posted October 15, 2014 03:04 PM            

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Originally posted by HRH-FishAreFish:
And since one of your super powers is an immunity to ice cream headaches, Randall, you probably already know that ROOT BEER FLOATS where invented in Cripple Creek, Colorado.

ROOT BEER FLOAT

Also known as a "black cow" or "brown cow", the root beer float is traditionally made with vanilla ice cream and root beer, but can also be made with other flavors.

In the United States and Canada, the chain A&W Restaurants are well known for their root beer floats. The definition of a black cow varies by region. For instance in some localities, a "root beer float" has strictly vanilla ice cream; a float made with root beer and chocolate ice cream is a "chocolate cow" or a "brown cow." In some places a "black cow" or a "brown cow" was made with cola instead of root beer. In some areas, for example, Northeastern Wisconsin, "black cow" is said to mean a root beer float where the ice cream and root beer have been mixed together.

The origin of the name "black cow" has always been of interest to food and beverage experts and allegedly dates to August 1893 in Cripple Creek, Colorado. The only source of this story is the great-grand-nephew of Frank J. Wisner, who has popularized it through his soft drink product advertising. Wisner, owner of the Cripple Creek Cow Mountain Gold Mining Company, had been producing a line of soda waters for the citizens of the then-booming Cripple Creek gold mining district. He had been trying to create a special drink for the children of Cripple Creek and came up with an idea while staring out at his properties on Cow Mountain on a moonlit night.

The Full Moon's glow on the snow capped Cow Mountain reminded him of a dollop of vanilla ice cream floating on top of his blackened Cow Mountain. As he told the story later, he was inspired by this view to hurry back to his bar and add a big scoop of vanilla ice cream to the one soda water he produced that the children of Cripple Creek seemed to like best — Myers Avenue Red root beer — and served it the very next day. The drink was an instant hit.

Originally named "Black Cow Mountain", the local children shortened this to "black cow".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_beer_float#Root_beer_float

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BLACK COW - STEELY DAN - AJA

In the corner
Of my eye
I saw you in Rudy's
You were very high
You were high
It was a cryin' disgrace
They saw your face

On the counter
By your keys
Was a Book of Numbers
And your remedies
One of these
Surely will screen out the sorrow
But where are you tomorrow

I can't cry anymore
While you run around
Break away
Just when it
Seems so clear
That it's
Over now
Drink your big black cow
And get out of here

Down to Greene St.
There you go
Lookin' so outrageous
And they tell you so
You should know
How all the pros play the game
You change your name

Like a gangster
On the run
You will stagger homeward
To your precious one
I'm the one
Who must make everything right
Talk it out till daylight

I don't care anymore
Why you run around
Break away
Just when it
Seems so clear
That it's
Over now
Drink your big black cow
And get out of here

http://www.steelydan.com/lyraja.html
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And in the Master's chambers,
They gathered for the feast
They stab it with their STEELY knives,
But they just can't kill the beast.

posted November 06, 2014 09:13 AM            

I guess we'll just have to wait until (hopefully) the Black Cow comes home...

Waiting For The Cows To Come Home...

posted November 22, 2014 06:08 AM            

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With Fagen on keyboards and vocals and Becker on bass, they decide to sign up guitarist Jeff "Skunk" Baxter and drummer Jim Hodder. With the core band recruited, Donald and Walter need a name for their group.

Since both of them were avid readers of 1950's "Beat" literature, they decided to name the band "Steely Dan" after a dildo in William Burroughs' "Naked Lunch."

http://www.steelydan.com/faq.html

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Well, I heard some people talkin' just the other day
And they said you were gonna put me on a shelf
But let me tell you I got some news for you
And you'll soon find out it's true
And then you'll have to eat your LUNCH all by yourself

'Cause I'm already gone
And I'm feelin' strong
I will sing this vict'ry song, woo, hoo,hoo,my my woo,hoo,hoo

The letter that you wrote me made me stop and wonder why
But I guess you felt like you had to set things right
Just remember this, my girl, when you look up in the sky
You can see the stars and still not see the light (that's right)...

