Southpaw Jones presents
Thoughts/feelings that just might not matter:
Man, last night at Café Mundi was fab-o-tablier. Just laid back and smooth, the way I like ‘em. I was joined by friends/colleagues Max Tolleson and Bill Passalacqua who played three songs each. Before the show, Max interviewed me for his school paper on the topic of CDs versus MP3s, or hard copy versus virtual copy. I told him that I tend to fall on the side of empowering technology across the board. Yes, CDs sound better, and yes, going to the store is fun. But vinyl records sound even better, and buying them was much more fun! Technology always takes us one step back and two steps forward. The world of digitized music allows just about anybody to record and distribute their own sounds. That fact alone seals the deal for me. There are dozens of agoraphobic geniuses out there, and it’s time we hear their tunes!
There’s just too much stuff in the world already without more jewel cases, tray cards, liner notes, shrink-wrap, and compact discs adding to the junk. There, I said it.
Southpaw Jones presents
Freshly-picked quotes from the ol’ reference collection:
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Edward Gibbon
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More verbosity with velocity and viscosity:
Now, back to my telling of the Raina Rose & Southpaw Jones Pacific Northwest Tour. On Friday, we headed straight from Seattle to Eugene. Well, we did stop briefly at the Seattle REI store. It’s like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder how I keep from going under. You know, going Down Under to do some hiking and rock climbing. Shrimp on the barbie? No? Anywayz, it was huge, like three stories. And there was an urban forest with a waterfall outside the store! It was like an Ewok village. I didn’t buy anything. Raina got sunglasses. It seems that the strategy behind modern retail is simply to overwhelm customers. They want you to walk into a place and think, “Man, this place is gynormous and filled with stuff arrayed in unique ways. I…must…buuuuuuuuy…” It’s like marketing by gravity.
Once we escaped from REI’s tractor beam, it was smooth sailing to Eugene, specifically Cozmic Pizza. Ever have the desire to get a slice of organic pizza pie, drink some gourmet coffee, check out some used books, drink a beer, AND hear some live music? Well, Cozmic Pizza is the place for you. It was a fun gig, and we ran into Brian Cutean, Laura Freeman, and other Kerrville friends. After the show, we walked a few blocks to see Myshkin’s Ruby Warblers rock a fancy club for adults.
Spike Gillespie presents
A look at our past, / seventeen syllables and / three lines at a time:
The young dot-wealthy
kiss hubris ‘bye: bubble bursts.
Can’t cash laughingstocks.
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Pics of Southpaw & his environ:
A small picture of a very large place: the flagship REI of Seattle, WA.
Thank you, come again!
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