Hench!

Today I was sorting through the Goodwill, as I often do, looking for a good suit. I didn’t really find anything, and I’m kind of broke, and it was pissing down rain: so I left. Luckily, I had my trusty discman with me, so I was able to listen to music.

Now, I wasn’t listening to New Orleans music, but all New Orleans music moves along at a stroll because there are so many parades there. There is a uniform, midtempo kind of beat that happens with all of tunes that come out of their. From Rebirth Brass band all the way back to Jelly Roll Morton. As I was walking around in the rain, thinking about food, I began making this list in my head of good music to listen to while your walking.

First of all, Tower Of Power is fucking great music to listen to while you’re walking. Especially their self-titled album (I think it’s their third), which has the great song “What Is Hip.” Now, Tower of Power kind of has shitty lyrics, but who gives a fuck. They’re great. You basically feel good whenever they’re playing, and doubly so when you’re walking around.

Johnny Thunders is another good one. I don’t know if he’ll work if you’re not in New York, but if you’re in New York it kind of seems like the sort of thing that ought to be playing all the time. It’s just a grimy, inebriated strut, all the time; kind of like a greaseball Shirelles cover band, really.

There’s a lot of shit that’s really bad to listen to, which is sad but there you go. For instance, my favorite band is the Fall. However, The Fall makes miserable walking around listening. Too much midrange, to much shrill shouty shit. You can’t really get into it, and eventually it will make you go back home, which is where you ought to be listening to the Fall in the first place.

Also good is dub reggae, Laura Nyro, Nico, Merzbow, Earth Wind & Fire, and Sam and Dave.

Jesus, this is a boring post. I just can’t be fucking bothered, there’s too much to do. I’m tired, and I’ve been having a really hard time sleeping without getting up a bunch of times. I must have woken up about five times last night, and I ended up just endlessly tossing and turning. I can’t be expected to come up with a good blog entry! Besides, half of my blog entries seem to be about recommending music to people, and I’m not really sure what my motives are for this. I guess I don’t really care, either.

So fuck the music recommendations. I can also report that I killed a cockroach today, ate spinach soup and a salad, drank two bottles of Rhinegold beer, ran into this guy I used to work with in a bookstore (he’d grown a beard), talked to my friend Joe on the phone, and went grocery shopping, although not in that order.

My groceries:

1 sixpack Rhinegold beer
1 package of tortillas
1 tomato
2 cans black beans
2 cans of lentil soup
1 can of vegetable barley soup
2 cans of vegetarian chili

I know that I bought a lot of cannned food, but sometimes that’s the way the cookie crumbles. I’m also trying to save money, considering that 1.) I need a new laptop worse than fucking bad, and 2.) I’m hoping to move sometime this year. Also, I just need the fucking cash, man! Eating out is expensive, especially since I insist on getting salads and shit like that these days. See, before I met Sarah, I’d eat like half a pint of brown rice and a hardboiled egg. Another favorite of mine was the raw tofu sandwich. You’d take two slices of rye bread, a slab of fucking raw tofu, half a raw onion, and French’s mustard. Make a sandwich or two out of that, that’s your lunch.

Sarah managed to introduce me to food, and now I always eat tasty food which is a little pricey. It’s much better food though, and I’m much happier than I used to be. Christ, was I a miserable bastard.

Despite all this healthy-ass food, I have been sick for about two fucking weeks because I

Look, this isn’t important. How are you people? Maintaining radio silence? Do any of you like Earth Wind & Fire? The Feelies? How is the rain treating you? In fact, I’ll bet you almost anything that each and every last one of you is at work right now, and bored out of your mind. I’m borred out of my mind as well. In fact, I’m not even really writing this, I’m really listening to WFMU. I should really go and that. 91.1 FM, East Orange New Jersey.

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