Special agents Wade and Ross were back in the bunker, sub-contracted by government to unscramble and then decipher a “mix tape” of encrypted audio files confiscated from a computer, seized from a very recently abandoned safe house of a suspected domestic terrorist cell. The audio files hailing from the late twenty teens and early twenty twenties, were collated and sent to a mystery recipient during the second Covid-19 pandemic. They had come under scrutiny more recently, as probable evidence of what the Senator from Kentucky calls “the sinister and destructive forces working from within to unravel the fabric of American democracy.” In launching the War on the Enemy Within (WOTEW), with little or no basis in actual fact, the Senator telescoped the threat to national security posed by “socialist left-wing propaganda and art acting as a gateway drug to bomb throwing anarchism.”
The audio files themselves appeared as a bizarre mish mash collection of punk rock songs, nursery rhymes and podcast excerpts along with unauthorized recordings—leaked by an unknown whistleblower—from inside the Smart World Corporation’s highly protected and secretive Smartbot program.
— from Chapter Three “Brain Circus”
lyrics
SOCK MONKEY RANTING
WADE: So what’s your first impression?
ROSS: Well … sounds like a load of sock-monkey ranting to me. I mean, why draw attention … with all this … this … shit-in-the mouth-of-state business?
WADE: Well yeh. Not my cup of tea, but maybe the coded message is in the artistry of it all
ROSS: You think this is art?
WADE: Ross, don’t you know anything about art?
Ross: I—. Well a catchy tune or two … maybe? … Makes it kind of like an audio version of what … like the smiley face and the frowny face
WADE: Like I said … You mean the masks of comedy and tragedy?
ROSS: Yeeeh that! Yeh. But then again maybe there’s no mystery at all and it’s … it’s just like a mix tape. Some agitators’ idea of a love letter?
WADE: Yes it’s all going to the same target darkbox, but why the Gordian knot encryption. Why go to all that trouble?
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THE MEASURY OF FELICITOUS DATA ODDCAST
PROBBER BROTHER LEE: Sista MG. You have a proposition for us?
SISTA MG: Yes Probber Brother Lee. Exhibit A. In a study entitled “Testing Theories of American Politics” Gilens and Page found that:
PROBBER: “When the preferences of economic elites and the stands of organized interest groups are controlled for, the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy … When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites or with organized interests, they generally lose.”
SISTA MG: Gilens and Page published their results in 2014 ie a full two years before you know who,
PROBBER BROTHER LEE: And four years after the coup d’etat in the Supreme Court, where the duplicitously named and plainly fraudulent Citizens United ruling of 2010, opened the floodgates to unregulated big money in politics, but Gilens and Page’s research was based on studies that went back to the early 1980’s
SISTA MG: Rewind! Rewind … And we have to go even further back, to the early 1970’s, …
PROBBER BROTHER LEE: To around the same time that Big Fossil Fuel began to get serious about Climate Change … Denial …
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PERP WAR
MELANIE GOOGELLE:
We will fight the war against the people … against the poor, but remember. We don’t call it war … We call it the law. ‘Operation Just Cause’ and ‘Perp War’ are trademarks of the Smart World Corporation. Exploiting the ‘War Dividend’ since nineteen eighty nine. And proudly imposing Neoliberalism around the globe since nineteen seventy three. Now hear the word of the Corp.
credits
from MESMERICA - EXPECT A CIRCUS,
released June 19, 2020
DANBERT NOBACON voices, sound effects
KIRA WOOD CRAMER voices
MELANIE GOOGELLE voice
MELL DETTMER sound effects
NIGEL HUNTER midi keyboards and bass
Danbert Nobacon & The Axis of DissentTwisp, Washington
Danbert Nobacon 'freak music legend,' 'mischievous political goblin,'got an associate degree in the science of children’s
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