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Big World
of Fun
This song started with us putting together
unrelated ideas we’d had in a flash on the same morning and led to recording
live later that evening; the vocals and guitar are from the same take,
and they’re all from one take rather than comped (they should call that
“chomped”). I played the incredibly out of tune piano, which is now
only one and a half steps deviant from standard tuning, in some places.
We were going for “essence of piano” and got our wish. Brendan added
melodica, pizzacato string samples, percussion, bass, and so on, and TJ
Harrison added standup bass, as well as a little taste of his beautiful
voice at the beginning. TJ used to play with the fabulous Lonely
Trailer (see links), who have many amazing CDs available. Later,
in the A room, Jon had Brendan set up a small kit in the big room to expand
the drunken Prague orchestra sound, and Neil Robinson came over to put
down accordian. Neil plays with Rocky Maffit and Patience Mudecka
(see links) and sees Brendan daily at their day job. Whenever we
do this song live, Todd plays spooky stuff on the organ, Brendan moves
the feel around so that, nowadays for example, it’s like “It’s a Man’s
World” or “King Heroin”, and I have some kind of incident with my trained
monkey trick.
“Behaving as if the God in All Life
Mattered” by Maechelle Small-Wright
“Perelandra Garden Workbook”s also
by Maechelle
“The Findhorn Garden” by the Findhorn
Community
“The Diversity of Life” Edward O.
Wilson
“The Turning Point” and “The Web of
Life” by Fritjof Capra
“Opal” by Opal Whiteley
“That Gunk on Your Car: A Unique Guide
to Insects of North America” by Mark Hostetler, PhD
“The Artful Universe” by John D. Barrow
“Beyond the Limits” by Meadows, Meadows,
and Randers
Better make friends with bugs now because
tomorrow they may be your landlord. Beige spiders live in our kitchen
and come out to visit the birds and me each morning as we get breakfast.
One day I washed one of them down the drain by accident. Sorry!
Did you know that human corpses are living longer than they used to and
that when you dig em up after decades, they still look really fresh because
of food preservatives? Maybe people are endangered now too, cause
soon we’ll get to be all alone with each other on this planet, with no
one but our big cars and billions of insects to keep us company.
At least we know how to synthesize food!
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