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Yeah subsidiary subsidiary subsidiary Sibilant subsidiary Yeah, these seems like seems like Subsidy no, I'm all in I'm all in Yeah, the power jump I can stop it head first go back and perfect it get a dive head first This is perfection The working things out. It's just part of it's part of the art baby. It's part of the performance I like to think so. Yeah, and sometimes I don't think so and I try to control it and I try to make things perfect Sometimes when I happen to catch you at Soundcheck for dinosaur junior you do funny things and I don't know if you're doing that just for me because I'm there or if you're always silly at soundcheck What was I doing?
You've just sang funny songs before like in soundcheck. I do that yeah, yeah That's one of your things it was one of my things it was to entertain our sound engineer or get him to comment on it Yeah, now he just tells me to stop immediately Okay, okay, let me test out your vocals and make That's enough. Thanks Exactly. I think it was something that you just started singing, you know, like I don't know a journey song or something I was like wow, okay.
That was the theme to America's American hero TV show do you know that one probably a little bit before you Mmm greatest American hero. Yeah, I was like I don't I never understood this show. What a stunt person No, it's not this guy who was a superhero, but he was kind of a clumsy superhero Oh, I didn't I would watch the show and I'd have no idea what was happening After I'm determined about the snack names Post is twinkie Post is twinkie Fritos corn chips Fritos corn chips Fritos, I got a nap in my eye. I hated chips You know, I love that organic cooking always ask them more.
They call me mr. Natural all down to the health foods to them I only eat good sea salt watch sugar don't touch my lips and my friends are always begging me to take them on back robotic trips Yes, they are But it now you'd I take out my strong box that I keep on the lock a key and I take it off to my closet When nobody else can see I open that door so slowly I take a beat go north and south then I pull out a host Is twinkie and a poppity in my mouth in the daytime? I'm mr. Natural just as healthy as I can be but at night.
I'm a junk food junkie good load. I'm pity on me Well, it lunchtime you can find me at the whole earth vitamin bar just a sucker on a plain white yogurt I'm a hand-thrown pottery jar. I sip a little hand-pressed cider with a carrot stick for dessert Then weapon my face in a natural way on the sleeve of my peasant shirt When the clock strikes midnight and I'm on by myself. I work that combination on my secret hide-o-issue I pull out some Fritos corn chips I got the pepperoni and oompai and I sit back in glorious expectation of a genuine junk food pie The end of the day time I mr.
Natural just as healthy as I can be but at night I'm a junk food junkie good Lord have pity on me My friends down at the commune they think I'm pretty neat Well, don't know nothing about arts and crafts but I give them all some to eat I'm a friend of old you'll give it's not only eat homegrown spice I got a John Keats autograph grease iron filled up with my brown rice But lately I have been spotted with a big knock on my breath someone into curls sanders with the faces wide as death I'm afraid someday they'll find me I just stretched out on my bed with a handful of Pringles potato chips and a day Long by my head In the daytime, I mr. Natural just as healthy as I can be but at night. I'm a junk food junkie good Lord have pity on me I'm a junk food junk good Lord have mercy on me Boy did I love that song when I was nine years old. I am it's so modern sounding.
Isn't it kind of crazy? I just thought maybe you made that up. I wish in my fucking dreams. Who's the who's the genius behind that one?
It's his name is Larry Gross. He's still alive. Okay, he's 78 years old. All right Larry He started a show on NPR called Mountain Stage, which was sort of featured a lot of Americana artists neat Yeah, I've had a Americana kind of John Denver show I found out yeah So yeah that song I bought that single it was a big it's called junk food junkie Junk food junkie was number nine on the billboard charts and it was a live version of the song like a live It sort of embellished acoustic version of the song huh, and I loved it.
It made me crazy It spoke to you it spoke to me and it's and it's really like so yesterday Let me let me I want to I have to show the path that I followed to covering this song because I was going to cover one of my Own songs that I haven't played yet on fire. I was gonna do that mmm. Obviously didn't do it This is why okay, and I've been following Chris Boulou on Instagram and he was in he was in the president's of the United States of America Yes, and recently we connected because we have a mutual friend and we lived in Boston like at the same time 30 years ago But I wanted to ask him to play with Donnes or junior for the where you've been shows So I called him and he and I talked for like a very long time And I got to really like Chris Boulou and I feel like he has this beautiful spirit about him And I've been following him on Instagram And enjoying his post where does he live then he lives in Seattle? Okay, so Between Seattle and Ohio with his wife's family.
Okay anyway, um, it's wife's a crafter. Oh cool. Yeah, so um So anyway, he posted yesterday that this folk singer had died who was very influential to him Who had written these kind of whimsical songs and I was like oh it's funny whimsical folk singers And I thought of junk food junkie it popped up in my head didn't think much about it But the guy that he was mentioning is a was spider John Kerner. Oh, yeah from Minneapolis You know him you know who spider John Kerner ain't got a guy's from Kerner ran clever.
Yeah. Oh my god Yeah, we have that record. Yeah, that's one of the very first electoral records you record collector erectors Anyway, yeah, holy shit. Yeah, I didn't make that connection one way I didn't get to I didn't listen to his music.
