Kick Out the Jams

See that hand holding a book? That's me reading in paradise!

I know I've been absent from this blog ever so long... in part it's because in the past month, when I've spent time writing on my computer, it has been on my book, and in part it has been because I was too busy reading by the pool in Mexico, as I was this past week.

Anyway, I'm back, and I'm marking this day with a song from one of the books I read on my trip, Just Kids. A friend recommended I read it a long time ago, but I just got around to it as part of my read-memoirs-while-I-write-my-memoir campaign.  What a phenomenal book! I absolutely loved it! It was a little hard not getting to share it with my ex gay boyfriend, who was the one who recommended it but who has since disappeared from my life, or my ex boyfriend, who would absolutely love it, but my own experience of reading it was delicious enough to get me through those tough feelings.

A lot of music is mentioned in the book, but I decided on this song because it was one of the ones the New Englander sent to me during our long distance year (which I've recently been writing about in my book), it's awesome, and Patti Smith's husband is in the band:

Kick out the jams motherfuckers !
Yeah! I, I, I, I, I'm gonna
I'm gonna kick 'em out ! Yeah !

Well I feel pretty good
And I guess that I could get crazy now baby
Cause we all got in tune
And when the dressing room got hazy now baby

I know how you want it child
Hot, quick and tight
The girls can't stand it
When you're doin' it right
Let me up on the stand
And let me kick out the jam
Yes, kick out the jams
I want to kick 'em out!

Yes I'm starting to sweat
You know my shirt's all wet
What a feeling
In the sound that abounds
And resounds and rebounds off the ceiling

You gotta have it baby
You can't do without
When you get that feeling
You gotta sock 'em out
Put that mike in my hand
And let me kick out the jam
Yes ! Kick out the jams

Ocean shot!

I want to kick 'em out

So you got to give it up
You know you can't get enough Miss Mackenzie
Cause it gets in your brain
It drives you insane
Leaping frenzy

The wailin' guitars girl
The crash of the drums
Make you want to keep-a-rockin'
Till the morning comes

Let me be who I am
And let me kick out the jams
Yes, kick out the jams
I done kicked em out!!!

Pretty awesome, eh? Just like the book, and my vacation...