Illusions of Agency by R.U. Sirius & Phriendz

The great society
The ideology
Culture theory
Timothy Leary

Plant a tree
Subversives on TV
Digital means free
Let’s try alchemy

R.U. Sirius
Act imperious
New edge freaks
All power to the geeks

Chorus:
Illusions of agency
Illusions of agency
Illusions of agency
Illusions of agency

The DNC
Crypto-anarchy
Spread a creed
Propaganda by deed

Wild schemes
My magazines
Guillotines
Control of the means

Hillary and Bill
The Triumph of the Will
A perfect peace pill
Mad skills

Chorus:
Illusions of agency
etc.

Spread a trope
Audacity of hope
Say nope to that joke
Demand better dope

Susan Sarandon
Charlie Manson
Hair of Samson
Dear Leader is handsome

Pontificator
Angry instigator
Be a player
Run for mayor

Illusions of agency
Chorus

Transhumanism
Ideological schisms
Elon’s cybertruck
The belief in luck

Joseph Stalin
Marty Balin
Volunteers
Rock careers

Patty Hearst
Voodou curse
America first
Melania’s purse

Chorus
Illusions of agency

Stay the course
Find the source
Use force
Express remorse

Bio-engineer
Manipulate through fear
Point and jeer
Let me steer


1Illusions of Agency

Ken Goffman/R.U. Sirius - Matt Sabo

Recorded 1982 Rochester NY

I Politician / (Ken Goffman aka R.U. Sirius - Matt Sabo)

I've got a little think tank / I call it home / I ain't to highly paid though / Just flesh and bone / I'll put a little thingie out / On video casette / And hope the Minister of Propaganda / Don't get too upset

Still it all comes through / The United Matrix of America / Pagan rhythms out of Africa / Pagan shipments out of Kathmandu / From the Aztecs to the Ming / Genetic carnival on wings

We've got a little freak show / We call it The Hunchback Squeaks / And then I politician / I get on up and I speaks "I've got a little rage" he cries / "And lots of irony" / "You're baboons in a cage" he lies / "I'm going to set you free" / Still it all comes through / The United Matrix of America / Pagan rhythms out of Africa / Pagan shipments out of Kathmandu / From the Aztecs to the Ming / Genetic carnival on wings

Gotta get back to L.A. now / Got a media jones ' Talking with the network boys / And taking out more loans / I get 3 minutes on NBC / Attack the ruling class / I got 4 friends at NASA now / If I have to move my ass

Still it all comes through / The United Matrix of America / Pagan rhythms out of Africa / Pagan shipments out of Kathmandu / From the Aztecs to the Ming / Genetic carnival on wings

I Politician

R.U. Sirius/Ken Goffman - Matt Sabo

President Mussolini Makes The Planes Run On Time / (Ken Goffman aka R.U. Sirius - Matt Sabo)

He is the air controller / You are the air / The people are proud of their father / Foreigners beware / He's got a neutron charge card / He's a mighty tough customer / He's the glorious defender of the homeland / He might just play tough with ya

President Mussolini makes the planes run on time/ Oh dig it little Arabella / He's a strong man / Keep 'em flying

Newspapers scream he's a winner / Nobody's saying what's being won / Actor image -- no content / What exactly is being done? ' Send a little aid down south just to / Kill a few San Salvador nuns / Down in South Africa on civilized business / Trying to get gold for guns

President Mussolini makes the planes run on time / Oh dig it little Arabella / He's a strong man / Keep 'em flying

It couldn't be easier to know just what to do / If you were holding out all the money / Just a-lookin' for an easy going mechanic of depression / And then to wind up with your teeth against the wire fence / Wind up in the smallest of worlds -- crotch to the angriest lips / One deadly little spasm in the B.F. Skinner cancerteria / One deadly little spasm and... what did this money buy?

