How Many "Fuck"s Can I Get Away With?

Berit mentioned this to me the other day, that there was a site that would rate your blog as with the MPAA movie ratings, and she told me what my rating was.


I figured something had to be off, cause I thought I cussed more than they seem to register. Either that, or I have a slick, major-studio backer that was able to argue my rating down, since I only get a





which, according to their records, is due to 3 uses of the word "pain," 2 uses of the word "kill," and 1 use of the word "bitch" (I'm assuming I used the latter in the context of "bitching" about something, but with these three words as the guide, it sounds like my site is the equivalent of one o'them "torture porn" movies er somethin').


Fuck, I need a stronger rating. Maybe if I add some "grizzly violence" (which is currently listed on the posters for Captivity as a reason for the R rating - really - "grizzly violence" - as has been noted, it sounds like the film consists of Elisha Cuthbert going up against some bears).

Friday Random 24 Driving Songs

Had to drive over to The Brick early this morning to let someone in for a rehearsal, and had a nice set of songs come up randomly on the iPod for the drive there (great traffic, quick trip) and back (jammed roads, construction, took forever), so I figured I might as well put them down here, as a change:


FROM GRAVESEND TO WILLIAMSBURG (direct way, 35 minutes):

1. "Do You Love Me?" - The Sonics - !!!Here Are The Sonics!!!
2. "I Took Your Name" - R.E.M. - Monster
3. "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" - Wanda Jackson - All the Hits and More
4. "Don't Turn Me Down" - Ray Mason Band - Don't Mess with Our Routine
5. "The Rumba Jumps!" - Glenn Miller & The Andrews Sisters - Chesterfield Broadcasts
6. "Inter-City Kitty" - The Monks - Bad Habits
7. "Amapola" - The Spotnicks - The Best of The Spotnicks
8. "The Look of Love" - Isaac Hayes - Blaxpolitation


The last song was particularly long (11 min. and change), so that's fewer songs than would be normal. There was still 1:08 of that one to play at the start of the ride back:


FROM WILLIAMSBURG TO GRAVESEND (roundabout way, around an hour):


9. "Homeward Earth" - Jimmie Haskell & His Orchestra - Countdown!

(aborted after a few seconds - not right for the mood I was in . . .)
10. "Le Fermeture Eclair" - Delphine - Rato's Nostalgia Collection 17
11. "Shticks of One and Half a Dozen of the Other" - Allan Sherman - My Son, the Greatest - The Best of Allan Sherman
12. "Harley Davidson" - Shocking Blue - Shocking Blue
13. "New York Woman" - The Kasenatz-Katz Super Circus - Bubblegum Classics Volume 4
14. "Lover's Rock" - The Clash - London Calling
15. "Come In Stranger" - Johnny Cash - The Best of Sun Records Volume Two
16. "Jazz Along Alone" - John Barry - Soundtrack Gamut, Vol. 3 - I Spy with My Little Eye
17. "Seeing Is Believing" - Bizarros - Bizarros
18. "Mes Reves De Satin" - Patricia - Foreign Language Fun, Vol. 2

("Nights in White Satin" en francais - really good, too!)
19. "Room with a View" - Wall of Voodoo - Seven Days in Sammystown
20. "Calvary Cross" - Richard & Linda Thompson - (guitar, vocal)

(and then after this 13-minute long track played, I played the first two or three minutes another four times - I love the intro to this -- and I just discovered this morning, that after being overjoyed about having the chance to see RT live for free this Summer, and even blogging about it weeks ago, I missed the show - it was last night -- oh, well, everyone got rained on anyway . . . shoot . . .)
21. "Archimede Pitagorico" - Pino Donaggio - Tutti I Successi Di
22. "Ooohhh Baby" - Lou Reed - Coney Island Baby
23. "I Bombed Korea" - Cake - Motorcade of Generosity
24. "Questions in a World of Blue" - Julee Cruise - The Voice of Love


And only a fragment of that last, as I pulled into the garage here. Then back here, to relax with the little fuzzy monsters:




Back on duty at The Brick tonight. Need some rest first now . . . tired, for no good reason.