How About You Come Sleep Inside, My Man

I don’t drive, but I have driven with a lot of people. Sometimes those people get tired. Sometimes tired enough that them continuing to drive simply isn’t safe. So I understand why perhaps this fellow might have decided to get himself the heck off the road and take a little nap. I can also understand why, in spite of a whole lot of evidence suggesting otherwise, he thought that the police station parking lot would be a nice, safe place to take that nap. And you know what? I can maybe even understand how he wound up parking in one of the police station’s handicapped spots. I mean he’s tired, right? Mistakes happen. And heck. I’m sure the fact that the car he was in had been reported stolen was simply one of those unlucky cases where you’re able to unlock a vehicle similar to your own and drive off in it. And the drugs inside? Probably belong to whoever that other guy is. Indeed. surely there are innocent explanations for all of these things.

Or maybe our boy here just isn’t that bright. Who knows?

At around 3 a.m. Thursday, an SDPD sergeant saw a white sedan parked in a handicapped spot in front of the SDPD Traffic Division station on Aero Drive in Serra Mesa.

Inside the car was a man passed out behind the wheel, and the sergeant’s check of the license plate determined that the car was reported stolen.
After waking the man up, officers asked him why he was parked in front of the police station, and police said the man told officers that he was tired, and it seemed like a safe place to rest because there were other police cars present.

My New Favourite Tears For Fears Song Isn’t Even A Tears For Fears Song

I don’t know a whole lot about British television, so maybe bands randomly performing in the middle of children’s game shows is a thing that’s odd to no one but me. What I do know, though, is that this is quite the catchy little number.

Go on, tell me you’re not walking around humming that thing for the rest of the day.

The band in that clip is called Graduate, apparently so named because they used to open all of their shows by covering “Mrs. Robinson”, which of course is featured in the movie “The Graduate”.

Two members of the group, Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith, would later go on to be much better known as Tears for Fears, although how they didn’t make all of the millions they could ever need off of this “Ever Met a Day” song is a mystery to me.

Sailor’s Song, By The Decemberists And ChatGPT

Colin Meloy of the Decemberists had an interesting idea earlier this year. What if I were to ask ChatGPT to write a song that Colin Meloy of the Decemberists might have written and then record whatever it spits out? And so he did, chords and all. I can’t embed it, but you can head over here to listen to the result.

It sounds almost like a Decemberists song, says me, a person who has heard just enough Decemberists songs to hear this and think yup, that might be those guys. But I also know just enough Decemberists songs to wonder if this is a demo they shelved when they were really young or if it was one of the first things that one of them wrote and maybe home recorded when they were even younger than that. Something that sounds pretty ok by most teenager writes a song standards, but that that teenager would go on to be a little embarrassed by when he got older and made something of himself.

As a technological feat, it’s pretty impressive, not gonna lie. But as a song that an actual veteran songwriter would come up with? Um, no. Not unless that songwriter was trying to write a bad one on purpose. It’s kind of wonky, empty and even a bit nonsensical. the chord changes are weird, the grammar is wrong and some of the rhymes kinda suck (Why are we rhyming “fears” with “dreams”?).

Here are the lyrics and chords, if you’d like to try to play it for some reason.

