Month: November 2012

‘A drinking song is a song sung while drinking alcohol. Most drinking songs are folk songs, and may be varied from person to person and region to region, in both the lyrics and in the music. Some groups that have a tradition of singing drinking songs include rugby players, Hash House Harriers, air force fighter pilots, and fraternities.

‘The first record of a drinking song dates to the 11th century, and derives from the Carmina Burana, a 13th century historical collection of poems, educational songs, love sonnets and “entertainment” or drinking songs. It is accepted lore that drinking songs likely date back at least a thousand years earlier, but there is no established record.

‘Nearly every country enjoys its own extensive collection of drinking songs well known to its natives; most recognized are the English, German and Russian standards. There are dozens of subgenres of the drinking song, including regional, topical, religious, sexual and war. Notable subvariations include war songs (e.g. the American “Star Spangled Banner”, a poem Francis Scott Key, inspired by the battle of Fort McHenry, set to the tune of “To Anacreon in Heaven”) celebrating a particular battle or honoring a fallen troop or soldier, “hailing” songs, lauding a companion, and sexual or scatological songs typically denoting a romantic liaison or sexual act.’ — collaged

 

 

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Guided by Voices Sister I Need Wine

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Swans The Seed

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New Pornographers My Slow Descent into Alcoholism

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Lil Wayne Me and My Drank

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Against Me! Pints of Guinness Make You Strong (live)

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Marie Curie Middle School Youth Orchestra Farmer’s Drinking Song

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Drunken Boat Pool

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Gavin Friday William Butler Yeats’ The Drinking Song (live)

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Earth Lullabye (Take 2: How Dry I Am)

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Drunk Alice Cooper I’m Eighteen (live, ’71)

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Worf and Huraga Klingon Drinking Song

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The Replacements Here Comes a Regular

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Serge Gainsbourg No, No Thanks, No

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Sarcofago Alcoholic Coma

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The Kinks Demon Alcohol (live)

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David Frizzell I’m Gonna Hire a Wino to Decorate Our Home

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Sonic Youth Drunken Butterfly

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Gucci Mane (feat. Plies) Wasted

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Loudon Wainwright III Drinking Song

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Death Grips System Blower

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Randy Newman Guilty

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Guided by Voices Drinker’s Peace (live)

