Category Archives: music

All Bands Suck But Strawberry Window

October 13, 2012 – 9:40 pm

I have no idea how I found this band or how I missed them in the 60s, but Strawberry Window is the new thing. to hear them please go to this URL

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Pee On My Guitar

October 12, 2012 – 6:53 pm

My younger brother Padraic send this photo accompanied by the following report from April 2012. “Someone at Billboard Brasil magazine has had the genius-slash-insane-slash-disgusting idea to experiment with alternative ways to play the guitar. A working guitar and amp has been installed in a urinal in the men’s bathroom at Bar Aurora in Sao Paolo […]

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SEPTEMBER SONG Lotte Lenya

September 29, 2012 – 1:24 pm

SEPTEMBER SONG was written by Kurt Weill to present an aging man’s lament of the passage of youth. Many women have sung it as well, few better than Eartha Kitt and the composer’s wife. It’s the epitome of Schaden-Freude. Check out Lotte Lenya’s version by going to this URl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTBu44Ui2Fg&feature=related

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New York State Of Mind

September 17, 2012 – 2:07 pm

Last night I was sitting in Frank’s Lounge bemoaning the Patriots 20-18 loss to the Cards. “It was a fix. That holding charge against Danny Woodhead was weak. You know when the refs blow a call, when the TV doesn’t show the replay.” I was on my fourth beer and speaking loud to Paco and […]

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Honkie Beware

September 7, 2012 – 6:42 pm

Vice President Joe Biden left the stage at the Charlotte Convention to the music of Earth Wind and Fire, but Barack Obama approached the podium to U2’s City of Blinding Lights and basked in the adorative applause of his audience to Bruce Springstein’s WE TAKE CARE OF OUR OWN. GOP and Tea Party members must […]

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