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Piano Man
Released: 2007 11 tracks
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The incredibly great Literary Quarterly McSweeney's has this great piece by John Moe on it's website:
JOHN MOE'S POP-SONGCORRESPONDENCES,VOLUME XVII.BY JOHN MOE A NOTE PLACED INTHE PAY ENVELOPE OFBILLY "THE PIANO MAN" JOEL. Hi, Billy, It's hard to find time to talk at the club since I'm busy managing the place and you're at the piano. And we need to talk. I've occasionally given you a nervous smile hoping it would initiate a conversation, but that hasn't worked out.... MORE
JOHN MOE'S POP-SONGCORRESPONDENCES,VOLUME XVII.BY JOHN MOE A NOTE PLACED INTHE PAY ENVELOPE OFBILLY "THE PIANO MAN" JOEL. Hi, Billy, It's hard to find time to talk at the club since I'm busy managing the place and you're at the piano. And we need to talk. I've occasionally given you a nervous smile hoping it would initiate a conversation, but that hasn't worked out.... MORE
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My highschool sweetheart recently contacted me after a number of years without any communication. I won't go into that though, since I'm trying to keep this musically related. However, it has given me an idea for a new series. Since I have always really been into music, I've taken notice of the musical preferences of my significant others. In retrospect, I'm noticing that there is no solid connection between similar tastes in music and the longevity of a relationship, ... MORE
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Writing papers is the bane of my existence. Seriously. I mean, at least this is an intersting topic and something that I am writing more for fun than for serious, academic knowledge. In fact, it's something that, once finished, I would even share here, and that you might even be interested in.
Anyway, at least I have lots of things to distract me (like the cutest kitty in the world, Marlowe), MOG, the internet in general, and of course, Billy Joel.
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No --- that's not the right album cover. Just to keep you on your toes. Anyway, it's all I had handy and an interesting photograph. It's sweetly scratchy and sentimental to hear Piano Man this way, on a phonograph in my studio at the college, with one light dimmed and some multi-colored candles lit. "It's 9 o'clock on a Saturday, and the regular crowd shuffles inThere's an old man sittin next to me, makin love to his tonic and ginHe says son can you play me a memoryI'... MORE
