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humor me
01:20
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what’s the key to comedy - timing*
humor me, humor me
almighty comedy - what?
what’s so funny?
please act very concerned about this for me
did you expect eye contact, did you expect eye contact? really?
ef off asap
head down politely, please
there’s still wreckage - timing
there’s still wreckage
did you expect eye contact, did you expect eye contact? srsly?
*based on a joke told by Jesse Quebbeman-Turley (that was a good one, Jesse!).
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2. |
jump rope
02:00
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teeter dead skip kaput
kick can bucket passed away
grave play grave
fossil jump rope everyone gets done for
play grave play
comfy mud skip dead meat*
*this is what it’s like to grow up in Price, UT and have your playground right across the street from the cemetery.
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3. |
it rag
01:49
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done up in camouflage
heave-ho go away
chamomile amo
barrage, sip, blow-away
unsportsmanlike life
go play anyway
it’s almost life like
whole hearted hip-hooray
sportsman
life like hip
camo
almost
wholehearted
*based on a solo drumset piece written for Jesse Quebbeman-Turley, or the other way around, i can’t remember. Also for Jelly Roll Morton.
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4. |
shake on it
01:47
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i want to see your eyelashes
stop showing me your ashes
take a breath take a breath
boy, let’s shake on it
swear up and down
and cross out your heart
*sometimes your friends die.
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5. |
racket
01:01
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Rah Rah Rah... you rascal
Hah Hah Hah... on the nose
categorically stunning, I beg you proceed
Bravo
flat out remarkably wonderful, i approve, please continue
*want to join IT FOOT BOOK CLUB? We all read the same books, but usually not at the same time (by "all", i mean Foster and i). This one came out of reading Invitation to a Beheading (we did read this one at the same time). Blowhards all over the place.
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6. |
picnic
02:23
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a picnic
a funeral
and someone named Pearl
lived and lived
a western
without sidearms
and rattling pockets
had earthworm stories to tell
the wind picked up
a paper cup
and she looked up and said
“i feel a little decapitated”
i smiled a little
*this is an old song, this is how we play it these days.
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7. |
inner chatter isorhythm
01:59
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I so ‘m so, I hm’m, so I ‘m so I, hmm
‘m I so ‘m, so I hm‘m so I, I so,
I hm'm I, so 'm so, I hm‘m so I, hmm
I told me so, I hm’m, so I ‘m so I, hmm
‘m I should’ve, what I mean by that? I
should’ve
I hm‘m, why? what should’ve?
myself told me I, hmm
*another IT FOOT BOOK CLUB song, this one after Molloy, which sent me into many other readings on Beckett, self talk, and schizophrenia. All that reading and this is what came out of it.
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8. |
lost an ear
01:46
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we left behind poor uncle Leo
and his piano
they’re both buried
out on the prairie
everyday, everyday’s pioneer day
it’s a long row to hoe
gather round the fire and get up close
nope they don’t float
but they feel the spirit
so let’s hear it
it’s a long, it’s a long
straggling stampede rations
they had to eat their saddlebags
say a prayer for another grave under the fire pit
stampede rations
lost an ear
near Laramie
straggling
*plain old Utah pioneer song here.
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9. |
short wave
01:42
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i could hear
dead air
when i
tuned in
tonight
*Foster is wiggling the BFO knob on a Sangean ATS 818 short wave radio, and occasionally tuning into a radio station. This song used to talk about hearing mustaches, sorry if you liked that part.
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