Musings on the Most Ridiculous Band I Can't Stop Listening To

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Brilliant Disguise

IMG_1708Hey, Garcia. Look like a rock star, man.

“Nice of you to notice.”

Wish you could be there the next two weeks.

“Well, y’know, man–”

You stay away from that goddamned Time Sheath technology.

“–I can be there.”

“What if I come dressed as Bruce Hornsby?”

There’s already going to be a Bruce Hornsby there. Bad enough there’s two drummers – there can’t be two Bruces Hornsby.

“Is that how you pluralize that?”

Yeah: it’s like surgeons general. Anyway: not only is there already a Bruce Hornsby, but literally all of his distinguishing features are the opposite of you. Tall, skinny, sober, reasonable–

“All right, all right.”

–family man, can play the piano, has all his fingers, was in the Wu-Tang Clan.

“Really?”

How do you think he met Tu-Pac?

“Huh.”

The Circle Game

IMG_1677Hey, Jer.

Yo.

Garcia?

“Yeah, more like it. ‘Jer.’ Such familiarity, y’know?”

Sorry.

“No worries. It’s just, you know: nicknames are for the hoi polloi.”

Gotcha. A lot of circles in this picture.

“Thematic aesthetics important to me, man.”

Really?

“Fuck, no. I don’t even think what I said is a thing.”

I thought you hated tie-dye.

“Spilled hot fudge on my shirt. Had to borrow this one from one of the plumper foxes.”

That’s a good name for a spaceship.

“The Plumper Fox?”

Yeah.

“All right, man.”

Donna: Lean

bandindexHey, Mrs. Donna Jean. Whatcha doing?

“Feelin’ it. Waitin’ for my part. Being skinny.”

Yeah. You kinda look like a Pez dispenser.

“Bless your heart.”

You explained what that meant to me last time we talked.

“Did I? It was a while ago.”

Aw, Mrs. Donna Jean, don’t be like that. It’s bad enough with Garcia’s whining.

“But: he’s dead, honeysuckle. Me, they just don’t wanna pay.”

Still, he’s pretty insistent on being there. Keeps huffing and puffing about “backup bands getting delusions of grandeur.”

“I’m sure I don’t know whatever he may mean.”

You and Bobby were the only ones with chins, weren’t you?

“Mickey had one, but where I grew up, we were taught it was polite to pretend Jews didn’t exist, so: yes.”

Focus

7778_Garcia_Northrup101971_1Hey, Garcia. Nice sneakers.

“Mountain Girl got ’em for me. They’re comfy.”

Any method to the amp placement?

“God, no.”

Figured.

“So, can I be a Chinese teenager?”

No.

“Paraguayan golfer?

Uh-uh.

“Can I be Steve McQueen?”

You wish.

“That’s why I’m asking.”

You can’t.

“I’d like to be a Singapore Sling.”

That’s a cocktail.

“Then I could make someone very happy when they drank me up.”

How high are you?

“Keith’s-first-show high.”

Damn.

“Yeah.”

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