Today marks a very solemn day here at Swan Fungus. The penultimate episode of The Best Podcast You Have: Circulations Amethyst. On this week’s installment, there was a guest musician, some friend of Jack’s no one has ever met before. He sings in a foreign language and Jack [incorrectly] translates it. In the middle, there are snippets from a hilarious round-table discussion we had Friday night. Most of it was too vulgar to reproduce for public consumption, but there are some great one-liners, and a lot of instances in which I crack myself up mid-sentence. I’m that funny. Listen to Episode 8 right here. Visit the official TBPYH blog by clicking here. Check out the podcast (with an accompanying video-cast) on Jack’s MySpace. And be sure to tell Jack you’re not ready for this fucking epic magic carpet ride to end.
In the most disgustingly irksome article I have ever read, comes news that MTV is partnering in a “stunt” to have a band record an entire album inside a bubble. If you read this page with any regularity, you know all about the relationship between the music of Obscure References and our inflatable bubbles. Clearly someone is trying to “scoop” us, and I’ll be damned if this shitty Epic Records band (whose name I am not even going to print) is going to stake a claim as the bubble band of the ’00s. News as sickening as this makes me want to put even more effort into booking a summer tour for Obscure References, just so we can bring our bubbles along with us and perform inside them. I can’t believe I’m even giving publicity to anything remotely related to MTV, but the blatant rip off (of Z’s idea, which also happened to be a blatant rip-off) makes me want to puke on all involved parties’ shoes.
Ugh. I hope that in spite of this tragic news, you can still try to have a pleasant Monday…