Keep 'em flying / Keep 'em flying / Keep 'em flying (etc)

President Mussolini Makes The Planes Run On Time

R.U. Sirius/Ken Goffman - Matt Sabo

I went out tonight
Just to see the light
Got a helping of
Gut sandwich
I didn't ask for it
Person in a dish
Art for arts sake
Cut the birthday cake

I don't feel right
I think it's the flu
Went to the phone
And I might give someone a call
Phone is ringing anyway
Shower and a shave
Someone's guts sandwiching
Again across the front page
I don't feel right
I think it's the flu
Went to the phone 
And I might give someone a call

If it doesn't drive me crazy
If it doesn't make you crazy
Is it my health again
Or is it something in the air
If I look out my window
I might see a constellation
Someone's screaming out there
I hope she's only joking
If it doesn't drive me crazy
If it doesn't make you crazy
Is it my health again
Or is it something in the air

Gut Sandwich

President Mussolini Makes The Planes Run On Time
Originally recorded by Party Dogs/R.U. Sirius, Rochester New York 1982
Remix by Phriendz 2016
Original lyrics by Ken Goffman aka R.U. Sirius
Music by Matt Sabo/Party Dogs


Original lyrics
He is the air controller / You are the air / The people are proud of their father / Foreigners beware / He's got a neutron charge card / He's a mighty tough customer / He's the glorious defender of the homeland / He might just play tough with ya

President Mussolini makes the planes run on time/ 
Oh dig it little Arabella / He's a strong man / Keep 'em flying

Newspapers scream he's a winner / Nobody's saying what's being won / Actor image -- no content / What exactly is being done? ' Send a little aid down south just to / Kill a few San Salvador nuns / Down in South Africa on civilized business / Trying to get gold for guns

President Mussolini makes the planes run on time / Oh dig it little Arabella / He's a strong man / Keep 'em flying

It couldn't be easier to know just what to do / If you were holding out all the money / Just a-lookin' for an easy going mechanic of depression / And then to wind up with your teeth against the wire fence / Wind up in the smallest of worlds -- crotch to the angriest lips / One deadly little spasm in the B.F. Skinner cancerteria / One deadly little spasm and... what did this money buy?

Keep 'em flying / Keep 'em flying / Keep 'em flying (etc)

President Mussolini Makes The Planes Run On Time Phriendz Remix

Originally recorded by Party Dogs w. R.U. Sirius, 1982 Remixed by Phriendz 2016 
Lyrics by R.U. Sirius

She’s so fine
On the beam
And she’s so high
On the beam
On the beam on the beam
All the time 
In the world
Well if you try
You’re a lucky girl lucky girl

If you can feel it 
You can dance forever
If you can deal with it
Live forever live forever
Everything 
Will be ours
From the planet 
To the stars to the stars

We’re getting on the beam
Things are just as they seem
Immortality in the age of the clever
Live forever live forever

On the beam
Live forever


On The Beam Party Dogs w. R.U. Sirius remixed by phriendz

On The Beam
R.U. Sirius - Matt Sabo

She’s so fine
On the beam
And she’s so high
On the beam
On the beam on the beam
All the time 
In the world
Well if you try
You’re a lucky girl lucky girl

If you can feel it 
You can dance forever
If you can deal with it
Live forever live forever
Everything 
Will be ours
From the planet 
To the stars to the stars

We’re getting on the beam
Things are just as they seem
Immortality in the age of the clever
Live forever live forever

On the beam
Live forever


On The Beam Party Dogs Phriendz Remix

recorded 2016 by Phriendz with lyrics by R.U. Sirius

I HOPE YOU DIDN’T DOSE THE PUDDING 

i asked my baby for her tantric thing/she tossed away the side of her face 
she's an elevated totally evil wigged-out angel 
she shaked clear and showed me her glass spine 
i asked my baby for a 5 dollar bill 
she says she's very very smart 
she's a masculine italian gangster movie 
she wears those black satin gloves so groovy 
i asked my baby to look beneath the sheets 
she feels the breath of god caress her 
she loves old wiseman in Beatle boots 
she likes the thrill of the overdosed jester 
i asked my baby why we jumped outta the womb 
she wants a lie that’s more fulfilling 
I smile gee whiz we're roller-coaster baby-friends 
I hope you didn’t dose dose dose the pudding 
I hope you didn’t dose dose dose the pudding 
I hope you didn’t dose dose dose the pudding 
I hope you didn’t dose dose dose the pudding

credits
released October 28, 2016 
Lyrics and Kibitzing by R.U. Sirius - music and vocals by Phriendz

I Hope You Didn't Dose The Pudding

(R.U. Sirius - Charlie Verrette - Acatelysteleven)