I was outside watching Izzy on the swings and our neighbor Steven Called over he's like hey Izzy. Do you want any asparagus? And is he's like no No, and then um Who do you like asparagus my cat? I love asparagus.
I'm like well get you some so he went he brought me this big thing of asparagus and we started talking about asparagus and In the course of talking about asparagus and like how I hated it when I was little but my family loved it But we used to go and find wild asparagus. Mm-hmm And then it I said we know that book stalking the wild asparagus by you'll Gibbons Who was this big health food writer who was huge in the early 70s and he's named checked in junk food junkie Yeah, and then off the top of my head I sang an entire chorus or entire verse of junk food junkie to a very perplexed Steven He's looking at me like where are you going back? I just started singing I'm like I sang a whole verse to him and it just came and then I was like I gotta cover junk food junkie for mini music Monday I thought it was it's okay I thought you were gonna say because during the time you were talking to Steven is when I came home from Trader Joe's yes, which Is kind of goofy because so I had driven my parents down to Hartford yesterday morning the airport to Go back to Wisconsin and on my way back loose has stopped by Trader Joe's You know I had to pick up some some lunch stuff for the kids and but I don't shop there often. I mean maybe Less than a handful of times a year, right?
It's not that often Because there was a time when we went there all the fucking time. Yeah, and now I'm not so much I can't remember the last time I was there so anyway That's a good reason why I don't go to Trader Joe's because I go in there and it says if like I don't know what happens But all logic just flies out my brain and everything that I think I needed I guess I look for that and I get it But then I just start like it's almost like one of those TV shows Oh my gosh Did you ever watch those TV shows where they would be like it's always like women in the grocery store with the shopping cart And then you'd be like you have ten minutes to fill this cart and I was like obsessed with that show I thought that was incredible and I would always be like well This is what I would grab you know and they would just be like grabbing just mounds of whatever and that's what I felt like a Trader Joe's yesterday I just became as if you were not you're like big old snack grab I did a crazy snack grab And I came home with their organic corn chip Frito things and I know how much you love those and I kind of hesitated because I was like the food Should I get these for a little or well he tell me he didn't want me to get them because you go a little crazy on them I always get them and then I thought no I got to get them for Lou and so of course I grabbed them But I only grabbed you one bag because you know I just thought you'd go oh god not two bags of those corn chip dippers But anyway, so I can kind of hurt myself. You can kind of give yourself a little bit of a tum tum tummy I go a little binge on them. You do get a little crazy I've been in yogurt.
Oh, yeah, you've really been doing interesting things with yogurt lately I don't like let me put this in yogurt like what you grab like chicken the other day and you put it in lemon yogurt It's not that unusual. I mean I mean it's not sure but it wasn't sold as like a Greek yogurt It was it was not a combination. It was not a typical combination It could have been it could have been I've certainly done lemon in yogurt many times But this had sugar I have the feeling that someday when I do something weird like that when I make a strange combination It's gonna be like a million dollar combination. Oh, it's gonna be out of fusion.
Yeah, it's gonna be like our lottery ticket. Oh cool. Okay. Yeah I wish I could get an example of what it might be.
Well, we don't know yet. It could be anything. It has yet to happen. Well, I dripped I dripped.
I hope you don't drip. I did drip today. Um, I dipped a pretzel stick in Cat chip. I mean I felt pretty and it's not like you and I were both scooping up Nilla Wafers in little in some peanut butter Yesterday, and that felt pretty great, but so and also thank you.
Yes for bringing Nilla Wafers back into my life You're welcome. Thank you for making them the small ones because the big ones are just too big They're too big. Then I binge on the big one that was a big binge food for me when I was in high school and then moving into my early Yeah, like when I first moved away from home, right? Well, because the song reason I had it I was really into the health food like resurgence in the 70s, right?
My mom was all over the the health food like crazy I was this post-kind of getting a co-ops, right? We actually we actually went to a co-op. Yeah Jackson, Michigan my mom would buy almost inedible things to make almost inedible food I used to love a Twinkie so much. I haven't had a Twinkie in like fucking forever I would peel it in half and then lick out the middle and then put it back and I guess I would eat the sponge I was like I guess I got to eat the sponge, but I really liked the well I would go for the Susie Q because it was just you know these two devil's cakes and then in the middle a field a Veritable field yeah, the hostess really because really the real the X factor that we're talking about did you by each end off first or did you Enroll it or unroll it.
What do you mean isn't that the Susie Q? No, no, it is no a Susie Q is just like a sandwich Oh, what's the one that's the the roll the beautiful black and white roll that's covered in a coating of John Dangdong? It's a it's a it's a it's a cake roll Right that's a little Debbie. Oh, they're gonna be a little Debbie them.
So what well so what I mean Don't you so what me? It's very different Hostess had they had the versions of the same snacks, but different names for different okay, so I guess I was the key hostess is particular I Hostess. I mean cook it was king. Okay.
Yeah, or queen of course. It's queen. It's a queen. Yeah.
All right on that note. I'm hungry So long music