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7/28/2006

seen / heard

Oddities I saw on power walk through Royal Oak this morning:
  • House with manicured front lawn including flower beds with brightly colored bowling balls forming a border around the beds.
  • The bulldozer of a garbage truck scooping trash. A single, hardcover book fell out of the dozer and almost nailed me in the head. The book: Treasure Island.
  • A sign posted on a telephone pole advertising an Insect Zoo. Price of admission: 50 cents.
  • Man with a cigar who appeared to be 95 wearing a white tank top and no shoes giving me the evil eye.
I-pod on shuffle, playing lots and lots of 70s:
  • "Another World" Richard Hell
  • "Damaged Goods" Gang of Four
  • "She Sells" Roxy Music
  • "Raw Power" Rocket from the Tombs
  • "$1,000 Wedding" Gram Parsons
  • "All Apologies (Unplugged)" Nirvana
  • "Zealots" The Fugees
  • "Standing in the Way of Control" The Gossip
  • "Retreat" Minutemen
  • "Lakini's Juice" Live
  • "Joe's Garage" Frank Zappa
  • "The Boy Looked at Johnny" Libertines
  • "One PM Again" Yo La Tengo
  • "All World Cowboy Romance" Mission of Burma
  • "Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing" Minutemen
  • "Tenth Avenue Freeze Out" Springsteen

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

wait, yo tango?

as in the guy that did the nuclear war protest peice?

bdegenaro said...

yo la tengo did a series of covers of "Nuclear War," one version featuring a choir of kiddies singing the profane chorus...but the original was by Sun Ra. check out the original, too--pretty cool.