Name: 197 Thank You For Your Attention (Ben 15) by Phone Messages
Duration: 9 min 55 s
Description: In the mid 1990s, a Destroy All Music Festival held at the Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center in Wicker Park featured bands like Carnival de Carnitas, Scissor Girls, Blowhole and DragKing.

In the mid 1990s, a Destroy All Music Festival held at the Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center in Wicker Park featured bands like Carnival de Carnitas, Scissor Girls, Blowhole and DragKing.

Phone Messages

197 Thank You For Your Attention (Ben 15)

I could really use a shower
wash it off and all away
give me about an hour 
or a couple of days
got a loofa and a bear claw and a mega pint of wine
I’m no Jack Sparrow 
but I’m sailing off just fine
you texted how ya doing
next question please
I’m no Jack Sparrow
but I’m turning back to the sea
hear the crashes of the waves
heading into the deep

Live at Strokers

Mega Pint

when you snooze you lose
twos define the mood
snooze all day, you lose all day
you Sasquatch 
lots of weight to lose
lots of ways to lose
do the math
go take a bath, Sasquatch 
I hit the city and I lost my band
lost 2 women to 2 other men
hit the burbs and forgot the words
shit show at JC studios
do the math go take a bath
you Sasquatch

Do the Math

I got the rockin pneumonia 
& the boogie woogie blues
cat scratch fever and a touch of the mews 
I got an old time car
the horn goes aoogah aoogah oogah 
got a cannibal in my head 
he’s saying booga booga booga
a 6 year old kid who’s  trying to pick my nose
and Scammy O’Likely on my telephone
I was out honky tonking then I fell
she pulled me up by the finger and I brought a bad smell
young man’s rhythm took a hold of me too
when I was rocking on my dreadnaught with the homesick blues
heart sick with my Hanes at my knees
GG’s got a needle up his cock, let’s rock
tell your ma and tell your pa
this love ain’t gonna grow at all

Ailments

This episode contains all the messages and interviews with Sikay Tang.

Special Sikay Episode

This podcast will play and discuss old phone answering machine messages.  In the late 1980s, while living in Chicago, I selected certain messages to be duplicated using a double cassette recorder.  Playing them back leads me to explore the intersection of personal history and the larger social and cultural context through the lens of an outdated technology.
New episodes will be posted Sundays.

197 Thank You For Your Attention (Ben 15)

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