Crafty, pop secret detective Bruce quasi-cops the line I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes from the Stones' Paint It Black, writes a new classic around it, and still manages to get in the album's third blatant java reference in Frankie's Diner, Shaniqua brings a coffee and asks fill?'" Need she even ask?
Sure, it's My Hometown circa 2007, forlorn Bruce recounting the story of man who doesn't recognize anything about the world he left behind. But taken instrumentally, until Clarence Clemons' sax quotes the melody line from Third Stone From the Sun, it's hard to believe that this actually isn't The Best Part of Waking Up. Bruce probably would've included a literal coffee reference here too but the diner was shuttered and boarded. Perhaps the Starbucks label should drop Sir Paul, and get Bruce while he's piping hot.
On his latest video podcast writer/performer Serene Dominic proves it all night by actually singing the Folgers jingle over "Girls in Their Summer Clothes" and a vintage Folgers commercial hijacked off YouTube. For his next Bruce mixed media experiment, he's threatening to simultaneously play The Wizard of Oz and Nebraska
Written By Serene Dominic for DAME













