The Hammock Papers: Cougar

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15 August 2026

Inspiration.

Kurt's text this morning sent me wandering ...

Was this the inspiration for the dance moves in The Silence of the Lambs?

27 July 2026

Released.

John Cougar released John Cougar on this day in 1979.

21 July 2026

Released.

John Cougar released Nothin' Matters and What If It Did on this day in 1980.

"Hot Night in a Cold Town"...

21 June 2023

Released.

John Cougar released Dance Naked on this day in 1994.

The title track ...

17 June 2023

Always.

Schooners of Black Label are half price, there's bar cheese on the salad bar ... and it's always five plays for a dollar.

The Babys, "Love Don't Prove I'm Right"

Eagles, "In the City"

John Cougar, "Hand To Hold On To"

Triumph, "Say Goodbye"

J. Geils Band, "Come Back"

15 June 2023

[Expletive].

One of the distinctive qualities of your music is the snare drum sound. Is that because of how the snare is tuned? How it’s mixed?

If you listen to an Eagles record it’s like [makes a thin tapping sound], and we didn’t want that. I built my own studio in Indiana because I couldn’t get along with anyone in the multiplex. I punched the blond-haired singer of the Cars. I fought all the time, and lost all the time.

What kind of a dad are you?

I get along great with my kids, and I talk to each of them three or four times a week. But I told them all kinds of crazy [expletive]. I told them I invented skateboarding. My youngest, Speck, was skateboarding at school and a kid said, “You’re really good.” Speck said, “I should be. My dad invented it.” The kid goes, “Your dad didn’t invent skateboarding!” So Speck hit him.

Thanks, Tom.

28 May 2023

Excellent.

An excellent album ...

21 July 2022

Always.

Bottles of Blue Nun are two for one, the soup is gazpacho and it's always five plays for a buck on the jukebox ...

Sammy Hagar, "I've Done Everything for You" (I wish Sammy wouldv'e been in General Hospital instead of that one guy)

The Tubes Group, "Sushi Girl"

Hot green root sure is boss ...

April Wine, "I Like to Rock" (undo another button on yer shirt for this one, CJ)

Dwight Twilley Band (when Tom Petty was in it), "Looking for the Magic"

Put a paper bag over your head, then sing Ma-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a ...

John Cougar, "Great Midwest" (rip yer sleeves off)

Sorry for the smell ... last night someone left the mop in the dirty bucket and the FNG just spilled the whole thing on the carpet.

22 October 2021

John Cougar, "Ain't Even Done with the Night"

24 April 2019

Not.

BARRY HINES

"That's why it makes me mad when I take her out and I'll hear somebody say, 'Look, there's Billy Casper there wi' his pet hawk. I could shout at 'em; it's not a pet, Sir, hawks are not pets. Or when folks stop me and say, 'Is it tame?' Is it heck tame, it's trained that's all. It's fierce, and it's wild, an' it's not bothered about anybody, not even about me, right. And that's why it's great.Look, there's Billy Casper there wi' his pet hawk.' I could shout at 'em. It's not a pet, Sir. Hawks are not pets. Or when folks stop me and say, 'Is it tame?' Is it heck tame, it's trained, that's all. It's fierce, and it's wild, an' it's not bothered about anybody, not even about me right. And that's why it's great." (A Kestrel for a Knave)

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

"When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone and of good cheer – say travelling in a carriage or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep – it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence, and how, they come I know not ; nor can I force them. Those ideas that please me I retain in memory and am accustomed, as I have been told, to hum them to myself. If I continue in this way, it soon occurs to me how I may turn this dainty morsel to account, so as to make a good dish of it. That is to say, agreeable to the rules of counterpoint, to the peculiarities of various instruments etc. All this fires my soul, and, provided I am not disturbed, my subject enlarges itself, becomes methodised, and defined, and the whole, though it be long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind, so that I can survey it like a fine picture or a beautiful statue at a glance. Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them, as it were, all at once. What a delight this is, I cannot tell."

WALT WHITMAN

The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering. I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. The last scud of day holds back for me, It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadow’d wilds, It coaxes me to the vapor and the dusk. I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun, I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags. I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles. You will hardly know who I am or what I mean, But I shall be good health to you nevertheless, And filter and fibre your blood. Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, Missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you.

MARCUS AURELIUS

"Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, 'Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?' neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility."

VINCENT van GOGH

"What am I in the eyes of most people? A nonentity or an oddity or a disagreeable person — someone who has and will have no position in society, in short a little lower than the lowest. Very well — assuming that everything is indeed like that, then through my work I’d like to show what there is in the heart of such an oddity, such a nobody. This is my ambition, which is based less on resentment than on love in spite of everything, based more on a feeling of serenity than on passion. Even though I’m often in a mess, inside me there’s still a calm, pure harmony and music. In the poorest little house, in the filthiest corner, I see paintings or drawings. And my mind turns in that direction as if with an irresistible urge. As time passes, other things are increasingly excluded, and the more they are the faster my eyes see the picturesque. Art demands persistent work, work in spite of everything, and unceasing observation."