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p.s. Hey. Blog reader Jill Locklin wrote to me a bit ago suggesting that we co-curate a gig of drinking songs. She thought that since she’s a big drinker and I basically don’t drink, the combo might create something subliminally schizoid or layered or something. I was game. We ponied up. The twain met and fused … seamlessly? Gig #30. That’s what resulted and what you get today. Please listen/watch and be like Jill or me or someone in between our poles today, thank you. And, of course, biggest thanks to Jill! Otherwise, I got my first okay night of sleep last night. If I get another one tonight, I’ll declare victory. Lss, you and I have improved access to my brain today, for better or worse. ** Ignacio, Hey, man! Welcome back to the online version of the world. I’m really glad you thought the post was okay, and I’m really glad the excellent feedback was a plus. Nick’s show got cancelled? That sucks. Great to hear about the progress on the novel and that you’ve got a helpful, tuned-in editor. That’s a fairly rareish boon. Oh, yeah, I’d love a copy of the book, yes, great, thanks! My address: c/o Centre International des Recollets, 150 rue du Faubourg St. Martin, 75010 Paris, France. Thanks a ton, Todd! Love, me. ** Pascal, Hi, P. I don’t mind the flying itself so much, except for the cramping of my unfortunately long legs, but I hate the airport and getting to/from the airport parts. Lag has maybe begun its begging off act, I hope. I’m so sorry to hear that about your mum. Hugs, and very best wishes to her and to you. An offering for my blog from you would be absolutely wonderful and most helpful, man, thank you so much! Yeah, there’s def. great stuff in ‘WSS’. She can’t help it. It’s just more, I don’t know, evened out or something, but yeah. May you blossom in accordance with my wishes for your blossoming. ** Misanthrope. Sincerity is the best spectator sport for sure. And to give is better than to receive, as Oral Roberts should have known. Okay, that kind of talk to Sypha is why you get thrown out of parties, man. Reflect. ** Allesfliesst, Holy shit, it’s the Buddha’s face in my face! And what a fascinating face it is. Do his eyes really look like that in real life? One could die in them. It’s true: if I had seen that face before I made that post, I would have titled it ‘207 artists try to draw the Buddha’. Anyway, his high status is now understood. You used to draw comics? Scan a few of those, why don’t you? I used to do that too, but mine weren’t worth the homework whose backsides they were laboriously scribbled on. Joy Williams is completely killer. I’m so glad to hear that you’ve dug into her. She is one of the very best sentence makers in the whole United States. It is weird about the getting up versus going under thing. But I guess people in comas would disagree. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi! You did mention that you saw it, yeah. It being the Bigelow, I mean. Very interested to see it. Melville-like, whoa. Even more so now. ** 5STRINGS, Butor, cool. He’s actually doing a rare reading here in Paris next week, and I’m thinking of going even though I will be utterly lost due to my French impairment just so I can look at him. And I’m seeing a representation of him in Christophe Honore’s play ‘Nouveau Roman’ tomorrow night. So, it’s Butor-ville over here. Nah, no porn on Ubuweb yet unless what’s-his-butt counts. I can’t remember his name. The blood ritual guy. And that isn’t porn. So, not yet. Watch the Falcon Pacs, especially or even only the late 70s and early 80s ones. Balls are very melancholy, it’s true. I should write an Ode to them. Everyone should. Maybe his head will explode. Or maybe he’ll spontaneously combust. Or maybe Bigfoot will kill and eat him. I hope for one of those things if you hope for one of those things. ** Steevee, You’ve got me, about the Melatonin ban. I have no clue. Makes zero sense. Now I am completely certain that I will not bother seeing ‘Lincoln.’ It sounds like hell. Thank you for warding me off, Steve. And that new configuration for your list does sound both very interesting and more doable. Fingers crossed. ** Sypha, Oh, see, I didn’t know or remember that there’s a genre called ‘weird fiction’, okay. Well, even though porn acts like it represents sex, it doesn’t, so never trust a porn photo the way you should never trust the photos of hotel rooms on Expedia. I was going to say it seems more like you’re not erotically into body orifices in general very much. But you might be surprised. I sure was. I think everybody is? ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. I need to go stream that TG album. I’m not ready to spring for it straight off for some reason. Those are really nice official photos of the YnY thing! Really clear and telling. Everyone, listen to _B_A and do what he says for your own good and well being: ‘The DCA is showing a display of artists’ books for Book Week Scotland and Yuck ‘n Yum is right there in the middle of it. After my own rather underexposed efforts last week I’m happy to present a batch of official documentation.’ Sweet, B! Art glitterati photos would be swell! ** Cobaltfram, Google loves to hate-fuck comments, especially lately. Sorry. Speed? Uh, I did more than my fair share of time in the trenches of speed years ago, and I had an immune system like a dandelion for years afterwards to show for it, so I’m done with speed, I think. Anyway, I seem to be slightly better today. Uh, hm, maybe about the narrator vs. character thing, but I’m not sure. I’ll have to think about it. It’ll sell, it’s just when and to whom, but, yeah, the selling is when the real stress begins. Hang in. I’ve heard of ‘Dark Souls’, not sure about ‘Demon Souls’. What system? If it’s not Wii or computer, I’ll never know. ** Flit, Oh, okay, not a calendar, that’s fine. That was just my mental haze typing yesterday. A week in advance would be excellent. Thank you again. Hypnagog and bore are fuzzily proximate. Yeah, keep your senses upstanding. You will. You’re like that. ** Postitbreakup, Hey. Oh, no, the Lish edited project is news to me, but, yeah, I guess people think he’s just a hell of an editor. That’s what I hear. So, sounds sweet, one supposes. If tonight goes as well as last night, I’ll have no need of Jesus’ permission for anything. Not that I ever have. Dude’s just a proto-Kardashian to me. I hope you don’t. ** Chris Dankland, Hi, Chris! Yeah, manga is giant. Here in France too, or maybe even especially here. There are manga stores all over the place. And they have manga conventions like the one in ‘TMS’ all the time here. I’ve read some, not a lot, but they were really cool and experimental, even if Japanese people I know say that what I see as experimental in manga and anime is totally traditional in Japan. When my work was trendy in Japan for a couple of years back in the ’90s, a bunch of underground manga based on my stuff were published over here. They’re in LA. I should’ve scanned them when I was home. I don’t know ‘A Drifting Life’. Huh. It sounds kind of like a must, if one wants to get an actual knowledge of manga under one’s belt, and I do, even if I don’t know where I’ll find the time. Anyway, blah blah, I’ll look for it.  There’s a good manga/ anime/ action figure store right down the street from me. Yeah, I read that about Philip Roth retiring. I guess my first thought was that he’s really old, so it didn’t seem that strange to me. I’ve never been a real fan of his writing, but I agree with you about his taste and taste-making efforts, yeah. Forefronting Kis, Schultz, etc. was a great thing for him to have done. That crabby nonsense about no one reading fiction anymore soon is such semi-senile and self-serving crap, I agree. Same with the anti-eBook thing. I find those prejudices and mis-analyses just embarrassing. May I join you for an eye roll, in other words? My lag is just a kind of a light fizzing this morning, so maybe just maybe I’m through it. Great day, man! ** Casey Hannan, Good morning, Casey Hannan! And how are you on this fine, crisp, icy Paris morning wherever you are? Ha ha, awesome. Witch! Get thee behind me, witch! Shoo! Just kidding. That was good. Your thing was good, mine wasn’t, I mean. Oh, wow, good question. Uh … If I’m not personally responsible for keeping the walls clean, I choose wallpaper. Otherwise, paint, I think. Although you can do amazing things with paint these days, actually. And if I was going to choose from all the possible options, I think I would choose rear projection. You know, walls like light boxes. Like in Charlize Theron’s quarters in the spaceship in ‘Prometheus’. What do you think? Do you like the rear projection walls idea? Be honest. ** Joakim Almroth, Hi, J! Yeah, LA actually has a longstanding good to sometimes great techno scene. It always has. I think it’s all that space and all those old factories and warehouses and buildings and stuff. Well, plus good artists making things there. LA just fucking rules when it comes to making new stuff that qualifies as art in some respect or other. LA has ‘the new’ in its pocket always. That’s all I can say. Seeing is believing. I would like to check out The Office or any of those kinds of things. I really want to come to Stockholm. I guess I’ll wait until it’s not terrifyingly cold unless I end up there on Gisele business in the meantime. Let’s talk. Uh, later today or maybe tomorrow, You around? Love from the quasi-Parisian. ** Changeling, Hey there! Nice to see you! I know, I totally agree about the manga hair. You ever gone to one of those manga/ anime conventions? People try so hard to get that ‘hair’ into/onto their real hair. It’s very touching, but there’s not enough hairspray in the world, I fear. You mean that being fisted makes you drowsy or fisting someone makes you drowsy? Or both? I like the off-button idea. Like the Vulcan death grip without the death part. I wonder if there’s a secret off-button on the human hand. I’d like to see a porn where the guy fisting and the guy getting fisted fall asleep right in the middle. That would be very sweet. I’d rather see that than a cat meme. How are you? ** The End for today. I suggest you drink or don’t drink and spend some of your time today imbibing drinking songs, but I would say that, wouldn’t I? See you tomorrow.

