"Christmas Morning"

I'm off on the cross-country train again! See you all in a few weeks. Here's the new holiday single. As i was writing it, i could only hear karen carpenter singing it.

Hughughuggggggggs!

"Christmas Morning"

December Holidaze

SPECIALITY SONGS

My December roster...

Jesus vs. Santa

Knecht Ruprecht

The Holiday Blahs

Don't Do Me Like December

The First Festivus Miracle

Christmas Morning

Animal Queendom

SPECIALTY SONGS

An other-animal musical parade, as david nibert might say.

"Armadillo on My Pillow"

Don't Miss You Much

Monkey Butt Dance

Monkeyin' Around

Goin' Ape

Butterfly

Butterfly (prosseremix)

Jump that Shark!

bawdy blowout!

SPECIALTY SONGS

The late-night cabaret set. Put the kids to bed.

How Come Little Junior

Goin' Down Slow

The Ballad of Snaggletooth Sue

If You See Kay

Marry Me, Baby

Happy Holy

F.M. Blues

Don't Let the Door Hit You

Zeus-F&ckin'

Popsicle

Treesexual

Sexy F&ckers

Greatest. Concert. Ever!

How does the greatest concert ever stand? Click away, and say.

How Do You Like My Song

Apocalypse Rock

Killer Moon!

Jeff Bezos is Lost in Space

Loneliest Fool

Smart Monkeys

Love in the U.S.A.

Does My Butt Look Good

Music

Ain't Got the Blues

Midnight Remedy

Sexy Knees

Extra Rose

Sexy Grandma

Unreliable Dongle Blues

Warm Rain

Bom-Chicka-Bow-Wow

Sex

Suburban Blues

8 Billion

Black Bart the PO8

Pequeno Cimarron

Biofuel Blues

Bomb Song

Kill the Blues

Phony

My Butt Dialed You, Not Me

When It Gets Cold

Hug Song

wrob on Dark Family Hour (part 2)

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Such a delight, recorded at the Scott St. Labyrinth by salane salane.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTjFIZof7vs

You'd Look So Good With a Baby

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Yes, this is men.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsX5OzpZEQk 

"Woke Racism"

(How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America)

-by john mcwhorter

2021

This country does gobble up polemics, doesn't it?

I avoided this book for a long time because it seemed guilty of bad-faith rhetoric. And as it turns out...it is.

But it's also mostly correct.

Ditch some intentionally-inflammatory overstatement, and mcwhorter makes good points. But overstatement sells! Sigh. Perhaps just like ta-nehasi coates, mcwhorter is mostly correct, with one or two blind spots.

Why do we need to run to black and white, in a world of confusing complexity? Why are we all so uncomfortable with nuance and shades of grey?

It's not the writer's job to acquiesce to that, mr. mcwhorter. Your job is truth. So replace the titular word "religion" with "quasi-religion", and you'll do a service to the betterment of all. Religion requires magical thinking, something absent from the woke movement. Mcwhorter's language is propagandistic, designed to anger both people who love religion, and people who hate it.

Replace that one word, and you'd have a good little book.

You just wouldn't sell as many copies.

Don't Murder Your Baby Brother

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Inspired by a friend's daughter, and her, shall we say, reckless treatment of her toddler brother?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtbxsQDQmM0 

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This performance was the first affirmation of my ultimate place as an artist - an intimate party entertainer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRwIwNnu4C0

San Francisco Day

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This one feels like is should transcend provinciality...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKUr8Z3a3YQ

Dream No More

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You remember certain compliments long after most of them fade away. Thank you, alan harris.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMkcTV-ZmBU

Deep Ride

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C'mon! C list?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdnojncrXjM

The Ballad of Snaggletooth Sue

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So beautifully filthy, i feel its best performances are yet to cum...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU5lgRxHlJ4

Bam Boom Kapowey

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I'm proud of this'n.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ztxIIKNzXU

Eight Billion

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Someone once called this my "Blowin' in the Wind".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omBSrfL7EZM

Loose Cannon

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A ripper! An A-list shoulda-been!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pka06YSlp50 

nazelah

Nazelah nazelah, raining righteous rage!

