Monday, September 12, 2005

12 SEPTEMBER 2005: THE GREAT L.A. POWER OUTTAGE

Five after 12 bells, and the temperature is nice. Shovel thinks there will be more heatwaves.

Jonesy says we will have more of the Indian Summer. He likes warm summer nights. They make him feel good.

Chelsea beat someone. (Footie.) He pulled his groin playing his own game this weekend. (Hollywood United, I think is his team's name. They are pretty well known among the Brits I know here.) He's never pulled a groin muscle before.

"What are your loins?" He asks Shovel. "I know what a loin cloth is, but what are loins?"

"A child is a fruit of your loins," says Shovel.

"Yeah but where is it? Is the loins the groin?" He questions further. And should he wear a loin cloth?

"Perhaps a listener will know," says Shovel

Jonesy's legs hurt too, and he's never pulled a groin muscle before.

What's going on with that bloody disaster--is Bush paying the bills down there? Jonesy wonders, regarding Katrina.

Shovel wants to change the subject.

A boxed set of someone-- CATCH THE WIND-- oh, I think this is Donovon.

Donovon, CATCH THE WIND
Velvet Underground, SUNDAY MORNING ("Nico on vocals," he comments. "Beautiful!")
Leo Sayer, GIVING IT ALL AWAY ("Roger Daltrey had a hit with this.")
Rod Stewart, MANDOLIN WIND ("Monday morning blues set," comments Jonesy.)
Antony and the Jonhsons, HOPE THERE IS SOMEONE (** They have a gig at the Los Feliz Vista Theatre later this month, per Jonesy.)

The Duke: Radio Shack

The power went out and I missed the whole rest of the show.

OKAY-- I am back for the re-broadcast.

"Steven Nostradamus," he says.

The Duke: BMW

"It's chaos out there," says Jonesy of the power outtage. "Orange County is out as well."

Shovel says, let's all stay calm and just get home okay.

Jonesy just said the "t" word. Terrorist.

Both agree that there is no reason to get crazy. Stay calm.

"I'm going to calm the city," says Jonesy. (Only those of us that actually have battery powered radios.)

Oh my god, this is the silliest Jonesy song I have ever heard. It's starts out to FIVE YEARS.

"Five minutes/ five minutes what a surprise/ that's all we got/we all are going to die/ in five minutes/ in five minutes/ in five lovely minutes/ oh oh oh/ what's it like to die?/ Five sausages/ that what I fancy when I am anxious/ five sausage rolls, with branston pickle/ and sausage rolls/ five bunk ups too take away my worries/ five bunk ups before we all die..."

YOU'RE ALL GOING TO DIE! Stay calm, Los Angeles, counsels Jonesy.

Shovel is playing a clip. 
 "Please don't panic /we are going to orange alert/ then to red alert, we're all going to die..."

"Drive your cars into the back of the bloke in front of you/ don't worry about no lights/ get out of your car and smash someone's face in/ nick a handbag off some old lady, off some helpless lady/ see a bloke in a wheelchair/ smash his bleeding head in/ calm yourself /calm yourself.."

"You are too square I have to straighten you out," another Shovel clip. (How does he come up with these so fast?)

"I count to five this will be a dream/you will be coming up from the elevator/ you know what I mean/ it's been a phantasm/ it's been a phantasm of life..."

"Human error...This sort of thing has cropped up before... "

Shovel has another clip.

"Five men went into a toilet/ five men had a look at each other/ five men with funny coloured hankies out of the back of their pockets....Five birds that's all I ask for/ five birds, in their twenties/ in their twenties/ just for tonight, yes I'd be fine/ five manchiefrills/ clouding up the sky with their/ five manchiefrills, oh yeah..."

"I can no longer sit back and allow communist subversion, and the international communist consipiracy..." a final clip from Shovel on the matter.


The whistling song was MAGGIE MAY.  Jonesy bought this when he was 15 and he didn't know nothing. He bought it at the HMV Record Shoppe because it had a cool cover. It was Saturday and sunny, and he went to Cookies' house. They listened to it, and Jonesy was like "he's the man, he has a great voice." Maggie May was the number one album in the US and the UK after that. Jonesy was so proud that he bought it before anyone else, before it became popular.

"I am a visionary, aren't I, Shovel?" Shovel concurs that Jonesy had a feeling in his "gutty wutty" just moments before the power went out.

"If you are young and you want to be saved," come up to Jonesy's tonight and he will save you.

???
Red Walls, MEMORIES
Ian Hunter, ??
(He must have played these before his FIVE YEARS spoof. Maybe Killing Joke, too, I wasn't paying close attention.)

Killing Joke, WAR DOGS
The Damned, NEAT NEAT NEAT
PIL, ANNALISA

"Two water and power concubines aren't working," per Jonesy.

This is the second hour. I'll have to get up early tomorrow morning.

People are driving all silly and stuff because of the blackout, says Jonesy.

"Please make room for me, when I leave the station! While the rest of you die, I just want to get home," says Jonesy.

"Such a caring guy," snorts Shovel.

"That's me," says Jonesy. "Fanks for listening!"

New Pornographers, TWIN CINEMA
Journey, WHEN THE LIGHTS GO DOWN IN THE CITY

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