Verse 1:
C – G – Am – F
In a town by the sea, with a lighthouse tall
C – G – F – C
Where the ships do come, and the seagulls call
I met a man with a heart full of dreams
He told me stories of the sea and its schemes
Chorus:
G – Am – F – C
Of sailors brave, and adventures untold
G – Am – F – C
Of a life on the waves, and a heart grown old
G – Am – F – C
Of a world of discovery, waiting to be sought
G – Am – F – C
In a song that will live, when he is not
Verse 2:
C – G – Am – F
He sang of voyages, and battles at sea
C – G – F – C
Of sea shanties, and storms that rage wild and free
With melodies that echoes through the mist
And took me to a world, that I have missed
Chorus:
G – Am – F – C
Of sailors brave, and adventures untold
G – Am – F – C
Of a life on the waves, and a heart grown old
G – Am – F – C
Of a world of discovery, waiting to be sought
G – Am – F – C
In a song that will live, when he is not
Bridge:
Am – F – C – G
And I know that this man’s song will stay
Am – F – C – G
As a lighthouse’s beam, to guide me on my way
Am – F – C – G
For in his voice, I heard a longing heart
Am – F – C – G
And a tale that will start, a brand new part
Chorus:
G – Am – F – C
Of sailors brave, and adventures untold
G – Am – F – C
Of a life on the waves, and a heart grown old
G – Am – F – C
Of a world of discovery, waiting to be sought
G – Am – F – C
In a song that will live, when he is not
Outro:
C – G – Am – F
So let us sing, of this man’s sweet sound
C – G – F – C
And let our hearts and our feet hit the ground
C – G – Am – F
For in this place, we’re free from all our fears
C – G – F – C
And his song takes us, to our wildest dreams.

As long as we live in a world where music is more than whatever 12 songs the radio is beating to death this week, I don’t think songwriters need to worry about the rise of the machines just yet. To paraphrase Meloy in his conclusion, you can’t learn feeling and intuition from the internet.

But I think you’d agree that there’s something lacking, beyond the little obvious glitches — the missed or repeated rhymes, the grammatical mistakes, the overall banality of the content. Getting the song down, I had to fight every impulse to better the song, to make it resolve where it doesn’t otherwise, to massage out the weirdnesses. I wanted to stay as true to its creator’s vision as possible, and at the end, there’s just something missing. I want to say that ChatGPT lacks intuition. That’s one thing an AI can’t have, intuition. It has data, it has information, but it has no intuition. One thing I learned from this exercise: so much of songwriting, of writing writing, of creating, comes down to the creator’s intuition, the subtle changes that aren’t written as a rule anywhere — you just know it to be right, to be true. That’s one thing an AI can’t glean from the internet.

Behind The Weird Music

This is fun. Seventeen minutes of “Weird Al” Yankovic telling stories about his songs and videos.

He even explains what the deal is with “Albuquerque”. He decided to make an extremely long, annoying song pretty much as a troll job. Nobody could possibly like this or ever want to hear it more than once, he thought. Aaaaaaand now he’s been playing it live ever since because people keep asking for it.

How Bout I Take You Out, Ya Little Punk

As someone who can never look at the labels on anything, I can’t understand how this happened. You either know what something is or you don’t. If you order something and you don’t know what it looks like, why are you going to town on it before you’ve talked to the others? One of them probably does. Or maybe I’m giving all of these people too much credit. Given that things went as far as they did, I probably am.

And what is the sister so mad about? Nobody ate her food.

As detailed in a Wildwood Police Department arrest report, the Schell family had “ordered Chinese food but the takeout containers were not labeled,” which upset Schell since he did not know “which container of food was his.”
Schell’s son, police reported, said that he argued with his father and sister over the Chinese food “due to the fact that the victim had eaten [his father’s] food unknowingly.” The dispute turned violent, the victim said, when his sister began punching him in the face. Schell then allegedly joined the fracas, putting his son in a chokehold.
Schell’s wife told cops she was in her bedroom when she heard “crashing and yelling in the kitchen area.” When she entered the kitchen, the woman recalled, she saw Atlantis, 25, pummeling the victim, who was being choked by Schell. The battering, the woman added, ended only after she called 911 for help.
The victim had “visible red marks on the front side of his neck” and “fresh bruising/redness on his left eye,” noted police, who added that neither defendant “appeared to have any marks or bruises from this incident.”

