Why was I born so damn lazy?

[johnnie]

I am sitting here doing nothing. I am supposed to set up my studio (have a new computer and mixer), I need to eat (have some fish for the grill), the cobwebs around here are starting to collect dust, my lawn is so high I am tempted to climb up and see if I can find a giant and a goose with golden eggs, hell, I'm too lazy to even go to sleep. What's up with that?

[xchrom]

1. personally i think you and porch would make good company.

[johnnie]

2. porch?

:shrug:

[xchrom]

13. that thing out in front of the house.

sometimes called a veranda?

[johnnie]

17. Oh, lol

I thought that's what you meant, but I wasn't sure. See? too lazy to even accept my thought. :)

[zanne]

3. You think your lawn is high?

Our lawn looks like The Little House on the Prairie.

[johnnie]

4. Ha

It only takes me about 20 minutes to do my whole lawn, and I like it when it is cut, but I just can't get myself motivated enough to cut it. I used to like to cut it when I lived with my parent's. They have a big yard and it was the only time that you could get peace and quiet in that place..lol.

[trof]

5. Lazy bones

Sittin' in the sun
How'm I gonna get
My day's work done?
Sittin' in the noonday sun?

[johnnie]

7. I keep thinking of that Stones song from Goat's Head Soup

Call me lazy bone, ain't got no time to waste away.

[jpgray]

6. Indolence is the medium I work in

I can barely force myself to make cereal in the morning.

[johnnie]

8. I dig

I used to not be lazy until I realized that being not lazy got me just as far as being lazy.

[Kat45]

9. Oh good, I'm not the only one?

I sit here reading DU when I should be washing my hair, applying for jobs, cleaning my place up so I can find stuff, going to the bathroom, eating, going to bed, etc., depending on the time of day (or night).

[johnnie]

10. Well

I did throw the fish and corn on the grill. Now if I can get enough get up and go to eat it, that will be cool :)

[Kat45]

11. Cool! That's more activity than I've had tonight.

By the time I wash my hair, it won't be dry until hours after I should have gone to bed. Maybe I should get up now and do that. :-)

[JohMunich99]

12. Dude if you are too lazy to go to sleep and you are typing about it

You are addicted to the Internet. Lazy people sleep all day.

[johnnie]

14. Heh

Well, I am working in the studio. Just came up to take a phone call.

[ForrestGump]

15. You're not lazy. You're just

pacing yourself. :P





I mean...you know...at your age...

[johnnie]

16. Lol, yup

Hello misfortune, how's my old friend, Mr. misery?

[ForrestGump]

18. Speaking of which....

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=3D3F7D3255B07E23

Just happens that I recorded the thing earlier this week. :D

I know you like some of these kinds of his lesser-known songs, and I was thinking of you when I did that and "Charro!," "Change Of Habit," and some others... :yourock:

[johnnie]

19. Downloadin now.

I use to do Change of Habit with one of my bands years ago. That is such a great tune. Charro! is a good one too. Always had that James Bond vibe to it. That was another Mac Davis song if I remember right.

[ForrestGump]

21. Yeah, I think "Charro!" was mac Davis

(maybe with Billy Strange). I always thought the same thing, ever since I was a kid, that it had a James Bond feel to it. Cool instrumental backing by Hugo Montenegro...pity they didn't have Sergio Leone direct the film, though, because it could have been a lot more than it was.

Always loved "Change of Habit," too. Cool as it gets. :D

[johnnie]

20. Just listened

Great version. I like the backtrack. Where do you find that stuff?

I just remembered, I used to do that and "Clean up your own backyard" as a medley on acoustic. Well, I still do I guess..lol.

[ForrestGump]

22. We gotta hear this medley!

"Clean Up Your Own Back Yard" is another buried classic...such a great song.

This backing track is off a 32-CD set that I've got now...trouble is that, seeimngly like most such sets, some tracks are spot on and almost indistinguishable from the real thing whereas others are off a little (backing vocalists in a weird key or absent, or doing weird things, and ditto some of the instruments) or a lot (entire song in the wrong key or in the wrong tempo, like the version of the 1966 "How Great Thou Art" that sounds like the music for a damned squaredance. Most of these tracks are very good, but the set's got inconsistencies.

I've still got the pile of CD-Rs I burned for you (been on hiatus from it for months but I'll get back to it before too long, I hope, and send you at least a spindle's worth to start with) and, if you want, I can include these backing tracks...I copied them onto CD-Rs in more logical (chronological) order than they originally arrived and the whole thing takes about 20 CDs as uncompressed 'aiff" files. Want 'em added to the pile?

[johnnie]

23. Oh sure!

Man, I hope there is a way I can make it up to ya.