Please delete, i entreat, my creeping old age

I pine, i whine may we not entwine?

But i'll ne'er be worthy of one so fierce and fine

How Come Little Junior

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Audiences seem to relate...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AeySkensp4

Anyway

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Oh, this foolish yearning...just trying to get laid?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MajvirMcZa4

Ballad of Clyde Always

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Every word true!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAEshaXReWE

Sayonara Stinkytown

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Ahhh...lullabye.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI3MY80zlms

Apocalypse Rock

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So strong it was the concert-opener for awhile...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Te-Obp6wfk

When It Gets Cold

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Tell tom waits i have his next hit! Thanks to punk bob, who urged me to keep it when i thought the music wasn't impressive enough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJJLY88Ep_g

Phony

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A perfect slice of self-deprecation in the middle of a "serious" concert?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzFvup82JEA 

Fell Off the Earth

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An image i obviously can't shake...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb84yQUznt4

Off the Earth

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Sigh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCbVojkfsOQ

Pat That Ass!

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Just good advice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGGa8L2S-Hs 

Don't Ask Y!

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Well...yes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0gli8fcLso 

Midnight Remedy

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Slinky, funky...the best performance ever was in a laundromat. The only other person in the place clapped when i finished.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZQSWnN9uKQ

Godtown

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This one has a history unlike any other i've written. A travel song i've retired (and brought back) three times now! I'm absolutely convinced it's one of the most brilliant things i've done. As a song, it works on every level. Its only drawback as a performance piece, is how aggressively it tweaks christians. In the past, i've also failed to give it the right intro, failing to make it clear that all the names are the names of places in America. In a funny coincidence, just yesterday i determined to bring it back one more time, and let it shine forever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taOZC7B-3RE  

Jump That Shark!

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I so wanted this one to endure, but it seems the central metaphor is dated. And yet...548 views! Sigh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHYWNGDqELM

The Whites

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Don't call it the blues...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbotB4r63Y0

No One Needs Me

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Can buddy or tom sing this, please?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_whZaHyAawk

Marry Me, Baby

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A firecracker. It got me the best hug i've had in the past decade.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPk2XMb3cF4

People

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Ah, people...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utyNsZ5QPjo

Not a Depressing Song

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Of course not.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq5FlFe9F0Q

The Billionaire

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Exaflop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoZBaf-mUHo

Lust

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Will some metal band please cover this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM-Cz1XEcTg

The Beating Goes On

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I intro this song by telling audiences this is the single sonny & cher wanted to release, but was vetoed by the record company.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gu0HqZ_ysU 

Killer Moon!

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Almost the concert opener...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5hNvtp2WuE

Natural Consequence

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People didn't seem to get this one...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSYILPkTdTQ

That Kind of a Day

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What kind? That kind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StSCm7LJX1s

Concrete Jungle

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Pastorally putrid...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YGjJ0BHgtY

The Choo-Choo Moon

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It took fifty years for me to discover something i love about my country!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml1QQ4jTMxM 

Bleed

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Randie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afLJEjk6PPI

Kiss the Boo-Boos

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Songs of self-delusion...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnY6ZFXS4Ws

Loinsome Blues

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More honest than any love song ever, including my own?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_S_iq5vYbE 

Butt

Your butt is like two loaves of bread

rising in the oven

I'll knead your cheeks for weeks and weeks

Are you ready for the lovin'?

Miracle

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Songs to slit wrists by...

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4GH8vuLnRg

So Beautiful

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Sad. Hopeful?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVqhjSa5Rws

Taint-Shaped Hole in My Heart

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And they say romance is dead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a__TdHDBvbQ

Yosemite

Last week i visited Yosemite National Park for the first time.

My guide ginger meteor took me on my first multi-day tent hike. We loaded our packs and set out from the Hetch Hetchy (O'Shaughnessy) reservoir dam. It was my first dam! Amazing. We were originally scheduled for May - our April trek meant colder temps plus fewer people (and mosquitoes).

We began with a view of El Cap - my heart went mushy as i recalled spock saving kirk's life! Our first night was the only one at an official camp, where tents and RVs intermingled. The rest of our nights were in total isolation, except for some far-off campfire smoke one night. The balmier temps at lower altitude made for an enjoyable first night. We made a fire and had time for a little bouldering.

