All Shoutouts To Other Artists, All The Time

One time in Nashville, Wesley Willis tried to give me a head butt, and I accidentally/instinctually dodged him. He got really angry and told me to get out my cell phone and said, “Call your boyfriend!” So I called my boyfriend, and Wesley Willis yelled at him like it was his fault that I wouldn’t give him a head butt. For some reason I stood my ground and refused to give Wesley Willis the butt. I think by that point, it wasn’t even about the big, yellowy, probably-infected knot on his forehead (no doubt from all the head butting); it was on principle--I don’t care if you wrote that mullet song, I just don’t do head butts, ever (except maybe I could get behind a really gentle one with a baby). He died only a few months later, and I still feel like we have unfinished business.

The moral of the story: Say YES to head butts!

Regretfully,

Kate

1. Wesley Willis “Alanis Morissette”
2. The Stills “Of Montreal”
3. Weezer “Buddy Holly”
4. The Avett Brothers “The Day That Marvin Gaye Died” FREE! (Download this now!)
5. The Replacements “Alex Chilton”
6. Cake “Frank Sinatra”
7. LCD Soundsystem “Daft Punk Is Playing At My House”
8. They Might Be Giants “Meet James Ensor”
9. Ben Folds “Alice Childress”
10. Indigo Girls “Virginia Woolf”
11. Gorillaz “Clint Eastwood”
12. Outkast “Rosa Parks”
13. Drive-By Truckers “Steve McQueen”
14. Common “Thelonious”
15. Beulah “Gene Autry”
16. Gillian Welch “Elvis Presley Blues”
17. Phish “David Bowie”
18. David Bowie “Song for Bob Dylan”
19. Bob Dylan “Blind Willie McTell”
20. Wilco “Bob Dylan’s 49th Beard”
21. Calexico “Not Even Stevie Nicks...”
22. Little Willies “Lou Reed”