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• He vaguely even remembered althought not the name the singer guy, although it was the drummer guy who was married to sue million that was nice enough to put me on the list, but back to the boxtops: the fucking weirdest show i ve ever seen, except maybe for james brown on pcp or the time george jones rode off on the back of a motorcycle with a bottle of tequilla in his hand and a 22 year old blonde drivin'. oh, shit it's stuck. yeah,. (27)
• He was just smilin and lovin it but he smelled blood and the whole place stopped and was seein who was upsettin the oldies star who sang the letter. and then it got downright absurd cuz he was denying ever knowin anybody that was a bouncer, and, the best one was, and even gary from boxtops laughed at this one--that he never knew anyone in memphis who carried a gun, and. (35)
• He think so that he can, at this point, at least, give us barely perceptible rockstar eyebrow looks as one by one the beef eatin' midwestern middleagers come by and hand him a boxtops record, dj's come up and talk about the show or their station and one woman who hands him a picture of her boyfriend to sign cuz that's the only piece of paper she's got, and on that one he starts to laugh and brings me and theresa in to the exchange and gets about as close to the old evil lx as. (30)

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• He vaguely even remembered althought not the name the singer guy, although it was the drummer guy who was married to sue million that was nice enough to put me on the list, but back to the boxtops: the fucking weirdest show i ve ever seen, except maybe for james brown on pcp or the time george jones rode off on the back of a motorcycle with a bottle of tequilla in his hand and a 22 year old blonde drivin'. oh, shit it's stuck. yeah,. (27)
• He was just smilin and lovin it but he smelled blood and the whole place stopped and was seein who was upsettin the oldies star who sang the letter. and then it got downright absurd cuz he was denying ever knowin anybody that was a bouncer, and, the best one was, and even gary from boxtops laughed at this one--that he never knew anyone in memphis who carried a gun, and. (35)
• He think so that he can, at this point, at least, give us barely perceptible rockstar eyebrow looks as one by one the beef eatin' midwestern middleagers come by and hand him a boxtops record, dj's come up and talk about the show or their station and one woman who hands him a picture of her boyfriend to sign cuz that's the only piece of paper she's got, and on that one he starts to laugh and brings me and theresa in to the exchange and gets about as close to the old evil lx as. (30)

Sentences:

