everyone booze up and riot!
in case you weren’t aware, or too soused to realise, this week is alcohol awareness week. now for a semi-retired bukowski like m’self i have been and always am aware of booze but apparently this week i’ve to be ever more vigilant of its wily ways and means. and in typical patronising public sector politicking the health at work team here (yes there are a group of people dedicated to ensuring i stay healthy) proffered up this entirely unironic little intellectual nugget:
a small or large measure of fruit juice or soft drink has 0 units of alcohol.
you heard it hear first folks. at long last those science boffins have come up with booze free fruit juice. i hear they’re working on water next…. and note the differentiation betwixt large and small incase you monkeys thought there was more non-existent alcohol in a large fruit juice than a small ‘un.
lord have mercy…
as mitch hedberg said: alcoholism is a disease, but it’s the only disease that you can get yelled at for having.
and as george carlin once said: the very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, ‘you know, i want to set those people over there on fire, but i’m just not close enough to get the job done.’
i know how that guy feels. or as i say: mind yr own fucking business.
either way here’s some liquor songs…
14/11/2009 at 7:16 pm
Hi Cows,
My name is Nick and I’m the singer and guitarist of the rock band, High on Stress. First Avenue in Minneapolis is having a big show in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Replacements “Let it Be” . The event is also marking the paperback release of the Replacements book “All Over But the Shouting.” We were graciously asked to perform at the event. The event is on November 27th in Minneapolis. I know you are fans of the Replacements over there so I thought I’d make you aware if you were planning to write about the anniversary of “Let it Be.”
Event listing
http://www.first-avenue.com/event/3794
Friday, November 27
Mainroom / 7:00 pm / 18+ A Tribute To The Replacements
Here is a video of us performing our song “Eyeliner Blues” with Replacements guitarist Slim Dunlap on guitar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBkbUS6igW4
cheers!
Nick
http://www.myspace.com/highonstress
http://www.highonstressband.com
High on Stress press droppings…
“High on Stress carry on in the grand tradition of Minneapolis music – great rock ‘n’ roll with a rootsy slant; cheeky at times, consistently well written and played”
-Peter Jesperson – New West Records
“Have you ever tried to write a killer rock song? How about 12 of them? It’s hard but High on Stress make it sound easy”
-Bob Longmore – City Pages
“A tight, honest, refreshing batch of new tunes from an outfit that defies genre, refuses to fall into categorization and continues to pen one stunning classic-to-be after another”
-Tom Hallet – Round the Dial
“High on Stress make the kind of music Minneapolis was once known for: heart-on-sleeve bar rock with just a hint of the prairie, the sort of tunes that groups like Soul Asylum and the Replacements rode to mythic status. They come darn close to matching the squalid splendor of their forebears on Cop Light Parade”
-Rob Van Alstyne – Metromix (Kare11)
“I think regular readers will testify that I haven’t lost my sense of childlike excitement and slavish enthusiasm when I do come across something that hits me in that musical G-spot somewhere between the ears, brain and heart. High on Stress are the latest who can count themselves members of that roster”
-Last Year’s Girl (Glasgow)
“You won’t be over this baby in one play. It’s tantalizing intrigue will keep you coming back for more”
-Power Pop Review (UK)
“They’re a band not too cool to call themselves alt-country and that’s a good indicator of the album’s pure, inspired sound”
-Chris Riemenschneider – Star Tribune
“Minneapolis has a storied musical history. Luminaries such as Bob Dylan, Prince, the Replacements and even the Hold Steady have some sort of a link to the chilly region. After listening to “Cop Light Parade” I can’t help but feel like they have done their ancestors proud”
-Twangville (Texas)
“High on Stress has mastered the sound that has made their city so revered in the rock stratosphere”
-Late Night Wallflower (New York City)
“When I first heard High On Stress, a smile spread across my face within the first few seconds of the song starting. There’s this undeniable influence from The Replacements in their tunes, and a Paul Westerberg-like croon always reminds me of better days”
-Burgo (Australia)
“Easygoing, instantly likeable”
-Ross Raihala – Pioneer Press
15/11/2009 at 3:18 pm
as it says above.
nice tunes fella!