Bass Drum of Death Bass Drum of Death, from Oxford, Miss., is John Barrett's baby — he writes the songs, sings the fantastically sleazy and compact lyrics ("I got a velvet itch in my jeans," he taunts. "How can you scratch it?") and plays the fantastically sleazy and compact guitar riffs.
The findings may help explain how such "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" behaviors can evolve.
Your future itches conform to how you've scratched past ones.
CALL HIM AGAIN FRCHRISSAKE!!!!" Into one citing a statistic utterly lacking a context: "HOW'S YOUR WIFE?" You scratch your head over that one, and then an old-timer explains that this is a Michaelsism that means, "Compared to what?" Evidently feather-ruffling journalism pays off: Jim Michaels has 785,000 subscribers now.
So now, when you scratch your heads wondering how the ubiquitous Snooki and The Situation are raking in millions of dollars, don't get angry.
If you have an itch to scratch, why would you wait for someone to show you how to scratch it before you set out to find out on your own?
I don't know how you stop them scratching their terrible designs on people but there would have to be a way," he said.
Let your landlord know how you plan to prevent scratching, such as by having adequate scratching posts available.
Either way, depending how you decide to view it, scratch away a little at the surface and you'll find an ecosystem of rules, trends and status quo; that can often, technology permitting, be attributed widely from company to company, culture to culture across the world.
But the plan is to head back to Egypt in the next few days and begin to report and try to understand how you make democracy from scratch and I am, I have to say, not a little overexcited about the idea of watching this process from the ground up.
