This one is about guacamole, in the spirit of trying to create a performance piece for "Night Roars: Live art Series v.3-House Party" I've been exploring how to perform making guacamole in performance while hosting, dealing with themes of home, security and chaos...and the human condition.
Today's workshop was focused on music, which is not included in my Night Roars piece. However, I am in the process of studying the ingredients of "the perfect guacamole" and find myself stuck in a barrage of history while trying to build a script that is both literal, metaphoric and absurd. I'm finding that Joe Lies is a nice outlet of being outright cheesy-a perfect extreme. Condense it into a song, and play further with the elements that are interesting, right?
"The perfect guacamole" begins with "Alligator Skin"...the newest Joe Lies song!:)
Alligator Skin
Pierce your alligator skin
A samurai sword to lance your win
Separate half from a solid seed
A fleshy fruit and a salty need
Cross your cuts for assault or slander
Scandalous names to pet and pander
Splayed below in a bowl of woe
a lost and over-ripe avocado
We won't call this what it is
We won't call this now
You stand and sway with yellow hand
gripping and squeezing in demand
Drop a line in quick retreat
Adding acid to the meat
We won't call this what it is
We won't call this now
Remove the layers of asexual vice
Cloves of protection, a repelling spice
Here I stand, turning pink to red
Blushing away the words falsely said
We won't call this what it is
We won't call this now
I'm chopping colors to make this new
flavorful treat to admire and pursue
Forgoing history and fucking the how
The beauty of the future is in the now
We won't call this what it is
Choose another name
Pierce your alligator skin
Samurai sword set to win
we won't call this.
So, there it is- a song about guacamole. Pretty hilarious! And terribly dramatic! Although I totally stole the melody for the recording from The National. I have to fix that, somehow. Just can't stop listening to that band. They are so good!
