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for those who are sick of the new york time threads.

i'm pissed as shit, i've been hanging out on the porch with my friends listening to "wildfire" and "don't come home a drinking with loving on yr mind". now i'm at the computer lab, i'm still drinking, i'll be in trouble with the university proctor if i get caught.

DCLMC are going on a roadtrip to milton and balclutha tomorrow and then my friends are gonna DJ at arc. country style.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Sunday, 18 January 2004 07:27 (twenty-two years ago)

pretty lowr case.

― mullygrubber (gaz), Sunday, 18 January 2004 07:36 (twenty-two years ago)

get beer then

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Sunday, 18 January 2004 07:37 (twenty-two years ago)

when I wake up I plan on transferring myself from bed to the sofaand if I'm really feeling active, down the two flights of stairs to the pub.

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 18 January 2004 07:38 (twenty-two years ago)

"wildfire," the 70s song?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 18 January 2004 07:38 (twenty-two years ago)

had some. had more. still, though...

― mullygrubber (gaz), Sunday, 18 January 2004 07:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I could of course remember to get the beer that's rolling round the boot of my car so I don't have to trouble the pub.

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 18 January 2004 07:39 (twenty-two years ago)

yes, wildfore, the 70s song, i think his name was michale murphy, its beautiful and makes my flatmate get goosebumps. gaz have more beer.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Sunday, 18 January 2004 07:40 (twenty-two years ago)

she ran calling w - a-a-ald far, she ran calling wa-a-ald far.
she ran claling wa-ah-a-ah-ahld far.

― mullygrubber (gaz), Sunday, 18 January 2004 07:42 (twenty-two years ago)

its sad. its fucking sad. wildfire busted down his stall. in a blizzard he was lost :-(

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Sunday, 18 January 2004 07:43 (twenty-two years ago)

i have to work tomorrow di

― mullygrubber (gaz), Sunday, 18 January 2004 07:46 (twenty-two years ago)

thats your problem mate

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Sunday, 18 January 2004 07:47 (twenty-two years ago)

i mean i'm sorry gaz

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Sunday, 18 January 2004 07:48 (twenty-two years ago)

but then she was about to die, and wildfire re-appeared. or i think that's how it went?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 18 January 2004 07:49 (twenty-two years ago)

THATS SAD TOO!!!!

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Sunday, 18 January 2004 07:49 (twenty-two years ago)

She comes down yellow mountain on a dark flat land she rides
On a pony she named Wildfire
With a whirlwind by her side
On a cold and drafty night
Oh they say she died one winter
When there came a chilling frost
And the pony she named Wildfire
Busted down his stall
In a blizzard he was lost
She ran calling Wildfire (3 times)
By the dark of the moon I planted
But there came an early snow
There's been a hoot owl howling outside my window now
For six nights in a row
She's coming for me I know
And on Wildfire we're both gonna go
We'll be riding Wildfire (3 times)

On Wildfire we're going to ride her
Gonna leave it all behind
Yes she's always shining right out of my mind
Riding Wildfire

Thank you Google.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 18 January 2004 07:50 (twenty-two years ago)

hey di when r u coming up here and is it to play?

― hellbaby (hellbaby), Sunday, 18 January 2004 07:50 (twenty-two years ago)

*looks at lyrics again* "She's always shining right out of my mind"? Dear god, the whole country was stoned in the seventies.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 18 January 2004 07:51 (twenty-two years ago)

i dunno
She comes down yellow mountain on a dark flat land she rides seems like the best iopening line EVAH right now.

― mullygrubber (gaz), Sunday, 18 January 2004 07:52 (twenty-two years ago)

oh, ok, it was the DUDE singing the song that was gonna see wildfire and the chick who died earlier riding the pony she named wildfire.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 18 January 2004 07:53 (twenty-two years ago)

i.e., the singer-dude was dying at the end ... that's the deal w/ the owls and shit, i suppose.

why couldn't split enz or the bats do a song like that?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 18 January 2004 07:54 (twenty-two years ago)

By the dark of the moon I planted

...weed.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 18 January 2004 07:56 (twenty-two years ago)

more like 'shrooms

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 18 January 2004 07:56 (twenty-two years ago)

hahaha!

