It still freaks me out to drive on the highway, so I yell Ukrainian folk songs at the top of my lungs as I drive to relieve the stress. And when I run out of songs in my limited repertoire, I turn on a country music station.
After decades of detesting country music and beer, I now never listen to anything but country and never drink any alcohol but beer. I do both extremely rarely but it still freaks N out. He’s afraid of these dramatic changes I’m given to.
And this is a picture of an anti – Putin beer created in Ukraine:
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Country music lyrics (from the 1950’s till the early 90’s or so) are awesome.
“Youre just a Coca Cola cowboy,
You got an Eastwood smile, and Robert Redford hair.
But you walked across my heart like it was Texas,
And you taught me how to say I just don’t care”
or
“She’s acting single,
I’m drinking doubles.
I hide my pain,
I drown my troubles.
My heart is breaking,
Like the tiny bubbles.
She’s acting single,
I’m drinking doubles.”
or
“Well I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison.
And I went to pick her up in the rain.
But before I could get to the station in the pick-up truck,
She got runned over by a damned old train.”
Ah, poetry!
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One of my favorite Country bands is Blue Rodeo from Canada. You should check them out.
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Musically, Country Music is simple. It and Filk are the only genres of music I can listen to while driving. Anything else is too distracting, making it difficult to pay attention to the other traffic. This is hazardous.
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Exactly! I tried classical music but it required too much attention to be appreciated.
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I’m usually listening to “apocalyptic rave music” when I’m forced to drive …
Well, that and the likes of Hybrid Soundsystem from Swansea, who makes music that’s somewhere between electro-classical and apocalyptic rave music.
Something like this, actually:
But usually because I’m listening to the news, it really sounds something like this when I drive:
🙂
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Any recommendations on good recordings of Ukrainian folk music?
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I just realized that I never heard it recorded. These are the songs I remember from my childhood.
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99 BOTTLES OF BEER ON THE ROAD
99 BOTTLES OF BEER
[couldn’t resist 🙂 ]
Clarissa is secretly a Charlie Daniels fan anyway … 🙂
[imagines Clarissa rolling down Interstate 57 with “Uneasy Rider” playing at full volume …]
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I thought Charlie Daniels was a whiskey.
But you’re right, when I was a drinking person, all I drank was rum.
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CHARLIE DANIELS IS A WHISKY?
HAW HAW HAW … CHARLIE ISN’T JACK’S BROTHER! 🙂
Have a sip of this:
🙂
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Of course, that was Jack Daniels, sorry. 🙂
When I was a whiskey drinking person, I drank Chivas Regal.
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Only when I drive on the highway does driving makes sense to me. Otherwise, on a residential street, I see death everywhere. I know it does not make any sense.
You drinking beer? Now that is something I would like to see.
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When I told my sister over the phone about the beer and the country music yesterday, there was a long pause and then she said, “Go away and put my sister back on the phone. I have no idea who you are.”
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Exactly! But we all know that you are full of surprises. Cooked onions and cauliflower by 2017.
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“Cooked onions and cauliflower by 2017.”
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You don’t like cauliflower either? It’s so delicious. Especially when roasted. I could eat roasted caulflower every day of the week. 🙂
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Please don’t say this horrible word again. Just reading it makes me gag. Brrr.
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