bingsy

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Member Since: 8/9/2003
Total Mixes: 57
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Other Mixes By bingsy

Playlist | Mixed Genre
CD | Alternative - Indie Rock
CD | Mixed Genre
CD | Alternative - Indie Rock

Freak Show Sonnet

Artist Song
The Kinks  I'm Not Like Everybody Else 
Laurie Anderson  Transitory Life 
Neutral Milk Hotel  Two Headed Boy 
The Zombies  The Way I Feel Inside 
The Morning Benders  Excuses 
Etta James  Out of the Rain 
The Magnetic Fields  I Don't Believe in the Sun 
Pixies  La La Love You 
Comedian Harmonists  Wenn Ich Vergnugt Bin 
Roky Erickson  Night of the Vampire 
Godzilla Film Score  Japanese Army March 
Buddy Holly  I'm Gonna Love You Too 
The Mountain Goats  Woke Up New 
MGMT  Electric Feel 
Dead Man's Bones  My Body's a Zombie For You 
The Mills Brothers  Moaning For You 
M. Ward  Blake's View 
Townes Van Zandt  None But the Rain 
LCD Soundsystem  Home 
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes  Brother 
The Kinks  I'm Free 

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Freak Show Sonnet by Randy Schaub


Saliva pools, evoked by corndog stink.
But how can one find appetite when faced
with Alligator-man, his skin striped pink
with pitted scars? Or armless Belle, her lace
skirts rising when her foot lifts cigarette
to aging lips. We see the lot of them--
obese, hirsute,tattooed, and jaundiced--yet
we need not weep for these, whose flesh condemns
them more than stares and screams. Without the low
and outcast underneath our feet, we all
would stand on lower ground. Besides, we know
they can't, beyond their glass and canvas walls,
perceive the murmurs of disgust, and thus
bear no ill will to normal folks like us.


-Note from Bingsy: This is for Randy13's birthday. I started it wanting it to be a theme. Randy always struggled to find a place to belong. The picture - which I shall post as soon as I can access a scanner - that I affixed to the liner notes, is Randy at age 3 wearing a scary mask. He always loved monsters and things most children fear. He sympathized with them. The thing is that once I started compiling, it became difficult to shut out the songs of love and loss and hope. I still included the handful of original songs that inspired the title (taken from a poem read at Randy's service, written by him), but the mix became its own thing. I felt, as I gave it out, that I needed to almost apologize for the maudlin tone at times, but it is what it is.

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Kemala Sweartay
Date: 11/13/2010
Great selections, and a happy birthday to Randy.
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bingsy
Date: 11/14/2010
Thank you Kemala.