Some of you know that I am also a painter. I’ve been working on a secret themed exhibit, but I decided to take a break from it and paint one of my musical heros, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins who sang classics like ‘I put a Spell on You’ and ‘Up Jumped the Devil’ and my favorite ‘Constipation Blues’

For Sale – $100 – Unframed

11 x 14″ – Acrylic on Canvas

Lately I’ve been digging into my CD vault (TV room corner actually)  to load up my new I-pod. I came across this GEM last night. Tim Armstrong, lead singer of RANCID and former lead singer of Operation Ivy put this punk rock classic together. ‘Out comes the Wolves’ had been compared to The Clash’s classic ‘London Calling’ with it’s SKA and REGGAE influences. This isn’t your average punk rock album, though it also has the feel the Dead Kennedy’s classic ‘Fresh fruit for rotting vegetables’ I still think it’s NOT TOO punk rock for people with Rock N’ Roll tastes. If you like The Clash and the Mighty, Mighty Bosstones or even The Toasters you will enjoy this record, and the songs are very well written to.

I don’t listen to much punk rock anymore, so it’s rare for me to hat/tip an album like this.

I’ve always liked this biblical verse. It reminds me of this wealthy Baptist I used to work for, he was always trying to get my co-worker and I to go to church. My co-worker was an atheist and I am a deist. I explained to him a million times what deism means and told him I didn’t need ‘religion’ to reassure my faith in God. He just never got it, but of course, he didn’t get much of anything.

Hudson has a part deux of kicking the AL out of town this week: scotthudson.blogspot.com