Beatnik Turtle's Encore Song of the Day

Etiquette books say that when one is eating soup:

"...dip the spoon into the soup, from the edge of the bowl to the center, moving away from you so as not to spill on one's shirt, blouse, or tie. Do not spoon towards yourself. To avoid spilling, fill the spoon only 3/4ths the way full and sip you soup - do not slurp - from the edge of the spoon. Do not insert the whole bowl of the spoon into your mouth."*

*Wikipedia notes that Eastern Cultures spoon soup toward themselves. "Spoon Towards" is still in the works. Any one play the koto?

Here's another great song by Holmes. Features Tom Roper on the 12-string.

This song was written for a Second City show called Sci-Fry, which had a segment about a kid who bought Stalin's corpse off of EBay, and re-animated him using parts from a discarded Simon game, making him a zombie Stalin. Hence the "eating capitalist brains" lyric. When we wrote this, we were aiming at a "Courtship of Eddie's Father" feel.

By the way, on this day in 1953, Joeseph Stalin died. Had he lived, Beatnik Turtle would likely be recording in Siberia.

anaphora

n. The deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, or paragraphs; for example, "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills" (Winston S. Churchill).

This should be the theme song for misanthropes worldwide.

A remix of a song from our Cheapass Album about the game Buttonmen. Dana Huyler, the guy who developed this website, wrote a free website to allow people to play this game online at buttonmen.com.

The Baby Boomers aren't the only ones that can idolize a decade. With all of the songs about the 60s, there needs to be more about our favorite decade: the 90s.

Things have been pretty busy at Beatnik Turtle headquarters the last few weeks getting ready for the release of The Indie Band Survival Guide written by our very own Jason and Randy! We have new Beatnik Turtle songs in the pipeline, but in order to get everything ready for the book's release we decided to present encores of some of the best of last year's songs.

This song, of course, refers to February 29th, or Leap Day. It also refers to heartbreak and loss, but that's not nearly as important as Leap Day. The observant listener will notice that 2007 is not a leap year, and while we considered delaying entire The Song of the Day project until 2008 so this song could fall on 2-29, we just decided to release it on February 28.

We are aware that the existence of an intercalary day in a leap year originated under the Egyptian pharaoh Ptolemy III in 239 B.C. and it was Aloysius Lilius who proposed the Gregorian calendar in the 1500s - not Gregory. We just found "Gregory" much more singable.

There's a restaurant located down the block from the studio in Evanston (Illinois) called Thai Sookdee. It makes the band's favorite Chicken Pad Thai. To the best of our knowledge, they don't sell buffalo wings, though.

Before you follow the advice of this song, we suggest checking to see what the string is attached to.