I love the new signage above Java Joe’s and the bakery at the Public Market. Looks like it has been there forever.
I’ve always felt that I have some sort of knack for spotting hit songs. I mean I’ll hear a song for the first time somewhere and think. “damn, that’s catchy” and sure enough it becomes some sort of hit. Maybe everybody feels this way but it is not all a good thing. I get stuff stuck in my head all the time, stuff that I don’t want there. We were out somewhere when we heard “Lady” by the Little River Band. Maybe it was dinner at JoJo’s. They had a satellite station on paying Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Matt & Kim, Elton John and maybe “Lady.” Have you ever called your girlfriend or wife “Lady?” This thing is a relic but it lodged itself in my brain for two or three days.
So lady, let me take a look at you now
You’re there on the dance floor, making me want you somehow
Oh lady, I think it’s only fair I should say to you
Don’t be thinkin’ that I don’t want you, ’cause maybe I do
Yesterday we stopped in to Home Depot to pick up a bag of cement. 80 pounds for $3.75! What do you think came on their sound system?
Margaret Explosion plays the Little Theatre Café tonight at 7;30. If I’m lucky I’ll get something else lodged upstairs.
Listen to Margaret Explosion “Juggler” with Jack Schaefer on bass clarinet
hee heee hheee LADY hee hee hee torture hee hee hee
Signage painted by Steve Smock. Not actually the Javas building, it is the building next door with the bakery, Mike Calabrese’s high end coffee bar and Fare Game. Mike also owns Javas at the market (and on Gibbs, and Good Luck and the Highland Diner. Busy fellow)
Those repetitive jingles are called ‘earwicks’ or ‘cognitive itches’ and some psychologists say they are as unrelenting as physical itches. The ‘Village People’ and ‘Abba’ were deadly carriers.