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Operation 365 - Jefferson Jay - Archives - 312 Robin Lee, Blowski & The Garter - 8-13-2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxIu-Qsx6_o


Ahhh, friendship, Joe and Jen Stevens Wedding. Good times. Filmed by Dylan Avery. August 13, 2008. The Garter. Classy tradition. I'll say. Much fun. Robin Lee. Blowski. Clifford. Annie Rettic. Mac Mac. Destructo Bunny. All appear here. A great day.

I just decided it's Robin Lee Week. So I'll have more to say later. This is classic stuff, these next few days though.

NOTE: youtube suggested I add the tag "Rabbit vibrator." So I did. What the hell is that? I thought this was youtube, not youporn!

Operation 365 - Jefferson Jay - Covers - 312 "Woke Up This Morning" by Alabama 3
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Leanne and I have been watching The Sopranos lately. She is up to Season 4. I have seen it all already, so I am just catching bits. I love this tun, which I kist learned is called, "Woke Up This Morning." That's the kind of song that will great in your head for weeks. I was singing all my words to Leanne this morning along with this catchy melody.

The Sopranos is so Jersey. We are thinking about going back to Jersey for Halloween. It's probably going to happen. There's a rainbow in New York City and the Yankees are losing. It's the 9th inning. Playoffs. So we'll probably go. Bloody Marys at the Daybreak. A little woozy. Haven't even recorded it yet. The Cowboys blew their biggest lead ever, So Red Sox-ish its sickening. That debacle (and the pending Yankees debacle?) aside, it's been a glorious soothing Sunday so far.

I always thought Steven Van Zandt sang this song. Apparently that's not so either. Tony Soprano.

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Operation 365 - Jefferson Jay - Originals - 312 "Floating"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP_ynCOg2Wo


"Floating" was one of the first tunes I ever had anything to do with writing ever. Back in 1992, I started writing because my best friend Tony Russo died in a horrible unresolved "accident." I wrote to get the feelings out and try to come to some understanding of how something so horrible could go down. I started playing music because there was a guitar around and it was fun. Once, before music really even started in my life, Me, Tony, and my fiend Scott Baslaw, jammed together. We sang silly lyrics inspired by my "Yankee Fan Parking Only" sign in my room in the basement of the old House of Love. Many jams followed but none like that, and none with Tony.

Anyway, after he died, Scotty and I wrote a handful of tunes, the first ones I would ever engage in writing. They all were with lyrics written in a notebook, the first of its kind. I have over 100 now. That one was stolen. It was in my scanner when I got burglarized in 2002. These things happen. So, "Floating," was the first of this burst and the lyrics are about just that, with a little bit of inspiration from the Physics class I took as a senior. The references to "C" are referring to The Speed of Light, which, as I understand it, if you can get past, you can conceivable move time backward. That's the kind of stuff I was thinking about then.

"Floating" takes me back in time to those days when we would play this song for friends, or recording with Scelzo in my room, or even when we brought it back with Elin Tea in 97. It's been amazing. More life to come. Thanks to Scotty and Tony and Scelzo and my brother and everyone else around for all those good times back in high school and just after. It truly was a simpler time.

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