donkey, but there is.  That's not why I changed the name from "Burrito" to "Mewlito" though.  I'm Polish and didn't want people to think my Vox page is going to be some latino voice here.  And "-ito" is the suffix in Spanish that diminutizes the word it attaches to.

So I consider TheMewl.com to be the bigger brother to Mewlito.  And it shouldn't be to tough for you movie fans to figure out the fine print of "Demented and strange, but social".  If I said any more than John Hughes, it would be telling you.

I really shoulda called this page Toronto Skunk.  I could explain that in three sentences at most - "Did you see Strange Brew?  You know the end scene when the McKenzies send their crazy drunken Canadian dog to Oktoberfest to drink all the tainted Elsinore Brewery brand beer?  The cop walks in and says, "Toronto skunk, my jurisdiction" and I think that is the funniest line in all movie history!"

The funniest line in all teevee history is when Blackadder says something like "Get me my codpiece!  Get me 'The Black Russian'!"

What food or drink do you love when it's cold out?  (Recipes and recommendations, please!)

Pizza

It's not so much a warm food or drink, but I crave fattier and greasier food when it's cold out.  I think it's the walrus in me or something.  My pizza consumption defintely rises.  Which is sumthin' cuz I'm a lactard (lactose intolerant).

Zim

Which cartoon character best represents you? 
Submitted by Know It All.

INVADER ZIM!

• Childish
• Insane
• Wishes To Rule The Earth
• Always Picked Last
• Ambivalent Love Of Humanity
  

What are some of your favorite, forgotten albums that have stood the test of time?
Submitted by PeterGibbons.

Where do I start?  Let me start with this album.  Two Of A Kind by Bobby Darin & Johnny Mercer with Billy May

This has been one of those finds that I randomly downloaded off of the newgroups, so yes, I didn't pay for it.  But don't let that stop you.  In fact I should go out and buy two of these because it is so good. 

Yes, you'll have to like Bobby Darin and Johnny Mercer, but that's no problem.  I hate Frank Sinatra, but I like all the other crooners out there.  Johnny Mercer is a class act all by himself and it's saddens me that he doesn't get more props.  It's a classic swing album.  The most swingingest albums I've ever heard.  I know almost all the songs by heart.  Take a listen to my favorite song Bob White in my audio section.

Veedon Fleece by Van Morrison.

I can't listen to this album without being instantly transported back to the autumn of 1994 when I first heard it.  I was well familiar with Van Morrison, but this album was a complete surpise to me.  This is my all time favorite Van Morrison album.  Listening to Country Fair immediately takes me to the autumn day I spent at Great Sand Dunes National Monument, walking in in the little water creek still trickling down from the mountains, which in summer is a full river.
For me, this album is unlike any of Van Morrison's other albums.  It's always come across as very personal, and almost hidden.

Just get any album by Harry Nilsson.  He's the "Lime In The Coconut" singer, if that rings a bell.  I love all his albums although there are some tracks on each that don't jazz me up.  However it is very easy to deal with these songs and get to the gems.  Aerial Pandemonium Ballet is one of my favorite albums.  Nilsson has the unfortunate association with Mariah Carey and Celine Dion, or fortunate however you look at it.  Mariah Carey covered Without You and Celine Dion covered River Deep, Mountain High.  While I am very glad they appreciated his songwriting skills enough to cover them, it's a bad association as the fanbases aren't very overlapping.  Nilsson's original of River Deep is on this album, and ironically has the pretty much the same delivery and arrangment as Celine Dion's, full and a bit brassy.  However his version of Without You is a gem.  Quiet and plaintive with some strings coming into the song, the emotion of losing someone who means the world to you is painfully evident in his voice.

One last one before I go.  It's been almost 10 years since Townes Van Zandt lived up to the tile of this album and passed from this world.  I drove to New Mexico January 1997, and listened to The Cowboy Junkies singing Townes' Blues.  I was driving right through Raton, New Mexico just as Margo was singing "ain't this fool ever heard of Raton?".
The day after arriving in New Mexico, I found out Townes Van Zandt had died less than a week before.
The Late Great Townes Van Zandt was my first introduction to this man.  Specifically the song Pancho and Lefty which had been made popular by Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard.  I didn't grow up listenting to country, so I had no clue who he was.  This isn't a country album though.  There's a difference between Texas country and Nashville country.  This is Texas country to me.  I don't know if such a difference exists in the musical world or in the Grand Ol' Opry, but it exists for me.  You can hate everything that has ever come out of Nashville but still love this album.
My license plate reads "HIWYKND", after another song of his Highwaykind.  I had a chance to see him in March of 1996, but I ended up road-tripping through Arizona to the Grand Canyon with some great friends.  I thought I would be able to see him again.  I wouldn't trade the memories I made that road-trip for anything though.
Get as much of his stuff as you can, especially The Late Great Townes Van Zandt and Live And Obscure.