11/22/2021
XX Monday, November 15, 2021
"Saturnalia 13 Nov 21. Mad painter practice and
next gig is Saturday 27 Nov 21 Middle East bakery.
Alex Gitlin keeps giving me O. Rex flashbacks with
covers ("we should call this band C. rex because of all the
covers!"- Jay Gruberger, 1974 maybe). "How about "Gudbuy
T' jane"? "Sugar Me' by Lynsey De Paul? Schmel
herbie Hind suggested "evil woman" off of Spooky
Two; I been hearin' Spooky Tooth last three years! (BGN archives).
Again, as you read this, I will have sang "I'm in love"
off Asa tribute volume two at the Mess Around on Sunday
21 Nov 21, so the Saturday would me my mass. ave tour!
As a map geek, The plough to Middle east is 0.7 miles! "four
minutes"; Gonna take a pot of Dunkin' Donuts (Box of Joe, no
relation to the Dead's "Box of rain") for me to walk 3/5
of a mile in ten seconds, onc't I get my big head off my Surrealistic
Pillow"....
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
CC Catch
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"Monntag ides of November 21. I am part of a '80s Euro-disco
group, stuff I NEVER heard in the States and CC Catch
came up as a youtube video. She was a Dutch-born german pop singer
born 31 July 64; as old as hard day's Nicht. genres: "pop,
synthpop, Euro disco". I fell in love with her 45 "I can
lose my heart tonight" released 31 July 85, perhaps same month
as Fleshtones/ Johnny and Jumper Cables/ Capture the flag. peaked
at #13 in Deutschland! well, according to harry vee, the Hopelessly
Obscure e.p. with "rain of death" was number ein in Bamberg
BUT ICH LIEBE SCHLAGERS! (Roland Kaiser versus Ken Kaiser...hmmmm…)...wiki:
song "written by Dieter Bohlen for Modern Talking,but he thought
that it wasn't good enough for the band"...and ONLY mad Painter's
Alex Gitlin (then still "back in the USSR") would even
know of Modern talking (Dieter was in this "80s pop duo";WHAM
bam thank you maam!). lastly in July '85 Mary Roos (no kin to Bob
Roos of Stigmatics tho my great-grandmother Highland's New Netherlands
ancestors had a uncle named Jan Roos!); her cover "Keine Trane
tut mir leid (fur Eine Hand voll Zartlichkeit"). Mary Roos
vinyl seven inch ("style: SCHLAGER"!) has 15 copies for
sale for 57 cents! "Try some buy some"!"....
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
"Sonntag 14 Nov 21. Fell asleep lisenin to the patriots
win against the browns on WAJR 740 AM (Saturday west virginia mountaineers
lost; aint but two games left!) BUT before a Law and Order binge-a-thon
(see why I CANT retire? as my niece Justine (she spoke to red on
red when she was pre-school) "Uncle Ken you and popular culture
should never meet" (this was me appraising Jersey Shore! Hey
Snooki was hot, man! and J-Wow....)...so between four and five pm
I DID finally see Crazy Rich Asians (IF
I'd seen it in a thee-ate-er, that'd be AMC Common, at noon, near
Chinatown which shows many Asian-centric movies!)(no Bollywood tho
that's up to Fresh Pond where in '77 I bought ramones "sheena
is a punk runker' b/w "I don't care", covered by
Afrika Korps at Cantone's 21 aug 77). POINT OF ALL THIS:
Sally Yeh covers Madonna's "Material Girl"! Dead People
fact: Madonna's other Madonna Louise Fortin (TWICE as Quebecois
as Miss Lyn!) is seventh cuzzins to Jack Kerouac; Miss Lyn cuzzins
to "top of my shelf" through her Lisotte line; go to Madonna
famous kin to see the Madonna- Celine Dion kinship! ok onto sally
Yeh: Wikipedia says Sally is a Taiwanese-Canadian Cantopop diva
and actress! "Canto pop' is "Hong Kong pop music",
so imagine sugary,minor key bubblegum basically. sally born 30 sept
61 in tapei,taiwan (Ma's mother was 75 then and I wuz in North Carolina
startin' Kenne-garten!) age four, 1965 (when we moved up north)
she moved to Victoria, british Columbia. her discography goes back
to 1980, when I played the Underground with BIG WORLD, this teen
starting with "Embossing Spring"; Honest Little ma was
first movie 1980. So Sally's cover of Madonna was called "200
Degrees" and to close (thank GOD!) Huff Post says "How
Chinese covers of Madonna and COLDPLAY made Krazee Rich Asians"...also
some bit about using the toon without Madonna's permission...she
should feel flattered...noone in Asia ever covered me...once got
a email from Singapore that some collector owned the $300 O. rex
record".....
Thursday, November 18, 2021
"day of Wodin 17 Nov 22. celebrated Miss Lyn's birthday at
Drag Bingo at drifter's Tale 7-9 pm; she took photos.
I went to bingo as a kid but this is more fun! Singing drag acts
and then the bingo winners enter a contest lip-synching! Music:
Madonna's "material girl"; "it's rainin' men'. Winners
trying to Be MOST Flamboyant and I was hootin' and hollerin' and
clap me hands, stomp me feet like Jed Clampett at a Slade gig during
a Greek picnic: OPA! DO check this out and let me run down next
week's Mass. Ave. tour: Sunday 21 nov 21 between 6 and 7 pm I sing
"I'm in love" off asa tribute volume two. Saturday Night's
Alright For: mad Painter and captain easychord Middle east bakery;
this is Saturday 27 Nov 21. See you there! off-line til Sunday!
"Glad to see ya go"!"....
 Patti
Bouree
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Kenne and MIss Lyn
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Kenne
ready for Bingo
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Friday, November 19, 2021
Kenne's taking a couple vacation days!!!! Tune in next week for the full details.
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