Friday, April 27, 2012

Pennies on a track



This was the only video of this song that was remotely tolerable: most of them matched each line with Readers Digest/Ideals Magazine exactitude. "I love little baby ducks" (show the little baby ducks!), "old pickup trucks" (show the old pickup trucks!), etc. etc. to the point of agony.

I think this version maybe dicks around with the lyrics a little - Tom T. Hall, incredibly, was not allowed to say he loved grass on certain Southern radio stations, though he could love hay with impugnity. Make sense to you? So he changed it to "old TV shows, and snow." Ye gods.

Anyway, not to go line-by-line because I can't take it, I've scared up a few images that
"I. . . love. . .", and which seem to suit.

I Love

I love little baby ducks, old pick-up trucks, slow-moving trains, and rain
I love little country streams, sleep without dreams, Sunday school in May,
And hay
And I love you too

I love leaves in the wind, pictures of my friends, birds of the world, and squirrels
I love coffee in a cup, little fuzzy pups, bourbon in a glass, and grass
And I love you too

I love honest open smiles, kisses from a child, tomatoes on the vine, and onions
I love winners when they cry, losers when they try, music when it’s good, and life
And I love you too   



I love. . .little water babies when they swim like ducks




'n little boys 'n trucks. . .


 (And this truck too, it's cool.)



I love pennies on a track




and trains movin' slow when
 you have noplace to go.



I love guys laughing in bars, looking up at the stars




(. . . but I wish a squirrel'd do this to me.)




I love chickens when they squawk, people when they walk





(like this?)




and toke up and laugh and talk.




I love. . . bears in a stream




weird owls




and anything green.




I love gigantic black pups. Paper Starbucks cups.




Grimm's fairy tales





And life.







AND

I

LOVE

YOU

TOO.





They Found Einstein's Head!


This amigurumi stuff. . . it's fascinating. I'm sneaking up on it slowly, doing it the coward's way (knitting rather than crocheting, and NOT in the round). I'm still waiting for my book, Amigurumi Knits, which is full of all sorts of weird and wonderful, and I hope do-able,projects.

This-here is a rubber chicken Elvis impersonator. No kidding. I guess it's the lips.

(PLEASE NOTE: I did not design, nor have I knitted or crocheted, any of these creations. I display them here as they would be displayed on Google, as fascinating examples of an art form I envy but have not mastered. Badda-boom.)





















These guys are so cleverly done that they're self-explanatory. I've always wanted to knit Hitler, but didn't know quite where to begin.

I think they did a particularly good job on Geordie LaForge from Star Trek, right down to the visor.

I wonder if they ever got around to doing Einstein's body.




Not good enough to eat, unless you want a mouthful of fluff, but interesting.




I bow to the cleverness, even genius demonstrated here, especially given the way I'm struggling to do a frog.




The Venus of Willendorf. Most unusual.




The entire cast of Star Wars. Who says you can't crochet Yoda?




And - my personal fave - a wild-looking, hippie Jesus who looks like he has an enormous Groucho moustache, holding projectiles which might be loaves and fishes. I'd buy this guy in a heartbeat.