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She's Aloft
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All of the Above, John
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How We Do Things
03:03
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Dear Abby
02:57
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When The Rain Falls
02:47
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Windshield Wipers
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Skyscraper Corridors
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The Portent
02:17
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Funny Pages
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Good Morning, Hometown
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Tonic & Gin
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Susan
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The Drivin' Song
03:07
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Black-Eyed Susans
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You Can't Fool Me
02:36
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When I Die
03:15
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Alligator Fishing
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Well, my aunt Loretta was a real humdinger out in Annapolis in Fifty-Nine. Practically made her living as a nightclub swinger--thirty-four but still slender like a Las Vegas dancer, and all of the sailors bought her wine, red wine. Said, all of the sailors bought her wine, red wine.
And my uncle Danny was a racecar driver, and he moonlighted as a rodeo clown. Loretta, she was his kind of thrill-seeker, so they tied the knot to appease my grandmother, and all the groomsmen wore sharkskin tuxedos, and they swore to god they'd never settle down. Said, they swore they'd be dead before they settled down.
But you can't run from time. And just like ten pennies gets you one thin dime, in this life, the decades pass by means of simple addition.
So Loretta made a killing as a horoscope writer, but Uncle Danny broke both his knees, so they got a motor boat, retired to Miami. They go alligator fishing off Lake Tallahassee and scuba diving off the Florida Keys.
Said alligator fishing off Lake Tallahassee and scuba diving off the Florida Keys. Them old folks, they do as they please.
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Day Job
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Who needs art when you've got a steady pay check? I'm making almost nine dollars an hour. --At least that's what theman upstairs wants for me to believe, and I won't diss him. He's got the hiring power, and the firing power. And hey, I'm only twenty grand down to the Federal government. It's my education that's got me this far. I'll have it all paid off 'bout two thousand ten. By then I'm sure to be a big star with a fancy car, but still, I'd keep my day job. I love my day job. It's just a day job. I need my day job. My day job...yeah.
I got a plate glass window. It's got a great big view. I'm right around the corner from the commuter train. In walks an old friend of mine, he's got a beeper and a dark blue suit. He's just a monkey on a chain--a wallet chain. At 5:15 they come for magazines, chewing gum, and cigarettes, and I let 'em all just disappear. Sure, sometimes I daydream of a Carmengia, or a publishing deal, but that won't take me away from here because this is my day job. I love my day job. I need the pay from my day job. This is my day job. My day job.
While dusting the paperbacks yesterday, I had a revelation, and now I know what Tom Clancy would say to me. He would say, "Son, don't quit your day job. Better keep that day job. You never know who your friends are and who is the enemy."
So who needs art when you got a steady pay check? I'm making almost nine dollars an hour. Who cares if my time is worth only three per cent of all them brokers and buyers and bankers and lawyers and jokers and liars? They've got the power. They've got the power... My momma said, attitude like that, you will never get out of that day job. La la.
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Ghost Town Youths
02:18
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Wanderlust
04:35
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Utopian Pop Song
02:09
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Bean
04:24
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Big Wishes Ballad
03:07
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The Motorcade
04:07
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Big Wheel
01:35
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Hey, Whatever
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Truly Happy
02:21
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Paul Kotheimer Urbana, Illinois
For well over 30 years now, Paul Kotheimer has been writing songs. And then recording them. And then putting them together
into albums.
At first, way way back in the actual 1980s, he used a cassette player and a microphone from Radio Shack. Now he's the proprietor of Pillow Monster Home Studio, complete with lots of musical instruments and recording gear and one actual pillow monster. YAY MUSIC!
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