Southpaw Jones

You have just ONE day to live your life without CRUELTY!
How shall you spend it?
CD Release Tomorrow!
Tuesday, July 29 @ Cactus Cafe.

Tomorrow night is the big CD release, and I’m starting to feel the odd sensation of preparedness. On Sunday, I finally put down my self-promotion hat and put on my artist/performer hat to rehearse for the show. Southpaw rehearsal features me in a closed room with an unplugged microphone on a stand. I start working through songs, and it is a constant battle to keep from exploring tangents or starting new tunes. Trust me, it is much more fun to come up with new musics than polish old musics. But sometimes you just have to polish, especially if you’re Polish. I may be part Polish, as I am a mystery mutt.

Thanks to everyone who pre-ordered CRUELTY. I personally sent those out on Saturday, so they should be getting to you today or Tuesday. If it ends up being Wednesday, well, I miscalculated the USPS’s abilities, and I apologize.

I’ll put the PayPal button back up tomorrow, so you can order a copy or twelve of CRUELTY, and I’ll also post some other ways you can score those sweet, sweet tunes.

If you’re coming to the CD release show tomorrow, feel free to e-mail song requests, or drop them in a comment. I can’t promise I’ll play them all, but I’ll give them hearty southwestern consideration.

And now, some Class Acts:

• James Taylor
• Meryl Streep
• Joni Mitchell
• Studs Terkel
• Bobby “The Brain” Heenan

as reported in The New York Times

July 28, 1908
KILLED BY ELECTRIFIED TUB.
Lieut. Oswalt Tries to Arrange Electric Bath with Fatal Results.

One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:

I know you’ve got a lot to do, but there’s no reason to get so excited and agitated. If you’re not careful, you’re going to work yourself into a…

Highlight here for answer: [busy tizzy]


Fitness One Hundred Years Ago

The first step towards madness is to think oneself wise.
Fernando de Rojas

EVERY DANG THURSDAY
8:00 PM
Flipnotics at the Triangle
4600 Guadalupe
AUSTIN, TX
(512) 380-0097
www.flipnotics.com
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TUESDAY, JULY 29, 2008
8:30 pm
Cactus Cafe
The Texas Union, 24th & Guadalupe
AUSTIN, TX
CD Release Celebration for CRUELTY!
(512) 475-6515
www.utexas.edu/txunion/ae/cactus/index.php
Raina Rose opens.
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 2008
8:00 pm
Oma Gruene
1263 Gruene Rd.
NEW BRAUNFELS, TX
CD Release Celebration for CRUELTY!
830-237-5746
www.omagruene.com
Raina Rose opens.