Southpaw Jones

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Thoughts/feelings that just might not matter:

30 Things I’ve Learned in 30 Years (Part 2)

11. Art rejects repetition, but art requires a stage, and the stage requires repetition, but art rejects repetition…

12. It’s quite hard to say “Don’t tell people how to be” without sounding preachy.

13. Fake plants, fake friends, fake orgasms. They’re better than nothin’.

14. “You catch more bees with honey than with vinegar.” Um, yes, but if you have honey, why do you need bees? I say, enjoy the honey on some buttered bread, and use the vinegar to clean your coffee maker. Forget the bees, buy some beads.

15. Hyper liberals seek out close-to-home and complex conflicts, while hyper conservatives long for far away, simple battles. Reasonable people look for peace, quiet, and folks to play board games with.

16. Perhaps grace is much more important than I thought when I was twenty.

17. Watch out for people who believe in “the sanctity of life.” They are much more likely to kill you than those who don’t.

18. To be worth your time and space on this earth, you have to bring about more good than all that garbage you left on the curb. Literal and figurative garbage. Literal and figurative curb. If you leave your figurative garbage on your literal curb, your neighbors will think you’re crazy.

19. The love between a great-grandparent and a great-grandchild is that powerful, unique kind that says, “I may just die before you turn into a boring ol’ adult.”

20. Extremely poor men and extremely rich men cause trouble for the exact same reason: too much time on their hands.

And Another Thing…
More verbosity with velocity and viscosity:

Friday night at Ruta Maya:

• Your chance to celebrate 30 Years of Southpaw Jones with my pals and me!
• My last public performance until May!
• A five-hour festival of music and merriment!
• Quite possibly the last birthday I will ever celebrate publicly.
• The reason that our ancestors and ourselves have existed up to this point.

The shindig starts at 9 pm, and here is the complete list of performers and presenters, in order of appearance:

• Max & Henry (http://www.maxandhenry.com)
• Spike Gillespie (http://www.spikeg.com)
• Abi Tapia (http://www.abitapia.com)
• The Ginn Sisters (http://www.theginnsisters.com)
• Bill Passalacqua (http://www.billpassalacqua.com)
• David Ansel (http://www.souppeddler.com)
• Elroy (http://www.myspace.com/elroytheband)
• Owen Egerton (http://www.owenegerton.com)
• Graham Weber (http://www.grahamweber.com)
• Leatherbag (http://www.myspace.com/leatherbag)
• Brian Kremer (http://www.myspace.com/briankremer)
• C-Dar Fevar (http://www.myspace.com/cedarfever)

That’s right, Austin’s premier boy band will hit the stage around 1 am to dance and sing you into oblivion. I’ll perform and goof off in the in-between times. All performers are volunteers for the night. I am very thankful for their generosity and friendship. Please join me in telling them how great they are.

It’s technically a free show, but I’ll be asking for donations throughout the night to cover expenses. With a small cash birthday gift, you can consider yourself a co-producer of the show!

Before I go, I’ll ask you to mark two May dates on your calendar:
May 2, the return of Matt & Southpaw to Café Mundi.
May 8, my long-awaited tribute to Mr. Bruce Springsteen at the Cactus Café.

Alrighty, I’ll hope to see y’all Friday.

Twenty-something ‘till the weekend,
Southpaw
http://southpawjones.net
http://southpawjones.com

Friday, April 6th, 2007
9:00 PM
CELEBRATE 30 YEARS OF SOUTHPAW
Ruta Maya
3601 S. Congress Ste.D-200
Austin, TX
512-707-9637
http://www.rutamaya.net

Online Museum of the Week
Stuff from 1977:

I am neither Spider-Man nor the kid in this picture. I was busy being born in Houston.

Quotopia
Freshly-picked quotes from the ol’ reference collection:

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.
John Cusack

Paw Prints
Pics of Southpaw, his environ, and his interweb:

30 years of Southpaw, 30 years of pictures. Come celebrate with my pals and me at Ruta Maya on Friday, April 6!

Thank you, come again!
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