Wednesday, 13 October, 2004

Shatner For the past few weeks I've been hearing this song I can't get behind that listening to the radio. I'm not sure when I first started hearing it - like television commercials it probably didn't break into my conciouness until it had been on a few times. William Shatner and Henry Rollins, carrying on over frenetic beat drumming supplied - the radio person informed me by Ben Folds. I assumed it was some sort of one off deal, but eventually I heard another, then another and it dawned on me that William Shatner has a new album on the streets. Yes he does WILLIAM SHATNER HAS BEEN. Ben Folds produced it and the web site for it indicates that many people shared in this endeavor. Aimee Mann is listed. Yesterday when I decided I would have hit up the internet to find what this was all about Blogdex which has been down for about a week came back up and this link came from them saving me the trouble. The Flash website has short interviews introducing each song so you can sample the goodness. I thought the title cut was the best. As David Gedge with the band Wedding Present once sang "you can't say it doesn't really matter this isn't tv, he isn't William Shatner..." 11:39:52 PM    comment [];trackback []; Big River When this story came out a few weeks ago: HoustonChronicle.com - Discarded or a sign? Jesus statue enthralls. I wanted to write something on it. But I could never think of anything to write. Rather then let it go completely I took a moment this morning to write a poem : Big River Christ of the Rio Grande plastic sunk in a sandbar for no near reason without papers in midstream eddy not towards either shore visible to every side, coming north or south along 277, up route 57 from piedras negras Lately removed to the hallways of the local authorities, of eagle pass, who with assigned concern care for lost objects. 8:07:32 PM    comment [];trackback [];

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