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monday song #59: rachel rides the short bus

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] “don’t move. i’ve almost got your left eye.” kevin does as he’s told, watching rachel scribble and erase, scribble and erase. “are you almost done?” she focuses on the sheet of paper in front of her, “every time you move, you make it take longer.”

monday song #42: punk

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] james lives on fenton street down the block from the empty lot that once held the 7-11. a firehouse is going up slowly. he’s a teenager, but you’d only know it from the library books in his backpack: salinger, the autobiography of malcolm x, arthur c clarke. his [...]

monday song #23: first communion

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] number 23. the mystical number for fans of psychic tv and throbbing gristle. and the chicago bulls. i realized after i posted last week’s song that that the memory parade of our protagonist had begun in the late 30s with a 30s style song. figured the next milestone [...]

monday song #19: high dive

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] [show note: i'm playing at the pub at vios next monday, april 6. corner of 20th ave and 65th street. kids welcome. great food. and my music. see you there. 7 to 9pm. no cover. can you beat it?]   number 19. not much to say about the [...]

monday song #18: you and only me

[Audio clip: view full post to listen]   eighteen. voting age. no longer a minor. except for the folks in this song… this would fit nicely in the real life high school musical world begun in number 16, “lowe valley high.” hell, the subject of this crush could even be meghan. it’s a small world [...]

monday song #16: lowe valley high

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] [show note: see you all tonight at the pub at Vios (65th st. and 20th ave; below third place books in north seattle). i'll be going on around 7pm. as usual, it's free, kids are welcome, and there is excellent food served there.]   sweet sixteen is like [...]