Deadsplinter Up! All Night: America 250 State Fair of the Mind

I hear America singing

3/6/26 Luigi Vuoto 7

Since all of the really fine musicians have chosen to sit out the Great American 250th Birthday-palooza, I thought we should probably think about our dream lineup of musicians for this auspicious event, and what should their playlist be?

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  5. …ok…I know I’m late…&…it’s lazy…but…I like seasick steve & “church of me” don’t deserve that taint for a punchline it don’t fit nohow…& there’s two-fer on “when the president talks to god” but they both talk about time gone by…& the midnight oil could tell about the hard to sleep while these shat-in beds are burning…& the fella from redgum could give it the only-nineteen…or the other one…with the stutter…that’d be…19…in ’85…talking about 19…in vietnam…war…what is it good for…buffalo soldiers…buffalo soldiers with springfields…buffalo springsteen…something’s happening here…what it is ain’t exactly clear…but…along with the death & taxes we know there’s one common nominator that’s big with the terminal class of every year, right?

    …hell…it’s the winning-est war since they didn’t watch the warriors & still said they were down with those 36-chambers on the shaolin isle

    …we could go around on another man’s cause & who the levellers were before there was only one way…or your boy akala could trip you through time while sloth says the mic melted & the booth be ashes now…or your belfast boy could lay it down about here lies a soldier but the belfast eyes still hear the marchin’…or the coast could get contra…we could give it up for la corte…or mc solaar…the starflamme could light ’em up…keny could go the full-arkana & la haine ain’t got nothing on the scorn that lady can tap…mix up some lady of rage & see if jean grey could conflagrate some phoenix shit…get burning spears beating drums like the skin of skunk anansie…while fat freddy drops…but…their beat keeps time…give or take a doppler effect

    …so…since I ain’t no kind of wizard let alone a stage magician

    …& I been on this ride longer than seems advisable if there’s…I dunno…other options…I’m…not gonna lie…if I could find a switch to flip?

    …yeah…either on or off…I don’t even care at this point…just…whichever it currently isn’t is presumably the setting we’re after?

    …see…I can too be consistent…late…overlong…sure…always dragging in the same tired picks…two counts, then…still a fair cop…so…find me one of those & we’ll talk…can’t say fairer than that, now can I?

    …not like you got to go get with child a mandrake root or something *hard*…shit…we could go metaphysical on the misogyny if somebody looking to get canonical on the self-serving-sinner-performs-repentance-professionally pitchers on the toasting mound before the friars invented the national pastime to pass the time while the brew brewed

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