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Senator LooGAR
 Post subject: If your city were a song, what would it be?
PostPosted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 5:36 pm 
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Mobile, AL would be Downbound Train by Bruce Springsteen because "Now I work down at the carwash WHERE ALL IT EVER DOES IS RAIN"

Every day. Between noon and 6pm, the sky opens up, and our fucking streets turn into lakes, and many times one of my offices loses power.

I hope Sufjan can incorporate this into his "Alabama" album.

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I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.

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chicago - Sufjan Stevens

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"Philadelphia" - Atom & His Package

for my town?

"Lawyers, Guns & Money" - Warren Zevon.
or something.

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Senator LooGAR
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I see you geniuses are really using the old thinking caps today. I suppose I should have gone with "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again" but that's not really the point of this thread, now IS IT?

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harry Wrote:
I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.

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Sen. Domestication LooGAR Wrote:
I see you geniuses are really using the old thinking caps today. I suppose I should have gone with "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again" but that's not really the point of this thread, now IS IT?


Someone needs a hug.

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I don't think anybody has made a song that gets Houma quite right.

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I tried to find somebody of that sort that I could like that nobody else did - because everybody would adopt his group, and his group would be _it_; someone weird like Captain Beefheart. It's no different now - people trying to outdo ! each other in extremes. There are people who like X, and there are people who say X are wimps; they like Black Flag.

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Locky and the Lockersons Wrote:
Sen. Domestication LooGAR Wrote:
I see you geniuses are really using the old thinking caps today. I suppose I should have gone with "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again" but that's not really the point of this thread, now IS IT?


Someone needs a drink.

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harry Wrote:
I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.

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LooGAR (the straw that stirs the drink)

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On second thought. Bruce Springsteen - The River

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I tried to find somebody of that sort that I could like that nobody else did - because everybody would adopt his group, and his group would be _it_; someone weird like Captain Beefheart. It's no different now - people trying to outdo ! each other in extremes. There are people who like X, and there are people who say X are wimps; they like Black Flag.

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A Minor Place - Bonnie 'Prince' Billy

Syracuse, NY


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Can we include city names, here, too people.

Is Houma really that kinda town, oldbul?

I saw a car from there today...I gave em about 20 yards of room, and then turned off the road quickly ;)

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harry Wrote:
I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.

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LooGAR (the straw that stirs the drink)

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"Hey Scenesters" by the Cribs

First song that came to mind when thinking about LA.

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For Vegas, there could be a ton of them, no doubt- I flashed on John Gorka's Where The Bottles Break-

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Sen. Domestication LooGAR Wrote:
Can we include city names, here, too people.

Is Houma really that kinda town, oldbul?

I saw a car from there today...I gave em about 20 yards of room, and then turned off the road quickly ;)


For alot of people here I would say yes. It's an oil and gas town, and that pretty much dictates everything. We are a hub for the Oil companies where the piplines come in from offshore.

Of course it's not all bleak but that song captures the spirit of alot men here who begin working off shore right after high school to me.

Also so much unrealized poetential as a town. Squandered so many natural resources. It could be alot more than it is.
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Flint, MI = "My Hometown" by Springsteen. Play that while driving into town on a grey day and it's nigh on impossible to not get depressed as hell.
Actually, Hank Rollins did a spoken word visit at MSU in '99 and had a bit talking about Flint where he equated it to a Bruce Springsteen album come to life.
Teh funny.

Runner-up winner: Sufjan Stevens - Flint (For the Unemployed and Underpaid)

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swiateck Wrote:
Flint, MI = "My Hometown" by Springsteen. Play that while driving into town on a grey day and it's nigh on impossible to not get depressed as hell.
Actually, Hank Rollins did a spoken word visit at MSU in '99 and had a bit talking about Flint where he equated it to a Bruce Springsteen album come to life.
Teh funny.

Runner-up winner: Sufjan Stevens - Flint (For the Unemployed and Underpaid)


HAHA. Good call(s) chad. That is far and away my favorite Sufjan song.

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harry Wrote:
I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.

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Also so much unrealized poetential as a town. Squandered so many natural resources. It could be alot more than it is.


If it weren't full of idiots. You excluded, of course. Houma's Great White Hope.

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oldbulee Wrote:
Also so much unrealized poetential as a town. Squandered so many natural resources. It could be alot more than it is.


If it weren't full of idiots. You excluded, of course. Houma's Great White Hope.
:lol:

True. We do have more than our fair share of absolute morons, and we there is no way another city has less intelliegent leaders. I have a feeling the Sen. will disagree b/c he meets alot of politicans. But I'll see if I can't dig up a picture of our last mayor to illustrate.
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For the tranquil ATL suburbs, where the next meth-based rampage is probably only minutes away and more specifically, to my little street where my three immediate neighbors all have honest-to-god stay-at-home mothers who even mow the lawns in place of their puscatore husbands, I offer up---MOTHERS LITTLE HELPER - THE ROLLING STONES

what a drag indeed......

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Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain / Willie Nelson
Why Does it Always Rain on Me? / Travis

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Portland, OR / Loretta Lynn

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Blame it on the Rain / Milli Vanilli
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Damen Wrote:
"Better Bring A Gun" by King Tee


I always think of "Home of the Body Bag" cos any time you mention LA one of my boys always says "Oh, you mean the Home of the Body Bag?"

Also, King Tee OWNS!

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harry Wrote:
I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.

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