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From The Desk Of The Jescos’ James Jackson Toth And Timothy Bracy: “RuPaul’s Drag Race”

JescoGiven MAGNET’s detailed coverage of the end of the Mendoza Line—a beloved, ragtag countrypolitan bar band that went up in flames in 2007—it only seems fitting that we have plenty of access to the formation of the Jescos, the new group featuring the Mendoza Line’s Timothy Bracy and Wooden Wand’s James Jackson Toth, as well as Bracy’s wife, singer Elizabeth Nelson. Bracy has found his rambling pub-rock foil in Toth on the forthcoming Remembrance Of Things Trashed, a debut album that guts it out for rock ‘n’ roll glory. Read our Q&A with Toth and Bracy.

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Timothy Bracy (And Elizabeth Nelson): Like James, we are also fans of drag races. And we’re unable to watch anything on television without finding it spasmodically entertaining. To wit: RuPaul’s Drag Race. Basically it’s like Top Model for drag queens, switching out Tyra Banks with RuPaul. The competitors avoid elimination by successfully completing challenges and working the runway every week. The two queens who do the worst have to fight to stay in the race by competing in a lip-synch challenge. And then RuPaul paraphrases himself when he administers his final judgment, telling one queen that, Chanté, she can stay, and telling the other to sashay away. Genius.