Your Saturday Evening Open Thread & Musical Retrospective

Hi everyone,

It’s 2019, and my first Saturday evening post of the year. Last year, I tried each week to feature a song with the words “Saturday”, “Sunday” or “Weekend”. What I want to do this year is keep things equally light & interesting – especially considering the games tomorrow – and just focus each week on music & comedy that I enjoy.

[BTW, if anyone wants to take over a weekend & program their own posts, I’m all for it. Just let me know.]

For the opening post of the offseason, I’m going to recommend my favourite act from across the pond: The Kinks.

The most underappreciated of the initial “British Invasion” bands (the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, the Dave Clark Five, Herman’s Hermits, and the Animals), the Kinks were the original “battling brothers” band, with their internal feuding & behaviour leading to a confrontation with the American Federation of Musicians & US touring ban from 1965-69.

The touring ban forced Ray & Dave Davies to focus on their songwriting & musicianship to sell albums, and the period 1965-72 (when they resumed US tours) produced arguably their best albums – Face to Face (1966), Something Else by The Kinks (1967), The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society (1968), Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) (1969), Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One (1970), and Muswell Hillbillies (1971).

They will always be remembered for “inventing” the rock & roll riff, with “You Really Got Me”.

The 1980s brought them a second wave of popularity, especially after some of their songs were covered by bands like Van Halen, the Jam, the Knack, and the Pretenders (it helped Ray was with Chrissie Hynde at the time). They returned to their rock roots with the albums Low Budget (1979), Give the People What They Want (1981), State of Confusion (1983), and Word of Mouth (1984), with “Come Dancing” being their highest-charting song since the 1960s.

They went into commercial decline after 1986, and essentially broke up in 1996. When they aren’t fighting, the brothers will occasionally reunite for a show or two, and every five years or so there will be talk of a reunion tour. Talk of this resumed this past summer, when the brothers reunited with original drummer Mick Avory and confirmed they are working on an album of new material.

My first concert was their “State of Confusion” tour in 1983. I’ve seen every tour since, and I was at the last Ray Davies show in Vancouver in July 2012, and will pay any amount of money to see the reunion tour. [FYI – tickets for “The Who: Moving On” tour went on sale here today, starting at $105 (incl. fees). I paid $30 to see them in 1989, and there were three of them that time; I’m not paying 300% more to watch the oldest two still alive.]

Included as a final song – “Celluloid Heroes”, which is beautiful beyond words.


Tonight’s sports:

  • NHL:
    • Flyers at Habs – 7:00PM | CBC
    • Jets at Stars – 7:00PM | Sportsnet
    • Sens at Blues – 7:00PM | City
    • Rangers at Bruins – 7:00Pm | NHLN
    • Flames at Oilers – 10:00PM | CBC
  • NBA:
    • Grizzlies at Raptors – 7:30PM | Sportsnet1
    • Lakers at Rockets – 8:30PM | ABC / TSN2
  • NCAA:
    • Football:
      • NFLPA Collegiate Bowl: From Pasadena, Cal. – 5:00PM | FS1
    • Basketball: selected games
      • Virginia at Duke – 6:00PM | ESPN / TSN2
      • Texas Tech at Baylor – 6:00PM | ESPN2
      • Massachusetts at VCU – 6:30PM | NBCSN
      • DePaul at Seton Hall – 8:00PM | FS1
      • Air Force at Nevada – 10:00PM | ESPNU
  • UFC Fight Night: Cejudo vs. Dillashaw – From Brooklyn
    • Prelims – 8:00PM | ESPN / TSN5
    • Main – 10:00PM | ESPN / TSN5

Good luck enjoying the games tomorrow. PRAY FOR ANDY REID’S CLOCK MANAGEMENT!

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A Canadian man-child of indeterminate age, he stays young by selling alcohol at sporting events and yelling at the patrons he serves. Their rage nourishes his soul, and their tips pay for his numerous trips to various sporting events.
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Brick Meathook

Fresh baked corn bread with eggs, peppers & tomatoes, and bacon fat.
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Brick Meathook

Here’s the same view, farther back and without the cornbread.
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Don T

“Lola” is perfect.
POI
FECT

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

I was rooting for the other dude to bust his head….. no such.

