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The Princess: What are you whistling?
C-Man: Mad World.
The Princess: Oh.
C-Man: You don't believe me?
The Princess: I thought it was The Dreidel Song.
Mike Doughty's show at the Cactus Cafe here in Austin last night was part of his tour called The Question Jar. He invited the audience members to each put one question into a jar, then he answered a few in between almost every song. C-Man and I did our best to remember them without being obsessive or taking notes, here's what we got. His answers are in parentheses.
- Do you know the Muffin Man? (No.)
- How much bacon is too much? (Fifty cubits.)
- Will you play American Car? (No.)
- Do you like robots? (Yes. These are easy questions!)
- In the early/late 1990s, do you remember getting an email from a guy in Houston inviting you to a high school debate party? If so, why didn't you come? (I told you guys I was on drugs during the 90s.)
- Which is your favorite leg? (Left leg.)
- Which of your songs is your favorite? (Fuckin' shitfuck, I don't know. It changes. There's a pansy-ass answer.)
- With the advent of digital music distribution (mp3s), why are there no more supergroups (Foreigner, Rush, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, Poison)? (Summary: you've been getting screwed by record companies for a long time, I'm glad they're not making money anymore.)
- My lovely wife and I met at a Soul Coughing show in New Orleans. Will you play our fifth wedding anniversary? (Probably not, but congratulations.)
- Would we have fashionable babies? (Obviously we would.)
- Why did you go to northern Africa? (Summary: Listened to some 1970s records from Ethiopia.)
- Was there one event that made you realize you needed to get sober? (Summary: There were a couple, here is the funny one. He was in a hotel room in Cleveland, shitfaced at 10am, ordered room service, and when the server showed up he had his daughter with him because it was Take Your Daughter to Work Day. He felt terrible.)
- How is recovery? (Great!)
- What three things do you most often think about? (Food, girls, music.)
- Were you ever thrown out of a bar in Rochester, NY for looking at porn on a computer? (No.)
- How do you feel about Steely Dan? (I like Steely Dan. I'm not going to be one of those not liking Steely Dan guys.)
- Can you play Purple Rain? (We think so... and they did!)
- Did you give Sebastien a beat down for playing bass for Vanessa Carlton? (I didn't know he did, but hats off to him.)
- Do you still talk to the Cuban girl? (Yes. She's bummed about the song.)
- Since Soul Coughing, your songwriting has become more spiritual. Was there something in particular that caused that? (I used to be a junkie who listened to Sam Cooke records and decided to believe in Jesus. So it started a while ago.)
- Who was the favorite person you have worked with during your musical career, and do you have any more collaborations coming up? (Summary: The producer on the first couple of Soul Coughing albums, because he was a freak. He thought there were 6 singles on Ruby Vroom and that Circles was a crap song.)
- What do you get when you cross a tree and a metronome? (I don't know, what do you get?)
- How do you deal with writer's block now that you're sober? (Summary: drugs were more of a writer's block.)
- What's the inspiration for the chorus of True Dreams of Wichita? (Summary: his girlfriend dumped him for his drummer, they went on a roadtrip and kept calling him and leaving messages cause they assumed he was still their friend. One call was from Wichita.)
- What's your perfect day? (Eating good food . . . and DOIN' IT.)
If you've ever seen a woman look sexier in suspenders than KT Tunstall does in this video, I'd like to know about it. Right now.
And how much am I loving this album cover?
How did I not know about this woman until this week?
- Andrew Bird - Skin
- Patsy Cline - Leavin' On Your Mind
- Luscious Jackson - Daughters of the Kaos
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Weeping Song
- Cibo Matto - Flowers
- Gomez - Shot Shot
- Cocteau Twins - Aikea-Guinea
- Joe Williams - I Can't Beleve You're In Love With Me
- The Church - Under The Milky Way (Acoustic)
- The Resentments - Rich Man's War
- Tori Amos - Angie
- Fiona Apple - Across the Universe
- The Blue Up? - Breathe You Out
- Dany Brillant - Suzette
- Lyle Lovett - You're Not From Texas
BlogHer presentation and notes are done, blog mega-post is halfway done, mega-post will become 2-pager handout... I am so tired... Did I mention I worked until 9:30 Monday night? Whine.
