JT : Times up. Sorry you didn't guess the hidden word tonight was "pickles". Pickles. As in pickles the cat, pickles the dog…
Game contestant : There's baby pickles. There's baby dill pickles. There's um, you find them in a jar. There's garlic. No garlic. With garlic. Without garlic. Um, what about pickles. You put 'em on a sandwich. You put 'em on the side of a plate. Um, you eat them. Their food. Their good. They're um, they're in a juice. They're in a bottle. They're green. Um, they have a stem on them. They, they have seeds in them. Oh my goodness what else about pickles. Um, there's dill pickles. Big pickles.
(Buzzer goes off)
JT : After fifteen years, this is what you're doing. Looking out a window here in Philadelphia somewhere. This is really boring. Just waiting around. Waiting around.
Waiting around. Waiting around. And my back is hurting me. Which is a rare event but it's true. And I don't know what it is. Could be something really, really, really, really, really, really, really, bad. Or it could just be a spasm or something that I can get rid of pretty soon. Yes sir - yes.
Nick DiMauro : (laughs) What are you saying?
JT : I'm just talking to myself in unison while I'm playing drums.
ND : Ha ha ha ha ha…
JT : That's how bored I am. I have to play and talk at the same time because I'm really, really, really really, fuckin' bored, fuckin' bored, fuckin' bored… Ahhh, I gotta get some water.
ND : Ha ha..
JT : "Cause I …
ND : (laughs)
JT : Heh, 'cause the other water here is making me really, really, really, sick. It must have a lot of chlorine or something.
ND : (coughs)
JT : It's something. Something in it's making me sick. Something making me sick. Is that the phone. Is that us?
ND : No.
JT : No.
ND : You wish.
JT / ND singing : Botso. The magical Botso. The magical Botso. Botso, Botso, Botso, Botso.
(Bots bots bots bots)
BOTSO!
(Bots bots bots bots)
JT : He's a winner. He's a winner.
ND : He's a loser.
JT : He's got a big crane…
ND : Crane!
JT : (laughs) He can..
ND : He has a big crane.
JT : Crane...
ND : He can lift things.
JT : And a condom...
ND : And a cup..
JT : for every little boy and girl. And a condom for every little boy and girl.
Condoms, condoms, condoms, condoms, condoms, condoms, condoms, condoms, BOTSO!
(A distorted bit of Gian DiMauro screaming from the piece 27b Stroke 6 is heard through a little boom box)
Nick on walkie-talkie : What the hell are you doing?
JT : Hello? (laughs)
ND : Hello?
JT : What was that sound?
ND : You didn't do that?
JT : That screaming was unbelievable. Like a big expolsion happened out here.
ND : Are you making it up?
JT : No, I swear to God the whole sky is yellow!
ND : Bullshit.
JT : Take a look outside!
ND : I can't. I'm in the bathroom.
JT : Let's just go through the radio here for a second, see what we have here. (radio noise)
This is the same thing as anything you find on a UHF channel.
Radio announcer : This Thursday, David Broser with Karen…
JT : A guy's voice. Just like any other guy's voice.
KB : Yo' KG I hope you - Yo' yo' we, we talk. We conversate. Ya be like yo' I hope… Yo' I know...
KG : Alright…
KB : I got an "L" or something'. Man, like we're bugging'. You be just laughing' together man...
KG : Allright… Allright...Allright...
KB : C'mon man!
KG : Ho. ho,ho, ho, ho…
KB : Don't read it man! Do it from your head.
KG : Allright… Allright...Allright...Allright...
KB : Experience it. You know what I'm saying'? Straight up!
WBAB female DJ : And also tonight's home grown band we heard "Earshot". Earful of good tunes. We heard "Baby's Chief Distraction". And guitarist Anthony Pomes from Earshot will be playing with the Jay Allen Band at the Roxy, in Huntington on August third, so you can go on down and check 'em out.
Anthony Pomes (in the Sonic Underground vocal booth) : Ya, let me, let me ask you something.
JT : I miss those.
AP : Yeah, yeah, it's tough.
JT : There's a lot of things I miss.
AP : I miss a…
JT : I find I'm missing more things the older I get. I just keep misplacing my, my shoe.
AP : Yeah.
JT : My underwear…
AP : I only have one pair of shoe and I imagine the other one.
JT : Yeah. Well it works!
AP : And that's how I get through my day. Because…
JT : Ya just flop around (slaps hand)
AP : Right. Have you ever seen the people who have lost their imagination in this world they always seem to walk with a limp.
I think it's because…
JT : I think they forgot...
AP : They think we're an ape.
JT : Yeah, they're really forgetting they're step. They're not in step with reality. I think that's what it was.
AP : (laughs) Did ya, did ya ever see, did you ever see an old person smack an ape in the head with a mop?
JT : I saw that actually once. I saw that on the learning channel.
AP : Yeah… (gasping) They said…
JT : How to protect your young one from a mop and an ape.
AP : (laughing) They said this is how to throttle an ape with a mop!
JT : You wanna throttle an ape? Use this mop.
AP : And when they hit it...
JT : Mahogany mop!
AP : And the ape… it was cool because the ape sat so silently and every time you hit it all you hear from the ape : Ummp!
JT : That's right.
AP : Ummp!
JT : Bastards!
AP : Ummp!
JT : How dare they?
AP : Apes are very cool.
JT : (recording Meryl Mathews over the phone) : Ok, why don't you just do a little test here? Do something.
MM : Presenting her idea for the melody of "Swinging From The Rafters".
JT : Alright. I got it. I got it. It was a good live idea for a tune.
Donna Zohar : Because they're bosons, they're just drawn to each other. So they arrive in sticky little clusters because they pull each other into relationship as they transverse the distance across the room. Now this photon bunching as physicists call it is the first step toward the kind of higher order and unity that you'll find in Bose–Einstein condensate which are they most ordered and unified structures in the universe. Bose–Einstein condensate are the vacuum and they are, many of us argue, the basis for human consciousness in the brain.
credits
from Boson Kabloona Waiting Around,
released September 21, 2014
JT : JT
Woman : A game show contestant on TV
Nick DiMauro : Walkie-talkie In the bathroom
Radio Announcer
KG and KB : Conversating
Anthony Pomes : Ape talk
WBAB female DJ : "Earshot" radio announcement
Meryl Mathews : Swinging From The Rafters melody
Donna Zohar : Boson explaination
Edited and mixed at Sonic Underground Studios, Stony Brook, NY
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