― mullygrubber (gaz), Sunday, 18 January 2004 07:57 (twenty-two years ago)

apropos to nothing ... except that we've got a stoned seventies theme going on here ... look at this funny picture of sonny and cher that i found online:

http://www.pictavia.org/A&S/weapons/media/JWPicts.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 18 January 2004 07:58 (twenty-two years ago)

more like 'shrooms

Either way, I like the idea that the singer was skulking around somewhere planting illicit crops at 1 am.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 18 January 2004 07:59 (twenty-two years ago)

its a subtle line that fills in immense character details

― mullygrubber (gaz), Sunday, 18 January 2004 08:01 (twenty-two years ago)

HAHAHAHAHAHA YOU FUCKERS CRAK ME Up!!!!! yeah everyone wasstonedin then70s, why you think i came out such aretard in 1979/slow spermi tells ya. hey hellbaby we coming to christchruch for waitangiday, gigat creation. even your badass daughter can come!!!!

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Sunday, 18 January 2004 08:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Um, Eisbar, the explanation for the scenario you described a bit upthread here is that Split Enz wrote "Message To My Girl". Once you write something like that, that's it, you've done it all, you cannot possibly write anything more perfect than that ever again. "Wildfire" does not pull me in nearly as much as that lovely New Wave-era love song does.

Plans for my Sunday night involve probably going to Sunday Mass, going out to dinner after Mass, coming home, and maybe with a bit of luck I will have my new computer set up and will be introduced to the world of decent computers. And maybe with a bit more luck, I will still be able to go online.

― As Sweet As Melody (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 18 January 2004 08:03 (twenty-two years ago)

michael martin murphey's webpage

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 18 January 2004 08:04 (twenty-two years ago)

there's a midi playing wildfire ... and mr. murphey is riding on a pony that looks a hella lot like wildfire

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 18 January 2004 08:05 (twenty-two years ago)

good on ya dee!

― mullygrubber (gaz), Sunday, 18 January 2004 08:05 (twenty-two years ago)

i can'ty even figureout what my last post means. the space bar on this keyboard is rooted, its NOT mebeing adrunken slag

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Sunday, 18 January 2004 08:07 (twenty-two years ago)

my 2 year old just came in, said he wanted to sit up on this chest next to the computer. i says "what for" he says "nuffin" then he says "i just did a great big fart. it smelly" then he gets down and leaves the room.

― mullygrubber (gaz), Sunday, 18 January 2004 08:08 (twenty-two years ago)

*Oh they say she died one winter
When there came a chilling frost
And the pony she named Wildfire
Busted down his stall
In a blizzard he was lost
She ran calling Wildfire*

Waitaminnit... if she's dead, how can she run calling anything? This song makes no sense.

― lopve (lopve), Sunday, 18 January 2004 08:11 (twenty-two years ago)

mebbe she died running out in the blizzard after the horse?

― mullygrubber (gaz), Sunday, 18 January 2004 08:13 (twenty-two years ago)

so, according to you mr. raggett, wildfire is about this hippy dude who brought this hippy chick and her pony to some place in the woods, but it was cold and 'cause they were stupid stoned hippies they didn't properly prepare themselves or properly tend to themselves. so, the hippy chick died of frostbite and the horse ran off 'cause the singer was a stupid stoned hippy who didn't keep the fucking thing tied up. sometime after that, the hippy dude gets smarter and smokes a shitload of weed (or eats a shitload of shrooms) before it snows again and kills the shit -- he gets stoned outta his mind, but because he's still a stupid hippy he's under-dressed as a motherfucker of a snow storm hits. so you got this hippy dude who's zorked outta his mind on illicit substances and the cold, and he hallucinates that the horse and the hippy chick come outta nowhere before he drops dead of frostbite 'cause he's a stupid stoned hippy.

right?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 18 January 2004 08:13 (twenty-two years ago)

itsthe protagonistthatscallingwildfire. thisspacebar is fucked. gaz you're two year old is funny. when myniece was two, my dad taught her how to say "i'm a little ocker." laughs ensued. her parents weren't impressed.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Sunday, 18 January 2004 08:14 (twenty-two years ago)

properly tend to the horse, i mean.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 18 January 2004 08:14 (twenty-two years ago)

tad you don't like hippiesmuch do you?