So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains
And we never even know we have the key

posted November 22, 2014 07:13 AM            

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According to Glenn Frey's liner notes for The Very Best Of, the use of the word "steely" in the lyric, "They stab it with their steely knives, but they just can't kill the beast," was a playful nod to the band Steely Dan, who had included the lyric "Turn up the Eagles, the neighbors are listening" in their song "Everything You Did".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_California

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posted November 22, 2014 07:23 AM            

Cold Blue Steel & Sweet Fire ~ Joni Mitchell http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uikZv3PYd6I

posted November 22, 2014 08:00 AM            

And in the MASTER'S chambers,
They gathered for the feast
They stab it with their STEELY knives,
But they just can't kill the beast.

Last thing I remember, I was
Running for The Door
I had to find the passage back
To the place I was before.

'Relax,' said the night man,
'We are programmed to receive.
You can checkout any time you like,
But you can never leave.'

posted November 22, 2014 09:13 AM            

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Originally posted by T:
Here's one for you:

Cold Blue Steel & Sweet Fire ~ Joni Mitchell http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uikZv3PYd6I

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Thanks, T! I love Joni Mitchell...

Right back atcha'... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSg2Nf_OywY

Don Juan's Reckless Daughter
by Joni Mitchell

I'm Don Juan's reckless daughter
I came out two days on your tail
Those two bald-headed days in November
Before the first snowflakes sail
Out on the vast and subtle plains of mystery
A split tongue spirit talks
Noble as a nickel chief
Striking up an old juke box
And he says:
"Snakes along the railroad tracks"
He says, "Eagles in jet trails"
He says, "Coils around feathers and talons on scales
Gravel under the belly plates"
He says, "Wind in the Wings"
He says, "Big bird dragging its tail in the dust
Snake kite flying on a string"

I come from open prairie
Given some wisdom and a lot of jive
Last night the ghosts of my old ideas
Reran on channel five
And it howled so spooky for its eagle soul
I nearly broke down and cried
But the split tongue spirit laughed at me
He says, "Your serpent cannot be denied"
Our serpents love the whisky bars
They love the romance of the crime
But didn't I see a neon sign
Fester on your hotel blind
And a country road come off the wall
And swoop down at the crowd at the bar
And put me at the top of your danger list
Just for being so much like you are

You're a coward against the altitude
You're a coward against the flesh
Coward caught between yes and no
Reckless this time on the line for yes, yes, yes!
Reckless brazen in the play
Of your changing traffic lights
Coward slinking down the hall
To another restless night
As we center behind the eight ball
As we rock between the sheets
As we siphon the colored language
Off the farms and the streets
Here in Good-Old-God-Save-America
the home of the brave and the free
We are all hopelessly oppressed cowards
Of some duality
Of restless multiplicity
(Oh say can you see)

Restless for streets and honky tonks
Restless for home and routine
Restless for country safety and her
Restless for the likes of reckless me
Restless sweeps like fire and rain
Over virgin wilderness
It prowls like hookers and thieves
Through bolt locked tenements
Behind my bolt locked door
The eagle and the serpent are at war in me
The serpent fighting for blind desire
The eagle for clarity
What strange prizes these battles bring
These hectic joys these weary blues
Puffed up and strutting when I think I win
Down and shaken when I think I lose
There are rivets up here in this eagle
There are box cars down there on your snake
And we are twins of spirit
No matter which route home we take
Or what we forsake
We're going to come up to the eyes of clarity
And we'll go down to the beads of guile
There is danger and education
In living out such a reckless life style
I touched you on the central plains
It was plane to train my twin
It was just plane shadow to train shadow
But to me it was skin to skin
The spirit talks in spectrums
He talks to mother earth to father sky
Self indulgence to self denial
Man to woman
Scales to feathers
You and I
Eagles in the sky
You and I
Snakes in the grass
You and I
Crawl and fly
You and I

posted November 22, 2014 12:54 PM            

MUSIC!!!

