Jocularity! Jocularity!
The Science Of Humore
Clearly, humor is about random 'e's. Just plug a randome 'e' in there. Next thing you know, everybody's having a good time. I hope these newsletters are a suitable substitute for answering everyone's messages. Maybe I should go in and answer a few.
I've added all the pages to a Free Luv booklet, to the image section of this website. These were the little booklets we made to go with our home made Free Luv CD art project. We just made them and left them around town for people to find. Ray Hernandez, the person I give care for, would participate in the CD making process; doing things like cutting out the booklet pages. There's all the pages to a complete booklet now. I may have to put a booklet cover in there, I now realize. We'll get there.
There is a guide to which musician plays on which song, on the booklet pages. Each musician has their own little symbol next to their name on the player key (which lists them all with their instruments), then their little symbol appears with the lyrics to songs they played on.
I put three new songs up: Loin Street, Splendor American and Stray Voltage. Here's the explanations for each, which I put on each "lyrics" page. I'll eventually add the actual lyrics to the explanations.
Loin Street - This song is a bastardization of some poems by my friend Sheila Spargur. I just took different lines from different poems in her collection of poems called "Lion Street" and jumbled them around in provacative and loin pleasing ways. Sheila's picture is in the images section of this website, on one of the Free Luv booklet pages. Ron and Don Turner are featured musicians. This song was recorded by Bill Stace at Walls Have Ears studio. Bill and Ron mixed it.
Splendor American - This song is a rather haphazard assemblage of comic book titles, strung together to sound neato and fun. I made it during my Big Lebowski phase, where I wanted to put references to The Big Lebowski in all my songs. There's the sort of meaning in the lyrics, that one derives from an abstract painting. Everyone hears something different. I'd hate to ruin your good ideas for it, with my humble intentions for meaning. Different ideas present themselves to me as a song's arriving at its final form. I had the vague idea of this song, as reflecting culture back upon itself. I included clips from The Big Lebowski, that were all people on the phone. Jeffery is The Dude. Brandt is The Butler.
Stray Voltage - This song was recorded live in the early 2000's, at an East Side Milwaukee bar called The Tasting Room; on a single mic, handheld tape recorder. This song reflects what the three people in the photo for Luv Honey sounded like on stage. Mickey (Bassist) Tess (Drummer) and me, rustle (Guitar). We all sing on it. The lyrics come from something I overheard someone say; that his old man got laid more than he did and something about schoolgirls dressed as hookers.
The song I've attached to this newsletter is called Old Clown. It's actually a sort of medely of 3 cover songs: This song is the real reason for the title of this newsletter. "Jocularity, Jocularity" is something I remember from a M*A*S*H episode, where Father Mulcahy gets drunk.
Old Clown consists of:
A brief bit suggested by The Beatles' "You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)
A cover of Milwaukee legend Voot Warnings' "Old Clown"
A cover of Guided By Voices' "Game Of Pricks"
It only streams, b/c it's a cover. The bed tracks were recorded at Walls Have Ears by Bill Stace and Ron Turner; then me and Paul Setser fucked around with it for a while at Paul's home studio. We added some audio to make it sound like it starts out at a live venue and various vocal and instrumental parts, because I didn't like the studio guitar sound. This version is a wee overblown, but It's busy and fun.
That's enough for now. Peace!
