Badfunk from FAWM 2024 by Aubrey Van Gelded

I woke up at five in the afternoon today
and I told myself

I wasn't going to do
another silly pastiche
of James Murphy from LCD Soundsystem

doing a silly pastiche
of David Byrne

I wasn't going to go out
and learn anything about the history
of my neighborhood

I wasn't going to play badminton
in the pool
of an expensive Spanish resort

I wasn't going to play with
hardware synthesizers

or transgenderize myself
(any further than I'd already
transgenderized myself which admittedly
is a lot, not that you could tell by my voice or anything)

because it's five-thirty
in the morning
and I've been consuming
cannabis extract
for the last 12 hours
since I woke up

I thought about what
that strange taste
in the corner of my mouth was

I wondered what the quality
of the air inside my house was

I wondered how long
you could let a cup of coffee

with cream in it
sit on the countertop
till it's unsafe to drink

I thought about
putting this out as a FAWM song

but it was just too easy
I just sat in my basement and
monologued

watching the green input indicator
of my audio interface
occasionally bump into the red

when I got emotionally moved
by the items and things I that was recalling

this is really hard to do
for an extended period of time

I suggest you try it

Pretend you're Adrian Belew
and it's 1983
and you're recording "Indiscipline"
with Robert Fripp

I looked at it for
hours and hours and hours
and I still didn't know
if it was Tony Levin's bald head

or the cantaloupe
we had bought down at the marke
the other day

I took a bite
and Tony screamed.

Goodnight, America.

Goodnight.

• Rock
• electronic
• folk rock
• indie rock
• punk
• transgender
• Milwaukee