AND WHILE WE’RE AT IT

When’s the last time you heard a really good guitar solo in a song?

REQUIEM FOR A MILKMAN

Dave Blood, bassist for the Dead Milkmen, has committed suicide.

The Dead Milkmen were one of my favorite groups when I was in college; their “Instant Club Hit (You’ll Dance To Anything)” was my introduction to them. I spun a couple tunes from their Metaphysical Graffiti album incessantly when I was a DJ on KAUR-FM in Sioux Falls, SD during college. RIP, Dave, the peace you never found here on Earth.

(Thanks to TBP reader Ugly Head.)

WANDERLUST

I wanna take a road trip. Real, real bad. I want to fly down the freeways, seeing things I’ve never seen before or expected never to see again. I want to buy horrible foodstuffs at disreputable gas stations. I want to take the pulse of my country via local talk radio. I want to go a few days without hearing a ringing telephone. I wanna buy t-shirts from a college you’ve never heard of. I want to go to Maine, Idaho, Pittsburgh, Birmingham, Amarillo, Oklahoma, Sioux City, Pensacola, Saskatoon, Spokane, Montreal . . . anywhere. Anywhere but where I am right now. I just wanna live out of a front seat and a suitcase for a few days.