London’s calling and he wants to know what you’re wearing From popbitch’s weekly e-mail
Slash from Guns n' Roses has retired from the hard drinking, smacked out, groupie-fuelled rock scene to a world of suburban family bliss. Almost. Mr and Mrs Slash have two cute little boys Cash, age three, and London, who is six. London may be a chip off the old block.
A babysitter got the full force of Slash Jnr's charm. She was accosted by London with the words “You can't get past me unless you take off your clothes - you're hot!” And when she went to kiss the boys goodnight he told her he wanted to stick his tongue down her throat. Alas sleep didn't come and the boys began to figh. When Cash started crying to London “You've hurt my balls again”, the babysitter decided that night would be her last.
Wow, kids grow up so fast nowadays. Good thing his dad is sober or I’d worry about London finding his way into his dad’s liquor cabinet yet
p.s. is his name London Hudson? I'd never cared about Slash's real name before this moment... Sphere: Related Content
I had nothing in mind to do for a "drink of the week" and so I decided to see if anything cool happened today that I could leech onto for an idea and on Wikipedia I discovered that an awful lot of important or famous things occurred on December 14th, though of course I'm sure over the entire extent of history something cool and exciting has probably happened on every day even if it wasn't recognized as such at the time. Anyway I said all that to say here are a few recipes relating to things that have happened on December 14th
Today in 1542 Princess Mary Stuart becomes Queen Mary I of Scotland or Mary, Queen of Scots
Queen of Scots 1 tsp sugar 2 tsp water 1 tsp lemon juice 2 oz Scotch whisky 1/2 tsp Green Chartreuse® 1/2 tsp Blue Curacao liqueur
Instructions 1. Rub the rim of a cocktail glass with the lemon then dip the rim into caster sugar to coat. Allow the frosting to dry. 2. Crack the ice (but don't crush it into too small pieces) and place in a shaker together with the Scotch, Drambuie and Chartreuse. 3. Shake well and strain into the frosted cocktail glass. Spear the cherry onto a cocktail stick and use to decorate.
On this day in 1819 Alabama becomes the 22nd U.S. state
Alabama Cocktail 11/2 oz brandy 1/2 oz lemon juice 1/2 tsp powdered sugar splash Curacao
Mix ingredients with cracked ice in shaker. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
Alabama Slammer 1 Shot Disaronno Amaretto 1 Dash Soda Top up Cranberry Juice 0.25 Shot Lime Juice
and in 1959 The Motown record label is founded in Detroit, Michigan by Berry Gordy.
MoTown Recipe 2.0 oz Diet Coke Cola 1.0 oz Bacardi Limon Rum Low-ball glass with plenty of ice. Pour Limon, then add Diet Coke
Other cool things that happened today:
1702 (according to the old calendar; January 30, 1703 by the new calendar) - The Forty-seven Ronin, under the command of œishi Kuranosuke, avenge the death of their master.
1825 - Advocates of Liberalism in Russia rise up against Tsar Nicholas I and are put down in the Decembrist Revolt in St. Petersburg.
1959 - The Motown record label is founded in Detroit, Michigan by Berry Gordy.
1979 - Punk rock group The Clash release London Calling in the UK, a landmark album in rock music.
Famous people born on this day:
1503 - Nostradamus
1546 - Tycho Brahe
1895 - King George VI of the United Kingdom
1896 - Jimmy Doolittle,
1908 - Morey Amsterdam
1946 - Jane Birkin,
1946 - Patty Duke,
1946 - Michael Ovitz
1948-Lester Bangs
1949 - Bill Buckner,
1953 - Vijay Amritraj, (my friend’s dad)
1962 - Ginger Lynn (Ginger Lynn Allen)
1963 - Cynthia Gibb
1965 - Craig Biggio,
1970 Beth Orton, English
1971 - Natascha McElhone
People who died on this day
1920 - George Gipp,
1985 - Roger Maris,
1993 - Myrna Loy
2006 - Ahmet Ertegün (only reason I recognize that name is because Zeppelin put on a show for him)
oh I forgot one momentous event, I slacked off and came up with this. So inspired
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As one of James Parker's first set of contrasting examples he takes the infamous case of Altamont (where I think the Hell's Angels beat to death some people, not really sure on the why.) Parker chooses the case of Jefferson Airplane, from I would guess according tot he clips was from early in the day, when they were playing Other Side of Life and the Hell's Angels started getting hellacious. Parker writes "
anyone who's seen the Maysles Bros. documentary Gimme Shelter knows that it was a shining rhetorical hour for Jefferson Airplane's Paul Kantner. As his lead singer falls beneath the blows of vigilante bikers, Kantner loses neither his head nor his sense of humor. "Hey man," he offers into the mic, his voice only slightly constricted by anxiety, "I'd like to mention that the Hells Angels just smashed Marty Balin in the face and knocked him out for a bit. I'd like to thank you for that." The Angels, for all their leather, are not impervious to Kantner's Shakespearean irony. "Is this thing on?" growls a biker brother, seizing a microphone. "You talking to me? I'm gonna talk to you."
I guess, but my favorite part is right at the end of this clip when Grace Slick says "so both sides are fucking up temporarily so LET'S NOT KEEP FUCKIN' UP!"
Parker contrast what he calls "a shining rhetorical hour" for Kantner with Mick and the Stones, and yeah the Rolling Stones may have been on top of their game musically but common sensically? Not so much. I'm sure he didn't think or suspect that someone was actually being beaten to death but he did appear a little weak and too much Summer of Love not enough...the opposite (woodstock '99?) First Keith Richards was probably zonked and had no idea what was going on, requiring Mick to call "Keith" three or four times just to get his attention so that Mick could tell him "to cool it and I'll try to stop it" at which point he implores "sisters, brothers COOL OUT" before relaunching Sympathy To The Devil and noting that funny things always happen when we start this number.
On a less serious note Parker brings up an incident taken from the Fugazi's dvd Instrument and, let's just say "Ice Cream Eating Motherf*cker" is pretty classic
Our final two is a pair of final performances, the first being from Elvis's last tour, in South Dakota in 1977 and his breakdown during the spoken word part of "Are You Lonesome Tonight" and while i'm sure the audience may have thought he was just joking around a bit (I kinda got that vibe for a bit) I think the truth is more on the side of Parker's (overly melo)dramatic description "Elvis is in deep, deep trouble, dying on his feet. Fumbled jokes, an abortive sense of interior monologue—the colossal solitude of the man seems to thicken the air around him."
I can't imagine why anyone would've wanted the Fat Elvis stamp. ( I vaguely remember that decision being a huuge deal at the time, though back then I'm not sure that I knew exactly who Elvis was) And last (but first in my heart) is the encore from the Sex Pistols last show in San Francisco (winterland 1978) and when Johhny Rotten is singing about "NO FUN" you can tell that truer words have never been spoken. Seriously though that's how I want to go out, when I retire or whatever from whatever ends up being my career. I just wanna snarl "Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?" and walk out:
