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Tag: udderbot

  • My pre-existing condition was no health care access

    (Rob wrote this song in the direction of the health care debate. It is the product of less than 24 hours of work.)

    Jacob, “MC Utterbot” and udderbot
    Andrew, “Professor Heathwaite” and 23-tone electric
    Rob, “Hello” and drums

    Lyrics:

    I need a lever, cause yo, I’ve got a fever
    Need some accessibility to the health care facility
    What’s the public option when the option ain’t publicized
    I’m still waiting in line you better recognize
    your health is mine, to deny it’s a crime
    50 million in urgency so check the emergency… **CRASH**

    All the other wealthy industrialized countries have universal health care systems — that means, every citizen has access to health care. Except in the United States. Yo! MC Utterbot, I think they need some contents to make some sense out of this nonsense…

    The clock ticks… I’m talkin’ ’bout one-in-six
    Only hard to understand with insurance in hand
    When y’read they propaganda, s’hard to understand-a
    They take our activism and they call it socialism
    Or portray the U.K. as a place with no x-rays
    where you wait in line for days but it’s worse here I dare say…

    Excuse me sir, we only assist robots in this emergency room — WILL SOMEONE TURN OFF THAT CAR ALARM. What’s that? You are a robot. Oh. I’m sorry but your insurance doesn’t cover that procedure. Please see the secretary down the hall and fill out more paperwork…

    My pre-existing condition was no health care access
    I had to treat myself based on my best guess
    While corporations are playing me like a game of chess
    Still I’ve got to say, nevertheless
    I want health care parity and solidarity
    A social contract yo this ain’t no frickin charity
    The blue dogs know they’re gonna have to go
    and when I get to the do’ I wanna hear something just like

    Hello…
    Hello…
    Hello…
    Hello…
    Hello…
    Hello…
    Hello…
    Hello…
    Hello…
    Hello…

  • house concert – This Must Be The Place

    Last Wednesday, May 13, we put on House Concert VII (seventh in “recent memory”), the final act of which was all of us La Casans covering the Talking Heads, This Must Be The Place.  Heather got the whole thing on her point-and-shoot; thanks Heather!

    More videos from Heather’s youtube:
    A New Inspired Poem, by Snow Leopard.
    This is the Title of the Story, read by Michael Phelps.
    Hoprock, by Jacob Barton.
    5 songs of fish (but in this instance, four), by Nodal Nim.

  • On the road: Minneapolis

    On Friday I left lovely Urbana for a two-week tour of the Midwest, in conjunction with elizaBeth Simpson and the Change of State Performance Project.  I hope to post occasional updates on this fortnight of adventure.  I also hope Urbana folks can come on April 21 or 23, when we hit Urbana, and that you can invite whoever friends near Iowa and Chicago and Milwaukee are arty enough to handle our art art art. 

    The theme of the tour is WATER; Qilo and Andrea perform a play about water & its politics, Beth has created a seaside multimedia romp, and I play an udderbot solo piece called hoprock.  The udderbot is a musical instrument we’ve invented which must be filled with water to be played; check out the blog ‘n’ wiki when curious.

    Stop One was Minneapolis.  Staying in a house with hairless cats, who are more like giraffe-bats, eating ginger snaps, studying maps.  A hurried visit with Philip Blackburn, a soft-spoken and highly-accomplished sonical practitioner who’s planning to plant a circle of 52 different varieties of apple tree in his backyard.

    Then we had a show this afternoon, and a good audience came, despite the inclement Easter.

    That’s all for now.  Maybe one of these other folks will lend me their camera for further illustration…

    Hold down the fort!