1. He didn't think it was you (by the way get ready for a long one cause it's midnight and the weather's extra crisp and.
2. He's completely sober for about 16 days give or take a minute and.
3. He just had an espresso so please don't forward or blog this because.
4. He know how you like to network with your internet friends) because.
5. He know i ve included you on some of my bulk mailings over the past few years when i ve been whatevered soo much that.
6. He couldn't bear the thought of actually writing an old friend because.
7. He didn't have anything really good enough in my life worth saying. well, coming out of that haze and that awful chapter, or was it seven,.
8. He now feel, at least for the moment, somewhat capable, if not overly so, in a kind of centered yet totally absurd way, which is just the way. He like it. (how was that for a sentence? ) ok,.
9. He's gonna pull out all the stops on you cause.
10. He feel guilty about being such a lame friend. so.
11. He's gonna pepper this email with weird pix that probably won't have much to do with the content: here's the first one chosen at random from my overflowing fotobucket: oops, that was a gif.
12. He made and gifs don't come out on emails. ok,.
13. He's gonna do every fifth one in order of last upload: ok, botero's good, reminds me of your bathroom/not your ass. anyway, the first thing that's on my mind, is, and you better answer some of these, cuz.
14. He know how to deal with you silent but deadly types and that's to ask twice as many questions as you want answered: so, it's that.
15. He went and saw the boxtops at beachland in cleve and saw peggy and sue million and the guys from reigning sound who were playing the next night with mary weiss from shangri-las, and.
16. He vaguely even remembered althought not the name the singer guy, although it was the drummer guy who was married to sue million that was nice enough to put me on the list, but back to the boxtops: the fucking weirdest show i ve ever seen, except maybe for james brown on pcp or the time george jones rode off on the back of a motorcycle with a bottle of tequilla in his hand and a 22 year old blonde drivin'. oh, shit it's stuck. yeah,.
17. He know probably 99 different types of irony and use them all the time and this was not one of them, so even after a couple of months.
18. He's still not able to tell you if alex was being real or not, having seen his loungy act (little fishes, anyone? ) and having seen his super cool and distant act (panther burns as a sideman) this one was more like a game show host and if he'd been playing for the sultan of brunei and.
19. He knew the fee was six figures or a hundred virgins i d have understood it but this was boring ol cleveland and an oldies show at that and there couldn't have been more than 150 people there so.
20. He guess it was irony 100. anyway, they played whiter shade of pale and a couple other ones, lx on bass for green onions that.
21. He really am not prepared to mine my psyche to explain to you. so i ll go directly to the backstage orgy of me and lx. so,.
22. He walk back very tentatively, after being convinced by sue that it would be fun despite the weird scenes that i ve had and the complete schizophrenic quality of our long but sparse relations and he's just finished burnin' some high grade loco weed so.
23. He's still not sure, so sue goes first and does the remember me.
24. He met you at western sizzlin when. He was a waitress, and.
25. He's watching his face cuz he's lookin at her in what.
26. He can only describe as a very lx chiltonish way and.
27. He's not sure which way he's gonna go with the whole remember me reply, but then.
28. He look around and it's a whole different backstage scene, man. local radio djs.
29. He assume from oldies stations, family members of other boxtops, midwestern people who.
30. He still have not figured out and me, and sue is dressed like as theresa said, cruella deville, so somehow that took a little pressure off of me in case he decided to let her have it.
31. He knew that it'd be ok for me cuz. He know sue and if.
32. He can make her cry then alex might me able to make her morph into a bush. so he's doin that lx thing and the pots blowin around in the chasms of his mind and he's probably thinking about BMWs or something and she finishes and he says, oh, yeah vaguely; and it works--she's happy and he's still thinkin about bmw's and nobody gets hurt. now it's my turn, and of course.
33. He's smart enough to just stand there and look at him without risking saying any words that might me used against me in his comeback, and he looks a lot older and so do.
34. He from the last time, maybe 7, 8 years ago when we had a good, weird new orleans evening together and when he was the old alex that was nice to me as long as.
35. He was buying the cuban libras, and he breaks out in the biggest grin you've ever seen and does the whole what the fuck are you doing here routine that so far nobody else has done cuz.
36. He havent' seen anyone else that.
37. He know yet except for the night before with peggy and that guy from rs. and it's great and.
38. He really am believing in it, just a little suspicious, but then, and.
39. He dont' know if it was the extra adderall or what but.
40. He couldn't keep my mouth shut,. He talked to alex like.
41. He would have never done probably because he was the first person.
42. He had done with since i ve been here, so it was 7 months worth of stuff; and with me, ya know,.
43. He can go a little bit overboard, to say the least, with the questions, and if you let me get away with one the second one's gonna be even weirder and then exponentially on and on. so.
44. He's up to the question about something like, hey, i ve been meaning to ask you, do you remember a guy around stax nicknamed super whitey, cuz when.
45. He was doin linda gails record........ you can imagine.... well, that was the tipper: jekyll met hyde and it was memorable: something like this: (oh,.
46. He also asked him about that bouncer guy at that weird bar in the seventies that's in that memphis book who sang on that bach's bottom stuff like.
47. He's so tired and was an eggleston/ chilton quaalude pal: not a good start: so it was: you know maury, the problem with you is that you ask questions about things you know just a little bit about but you have no idea what it is that you're talkin about--it was kinda like andy griffith and barney, cuz.
48. He was just smilin and lovin it but he smelled blood and the whole place stopped and was seein who was upsettin the oldies star who sang the letter. and then it got downright absurd cuz he was denying ever knowin anybody that was a bouncer, and, the best one was, and even gary from boxtops laughed at this one--that he never knew anyone in memphis who carried a gun, and.
49. He couldn't contain myself and. He think. He told him how.
50. He met cydi underwood about how she leaned over the tenna bar to me after i d just gotten offstage with you guys and asked me if.
51. He wanted to go back to her place and have some lemon meringue pie and she was wearin a fur coat and nothin on underneath and then her derringer fell onto the floor out of her boots... well,.
52. He don't know if he knew her, fuck, what am.
53. He talkin about, his father probably KNEW her but he did some more stuff and about ten minutes later it normaled out when.
54. He brought up harold cowart, my louisiana bass player buddy who used to play with john fred, etc. ya know tryin to throw in the most obscure cool thing.
55. He could think of to take some of the heat off and it worked, cuz then gary got into the conversation and alex started tellin stories bout the playboys and it was great cuz.
56. He never thought i d here those stories out of his mouth in a million years, and it was almost over and.
57. He had a few more questions like about katrina, which was his favorite subject apparently, and. He got to hear the.
58. He got rescued off my roof by a helicopter story, which.
59. He had not heard before but which must have been almost rote having been in new orleans for the past few months and Tav, and he told me some almost unreadable for sincerity--update about gus, and that... i don't know. and he was eager to talk about the old gang so we went over renee, ron, you, ross, don, george, and whoever else we could think of, now keep in mind he's doin this.
60. He think so that he can, at this point, at least, give us barely perceptible rockstar eyebrow looks as one by one the beef eatin' midwestern middleagers come by and hand him a boxtops record, dj's come up and talk about the show or their station and one woman who hands him a picture of her boyfriend to sign cuz that's the only piece of paper she's got, and on that one he starts to laugh and brings me and theresa in to the exchange and gets about as close to the old evil lx as.
61. He can recall, the whole time couching it in hidden sarcasms and practiced understatements... ok\\\ ok, sorry,.
62. He was gonna write about a bunch of stuff, and i d say i ll save it for next time but.
63. He may not ever feel this prolific, thankfully for you, again. this is officially the longest email i ve ever written anybody. now to fill in the text with some random pix from my photobucket and i ll send it off without rereadin' it or editing because.
64. He know i d probably delete half of it if. He did. please tell me how catpower is/was? how/which new job does sue have? what's up with the new house/studio? jerry lee sightings. you have to mention linda gail--we've never had a conversation without mentioning the ferriday fireball fille. you may also get a kick out of my myspace which i ll send you link to, and i ll ask you to join anonymously again, but you won't but/and that's why. He like you... but.
65. He =got to say your website, speakin of bein masked and anonymous, and.
66. He realize tthat it's for the old place, which.
67. He wasn't really conscious during the last few years of, which, by the way,.
68. He hope you can forgive me when.
69. He apologize for not calling you when, even though it was after the fact about your studio fire... that one still stings me, but.

 

 

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