Monthly Archives: October 2008

Boo.

Happy Halloween! Here’s a pic of sweet Maggie as a zombie boy scout about to dance as part of the record-breaking Austin crew of 881 people last Saturday.

103108 Boo.

She’s hot even when she’s androgynous and undead!

Here’s a video covering Austin’s Thrill the World performance that I was fortunate enough to witness:


Thrill the World: Austin from Joey Castillo on Vimeo.

And another scary video for Halloween:

100years Boo.
as reported in The New York Times

October 31, 1908
SKELETON IN A TRUNK.
Found in the Woods Near Hygiene Institute — Peddler Arrested.

museum Boo.
One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:

You can’t just call it frightening. I mean, it’s really creepy. Extra terrifying. How else can I put this? It’s…

Highlight here for answer: [very scary]

museum Boo.
I Am Beautiful Too: Slime Mold Rehabilitated

103108 Boo.


quotopia Boo.

Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting.
Lorna Luft

shows Boo.

EVERY DANG THURSDAY
Matt the Electrician & Southpaw Jones
8:00 PM
Flipnotics at the Triangle
4600 Guadalupe
AUSTIN, TX
(512) 380-0097
www.flipnotics.com
________________________________________________________________

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2008
7:00 PM
Spike Gillespie’s Dick Monologues
Hyde Park Theatre
511 West 43rd Street 78751
AUSTIN, TX
For reservations, tickets and info: spike@spikeg.com
dickmonologues.com
________________________________________________________________

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2008
8:00 PM
CRUELTY Release Show!
Opening Bell – Mosaic
300 North Akard #300 75202
DALLAS, TX
214-665-BELL
openingbellcoffee.com
________________________________________________________________

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2008
7:30 PM
Opening for The Asylum Street Spankers!
Jefferson Freedom Cafe
1959 Sandy Lane 76112
FORT WORTH, TX
jeffersonfreedomcafe.org
________________________________________________________________

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2008
9:00 PM (Doors open at 8.)
Matt the Electrician & Southpaw Jones
Anderson Fair
2007 Grant 77006
HOUSTON, TX
713.528.8576
www.andersonfair.com
________________________________________________________________

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2008
Lajitas Resort
HC 70, Box 400 79852
LAJITAS, TX
432.424.5000
lajitas.com
________________________________________________________________

CRUELTY is now available!
Order the CD now at southpawjones.com.
Purchase MP3s at cdbaby.com or badgeitunes61x15dark Boo..
Grab a copy in real time at Waterloo Records, End of an Ear, or Bookpeople in Austin.
Or buy one from me any Thursday at Flipnotics @ the Triangle.
Thank you, come again!
myspace.com/southpawjones
E-mail southpaw@southpawjones.com
©2008 Southpaw Jones. All rights reserved.

Free Listen: The Great Pumpkin Soup

soup Free Listen: The Great Pumpkin Soup

Halloween is tomorrow, so I’m posting the third song I recorded in 2006 for Austin’s legendary Soup Peddler. I gotta be honest, I had a pretty good time digging it up and listening to it this morning.

Twice.

Enjoy, and tell your friends who’s comin’!


Click here if you can’t see the audio player.

100years Free Listen: The Great Pumpkin Soup
as reported in The New York Times

October 30, 1908
ROCKEFELLER FOR TAFT.
“Not a Man to Venture with Rash Experiments” or Impede Prosperity.
A statement from John D. Rockefeller telling the public that he intends to vote for Taft for President next Tuesday, why he will do so, and why he thinks Mr. Taft should be elected was sent out last night from the Standard Oil Company’s office, at 26 Broadway.

museum Free Listen: The Great Pumpkin Soup
One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:

I know it’s early, but it’s a beautiful Sunday morning, and I’m seeking for a Judeo-Christian congregation of worshippers that best suits my needs. Would you like to participate in my…

Highlight here for answer: [church search]

museum Free Listen: The Great Pumpkin Soup
I Am Beautiful Too: Slime Mold Rehabilitated

103008 Free Listen: The Great Pumpkin Soup


quotopia Free Listen: The Great Pumpkin Soup

Home is not where you live but where they understand you.
Christian Morgenstern

shows Free Listen: The Great Pumpkin Soup

EVERY DANG THURSDAY
Matt the Electrician & Southpaw Jones
8:00 PM
Flipnotics at the Triangle
4600 Guadalupe
AUSTIN, TX
(512) 380-0097
www.flipnotics.com
________________________________________________________________