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Data Tragedy Memory of a Broken Dimension
‘The emulator of an obscure computer system propagates across the internet, a signal is established … ‘ — Data Tragedy

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the flying O.H.N.O. twins 8-bit evaporation
‘In “8-bit evaporation”, 5,500 tinted ice cubes were used as “pixels” to create the iconic Super Mario Bros cloud. It was then encouraged to melt and was recorded in HD. The resulting video was sped up, compressed, reversed and looped. The soundtrack are two audio files sampled from the original Nintendo video game that were sped up, slowed down and overlaid.’ — tfOHNOt

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Yuri Suzuki THE SOUND OF EARTH
‘The Sound of the Earth is a content of Yuri Suzuki`s spherical record project, the grooves representing the outlines of the geographic land mass. Each country on the disc is engraved with a different sound, as the needle passes over it plays field recordings collected by Yuri Suzuki from around the world over the course of four years; traditional folk music, national anthems, popular music and spoken word broadcasts.’ — Alice Masters

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Jesse Lucas Dyskograf
‘DYSKOGRAF is a graphic disk reader. Each disc is created by visitors to the installation by way of felt tip pens provided for their use. The mechanism then reads the disk, translating the drawing into a musical sequence. The installation is above all a tool, which allows the creation of musical sequences in an intuitive way. The notion of a loop, closely linked to electronic music, is represented here by the cycle of the disk. The disk passes indefinitely in front of a camera fixed onto an arm. This substitution for the needle converts the drawing into sound by way of a specific application program (software). Through this system, the sequential ordering of music is learnt in a playful way, at the same time creating a unique object, souvenir of the musical composition.’ — JL

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Lucio Arese/Yu Miyashita Mimic
‘Mimic is an experimental video directed by Lucio Arese with music of Yu Miyashita. An hyperdense block of objects driven by music collides, collapses, spread into random formations and disintegrates at frantic speed. Shot into a cattle market, the film rides the verge between nonsense, random noise and organic, structured audiovisual events, enhancing the plastic clashes of a digital inserted foreground into an old and rusty environment.’ — Lucio Arese

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HYBE IRIS
‘IRIS is a unique media canvas with matrix of conventional information display technology – a monochrome LCD. Through the phased opening and closing of circular-segmented black Liquid Crystal, IRIS can create various patterns and control the amount (size) of passing lights. IRIS is an interactive medium for visual simplicity which uses the passage of ambient light, not emission of light itself.’ — HYBE

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Julian Oliver levelHead v1.0, 3 cube speed run
‘levelHead is a spatial memory game by Julian Oliver, developed at the end of 2007, beginning 2008. levelHead uses a hand-held solid-plastic cube as its only interface. On-screen it appears each face of the cube contains a little room, each of which are logically connected by doors. In one of these rooms is a character. By tilting the cube the player directs this character from room to room in an effort to find the exit. Some doors lead nowhere and will send the character back to the room they started in, a trick designed to challenge the player’s spatial memory. Which doors belong to which rooms? There are three cubes (levels) in total, each of which are connected by a single door. Players have the goal of moving the character from room to room, cube to cube in an attempt to find the final exit door of all three cubes. If this door is found the character will appear to leave the cube, walk across the table surface and vanish … ‘ — JO

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Ruben Dhers playa
’14 acoustic guitars, 31 dc motors, 300 m cable, fabric and computer. Neues Museum Weimar, Alemania, 2012′ — RD

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Pianocade Demonstration
‘The Pianocade is a synthesizer designed to sound, look, and feel like vintage arcade games. It’s easy for people who want to dive right in, powerful and feature-rich for people who want to tinker. All of the Pianocade hardware, firmware, and software is open source and designed for easy hackability. If you’re really ambitious, build your own.’ — Pianocade

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Aldo Tambellini BLACKOUT
‘Aldo Tambellini is a pioneer experimental film and video artist. This 1965 film, like an action painting by Franz Kline, is a rising crescendo of abstract images. Rapid cuts of white forms on a black background supplemented by an equally abstract soundtrack give the impression of a bombardment in celestial space or on a battlefield where cannons fire on an unseen enemy in the night.’ — The Tate

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Michael Petermann Blödes Orchester
‘Arranged like a symphony orchestra, approximately 200 antique vacuums, mixers and washers are transformed into musical instruments. They form an ensemble that the conductor, harpsichordist and composer Michael Petermann has now completed after eight years of preparation.’ — weisserrausch.de

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Synchronator 50Hz VARIATIONS
‘The SYNCHRONATOR device enables you to visualize your sounds on each of the primary color channels of the video signal. It adds video sync pulses and color coding signals to your audio, effectively disguising the input as a composite video signal.’ — Synchronator

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The Arcane Kids Zineth Trailer
‘Zineth is a student game made over a few months meant to celebrate speed, movement, and twitter. The free game combines a colourful low polygon world with game elements of Tony Hawks Skateboarding and Prince Of Persia.’ — Prosthetic Knowledge

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Semiconductor Black Rain
‘Black Rain is sourced from images collected by the twin satellite, solar mission, STEREO. Here we see the HI (Heliospheric Imager) visual data as it tracks interplanetary space for solar wind and CME’s (coronal mass ejections) heading towards Earth. Data courtesy of courtesy of the Heliospheric Imager on the NASA STEREO mission. Working with STEREO scientists, Semiconductor collected all the HI image data to date, revealing the journey of the satellites from their initial orientation, to their current tracing of the Earth’s orbit around the Sun. Solar wind, CME’s, passing planets and comets orbiting the sun can be seen as background stars and the milky way pass by.’ — Semiconductor

