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Piece Description
An aspiring recording artist quits his job to pursue music full time. When his songwriting muse fails him, he resorts to recording the sounds of eating.
Transcript
The Sounds of Lunch
I?m able to spend more time writing music now. I quit my job. I have more time now to relax. I wake up late in the morning, and when I do wake up I lie in bed for quite a while before I get out of bed. When I do get out of bed, I eat a leisurely breakfast. I enjoy my breakfast, and I look out the window at the birds and the woods. I feel better these days. I have more time to write songs.
I go into my room and I take out my guitar. I strap my guitar onto myself and I strum chords until I feel the special vibrations. Sometimes I have a glass of water when I play my guitar. I strum the chords and I sing the words that pop into my mind. I sing things like oh my, I want some food, food can make feel so good, because I know that eating makes me, eating makes me, fascinates me, every time I eat the food I like I think of other food, and pancakes are the food I like,...
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John Dankosky
Posted on February 02, 2007 at 10:16 AM | Permalink
Review of The Sounds of Lunch
Ken's work is funny. Not "hit-you-over-the-head-funny" but that's why I like it. A lot.
A dry read plus a dry sense of humor plus briskly paced editing plus some pitch-challenged singing equals three minutes I think most listeners would like just about anytime. A midday news magazine needs "The Sounds of Lunch."
Please listen to this, and use it as "gateway listening" to discover his excellent magazine show "The Lumberyard."