Spending as much time at my desk as I do, I sometimes need a quick break from documents and get rich quick schemes. Like most people, I’ve got a few websites that I go to on a regular basis and I get impatient waiting for new material.

One of those sites is www.rojonekku.com–a blog written by this guy Raven Mack. Before firing up www.rojonekku.com Raven used to produce a ‘zine called The Confederate Mack. It may be that because the random subject matters covered first in the Confederate Mack ‘zine and then later on www.rojonekku.com are things that I’ve got all kinds of worthless knowledge about that I find them so interesting. Educational, even.

Anyway, back in Confederate Mack #48 there’s an article called “Building the Perfect Jukebox: Part A” and there’s a critical examination of some 45s, specifically the quality of the A side vs. the quality of the B side  and bracketing it off in some NCAA 64 type tournament (including this from Raven: “Here’s what came out in the final eight the first time doing this stupid shit, with me listing the songs with what’s gonna go as the A-side in the jukebox even though usually it’s the real-life 45 B-side, since record companies don’t know shit about loungin.’”)

Well, sometime on Saturday I was reading the article and I got to the point where he was talking about the 45 from Archie Bell and the Drells “There’s Gonna be a Showdown”/”Go For What You Know” and when I was reading it I thought it was the best and funniest thing I’d read in a long time and then I read it out loud and then I was like, “I should record myself reading this, because that’d be funny,” and then I did record it and put a beat to it and if you click on the link below you can hear it.

*note* One of Raven’s more recent discussions was about the legendary DJ Screw from Houston, Texas. In tribute, I remixed the piece I made to fit into the larger theme.

Readings from the Confederate Mack #48 (Screwed)

If you have time, you should go over to www.rojonekku.com and browse a bit. Some of you will wonder what in the hell I’m going on about. Others of you will understand. For those of you who understand, you should click on the “enable rojonekku” button and throw some scratch Raven’s way and he’ll probably send you some of the old Confederate Mack ‘zines. Sooner or later he’ll have a book out and you’ll be able to put those old ‘zines up on Ebay and pay for somebody’s college tuition.