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p.s. Hey. Sucks it had to end. Thanks for first making it and then being there. ** David Ehrenstein, Not a bad bunch at all, nope. Yeah, I’ve been following Sandy as best I can over here sans 24 hour, minutiae seeking, belaboring TV. The Christie thing, yeah. Can’t hurt regardless of whatever his future agenda is. I’m feeling a little more like the big voter flirtation with Romney might be dying out a bit now, but it’s going to be a long week. Fingers, toes, head hairs, and even eyes crossed. I went to the Eagle once, no, twice, I think. Once with Brad Gooch, once with … Charles Ludlam (among others) of all people. Weird that they let me in. ** Oscar B, Hey! I did note a certain absence at that party, but your visit was pretty cool. Oh, the Salon du/de of Chocolat. I totally spaced. Right, I’ll give you guys a call in just a while. ** Scunnard, Nah, I recognized your mug, and you were free to hit the jackpot twice. Thanks for ladling out the awesome praise to the deserving dudes and dudettes. You good? ** xTx, Cool! Thank you for adding your specialness. ** Jesse Bransford, Mr, Bransford! I was so happy to have you in attendance. I’m glad your portion of the extended Big Apple is sans hell. Dude, I want to see you somehow and hear all about your travels, which I was quite perked up about in its Facebook travelogue version. Crazy, awesome! Did you actually manage to get some Halloweening in? ** Cobaltfram, Them was some good eats right there, as cartoon characters based roughly in your portion of the US sometimes say, sort of. As I’ve probably said, I’ve never liked alcohol much, except as a thing to take the edge off whatever drug when needed. Could have been my mom’s lunatical alcoholic phase when I was young. That’s what the therapists used to say. Very nice thinking and writing about the book vis-a-vis imagination thing. You rounded up the whole thing beautifully. I’m off to LA on Saturday morning. Other than the jetlag and the election stress, I’m way excited. So, the excerpt is in the hands of the sales pitcher now? ** Kyler, Hey! Man, it sounds like absolutely insanity in your part of NYC. I keep getting ‘Walking Dead’ flashbacks. I sure hope you’re powered up again — from the outside, I mean, not re: your true power, which is impervious of course — now or later on today or asap. Love from me. ** Trees, Hey, man. Ah, it’s okay. You showed up. That’s plenty. Damn, that punk band party sounds seriously heavenly. DI! Halloween + sailor = all kind of trouble. Theoretically. Did my theory pan out? I’ve been ignoring and writing too. High five. And it sounds like our methodologies are paying us off. Dig. Sweet to see you, T. ** 5STRINGS, Fantasy is everything’s seed. If the fantasy I just had could grow up to be the sentence I’m typing, then you can grow up to be Dio. Weird, I just streamed some tracks from that new remaster of ‘Machine Head’ yesterday to see what it sounded like. It sounded good, or at least Blackmore did. Wowzer on those next few sentences. Thanks re: the party. Oh, a taste of your legendary thing! I’ll get that later, of course. Sweet! Everyone, you want to read a ‘tough-trade and unedited’ taste of the thing that writer/d.l./future Dio 5STRINGS is working on? I think you probably do, so I’m going to help you out by ushering you there. ** Pascal, Hi, man! Ace about the success of the Sonic Youthy reading. I do so want to see the video when it’s proper. Seeing the zine is probably asking too much. Does SY or at least Thurston know about this thing you did? Hugs back. ** Frank Jaffe, Hey Frank! Such great feedback, thank you! Made my morning. What did you end up doing last night? What food was involved? Did it have dye and artificial flavoring in it? I hope so. ** Chris Dankland, Hi, Chris! Oh, way awesome, you talked to the other partygoers so generously too! Thank you! I loved the video interview at Cutty Spot. It was a beaut and very informational and contextually rich and all of that. No, I hadn’t seen that video before, it’s very cool. Everyone, please follow Chris Dankland’s directive and lead by clicking this and seeing a costume that could have won the DC’s ‘best of’ contest if there had been one, if there wasn’t. Thanks a lot, man. Very happy to see you. ** Steevee, Hey! You’re all right! Yeah, I can’t believe the reports I’m hearing about so-called current life in Lower Manhattan. Really glad you’re safe! ** Misanthrope, I know, we’ve got some fine ladies and gents and, I would imagine, consequent rears coming out our ears around