Spitball Army

In this performance, a one-armed Mexican street musician named Carlos Garcia plays the dreamy melody on an ivy leaf.

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So you see, I have been busy – oh, yes, practiced too, about 45 minutes. Have a new piece for us. It’s “Clair-de-Lune” by Debussy and very lovely.

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Langford made a show of “humility” over this past weekend by spewing fire and brimstone about the city’s crime rate while wearing a burlap sack over his Nike-insignia’d sport shirt, under a large banner bearing his name.

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Carl has been out spearing suckers (the only thing you can take this early) and we’ve had two swell fish dinners.

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Will really have to do some good practicing (piano), as tomorrow is the day I play for the Club program. I’ll pretend you’re there listening; then just watch me do my very best.

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In the afternoon, we practiced our two-piano numbers for about 1½ hours – came home and had our dinner and fixed my lemon fruit-salad for tomorrow. Hiked down to the drugstore and got some root beer and ice cream for “floats” to-night.

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As they began loading in their equipment, McMurtry was quiet while he sized up the space. He walked the length of the store, eyeballing the walls and aisle widths, walked back to the front of the store and stood silently looking toward the rear of the store. “We’re going to set up here,” he said.

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I’m thinking, in particular, how easy it would be to entertain a room of people with only a simple rhythm track and a microphone: invite members of the crowd to the stage to exultantly exclaim, with clear pronunciation a la Barack Obama, lines like “Come here, you little butterbean, you…Come on!!” or “Here comes a Great Dane, trotting down the lane!!”

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Now, I know me, and I have never, ever, left a blank spot on a recordable tape for want of music. My tapes were always full, from start to finish. So, I rewound Side B and listened. First song by the Jayhawks. Okay. Then, the second song.

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You mentioned playing a game with the officers and giving them a trimming. What game was that? You certainly know how to keep fit with those exercises, don’t you. I think that’s fine.

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