3/31/2005

"And I'm Just The Devil With Love To Spare..."


Thank you for continuing to check in with Waist High as we continue to not really post, ever.

And so it goes, tomorrow Waist High is off to meet Waist High Special Correspondent "Tri-Tip" for a weekend at The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino in Las Vegas.

Then it is on to Bakersfield for 5 days where I will see if maybe Bake Town might let me meet her new man friend "Chuck." Maybe I can take "Chuck" to the West High School bleachers for a talk. Make sure he knows what he is really getting into by getting involved with this lady and her web site and her "Hell Hole Whores."

Everett Morton.


Born St. Kitts West Indies Apr. 5, 1951

Photo courtesy: Jason Dufner via vh1.com

Peter Case.


Born Buffalo New York Apr. 5, 1954

Merle Haggard.


Born Bakersfield California Apr. 6, 1937

3/28/2005

Rumble In The Jungle? More Like Rumble Off Of California And Stockdale Highway.


Following a weekend in Las Vegas with Waist High special correspondent "Tri-Tip," Waist High will be traveling to Bakersfield on Sunday to take Bake Town up on her offer of an arm wrestling match. I think she is trying to trick me so that she can buy me dinner at Mexicali to congratulate me on being at the top of this prestigious heap.

3/27/2005

Happy Birthday Andrew Farriss.


Founding member of and principal writer for the Farriss Brothers, who for 20 years "remained unchanged in their lineup" as INXS.

"Without Andrew Farriss there would be no music for us to play." -- Michael Hutchence

Photo courtesy of: inxs.com

Dirtball Quote Of The Week. Wait, No. Quote Of The Year.

Waist High: "So did you have a rough night last night? You sound tired."
Other Person: "I had some of the fellas over. You know."
Waist High: "Do you feel like crap?"
Other Person: "Kind of. Not too bad though."
Waist High: "Man, I can't do that anymore. I can't stand a hang over. You end up wasting the entire next day."
Other Person: "My entire day was not wasted. I did do a little cleaning. I picked up some beer cans..."
Waist High: "You know I am blogging that, right?"

3/24/2005

Happy Birthday Nick Lowe.


"Respected songwriter, vocalist, musician, producer, wit, raconteur," and co-founder of Stiff Records. (via nicklowe.net)

"Let's Go And Throw All The Songs We Know..."


Will the certain Blogger who attended the above show with Waist High please stand up.

Thanks For Checking Into Waist High.


Where we continue to not post very much. Until we begin to act like a Blog again, please enjoy a photograph of Waist High seeing how long she could go without cutting her hair.

3/21/2005

Ugly Thumb Alert.


Next time you are at a Washington Mutual ATM, take a look at the picture of the thumb that let's you know you can now take your cash out of the machine. It is really an ugly thumb.

Photo courtesy of: kgw.com

Happy Birthday Slim Jim Phantom.


"To be honest I think the drums chose me - I can't really remember wanting to do anything else."

3/18/2005

Skab-A-Doo, Skab-A-Day...


As "I Saved It For Later Mike" demonstrates, Waist High is a LONG TIME fan.

So to believe that Dave Wakeling HIMSELF told Waist High "the real deal" between he and Roger, to believe that Dave Wakeling HIMSELF comments on Waist High, to believe that I am blowing off Dave Wakeling is just, well, a little too hard to believe.


(Update: Waist High comments were removed due to a stalker in 2005.) If I were to believe, that would mean that I have had quite possibly the biggest full circle moment ever known to mankind.

Photo courtesy of: The Waist High Collection

3/16/2005

Happy Birthday Flava Flav!


And Erik Estrada and Jerry Lewis and Waist High and Chuck Woolery.

3/15/2005

She's Potty Trained AND She Can Already Read.


Lovely Teenaged Daughter, again, gives her mother the business. It has taken Waist High 16.5 years to realize threats don't work with her.

She was the jewel that
Sparkled in darkness
She was the love
Of everyone's life
She was the catch at
Everyone's parties
She was the one with a tongue
Like a knife
(Difford/Tilbrook)

Happy Birthday Sananda Maitreya.


Formerly known as Terence Trent D'Arby. Mr. Maitreya's Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby won a Grammy for Best Male R&B Vocal in 1989.

3/14/2005

Representing.


Volume 1.

California Blues.


It was on this day in 1972 that "California Governor Ronald Reagan pardoned country star Merle Haggard, who had served nearly three years in San Quentin Prison on a burglary charge."

Photo courtesy: Michael Romanos
Material: sonicbarbecue.com

3/13/2005

It's Filthy...


But Pig Entrails is Waist High's favorite new blog. Please post more often Pig Entrails!

