Southpaw Jones

CRUELTY is now available!
Order the CD now at southpawjones.com.
Purchase MP3s at cdbaby.com or .
Grab a copy in real time at Waterloo Records or End of an Ear in Austin.
Or buy one from me any Thursday at Flipnotics @ the Triangle.

Sorry about Monday, everyone.

It’s here.

There’s no reason to be rude to it.

Maybe it isn’t like previous Mondays.

Let’s not judge it until we get to know it better.

Let’s focus on the positive.

I’m still glowing from my new t-shirt that came in the mail last week. I don’t have a picture of it stretched across my manly chest, but I do have this:

Isn’t it beautiful? Ms. Jenny Booth pointed me to the website, and I just had to buy it.

If you know me at all, you know that I’m proud of my keytar, even though I can’t play it all that well, and I only know two songs on it.

I discovered my Yamaha SHS-10 in a used instrument store in Nashville almost ten years ago. It was hiding under a table in all its red glory. Years later, I found a case for it, and I started including it regularly in my sets.

Somehow, that exact model of tiny-keyed electro-rocker has become an icon of the keytar world. Several months ago, sweet Maggie and I were in an Old Navy for god-knows-what, when we discovered a plush replica of my keytar in a bin of dog toys! 3 bucks? I’ll take it.

Now, during the great keytar resurgence of 2008, I have this t-shirt, which also features the exact features of my beat-packing velvet techno-sword!

So, I’ve only seen one of these SHS-10s in real life, and it’s the one I own. But I have its countenance duplicated on both a chew toy and a t-shirt!

What’s next? A modern art installation including a 10-story, fully functional red keytar just like mine?

I can’t wait.

as reported in The New York Times

WIFE SAVES HUSBAND’S LIFE.
Beats Out Flames with Bare Hands While Others Flee in Terror.
JERSEYVILLE, Ill. — While the other guests, men and women, fled in terror, Mrs. Edward B. Griggs of Jerseyville, Ill., dragged her husband from the blazing Otter Creek Clubhouse, on the Illinois River, near Hardin, to-night, and with her bare hands beat out the fire that was flaming his oil-saturated clothes.

One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:

That record-breaking Olympic swimmer is a mighty inspiration. These days, we Americans have trouble feeling good about ourselves, but…

Highlight here for answer: [Phelps helps]


Popcorn Cat

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carver

EVERY DANG THURSDAY
8:00 PM
Flipnotics at the Triangle
4600 Guadalupe
AUSTIN, TX
(512) 380-0097
www.flipnotics.com
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2008
Matt the Electrician & Southpaw Jones
8:00 pm
Wyldwood House Concert
4205 Wyldwood Road
AUSTIN, TX
wyldwood.startlogic.com
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2008
Celebrating the lyrics of CRUELTY!
BookPeople
603 N. Lamar
AUSTIN, TX
(512) 472-5050
www.bookpeople.com