Production by Pizza T

Lyrics

PUNCHING A NAZI 

Killing an arab 
Punching a nazi 
Albert Camus won’t 
Bring back the Stasi 

Kissing a baby 
Pinching a lady 
Oh Mr. Mansplain 
You so crazy 

Banning an Arab 
Punching a nazi 
Even Ayn Rand was 
Never this bossy 

Dating a Barbie 
Making a killing 
These were the days oh 
Wasn’t it thrilling 

Killing an arab 
Punching a nazi 
Dating a Barbie 
Making a killing 

Punching a nazi 
I don’t find any of this so thrilling 
Even… 

Killing an arab 
Punching a nazi 
Albert Camus won’t 
Bring back the Stasi 

Kissing a baby 
Pinching a lady 
Oh Mr. Mansplain 
He’s so crazy 

Banning an Arab 
Punching a nazi 
Even Ayn Rand was 
Never this bossy

Punching A Nazi (with Creosote Cowboy)

Recorded in 1987 as the start of a concept album that was to be based on Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band under the working titled Sgt. Peckerhead, we only finished to songs, both of them with my lyrics and Scrappi DuChamp (later of MONDO Vanilli) doing all the music. These are the 2 completed songs.
lyrics
Merry Tweekster World Mutations Day 
(Sirius-DuChamp) 

It's still a few days away 
And the kiddies all look so gray 
But they'll be getting a bit of a spin-out 
When they see the hippie trip-o-world flip out 

On the frontiers of my neocortex 
As I think bi-lobely and act globally 
Who knows what glows Cher Noble 
And who sees armageddon it on 
But beyond the abyss we're on vinegar and piss 
As we leave Ronald Reagan and beyond 
Merry Tweekster World Mutation Day 
And it's never gonna be the same 

Merry Tweekster World Mutation Day 
So let me introduce you to the one-and-only Sufi Sales 
Merry Tweekster World Mutation Day 
So let me introduce you to the one-and-only Sufi Sales 
Merry Tweekster World Mutation Day 
So let me introduce you to the one-and-only Sufi Sales 
Merry Tweekster World Mutation Day 
So let me introduce you to the one-and-only Sufi Sales 

SUFI SALES 

I'm Sufi Sales 
Though no one seems to know it 
I'm Sufi Sales 
Though no one seems to care 
And if it rains 
I don't believe I'll go out 
You'll wait for me but I won't make it there 

Rolling along singing a song 
And I don't believe I'll be for very long 
Coming back home and sitting alone 
And my Sadie comes in with an ice cream cone 
Ice cream cone 
Ice cream cone oh yeah 

And it's my day to be just this way 
The loving I crave won't make me a slave 
I can lay down without a frown 
Sufi Sales is back in town 

(Watch out for laughter 
Watch out for fun 
Sufi Sales is back 
Hon)
credits
released June 1, 1987 
Lyrics R.U. Sirius 
Music Scrappi DuChamp 
Cover art by Ed Reibsamen based on concept by R.U. Sirius 

Vocals, instruments and arrangement by Scrappi DuChamp. Bass and cello Jeff Lowe. Saxophone Fred Blinman (also some backup singers to be later acknowledged with a statue in a park in our imaginations. 

Thanks to Scrappi for digging this up and digitizing it on the 50th Anniversary of Sgt Pepper
tags

Merry Tweeksters World Mutation Day/Sgt Peckerhead/The Merry Tweekstersk

by Mondo Vanilli (w. R.U. Sirius) from "IOU Bab"e, also from the R.U. Sirius collection "That Which Does Not Kill Me Makes Me Hipper"

Sirius - 3Arm - DuChamp

lyrics by Sirius & 3Arm

Afterrnoon of the living deadpan (dead Pan) 
Don't forget to bring your bedpan 
We're telling jokes that kill 
Don't forget to bring your pills 
Took the lawyers several months just to write an i.o.u. babe 

It takes so many horrible workers just to build a single beat 
It takes so many horrible lovers just to put me on my feet 
Should I write an i.o.u. babe 
We're all born to original debt 
Write it off to appropriation 
What you see is what you get 

Afternoon at the Holiday Inn 
All the bands are named MONDO Vanilli 
They're playing songs to make you relax 
We're laughing in the back 

Took the chauffeur several hours just to write an i.o.u. babe 
(How you gonna baste the turkey if you don't have any stuffing?!) 

