Archive for December 7th, 2006

Milk

 

Milk is good.  According to my 11th grade ‘Health’ teacher, it’s THE most perfect food.

 It cracks me up, though–there’s “skim” milk, which apparently is what ”1%” milk, 1/2% milk, and 0% milk is referred to out there.  This stuff is boiled to the extreme, robbing it of nutrient, and greatly cut with water.  You can see right through the glass it’s in.

Americans, or rather American ladies, buy the white-water by the millions of gallons every week.  Their children howl in protest, yet the little guys and gals usually can’t afford to take charge of the family grocery shopping, so they’re stuck with this frightening stuff.   Many-a husband, THANK GOD, take charge of matters, stop the insanity, and buy the ‘real and right’ stuff, the stuff that’s white in all it’s purity and richness.

To eat healthily, drink as much milk as we care to, and as much WHOLE or 2% milk as we can stomach.  Dieting?  Drink all you have,buy more, and drink it, too.  Milk is the stalwart bedrock of good nutrition. 

I was tempted to say ‘ milk builds strong bones’, an American advertising proverb since well before pails containg milk (top) and heavy cream (bottom) were delivered on back porch steps.  Ask anyone who was a child in the 40s or before–the mere mention or theory of ’skim’ milk would bring bellylaughs.

Sooo…Cut calories and fat by avoiding all the stuff you need to avoid, IF in fact you or your family needs to. 

Leave milk entirely out of any of this, though.  It’s not to blame for creating fat on anything on anybody (any body). 

Pass the bottle please.

Music - Phil’z ‘Top 37′

 

This is my favorite music.  I could have named more, I’m sure, but I found a decent stopping point.

Regarding this list:  In my 38+ years of buying records, vilyl ’til about ‘87-88 and CDs thereafter, these are my 37 favorite albums and artists, in no particular order. I support recording artists and as such, I don’t burn their stuff unless I either can’t find it–which is rare; we can locate anything—OR if my kids burn it for me.  Otherwise, I buy the music, artwork, support the artists’ royalties, and begrudgingly (but not always so) support the label. Any American guy my age will own (or will have owned at one time) most of this stuff in his record collection, and it’ll have taken most of his life to compile:   

1.       O Mercy, Bob Dylan
2.       Emotional Rescue, The Rolling Stones
3.       The Who, Tommy
4.       Argus, Wishbone Ash
5.       Radiohead, OK Computer
6.       Under the Table and Dreaming, Dave Mathews
7.       Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan (debut release; 1961)
8.       John Lennon, John Lennon (solo release on Apple)
9.       Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited
10.     Neil Young, After the Gold Rush
11.     Presence, Led Zeppelin
12.     The Faces, A Nod is as Good as a Wink to a Blind Horse
13.     Robert Plant,  Pictures at Eleven
14.     Blonde on Blonde, Bob Dylan
15.     Sixth Symphony, Ludwig Van Beethoven
16.     The Magic Flute (full opera or excerpts), W. A. Mozart
17.     Future Blues, Canned Heat
18.     Soundtrack, A Clockwork Orange (particularly electronic Beethoven)
19.     Silence, Tara McClean  (WOW!!)
20.     Switched-on Bach, Walter (then later Wendy) Carlos
21.     Lillith Fair 2, various lady artists
22.     The Beatles, The Beatles ‘65
23.     Planet Waves, Bob Dylan with The Band
24.     666, Aphrodite’s Child (The “Seven Seals” record)
25.     Led Zeppelin II, Led Zeppelin
26.     Smashing Pumpkins, Picses Iscariot
27.     Radiohead, Amnesiac
28.     Kindred Spirits, A Tribute to Johnny Cash (bring Kleenex)
29.     Great Earth, Wind and Fire (US ver), Earth Wind and Fire
30.     Jump Up, Calypso, Harry Belafonte’
31.     Rhythm of the Saints, (masters, 1934-9)  Louis Armstrong
32.     Rhythm of the Saints, Paul Simon
33.     Gorillaz, Gorilllaz
34.     Sountrack, Philadelpia  - (Indigo Girls,  N. Young, Spin Doctors)
35.     Bob Dylan , Biograph
36.     Rod Stewart, Every Picture Tells a Story
37.     Tori Amos, Under the Pink                                                                                                                       38.     Steppenwolf, For Ladies Only


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