He looks lovingly at Mississippi through coke bottle glasses.

“I’m studying. I need to finish this paper. I have a full two pages of Virgil translation due tomorrow. I have to read the rest of the Quixote. But there’s nothing wrong with having a taste of Southern Comfort, just to slide into things.”

“I’m going to have to get back to things here, but you’re wrong about CCR. I don’t care who else loves them. It’s just good music. Objectively good. If you don’t like CCR and The Beatles and Bob Dylan you just don’t like music. That’s obvious. Oh, this is black label?”

“I have never heard such a thing. I have never heard such a stupid idea. I have never heard such a thing. I can’t believe that you would suggest that the men of my family do not know, are not intimately acquainted with the works of William Faulkner. It baffles my newly minted mind. What is that black nothingness you drink? So the black label means how many proof? What’s your proof?”

“Let it be written! So let it be said! Let it go down in the annals of the night that no matter how we have striven and to what ends and so on and on and on and you know that I will never forget this moment? That it is unforgettable?”

“I seem to be waking underneath a pinball machine.”

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Dent May – “I’m An Alcoholic” mp3

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2 Responses to “Song in Plaster: Dent May, “I’m an Alcoholic””

  1. Sackattack on June 24th, 2009 9:35 am

    My theme song!

  2. blahlbahblahscience.com on July 10th, 2009 10:43 pm

    love it!

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