Everything Is On The Table Doesn’t Mean Go Ahead And Eat The Candles

Over the years I’ve become, for the most part, the sort of sports fan that tries not to get super worked up or bent out of shape about every decision that a manager or a coach does or doesn’t make. Sometimes I get a little hot because this or that wasn’t what I would have done, but it’s usually pretty easy to let it go and get on with it. It annoys me, for example, when a pitcher is absolutely dealing and he gets pulled before he can get his no-hitter or complete game. It annoys me, but I can often see the bigger picture. It sucks to be robbed of witnessing an accomplishment like that, but it sucks more to have a guy’s arm explode. So I get mad for a minute and then it’s over. But sometimes, there’s this. What in the screaming hell was this!?

Toronto Blue Jays right-hander José Berríos was removed despite pitching three dominant innings in a must-win Game 2 of their wild-card series against the Minnesota Twins on Wednesday.
Berríos, who allowed three hits with five strikeouts and one walk on 47 pitches, was replaced by Yusei Kikuchi.

If you didn’t see the game or were fortunate enough to have been too drunk to remember it, go on and guess what happened next.

The left-hander allowed two runs – with one charged to Berríos – on two hits, including an RBI single to Carlos Correa, which ended up being the difference in a 2-0 win for the Twins.

Of course he did.

I want to be clear here. In no way do I blame Kikuchi for giving up those runs. He’s been a consistently good arm for us all year, far beyond anything that I think anyone could have reasonably expected going into this season. Had he come into the game at almost literally any other time, that would have been fine. It even would have been fine if he had coughed up those same two runs in the end, because that’s sports sometimes. You win some, you lose some. the blame for this lies 100% with John Schneider, who for whatever damn reason just could not resist managing for the sake of managing and wound up managing us right out of the playoffs.

“We had a few different plans in place,” Blue Jays manager John Schneider said when asked if that was the spot in the game the team wanted to transition from Berríos to Kikuchi, according to Sportsnet. “José was aware of it. He had electric stuff. It was tough to take him out.

I will grant you that I am not a professional baseball man, but as a haver of common sense I will still put forward the suggestion that maybe if it’s tough to take him out because he’s doing his job so well, that perhaps you don’t fucking do that, because it would be dumb if you did. Might throw off the entire momentum of the game, even. Maybe use one of those other plans instead, like the one where you leave well enough alone until there is any evidence at all that it might no longer be well enough. You did have that one, didn’t you?

“I think with the way they (the Twins) are constructed you want to utilize your whole roster.

You do, but you want to do so at the right times. Lifting Berríos for Kikuchi early in a game is something you do if Berríos is getting Clayton Kershawed, not in the fourth inning of a scoreless tie when he’s thrown less than 50 rather effective pitches.

It didn’t work out. … You can sit here and second-guess me, second-guess the organization, second-guess anybody.

Believe me, I will. It’s been nearly a week and I’m still not over it. This one’s going to take a while. Probably going to paint a lot of what you do next year in a different light, if I’m being honest. Maybe that’s not fair because most of the time you’re pretty ok, but when you screw up something so obvious so much when it counts, it’s hard not to have you wear it.

I get that. It’s tough. It didn’t work out for us today or yesterday.”
Schneider also lamented the decision since Berríos’ stuff was outstanding.
“It’s tough. José arguably (had) the best stuff he’s had all year,” the 43-year-old skipper said, according to ASAP Sports. “And coming in to (play) his former team and a place that he’s familiar with, it was tough to watch it unfold a little bit.”

I can empathize, John. It really is hard to watch the consequences of one’s needless foolishness play out so publicly and immediately. It hurts, but I’m glad you’re feeling it. What I need you to do now is remember this feeling next year come playoff time and resolve not to feel it again.

KW Concerts: An Easy Way To Find Out About Upcoming Shows In Waterloo Region

Thanks to one handy website (the TL;WR weekly Waterloo Region events guide), I’ve just discovered another handy website, kw concerts.ca. There’s a lot of music around here, happening in places big and small. This is one person’s attempt to gather up as much of it as possible in one place so that it’s easy to find out what’s going on where. I already know I’ll be making it a regular stop. All I need now is a site like it for comedy shows and I’ll be set.