Our first full day, we set out for Lake Vernon. We were warned by rangers that we'd never make it, as the high trails were snowed in. The sights and sounds, blooming lupins, and CA newts were delightful, and we made fine time. We saw only a few other hikers. And then we hit...the snow fields. I thought we might stop there, as we had no snow equipment and only low hiking boots, but ginger plunged in. The snow was mostly a foot deep, though occasionally two. The deep flapping of the birds taking flight sounded like the growls of large mammals. After an hour, hail started to fail! Before long, we abandoned any hope of reaching the lake, and turned back. The hail became snow, and our tracks began to be obscured. I could feel snow penetrating my boots. We finally got out, and pitched our tent. We were too cold and tired to cook. After our tent was up, i realized we were next to two enormous dead trees. It wasn't too windy, so i didn't suggest we relocate...but through that fitful night, i imagined a crushing death.

We awoke to discover our tent covered in icefrost. We had to work to get the zippers unzipped. Ginger's shoelaces were frozen vertical. The sun's rays hit us, and we quickly got on our way, eschewing cooking once again.

How quickly conditions can change in the mountains...after less than an hour of descent, we stopped at a sunlit clearing where i practiced songs on my ukulele while ginger answered nature's call. I climbed a tree, the birds chirped, i removed layers...so beautiful.

We passed Wapama Falls a few hours later, renowned for recurring rainbows. The spray left us happily wet. We made our way up switchbacks to Rancheria Falls, where we set up camp. I took a plunge in the frigid waters below the falls, and we finally did some cooking - vegan mac & cheese! It was so yummy - i seemed to be craving salt.

We slept that night (fitfully still) with the rushing of the falls in our ears. Beautiful...but i also imagined a flash flood sweeping us to the reservoir far below. The "civilized" mind can react in primal ways to isolating immersion in nature. You feel like the vulnerable, pathetic, naked ape you truly are.

Our final day, we made the long trek back to the dam. My hips hurt, but releasing my pack's buckle alleviated that. We had a yummy ramen lunch on a plateau overlooking the reservoir. I'd neglected to bring a sun hat, thinking my longish hair would protect me, but my scalp got sunburned. When we reached the car, my body was blasted and brain baked. Weariness and inaccessibility of the highest regions had us skip our fourth night - instead, we made our way to an Airbnb in Sonora. I went crazy with food lust when we reached a market. I needed jerry, and i needed ben, and i needed them now. In the morning, i played songs for goats, and then we leisurely hit thrift stores on our way back to SF.

Amazing.

Testing Blues

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Seamless kazoo soloing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg38uILlP_M

Ain't No Way

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Soul-shaker, heart-breaker, gut-acher...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im-xCi0TCfw

Taint Misbehavin'

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Noel coward, eat your heart out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3JHH06G1qg

Feelin' Fine

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Soooo tempting to make this one A list...i think it would hit big with the right crowds. But a wrob drinking song? I can't get past the cognitive dissonance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcM8Bpaxmy8 

Death Shall Rain

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Ohhhh, i wanted to keep this one. There was one friend, oscar plizga (whose musical opinion i value enormously), who repeatedly told me it was one of my best. But literally no one else ever complimented it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdGf1DuX7rg

Ain't Got the Blues

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A nudist told me to get dressed. My best line ever?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGyO7B6k4i8

Caca Cops

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Is this NOT the most brilliant social satire of the 21st century?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBvC8OybHgQ

Stargate Origins: Catherine

-directed by mercedes bryce morgan

2018

Oops. A pining-for-the-fjords franchise burped out a piece of offal. Maybe they thought no one would notice, as it was originally released as ten-minute webisodes?

To sum up: in 1939, catherine chases nazis through the gate, to rescue her archaeologist father (connor trinneer - STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE, STARGATE: ATLANTIS).

