March 23, 2004 - 9:41 am

i stilL can't believe that Clyve & the management are finally going to play out live at PA's as part of the Horrible Elephant series under the auspices of Leah Callahan + the boys ::: >>>   ::: this is a fantastic! :::   i've known front-man gHollenz now for years : met him at the Café Algiers in Harvard Square so, so many years ago > & back then it was alL just a bunch of folksy song he composed on a little casio keyboard in his garagespace in Allston ::: but now, i had the pleasure of hearing the practice tapes live, i can say for a fact that this is a magnificent ensemble w/ some strong materials ::: the songs are alL so catchy & they really reflect the time period on which we alL live ::: >>> & this concepts ::: the superStore America Tour ::: it's a fantastic as well! ::: i love those ::: you know? — he told me on the casual conversation recently that his idea is that the USA has become a giant superStore, a shoppingmall — no? : it's all about something different than the ideal of democracy & freedom & liberty & justice for alL : it's more about marketing & consumption & globalization & economics & ::: welL, this is me w/ the paraphrasings — no? ::: i think gHollenz said something like 'It's a bit disappointing Sinus, you know? Here I am trying to promote these ideals of democracy & creativity and the government goes & ruins things all the time w/ their wanton capitalist consumeristic hidden agendas. We all know right now it's about the oil & whose balls are bigger than whose ( or rather, whose bombs are bigger than whose, right? ). I think Dr. Seuss hit it right on w/ the Cat in the Hat deal there. It's sort of like a premonition, a sort of Nostradamianistic view into the politics practives by the Bush tribes. Thing 1 & Thing 2 are like George Bush & then young Dubya. Their out of the box, man. & they just keep futzin' around w/ crazy blinders on, not really thinking about the future of the world, but instead just sniffin' out what's best for them, eh? & sooner or later my friend — whose gonna have to go in & clean it all up? That's right! The Cat & the Hat & the children of America! Fr!kken A Right Sinus! Makes me goddam sick! & so, who's the Cat in the Hat, metaphorically speaking that is?' i look blankly at my crotch & run my fingers silently around the lip of my cappucino. Long silence. g then yells, 'I think it's Bill Clinton! That's right! Or maybe someone else ... someone like Richard Meninges!' i order a hot cider from the lebanese coffee waitress & think of ways to escape this conversation ... but not, first, without some hummus or something to satisfy my capitalist, consumeristic cravings — eh?