This year I am wearing a Krazy Kat costume for Halloween.
As a treat, I am posting some Nancy Dupree songs. She was a music teacher in Rochester who, during the late 60s, let her elementary school classes make up songs about the things that mattered to them. The kids sang them and someone from Smithsonian Folkways archived them as the 'Ghetto Reality' ablum. I found the songs the other day, and now, as a Totality exclusive, I will share two glorious Halloween songs with you:
Nancy Dupree Choir - frankenstein
Nancy Dupree Choir - Bag Snatchin'
If you live in D.C., swing by my house. Jesse made a giant paper mache giraffe's head with demon horns and is going to walk on stilts and grab at children with lengthy monster claws. All this and our neighbor, who we thought was mean, gave us a giant bag of king size snickers bars to hand out, because she is going out of town. Paper mache guts will also be provided.
If not, I might go to Black Metal Mass tonight. Whether it is in a graveyard or abandoned factory, authentic metal kids with naturally feathered bangs will be there dressed in Medieval clothes, swinging battle axes and singing Norse hymns about the greatness of Thor and Odin!
On Asgard!
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I drove John to the airport this morning. On the way back I was pulled over for touching the white of the crosswalk at a stop sign, then they tacked on a hundred dollars for the expired registration on the car I was borrowing (total=$150). Then, at home, a letter from Bank of America was waiting on me. Seems they never made the transfer I requested to open a new account, and didn't bother telling me they cancelled it, so the account had accrued a hundred dollars in overdraft fees (total=$100).
Remember, in 80's movies when people's credit cards would be over the limit and the cashier at the fur coat store or fine dining restaurant would cut the card in half in front of them, and they would look destroyed? That is the kind of card I want; the one that makes me look destroyed immediately, but doesn't hit me with fees over time.
When did it become okay to charge someone 35 dollars on a ten dollar debit and give them a negative balance? If I don't have ten dollars, I surely don't have 45 dollars. Shouldn't that be illegal? Is it not usurious? Please, just tell me I have zero dollars in front of a bunch of people, so I can go on with my day and not spend the whole afternoon with four people from the bank. In the end, it would have been cheaper to go to a payday loan/check cashing scam place than the McBank.
I cancelled my account at the bank and renounced my residency in the District. My money is now found in a coffee can under my house (and has been invested in a civil war commemorative plate). I await refugee status approval from the Romulan Star Empire.
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Marisse's Canadian friends No Kids played last night with Mirah. The metro bus card reader wasn't working, so we got a free ride, then we got in free to the show, then we got a free drink pass, then Marisse couldn't find her smartcard and got a free ride back on the bus. Who said city living was expensive? Now if we can just get into that celebrity free shoe store I keep hearing so much about.
I had never seen Mirah. She played here once at a house show when I was around, but (as per usual) no one told me about it until it had already past. Last night, she used the audience as a drum a couple of times, like Freddy Mercury used to, and invited sing alongs, like I used to when I was Bizmarkee. That's what the kids like, participation. Remember when Catharsis used to write songs that people from the audience who had never heard their music could jump in and play, or that show in Dallas so many years ago when Fugazi let that lady who knew every lyric to every of their songs get on stage and sing 'waiting room' all the way through'? Can you imagine what that must have meant to her?
No Kids were fun too. Two keyboards and a drummer. The singer is the guy with the glasses, the kids also like that. Check them out:
No Kids on myspaaaaaaaaaace
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