Photo courtesy of: Pig Entrails

It's Such A Pity To Say "Goodbye To You!"


Bake Town's got "Cars on the Streets of Bakersfield," for just today Waist High has "Monsters on the Streets of Bakersfield."

The scene was described to Waist High as such:
Who: The Kern County Drunkard
When: Saturday afternoon
Where: Home Depot on Sillect Avenue in Bakersfield
What: "Wearing hooker shoes," and "all dolled up."

It is with great sorrow that Waist High will now bring to a close an entire week of only drunkenness related posts in honor of Waist High Special Correspondent Tri-Tip's freedom from a decade long imprisonment, I mean relationship with, The Kern County Drunkard (see sidebar). Additionally, Waist High will now permanently retire her "Kern County Drunkard Watch."

Attention Kern County Drunkard: If you tell me you are going to kill me in December 2003, I will start a website and write horrible things about you for more than one year. I will even talk about "that fishy smell" I encountered while using the bathroom after you one hot summer Bakersfield night.

Cheers. And Happy Retirement.

"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day."
Frank Sinatra

Photo courtesy of: jingosplayhouse.com

The World Is My Oyster...


Waist High's greatest discovery this week was Remember The 80's.

It's loaded with cool stuff including a weekly news section where Waist High found out that Frankie Goes To Hollywood were "the subjects of a new VH-1 documentary 'Frankie Say Reform' which followed the bands efforts to reunite to appear at last November's Trevor Horn tribute concert at Wembley Stadium."


The show featured "the band audition for a new singer after original singer Holly Johnson declined to be involved and follows the selection process rehersals and final concert."

3/12/2005

Duran Duran: 3/10/05 Rose Garden Portland Oregon.


A fan since 1982, Waist High had the pleasure of seeing the original 5 members of Duran Duran perform Thursday night at Portland's Rose Garden.

This was a first. I had tickets to a show in 1983 but I recall getting grounded for something and not being able to go. John Taylor was always my favorite, but Thursday the majority of the love in the house went to Nick Rhodes. And it came equally from men as well as women.

As we wrap up a week of only drunkenness posts, this ties in because my female date for the evening got us 86'ed from a restaurant after the show for drunkenness.

Photos courtesy of: The Waist High Collection

3/10/2005

Subject? Vomiting. Or, Making "A Whole Bunch Of Room For More Booze."


In keeping with this week's theme of drunkenness, check out Modern Drunkard Magazine's helpful hints on puking in public. If you don't read anything, please read about the "mass-pukathon."

Photo courtesy of: moderndrunkardmagazine.com

3/09/2005


Waist High will be shutting it's doors for the day in preparation for the above.

This post is a drunkenness post because cocktails begin at 5 p.m., or to quote Glen Campbell, we will be getting "Over Served" at around 5 p.m. At no time will Waist High cease to harass her female companion for the days and evenings events about her birth year: 1981.

Happy Birthday Martin Fry.


ABC frontman.

"ABC are one of those groups who come along once a decade to effect a paradigm shift in the way music is heard and made, one of those groups who move the music forward, alert us to the possibilities of strange combinations, employ radical ideas yet never confuse arrogance with ambition."

Their recordings are "national treasures. First, now and forever, was The Lexicon Of Love (1982), not just a sensational debut but one of the greatest albums ever made..."

Martin is currently on tour with Tony Hadley, "the singer who gave Spandau Ballet it's very unique sound." (chrissyfessler.blogspot.com)

We recognize that this is not a drunkenness post, but it's Martin Fry.

Photo and material courtesy of: The Official Site for Martin Fry and ABC

3/08/2005

The Clackamas County Dummy.


Waist High, celebrating her Special Correspondent Tri-Tip's liberation from The Kern County Drunkard (see below) by posting only about drunkenness this week, would like to present to you not necessarily a drunkenness post...

Courtesy: Wilsonville Spokesman

3/06/2005

I Hope The Door Did Hit Her On The Way Out!

Tonight, Waist High begins a one week long celebration of one of the most exciting events to happen in a long time.

For the next 7 days, Waist High will be rejoicing the liberation of her long time friend and Special Correspondent "Tri-Tip" from the bonds of his decade long imprisonment. "Tri-Tip" disavowed himself of The Kern County Drunkard this weekend (for a KCD biography, see sidebar) and Waist High could not be prouder. It was something that was long overdue, not real easy, but absolutely necessary.

She got kicked to the curb and he is finally free.


To share the joy with you, my readers, for the next 7 days Waist High will be posting ONLY about drunkenness. Which means that brand new readers to this site will be treated to some of the archived tales of The Kern County Drunkard, the individual upon which "Waist High" was founded.

