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The title says it all! A few sets tied together by common geographic terrain. Tim put together some random sets. What's going on Tim?
CCR - down on the bayou
something from the teen soap opera 'Fifteen'
FLORIDA
X-cons - do dead people tan?
Reactions - in society
U-boats - break out tonight
Reactions - nights on end (oops, two reactions songs!)
LOUISIANA
Skinnies - out of control
Red Rockers - teenage underground
The Buns - anti-matter
Toxin III - middle class
DENMARK
Electric Deads - 30 years
City X - coverboy
No Hope for the Kids - rainy day
Gatecrashers - spectator
Gorilla Angreb - de kommer ud om natten
Tim's random set
MIA- Paper Planes
Beirut-Le Moribond/ My Family's Role in the World Revolution
Madeline- Sailing Away
Billy Joel- We Didn't Start the Fire
Bitchin- Some Of My Favorite Badasses
The Breeders- Walk It Off
Devotchka-I Cried Like a Silly Boy
Doug Elliott- Scat Rap
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This week, I tried to put together songs with the name Jesse in them in tribute to my roommate. Love them or hate them, most people have strong feelings about Jesse's. He helped me not to have to sleep in the streets twice already in this lifetime, so I fall on the side of love him.
Richard Prior - Jesse
Young Wasteners - we've got ways
Rick Springfield - Jessie's girl
The Pogues - Jesse James
Woody Guthrie - Jesse James
Utah Phillips - Jesse's corrido
Carly Simon - Jesse
Leatherface - from the 'Jesse' album
Saves the Day - Jesse and my whetstone (yeah i did it.)
M83 - Kim and Jesse
Merle Haggard - mama tried
Elvis - suspicious minds
Morrissey - last of our international playboys
Blelvis - interview
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I saw Blelvis (black elvis) again last night. For those that don't know, Blelvis is a man who cruises the streets of DC and knows every Elvis song, over 1,100, and, for a small price, will sing any you give him and walk with you a while. We asked for Blue Moon, Viva Las Vegas, In the Ghetto, and Suspicious Minds. He was a bit annoyed we didn't have rarer songs, so he threw in a little known Elvis gospel song. Blelvis was quite charming and a good singer and dancer. He even used to have a pompedor and suit he wore (you can find it on an old Jeff Krulik cable access show). There is also a Washington Post article about him I am linking to at the end of this post.
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In other news, I just got an email that Maximum Rock and Roll is sending me a book to review for a future issue!
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Now I gotta go work with Orion to work on graphic novel stuff. New podcast Sunday... all songs about or related to Jesse!?!
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I found this article about a homeless man with a rating of over 2000 who plays and gives chess lessons in Dupont Circle in the Washington Post. They talk about this other man there who teaches people checkers and chess as well:
"I do like to teach people," he said. "And I've taught so many kinds of people, you don't even know. The proudest teaching I ever had was I taught a pimp in New York. His name was Comfort, as in 'comfortable.' I was going down the street to my friend's house. I had my board with me. He said, 'You know anything about that game?' I said, 'Yeah.' He said, 'You have time to show me?' I said, 'Yeah.' He said, 'Step into my office,' which was a pink, long Cadillac. I got in. It had a bar in the car and everything. I started thinking, 'Now how in the world am I gonna show this pimp how to play the game of chess?' So he asked me, 'What do the queen do?' I said, 'The queen do all the work.' He said, ' Ohhhh, now what do the king do?' I said, 'The king don't do nothing.' His eyes lit up when he heard that. He said, 'Man, I like this game already.'"
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