sharks & james brown
24 Sep 2011 Leave a Comment
in Uncategorized Tags: aaron, quotes, shark attack, shark bite
“I just found out that I can’t dance like James Brown due to being bitten by a shark. However, had I not been bitten by a shark, I still wouldn’t be able to dance like James brown.” -Aaron
Aaron said this as we were preparing to go to a friend’s wedding. (Congrats Robin and John!) He had just watched an old video of James Brown going over some dance moves. He could do one if he lead with his good leg, but when attempting the same move on his shark leg … it wasn’t pretty. In fact, it was pretty sad to see Aaron’s face completely fall when he realized that his shark leg had destroyed all of his James Brown dancing dreams. Poor baby!
Made only worse/more awesome when the groom executed the move FLAWLESSLY on the dance floor at the reception. (Go John!)
Now here’s a pretty cute picture of us at the wedding:
The “Marilyn” of the Munsters
23 Oct 2009 Leave a Comment
in music Tags: aaron, aol, band names, bands, quotes, snark
Aaron recorded a particularly difficult band today. Per usual, when he comes home from a tough day he makes me laugh as he recounts all the crazy shit that he’s had to deal with, and giving it his silly Aaron spin.
When he left for work this morning he referred to the band he was off to record as, “Hippie McGee and the Patchouli Oil Hacky Sack All-Star Club.” Later on in the day, after getting a look at the actual band members, the name changed to “Homeless Fred and the Anti-Antiperspirants.” Then, after having a hell of a time working with them, he changed the name, yet again to “Bush League Bob and the Slap Happy Half-Asses.” And once he got home to me their name was officially, “Bush League Bob and the Dipshits.”
But my favorite Aaron-snark was when he was telling me about this female accordion player who was the only easy person to work with. First of all, I love me a female accordion player. I also love one who is down to earth — the mic cut out on her during the recording process. He and his boss decided to call her in and have her re-record her entire part and then splice it in. But she listened to it, said, ‘Eh, my part doesn’t sound that great anyway. Feel free to cut it.’ Which was such a relief to both them, making her the best person of the day.
Or, as Aaron described her… “She was the “Marilyn” of the Munsters.”
marriage defined by a man…
19 Oct 2009 1 Comment
in love Tags: aaron, marriage, quotes
Aaron’s take on marriage:
“Man, I love being married. Stuff that you don’t want goes away. Stuff that you do want just appears. And when there’s something you can’t find — somebody else knows where it is!”
–Aaron Finley
He said this after I noticed him searching around the coffee table and the surrounding area. I had a hunch he was looking for his phone so I said, “It’s under your wallet.” You should have seen his face when he realized, A. that I knew what he was looking for without him asking, and B. that I had known exactly where it was. 
golf ball-sized hail!
04 Jul 2005 1 Comment
you know… if you live life by the rules all the time, you miss out on some really tasty dog food.
think about it….
"heroes are rare"
16 Feb 2005 2 Comments
in literature Tags: quotes
“Nobody can stay in the garden of Eden…. I wonder why. …. Perhaps life only offers the choice of remembering the garden or forgetting it. Either, or; it takes strength to remember, it takes another kind of strength to forget, it takes a hero to do both. People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness, the madness of the denial of pain and the hatred of innocence; and the world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.”
when do you think is the time to love somebody the most?…
23 Aug 2004 1 Comment
in literature Tags: quotes
“There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing…. Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most? When they done good and made things easy for everybody? Well then, you ain’t through learning- because that ain’t the time at all. It’s when he’s at his lowest and can’t belive in hisself ’cause the world done whipped him so! When you starts measuring somebody, measure him right, child, measure him right. Make sure you done taken into account what hills and valleys he come through before he got to wherever he is.”
-A Raisin In The Sun, Hansberry
kinda puts things in perspective…
16 Aug 2004 2 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: quotes
“we are nothing but insignificant specks of shit, pawns in a cosmic spiritual realm where our universe is nothing but a dot of crusty smegma.”
doesn’t it?
my cousins message
23 Jul 2004 2 Comments
my cousins away message today… don’t know why, but it spoke to me.
“Thomas Sowell – Love is a four-letter word, but you don’t hear in nearly as often as you hear some other four-letter words. It may be a sign of our times that everyone talks openly about sex, but we seem to be embarrassed to talk about love.”
(i love you katie!!!)
jazz music and heroin
19 Jul 2004 Leave a Comment
“I know that it is all too common for jazz musicians to overdose on heroin, but i think its important that we ask ourselves, what about those poor heroin addicts that are overdosing on jazz music??”
-Billy Frenzel of the Billy Frenzel Jazz Orchestra & www.billyfrenzel.com (check out the pictures, I took most all of them)
Aloha there, I'm Megan Finley. I'm a 30-something girl, living in Los Angeles with that guy I married and our rescued pets. I work online (a LOT) for the 
