Nickleback vs. Garbage and Scotch Whisky and 3 days

 About a month ago I saw that Garbage, the band from Madison that formed in 1993 and has sold 17 million albums, was coming out with a new "album".  Really? they are still around?  YUP! seems new music every 5 years.   

SO - I waited and when it came out I thought I would reintroduce myself.  I liked many of their hits but never really purchased a whole album/CD before, well, maybe their first album.   

Shirley at the Capitol Theatre - Madison

Well, I purchased "No Gods No Masters"  . . . and O M G!!  I never realized how pure, unabashed, smash mouth, raw lyrics, rock and roll they were on all the NON-HIT songs.  

Jenny has had a one on one conversation with Shirley Manson and Shirley actually stopped a concert for her.  Jenny was in the front row at the Coliseum and getting crushed. Josh was surrounding her and Shirley stopped mid song and told the crowd to Back the F*CK up, we have a young lady getting crushed  BACK THE F*CK UP"!  

So it's almost like she stopped the concert for ME! 

And DJ went to school with Duke Erickson . . .well, they were IN the same High School at the same time so it's almost like "I" was in the same High School . . .right? 

But I digress.  

Where does Nickleback come into play? 

I like Nickleback. Their songs stick in my head for at LEAST a week and then disappear but for that week, I love the song.  Garbage? It takes a little time and each time I hear a song I love it more and more - the complete opposite of Nickleback.  

So after wearing out the bytes on No Gods I picked up 2 more "albums" and O M G!! . . they are SO unique and raunchy heavy.  Fantastic beat and the ultimate dancing disco hard throbbing rock. I never realized. 

Rolling Stone loves it 

That flame still burns on No Gods No Masters. Part of the fuel is Manson’s turgid contempt for injustice, but what makes the record so good is how the rest of Garbage matches her tone perfectly with keyboard glitches, buzzsaw guitar, and clever but never obtrusive rhythm loops.

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Turn this up and be aware of the base.  The entire CD is best on a Friday night after a few drinks (when you can turn it up to 11. 

https://youtu.be/JBTg1Yvrn9c

 Now with 3 of their CDs on my phone, "Bleed Like Me" and "Not My Kind of People" "No Gods" I'm amazed I missed these guys.  It's not their hits, it's the other songs you won't hear that are outstanding. 

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 Scotch Whisky - not a real fan but I have never compared different whisky.  Sort of like Vodka until we had the winter of Vodka and we tried  . . . 8+ different kinds.  WOW - there is a massive difference.  (my favs are the potato vodkas like Luksusowa).  We tried the top shelf but they were not that great in my view. 

ANYWAY - I was watching a Rick Steve's  travel show and he was in Scotland and was at a distillery and was tasting Scotch.  The guy gave him some whiskey out of the barrell and Rick said yada yada and then the guy said - watch this, and added some water to the whiskey and swirled. 

Rick tasted and WOW!!!!  What a massive difference.  The guy said ALWAYS add a touch of water to whiskey, it opens up the florales and makes a HUGE difference.  NOT ICE as it closes down the flavor. 

Scotch Neat is when you add water, not ice.  So I looked it up on how much water to add.  One place said 2 shots of whiskey and 5 shots of water.  Most places pretty much said "To taste".  

So after we came back from Uncle Darryl's celebration of life  (more on that next) DJ and I were on the porch drinking dark rum and cokes and I said - let's try a Scotch Neat. 

So I did the 2 to 4 ratio with some Makers Mark we had laying around.   YUP - still tastes like whiskey  but can't waste it can we? 

And then the Garbage music was turned up! 

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When I was growing up my extended family and relatives were my mom, dad and brother.  That's it.  I never met any of my relatives cousins, grandfathers, or anybody. Just the 4 of use.   A big family reunion was at Christmas with the 4 of us.  

Now DJ on the other hand has hundreds of family from all over the world. Turkey, Puerto Rico all over.  

So sweet, kind Uncle Darryle passed away during Covid and there was no real funeral.  Yesterday was the big military celebration of life with a band and 100+ people. 

Here is the thing (since this is all about ME). So many people came up to me and asked "When are you out of facebook jail"   Over and over people kept asking me.   It got to a point when someone would come up to us DJ would say "3 days" before they could say Hi and then they would laugh as they were about to ask!   Does the entire family listen to my mindless keyboard diarrhea that gets me in trouble?  My lack of filter seems to be breathtaking. 

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Is there a container (the kind that go on ships) shortage?  No - but there is a HUGe problem as all the empty ones are in the wrong places . Thanks COVID!   A container pre- covid cost $2,800.  NOW they cost $5,800. 

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Don't look now but the Gulf Stream is changing which will have a huge impact on weather . . . OH and the magnetic north pole is slipping and there is so much junk in outer space that it's REALLY dangerous that some bolt traveling 20,000 mph is going to rip a hole in you.  

All is well.     

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The number of anti-vaxxers and far right conspiracy nut jobs who believe Covid is fake that are dying is amazing.  It's all fun and games until you know someone who died. Then all of a sudden the yare saying "I wish I had the vaccine".

WELL - the left will start winning elections because tie idiot right will all be dead.  

You know how the Spanish Flu went away?  It didn't   The common flu is a variant.  But it seems that with the so called Spanish flu you caught it and lived or caught it and died.  The complete morons that say - HEY  98% recover.  OK  that means that only 1 million more deaths.  They can live with that and call it a victory!  

YUP - the far right trumpers know all the numbers to justify their ignorance.

Done