SpoolyGoo's Views
If you enjoy nonsensical rants, brewery reviews, and/or random facts about everyday things, this is the page for you.
Monday, April 17, 2023
Sunday, April 16, 2023
I Know That Song...
I Know That Song...
The links below are for popular songs, featuring trivia about the bands in question, information about the songs, the lyrics, and the official music video (if there is one). The tunes are mostly from the 1990s but the list is not limited. Read up, even if you only want to think, 'Oh, *that's* what they say'.
Enjoy!
Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy
Lou Bega - Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...)
Nine Inch Nails - Head Like A Hole
Nine Inch Nails - March Of The Pigs
Rage Against The Machine - Bulls On Parade
Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name
Stone Temple Pilots - Big Empty
Websites used in research:
google.com, songfacts.com, jaxtsa.com, genius.com, americansongwriter.com, lyricsfind.com, azlyrics.com. revolvermag.com
Personal Stories
PERSONAL STORIES
Into The Unknown
Why I had to give up comforts for a vagabonding lifestyle.
Introverted Vagabonding
Random entries about my journey so far with some unrelated anecdotes.
Attitude With A Side Of Grr
Showing gratitude without completely being grateful.
My Theory
What happened surrounding my mother's suicide.
Awkward Stranger; or Voicemail In Heaven
How certain people acted after my mother's death.
It Is What It Is
Journal-like writings during my father's fatal illness.
The Greaving Mother
An insane woman accused 12-year-old me of something awful.
Chronicles Of Hotel Breakfast
Some possibly-amusing observances from various places.
Various Topics
VARIOUS TOPICS
A mental dilemma I went through in a pizzeria.
(See above.)
(See two above.)
Random Ideas
RANDOM IDEAS
A fraction of infinity is infinity.
The next time you get angry about being in traffic, be
thankful you are not the cause of it.
The Beatles IS my favorite band or The Beatles ARE my
favorite band?
I could never kill a man wearing a moustache.
On grounding- Being compliant is staying in. Being
predictable is sneaking out. Being a rebel is walking out the door saying, “Good-bye”.
That way you wake up with a hangover and feel like you
accomplished something the night before.
Would we know Amelia Earhart if she did not disappear?
If you put a boxing match in reverse, the only thing
that changes is the knock out.
Heute gestolen, morgen in Polen.
‘Muslim’ means ‘one who submits’, presumably to Allah.
An unstoppable force can never strike an immovable object.
They cannot exist simultaneously.
Can funny ever be a fact?
Old jokes catered to rural life. That is why we call
them ‘corny’.
Voting is compulsory in Australia.
If A = B, why does B exist?
The apples that grew from Johnny Appleseed’s trees were
inedible.
‘Rum’ was a generic term for ‘booze’ during
Prohibition, hence rum runners.
Mis-hearing a song lyric is called a mondegreen.
When the second Crusade failed, the excuse given was
that Heaven was full.
“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
-Carl Sagan
Chilean sea bass do not exist. They are toothfish that
have been re-named.
The numbers on a Roulette table add to 666.
Adolf Hitler regularly consulted a Jewish astrologer.
Tolerance to lactose is a genetic mutation.
Is rigging game shows for entertainment wrong?
‘Henotheism’ is belief in one god out of many.
Skiing on The Moon would smash records.
Pocahontas was not her actual name.
Birds are born with egg teeth, which they lose after breaking
through the shell.
Opinions & Rants
Encouraging people to think critically and look beyond what they are first told.
Mildly tackling the idea of someone being half-Jewish but really complaining about a former co-worker.
Why the Metric system is silly AND that Americans should adopt it.
Irrational anger toward a letter of the alphabet.
Factual Articles
FACTUAL ARTICLES
Everyday expressions, what they mean, and their origins.