"Random Comments I Made..."

DO NOT go here if you have a blog AND a job. You will feel ill like I do now after going there.

3/05/2005

Happy Days Are Here Again.


To all the haters who thought that my Starbucks+Jim Beam post was less than interesting, I'll have you know that I was gearing up for a brand new edition of "The Kern County Drunkard Watch."

The gag order has been lifted, and Waist High is free again to report on our favorite alkie. So just chill.

Happy Birthday Eddy Grant.


Musician, producer, and label owner. Born Edmond Montague Grant, 5 March 1948, Plaisance, Guyana, West Indies.

Grant moved to England in 1960 and over the next few years, he wrote a number of ska songs, some of which have become classics, including the suggestive hit for Prince Buster, "Rough Rider." (Waist High note: Dave Wakeling, with his English Beat February 25 at the Barracuda in Portland, Oregon, performed "Rough Rider.")

During the late 60s, Eddy enjoyed pop success as part of The Equals. In 1982, Grant moved his home and studio to Barbados, signed Ice Records (his own label) to RCA Records, and achieved a memorable UK number 1 hit with "I Don't Wanna Dance." The following year "Electric Avenue" reached number 2 on both sides of the Atlantic, and the parent album Killer On The Rampage proved his biggest seller.

Grant has continued recording and writing quality material, but has concentrated his efforts on building a successful music publishing company and record label.

All material via: bbc.co.uk/music

3/04/2005

Don't You, Forget About Me...


"She is very strange. Let me just say two words here: Fake Uggs. My mother thinks that the Target version of Uggs plus a lifevest, looks attractive. And yes, she does prance around town wearing pink Target fake Uggs. I just pretend I don't know her. And if she talks to me in public I just say, 'NO lady, I don't have money to spare'." -- Lovely Teenaged Daughter to Bake Town 02/27/05

By popular demand, Waist High and Lovely Teenaged Daughter would like to present
Living With Waist High.

3/03/2005

"Bake Town Would Get Me Full Coverage..."


Waist High would like to give a heartfelt thanks to her readers for all the cards letters and flowers.

Waist High was admitted to the emergency room last week after discovering that not only is her Lovely Teenaged Daughter a full time reader of Waist High's archenemy Bake Town, but that the Lovely Teenaged Daughter
interviewed for Bake Town. Doctors are saying there will be a full recovery.

So now, to taunt Waist High even further, Lovely Teenaged Daughter has been using a very interesting tactic to try to get her way around the Waist High household.

"Bake Town would let me stay out all night..."
"Bake Town would not make me clean out the cat box..."

Lovely Teenaged Daughter, as you know, became a licensed driver on Tuesday and let's just say she is very eager to get insured (her only roadblock to driving alone). So the above index card, found on Waist High's nightstand, was Lovely Teenaged Daughter reminding Waist High to call Waist High's insurance agent Troy.

Booze News.


CHICAGO -- Starbucks is expanding its brand name into alcoholic drinks. The company and Jim Beam are bringing out Starbucks Coffee Liqueur. The coffee-flavored liqueur will be sold in bars, restaurants and liquor stores, but not in coffeehouses. Alcohol content is 20 percent by volume, or 40 proof. A 750-milliliter bottle will sell for around $23.

It's not the first time Seattle-based Starbucks has joined with another manufacturer to diversify. PepsiCo bottles and distributes Starbucks Frappuccino drinks, and Dreyer's sells Starbucks ice cream. (kptv.com)

3/02/2005

Happy 50th Birthday Dale Bozzio.


Born Dale Frances Consalvi, the Missing Persons frontwoman was a onetime Playboy Bunny at the Boston Playboy Club.

After meeting Frank Zappa, she was told to come see him the next time she came to L.A. In 1976 she did, and when she walked into the studio it was love at first sight with drummer Terry Bozzio. Over the next three years, Dale helped out on a few Zappa albums, including singing on "I Don't Wanna Get Drafted."


In 1979, she and Terry got married. In 1980, Warren Cuccurullo and Dale were experimenting with a song they'd written called "I Like Boys," and decided to form Missing Persons.

The original Missing Persons lineup disbanded in 1986.

3/01/2005

0.8 GPA's Rule!


Say hello to brand new licensed driver Lovely Teenaged Daughter.

Waist High and Waist High Cast Of Characters feature "Rampart" are pleased to announce their very judgmental 16 year old honors student daughter is now the proud owner of an Oregon drivers license.

Waist High: "I don't think I got my drivers license until I was 17."
Lovely Teenaged Daughter referencing the above report card we keep displayed in our home to motivate us to always do better in life: "Who gets an F in Drivers Ed.?"