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- Riding Up That Hill
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- This Number Is out of Order
- The Californian
- By the Time I Get to Phoenix
- Yuck(a)
- Across the Rio Grande
- Yup, It's Still Texas
- Feeling Presidential
- Reflections and Refractions
- Waffle Across Texas
- Something New to Tilt At
- Another Roadside Distraction
- Can You Picture That
- We've Got to Get Out of This Place
- Standing on a Corner in Lafayette . . .
- Five Feet High and Rising
- Whistle Down the Wind
- Ice Cream Castles in the Air
- Getting Over It
- Ain't That a Peach
- Old Man River
- Signing the Times
- Cemetry Gates
- More Wildlife
- Get Crabby
- Foliage and Light
- On the Beach
- Yup, It's a Croc
- Sound Easy to You?
- Spanish Moss
- Rise and Fall
- Goin' to Carolina in My Mind
- In the Pines
- Speaking of Hoagies
- Antediluvian
- Walking in Memphis
- Up on Choctaw Ridge
- History Lessons
- What Kudzu Problem?
- Winds of Change
- Sizzle
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- Something to Tilt At
- Quicksilver Message
- Fort Sumner: Truth and Kidding
- Beyond the Great Divide
- Giddyap
- Bringing Flowers to a Wedding
- Funniest Looking Elk I've Ever Seen
- Don't Forget Winona
- What a Gas
- Before I Sleep
- Along the Way
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- Rolling, Rolling, Rolling
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1 comment:
My format doesn't really lean toward longwinded remarks. Still, I hate to leave a tag unanswered.
So with reference to the most recent round, six weird facts about MrJumbo:
1. People ask me if I ride the unicycle.
2. I can recite almost verbatim two poems, one by Charles Bukowski, the other by J.R.R. Tolkien, that both deal with the savagery of cats. (No, those aren't the only poems I can recite. Sorry.)
3. I can read words written in four alphabets, and occasionally understand them if I'm allowed to breathe with my mouth open.
4. I'm a nonpracticing vegetarian. Or you might call it an assimilated vegetarian. I have vegetarian roots in my family, and I have taken that communion at different times in my life. I still agree with it strongly, for moral, health, and macroeconomic reasons. So I wouldn't call myself lapsed. Just not currently practicing.
5. I have just about every recording Billy Joel has ever released commercially, and I can say the same for the Tom Waits ouvre. My Billy Joel list includes the rare vinyl "Cold Spring Harbor" mastered at the wrong speed. My Tom Waits catalog has "The Pontiac," long out of print, as well as some gems that are easier to get, like his Crystal Gayle duets from "One From the Heart" and his amazing "It's All Right With Me" from "Red Hot + Blue," where his voice doubles as a rhythm instrument. (Actually, I believe he has four vocal tracks on that cut.) I also have a copy of Tori Amos singing "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (thanks, Bro #3), but everybody probably has that already.
6. I have cashed a check written to me by Bose for software I wrote.
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