A Wandering Mind: October 2025

Monday, October 20, 2025

Artillery Shell Explodes over California Highway

Vance is like "Ima gonna shoot live artillery over the I" and Newsom be like "Dude, that ain't safe" and Vance says "Be quiet, pussy" and Newsom is all "I don't believe you and Ima gonna close that highway while you jack off with 155mm shells" and Vance be like "Whatever snow flake" and then the bomb goes off over the I and hits Vance's security car and Newsom says "Told ya bitch" and Vance is all "It wasn't me it was the Marines."

Friday, October 17, 2025

NOLA FunkFest 2025 Day 1

Skipping the 2nd line. Trying the vodka strawberry lemonade - it's a contender. Found a shade tent overlooking the river toward Algiers Point.

Date: 2015-10-17

Venue: Spanish Plaza

With: Terry

Food:

Breakfast at the Ruby Slipper, Florentine omelet, peach Bellini. Tried the crab cake poboy at the fest, good cakes but poboys were small and therefore expensive. Terry had crawfish pie, which was much better.

Vibe:

Warm day but decent breeze. Security focused on keeping the fest perimeter intact & separating the VIP/Super VIP from us peasants.

Intense sun through the afternoon. Lack of grass didn't help.

Show Notes:

The Original Pinettes Positive Vibration Stage ⭐ ⭐

Started with a 2nd line before hitting the stage.

"Ain't No City Like the One I'm From"

Soul Project AOS Stage. ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

Funk is in the House (W Washington)

Can't Stop Loving You (W Washington)

Put Your Voodoo on Me (Neville Bros)

Someone Like You

What Have We Got

While Lotta Love

Jamal Battiste Band Positive Vibrations Stage ⭐ ⭐

? Feat Sweet Tea

(Food Break: crab cake poboy. Expensive)

Mississippi River Revival AOS stage ⭐⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

Heart of Steel (v. Jennifer Hartswick)

I'm a King Bee

So Swell When You're Well (James Booker)

? (Feat. Original Sorry Dozen Brass Band horns)

Shallow water ? (feat Big Chief Pardo)

Jesus on the Mainline

Hard to Handle

Skipped Erica Falls at Positive Vibrations stage

John Clearly & the Absolute Monster Gentlemen AOS stage ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

When You Think Back

Everywhere I Get the Blues ?

? It's on new record

Zulu Cocoanuts

Lottie Moe

Boneyard?

Professor Longhair Blue Rhythm ?

Uptown Downtown ?

Hey about the Way ?

Called it a day after this set. Tired, feet swollen, dehydrated. Back to hotel for a shower, wine, and Black Rabbit.

Thursday, October 16, 2025

NOLA Day 1

We're in New Orleans for FunkFest, continuing our streak of never missing one of these delightful festivals. The weather is predicted to be hot & humid, to no one's surprise, until the weekend, when rain is a distinct risk.

Previously held at the Jazz Museum, this year its moved to the Spanish Plaza, over which we have mixed feelings. The shade and grass at the Museum was welcome, so the move to a concrete, shadeless location seems like a downgrade, at least in theory. It starts tomorrow, more of that later.

Dinner last night was at Drago's, famous for charbroiled oysters. Of course, we started with a half dozen of those. For the entre I can't recommend the grialldes and grits enough.