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Posted by TFG on August 6th, 2008
So, I start every morning this week, pulling into the jobsite playing Bread & Water. My tastes have changed over the last 40 years, but there’s really nothing like a great stomp to wake your ass up and get the blood pumping. It’s almost as good as hot black coffee. Or the threat of starvation.
What’s really cool is that my pal Teddy has a baseball-playing stud kid who’s going to use it as his ‘go to the plate’ music (you know you’re a stud baseballer when they have the option of ‘go to the plate’ music.) This Ryan Bingham cat just might catch on.
And may I just say that if I never drink another damn Gatorade again, it will be too soon. Sugar-laden Kool-Aid for weak-sister adults, that’s what that is. Don’t buy the hype - you don’t need all that shit in you. That’s what everybody whom I’ve subbed in wanted, though, so that’s what I bought. I finally went and bought me a gallon jug of iced tea at the Kroger last night and I feel 100% better. Re-hydrate, de-hydrate, electrolytes, my Idiocracy ass.
August 8th, 2008 at 8:13 am
As an apprentice “fat guy” (and honestly, though I’m like 10 years your junior, I bet I’m fatter than you), I have become quite enamored of Kim du Toit’s basic “gout-away” recipe of drinking like a gallon a day of water doped up with RealLemon (or Kroger equivalent) and Sweet N Low (he uses sugar), and I can sweat like certain folks apparently do on election day, all day long, and my feet don’t hurt anymore-it’s great for hydration, and dang near free. Oddly, I feel no ebbing of self-esteem by not drinking Brawndo or Gatorade, even.
Ice tea kicks donkey as well, though I prefer the kind with very little sugar and loads of lemon, which would probably get me driven out of most states south of the Mason-Dixon demarcation.
The R Man
August 8th, 2008 at 9:53 am
I love that tune, as well as Southside of Heave off the same album. Of course, all the music I’ve been into all year is Texas red dirt music, so the fact that I’m in North Carolina kinda sucks, cause they don’t come ’round here too much live.
August 8th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
R, I’ll try out that RealLemon thing. I don’t care for any more sweetness — that’s what bugs me about all those other drinks. That shit tastes like the Hawaiian Punch of my yoof.
Falstaff, there are two albums in VERY heavy rotation on the CD player: Bingham, and H3’s Straight to Hell. I’ll slip in a couple of extras now and then, but those two pretty much get me through the day. I kinda feel like I’m in a rut, but I don’t think I’m missing a whole lot.
August 9th, 2008 at 1:28 am
I think all three of Hank 111’s cds are about the purest country out there,realey like the devil voice,they must of been on some heavy duty shit when they recorded that.Also the art& pics in the pullout are great.Never will hear good stuff like this on anything but a couple of alt. FMs down here in Fl.
August 9th, 2008 at 6:59 am
Yeah, I’ve got all of H3’s albums on an MP3 CD, in slot #6 of that in-dash deal. You oughta try some Dale Watson…it’s pretty pure (Texas) country. He can get heavy, but damn he’s got a good voice.
August 9th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
I finally listened to this and liked it a great deal. Sadly, I saw the name at first and assumed you meant the kinda lame-o Earl Thomas Conley song of the same name from the early 1980s, at first.
The R Man
August 9th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
Catchy tune. Thanks for turning me on to it.
I like Gatorade when I’m sick or when I’m super hot and thirsty and have sweat so much my skin is crunchy. But mostly, I’m an iced tea gal, plain. No lemon. No sugar. No fancy fruity flavors. I don’t need Tropical Thunder Tea or Raspberry Mango Dream. I want tea, dammit. And if I can’t have that, I like ice water. No lemon slices in there either. No mint leaves. No coloring added. No flavor. I want cool, refreshing water.