Sunday, December 05, 2004

Music Review ~ Lazyboy

Well, I'm driving down the road yesterday, and I'm listening to the radio in my buick. (which is now running like a champ I might add.) And during one of those blocks of songs, this guy just starts ranting about all kinds of crazy funky shit. And then all of the sudden, it switches to some sort of techno dance music interlude for about 20 seconds. Then more ranting. It does this like 3 or four times and then goes back to normal music.

Well, I'm driving down the road today, and I'm listening to the radio in my company truck (cuz my buick was dead this morning). And during one of those blocks of songs, I get this sudden urge to call up the station and ask about that rant I had heard the day before. So, since I have the K106.3's phone number programmed into my phone, I call them up.

"Hellllllooooo! K106.3! How you doing today?"
"Um, well, um, yesterday, on the radio, 'bout 2 o'cloclk, there was this dude ranting about all kinds of crazy funky shit and there where little musical intraludes every so often. I was sorta wondering who that was and where I could find a copy of it."
"Lazyboy."
"Huh? Sorry, cells don't work great in a diesal."
"LAZYBOY! Like the recliner!"
"Lazyboy?"
"Yeah, and I'm pretty sure there album is out in stores."
"Um, ok, um, sweet, um, thanks. Bye."
Hangs up phone.

So, I get home. Download the song off from Winmx. Check out the lyrics. And look for a homepage.

Overall, the song is pretty damn nutz. I haven't heard anything else by them but the lyrics I've read don't seem to be as promising. The homepage is rather entertaining though. Anyways... heres the lyrics. He sounds kinda like Denis Leary, except his vocabulary includes words other then fuck, fucking, fucker, and fucked. I didn't include the little musical chorus cuz I thought it was gay.

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Why is marijuana not legal? Why is marijuana not legal? It’s a natural plant that grows in the dirt. Do you know what’s not natural? 80 year old dudes with hard-ons. That’s not natural. But we got pills for that. We’re dedicating all our medical resources to keeping the old guys erect, but we’re putting people in jail for something that grows in the dirt?

You know we have more prescription drugs now. Every commercial that comes on TV is a prescription drug ad. I can’t watch TV for four minutes without thinking I have five serious diseases. Like: “Do you ever wake up tired in the morning?” Oh my god I have this, write this down. Whatever it is, I have it. Half the time I don’t even know what the commercial is… people running in fields or flying kites or swimming in the ocean. I’m like that is the greatest disease ever. How do you get that? That disease comes with a hot chick and a puppy.

The schools now… It is all about self-esteem in the schools now. Build the kids’ self-esteem, make them feel good about themselves. If everybody grows up with high self-esteem, who is going to dance in our strip clubs? What’s going to happen to our porno industry? These women don’t just grown on trees. It takes lots of drunk dads missing dance recitals before you decide to blow a goat on the internet for fifty bucks. And if that disappears, where does that leave me on a Friday night with my new high speed connection?

Masterminds are another word that comes up all the time. You keep hearing about these terrorists masterminds that get killed in the middle east. Terrorists masterminds. Mastermind is sort of a lofty way to describe what these guys do, don’t you think? They’re not masterminds. “OK, you take bomb, right? And you put in your backpack. And you get on bus and you blow yourself up. Alright?” “Why do I have to blow myself up? Why can’t I just…” “Who’s the fucking mastermind here? Me or you?”

Americans, let’s face it: We’ve been a spoiled country for a long time. Do you know what the number one health risk in America is? Obesity. They say we’re in the middle of an obesity epidemic. An epidemic like it is polio. Like we’ll be telling our grand kids about it one day. The Great Obesity Epidemic of 2004. “How’d you get through it grandpa?” “Oh, it was horrible Johnny, there was cheesecake and pork chops everywhere.”

Nobody knows why were getting fatter? Look at our lifestyle. I’ll sit at a drive thru. I’ll sit there behind fifteen other cars instead of getting up to make the eight foot walk to the totally empty counter. Everything is mega meal, super sized. Want biggie fries, super sized, want to go large. You want to have thirty burgers for a nickel you fat mother fucker. There’s room in the back. Take it! Want a 55 gallon drum of Coke with that? It’s only three more cents.

Sometimes you have to suffer a little bit in your youth to motivate yourself to succeed in later life. Do you think if Bill Gates got laid in high school, do you think there’d be a Microsoft? Of course not. You got to spend a long time in your own locker with your underwear shoved up your ass before you start to think, “You’ll see. I’m going to take of the world of computers! I’ll show them.”

We’re in one of the richest countries in the world, but the minimum wage is lower than it was thirty five years ago. There are homeless people everywhere. This homeless guy asked me for money the other day. I was about to give it to him and then I thought he was going to use it on drugs or alcohol. And then I thought, that’s what I’m going to use it on. Why am I judging this poor bastard. People love to judge homeless guys. Like if you give them money they’re just going to waste it. Well, he lives in a box, what do you want him to do? Save it up and buy a wall unit? Take a little run to the store for a throw rug and a CD rack? He’s homeless. I walked behind this guy the other day. A homeless guy asked him for money. He looks right at the homeless guy and says why don’t you go get a job you bum. People always say that to homeless guys like it is so easy. This homeless guy was wearing his underwear outside his pants. Outside his pants. I’m guessing his resume isn’t all up to date. I’m predicting some problems during the interview process. I’m pretty sure even McDonalds has a “underwear goes inside the pants” policy. Not that they enforce it really strictly, but technically I’m sure it is on the books.

1 Comments:

At 11:43 AM, Blogger Couch said...

well i finally bought the album. and i must say its suprizingly good. kind of r&b dance meets king missile. though that hardly explains it. theres a lot of good ranting on the album. one in particular is a rant about, believe it or not, the couchist belief system. kind of a shock to my system at 2 am while playing diablo 2. the rants are all done by different people, while the background music is the same group. i strongly recommend it if you like king missile III's stuff. as it is more ranting with musical background. unfortunately the lyrics are not printed on the jacket. and some of the songs seem to drone on or become repeatative but like in both most music and rants, repetativeness is something you get used to. anyways... 4 out of 5 wombats for the album.

 

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