Thursday 02/25/10

Blogging is difficult for those who do not care about being heard, but who don’t want to be forgotten.  It is with this spirit that I begin another smokescreen in the hopes that you hold off on giving up on Les Debutantes.  Let’s summarize the nature of this band:

Les Debutantes are a loose collection of war veterans who make their own recording equipment out of spare electrical parts they find at Godo’s Junkyard in Okolona.  They use these tools on the catalog of songs they’ve conjured while in combat, asleep, in therapy, and on the Louisville light rail.  Officially to date, they have 695 songs in the bucket.  ”The Bucket” is a lemon-shaped pail at Su-Su-Studios into which the sheet music of new Debutante songs are “tossed in like so much nothin’.”  When it’s time to “de-bucket,” Les Debutantes “reach in, then lay it down,” such that a clown do frown.

Centennial–the 100-song album from the Fall of 2006 which has a hard release date of 10/10/10–is a project designed to use a fraction of those songs for some purpose other than having them as trophy-like memories of how Les Debutantes deserve to be making money just by being the people they are, thereby making it possible for them to quit their jobs (which they use for writing back and forth to each other about what could be if all goes as planned).

Les Debutantes love talking about the old days.  They rarely recall that the old days are just as bad as these days and the future will only get worse, if only because there’ll be more oppressive, obfuscating old days to make us feel bad about all that we eventually do wrong (in unknowing attempts to build on the irrevocable mistakes from the old days).

Keddiz is running for Mayor of Louisville in 2010.  I am Keddiz.  In my way, I am part of this band, not completely unlike how Kendrick Samson is to this day.  If you don’t know Kendrick Samson, it doesn’t matter.  But please know me, because if you haven’t noticed…the candidates this year, if I can be candid, are very much sub-Keddiz.  Let us have Keddiz in ‘10.  Really.

Don’t Throw Your Vote Away

Vote for Keddiz, Come What May!

In conclusion, last night we talked about a Justice League cartoon and all of Brent’s other projects.  And it turned out that my Devo color is green.

—Keddiz

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