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Sunday, 18 January 2004 08:15 (twenty-two years ago)

did u go to mr. murphey's webpage, though?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 18 January 2004 08:17 (twenty-two years ago)

no.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Sunday, 18 January 2004 08:19 (twenty-two years ago)

actually, i think that ned (and myself) are wrong about "wildfire" being about being stoned. from mr. murphey's webpage:

Michael also was a part of the country rock rebels of California, where he befriended Linda Ronstadt, Michael Nesmith, Kenny Rogers, members of the Eagles, Roger Miller, Buck Owens, Merle Haggard and founding members of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Michael moved to Colorado in 1974 to get away from the Austin drug scene. Michael Martin Murphey has always been deeply opposed to drug abuse.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 18 January 2004 08:20 (twenty-two years ago)

awww

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Sunday, 18 January 2004 08:21 (twenty-two years ago)

That doesn't make the lyrics make any more sense. And it doesn't near make up for Dan Fogelberg covering the song.

― lopve (lopve), Sunday, 18 January 2004 08:23 (twenty-two years ago)

o yeah...its the guy singin: "she ran caling wildfire", isn't ot?

but he may have been opposed cause he had such an awful experience out there with the chick and horse and the dope?

hahah i forgot eisbar was tad.

― mullygrubber (gaz), Sunday, 18 January 2004 08:23 (twenty-two years ago)

more about "wildfire," from our friends at allmusic.com:

In 1974, Murphey moved to Epic Records, a division of Columbia, and recorded the first of six albums, Michael Murphey, that same year. It was his second album, Blue Sky - Night Thunder, recorded in 1975, however, that marked Murphey's commercial breakthrough. He had first heard the story about a ghost horse rescuing people on the desert when he was a boy, from his grandfather, and Murphey dreamed of something similar one night as an adult and set it down to music and words in half an hour that same evening. The resulting song, "Wildfire," got to number three on the pop charts in 1975 and became Murphey's first gold record. Another song off of the same album, "Carolina in the Pines," also made the Top 30.

i just downloaded this offa soulseek -- there's this piano impromptu at the beginning and the end of it that i'd never heard before. then mr. murphey starts singing about wildfire.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 18 January 2004 09:10 (twenty-two years ago)

i love the piano intro/outro. its really touching

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Sunday, 18 January 2004 09:11 (twenty-two years ago)

So the horse is a ghost? NOW it makes sense!

― lopve (lopve), Sunday, 18 January 2004 09:15 (twenty-two years ago)

thats what i always thought. god that song is sad. i'm gonna listen to it ahwen i get home

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Sunday, 18 January 2004 09:17 (twenty-two years ago)

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watched seven psychopaths
cleaned
dinner in crockpot
idk, sunday I guess

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 8 December 2013 23:02 (twelve years ago)

watched Home Alone
ate pies (1x pork, 1x mince)
Like Kevin, I am now home alone and p much killing time til I should go to bed and then go to work.

― kinder, Sunday, 8 December 2013 23:09 (twelve years ago)

four months pass...

i have been reading getting things done on my ipad and walking around

― markers, Monday, 14 April 2014 02:42 (twelve years ago)

hanging out with father in law, ate a pot pie for dinner
pacific rim on tv
watching with mild amusement as inlaws' giant german shepherd cuts laps of the house anxiously waiting owner's return. he howled at the front door earlier #kindalolmostlysad

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 April 2014 02:48 (twelve years ago)

aw.

there's a piece of what might be mango on the desk here.

