Listen to an excerpt of Joe Pera's A BATHROOM BOOK FOR PEOPLE NOT POOPING OR PEEING BUT USING THE BATHROOM AS AN ESCAPE, read by the author.

The cozy comedy of Joe Pera meets the darkly playful illustrations of Joe Bennett in A Bathroom Book for People Not Pooping or Peeing But Using the Bathroom as an Escape, a funny, warm, and sincere guide to regaining calm and confidence when you're hiding in the bathroom.

Joe Pera goes to the bathroom a lot. And his friend, Joe Bennett, does too. They both have small bladders but more often it’s just to get a moment of quiet, a break from work, or because it’s the only way they know how to politely end conversations.

So they created a functional meditative guide to help people who suffer from social anxiety and deal with it in this very particular way. Although, it’s a comedic audiobook, the goal is to help these listeners:

1. Relax
2. Recharge
3. Rejoin the world outside of the bathroom

It’s also fun entertainment for people simply hiding in the bathroom to avoid doing work.

A Bathroom Book for People Not Pooping or Peeing But Using the Bathroom as an Escape will be waiting in the bathroom like a beacon for anxious readers looking to feel calm, confident, and less alone.

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A Bathroom Book by Joe Pera, audiobook excerpt

excerpt from the cassette "Public Loops Volume One," released by Iatrogenesis in 2013.  field recordings of unknown street musicians, Athens, Greece 2012.  tape manipulation by Gordon Ashworth, USA 2013.

Athens (excerpt)

excerpt from "S.T.L.A." LP, to be released by Orindal in early 2014.  Recorded in 2011, elaborated in 2013.  5-string banjo, field recording, tape manipulation.

To Be The Man I Want To Be (excerpt)

excerpt from "S.T.L.A." LP, to be released by Orindal in early 2014.  Recorded in 2013.  Piano, air organ, shruti box, field recording, tape manipulation.

Upbringing (excerpt)

excerpt from "S.T.L.A." LP, to be released by Orindal in early 2014. partially recorded in 2011, elaborated in 2013. Piano, slide guitar, shruti box, field recording, tape manipulation.

Suite for Broken Sex (excerpt)

In which I spend an evening doing a very faithful rendition of one of my all time favorite OMD songs, Souvenir. 

OMD /// SOUVENIR (COVER)

You wake from the same dream
where you get fat
& to your shock you give birth
to your old cat
your neighbor’s snoring
hear the parakeet
sit by the window
& stare down at the street
sunrise grey & orange streaks
thirty more weeks

The morning train
the crush & sound
it’s seventeen stops
before you get downtown
your stomach’s queasy
with flashes of heat
but maybe once that belly shows
you’ll get a seat
it roars & it creaks
thirty more weeks

Check rental listings
on your lunch at work
you could have a real house
if you just left New York
a vegetable garden
a white picket fence
closer to mom
& reasonable rents
a happy place for childhood memories
thirty more weeks

Same Dream (Version 2)

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