Obviously I was wrong about being stuck if two days later, all four pages are done. Well, now that I've got those installed at both websites, I'm off to the poetry reading. Just two poetry readings ago, I was drawing William Henry Charles waking up and deciding not to shave, in response to some random comments from Freud. Seems like a longer time ago than it really was.

I got a Paul McCartney DVD last week, "The McCartney Years," featuring almost all of his post-Beatle music videos.

I have two new favorite songs, the first, "Mull of Kintyre," which was Paul McCartney's best-selling single of all in Great Britain, but totally obscure in America. It's a sentimental song about his home in southwest Scotland, featuring the local town's bagpipe band. The video shows the coast, kind of like Oregon or Washington, and all his neighbors.

The other, "C.Moon," probably isn't the greatest of songs, but it's got a funky sorta reggae sound. I've heard this one before, but never realised what it was all about, till in the commentary Paul explained that "L7" means "square," in the beatnik sense of "un-hip," and "C-moon" was his own invention, meaning "round," thus logically, "un-square" or "hip."

Songs probably shouldn't require footnotes, but at least now I know what

All the people older than me
never seem to understand
the things I want to do.
It will be L-7
and I'll never get to heaven
if I fill my head with glue.
What's it all to you?

is supposed to mean.

Not being able to hear or understand the "L7" line originally, It kinda sounded like the oldsters were telling him he'd never get to heaven if he sniffed glue or something, but now it's clear that by "glue" he meant the sort of knowledge that gets people stuck in their ways. Not real well expressed, but the melody and funky sound are irresistable, and now I've got it in my head half the time.

Actually most of the songs I've never heard are pretty good. Paul was at his weakest when he tried to do disco, although some of these have the most entertaining videos, so it's never really a loss.