“Barry,” my cousin Mike said, “I think it’s time.” It was clear that my brother didn’t feel the same way, but he only shrugged, which Mike took as agreement. “Dave,” he said, giving the words as much gravity as he could muster, “Go get the dictionary.” I was nine years old, and a tag-along. I’d walked in on my brother telling a story about how—during school that morning—a girl he knew got her period in the middle of French class. And I laughed like the dickens. And then they called me on it. After I’d lugged the dictionary down from the spare room, Mike told me to look up the word period and read out the definition. “The end of a cycle, a series of events, or a single action?” “Keep going,” he said. “The full pause with which a sentence closes?” “Not that.” “An interval of geologic—“ “Gimme that!” He yanked the book towards him, read down the page, and pointed me towards the definition he’d found. Menstruation: the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from pu...
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the Young Hegelians
Sleepyheads
autonomatons
baby naminals
throw like a girl
and I guess I'll play the Theremin. Glockenspiel would be good too though.
S.I.N - Synesthesia Infected Nihilism.
Think KMFDM meets early Trent Reznor meets Pink Floyd meets Radiohead.
Kids would scribble "SIN" all over their backpaks so everyone else knows that they "hate the world when the world isn't on drugs" (which would be our first single)
It would be a mix of artists with two individuals leading the composition. There would be long albums with many insturmental tracks. It would be the cd kids put on when their smoking pot in their parents' basement.
Depressed girls would have my poster on their wall, staring at it through tears of self loathing as they cut themselves.
Or maybe I'd just sing with the Hunky Junkies.
;-)
Maybe not.
So I will opt to create a Mariachi Band called the Buena Pissed Social Club.
We would drink all the time and forget our instruments at home for the most part, settling on soft-shoe a-la-Tony-Danza and other shameful shenanigans.
Keep warm.
J