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The 35 Minutes That Sum It Up Best: Motivational Karaoke, "Spring Training Eve"

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Today while driving around South Austin, my iPod bringed me a blast from me past.  A 35-minute segment of Motivational Karoke, the WESN radio show that Chris Golwitzer and I painstakingly crafted from 2002-2005.  It wunt crafted.  It wunt no pain. Part 5 of "SPRING TRAINING EVE (2/22/04) just seemed to sum up what we were about. It starts with an interview with Ted Leo after he blew out his voice in Champaign and I finished the singing for him.  That ends with a clip of Babe Ruth with a fake swear word beeped in. We played Ted Leo quite a bit. A new song that's old now. A lengthy, lie-riddled microphone break, back-selling a lot of things that we used to play.  A tongue lashing of the DJs on before us. An explanation of what Google is and how to spell it, followed by the futile spelling of our very long impossible find website. We were doing Dream Warriorisms then because we were on from 12-2am at that time.  We went retro and pulled out a Motivational Karo
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Tape Us Together

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My eye is still out for it, but it hasn’t been seen in 20 year and not likely to turn up, but there was a tape of a band, during their only practice, in a chicken-coupe practice space in a Bloomington attic... next to a homemade skate ramp... name forgotten... I was on guitar, Reid on bass, Matt Williams on drums and Bobby Schifano on vocals. I remember that we did “Paint It Black” and that Bobby sounded exactly like Cookie Monster. Very exactly. I also remember him thanking me putting a band together for him to eat cookies with. Crossed it off his bucket list. Spin-o-rama... That’s a tape I want to hear. My mom would say, “pray to St. Anthony.” The patron saint of lost things. I miss you, Bobby. I’d say Rest In Peace, but that wasn’t your thing. Another tape that I’d like to find but I won’t is that from our home answering machine in the 80s. The outgoing message tape that looped when you used it on a regular recorder. If I found it, the ideal recording would no longer be on i
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