Why do so many producers not grasp that hiring a brilliant writer is the ONLY essential element?? I say that because everything else (production values, acting, directing) is reasonably good. But the absence of writing competence is distressing. Any resemblance to genuine humyn behavior, purely accidental. Misogynist tropes refuse to die - even though the hero is female, she's basically a male re-packaged as female, and when they're not shifting into stone-cold-murder mode for three seconds, the wimyn here are still portrayed as overemotional (and apparently, all wimyn in the sci-fiverse are still in their 20s). And the makeup department sabotaged what could have been an effective villain - i haven't seen eyes this comically lifeless since CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON 2.

crotch rockets

I dreamed that i was a child attending college, and returned to my dorm to discover someone had sent me a present. There were a few other people in the room i shared, and one of them grabbed my present, to open it. It was a cool action figure reminiscent of a Star Trek borg, a member of an android race who share one mind and one will. The figure had knifey hand tools (weapons, really). I wanted to carefully open and examine it, but this condescending person wouldn't let go. He discovered that there was a removable plastic cover over the crotch, from which you could shoot a spring-loaded rocket. But he was so careless, i could see he was damaging the little plastic pieces. I finally got the figure away from him, and carried it down the hall. One of the two crotch rockets was broken, but i was still happy. Then someone else grabbed it. They almost lost all the plastic pieces, and i had to spend a few minutes finding them.

YES, there's some obvious, disturbing symbolism.

YES, i recently contracted an STD!

Zeus-F#ckin'

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Fantastic to feel an audience go with this bawdy brawler...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Isu-0Mg5Nqc

In Your Pants

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Och! I love this song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPR1giw6yG4

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, season 2

(Okay, a sophomore slump. A season of near-misses, conspicuous enough to make one investigate whether they lost one of their best writers. Perhaps i'm just frustrated waiting for this very good show to break the four-star barrier? And what's going on with uhura's makeup?? We haven't seen anything this anti-feminist since ORVILLE!)

FOUR-STAR EPISODES: 0

AVERAGE EPISODE RATING: 2.7

The Broken Circle ***

Fast-paced excitement, as spock and crew steal the ship to respond to a distress call from la'an, while una is jailed and pike on leave. They discover a klingon plot to re-start the war, using a false Federation ship cobbled from stolen parts. The plot holes are the unlikelihood that spock would violate orders so egregiously (and everyone would go along), and the ease with which the klingon captain forgives all. We might have been able to overlook those, were the entire episode not so thoroughly action-based, to the detriment of story and character. The wounds from the abrams era are still too fresh for that to fly.

Ad Astra per Aspera ***

Pike recruits a reluctant illyrian lawyer to defend una. A classic TREK trial episode, with the case being argued that in coming to Starfleet, una was seeking asylum from the persecution she and the augments received in their home colony. The first time i watched, it felt like something didn't click - the contentious relationship between una and her lawyer felt forced. The second time, the trial made me almost cry. Maybe i was just in a mood...or maybe on third viewing i'll award that rare fourth star.

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow ***

A dying time agent appears on Enterprise, and la'an is thrust back into the 21st century with james kirk, to foil a timeline-erasing romulan plot. Unfortunately, they don't know the nature of the plot and don't quite trust each other, having never met. They fumble around Toronto, and...fall in love. He dies, and she saves the world by preventing a child khan from being killed (a fascinating twist on "The City on the Edge of Forever"). Back aboard Enterprise, she's told by another agent she can never discuss it. She calls kirk, who has no idea who she is. A lot works in this one, and i'm not sure what that missing fourth-star element would be.

Among the Lotus Eaters ***

Enterprise visits a pre-warp planet unknowingly contaminated years earlier, on an away mission that went fatally wrong. They discover that one of their crewmembers survived, and became an emperor using Federation technology. Radiation on the planet constantly erases the memory of its inhabitants, except those living within the protected walls of the palace. P'ike, m'benga, and la'an lead an insurrection, while Enterprise suffers from the effects of the radiation as well.

Charades ***

While investigating a trans-dimensional portal left from a civilization that transcended corporeality, spock accidentally has his vulcan DNA erased. Back aboard Enterprise, he must participate in a pre-marriage ceremony with his in-laws-to-be, with the fate of the marriage hanging in the balance. The crew teaches him how to lie, while he's forced to deal with a hurricane of emotions (including laughter and his attraction with chapel). Yes, these are tired TREK tropes...but done well. On second viewing, i even almost cried during scenes with amanda and christine. And perhaps most notably, we see the first TREK away mission of more than two people, with NO males. Pardon my binary pride, but...wonderful.