― markers, Monday, 14 April 2014 02:49 (twelve years ago)

markers, should i get an ipad or an ipad mini for my birthday?

― très hip (Treeship), Monday, 14 April 2014 02:58 (twelve years ago)

sorry, request an ipad or ipad mini. i don't really care to research the specifics. i am mainly going to use it as a calendar etc. to organize my life, utilizing apps, but am also going to read books on it.

― très hip (Treeship), Monday, 14 April 2014 02:59 (twelve years ago)

is there a loss of functionality with the mini?

― très hip (Treeship), Monday, 14 April 2014 02:59 (twelve years ago)

my only advice is def don't get the last one (just "ipad mini"), which is actually the one i have, but i've had it since december 2012, and if you're gonna get a mini you should go retina.

basically, to simplify it, i'd recommend getting either the ipad air or the "ipad mini w/ retina display"

― markers, Monday, 14 April 2014 03:02 (twelve years ago)

http://www.apple.com/ipad/compare/

― markers, Monday, 14 April 2014 03:02 (twelve years ago)

that'll give you an idea of the differences. you want the first one or the third one. the second one is an ipad 4, which came before the air, and you don't want it. the last one you don't want either. the air is bigger than the mini. if you're going to use the thing for mainly reading you may want the mini. they should both run the same apps. if you want input from others, here's where to ask: New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

― markers, Monday, 14 April 2014 03:03 (twelve years ago)

keep in mind that the new iphone coming out this fall will have a larger display than the iphone 5/5s/5c. i don't know if that matters to you, but if i end up getting one of them, there's a chance my next ipad would be an air instead of a mini, because it might be ridiculous to own both a large phone and a small tablet.

― markers, Monday, 14 April 2014 03:06 (twelve years ago)

finally, consider going to an apple store and trying both of them out. whichever one you pick, they're not cheap, and you're gonna be stuck with it for a while so try before you buy.

― markers, Monday, 14 April 2014 03:10 (twelve years ago)

anyway, i'm gonna split for now but you know where to find me if you have other questions!

― markers, Monday, 14 April 2014 03:14 (twelve years ago)

thanks markers! good tip about not getting the regular ipad (with retina display). i'll try to stop by the apple store one day after work.

― très hip (Treeship), Monday, 14 April 2014 03:16 (twelve years ago)

in other sunday night news, i listened to this a bunch of times today and it's pretty incredible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW7YYt0F-K4

― très hip (Treeship), Monday, 14 April 2014 03:26 (twelve years ago)

three weeks pass...

i have less than an hour before shaw's closes, and i might just go get one or two power bars

― markers, Monday, 5 May 2014 00:04 (twelve years ago)

they've been on sale

― markers, Monday, 5 May 2014 00:04 (twelve years ago)

gym, smoothie, air conditioning, mad men

― nurse with attitude (get bent), Monday, 5 May 2014 00:26 (twelve years ago)

director's cut of kingdom of heaven / tamales + spinach black bean salad / cake batter icecream / all the good tv watching

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 5 May 2014 00:34 (twelve years ago)

two weeks pass...

tomorrow's a holiday, so this is worth bumping

― markers, Sunday, 25 May 2014 19:45 (twelve years ago)

or so i thought. i did. and i was right.

― markers, Monday, 26 May 2014 01:13 (twelve years ago)

watching orphan black

no idea what I'm eating for dinner

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 26 May 2014 01:18 (twelve years ago)

stoli screwdriver(s), vol 2 of taylor branch on mlk, and MATANGI. it'd be an idyll if there were food involved. gonna see what i can do.

