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SpiderHouse Jive

from Who's Who and the What, What's EP by Tooantuh

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SpiderHouse is a coffee bar in Austin, TX where, students, free-thinkers and many eccentrics congregate to talk about everything and nothing.

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“I’ve got the blues—swam right in, unannounced. Thing is, the blues isn’t recognized as a legitimate ailment as much as a brand with an accompaniment of talented drunkards with track-marks. People say it’s a state of mind. That you’re in the cock-pit: A deity of your own universe. I’m listening to Thelonius Monk. He sounds like a dilapidated house with ripped and dirty shag carpet- 3,2,4 steps missing between each remaining step- leading up to a loft- winding up to a ceiling of swirling smoke. Speaking of..
The thing about these people who claim the blues don’t exist is they begin orating scripted chapters of their personal time-lines thus unknowingly divulging their own personal encounters with the blues, herself.
Melancholy is an invisible boa constrictor.
However, I do somewhat buy the idea that once commodified, the blues became insatiable. We had, for all intents and purposes, given it a name.
What we call work was designed by people who decided to pioneer a job with absolutely no intrinsic value, whatsoever. No skills will take root and bud in this vortex. We’re still on that ride.
What we call work is to slay our brothers and sisters and to do that we must meditate on a vision. A vision of wolves gnashing their teeth. A vision of canines consuming everything in their path and spilling excrement on a constitution designed to be malleable in a nation under God.
God. He who had his eyes on a cloud in a cottage with an orchard, a wrap around porch, a jacuzzi tub, with a tempur-pedic mattress, H.D.T.V., a pup named Trevor and a vault.
A vault! What’s in there? Many have speculated it’s the head of his son, who used to sit as his right hand, now in pieces in a bag contained in adamantium so that victory is secure in the next primaries.
He’s totally got this…”
“Can I bum a cigarette?”

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from Who's Who and the What, What's EP, released May 10, 2011

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