Lost in Translation **

Uhura has hallucinations that turn out to be from an alien species being unknowingly massacred by Starfleet industrialism, who are crying for help. One star subtracted for cookie-cutter overuse.

Those Old Scientists **

Resist the urge to give a shatnerian "NOOOOOOO!", as characters from the animated series LOWER DECKS are stranded on this Enterprise, via a time portal accident. Yes, this is appalling corporate overreach. Does the dialogue descend to the melodramatic condescension of LOWER DECKS? A bit...but on the road to "Sub Rosa", it becomes almost watchable. I mean, skip it and you're fine. But it's not a complete disaster.

Under the Cloak of War **

Enterprise transports a klingon defector turned peace advocate...but is he a war criminal? No, m'benga turns out to have been the actual "butcher of J'Gal"...but he kills the klingon anyway. Gritty and dark, but the plot doesn't achieve contrivance escape velocity. Oh well, clint howard's back!

Subspace Rhapsody ***

A damaged quantum probability field causes the crew to break into song any time they feel emotional...and the effect will spread to the entire quadrant if they can't stop it. Forget the plot holes and inconsistencies, it's almost brilliant...but the songwriting doesn't quite transcend. And the singing-klingons segment feels achingly short-changed.

Hegemony ***

The gorn massacre a colony that has trade relations with the Federation. Survivors, including Starfleet officers, hope for rescue. Against daunting odds (and with the help of a stranded engineer named scotty), Enterprise finds a way through a blockade. In a wrecked ship in orbit, spock and chapel tangle with a gorn in a space suit. A hair's breath away from four stars...again.

Warm Rain

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This one persists on the A list despite being somewhat innocuous for me...but that's part of its charm, as it's just a tightly-constructed, feel-good song. I'm just as proud of the music as i am the words. In a full concert, it will be a mind-melting break from the seriousness and high-concept humor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2I5wgztRrQ

Footprints

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBNT6T6XrA8

ani

The greatest living lyricists are randy newman and ani difranco. I discovered ani's music many years after she arrived on the scene in the 90s, but once i found her, it's been a non-stop love affair. No other songwriter is so relentlessly, non-apologetically political. And if you've never seen her play, you might assume that she's not the one thrashing that distinctive, powerful guitar...but it's all ani. She may still have as full a career ahead as what's behind...but as it stands, here's the dream concert.

ANI DREAM SET LIST

In or Out

Letter to a John

Ain't That the Way

Dilate
Gratitude
What If No One's Watching

Play God

To the Teeth

Cradle and All

Paradigm

Overlap
Face Up and Sing

Origami
You Had Time
Serpentine

Grey

Napoleon

Which Side Are You On?

Whitey Blues

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This song makes me ache, it feels like one of my five best...yet there it languishes in C land. Why? Because six audiences loved it, and one thought it was so horrible they never wanted me to play there again. Maybe. They didn't actually come out and tell me that, but...anyway, perhaps i should have fought for this one, and maybe it will live again one day when my songs are beloved by millions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcepptfEXHU

Cock!

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A #1 hit just waiting for the right artist to perform it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piiEChX5kxA

Nobody's Piratin' this Song

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And why not???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqczp3DZ3xE

Brown and Pink

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Whattayathink?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k84F5fLi_b0

Puddle Song

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Who doesn't need a puddle?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p8-uh4cjPY

Pretend Friends

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Some of my best friends are pretend! Hawkeye, spock, chapelle...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dTV71ZCIIE

Luminous

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I was going to say "what a sweet little song"...or perhaps just another pathetic plea to get laid?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bcEKkwnnyg

Buzz

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXndrMTRs9o

Give It a Flip

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sjp-5_e-cNk

Christian Rock Star

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Preach it, brother.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vN0fCP0suI

Take Off Your Pants

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Do you have ANY notion how hard it is to perform instrumental accompaniment that doesn't synch with your vocal?? Some reggae band, please make this a global anthem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWxFEuh2Ckk

Never Wasted

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep48hf3kFZI