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2008
7:00 PM
Spike Gillespie’s Dick Monologues
Hyde Park Theatre
511 West 43rd Street 78751
AUSTIN, TX
For reservations, tickets and info: spike@spikeg.com
dickmonologues.com
________________________________________________________________

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2008
8:00 PM
CRUELTY Release Show!
Opening Bell – Mosaic
300 North Akard #300 75202
DALLAS, TX
214-665-BELL
openingbellcoffee.com
________________________________________________________________

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2008
7:30 PM
Opening for The Asylum Street Spankers!
Jefferson Freedom Cafe
1959 Sandy Lane 76112
FORT WORTH, TX
jeffersonfreedomcafe.org
________________________________________________________________

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2008
9:00 PM (Doors open at 8.)
Matt the Electrician & Southpaw Jones
Anderson Fair
2007 Grant 77006
HOUSTON, TX
713.528.8576
www.andersonfair.com
________________________________________________________________

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2008
Lajitas Resort
HC 70, Box 400 79852
LAJITAS, TX
432.424.5000
lajitas.com
________________________________________________________________

CRUELTY is now available!
Order the CD now at southpawjones.com.
Purchase MP3s at cdbaby.com or badgeitunes61x15dark Free Listen: The Great Pumpkin Soup.
Grab a copy in real time at Waterloo Records, End of an Ear, or Bookpeople in Austin.
Or buy one from me any Thursday at Flipnotics @ the Triangle.
Thank you, come again!
myspace.com/southpawjones
E-mail southpaw@southpawjones.com
©2008 Southpaw Jones. All rights reserved.

Free Listen: Sometimes I Forget

My dear friend Bill Passalacqua posted the following on his blog over the weekend:

My buddy and one of my favorite songwriters Southpaw Jones has a song on his new CD (CRUELTY) called “Sometimes I Forget.” After watching the new McCain ad “Storm,” I thought of what a prescient song it is. And quirky and smart and funny. That’s Southpaw Jones.

Thanks for being a booster, Bill!

Speaking of fear and such, I found out about a study last month that claims the following: “Those with ‘markedly lower physical sensitivity to sudden noises and threatening visual images’ tended to support liberal positions, while those with strong responses tended to be more conservative.”

You gotta let that sink in for a minute.

It kind of makes sense, doesn’t it? Conservatives simply respond more to fear than liberals. And they’re supposed to be the tough guys! I mean, without fear, where would the right wing of this country be? What would the McCain campaign look like if they didn’t rely so heavily on the crutch of suspicion, innuendo, and fear-mongering?

I decided to post “Sometimes I Forget” in preparation for Election Day 2008. You can purchase the tune on iTunes, Amazon, or as part of my latest CD, CRUELTY. Matt the Electrician and Seela back me up on the track.

Parental discretion is advised.


Click here if you cannot see the audio player.

Sometimes I Forget

Sometimes I forget that Magic Johnson
Is infected with the deadly virus known as HIV
As I pin him to the wall and make sweet love to him
Right after we been drinkin’
These days all I hear about is
How he owns a sports team and some movie theaters
So like an unfettered tiger, I ravage him
Without even blinkin’

Sometimes I forget to be afraid
Sometimes I forget to be afraid
And if you’d stop reminding me
I’d have it made
Sometimes I forget to be afraid

Sometimes I forget that two space shuttles
Have exploded, and one became a furnace on the launch pad
As I’m drinking Tang and checking meters
Halfway to a planet we call Mars
Sure, the thought of speeding comets
And that one guy’s glove
Makes it hard to sleep sometimes
But the thought of crashing through Uranus
Always makes me giggle and press on

Sometimes I forget to be afraid…

Sometimes I forget that those two towers fell
When planes collided with them on a day called 9/11
As I’m eatin’ peanuts, reading Skymall
On a one-way flight to old New York
No, I do not fear the harbor or the anthrax
Or the crime rate or the Broadway shows
Look at me, I just might be the biggest infidel
That town has ever seen

Sometimes I forget to be afraid…

It’s these times when I forget
That grace and glory swirl around me
In a dust storm
And I sail upon El Niño with my dream tucked
Like a broom between my thighs
And no government, no terrorist
Could make me feel one ounce of apprehension
As I pray for the lost ones who sit at home
Choking on the lies