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I think this is the same guy.

Senor Weaselo

Welp, he’s dead.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Just CTE. Just.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Although, that would have been a better Darwinian result. Now he’s a manager at Walmart.

Unsurprised

Honest question: how is his head not gushing blood? I’ve hit my head with way less force and it just rocketed out like a Saturn V in 1969.

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Unsurprised

Someone is in trouble.

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Unsurprised

Damn it, Brick!

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Unsurprised

Why Moose Why

herodotus450

Milan Lucic is a piece of shit, I almost forgot.

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herodotus450

Watch porn for Look away for literally one minute and miss the only goal so far in this Battle of Alberta.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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ballsofsteelandfury

@Yeah Right, How did you do that pan sauce? I’m assuming you didn’t deglaze the cast iron, so did you transfer the steak from the cast iron to a pan, stick it in the oven, and then deglaze that pan?

yeah right

Just this once I used red wine in the cast iron. I keep the skillet really well oiled so it didn’t hurt the finish. I wouldn’t suggest doing it daily. Plus butter helped.

Unsurprised

Gentlemen, he’s back.
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Senor Weaselo

Oh how we’ve missed you, Big Daddy Balls. No, not you, Balls.

ballsofsteelandfury

Booo!

Mr. Ayo

We can’t miss you if you don’t leave dumb-dumb!

Unsurprised

That can be arranged.

King Hippo

#FatPplProblems

herodotus450

Flames hot new rookie goalie is named David Rittick. His memoir names itself.

King Hippo

Flamer on Top?

herodotus450
Senor Weaselo

Senorita Weaselo is off to see Aquaman. I believe this is the fourth time she has seen it, and she still wants to see it with me.

herodotus450

Usually when yo girl wants a second helping of seaman it’s a good thing

King Hippo

yeah somebody getting that cherished “handjob in public” merit badge!

Senor Weaselo

I’m not gonna do the popcorn thing, I don’t want butter burns.

rockingdog
herodotus450

Longtime DFO favorite Garnet Hathaway in action again tonight, Flames v Oilers, watch for free even on nhl.com or something.

herodotus450

Non-Ricky-Nelson Colorado walloped the Kings 7-1

SonOfSpam

Shut up that game didn’t happen shut up

herodotus450

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Senor Weaselo

Hold the fuck up, why is Greg Hardy highly billed on the main card of this UFC event? Like, his fight is below the main event, that highly billed.

King Hippo

nearest I can tell, it’s a stunt to promote ESPN+ to the masses

/I have it for the Lesser Footy coverage, could not plausibly be any less interested in Eastern Europeans kicking each other in the head

//I also get access to them sweet Mel Kiper mock drafts WOO

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Since we’re talking Kinks, what’s the deal with nipple clamps? Are they actually fun?

Viva La Tabula Raza
SonOfSpam

Most effective when attached to a car battery.

Viva La Tabula Raza

Is that you, Dick Cheney?

Unsurprised

I can’t do this justice as a gif.

https://giant.gfycat.com/CheerfulRedAlbacoretuna.mp4

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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When bras attack.

Unsurprised

#FreeTheNipple!

Unsurprised

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Unsurprised

Sonic Edit
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Filmed face plant. Whether dental damage or lesbian porn……. it’s good.

yeah right

Photographic proof!

I seared the steak in cast iron 3 minutes per side, then finished in a 350 oven for 5 minutes. I also made a pan sauce by deglazing the pan with some red wine, a little butter, some minced shallots and fresh parsley.

I want to bathe in that pan sauce.
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Mr. Ayo

OMG, that cutting board is magnificent!

yeah right

Youngest right gave it to me for Christmas.

I fucking love it.

THAT’S a thoughtful present.

Unsurprised

Youngest Right gets a little something extra in the will.

