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Jesus walks into a bar with a parrot on his shoulder. The parrot says to the bartender, "Squaaaaawwwk!, gimme a beer!" The bartender says, "That's amazing! Where did you get him?" The parrot says, "Squaaaaaaawwwk! Jerusalem."

I'm pretty certain the Catholic cannon has a chapter about seeing Mary in cheese sandwiches.  Nothing on the zuchinni, though.  I'm gonna fry Him up in batter.  Mmmmmmm......  Jesus and chips......

What does it mean to squeeze my lemon 'till the juice runs down my leg, anyway?

Banjos are tuned this way, and it is an absolute hoot.

In Seattle, anything beyond Tacoma is "the south" and anything past North Bend is "east." 

It's a thing called "The Mason-Dixon Line."

You really have to go back and study our Civil War, it's roots, and our reconstruction period to understand the dichotomy that exists between Dixie and everywhere else.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason-Dixon_Line

That sounds like a fantastic vacation you took.   You should do it again, except add "Sample various Barbeque styles" to your list of things to do.  The stuff you get in Chicago is radically different from the stuff you get in Austin, which is radically different from what you get in the Carolinas.

A great deal of "American" music (blues, rock, etc) grew out of the slave and field songs sung by southern blacks prior to and following our Civil War in the 1860s.   The blues grew directly out of that common repetitive framework that was good for passing time while doing manual labor in cotton fields.   Rock grew directly from that.

It's an interesting dive into American history, and provides an interesting slant on it.

Run with it!  There is no law at all that says you have to cover a song exactly the way the original artist did.  Johnny Cash songs were made to be punked out.  "Country Roads" as a reggae song sounds like something I'd want to hear.

I always play covers with the view that I'm playing it to make it mine.  If I wanted to hear it like the original did it, I'd just go buy the record.

"The The"

"Wolfmother"  although that band rocks.

James is like the paternal grandpa of this site.    That's sound advice.

I teach my kids that the table they sit at is always the "cool table," no matter what.  I preach that as a matter of certainty.   I teach them that whatever they are wearing is the height of fashion, whatever they are doing is the coolest thing you can do, and they are the best and the brightest no matter what.

They can't grow to be independent people if they are always following the crowd.

"Popular" only exists in your head.

None at all.

Get a tube amp, and everything will be fine.

Those Fenders are sweet, BTW.  I play an acoustic through one, and love the sound it makes.