Songs Yr Pilgrim Loves: Dropkick Murphys, "Workers Song"

We play and practice this, alone and in sekrit, we do, on our solitary single so lonesome guitar, though the studio version has like *three* guitars, pretty sure, and Bass and Drums and an Entire Fucking Chorus of Bagpipes like in this live performance, which has FUCKING BAGPIPES AND KILTS TOO, PEOPLE, we swear, happy and delirious, so watch it, but we are only one single humble musician who can only play one guitar at a time, and can only sing solo, and cannot do any three-part backing vocals on chorus, even though this song is easily within our practiced first-tenor range, not like the cool octave skips of Frightened Rabbit's Keep Yourself Warm, which are a stretch for us but we always try because Love That Tune, our vocal range being similar to Amy Ray's of Indigo Girls, which for the tune (Workers Song) we remember that we were talking about requires no straining for second-soprano David Crosby falsetto required, though we Really Wish We Could Do That, and we are impossible dreamers also though we have only two guitars between us and No Bagpipes At All, nor even a single kilt anywhere that we can find alas and yet we play practice on because love and stuff because that is what we do because we are just lame like that The End. 

Anyways, this song is so fucking cool rocking loud, and of a genre that we call "Heavy Metal Celtic."

Power chords (Root-Fifth-[Octave optional]) are of course a staple of rock, not just metal, with palm-mute and cranked-up amplification, as used adroitly here.

What makes this song very Celtic (apart from The Bagpipes Duh) is the Drone Note, used throughout. It's the Tonic, sounded through all three chords: Tonic (the root, no inversion), Fourth (second inversion), and even the Fifth, (not used here very much) where it creates a cool dissonance, because its third is the leading tone, just a chromatic step away from the root.

In this song's arrangement, the drone note shows up in the I to IV chord change, where the B-flat is played in the tonic, and then stays there steady as the bottom note of the IV chord, voiced in the second inversion.

You can hear the tonic drone note in the guitar parts, 'specially in the chorus, with the rapid staccato bouncing from leading-tone to tonic, in the I-chord and the IV-Chord. Easy in this song because B-flat. 

And now we shall RSN (real soon now) Shut The Fuck Up, because we sincerely want y'all to listen. But srsly, y'all: We LUVS This Shit. Didja notice?

Here is a good link for the song. And this one has lyrics, so's y'all can sing along, and rememberize the lyrics, which we think you should, and dance and bounce rhythmically too, most indecorously also, the best you can muster. 

Chords and tabs for fellow guitarists here. (Easy: B-flat: I, IV, V. Got it. But the solo: very Nice To Have.)

Let us Now Praise: Carlos Arredondo

We like the headline on Rebecca Schoenkopf's post:

You Will Want To Read This Gawker Story About The Sexy Man In The Hat

Sullivan has a good roundup on Arrendondo and the injured man he's helping in this stirring stunning photo.

Songs yr pilgrim luvs, Might Gay Marry Soon because Luvs

This is Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong, performing solo electric, the tune "Time of Your Life," from the album "Bullet in a Bible." The studio version is solo acoustic, which we like. But we like this one way more betters because we do that's why.

When yr Pilgrim plays this, it is without the eye makeup, because we believe its contribution to our performance is negligible, so we save our eye makeup for more important occasions.

Also, when we do it, it is not as loud because we have No Amp. Srsly. ('Srsly' is Pilgrim Code for: we are not Making Shit Up Because Funniez, even though we do that A LOT, it is what we live for. Oh no. Srsly means this is really and for reals True, yr Pilgrim totally swears, because love and stuff.)

Also, and further, too, when we do it, it is without festival-size crowds because the fans of our work are not quite so numerous. But there was this one time when someone gave us two bucks and a beer to Shut The Fuck Up, which we think should count as Paid Performance.

(Oh, if any of y'all think that Green Day is lame, or yr Pilgrim's taste in music is even lamer, or anything like that we say WE STILL LOVE YOU OF COURSE HOW COULD WE NOT BUT WE DON'T CARE SO SHUT UP.)

Also, when we DO IT: no aerial shot from two thousand. Oh, and you know what, like also too? No fireworks at the end of our DOING IT.

Other than that, our performance is almost pretty nearly, real soon now THE SAME because Love Practice Study.

Gay Quote of the Day

Posted 27 Mar 2013, by my dear friend HoneyBee (a paraphrase of her name. I posted before I had consent .)

Facebook is so gay today, I could marry it.

We love you, dear, and everyone you loves too, and we are with you because love.

_ love,

Yr Pilgrim, yr friend, yo, um: y'all.

Stuff your pilgrim thinks is cool

(via Jezebel's Doug Barry.)

This is so Fan-Freakin-abso-Fuckin-lutely-All-Kinds-o-AWESOME-tastic you guys.

Here's the deal. These young women (click-y the link-y, watch-y the vid-y, prepare-ye to be all happiez-y. Runtime: 3:47 of nonstop amazing, with the coolest music cue.), these women who are 7th graders, They Did This Science-y Project Thing. Which was awesome, yr pilgrim, duly sworn, testifies and swears.

They, these awesome young lady-persons, made this rocket-shaped payload (a la the retro hokey 1940s-1950s conceptions, back when some movies actually portrayed fast-blowing atmospheric winds, IN SPACE). They designed this lifting lofting apparatus, and set up the video to record the mission.

And this whole awesome cool thing which These Girls, who are awesome young WOMYN, yay, which they, did we mention, designed and made: It went to SPACE, people. IT WENT TO FUCKING SPACE. (nerd/tech note: it passed the boundary known as Karman Line, defined as 50 miles above surface. Prolly at the Wiki Thingie, accessible somewheres on the intertubes, where y'all can look it up. )

But here is yr Pilgrim's most-est favorite-est part, which grants his face and his everythings the sooper surpassing happies, about this most awesome very cool thing, which these awesome-young-Double-X-Chromosome-having persons So Totally Did:

It is the *Cool de Grace*, y'all. Ready?

HELLO KITTY was the passenger who went to space. How awesome ADORABLE is that?

Anyways, that is all, you guys. Love y'all truly I do. Gonna go now and haves me a happiez cry at the Awesomes.

Um, kthnxbai.

Shit Yr Pilgrim Makes Up because funnies

My skeet gun is short-form, not long. (Triple Score! Ripped-from-the-hedlines; wing-nut mocking. And: PENIS JOKE! Booya-shakalaka!)

Shit your pilgrim says

Republicans currently are interested in only two things. The Deficit is not one of them.