"And in the MASTER'S chambers,
They gathered for the feast
They stab it with their steely knives,
But they just can't kill the BEAST."

posted November 22, 2014 01:35 PM            

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Originally posted by HRH-FishAreFish:
Thanks, T! I love Joni Mitchell...

Right back atcha'..

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Thank you. I hadn't heard that one in awhile.

Wasn't she a genius?

This comes to mind:

Court & Spark
"His eyes were the color of the sand and the sea."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2nxCSTAq9c

Reminds me - everytime, of my Libra ex. He had blue and golden eyes (sand and sea colors).

The outer part was golden.

posted November 22, 2014 04:33 PM            

"On the counter
By your keys
Was a Book of Numbers
And your remedies
One of these
Surely will screen out the sorrow
But where are you tomorrow"

posted November 29, 2014 09:01 AM            

VENUS AND MARS [REPRISE] ~ ST. PAUL MCCARTNEY & WINGS

Standing in the Hall
of the great cathedral
Waiting for the transport to come
Starship 21ZNA9.

A Good friend of mine
Studies the stars
Venus and Mars
are alright tonight

Come away on a strange vacation
Holiday hardly begun
Run into a Good friend of mine
Sold me her sign
Reach for the stars
Venus and Mars
are alright tonight

posted December 02, 2014 11:38 PM            

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And I would have walked head on into the deep end of the river,
Clinging to your stocks and bonds
Paying your H.P. demands forever.
They're coming in the morning with a truck to take me home,
Someone saved my life tonight, someone saved my life tonight,
Someone saved my life tonight, someone saved my life tonight,
Someone saved my life tonight.
So save your strength and run the field you play alone.

posted December 13, 2014 02:06 PM            

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Originally posted by HRH-FishAreFish:

Waiting For The Cows To Come Home...

[Donald Fagen + Walter Becker = Steely Dan][/B]

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Aja, the other missing song...

AJA - STEELY DAN - AJA

Up on the hill
People never stare
They just don't care
Chinese music under banyan trees
Here at the dude ranch above the sea
Aja
When all my dime dancin' is through
I run to you

Up on the hill
They've got time to burn
There's no return
Double helix in the sky tonight
Throw out the hardware
Let's do it right
Aja
When all my dime dancin' is through
I run to you

Up on the hill
They think I'm okay
Or so they say
Chinese music always sets me free
Angular banjoes
Sound good to me
Aja
When all my dime dancin' is through
I run to you

posted December 13, 2014 02:36 PM            

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Banyan Drive in Hilo, Hawaii, is also known as the "Hilo Walk of Fame." Throughout the years celebrities in all walks of life have planted small banyan sapling to have them grow into the giant memorials that still stand in their honor. These trees have withstood natural disasters such as the several tsunamis that have devastated the town of Hilo, located on the Big Island of Hawaii. The drive circles the Waiakea Peninsula, near the Hilo International Airport, and boasts some of the largest hotels on the Eastern side of the Big Island.

http://www.island-trust.com/banyan-drive-in-hilo-hawaii.html

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posted December 13, 2014 02:49 PM            

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Come again? Clearly, the two musicians who make up Steely Dan are doing their best to uphold their reputation for being awkward interviewees. In preparation for this Steely Dan interview, conducted via conference call with Fagen and Becker at their respective homes in New York City and Hawaii, yours truly had noted that all published Steely Dan interviews run along similar lines. Instead of answering questions straight, Becker and Fagen prefer to go off on endless absurd tangents with their trademark sarcastic sense of humour. "Has anyone ever suggested you might be difficult to interview?" asked an exasperated Mojo interviewer in 1995, while in a recent interview feature in the Guardian the writer sighed, "each question is teased and twisted into absurdity."

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/aug03/articles/steelydan.htm

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See Donald and Walter in action, writing new songs for their album at Hyperbolic Sound, Walter's studio in Hawaii...