"...we came to a side road, and off the side of the side road there was another fifteen foot cliff and at the bottom of the cliff there was another pile of garbage. And we decided that one big pile is better than two little piles, and rather than bring that one up we decided to throw our's down."
-- Arlo Guthrie -- Alice's Restaurant Massacree
Today I went to the park and saw Brian and his brother Greg play a song on their guitars, on the stage, at the Town Festival. Sweet.
They were really cool. After that we stuck around, played in the fountains with Adrianna, ate free hotdogs, and watched a few bands. Nothing Rhymes with Orange would have to be the best I saw. They covered "Walkin' on Sunshine" (Or just "Sunshine" I don't recall the title, but it's the Look Who's Talkin' song...). It was so cool. They also did the chicken dance and threw oranges (which was an old idea from Okayako, if I recall, but funny nonetheless).
After the festival I washed my car (it was attacked last night by large irregular birds, I suspect storks), and...because I'm the bomb-diggity of girlfriends...BRIAN'S car too. All in twenty minutes while he played Pocket Fighter. I got mad skills so mad they're FURIOUS!!!
[cough] Ahem.
Then we went to the mall. It was fun. I bought a shirt with a fuzzy duck on it.
My parents got home from wherever they had been this weekend and told me all about it. They had a nice time but the entire point in telling you that my parents told me about their weekend is so I can tell you they saw Alice's Restaurant, as my mother mentioned. And I said "What's Alice's Restaurant?"
As my mother related, Alice's Restaurant was a very funny song by Arlo Guthrie, a folk singer from the sixties. Alice's Restaurant is also a movie. It also happens to NOT be the name of Alice's Restaurant, which is what my mother saw.
So I said, "Hey, Dad...wanna go to Blockbuster?"
So we went to Blockbuster, the movie was surprisingly easy to find. And worth it. Alice's Restaurant is funny. The movie has some depressing crap in it, but the song is funny. Mom had it on a record and after fighting with the phonograph we sat and listened to the whole thing. I liked it so much I put it on a tape. It's almost 20 minutes long.
It isn't really a song, more like a story with a nice little guitar line in the background. A very funny story. Read the lyrics. You'll like it. Keep in mind he's got a strong accent when you read it to yourself. Say "Ah recken the cows best be brought into da barn to-night" to get yourself warmed up.
A few notes:
Massacree is "mass-ah-cree"
Police is "poh-leese"
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