Shirley's Mind Grapes

Shirley's Mind Grapes

The answers to questions nobody asked

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Dailies 03/09/14

Dailies 03/09/14

Daily Doodle: Ideas

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Song of the Day: Fu-Gee-La (Sly & Robbie Remix) by Fugees

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4Q8odsJgrQ

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Musical Pipe Dream: I’m 13 and I’m sticking my skinny noodle arm out the window of my sister’s two door Honda.

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Blurb 1/365: Dr. Foster: Would you please tell your son to stop?

Flanders’ Dad: We can’t do it, man! That’s discipline! That’s like tellin’ Gene Krupa not to go [starts banging on the desk] “boom boom bam bam bam, boom boom bam bam bam, boom boom boom bam ba ba ba ba, da boo boo tss!” We don’t believe in rules, like, we gave them up when we started livin’ like freaky beatniks!

Dr. Foster: You don’t believe in rules, yet you want to control Ned’s anger.

Flanders’ Mom: Yeah. You gotta help us, Doc. We’ve tried nothin’ and we’re all out of ideas.

Dailies 03/08/14

Dailies 03/08/14

Daily Doodle: Blue Bear

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Song of the Day: Jeepers Creepers as performed by Paul Whiteman and His Swing Wing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN6SI1-SuPk

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Musical Pipe Dream: I’m wearing a suit with horizontal red and white stripes. I’m standing in the middle of 3 other singers and we’re swaying to the music. Every time we sing “jeeeeeepers, creeeeepers” we turn to stand in a line and, while keeping our feet planted to the ground and hands at our sides, lean forward, left, back, and right in a circular motion.

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Blurb 1/365: I remember I watched Jeepers Creepers as a rental on VHS. On a car ride to my grandma’s house, I retold the movie to my sisters doing voices and everything. I distinctly remember acting out Patricia Belcher’s character, “Darry? DARRY?!”

Dailies 03/06/14

Dailies 03/06/14

Daily Doodle: Cats

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Song of the Day: The Sound of Silence by Simon & Garfunkel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zLfCnGVeL4

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Musical Pipe Dream: I’m sitting on a wooden chair that has a back shaped like a pretzel and a round seat. I’m playing the acoustic guitar.

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Blurb 1/365: Well, thirteen dailies left and then I’ll have completed 365. It’s pretty hard to believe and I’m not ashamed to say that it’s one of the most important things I’ve done. It’s something I’ve done independently and when I’m done I’ll consider it one of my first achievements.

My senses are more sensitive to important things and dull to stupid things. Push out the jive, bring in the love.

Dailies 03/05/14

Dailies 03/05/14

Daily Doodle: All Is Good In the Animal Crossing Hood

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Song of the Day: Summer Wine by Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib_eW9VSUwM

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Musical Pipe Dream: I’m sitting at a booth in a restaurant with red upholstery. The backs of the bench seats go as high as the back of my head. There is a free bowl of boiled peanuts in the center of the table. Close by there is a small television screen and karaoke machine playing a FITTO laser disc with Summer Wine playing and my parents are singing a duet.

Did I write this one already or have I just thought about it a lot?

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Blurb 1/365: Sometimes the sound of silence is so loud and it’s beautiful.

Dailies 02/17/14

Dailies 02/17/14

Daily Doodle: And the Academy Award goes to …

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Song of the Day: Popsicles and Icicles by The Murmaids

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg3HNnNewXs

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Musical Pipe Dream: I’m playing the electric guitar with a smile on my face. I’m wearing thick black rimmed glasses that hold my full prescription.

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Blurb 1/365: I am pretty much against all teasing, but there are certain types I can take and some that I hate. I realize the teasing I hate the most is when the teaser has this preemptive smirk on their face with a sideways glance since they’re so tickled with the predicted outcome. Then when the target realizes they’ve been teased and have a slight furrow in their brow, the teaser unleashes in an annoying laugh and catches eyes with others that laugh along either willingly or by force of social nuances. When I’m witnessing those sorts of situations, I wish I was sitting next to some drapes and had Wolverine claws so I could bust them out and rip the drapes to shreds out of frustration. Then I would calmly retract my claws and politely ask the teaser(s) to continue with whatever they were talking about or, better yet, contribute something useful to the world.

Dailies 02/15/14

Dailies 02/15/14

Daily Doodle: Ponyo

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Song of the Day: Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow by The Shirelles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbxxkwBQk_o

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Musical Pipe Dream: I’m wearing a square-necked satin dress and singing lead.

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Blurb 1/365: The Halloween costumes from my childhood that I remember are: an angel (but I didn’t want to wear the wings, so I became known as a bride), a punk rocker, death with a bloody axe instead of a scythe (I was this more than once), and a person being strangled by an arm severed at the elbow (my mom made this for me using one of my dad’s work shirts, a hand prop from a party store, and ketchup from Burger King ketchup packets). The Halloween costumes from my adulthood that I remember are: a mouse, a bear, and Kermit the Frog.

Dailies 02/14/14

Dailies 02/14/14

Dailies: Puppygram!

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Song of the Day: You Got Me Wide Open by Bootsy Collins featuring Bernie Worrell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAfgOAJMh5c

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Musical Pipe Dream: I’m sitting at the back end of a stage playing the drums. I’ve got a microphone nearby my head so I can turn my head to sing backup. “Sittin’ on a groove and he wanna play …” Then I can snap my head back to break into the next part of the song.

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Blurb 1/365:

Blurb 1/365: I remember listening to the Friday soundtrack for the first time on cassette tape. I got it from The Wherehouse and it was packaged in a cardboard case that slipped on from one of the short ends. I had a clock radio that I kept on the side of my bed that was against a wall next to my pillow. It was a big, rectangle block that had sharp edges. There was a tape deck that popped up from the top. I would quietly click it down and listen to tapes on the lowest volume. I let a friend borrow it to record onto a blank cassette tape and when he returned it, I made some smart comment about it not being rewound. He said, “Who are you, Blockbuster?” Then I remembered the movie Kathleen Turner was in called Serial Mom where she killed that person that didn’t rewind their rented video tapes. I remember the oddest things.