Elvis Costello Setlist - Oct. 23, 2016, Bethlehem PA

• The Town Where Time Stood Still 
• The Loved Ones 
• Accidents Will Happen 
• You Little Fool 
• You Tripped at Every Step 
• You'll Never Be a Man 
• Tears Before Bedtime 
• Moods for Moderns 
• Shabby Doll 
• Human Hands 
• Watching the Detectives 
• Kid About It 
• Pidgin English 
• Alison 
• Shot With His Own Gun 
• This House Is Empty Now 
• The Long Honeymoon 
• ...And in Every Home 
• Seconds of Pleasure 
• Beyond Belief 
• Man Out of Time 
• Town Cryer 
• Everyday I Write the Book

Encore:

• Pump It Up 
• (What's So Funny 'bout) Peace, Love and Understanding

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Alice Cooper Setlist - Sept. 29, 2016, Reading PA

• The Black Widow
• No More Mr. Nice Guy
• Under My Wheels
• Public Animal #9
• Billion Dollar Babies
• Long Way to Go
• Is It My Body
• The World Needs Guts
• Woman of Mass Distraction
• Guitar Solo
• Poison
• Halo of Flies
• Feed My Frankenstein
• Cold Ethyl
• Only Women Bleed
• Guilty
• Ballad of Dwight Fry
• Killer (partial)
• I Love the Dead (partial)
• Under the Bed (Raise the Dead intro)
• Pinball Wizard
• Suffragette City
• Ace of Spades
• I'm Eighteen
• School's Out

Encore:

• Elected

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Election results

Remember when Americans would gripe about election results, but then we'd stand behind our President anyway? Remember being Americans, and not liberals versus the right?

Sigh... maybe I need some 'member berries...

Rocket Racoon and Groot are on a NASA Patch

The future is weird and wonderful.

Alice Cooper setlist - May 13, 2016, FM Kirby Center, Wilkes-Barre PA

• Vincent Price intro
• The Black Widow
• Public Animal #9
• No More Mr. Nice Guy
• Under My Wheels
• Is It My Body
• Billion Dollar Babies
• Long Way to Go
• Woman of Mass Distraction
• Poison
• Halo of Flies
• Feed My Frankenstein
• Cold Ethyl
• Only Women Bleed
• Guilty
• Ballad of Dwight Fry
• Killer (partial)
• I Love the Dead
• Under the Bed
• Pinball Wizard (The Who cover)
• Fire (Jimi Hendrix Experience cover)
• Suffragette City (David Bowie cover)
• I'm Eighteen
• School's Out/Another Brick in the Wall

Encore:

• Elected

Alice Cooper's Lost Years

Watching an interview with Alice Cooper from 1981. This was hist "lost" period, in which he claims to have little memory due to the oblivion of alcohol. Despite his apparent haziness during this interview, there's a certain lucidity, a recognition of how the world works, and some interesting insights.

I always enjoyed the albums from that period: Special Forces , Zipper Catches Skin , Dada . They were zany and weird and punk-ish, with great songwriting. He never performs that stuff live anymore, though I think more than a few fans would love to hear some of those songs...

RIP David Bowie

I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man
Just a mortal with potential of a superman
I'm living on...

from Quicksand (from the album Hunky Dory, 1971)

Happy New Year (2016 edition)

Do something amazing this year.

Visit Paris. Or Scotland (in a kilt in Edinboro, doing a modern dance...).

Write that novel. Publish that book of poems.

Learn a new language. Learn to type properly.

Get healthier.

Don't just dream. Do.