Scratch Pad

from The Kilogram of Gold by Paul Kotheimer

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The Scratch Pad was the name of a cafe you used to go to in your Scratch Pad Cafe days - Your "Scratch Pad Cafe Days." This was way back when a couple bucks for a day-old scone and a small cup of the house blend was all that there was for dinner, leaving eight bucks for beer. Oh, the Scratch Pad, you know, was always percolating something. You had your fictional fiction writers, renegade theorists, and napkin sketch virtuosos of various ilks. And then you had your saxophone players. ...And you were a fly on the wall in a radio play set in the back seat of a cop car, and you were crushing on all the baristas. This was before they started calling them "baristas." Yeah but the Scratch Pad got a little bit scratchier there towards the end. Trust me, you wouldn't want to go back there tonight and see what's left of it. Trust me.

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from The Kilogram of Gold, released June 3, 2011
Electric guitar, Baldwin Orgasonic, upright bass, Juno 106, GarageBand percussion, and vocal by PK.

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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! ... more

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