Southpaw Jones

God bless the world on this anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in 2001. Seven years later, let’s pray it was the end of the beginning, and not the beginning of the end.

Thanks to the fine folks at Bookpeople for hosting my CRUELTY CD Release and Lyric Reading last night. It was a wonderful, strange experience and one of the best nights of my life. If you’ve never had people you admire read your life’s work back to you in public, well, I whole-heartedly recommend it. It’s sort of like attending your own beautiful funeral, but you didn’t do anything to urn it. Oh, I kill me.

I want to thank everyone who attended and all the participants. If you were there last night, you may remember these amazing performances:

Amelia Gray – Sometimes I Forget
Ben Bartley – Grandma
Brian Kremer (as election year politician) – Everyman
Idgy Vaughn – Hot So Hot
Jaycee Wilemon – You Let Me Down
Kristine Kovach (as William Shatner) – Sewing Machine
Laura Lane (as Sarah Palin) – The Last Remaining Beatle
Lindsey Lane – Main Street
Maggie Wilhite – El Soldado
Robin Chotzinoff – Fatty Arbuckle
Rudy Ramirez (as sultry soap opera gentleman) – To Be So Bland + Women, Yes Sir
Spike Gillespie – The Cruelty of Teenage Girls

All these folks are involved in amazing individual and group projects around Austin, and I’m so glad they took the time to recite my words in the comfy, supportive belly of Bookpeople.

as reported in The New York Times

September 11, 1908
JILTED AT THE ALTAR.
Hiram Curtis, 79 Years Old, Changed His Mind at Last Moment.
STAMFORD, Conn. — Jilted at the altar, Miss Emma G. Weed of High Ridge, Stamford, is ill at her home. She threatens to sue Hiram Curtis for heavy damages.

One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:

In this judge’s opinion, you are falsely impersonating a clothing-conscious British teenager from the 1960’s, and I will not allow you to continue this…

Highlight here for answer: [mod fraud]


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A dreaded society is not a civilized society. The most progressive and powerful society in the civilized sense, is a society which has recognized its ethos, and come to terms with the past and the present, with religion and science, with modernism and mysticism, with materialism and spirituality; a society free of tension, a society rich in culture. Such a society cannot come with hocus-pocus formulas and with fraud. It has to flow from the depth of a divine search.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

EVERY DANG THURSDAY
8:00 PM
Flipnotics at the Triangle
4600 Guadalupe
AUSTIN, TX
(512) 380-0097
www.flipnotics.com
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2008
7:00 PM
Five Things Austin
Do512 Lounge
2208. S. Lamar
AUSTIN, TX
Each artist is given an item purchased at a local dollar store (mundane to insane) and a month to craft a 5-10 minute piece (fiction or non-, musical or otherwise) that involves the item as directly or obliquely as the author wishes. The item is then put on display during, or incorporated into the performance. Featuring Owen Egerton, Spike Gillespie, and more!
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2008
9:00 PM (Doors open at 8.)
Matt the Electrician & Southpaw Jones
Anderson Fair
2007 Grant 77006
HOUSTON, TX
713.528.8576
www.andersonfair.com