It takes so many well paid servants just to find a decent place to eat 
It takes so many local hookers just to keep me from falling asleep 
Should I write an i.o.u. babe or can you find the joke 
And when you're done with the lawsuit 
Be sure to slaughter the goat god

credits

Recorded 1994 
Produced by Jonathan Burnside and Scrappi DuChamp at Razor’s Edge Studio, San Francisco

I'm 64

IOU Babe

by MONDO Vanilli

Sirius - DuChamp
lyrics

I wanna steal your radio 
Sacrifice your fingers to an electric fence 
I torture you in future tense staccato 
And come back home and rest in bed all day 

I've got techniques for ecstasy 
Keeping them under the hat stand 
Let's whip 'em out 
And see if anything fits on your head 

I wanna steal your radio 
Capture you on a hard disc drive 
Save you and make a million copies 
Give one to each of my friends 

I inverted the very color of being 
But you -- you weren't there 

I wanna be your radio 
Sire wire fire and inspire you (cyber cyber) 
Flick the switch that renders you insane 
Come back home and rest in bed all day (cyber cyber) 
I wanted to be Salvador Dali 
I wanted to be dead and unreasonable 
Let's grieve in concentric circles 
To make the night release your brain 

I wanna be your radio 
Now I wanna be your radio

credits
from That Which Does Not Kill Me Makes Me Hipper (R​.​U. Sirius with 1982 - 2010 +), released August 8, 2016 
Produced by Scrappi DuChamp/R.U. Sirius 1992 for MONDO Vanilli, used in live performance 
A different version with similar lyrics but different music was used by Party Dogs in live performances 1981- 1982
tags

I Wanna Be Your Radio by MONDO Vanilli

Everybody Must Get Rehab
Sirius - Frank

Lyrics
	
Everybody must take their shoes off at the airport 
Everybody must plug their car in at the carport 
Everybody still loves Britney when her dress's short 
Everybody has to have a quick and snarky retort 
But things here aren't really all that bad 
Since everybody must get rehab 

They stone you when you don't wear your chador 
They stone you and they call you a whore 
They stone you in Iraq and in Iran 
They stone you and then they cut off your hand 
But here things aren't really quite as bad 
Still everybody must get rehab 

Everybody must get their free botox injection 
Everybody must be available for inspection 
Everybody must get a way rad looking cell phone 
Everybody must pay back the interest on that home loan 
But I guess things aren't quite so bad 
Still everybody must get rehab 

They stone you when your homeless and your poor 
They stone you when you can't say who your for 
They stone you like they stoned Tupac Shakur 
They even stone you when you close the white house door 
But I guess things aren't quite so bad 
Still everybody must get rehab

SLT is 
Matt Sabo: Vocals, synth 
Chuck Irving: Guitars, backing vocal 
Phil Marshall: Guitars, synth, backing vocal 
Ken Frank: Bass guitar, synths 
Pat Lowery: Drums, gong 

Matt Sabo and Pat Lowery were also members of Party Dogs with R.U. Sirius in the early 1980s. The Party Dogs album "It's A Groove!" is available via various outlets including CD Baby (digital only)

Buy the entire Gone Dead Gone album by SLT here -- www.popwars.com/earringrecords/slt.php

Everybody Must Get Rehab by SLT

Gut Sandwich (1982)
Sirius-Sabo

I went out tonight 
Just to see the light 
Got a helping of 
Gut sandwich 
I didn’t ask for it 
Person in a dish 
Art for arts’ sake 
Cut the birthday cake 

I don’t feel right 
I think it’s the flu 
Went to the phone and I might give someone a call 
Phone is ringing anyway 
Shower and a shave 
Someone’s guts sandwiching again across the front page 
I don’t feel right 
I think it’s the flu 
Went to the phone and I might give someone a call 

If it doesn’t drive me crazy 
If it doesn’t make you crazy 
Is it my health again or is it something in the air 
If I look out my window 
I might see a constellation 
Someone’s screaming out there I hope she’s only joking 
If it doesn’t drive me crazy 
If it doesn’t make you crazy 
Is it my health again or is it something in the air 

I went out tonight 
Just to see the light 
Got a helping of 
Gut sandwich 
I didn’t ask for it 
Person in a dish 
Art for arts’ sake 
Cut the birthday cake 
I went out tonight 
Just to see the light 
Got a helping of 
Gut sandwich

It's A Groove! Recorded 1982 in Rochester New York. 
Produced by Party Dogs
credits
released March 30, 2016 

