rotl:
Paul Young - “Love Will Tear Us a Fart”
(Referenced in Roderick on the Line, Ep. 48: “Wherever Trail Needs to Be Built”)
Love will RIP us a fart, you mean.
So, Substance came out 25 years ago today, which reminded me to get out the camera and show how this project ended up. Which project is a slipcast ceramic version of the Substance cassette. Christen did the actual ceramics work, I did the computer stuff to make the mold that was cast.
This was intended as a wedding gift, but it didn’t come out quite well enough for that purpose. There was trouble with the slip, and in the kiln, and we got some gross bubbling. As a proof of concept though I think it’s a success. We still have the mold, and hopefully will get back into the studio in the fall to make some more.
The actual cassette pictured is the one I bought in 1987, in middle school. I’ve kept it on my desk for years.
The first time I heard this I was halfway through a red-eye transatlantic flight, and I think I woke every single passenger up with my screaming. I honestly think it’s the funniest thing that has ever been recorded, by anybody, ever. (Yes, I have heard all the recorded things.)
From Comedy Death Ray: Bob Ducca’s list of ailments, as written & performed by Seth Morris.
“I’m hyper-tolerant to lactose.”
“Puff knuckle.”
“Dirt belly.”
“Pere Ubu.”
“I suffer from Scrotal Migraines.”
Source for the previous. There’s a lot of great weird stuff going on here — Neil Young’s menacing proto-hippy/Planet of the Apes look, their manager sitting with his back to the camera while pretending to pretend to play bass, the bait-and-switch into Mr. Soul — but it’s Stills’s little cowboy duckwalk that really stands out. It’s such a pure moment of rock and roll peacocking.
