The new Zero Point Zero is now up here — a commentary on poetry as a personal spiritual quest.

I had planned on a different column, but decided to postpone it until I felt better. This was a backup I’d started sometime ago — I looked it over and decided it was ok for posting.

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We’ll do something easy, to start. Meme from just_jeff.

NAME AN EXCELLENT:

Country song: Ring of Fire, Johnny Cash

Soul song: Try A Little Tenderness, Otis Redding (Monterey Pop version)

Blues song: Come On In My Kitchen, Robert Johnson

Rock song: Shook Me All Night Long, AC/DC

Acoustic/folky song: 1952 Vincent Black Lightning, Richard Thompson

Punk song: Search and Destroy, Stooges

Rap song: Fight the Power, Public Enemy

Song with a great lead vocal: Anything by Patsy Cline

Song with great harmony: This Boy, the Beatles

Song with great drumming/percussion: Sing Sing Sing, Gene Krupa paying as part of the Benny Goodman Orchestera, 1938 Spirituals to Swing Concert at Carnegie Hall

Song with great bass playing: The Real Me, The Who

Song with great acoustic guitar: Anything by Paco de Lucia

Song with great electric guitar: See No Evil, Television

Solo break in a song, any instrument: Saxophone, Illinois Jacquet, in Lionel Hampton’s Flying Home

Song with great piano/keyboard: My Favorite Things, John Coltrane (McCoy Tyner on piano)

Instrumental song: Miserlou, Dick Dale

Song with a great hook: Blitzkrieg Bop, Ramones

Overall rowdy feel: Bang On The Drum, Todd Rundgren

Lyric from a song that means a lot to you: “Life/What a mess/On the ladder of success/Where you take one step/And miss the whole first rung” — Bastards of Young, Replacements

Lyric that makes you laugh: “I wasn’t born as much as I fell out” — Lost In the Supermarket, the Clash (not sure why, by the way)

Album from the 60s: Interstellar Space, John Coltrane

Album from the 70s: Sex Pistols, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols

Album from the 80s: X, More Fun in the New World

Album from the 90s: Rumor and Sigh, Richard Thompson

Album from the aughts, so far: Lust in Phaze: the Best of Soul Coughing