1) Facebook betrayed me
The internet killed me
Rogers robbed while Ma Bell billed me
Virtual names dragged in virtual mud
All this scrolling and tagging has me coughing up real blood
Worse than never,
Cry me a river, forever.
The word meme is a meme of two me’s together.
We’re light as a feather, your tweets will never hurt me.
Turned off my notifications so nothing could alert me.
We meming, instead of meaning,
everyone is screaming that they’re streaming.
It’s Exhausting. Nothing viral but the virus,
Your message is dated, your font is papyrus.
Screen shot.
Screen shot.
Talk to the hand, I’m watching this download
Watching in real time while my social skills erode
Don’t write code, panic mode, deflecting.
Spent a half a lifetime un-autocorrecting,
Scrolling, downloading, rainbow balls spinning
Recovering data Nigerian sweepstake winning.
If lies are swords then I’m a swallower,
This song is my hipster cupcake.
Get me a friend, find me a follower
This poem is my status update.
Status uptick, John hashtag Updike
Uptown on the downswing, down home, uptight.
Downsize, upmarket on the Downbeat
Uptown girl going down on my retweet.
On repeat, waking up erected.
Tried to tell you I live you: I got autocorrected.
Off the record hope what I said leaks:
On the record, too many deadbeats on bedsheets.
You’re Tootie, I’m Mrs. Garret.
Polly amorous, I’m in love with a parrot.
credits
from The Internet Killed Me (Screenshot),
released February 3, 2021
Guitars: DJ Daniel Joseph and Allen "Wawa" Watsky Basses: Patrice Agbokou and Michael Felber Mix touched by Michael "The Man" Dubue Mastered by the inimitable PS Bova
Montreal based. Started out with piano lessons. Then he made beats. Then he started producing. Wrote a few musicals, made
some videos, puppets, photographs. Did some shows. Worked with cool people. Now his life is out the window and he practices piano and does pencil drawings all day. Basically unemployed. He hopes to work again one day....more
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One of my favourite musical discoveries in a while. These musicians are seriously talented. I can’t help imagining that there would have been a whole significant subculture of Yiddish psych rock like this in a different, kinder universe. For now, this is a window into that world that might have been. And I love every second of it. Audrey
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Winograd pays respect to Brandwein's style with great respect, when it would be easy to be cheesy. This album helps me appreciate the crackly recordings even more, and Dan Blacksburg does a great Sam Speilman.. davethek
The London trio return with a sequel to 2019's Civilisation I EP, an emotive art-pop suite recorded entirely on vintage hardware. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 28, 2021