We are told that Barry Soetoro has published* a memoir, his third. Damn it man, you're just not that interesting.
Jimmy Carter, now he is an interesting man. Annapolis grad, nuclear submariner, farmer, president, human rights activist. And while Carter was the worst president of the Cold War era, he wasn't quite as cataclysmic as once thought. He's not worse than Buchanan or Adams, or Barry Soetoro. Carter is a man who could write an interesting memoir.
Bush's Decision Points is an actual historical document that takes the reader through his thinking on various matters facing his presidency. The most interesting passages deal with W giving up drinking.
It turns out Barry released a list of his favorite songs to accompany his third memoir**:
Barry's list is very middlebrow, the 21st century version of Perry Como, Guy Lombardo, and Bing Crosby. Why Richard Nixon couldn't have done it better. This is wine-mom music.
In our own tribute to the 44th president here's a list of our top ten songs with brief commentary:
The Answer, Walking Mat: Just bashes you over the head with licks and attitude. 'Throw your stones and break my back...curse my name for all you lack.'
The Answer, Caught on the River Bed: Sounds like galloping horses. What a solo. The whole song is thunderously inspirational. 'Come on up....come on up....come on up....'
Free, All Right Now: The best chord progression in rock. The first lead we learned to play.
Queen, Fat Bottomed Girls. What a lick, what a harmony. Pure, distilled rock n roll.
Aerosmith, Sweet Emotion: Great bass, it really carries the song, beautiful harmony in the opener and a simple, but heavy chord progression.
Spencer Davis Group, Give me Some Lovin': Sometimes you just gotta pop the cassette in the player and kick some ass, this raucous song helps you do that. Those organs are ominous and we love how they climb in the refrain. Chappie, this one's for you.
Cream, White Room: Everything about this song is heavy. Again, such a simple progression.
Led Zeppelin, Kashmir: An utterly unique tuning and progression. DADGAD, bitches.
AC/DC, by rights this list could be all AC/DC, we've seen them live four times, but we had to choose one, so we went with Rocker. We just love this performance. Bon Scott sounds like Little Richard, don't he?
*Wonder who ghost wrote this one.
**So that's what William Ayers has been doing all these years.
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