Sometimes I forget to be afraid…

100years Free Listen: Sometimes I Forget
as reported in The New York Times

October 29, 1908
DOCTOR FAVORS THE CORSET.
Says Women Probably Could Not Stand Without Artificial Prop.

museum Free Listen: Sometimes I Forget
One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:

He was a professional baseball pitcher before he switched to tennis, so he can start off with wicked benders. He really racks up the aces with his…

Highlight here for answer: [curve serve]

museum Free Listen: Sometimes I Forget
I Am Beautiful Too: Slime Mold Rehabilitated

102908 Free Listen: Sometimes I Forget


quotopia Free Listen: Sometimes I Forget

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Frank Herbert

shows Free Listen: Sometimes I Forget

EVERY DANG THURSDAY
Matt the Electrician & Southpaw Jones
8:00 PM
Flipnotics at the Triangle
4600 Guadalupe
AUSTIN, TX
(512) 380-0097
www.flipnotics.com
________________________________________________________________

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2008
7:00 PM
Spike Gillespie’s Dick Monologues
Hyde Park Theatre
511 West 43rd Street 78751
AUSTIN, TX
For reservations, tickets and info: spike@spikeg.com
dickmonologues.com
________________________________________________________________

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2008
8:00 PM
CRUELTY Release Show!
Opening Bell – Mosaic
300 North Akard #300 75202
DALLAS, TX
214-665-BELL
openingbellcoffee.com
________________________________________________________________

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2008
7:30 PM
Opening for The Asylum Street Spankers!
Jefferson Freedom Cafe
1959 Sandy Lane 76112
FORT WORTH, TX
jeffersonfreedomcafe.org
________________________________________________________________

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2008
9:00 PM (Doors open at 8.)
Matt the Electrician & Southpaw Jones
Anderson Fair
2007 Grant 77006
HOUSTON, TX
713.528.8576
www.andersonfair.com
________________________________________________________________

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2008
Lajitas Resort
HC 70, Box 400 79852
LAJITAS, TX
432.424.5000
lajitas.com
________________________________________________________________

CRUELTY is now available!
Order the CD now at southpawjones.com.
Purchase MP3s at cdbaby.com or badgeitunes61x15dark Free Listen: Sometimes I Forget.
Grab a copy in real time at Waterloo Records, End of an Ear, or Bookpeople in Austin.
Or buy one from me any Thursday at Flipnotics @ the Triangle.
Thank you, come again!
myspace.com/southpawjones
E-mail southpaw@southpawjones.com
©2008 Southpaw Jones. All rights reserved.

Oh, Four.

Here we are, one week from Election Day 2008. I have already voted, because I’m a childless elitist with liberal time on my hands.

I decided to dig up my Ineffectual Election Song from 2004 to remind everyone how heartbreaking politics can be. If the Bush Presidency existed solely to lead us to an Obama Presidency, well, my adult life as an American will make a lot more sense.

Here’s the song as it appears on Bedroom Demos Vol. 1: Zero Demand.


(Click here if you can’t see the audio player.)

100years Oh, Four.
as reported in The New York Times

October 28, 1908
PRESIDENT REACHES HALF-CENTURY POST
King Edward, Gov. Hughes, Archbishop Ireland, and Others Send Felicitations.
President Roosevelt to-day celebrated his fiftieth birthday. All day long a string of messenger boys bearing congratulatory messages, penned in many quarters of the globe, trooped to the White House. This and the steady line of express wagons that brought flowers and other presents alone made the day different from other workdays at the Executive office.

museum Oh, Four.
One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:

When Sarah “Barracuda” runs for president in 2012, I think she should join up with the great country singer Mr. Jennings. They’d have great posters that say…

Highlight here for answer: [Palin Waylon]

museum Oh, Four.
I Am Beautiful Too: Slime Mold Rehabilitated

102808 Oh, Four.


quotopia Oh, Four.

In one week, you can put an end to the politics that would divide a nation just to win an election; that tries to pit region against region, and city against town, Republican against Democrat; that asks us to fear at a time when we need hope,” he said. “As I’ve said from the day we began this journey all those months ago, the change we need isn’t just about new programs and policies. It’s about a new attitude. It’s about new politics — a politics that calls on our better angels instead of encouraging our worst instincts; one that reminds us of the obligations we have to ourselves and one another.
Barack Obama

shows Oh, Four.