Band members include 
Ken Goffman aka R.U. Sirius Vocals 
Hugh Edwards Bass 
Patrick Lowery Drums 
Matt Sabo Guitar

Gut Sandwich by Party Dogs

Speed and Weed 
Sirius - McKaughan
video by Pizza T

Speed and Weed
How I wish I could still do speed and weed
Paranoid listening to Let it Bleed
Long letters to J.G. Ballard and Chuck Manson
Kidnapped my shadow and held it for ransom

How I wish I could still do speed and weed
Wide awake watching the cops retreat
Twin Peaks repeats with a bunch of crazy chicks
Midnight the Castro for some real alt dot kicks

How I wish I could still do speed and weed
Be so sharp when I have to go on TV
Head back home kick it with some china white
Growing older man -- it just ain’t right

How I wish I could still do speed and weed
Growing older man -- it just ain’t right

Speed and Weed by  R.U. Sirius & Phriendz

Party Dogs (with R.U. Sirius)
recorded Rochester NY 1982

Sirius - Sabo

I’ve got a little think tank 
I call it home 
I ain’t too highly paid though 
Just flesh and bone 
I’ll put a little thingie out 
On video cassette 
And hope the Minister of Propaganda 
Don’t get too upset 

Still it all comes though 
The United Matrix of America 
Pagan rhythms out of Africa 
Pagan shipments out of Kathmandu 
From the Aztecs to the Ming 
Genetic carnival on wings 

We’ve got a little freak show 
We call it “The Hunchback Squeaks” 
And then I politician 
I get on up and I speaks 
“I got a lotta rage” he cries 
“And lots of irony” 
You’re baboons in a cage” he lies 
“I’m going to set you free” 

Still it all comes though 
The United Matrix of America 
Pagan rhythms out of Africa 
Pagan shipments out of Kathmandu 
From the Aztecs to the Ming 
Genetic carnival on wings 

Gotta get back to L.A. now 
Got a media jones 
Talking with the network boys 
and taking out more loans 
I get 3 minutes on NBC 
Attack the ruling class 
I've got 4 friends at NASA now 
If I have to move my ass 

Still it all comes though 
The United Matrix of America 
Pagan rhythms out of Africa 
Pagan shipments out of Kathmandu 
From the Aztecs to the Ming 
Genetic carnival on wings

I Politician (The United Matrix Of America)Party Dogs/R.U. Sirius

I HOPE YOU DIDN’T DOSE THE PUDDING 

Sirius - Pizza T 

i asked my baby for her tantric thing 
she tossed away the side of her face 
she's an elevated totally evil wigged-out angel 
she shaked clear and showed me her glass spine 
i asked my baby for a 5 dollar bill 
she says she's very very smart 
she's a masculine italian gangster movie 
she wears those black satin gloves so groovy 
i asked my baby to look beneath the sheets 
she feels the breath of god caress her 
she loves old wiseman in Beatle boots 
she likes the thrill of the overdosed jester 
i asked my baby why we jumped outta the womb 
she wants a lie that’s more fulfilling 
I smile gee whiz we're roller-coaster baby-friends 
I hope you didn’t dose dose dose the pudding 
I hope you didn’t dose dose dose the pudding 
I hope you didn’t dose dose dose the pudding 
I hope you didn’t dose dose dose the pudding 

from MONDOtoxicated by R​.​U. Sirius & Phriendz, released July 3, 2017

I Hope You Didn't Dose The Pudding by R.U. Sirius & Phriendz

a rough mix from Producer Trevor Boink, featuring Grace Schtick

Lyrics by R.U. Sirius (based on Grace Slick)

One pill makes you smarter
And one pill makes you small
and the ones that mother gives you
ritalin or adderall
And your phallus
Needs Viagra after all

and if you go fleecing babbits
cause the banks are gonna fall
tell 'em the hookah smoking anarchist
has got you by the balls
call alice -- she's totally appalled

White men on the radio
Get off on telling you who to hate
and your friend has joined the teabags
And your spending your weekends straight
And your phallus
has a Cialis date

When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the fat cat's are aging backwards
And your friends are filled with dread
Remember what the lab rat said
Freeze your head
Freeze your head

Ru's mischief

white babbits (early version)w. Trevor Boink & Grace Schtick

R.U. Sirius is a pragmatic answer to a lunatic world. Also, known for writing books, articles, editing Mondo 2000 in the 1990s, hating onions

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