el gran show del dia de los muertos

so i decided to play songs by dead folks, and then realized that i was essentially thinking of the singer, since not all of the various band's members are exactly gone...otherwise i would be forced to play music recorded mostly in the earlier decades of the old 20th...(not that there's anything wrong with that...)

all this came about after i set up my day of the dead altar at home, and talking to the mavis about honoring the dead...we sure go through life at a loss with loss...

oh, well...happy dia de los muertos and spot the cheat (not by the clash)

the clash-cheat
june carter cash-cannonball blues
johnny cash w/ joe strummer-redemption song
dennis wilson-river song
perez prado-almendra (almond)
stay home-holiday for mooks
sammy davis jr.-i gotta be me
joy division-isolation
timely buck (tim buckly/john oswald)-anon
lord kitchener-kitch in the jungle
elliott smith-waltz #2
raymond scott-powerhouse
les beach boys-cool, cool water
spade cooley-you never miss the water(till the well runs dry)
albert hague and ?-you're a mean one, mr. grinch
jimi hendrix-remember
charley patton-you're gonna need somebody when you die
elvis presley-your cheatin' heart
t. rex-monolith
the grateful dead-friend of the devil
buck owens-act naturally
nirvana-mexican seafood
desi arnaz-i come from new york
ornette coleman w/ the master musicians of joujouka-midnight sunrise
blind gary davis-i belong to the band
esquivel-surfboard
stereolab-tomorrow is already here
carter family-just another broken heart
townes van zandt-poncho and lefty
sun ra-future
the clash-police and thieves
stay home-please don't offend me
the aaron sisters w/ the song-o-paters-how'm i doin?
bing crosby (sort of)-white xmas

bye now

the lovely 23rd

i gone done another show with mavis, my sweet little 9 year old genius...

(the gorillaz ara all hers...)

lee dorsey-who's gonna help brother get further
gentleman june gardner-it's gonna rain
ultravox-saturday night in the city of the dead
freakwater-cricket versus ant
sullivan-hashish faction
patti smith-free money
nancy jacobs & her sisters-baby are yeng
gorillaz-dracula
willie nelson-my own peculiar way
althea & donna-uptown top ranking
the soft boys-(i want to be an) anglepoise lamp
etta james-my dearest darling
elvis costello-(i don't want to go to) chelsea
jean jacques perrey-porcupine rock
yao lee-this love is not for me
professor longhair-big chief
gorillaz- 19-2000
dusty springfield-breakfast in bed
tlahoun gessesse-sema
the only ones-another girl, another planet
elliott smith-independence day
altered images-i could be happy
gorillaz-tommorow comes today
bob dylan-lay lady lay
wire-12xu
mukesh-toote na dil toote na
talking heads-love goes to a building on fire
kings of leon-the bucket
gorillaz-5/4
jacques dutronc-le responsable
buzzcocks-boredom
the maytals-monkey man
willie nelson-mr record man

where is thy sting?

no, not really about my mortality, just that in these last few months i seemed to have gone from 42 to 75, with little help from the hmo that looks over my health...

long story short(ish):

upper right arm pain, and i am thinking it's a pulled muscle grows to useless dinosaur arm and after a few weeks this pain spreads to upper back and other arm, so i call it in and after a scary round of phone interviews i'm ordered in thinking i'm having a heart attack, but no, it all seems to be a pinched nerve. not sure. phys therapy ordered.

blood pressure, coincidently, is high that day at the emergency room. hmmm...

2 tabs of 600 miligrams a day, seven days later and my new physical therapist asks if any x-rays have been done, and i say no, and he says (repeating something my sister-the surgical tech said) 'wha?' and orders a round of see-throughs that day.

manage to pop a something in my leg walking the roommates dog with my daughter, so i'm also limping around to boot.

the pain from his session of body work also sends the lunch out of me. pain so severe i can't drive much. no one can tell me quite what i have. i now am talking to the pain.

more motrin for a week turning my stomach,, i'm not sleeping much due to pain, i'm seeing fleeting things out of my eye corners. wrong medication also detected (blood pressure med not for 'nerve swelling' i'm told by hmo specialist).

catch a cold for a week. constant pain now feels like fever. leg is better. i just want to know what is wrong with my arms and upper back.

spend half a week nursing daughter (cold) followed by weekend nursing girlfriend in san fran (cold). pain is my new friend.

go to new doc specialist for 2nd time, checked x-rays, guess what?

no nerve pinched. i have upper spine arthritis. much run around could have been avoided if x-rays had been done sooner. sorry. here's more meds.

nothing can be done for arthritis, except for pain meds. pain IS my new friend.

acupuncture sounds good right about now.

three quarters of a century later

my father turned 75 this week.

he was amused at what my sister said to him over dinner:

"75...at least you can recognise that you have celebrated 75."

ah, the dry wit.

windy

the air is chilled and there is quite a strong non-santa ana wind blowing through the basin.

i took my rickety car into the hills and climbed to the top of mount hollywood for a spectacular 50 mile view of the ocean and of the mountains.

i could see the ocean from my hillside apartment.

i smelled the eucalyptus trees in the air.

and i was all alone seeing this crappy city at it's finest.

my daughter doesn't live with me full time and my girl friend is 400 miles away.

a beautiful day can bring about a foul mood.

rumble with mavis

doing my show on mondays now, and this eve was with my lil' one, the mavis...

elo-mr blue sky
gorillaz-rock the house
robert wilson and david byrne-in the future
laurie anderson-o superman (for massenet)
roxy music-ladytron
calexico-corona
gorillaz-clint eastwood
james brown and the famous flames-that dood it
north mississippi all stars-shake 'em on down
the byrds-blue canadian rockies
david bowie-sorrow
lydia lunch-spooky
pere ubu-petrified
puffy amiyumi-teen titans theme
the flaming lips-mr. ambulance driver
elo-sweet talking woman
pixies-wave of mutilation (uk surf)
roy acuff-the precious jewel
morgan heritage & bounty hunter-guns in the ghetto
eels-eyes down
gorillaz-DARE
echo and the bunnymen-the cutter
gorillaz-feel good inc.

we had laughs, tears, spills and thrills

thanks, booboo