EVERY DANG THURSDAY
8:00 PM
Flipnotics at the Triangle
4600 Guadalupe
AUSTIN, TX
(512) 380-0097
www.flipnotics.com
________________________________________________________________

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2008
9:00 PM (Doors open at 8.)
Matt the Electrician & Southpaw Jones
Anderson Fair
2007 Grant 77006
HOUSTON, TX
713.528.8576
www.andersonfair.com

CRUELTY is now available!
Order the CD now at southpawjones.com.
Purchase MP3s at cdbaby.com or badgeitunes61x15dark Oh, Four..
Grab a copy in real time at Waterloo Records, End of an Ear, or Bookpeople in Austin.
Or buy one from me any Thursday at Flipnotics @ the Triangle.
Thank you, come again!
myspace.com/southpawjones
E-mail southpaw@southpawjones.com
©2008 Southpaw Jones. All rights reserved.

More Space for Mediocrity

Yet another wonderful Austin weekend has come to an end.

My mother visited Saturday, so I took her to witness a record-breaking 881 Austinites dancing to Michael Jackson’s Thriller in the afternoon sun. What a sight! Sweet Maggie rocked it, and I had several friends in the zombie-filled mass. I was so proud of my town, especially when no other participating city came close to our numbers. Lick it, Los Angeles! Check out the videos at thrilltheworldaustin.com.

Sunday, Maggie and I had the bittersweet experience of watching Willie Nelson play the last show at The Backyard, Austin’s best large-but-not-too-large outdoor venue for the past 16 years. When we bought tickets months ago, it looked like pure Willie show. Fine with me, right? In the last few weeks, though, it morphed into a one-day Texas Music festival! They kept pushing back the time when the doors would open. 5, 4, 3, 2 pm. We didn’t catch the whole shebang, but we did get to see Carolyn Wonderland, The Gourds, Kelly Willis, Jimmy Vaughn, and Grupo Fantasma.

Do whatever you can to see Carolyn Wonderland and Grupo Fantasma in your lifetime.

When Willie came on last, we were tired but ready for some universal classics and playful guitar solos. He did not disappoint, and we now stand at 3 Willie shows and counting.

The life cycle of The Backyard seems to be a familiar one. Something beautiful and artistic pops up somewhere, inspiring and entertaining people from far and wide. Businessmen and developers start to take notice that people are drawn to the thing. They put up disgusting malls and chain restaurants, smothering the very beauty and originality that brought people to the area in the first place.

Bohemia and community improve a place in the world, and then commercial banality swoops in to profit and destroy. It happened in New York, Seattle, San Francisco, and it is happening now in Austin.

My question is this: Why do boring people always have to crash the parties of interesting people? YOU ARE BORING! You know this. I don’t judge you, but deal with it. Just go live somewhere boring, and don’t bring your Cinnabon to my neighborhood. Turn on your network television and forget you ever heard of Austin.

Thanks.

I’m trying to be more positive, so let me just say this: The Backyard was a beautiful Texas music venue, and it’s a miracle that it lasted 16 years before a galleria literally gobbled it up.

100years More Space for Mediocrity
as reported in The New York Times

October 27, 1908
ORVILLE WRIGHT TO VOTE.
Injured Aviator May Have to be Carried to Polls.

museum More Space for Mediocrity
One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:

I can’t decide which tints and tinges to use in my decor. Will you come over and help me…

Highlight here for answer: [choose hues]

museum More Space for Mediocrity
I Am Beautiful Too: Slime Mold Rehabilitated

102708 More Space for Mediocrity


quotopia More Space for Mediocrity

For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
Lucretius

shows More Space for Mediocrity

EVERY DANG THURSDAY
8:00 PM
Flipnotics at the Triangle
4600 Guadalupe
AUSTIN, TX
(512) 380-0097
www.flipnotics.com
________________________________________________________________

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2008
9:00 PM (Doors open at 8.)
Matt the Electrician & Southpaw Jones
Anderson Fair
2007 Grant 77006
HOUSTON, TX
713.528.8576
www.andersonfair.com

CRUELTY is now available!
Order the CD now at southpawjones.com.
Purchase MP3s at cdbaby.com or badgeitunes61x15dark More Space for Mediocrity.
Grab a copy in real time at Waterloo Records, End of an Ear, or Bookpeople in Austin.
Or buy one from me any Thursday at Flipnotics @ the Triangle.
Thank you, come again!
myspace.com/southpawjones
E-mail southpaw@southpawjones.com
©2008 Southpaw Jones. All rights reserved.