― difficult listening hour, Monday, 26 May 2014 04:22 (twelve years ago)

grilled cheese happened

watching Normal Heart now

then Mad Men after i guess

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 26 May 2014 05:09 (twelve years ago)

two months pass...

wow

― markers, Monday, 4 August 2014 01:59 (eleven years ago)

failed cake + failed custard = weird dessert

maybe some inspector morse after dinner

― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 4 August 2014 02:18 (eleven years ago)

Watching World War Z. This shit is freaking me out. Had to bust out the tequila to avoid being traumatized.

― odd proggy geezer (Moodles), Monday, 4 August 2014 02:55 (eleven years ago)

2nd half will cure that, put you right to sleep

― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 4 August 2014 03:05 (eleven years ago)

Which will do the job first the tequila or the movie?

― odd proggy geezer (Moodles), Monday, 4 August 2014 03:06 (eleven years ago)

the movie. definitely the movie.

― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 4 August 2014 03:14 (eleven years ago)

one month passes...

hello

― markers, Monday, 22 September 2014 01:40 (eleven years ago)

I ATE SIX CHICKEN MCNUGGETS EARLIER

― markers, Monday, 22 September 2014 01:41 (eleven years ago)

my Mon - thurs will be 14 hour days from now til Feb so Sunday night just got a whole lot more so

― zero content albums (darraghmac), Monday, 22 September 2014 01:46 (eleven years ago)

waiting for Connor Oberst to get on this here stage

― busted (art), Monday, 22 September 2014 02:12 (eleven years ago)

finished putting together an article, now baking an apple pie.

― replacements gustafsson (get bent), Monday, 22 September 2014 02:53 (eleven years ago)

i ate my first a.m. crunchwrap this morning before driving to the burbank ikea

― ILX preorders SPYRO for Playstation (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 22 September 2014 03:05 (eleven years ago)

yay burbank ikea. (although i can't mentally divest that place from that zooey deschanel garbage now.)

― replacements gustafsson (get bent), Monday, 22 September 2014 03:07 (eleven years ago)

it was difficult to resist adding a 50 cent hot dog to my 75 cent coffee order upon arriving at ikea. i had to quickly talk myself out of it because those lines move with swedish efficiency

― ILX preorders SPYRO for Playstation (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 22 September 2014 03:09 (eleven years ago)

ts: the food at ikea vs. the food at costco

― replacements gustafsson (get bent), Monday, 22 September 2014 03:12 (eleven years ago)

hmmm, that is tough. ikea's exit cafeteria is kind of a dirt cheap version of the costco food court. the food available on ikea's second level might actually be better overall than that at costco, though.

― ILX preorders SPYRO for Playstation (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 22 September 2014 03:17 (eleven years ago)

reading a book about the Black Dahlia, about to watch boardwalk empire, drinkin vanilla black tea w milk out of my doctor who mug

― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 22 September 2014 04:03 (eleven years ago)

autumn quarter starts tomorrow

― houston nutt (anky), Monday, 22 September 2014 04:14 (eleven years ago)

btw i have never tried the a.m. crunchwrap. it sounds like the name of a depression-era moneybags villain ("a.m. basil mccrunchwrap the third").

― replacements gustafsson (get bent), Monday, 22 September 2014 04:19 (eleven years ago)

it...was not great

― ILX preorders SPYRO for Playstation (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 22 September 2014 04:32 (eleven years ago)

the Cinnabon bites are pretty good, though

― ILX preorders SPYRO for Playstation (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 22 September 2014 04:32 (eleven years ago)

i worked at a cinnabon one summer and i'm not sure i can ever eat those again.

― replacements gustafsson (get bent), Monday, 22 September 2014 04:34 (eleven years ago)

yeah, I've not had an Oreo blizzard since my time at DQ, so I get it.

― ILX preorders SPYRO for Playstation (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 22 September 2014 04:53 (eleven years ago)

five months pass...

i have stuff to do tonight, and there's supposed to be a storm of some type, so

― markers, Sunday, 1 March 2015 22:31 (eleven years ago)

eight years pass...

Just want to post somewhere that Sunday evenings are the absolute dogshit bit of the week.

― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 1 October 2023 22:04 (two years ago)

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