Spitball Army

Jackson Browne and band
24 October 2008
Alabama Theatre, Birmingham, Alabama
Set list

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The show, a 30-minute episodic live show reminiscent of Austin City Limits – kind of like ACL’s younger, scrappier sibling – features new and innovative bands from all over America, including some internatonal artists and, of course, some based right here in the ‘Ham.

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Stand up! Stand up with me! Stand up and fight! Fight for your individuality! Be a maverick! Bring reform to Warshington! Fight for oysters and snails!

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…Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.)…, addressing a business summit in Cambridge yesterday, was talking about the media’s “silly questions” to presidential candidates when he cracked his “joke,” his spokeswoman said.

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Also on the menu at El Mexicano on 20th Street South in Birmingham:
“Fish filets available individually – only $350!”

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18 October 2008: The real Governor Sarah Palin appears – but doesn’t do much else – on Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update.

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With this classmate in mind, I had programmed Mick Jagger’s “Old Habits Die Hard” instead of other possibilities, which could have included ELO’s “Evil Woman” or The Rolling Stones’ “Bitch.”

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And when he got going good he was completely lost in his work, so absorbed that he had no idea what a comic face he was making. His tongue lolled out in a fat roll, his cheeks puffed out, and his eyes popped out and crossed themselves.

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I approached this documentary with some hesitation.  After all, who would willingly settle, with any enthusiasm, into a screening of a film about suicide?  The few reviews I had read about the film were positive, so I watched it, hoping to learn something new. The film is beautiful.  That is to say, the footage and photography […]

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