SonOfSpam

The extra is “you don’t have to pay my debts”

King Hippo

The world was a better place when one could send children to debtor’s prison for the shackles of their ded parents. – 90% of GOP caucus

Unsurprised

Agreed. That is so cool.

Mr. Ayo

Also, your meat looks amazing and I want it in my mouth.

ballsofsteelandfury

PHRASING!
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herodotus450

Snowmageddon howls! And cries knives of rain but has spared us from snow, so far. Hail Snowmageddon!

Viva La Tabula Raza

Love me some Kinks. Saw them a couple times live during their 1980s resurgence.

My mom had a 1949 Dodge back in 1964 when we lived in Sacramento, I was five years of age. One day she was taking me to school and she had the old vacuum tube AM radio going on the top 40 station. A vivid memory I have that has never left me: I heard a guitar riff that really grabbed my attention and I reached over and cranked up the volume. I didn’t realize until a few years later that the song whose riff made me nearly blow the speaker in my mom’s old car was in fact “You Really Got Me.” Looking it up now, I see that the song was released in the US in early September of 1964, which agrees with my memory of mom taking me to school, since I started kindergarten that month/year.

Sorry for the boring old man story.

rockingdog

Found a funny:

coworker: you look like you lost some weight, been hitting the gym?
[thinking about how i got food poisoning from eating yogurt i left out in the sun] yep

Senor Weaselo

Found Taco Bell Diablo chips at the store. Tried making nachos with them.

I did not finish the nachos.

Unsurprised

Somewhat related, Salsa Verde Doritos are really good.

rockingdog

Those are OK. The Doritos sweet spicy chili in the purple bag are good too.

Story: My friend is a Minnesota vikings fan and I went to watch a football game at his place last year. On my way there, I stopped by the store and picked up the purple bag of Doritos, cause you know, “team colors”…purple is the Vikings main jersey color. He was psyched that I snagged a purple bag of chips and we all were munching on ’em and having a nice time.
Turns out, this was the crazy, comeback Miracle Game where Diggs has that catch and they beat the Saints. We were all psyched and like yoooooo!!! PURPLE BAG!!!!!!! PURPLE PEOPLE EATERS PARTY!!!!!
Now that moment/my friends happiness/game is the first thing that pops into my head when ever I see that Doritos bag.

Ahhh memories……

Unsurprised

That’s a better memory than I have of any snack food.

Viva La Tabula Raza

I tried that Diablo hot sauce and that shit is too fucking hot.

Senor Weaselo

Too much fake lime or whatever citrus on the chips, plus I paired it with a chipotle taco sauce, not a good combination. Probably works as a sauce but not with another category of sauce on top of that.

SonOfSpam

Also, Lakers up big on Rockets through one quarter. Just saying this before the implosion.

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Unsurprised

I’m intrigued as to what the trick is that he was trying to pull off.

Viva La Tabula Raza

Spring training for Buffalo Bills fans?

Unsurprised

He got cut at summer camp.

Senor Weaselo

Jenga!

theeWeeBabySeamus

Do they have to pay for their own uniforms now?

King Hippo

why do you speak to us of the non-Nets?

SonOfSpam

That’s why it’s a mere comment, not an article. I am aware of the importance of the Nets here.

SonOfSpam

Great Kinks write-up (first time I’ve said that to anyone other than BallsOfSteel)!

Fingers crossed for a reunion tour; they’ve intimated it’s a possibility.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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I do like the form; this judge gives it a 9.47.

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Doktor Zymm

This bar has possibly the stupidest game for drunks i’ve ever seen. But they’re entranced, it’s genius in the dumb. Basically someone put an eyehook on a string, and you’re supposed to swing the eyehook onto a regular hook, pendulum style

Unsurprised

OOOOhhhhh. That is genius.

Doktor Zymm

It’s amazing. And probably not a coincidence that I’m in Florida where all the Guidos hang out in the winter

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Ian Scott McCormick

That’s better than I can do.

Unsurprised

In our case it’s probably better that we’d land flat on our backs. Any other way but sticking it would just end badly.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

The ball-head seems more rewarding.

