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

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Weirdo

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He didn’t cut his teeth in top 40 bands, nor play skiffle and sessions in London as a young hotshot.

He didn’t pay his dues in the back of the van. If there had to be a van involved, it would go from the airport to the Four Seasons and to the venue and back and he would prefer the sandwich waiting on the seat to be toasted, thank you.

He didn’t know you weren’t supposed to play rock and roll in 13, or 11, or seven: so many sevens you could bust Vegas.

He didn’t grow up glued to the AM radio, ear cocked and ready for the next Motown hit so he could run to his room and cop the latest James Jamerson lick.

He didn’t bounce around the scene for a while until the Dead stole him from another band.

He didn’t know that real bass players play Fenders.

He didn’t know he wasn’t doing it right.

He didn’t want to be a bass player: he wanted to be a musician.

Numnums

phil chompers

Like all Cat People of Felicidae IV, Throneworld to the Felis Empire, Phil was able to vibrate his head thousands of time a second which, when combined with the traditional Helmet of Hunger, enabled Phil to burrow into dead and rotting trees to make his numnums on small game and large grubs.

What the fuck are you talking about?

Phil being an alien who eats varmints.

Like squirrels?

Sure. Obligate carnivore, Manolo Bro-nick.

You make me so sad.

That Guy Really Knows Where His Sweatbands Are

phil double sweatband

What is that sweatbands can’t do?

Ease racial tensions, you say? Fuck that: a man in a sweatband is my brother, no matter the color of his skin (and as long as he’s not Swiss) or place of birth (again: fuck the Swiss for undisclosed reasons.)

A sweatband can be used as a slingshot to hunt particularly fragile creatures, as a tourniquet for a muppet, a headband for a baby, a skirt for a groupie.

The world’s worst towel, a piece of non-essential equipment to leave in a tree at eye-level for the search time to track you when you’re being forced deeper and deeper into the outback by the world’s meanest Aborigines, a hammock for your testicles.

You can keep some drugs in there, you can mark your pool chair at a posh Caribbean resort where the really important black folks still dress up like British dandies from the 1890’s and it just looks ludicrous, you can snap it at a fox’s tush so that she might know you favor her.

A mop, a jizz-mop, a chamois, emergency toilet paper, hemorrhoid pillow for a man with a tiny asshole.

In China, the sweatband is the sign of life; in Korea, it stands for death; in Japan, they cover only their genitals with the sweatbands and read tentacle porn while claiming the sweatband thing was entirely invented by Japan, certainly not the Koreans, who we all know are savage, ill-bred pig-dogs.

(An aside: don’t even eat at an Asian fusion restaurant. You can’t have sushi and mandoo on the same plate: these people have hated each other since time began with a passion that white men only attain when reading the New York Times.)

What if a impromptu game of Pin the Tail on the Donkey breaks out? What if you’re at a taping of Let’s Make a Deal  and Monty Hall asks you if you have a sweatband? What if you need to shoot heroin and/or crystal meth?

“Hey, you know that guy Jimmy?”

“Jimmy? Hmm.”

“He’s tallish? Dark hair. White but not really white.”

“I don’t–”

“Always weara a sweatband.”

“Sweatband Jimmy! Why didn’t you say so!”

All right, stop this.

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