here. So, you were definitely in the cat bird seat. Glad to hear you were just buffeted around a bit. Paris made it through in one piece too, I know you’ll be happy to hear. ** Chris Cochrane, Total insanity. Unbelievable. Really glad you’re all right. That’s just … wow. ** Statictick, Thanks for eking out your part 2 support. It didn’t even feel eked out. I like how oppositional and yet same sounding the words ‘eke’ and ‘eek’ are, don’t you? Sucks that Houdini didn’t check back in from the afterlife like he promised. Other than that, he was a pretty cool guy. ** James, Hi, J. So glad you liked it all so much. How was ‘PA4’. I hear not so good. ‘PA3’ was okay. ** Sypha, Happy day after Halloween! ** Kevin Killian, Kevin! You graced the party, and I am so very chuffed! No prob on the no costume thing. That Giants victory is a precedent-taking, creativity-stifling event if there ever was one, I’m sure. Dang, I would so love to see your thing on the 8th! No, I won’t be able to. I have to do a thing that I have to do in LA that day that I can’t talk about publicly yet but which demands my presence and could impact that fates of countless — well, three — others. Otherwise, I so would be there. But you should come to LA! Come see ‘Them’! Anyway, let me gift those who are fortunate to be in your wonderful vicinity. Everyone, literary true god Kevin Killian is doing something no doubt great in SF in about a week that you should obviously attend barring an emergency. Here he is almost in person to tell you about it. Take it away, Kevin: ‘On the 8th [of November], I’m staging a revival of an old chestnut WET PAINT at SFMOMA to accompany the Jay DeFeo retrospective that opens there this week. I wrote WET PAINT back in the 1990s but hope it wasn’t just beginners luck and that today’s audiences will find something of value in it.’ Be there, Bay Area! Oh, wait, yes, your White Columns show, another thing of which I am so deprived. Hold on again. Everyone, before Kevin dematerializes, and if you’re in the NYC area at large, there’s also this other big Killian nugget for you. Take it away again, Kevin: ‘At White Columns in NYC a show opened Saturday—right before the hurricane, so I don’t even know if it’s still up!—and one of the exhibitions is a group of my photos called “Fetish Photography.” Several of my models are among your distinguished locals, a buzzing hive filled with besutiful specimens at their peak. Wayne Koestenbaum is there also, showing his small paintings, and Nicola Tyson is showing photographs too.’ Actually, here’s a link to the direct info on that show as well as a sample and saucy Killian portrait of writer, former d.l., and Occupy movement hero Stephen Boyer. Check it. Love to you, Kevin! ** Un Cœur Blanc, Hi! A late Happy Halloween to you too! Thank you so much for coming to the party. I didn’t do anything last night either that was in any way different from what I always do, alas. Much love from me. ** Paul Curran, Hi, Mothra! It’s an honor to cyber-meet you. Big fan. ‘More panoramic and grotesque’ … I like the hint that was that phrase. Yeah, the routine is nice, isn’t it? I know, I know. Love to you. ** Rigby, Rigster! My ‘Ween is now complete! My gun is now back in my holster. What’s up? ** Armando, Hey. The awfulness of death and what it takes away is very much in my mind and heart right now too, but … prepare for a Cooperism … I try to remember that every day all kinds of new folks are born who could grow up to do the craziest, best, most genius shit ever. Love to you. ** L@rstonovich, Hi, L! The cool thing about Sloppy Joes is it’s one of those things you can make vegetarian style and it basically tastes and satisfies just as quickly since it’s all about the goop and spices part. We had some cannibal cop talk around here, yes. How did you guess? That was and will remain really something. Jersey got smashed to fuck. Me being me, it was the photos of the decimated pier amusement parks that most got to me. Yeah, Christie, good move, and I’m letting myself not think about his secret careerist strategy, if it exists, which I’m guessing it does, ‘cos it’s all about the here and now. Excited about your draft talk, man. You can bet. Happy morning after! ** Bollo, Hi, J. We didn’t even get fireworks over here. You could have heard a mouse, which, in fact, I did. Later gator. ** Right. I still can’t believe it’s over. Sigh. Anyway, I’ve got a gig for you that’s kind of rangy and full of different kinds of actual fun and adventure, and I hope you’ll give it your shot today. Thank you.  See you tomorrow.