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Ian Scott McCormick

Watching Forrest Gump. I realize it’s more cinematic, but come on, an All American goes to Vietnam? He’s getting drafted by Al Davis as a receiver who can stretch the field. There is definitely a scene where Al calls him a baby and asks what he thinks is important and he says “Winning.” And then when he says “Winning and what else, baby,” Forrest says “Just winning.” And Al Davis says, “Just win, baby?” and smiles to himself.
RTD, back me up here. That definitely would have happened, right?

Unsurprised

If he was so good, why wasn’t he drafted by Davis or some other team?

Ian Scott McCormick

Whatever happened to Gary Sinise? He was a good enough actor. Why doesn’t he get work anymore? If we’re remembering Acting Guys, I’m picking Gary Sinise.

Unsurprised

He was on CSI:NY for like a decade and I think he is now focused almost exclusively on doing work for veterans through his own foundation and the USO.

Ian Scott McCormick

I often forget that CSI was a thing.

Viva La Tabula Raza

He was on the Barrett Jackson car auction the other night, he has some charity for wounded veterans and had donated a fancy muscle car or classic (I can’t remember what it was) that was being auctioned off and the money would be donated to his charity. I think it pulled in $600K.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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You’d think there’d be less Bills fans, but they are like trailer people; they reproduce before they die stupidly.

Doktor Zymm

So…the motto should be ‘I drunkenly do it for daddy’

Goddamn, you’re right

Viva La Tabula Raza

There’s no shortage of work for EMTs in Western New York.

Col. Duke LaCross

Denmark versus Hungary in Team Handball on the Olympic Channel. How in the hell isn’t the US a world-dominating powerhouse in this sport? Bitchin’ game!

Senor Weaselo

I loved playing handball in gym and was a decent goalie. Hell, I was always a decent goalie except for hockey because I tried to glove save everything but didn’t actually have a glove. Couldn’t even ask for the school gloves because we didn’t have any left handed baseball gloves and I forgot to bring my first baseman’s mitt.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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We need to cross culture to learn and grow.

Viva La Tabula Raza

Team Handjob would probably get higher ratings, at least with a certain segment of the population.

King Hippo

Y-O-D-A Yoooooda! was also Weird Al’s best work outside of Christmas at Ground Zero

Viva La Tabula Raza

“Albuquerque” was pretty solid.

King Hippo

he is overall a damned talented musician

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

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Brick Meathook

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herodotus450

The flag patch on that Boy Scout shirt is going the wrong way, you fucking commie!

Brick Meathook

Ha ha it’s regulation! The badge on the pocket flap means I’m qualified to chop wood and sharpen knives, so I’ve always got that going for me.

Dolph Ucker

Totin’ chip?

Brick Meathook

Yep!
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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Aw, why did you crop out the terrified hooker chained up in the corner?

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

She is now in charge.

ArmedandHammered

Always been a big fan of The Kinks, due to being born in a small shithole in the mountains of NC, my first exposure to them was Come Dancing, which while really great is not as good to me as their earlier work which I made a point to track down. I would loved to have seen them live.

herodotus450

Snowmageddon remains appeased and is still bringing only rain

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Brick Meathook

There’s a lot going on here. The reactions of the three dogs are interesting.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

GOOD DOGGIE!

theeWeeBabySeamus

HEY MY BEER WAS IN THAT COOLER DAMMIT!!!!!!!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

I think she broke her pussy on your cooler.

yeah right

So it’s Saturday, all the errands are done and what to do about food? You could order a pizza, maybe get Grubhub to order some takeout, OR…

You could have bought a New York strip steak on sale and a potato. For less than 6 bucks I’m going to have a cast iron steak and a baked potato cooked at home.

Cook for yourself folks.

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ballsofsteelandfury

Come Dancing is a great song. I too discovered them in the 80s and laugh when they talk about the Gallagher brothers from Oasis as being the worst brothers ever.

yeah right

The Kinks had easily one of the best live sets ever. Polished yet a lot more rock/punk riffs than expected. Outstanding show.