Monday, January 19, 2009

SONG CYCLE / POP SYMPHONY #1

I. “god got birth control”


A HOLY TRINITY (“3 is the smallest odd prime”):

1. apocalypse now: death from about 1879

2. the Passion of Nietzsche: god is dead / god is dad

3. wagner and his anti-semitic leitmotif: das Juden und das Rheingold


REFRAIN:

“if you want to view paradise
simply look around and view it
anything you want to, do it
wanta change the world?
there's nothing
to it”


ANOTHER:

1. german metaphysics (“Album fur die Jugend”)

2. french politics (“sois jeune et tais toi”)

3. english economics (“reading riting rithmetic”)


OUTRO:

genocide was invented in 1943 (16x)


II. “there's a war goin on outside no man is safe from”


BLADES OF GRASS b/w WAVES OF GRAIN


SIDE A:

a tex mex numetal ensemble

holding a plaster cast of liszt’s death hand and

driving 9inch nails into petrified redwoods


wife beaters in wife beaters

carrying pedigree records in a manila folder

scaling a spiral staircase of soviet whole tones

to the additive rhythm of the heart


SIDE B:

continental free jazz

emerges in a gritty no wave ny super8 80s

stands by an art deco office building

and burns a thesis on hypermodernist chess theory


figure skater on a hockey rink

gliding through concentric grooves

a punk rock swan song vibrates

up through her bones into her teeth

and out her mouth


III. “the cost so high the gain so low”


RESPONSORIAL:

leader.

“they found a pair of crystal antlers,

but quickly destroyed them. how could they

explain having a pair of crystal antlers

to the police?”


congregation.

“no food or drink allowed in classrooms” (all capitals)


APPENDIX:

one nation under id

9 of 10 tastebuds prefer pepsi

your brain on MSG

peyote ego death

“the cannons of berlioz”

another pete rock banger

no wave for a new age

“...of thrash metal fame”

nintendo dreams

the strapped gats of cocorosie


CODA:

[this space reserved for:

ashkenazi jews,

annexed north american nations,

grandfather’s trophy nazi belt buckles,

and all whom have fallen into the ocean of

dropped albums, rocked shows,

murdered beats, and spit verses.]

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