A Brief Word from Cosmic Zink: This month seemed to creep up on me from the shadows. Sometimes those shadows whisper. The whispering voices are sometimes recognizable. Here are some recognizable words of wisdom from some of my jam-a-licious favorites. See if you know the band/songwriter and name of the song. If you don’t know at least your sign, the stars may frown upon you this month. I’ll post the answers next month. Since I am doing these mostly from memory, I welcome any and all corrections at: zink@jambands.com. Good luck and happy January. Let’s party hardy in 2001.

ARIES(March 21st-April 19th): If I were a gamblin’ man, I tell you what I’d do. I would quit my gamblin’, and I’d work on the building too.

TAURUS(April 20th-May 20th): I’m a moron and this is my wife. She’s frosting her cake with a paper knife. All what we got here is American made. It’s a little bit cheesy but it’s nicely displayed.

GEMINI(May 21st-June 20th): Water. Would you kill for a drink when the sand fills your throat? Water! Put a knife in the back of the man that stole your? Water!

CANCER(June 21st-July 22nd): Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup. They slither while they pass, they slip away, across the universe. Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letterbox. They tumble blindly as they make their way across the universe.

LEO(July 23rd-August23rd): You say you’ll come back when you can. Whenever your airplane happens to land. And maybe I’ll be back here, too. It all depends on what’s with you.

VIRGO(August 24th-September 23rd): There’s a bat in flight in the sonar breeze, his thoughts circulate with energies. He dives below the power wire, chasing the rhythm of the heartbeat through the heat of the fire.

LIBRA(September 24th-October 23rd): It’s been a long time since we’ve seen the sun. We follow orders and we live by the gun. Five star generals do what they please. Rest of the world, get down on your knees!

SCORPIO(October 24th-November 21st): I know a mouse and he hasn’t got a house I don’t know why I call him Gerald. He’s getting very old, but he’s a good mouse. You’re the kind of girl that fits in with my world, I’ll give you anything, everything, if you want thing.

SAGITTARIUS(November 22nd-December 21st): Well I left Rome, and landed in Brussels, on a flight so bumpy that I almost cried. Thirty men in uniform and young girls full of muscles. Well it sure has been a long hard ride.

CAPRICORN(December 22nd-January 20th): All times and seasons or the reasons people and their plans have stowed the Famous Mockingbird with glue and rubberbands. They writhe and cry in agony as Rutherford the Brave chokes Tela and the Unit Monster manages to save.

AQUARIUS(January 21st-February 18th): Well he opened up the cabinet. And he found our little stash. But he didn’t know what it was and let us go, minus eighty bucks in cash.

PISCES(February 19th-March 20th): Wednesday morning at five o’clock as the day begins. Quietly closing the bedroom door, leaving a note that she hopes would say more. She goes down stairs to the kitchen clutching her handkerchief. Quietly turning the back door key, stepping out side she is free.