Knee Play 4/4
“When the executive called for the curtains to be opened, there at center stage stood Jerry Lee(Lewis), Chuck Berry, and Elmo Lewis. Chuck Berry was holding a knife to Jerry Lee’s throat, and Pappy Lewis had the open end of a shotgun pressed to the base of Berry’s skull. The audience uttered no sound.” from […]
Knee Play 3/4
“Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood” Lord Alfred Tennyson ____________________________________________
Knee Play 2/4
“Us honkies hate them niggers ’cause they got them big long dicks” “I Was Born in a One-Nigger Town”, Tom T. Hall ___________________________________________
Knee Play 1/4
“And if you don’t wanna smell my smoke, Don’t monkey with my gun.” “Pistol Packin’ Papa”, Jimmie Rodgers ________________________________________________
Gimme Five: Mirage, by Camel
What if I told you an album took only five tracks to distill almost every musical ethos of The Seventies within it? Smoke ’em if you got ’em, rockers; here comes Mirage, from British prog superstars(I know, saying “British” prog superstars is a tad redundant) Camel. 1. “Freefall” Why not start with something a little […]
A Brief Warm-Up Post: “Do You Remember 44/Roxy Music Laden: for Tim Dodd”
Do you remember 44? from the voice of a ghost across the room, The voice of half-dream. And in the hue of the standby lights I seemed Bathed in the same blue, and even though I can’t stay in them for long tonight I hope He was at least half sincere; Braced over the sink, a […]
An Open Letter To Nico Rose
Dear Nico, Your mom usually chastises me for editing too much, so for her sake I’m just gonna write. It is spring again in the place your mom used to live. The oak bark, still soaked black, contrasts with the green-gold of the first leaves all the way up the hill on 170. Even this early a […]
Gimme Five: The Overwrought
A definition, if you will:
O-ver-wrought (oh-ver-rawt), adj.
1. extremely or excessively excited or agitated: to becomeoverwrought on hearing bad news; an overwrought personality.–2. elaborated to excess; excessively complex or ornate: writtenin a florid, overwrought style.–3. Archaic . wearied or exhausted by overwork.–
The First Cut: Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd.
1. It was impossible to to imagine Debbie Carney as a fan of The Monkees. She was too cool.
So cool that she ran home from school as fast as she could just to catch the last 
half-hour of Dark Shadows. So odd that she drank iced pickle juice at the movie theater when she went to watch horror/sci-fi double features. So against the grain that in the not-so-secretly racist 1950’s Tulsa, she did her best to befriend the neighborhood black kid, something most white girls simply would not do. Her musical tastes included poor role models like Janis Joplin. She was totally cool. And, as “fake” as I thought they were, she loved The Monkees. A lot. Continue reading “The First Cut: Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd.”
pirategeorge.com 