“I couldn’t imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn’t dare.” – Janet Fitch, White Oleander

 

Happy Mother’s Day!!!

Recorded at the FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, AL… Etta James: Tell Mama

(Check out Janis Joplin’s ass-kickin’ cover of this song. And Marva Whitney’s!)

“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.” – Edgar Allan Poe

“Three cool cats, three cool cats / Parked on the corner in a beat-up car / Dividing up a nickel candy bar / Talking all about how sharp they are, these / Three cool cats” – The Coasters (Three Cool Cats)

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“And I know I’ll never lose affection / For people and things that went before / I know I’ll often stop and think about them / In my life I loved you more…” – Beatles (In My Life)

Thanks Freakoutville fans. Love you!

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“To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.” – Agatha Christie

“I put a spell on you / Because you’re mine / Stop the things you do / Watch out, I ain’t lyin’…” – Screamin’ Jay Hawkins (I Put a Spell on You)

C’mon and check out Freakoutville on freakin’ Facebook too!

“It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.” – Paul Cezanne

“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.” – George Bernard Shaw

“Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.” -Lucy Maud Montgomery

“Put on your slippers and sit by the fire / You’ve reached your top and you just can’t get any higher / You’re in your place and you know where you are / In your Shangri-la…” -The Kinks (Shangri-la)

 

The Office

“Lisa, if the Bible has taught us nothing else – and it hasn’t – it’s that girls should stick to girls’ sports, such as hot oil wrestling and foxy boxing and such and such.” -Homer Simpson

“That damn fool knows the instrument”. -Jo Jones

 

Buddy Rich

“Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears.” -Rudyard Kipling