Jonny Germ (Deaf) and Atif (Bangladeshi) are two outrageously good instrumentalists, masters of the bass, and drums, respectively. Together they form an experimental eclectic progressive-punk-metal-world fusion-ect ect. band BANGLADEAFY! I played an AllOne & The Room show at Biddy Spratts alongside them, and afterward, Johnny humbly came up to me to my surprise, and said that he'd seen my play a year earlier at SUNY Purchase with Michael Korb's band (while he played in The Vigilance Committee) and had been eager to work with me since then, and coincidence brought us together that night. Immediately, talks of a collaboration took place. They sent me this instrumental song "Carsick" (later released on their debut album "This Is Your Brain On Bugs") and I set to crafting lyrics to it while I was at SUNY Oswego. The chaos of the song brought the dissonance of our modern "civilized" western society to mind, and here is my attempt to analyze and criticize that. This is some of the most complex writing I'd done at the time. Michael Korb recorded and mixed the lyrics for me in his home studio.
Trivia:
**I often perform this as a spoken word piece during shows.
**This piece has only been performed with the band once, at a breast cancer benefit at St. James' Comiskey Park.
**The photo for this song is the flyer for the show where Bangladeafy and I reconnected!
lyrics
Banshee blasts screams, piebald sights bawl,
Mad screen's fast stream light scalds eyeballs
Panasonic Pavlov's dog's click-trained they control you
think outside the idiot-X-box that consoles you
satellites dish out chaos in a network,
antennae commandments, tend to demand net worth,
advertisement sirens entice misers out of the woodwork,
drowning in a channel we're all told we should surf.
We 8 bit off more than our blue tooth could chew through a Macintosh,
E.T. won't phone home he texts and tweets his parents' blog,
I'm fired up hoping Kindle would spark a reading habit log,
Idiocy, no literacy, sub par vocab is “snobbish balderdash that's odd”
Go green! (with envy for blue ray, blackberry, orange box)
Ironic...so few are well... read, yet this has to STOP!?
Televangelism and visual vandalism,
better bet bedlam isn't the best quest to wisdom,
over stimulation promotes oversimplification,
acronyms, abbreviations, instant gratification.
commercial manipulation submerging a generation
of carsick consumers,
in dizzy busy frantic panicked carsick confusion.
Fast food and think slow,
downgrade and upload,
jet lagged, traffic jammed,
packed and crammed mechanic lands,
silicon-valley-girls with implants,
contraband-wagon, mass produce,
contradict with contraceptives, condoms used
powerplants, forgotten roots,
haz-mat suits, tragic news,
electric current events intrigue,
Jumbotron telethon, extra screens,
stereos in stereo get to be deafening
Ingesting these: Ketamine, Pethidine and Ecstasy, to dead the sting.
Bread and cheese and wine if you can bless me please
get on knees in line for shit like human centipedes,
Debt impedes, Impatient out patients,
deftly high definitely click "next" with an extra spring,
Pestering suggestive 30 sec Vignettes will sing,
the prestige debris their peddling, before you even get to blink,
"Yes indeed, I spell advertisement with an extra D
especially with periods set between."
O.D. on T.V. DVD's HD,
(A.D.D. to sum it up is blatantly a byproduct)
"by the way nice topic!
buy products! Rise on it right out the trite commons,
I'm honest, I'd put my life on this prize offered!
Finest concept since sliced rye's progress."
find wallet, swipe card and sign on this line dotted!
Hype-notic mind washing, while watching,
dry optics, I've got it! Bionic electronics
wired tight in eye sockets, locked into
Ipods and laptops, short fuses light sparks as
prices and blood pressure skyrockets!
fried noxious vile options, might harm them, bile vomit,
Cultural climate's diagnostic? I'd call it "psycho-tech",
Ironic, we experience a period identified by bright boxes
but here we sit delirious in blind darkness... quite carsick.
Left-field rapper, slam poet, singer/songwriter, and author Bruce Pandolfo from Long Island.
Creating to connect. Obsessively exploring and creating art as healing and growing.
Deeply vivid/introspective lyrics populate this ambitious folk rock project. The arrangements span from mellow/minimal to rocking and grandiose. Consistently emotive, unique and sincere. Brilliance. AllOne
Progressive yet punk, aggro yet emotional. One of my favorite bands from Long Island and doing everything they can to live up to their name, raising money for causes and making badass music, AllOne
supported by 4 fans who also own “Carsick (Bangladeafy)”
I have been listening to variations of this album a long time. I remember I was living in a cardboard dumpster when some young guy was like yo dude it's gonna rain come crash on my couch. He played The Many Faces of Oliver Hart for me. I fell in love, I set my favorite track as Rain because we looped it when the rain came. That was one of the early acts of kindness I received in the nearly 20 years I've been homeless. @NomadRoamsFree
