In the Smoking Section

Exhausted, on an all-too-brief lunchbreak this past Friday, I was smoking a cigarette, watching an ant cart around a dragonfly corpse. And I thought, "Damn. It's a good thing they aren't big enough to carry cigarettes. And that they don't smoke."

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posted by The Great Big Mulp (8 comments total)

The poor audio quality can be attributed to the fact that my shitty computer mic wasn't picking up the ukulele very well leaving me to work with whatever I could find, which was one of them digital notetaker type dealies.
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 8:53 PM on July 8, 2006

"...because I'm a big ass ant...with a smoking problem..."

Priceless. I like the noisy ukulele - I doubt ants have very good recording set ups anyway :)
posted by muddgirl at 11:23 PM on July 8, 2006

i'm so glad i roll my own and don't have to worry about ants ... quite funny
posted by pyramid termite at 8:34 AM on July 9, 2006

Sounds really old, in a cool way. I rather like the noise in it.
posted by edlundart at 2:51 PM on July 9, 2006

I like the noise too for the same reason as edlundart. It makes it sound like an old recording which adds to it.
posted by rfbjames at 1:15 AM on July 10, 2006

Something very O Superman going on here. The I-iii chords, the curious, precise annunciations, the full-chord vocal harmonies...

Excellent stuff.
posted by cortex at 3:41 PM on July 10, 2006

I do not know this "O Superman". I shall look her/him/it/them up.
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 5:55 PM on July 12, 2006

Ah! It is the defining Laurie Anderson recording. Brilliant, brilliant stuff. Off her debut album, "Big Science", which was based on a performance art things she'd been doing at the beginning of the 80s.
posted by cortex at 6:02 PM on July 12, 2006