the williams are covering my piano. power, gas, web.... hah! power gas. best time to handle williams over the phone is on the john. nothing like Takin Care of Business while you're Takin Care of Business, am i right? got the Time Warner guy to drop a couple of bullshit fees while i was dropping some .. fill in your own doodoo rhyme here... it is appropriate, though. if you wanna get shit done, and get to the bottom of things, you just gotta roll up your sleeves, drop your trousers, call the Company and poop on 'em. the guy even asked me if i have access to a computer and i told him "yeah but i'm a little indisposed at the moment, give me a (BeBe's Kids pause to push) little more time"... made sure he heard me flush, too.
so i found this list of "notable" North Carolina natives. a few of interest are Pam Grier and Jackee Harry (both Winston-Salem), Carl Kassel my least favorite voice on NPR (Goldsboro), Julianne Moore (Fort Bragg, military brat), and Afeni Shakur (mother of Tupac, Lumberton)...
for music there isn't a lot that stands out to me. James Taylor, oh boy how exciting. Clay Aiken, Jermaine Dupri, Ben Folds. yawn. however, there are a couple pleasant surprises.
like George Clinton, born July 22, 1941, in Kannapolis, North Carolina. his Wiki says he grew up in NJ. (no doubt much of the funk came from there, but rooted in the south.) Clinton's no stranger to the williams, i'm sure. i liked Parliament a lot when i was a teenager, and still am more than a little aggro toward Dr Dre for co-opting Clinton's sound. but as an adult, i dig Funkadelic a lot more. it's more exploratory. Parliament is great pop music, Funkadelic is outstanding avant-funk, but still got all that mothership hip shake. stanky!
so i have to post my favorite track, the song i think would be the best intro music ever; for anyone, on any occasion.
LRV, b
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