So here, in no particular order, are my Top Ten Potential Theme Songs for The City of Harrisburg. ©

Tennessee Ernie Williams- Sixteen Tons
You load sixteen tons, what do you get
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don’t you call me ’cause I can’t go
I owe my soul to the company store

Merle Haggard- Working Man Blues
Sometimes I think about leaving, do a little bummin around
I wanna throw my bills out the window catch a train to another town
But I go back working I gotta buy my kids a brand new pair of shoes
Yeah drink a little beer in a tavern,
Cry a little bit of these working man blues

Desmond Dekker – The Israelites
Get up in the morning, slaving for bread, sir,
so that every mouth can be fed.
Poor me, the Israelite. Aah.

Cast of Annie – It’s A Hard Knock For Us
It’s the hard-knock life for us
It’s the hard-knock life for us
No one cares for you a smidge
When your in an orphanage
It’s the hard-knock life
It’s the hard-knock life
It’s the hard-knock life!

Elvis Presley – In The Ghetto
Then one night in desperation
a young man breaks away
He buys a gun, steals a car,
tries to run, but he don’t get far
And his mama cries

As a crowd gathers ’round an angry young man
face down on the street with a gun in his hand
In the ghetto

Steve Miller Band- Take The Money and Run
Billy mack is a detective down in texas
You know he knows just exactly what the facts is
He aint gonna let those two escape justice
He makes his livin off of the peoples taxes

Bobbie sue, whoa, whoa, she slipped away
Billy joe caught up to her the very next day
They got the money, hey
You know they got away
They headed down south and they’re still running today

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZwLsvO6YTw

The Beatles- Taxman
(if you drive a car, car;) – I’ll tax the street;
(if you try to sit, sit;) – I’ll tax your seat;
(if you get too cold, cold;) – I’ll tax the heat;
(if you take a walk, walk;) – I’ll tax your feet.

Bruce Springsteen and The Sessions Band – Pay Me My Money Down
Oh pay me, oh pay me,
Pay me my money down,
Pay me or go to jail,
Pay me my money down

Rolling Stones – You Can’t Always Get What You Want –
And I went down to the demonstration
To get my fair share of abuse
Singing, “We’re gonna vent our frustration
If we don’t we’re gonna blow a 50-amp fuse”

P. Diddy, Puffy Puff Daddy – All About The Benjamins
You should do what we do, stack chips like *Hebrews*
Don’t let the melody intrigue you (uh-uh)
Cause I leave you, I’m only here
for that green paper which lead you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcckWzjJMIg

Consultant to and Reed-ally Fred Clark entered the building towards the end of the rally when cameraman/indie news reporter James Roxbury turned his camera towards Clark.

What happened next was a scene that played out like a paparazzi scuffle in Los Angeles. Clark allegedly grabbed Roxbury’s camera and pulled it towards the floor saying “get that fuckin’ camera out of my face”.

Odd behavior for a usually press-savvy Clark a mere seven days prior to the 2009 primary in a hotly contested Mayoral race.

Roxbury filed assault charges against Clark.

More details to follow.

Clark VS Roxbury

The inaugural episode of Off The Record- the brand spankin’ new podcast collaboration from Sara Bozich and I.

Sara and I have known each other for about five years now and, only recently, have become more chummy.

Usually, our friendship consists of meeting at an undisclosed bar where we can smoke, drink and gossip about all things Harrisburg.

After a few weeks of these meetings, we had the thought that our banter and chit-chat was just SO witty and catchy that the world as we know it would not be the same unless we recorded our conversations and shared them with the internet.

Caught up with our mutual friend Jay Bowser who kindly whipped up the logo, met up on April Fools Day at a bar, pressed “record” and WANGO BANGO! Here it is.

Episode I clocks in at just over an hour. The first portion is sort of an introduction…and then we jump right into it.

We’ve got an email address- offtherecordhbg[at]gmail[dot]com. If you dig what you hear, please- tell your friends. If you don’t like it, then please tell your friends as well. (Hey, we’re both big proponents of “any press is good press”)!

Without any further ado- we proudly present you with-

Off The Record- with Sara Bozich and Jersey Mike

(Tags: Harrisburg, Floor-9, Dave Sheranko, Ken Mueller, Fred Clark, Table 15, Nonna’s Deli, Breads and Spreads, Sara Bozich, Jersey Mike, Mayor Reed, Steve Ketterer, Chuck Schulz)