Jen’s Neighborhood

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I will write more about the shows later. For now, here's the brain-melting setlists. Two nights, close to 6 hours of music, 63 songs, with only one repeat!

7/16/08
Exactly Where I'm At
The HIV Song
Ice Castles
The Golden Eel
The Stallion Part 3
Voodoo Lady
Your Party
Light Me Up
The Argus
Waving My Dick in the Wind
Mr. Richard Smoker
Touch My Tooter
Even If You Don't
Object
Beacon Light
Flutes of the Chi
Zoloft
Johnny on the Spot
Mister Would You Please Help My Pony?
The Stallion 5
The Final Alarm
Tender Situation
The Mollusk
Pandy Fackler
I Got to Put the Hammer Down
Captain Fantasy
You Fucked Up
Ocean Man
Reggaejunkiejew
E:
Fiesta
Poop Ship Destroyer

7/17/08
What Deaner Was Talkin' About
Piss Up a Rope
Spinal Meningitis
Bananas and Blow
Learning to Love
Take Me Away
Transdermal Celebration
Don't Get 2 Close (2 My Fantasy)
Woman and Man
Happy Colored Marbles
With My Own Bare Hands
Roses Are Free
Your Party
Push th' Little Daisies
Stay Forever
Stroker Ace
Gabrielle
Doctor Rock
Did You See Me?
Joppa Road
Help Me Scrape the Mucous Off My Brain
You Were the Fool
Mutilated Lips
Back to Basom
Squelch the Weasel
Buenos Tardes
E:
The Goin' Gets Tough from the Getgo
I'm in the Mood
The Enabler
Big Jilm
Awesome Sound
Never Squeal

I am astounded by the number of books I've come across written about Java (the programming language) that have coffee stains on them.

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I've been listening to Ween nonstop over the past week or so, to properly prepare for the back-to-back concerts I'll be seeing at the Denver Fillmore Wednesday and Thursday. In honor of the Boognish, here are a few songs (arranged by topic) my mother would never listen to (never mind the hundreds of Ween songs that don't have offensive titles, but still have offensive lyrics). Stop reading now if naughty words bother you.

F-Bombs

• you fucked up
• she fucks me
• the fucked jam
• big fat fuck

Ween-ies

• put the coke on my dick
• waving my dick in the wind
• flies on my dick
• touch my tooter

Medical Conditions

• mononucleosis
• the HIV song
• spinal meningitis

Just Plain Frightening

• mushroom festival in hell
  
• cover it with gas and set it on fire
• demon sweat
• help me scrape the mucus off my brain
  

Misogyny

• common bitch
• baby bitch
• L.M.L.Y.P.
  
• piss up a rope
  

Didn't Fit in Those Other Categories

• booze me up and get me high
• hey fat boy (asshole)
• poop ship destroyer
• reggaejunkiejew
• don't shit where you eat
• papa zit

But that's only 25 songs or so, out of hundreds. So maybe she would be a Ween fan, after all...

Well, some neat things have happened over the past while. 

Chainat early morning market

Matayom students looking at some pics on my computer

We had an educational camp and in my return to this school in prep for a second camp, some graduates wanted to see some pics. 

The gift of knowledge

Mother of pearl - Toes 2

Mother of pearl - Toes 3

A gaggle of volunteers going to temple

Wat Pra Gaew recently

My printer in Bangkok

Dinner with ABAC

Teachers, students and deans of nursing at a big name university after a Friday night meeting about best practice and how to improve the training and HIV/AIDS awareness camps we are running...

View from a Thai home on central Chao Praya river

Really

And through all the whirlwind of life, and just when Thailand feels kinda normal in its business, I come home for the evening and get slapped in the face with culture...

Are these yours...

Yep, there is Pi Paan, Pi Apawn, their daughter nong Gwang, and the funny sly guy who speaks a bit of English, sitting at the table outside of the apartment complex.  That is normal.  What is abnormal about this night was when I returned my laundry basket was on the table.  You see, Pi Pawn is caretaker of the complex, her husband is a security guard there... I pay her about 15 bucks a month to do my laundry.  But anyway, what is my basket doing there?  Oh, they were wondering which of the cleaned pieces of underware was not mine.  She knew I had submitted 4, but now there were five.  So everyone had a good look at the items and discussed it and came up with the right answer.  This likely would not occur back home, but here these kinds of things are fair game.  Like many experinces I have here, they come across very odd and slightly uncofortable at first, then endearing.  

Graham Nash says Stephen Stills "just found a bloody album he made with Jimi Hendrix."

It's about damn time...

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