Southpaw Jones

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Someone made a video for my song The Last Remaining Beatle!

The song is available on iTunes.

I have to go to the dentist now.

as reported in The New York Times

TOPICS OF THE TIMES.
January 30, 1908
In the February Century there are two accounts of an “educated” dog, a cocker spaniel named Roger, and, taken together, they form one of the finest lessons imaginable, not only for those who are ready to credit dogs with reasoning power, but for all those who interpret the working of animal brains in the terms of human intelligence.

One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:

That dentist’s tool sure does make a grating, high sound. It’s the 21st Century! Can’t he use something other than that…

Highlight here for answer: [shrill drill]


Gum Sculptures

The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist’s drill.
Leonard Woolf

EVERY DANG THURSDAY
with Matt the Electrician
8:00 PM
Flipnotics at the Triangle
4600 Guadalupe
AUSTIN, TX
(512) 380-0097
http://www.flipnotics.com

Maggie & SPJ at Jersey’s Finest party, January 26, 2008.

Here’s a reposting of Cedar Fever’s first video, “U Gave Me the Clap,” in honor our nudity in Still Naked: 2008 Calendar!

Austinites, come grab your copy/copies and enjoy a FREE Cedar Fever performance TONIGHT at Hyde Park Theatre. The party starts at 7:30…we’ll go on around 9. Count on a cash bar with beer & wine, all the cool townies you can imagine, and calendars on sale for only $10. Support the Austin Children of Musicians, Artists and Writers Fund, decorate your wall(s), and have a great time doing it!

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
Thomas Szasz

Again With the Comics




One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:

That Clark Kent, he sure can fool you when he’s feeling mischievous. He really is a…

Highlight here for answer: [super duper]



Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
8:00 PM
NAKED Calendar Release Party
Hyde Park Theater
Austin, TX
Performing as part of C-Dar Fevar.

Thursday, September 27th, 2007
8:00 PM
Bruce Hughes & Southpaw Jones
Flipnotics at the Triangle
4600 Guadalupe
Austin, TX
(512) 380-0097
http://www.flipnotics.com
The New Weekly Show!

Is This Interesting?
Thoughts/feelings that just might not matter:

Oh, how I love They Might Be Giants!

John Linnell is my favorite songwriter of all time, and it’s always a treat to get a batch of new tunes from him and his partner, John Flansburgh.

“The Else” is their new collection, available exclusively from iTunes, until the CD is released in July. Obviously, I couldn’t wait. Yes, I’ll be buying it twice. Thrice, if need be! Soundtrack of the Summer!

Listen to these here tracks, and fall in love all over again just like me.

Contrecoup

Climbing the Walls

And my favorite so far,
The Mesopotamians!

SPJTV
Moving pictures ’cause technology allows it:

Here’s a reposting of C-dar Fevar’s first video, “U Gave Me the Clap,” in honor Owen Egerton’s book release party tonight at BookPeople. 7 pm!

Online Museum of the Week
Pimp My Bookcart:

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

The first thing Jesus said to me when I stumbled from the tomb was, “I wanted to see what four days would do, Lazarus.”
I nodded and brushed some flakes from my skin. He smiled and rested a hand on my back.
“I think I’ll keep it to three,” he said.
Owen Egerton, Lazarus Dying

Rhyme Time!
One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:

Shaven maize.
Highlight here for answer: [shorn corn]

Thank you, come again!
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©2007 Southpaw Jones. All rights reserved.

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!

In the spring of 1999, I said good-bye to college life by performing a show in a lecture hall then falling off a ladder through a table. It knocked the wind out of me, which was no fun, but at least no one asked me to replace the table.

5 Facts, 1 TX Town, a Springsteen Lyric & a famous Jew
In no particular order:

1. The industrial revolution made it possible to work year-round, since this labor was not tied to the season, and artificial lighting made work possible for the greater part of the day.

2. This nineteenth century work schedule was the most intense work effort in the history of labor.

3. Working all day in my daddy’s garage, driving all night chasing some mirage.

4. The Kapauku of Papua think it is bad luck to work two consecutive days.

5. Megargel, Texas

6. ‘Blue Monday’ or ‘Mondayitis’ or “having a case of the Mondays” is a feeling of weariness and apathy that some workers express when starting the work week on Monday.

7. POETS day is an acronym for “Piss Off Early Tomorrow’s Saturday” used by workers in England and Australia, to jocularly refer to Friday.

8. Mel Blanc

Online Museum of the Week
If Geniuses Ruled:

Sorry, no longer available.

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

Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.
Francis Beaumont

SPJTV
Moving pictures because technology allows it:

A dalmation enjoying Lady and the Tramp. Thanks, Arbroath:

Thank you, come again!
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Original Song Lyrics
I write the songs that make the whole world read:

This song appears on Live @ Bongo Java.

Oregon Blues
Southpaw Jones

Oregon’s as good a place as any to hunker down a while
Oregon’s as good a place as any to hunker down a while
I saw and learned so much there
That I started up a file.

The coastline is a stunner, I headed down to Devil’s churn
The coastline is a stunner, I headed down to Devil’s churn
When those girls in Eugene flash a smile
The world just has to slow its turn.

The loggers and the huggers, they fight like cats & dogs
The loggers and the huggers, they fight like cats & dogs
There’s this might flowing river
That that dam Bonneville clogs.

Heard ol’ Bob Dylan sing “Today’s been a sad and lonesome day”
Heard ol’ Mr. Guthrie sing
“Roll on, Columbia roll on”
“Roll on Columbia roll on”
Went out to the fish shop
Got some shrimp, bought some mussel, ate up some prawn.

Met a wise man up in Portland. He sees where every wild beast plods.
Met a wise man up in Portland. He sees where every wild beast plods.
We shared a mound of sushi
Even offered up some to the gods.

Towers fell in New York on a day called 911
Towers fell in New York on the day called 911
Breaking this cycle of terror
That’ll be the biggest thing man’s ever done.

Down in Pennsylvania, that’s where the final missile fell
Down in Pennsylvania, that’s where the final missile fell
It held purpose and evil and oceans of fuel
And a handful of heroes as well.

Can’t send me to Asia, I’ve got these goofy songs to sing
Please don’t send me to Kabul, I’ve got these goofy songs to sing
Ain’t got no heart for fightin’
I wouldn’t even know which gun to bring.

Two dark gray military jets patrolled the empty sky
Two charcoal military jets slashed the northwestern sky
I headed south to Ashland,
Had me some boysenberry pie.

Oregon’s as good a place as any to sit and rest a spell
Oregon’s as good a place as any to hang your head a spell
There’s plenty of ways to ease your mind
While the world goes straight to hell.

Animal Tracks
Paul S. presents the top ten tunes of animal bands:

3. Deerhoof - Milk Man

“i don’t know what she’s saying most of the time, but i like it.”

Online Museum of the Week
Mascot Stalker:

This girl Liz loves mascots. Who can blame her?

SPJTV
Moving pictures because technology allows it:

My friends Seela and Jon have kittens! E-mail me if you want one.

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

A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread on it.
Henry David Thoreau

Thank you, come again!
southpawjones.com
southpawjones.net
myspace.com/southpawjones
E-mail southpaw@southpawjones.com
©2007 Southpaw Jones. All rights reserved.