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1. Alejandro Escovedo is selling a new live album, Por Vida, via his web site. (For those in the Twin Cites, the Electric Fetus has a few copies.) I've always admired Escovedo's albums more than adored them. But his eyepopping live performances are a whole other matter. Por Vida was mostly recorded in Austin and Asheville, but there's one track, "Sad & Dreamy (The Big 10)," from his August, 2002 show at the Turf Club. Escovedo wrote the infectious meditation on growing old with a bunch of elementary school kids, and the drunks at the Turf belt out the chorus with appropriate glee: "I hit the big One-O, I feel so old, and candy just doesn't taste as good anymore." I think I can hear my own beery yelp in the mix.

And oh yeah: Next month Or Music will release a two-cd Alejandro tribute album, featuring such notables as Vic Chesnutt, Lucinda Williams, and John Cale. Proceeds will go towards helping pay the singer's medical bills. Escovedo was hospitalized with Hepatitis C in April, 2003, and has just recently begun performing again.

2. Hillary in '08: I was listening to some program on the Patriot II this morning. (Somehow I'd been blissfully ignorant of this station's existence, but now that Mosedale has pointed it out to me I must listen.) Lord knows what show it was. The host sounded southern and angry. He was pointing out that Bill Clinton (naturally) was to blame for gay marriage--and by extension the destruction of America.

Anyway, one of the program's astute listeners called in to float the theory that the Democrats will dump Kerry at the convention and anoint Hillary. This is not a new hypothesis: I hear the same damn theory espoused at least once a week on right-wing talk radio. The level of paranoia and visceral hatred directed at Hillary on a daily basis is simply astounding. They're maniacally obsessed. I'm convinced Rush Limbaugh (and Laura Ingraham) masturbates to her image daily. If Hillary becomes president they'll completely lose their minds. It'll be some spectacle.

3. Minnesota Thunder v. Portland Timbers: This evening at 7 p.m. they will battle for first place at The Jimmy.

Posted by Paul Demko at June 22, 2004 1:38 PM

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