[Update, 9:06 p.m. Those of you who are reading this via Atom Feed probably see the correct numbering for the list above. Those of you looking at the page directly are not seeing the first digit of every two-digit number. I am too tired to fix it. Just marvel at it...]
- Ben Folds Five - Kate
- Jonathan Richman - Velvet Underground
- New Model Army - Stupid Questions
- Suzanne Vega - Calypso
- Ruby - Tiny Meat
- Depeche Mode - I Feel You
- Dinah Washington - Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby? [Rae & Christian Remix]
- (skip another Ben Folds Five Song)
- (skip another Jonathan Richman Song - c'mon, you have 2,467 songs to pick from!)
- Solas - Paddy's Taylors / McFadden's Handsome Daughter / The Narrowback / Frank's Reel / Esther's Reel
- Pete Yorn - Sense
- Golden Palominos - Pure
This is my souvenir from NYC, where C-Man is currently vacationing. Have I mentioned how much I love this man?
Editor's Note: For those of you who are mystified by the image, go here. Or ignore it. Totally up to you, no hard feelings either way.
[Updated 6/14 to clarify. Change in brackets.]
So one of my friends tagged me with one of these bizarre blog meme things. I usually ignore these, but since she called me out by name it seemed rude [to ignore this one].
The instructions are this: List your six favorite songs and tag six others to do the same.
Oh please.
The freakiest thing ever in the history of the world: Bloodhag. They're a death-metal (a.k.a. EduCore) band that performs short songs about science fiction authors, and they will let you in free to a show with a 300-word essay about any of those authors.
You can also listen to their song about Thomas Pynchon. (Be careful, music started instantly when I went to this page.)
ITunes is keeping me company, on random. I often think it's trying to tell me something with its "random" choices, but this time I have no clue. I feel that with 1659 songs to choose from, it's overrepresenting Tori, the Church, TMBG, and Yves Duteil a bit - are they connected in some way? Part of an international plot to brainwash me with subliminal messages?
I started it on:
Alpha Beta Gaga (Mark Ronson Vocal remix) - Air
"Random" output:
My good San Antonian friend wrote me this:
Here's how it works. You select ten CDs you'd take with you to a desert island. You can take them and no others. The only stipulation is that they must come from your current CD library. Modest anthologies (two, maybe three discs) are permitted, but, say, the dozen plus discs in the complete series of the late Isaac Stern, A Life in Music, would not be.
I'm assuming self-made mixes are out, even if they are single artist compilations made across albums - which is a lot of my collection. This holds even for many of my favorite artists, because I don't tend to like everything on any of their albums. So Gomez, Dar Williams, Tom Waits, Pete Yorn, the Be Good Tanyas, Sarah Slean, Adam Ant, Ben Folds Five, Jonathan Richman, Luscious Jackson, Poe, They Might Be Giants, Solas, Greg Brown, and Ashley MacIsaac lose out because I bought their stuff, ripped it, and burned greatest hits collections for myself.
Boy does that narrow it down. Very efficient.
My 10 that could actually be purchased in stores:
- Soul Coughing - El Oso
- Cake - Comfort Eagle
- Faith No More - Introduce Yourself
- Moxy Früvous - You Will Go To The Moon (or Live Noise?)
- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Let Love In
- Battlefield Band - Home Is Where The Van Is
- Alanis Morissette - Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
- PJ Harvey - 4-Track Demos
- Sleater-Kinney - One Beat
- Liz Phair - whitechocolatespaceegg
If I could wait to leave for the desert island until after Katell Keineg's new one came out, I would replace the PJ Harvey with that.
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