Video Premiere + Citizen Uh-Oh
Or, is love strong enough for the DMV? Do silly love songs really matter?
So many serious things are going on in the world to ponder and write about. Most of the time, I'm not qualified to use my outside voice, let alone publicly voice an uneducated opinion.
What I know and need to write about is my three-hour UH-OH at the DMV this week. The one where my authentic, original birth certificate from Fremont Hospital, Yuba City, California, August 10th, 1956, was not acceptable to the State of Tennessee (to issue me that Real ID thingy). Humor me for a moment.
This is where I insert the tired bit about the loss of common sense and reasonable authority given to reasonable people to make fair and just decisions. Save your breath, Mr. Peaworth. We need airtight binders and PDFs full of policies, or society will crumble under the weight of subjectivism and anarchy.
You can't have a mature, thoughtful, experienced management person making such technical, legal decisions as discerning whether the 67-year-old man and his spouse standing behind the 1/2" thick glass (who already possess legal IDs and documents) are attempting to defraud Tennessee with the most authentic forgery of a 1956 Fremont Hospital Birth Certificate since the Bronze Age. The forger even smeared the brownish ink of my tiny hours-old footprints. Genius in the details and all that.
Why go down this painful, perilous path of thinking when there is so much goodness to be had? This is me gettin' my attitude together and remembering that today is the day before my birthday; if not the Real ID, I was able to renew my driver's license; we're excitedly listening to test pressings of EVERY KIND OF UH-OH vinyl, and the "Turtle in a Chinese Food Box" video premieres at 10:AM Today! All good stuff.
Repeat after me. "I will not let the crazy faze me!" Think Prince dance party—Linn Drum beats for all my friends. With my public therapy session wrapped, here is:
All the news from me you'll need today.
Important: Andi published the much-pined for recipe of Holly Williams' Lemon Basil Poppyseed Cookies at her Substack. Priorities.
At 10 AM CST today, Friday, August 9th, go to YouTube/Vevo and watch the new video for “Turtle in a Chinese Food Box” (the lyric video will be up shortly after).
IF UR: For those who like to own their music and buy vinyl, CDs, mp3s, mp4s, lossless, and Atmos—good news—EVERY KIND OF UH-OH has it all. The usual suspects, including iTunes and Amazon, have the record on presale right now—if you’re interested and able, please do it. It helps the record get positioning on the site. If you're waiting for a vinyl or CD, bookmark UTR Media and visit them on August 30th for your purchases.
I created Volume Two for you in keeping with the Spotify playlist idea of 1000s of songs. Click that image for 25 sonic surprises.
NEXT WEEK: Friday, August 16th, the 2nd single, "Get Yourself Some," drops.
I meditate on what is great, the sea of tranquility
A peach in my palm, the kiss of my lover, the 23rd Psalm
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want
He makes me lie down in the grass
It's all comfort from here on out
I did not say easy, I did not say easy
Not everything in this ol' world will love me or please me
The full-length, 10-song album will be released on August 30th. For your convenience, several buttons with links are provided, as well as the official promotional one-sheet with details on EVERY KIND OF UH-OH.
Shout out to democracy-champion and all-around superb writer Kristin Du Mez for single-handedly adding a hundred folks to my Substack through her kind recommendation on the platform. I reciprocate.
Also, Ted Gioia keeps me on my mental toes with every post. High recs there, too.
