SOUTHEASTERN IOWA -|- and you ask me why I love HER ?
Channel: Willis Blume LIVE!
Date: 2022-11-22

...well besides the fact I can't buy a gig on drums in South Carolina there are these uniquely Iowan things as well...
II SUPER SEVEN MOTEL, IOWA CITY, IOWA (CORAVILLE)
|| BILLY JOEL "modern woman" ON THE RADIO (!?!) 
II CEDAR RAPID'S STEEL STRIKERS!!!
|| JAZZ RADIO FROM THE QUAD CITIES
|| KUM AND GO FAST FOOD RESTAURANTS
II THE MELROSE CLUB - ON THE CAMPUS OF IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY
II GUITAR LEGEND'S & bassists & drummers of IOWA CITY & CEDAR RAPIDS- Thanks to a beautiful and strong man, I got to play DRUMS (3) NIGHTS in (3) DIFFERENT CLUBS in CEDAR RAPIDS (3) NIGHTS IN A ROW!!!!!! I love y'all and can't wait to see y'all in South Carolina and in Chicago ---- whichever comes first. Y'all are my kin. Period.
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TV RAY VAUGHN NorthAmericanFilm, LLC PRESENTS: 
- an independent film -/- filmed on location
1) IOWA CITY, IOWA
2) CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA
3) WITH A SPECIAL PROLOGUE FROM THE HOLIDAYS AT THE END
4) ......a special thank you to Anna M. from U.S.C. and Granby Grill who taught me about Professionalism in the Digital Age
5) ****I failed the course, but she gave me a Sticker for Tryin' (love symbol)
6) SPECIAL THANK YOU TO THE ORIGINAL KICKS! BAND THAT GOT ME HOME (FINANCES & PRAYERS):
A) Mark Anthony Brooker, Randy Etters, Ronald Glancy, Michael 'bebo' Bedenbaugh, Blaine Loveland, Jeff 'mr. magic' Langston, Vic 'that's my baby' White, Stanley 'red shoes' Hubbard, Mike 'that's my mama' Amos, Jeff 'STAY THE F`CK AWAY FROM MY WOMAN' Floyd, Patti (we just call her Patti, because we all love her and she plays keys in the Kicks! band now. Serious.)
CHRISTOPHER ETTERS (from JOURNEY; 'serious as an institutional stop-over about that. J.O.U.R.N.E.Y. - the band; for real. Real.)
II WAYNESVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB (and the night auditor AND the general manager who I didn't get to see. Unfornately; Tracy. Who wears cowboy boots // i've said to much but she's the bomb. period.
II WAYNESVILLE, POLICE DEPARTMENT (thank y'all AND the very nice officer running the detour around Main Street at 2 am in the morning and kindly directed me to WAYNESVILLE GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB on Country Club Drive (ALSO KNOWN AS VIRGINIA AVE.) and who told me "I don't know how they do it in South Carolina but yes, the tags are expired." ***I sent a letter to the Treasurer. Yes the tags are expired BUT THEY ARE PAID FOR (guess they're on vacation at the beach.)
II TENNESSEE AND INDIANA LOVE'S GAS STATIONS (free refill from one LOVE'S TRUCK STOP (well, it cost a dollar) but you can take the CUP from one LOVE'S TRUCK STOP to the next one. ***I especially loved the beautiful lady's I met at the LOVE'S TRUCK STOP IN INDIANA who can see demons "ASH" and the beautiful lady a the LOVE'S TRUCK STOP IN TENNESSEE who has the same name as my baby sister in the Hampton's OR Long Island // whichever one you like to say-out-loud at any given moment of social interaction...."EMILY" - thank you angel.
B) THE ABBEVILLE SHERRIF DEPARTMENT - You Saved My Life when I ran out of gas in LAURENS, SOUTH CAROLINA
C) LAUREN'S MAIN HOSPITAL IN LAUREN'S SOUTH CAROLINA and most especially "AMANDA" but all the beautiful nurses there AND THE SECURITY OFFICER THERE - who got me in touch with his friend's in the ABBEVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA SHERRIF'S DEPARTMENT - (salute!!!!!) - so I could have enough gas to get home AND GET BACK TO MY CAR*** "Must Have Got Lost" - J. Geils Band = LIVE (DOUBLE ALBUM = serves you right to suffer, baby & first I look at the purse . Peter Wolf. Dad Influences.
POST-CRYPT = Iowa City IS NOT EVEN A DOT ON A MAP (Tender Trap, Frank Sinatra) .....so on any given map just look about 15 minutes south of CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA.
***IOWA CITY is larger than any South Carolinian Metropolis and IS Host to the Most Beautiful AND State-of-the- Art Campus = IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY (Hawkeyes!) I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE. period.
***and they like people like me and seem to have no regard for the snakes that populate an slither about in the low-country of the southeastern united states*** - MEANING THEY HAVE INTEGRITY, A SENSE OF HUMOUR and don't take themselves so seriously or try to SCAM someone out of their own business. I only see this stuff in South Carolina. Mrs. Louise and I talk about it all the time.....(GRATITUDE SYMBOL - happy thanksgiving from Forest Drive AND HER MEETINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)