YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN
In this instance, how Willy Nelson, by recording Ned Sublette’s old tune "Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly (Fond of Each Other)" may have assured Sublette of a comfortable old age, and also the pride of having written the first gay cowboy song released by a major recording artist. Back in the 1980s, I used to see Ned Sublette around Lower Manhattan dives like Danceteria, the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge, Tramps, and the Lone Star. I was either in Tijuana Bible with HCB or doing The Last Words of Dutch Schulz with Brother Wayne Kramer, and the places we played were the places he played. Can’t say I knew the guy beyond being drunk in the same joint, but I was aware that he was putting a post-punk, country cowboy hat on gay, just like Kinky Friedman had put one on Jewish. Towards the end of the decade I wandered off to LA and Sublette wandered off to salsa, and that was that, until I picked up the paper and saw Willie had cut his tune and enrolled NS in the Legion of Lucky Motherfuckers.
Like Chuck Berry told us "You never can tell."
The secret word is Dang
AND DANG ME IF I DON'T HAVE A PIECE IN THE NEW LA CITYBEAT (On those pesky Danish cartoons.)
http://lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=3314&IssueNum=141
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2 comments:
Pesky indeed.
But fear not America, Frank Miller's Holy Terror Batman cometh (with Robin no doubt) & "kicks al-Quaida's ass".
Phew. Now we can all get back to normal.
Bit worried about the 30,000 or so civilian dead in Iraq - not much ass left to kick there. Not to mention timely new fun prison photos.
Lest trust in the likes of Iranian housewife in a cakeshop this morning. Informed that Danish Pastries were no more and how many Rose of Mohammads did she want
said: "Fuck the name, just gimme the sweets".
Info courtesy Iraq Body Count & Al Jazeera (again).
Good piece in LACB - Now, about that graphic novel... How about getting Josh Dysart & Tone Rodriguez to pen it, afterall, they were the ones behind "Violent Messiahs: The Book of Job"
Funny that ;)
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