I’ve been dying to use this line as the title of a post ever since I heard this song a couple weeks back. 
The title really has no connection to this post as there is no girl in a blue dress and no dancing. However, it does signal that Mike Doughty’s new album is finally out and you should really go pick it up. Like right now. Like why are you still sitting reading this? Go! It’s ok…I’ll wait until you get back.
(Waits while you go to the Electric Fetus to purchase Mike Doughty’s “Golden Delicious”.)
Ahh, you’re back! Time to throw “Golden Delicious” on and enjoy the rest of my random thoughts. So, some of you have probably already received my e-mails praising Mike Doughty’s sonic genius. This album trumps “Haughty Melodic” and I thought that album was fucking brilliant. He definitely steps back towards the Soul Coughing days on this album and the whole record just feels more “danceable” than “Haughty Melodic”. He has progressed as an artist and has managed to deftly blend a smoother more refined Mike with the crazy New-York-Hipster-Mike from Soul Coughing. And it wouldn’t be Mike without the trademark “what the fuck?!?!” moments. The song “More Bacon than the Pan Can Handle” comes to mind in this instance and this is the closest he has gotten to the non-sensical scat lyrics from the days of yore (remember “Bus to Beelzebub”?). I still don’t understand that song. Speaking of which…and I know this is a total tangent from my review of Mike’s album but…I’m thinking of using that song title on a regular basis. Here’s an example hypothetical situation…
Co-Worker: Hey Dave. How’s it going?
Me: Dude, I’m swamped right now. More bacon than the pan can handle.
Co-Worker: Dude, that sucks.
Me: Yeah, I dunno. I guess I just consider it job security.
Co-Worker: Uh-huh. Whatever.
The phrase just flows off your tongue…more bacon than the pan can handle. Mmm…yeah. Anyway, Stacy and I are going to see Mr. Doughty at First Ave. in March. We got a hotel downtown and we’re making a weekend of it and going to both shows (March 22nd and 23rd). It will be a nice getaway for just the two of us and I finally get to ride the Northstar Light Rail which, by the way, I am completely fascinated with. Don’t ask my why, but I just find light rail transit to be mind-blowingly interesting. Yes, I am strange.
In other news, I rebuilt my LEGO Starbucks this weekend and it will be debuting at the La Crosse Model Train Show in two weeks (March 8th & 9th). Now the LEGO minifigs will have to choose between the wholesome goodness of the local “Café Corner” coffee shop and the soul-crushing corporate death that is Starbucks. I just have to make a few stickers for it this week. While building this MOC (My Own Creation), the song “Busting Up a Starbucks” came on and it seemed quite fitting…although I was not inclined to bust up my recently completed LEGO creation.
Stacy built a White Castle restaurant that will also be finding its way onto our layout at La Crosse. She continues to impress me with building competency and her creations are sheer Zen of LEGO bricks. It’s going to be a bit of a marathon the next couple weeks in the evenings to try and finish the layout by March 8th, but it looks like we will make it. We might be ballasting track the morning of the show, but everything else should get done in time.
That’s all for now kids. Keep your nose to the grindstone…
“I walked up to the accident…and I chatted up the girl inside. Will you be my friend? Will you be a friend of mine?”
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