Playlist for August 23, 2008 from 12:00AM - 3:00AM

Playlist Date & Time: 8/23/2008 12:00AM - 3:00AM

Program: Blues in the Night with Jamie Dell'Apa

The Theme For Tonight is:

Premature Evacuation!

(and other over-reactions)

 Chapter One:

It was twenty years ago today, Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play....  

 It was almost three years ago today, Hurricane Katrina taught us to not stay.  For the last couple years, the Gods of the Gulf has been kind to us but sometime during tonight's show our first tropical storm since 2005, Fay, should reach New Orleans.  In tribute to our uniquely New Orleans way of always over-reacting to everything and anything, we'll welcome Fay with a musical tribute to leaving town. Featuring plenty of traffic jam and car songs but also a handful of train songs and some leaving home songs.  But the real treat is the series of video links to traffic jams in China, Iraq, Houston (for Hurricane Rita), and the familiar parallel of army ants on the march.  My New Orleanian conclusion - a liberal conspiracy of the ants and our country's enemies.  Which takes us to Chapter Two.

Chapter Two:

Alright, I admit I over-reacted, but when I read the headline that the Russians had invaded Georgia I didn't even finish the article.  Instead, I immediately flew to Atlanta to do my patriotic duty.  I was a bit miffed at the lack of alarm from my fellow travelers but I blinded myself with patriotic self-congratulations and pressed on.  

I finally realized my mistake when (while handcuffed), the Macon, Georgia cops explained their state-wide security situation and then provided me some helpful geography lessons.  Overall, I think they appreciated that I as a New Orleans citizen was willing to help Georgia in return for the help they gave our evactuees after Katrina.  Just to make sure (and as a condition of my release) I'll play a bunch of songs about Georgia both for my fellow cell mates and as an apology for sabotaging enemy supply lines.

Okay, for the shy folks in back who are afraid to ask, I think the best single video link is off the Aimee Mann selection.  Click on that link and your eyeballs will bleed from watching James Brown giving dance lessons.  Best series of videos are also the capstone to tonight's theme:

 Tonight's Big Concluding Story Line is Video

The seven consecutive links beginning at Cadillac Boogie are a case study of the over-reaction impulse. The first two links are hurricane evacuation traffic for New Orleans and Houston).  Next two are of traffic in countries we recently treated to big wars (Iraq and Vietnam) "in defense of America."  The twist is the fifth video of army ants moving in the same traffic patterns as the preceding four videos.  For you, these patterns talk to benign collective behavior principles but to the conclusion deficit disorder types; America is about to be attacked by Iraqis!  

To break this conclusion, try substituting the dangerous conclusions with benign conclusions.  For instance replacing the nut job video attached to Kay Adam's "Little Pink Mac" with barely discernible science fiction movies trailers.  We gotta get the fringe back into being abducted by aliens and (maybe even) killing fire ants.   

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