The Commitments

I'm sitting here on a Saturday night watching some random movie on MyTV Tampa Bay called The Commitments. It's actually pretty hilarious... Basic premise is a bunch of unemployed irish non musicians form to create a soul band and they spend the whole movie singing such songs as "In The Midnight Hour" and "Mustang Sally". It's not oscar worthy but not a bad way to spend a Saturday night. As in, I could think of worse. Like getting teeth pulled or mauled by a gator...

Anyway, right now they are singing "Try A Little Tenderness" which inspired me to write this blog. It was the first song I ever remember hearing, and the song me and my younger sisters called "Gotcha Gotcha" (because in the live version Otis goes into this incoherant chorus with lots of babbling, lol. amazing nonetheless.) When we'd be in the car with my dad we'd always beg for him to play "gotcha gotcha". Most of the time he would. It just reminded me of that happy time!

Another hilarious song from some Thanksgiving long past is Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Diner Massacre". Highly reccomend it if you like protest songs or like basically anything that includes but not limited to: garbage dumps, hippies, mother rapers, diners, police officers with too much time on their hands, thanksgiving dinners that cant be beat, guys that are trying to dodge the draft by screaming "kill" but instead get drafted, litterbugs, ect.

And in the end, good times were had by all!!