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Bushwick Book Club presents GALAPAGOS by Kurt Vonnegut

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Pearl Rhein 07:41
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Jia Jung 03:25
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Hopeful Monsters What you know is true The future's coming back to you There's a captain with no chart To find a place for you to start One mistake or one mutation Will make the perfect situation And save the day for those who saw Their life contain the perfect flaw The future, they say she waits for no one But a million years from now You won't believe the place she made For you and me And all that you have to do is go on And make your big mistake and then create The world you couldn't help but make In this time of hopeful monsters With cravings that are constant But distant relatives will win With smaller brains and bigger fins The future, they say she waits for no one But a million years from now You won't believe the place she made For you and me And all that you have to do is go on And make your big mistake And then create One million years is long Complications will be gone No one will sing this song La la la la la la la la la.....
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KINGDOM COME In the era of hopeful monsters The parents of natures’s experiments Are engineers The parents of children with wings or fins With a hundred eyes, with antlers the size of ballroom chandeliers Experiments with heartlessness With admiration for the rich Purposeless greed and ambition We’ll blow the world to kingdom come Like a rocket in love with a radar dish We’re counting down the moments till It all goes boom We’re living in the instant Just before the big collision When the rocket and the radar honeymoon By your very nature You have to do the Charleston Give a little twirl You wonder when you’ll finally get Your chance to prove you are the greatest Dancer in the world Destroy your brains with radios Why do you carry such an enemy inside you? Stand breast to breast and toe to toe Tilt your heads back just as far as they can go Experiments with heartlessness With admiration for the rich Purposeless greed and ambition We’ll blow the world to kingdom come Insatiable voyeurism Fruitless twigs of evolution Self-confidence cynicism We’ll blow the world to kingdom come To kingdom come To kingdom come To kingdom come
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Imagine if you will Six lucky passengers Waiting in Guayaquil For the nature cruise of the century Not unlike Gilligan Our sea-faring friends Were about to begin again Where the nature cruise found it’s end Who needs opposable thumbs Who says you need hands to win According to Mr Vonnegut The future’s all flippers and fins A tale told by a ghost Who used to talk in his sleep He wouldn’t ever write Beethoven’s 9th Symphony Leon Trout the headless narrator Sails the seas with Our hapless sailors For two million years just because he’s curious Who needs opposable thumbs Who says you need hands to win According to Mr Vonnegut The future’s all flippers and fins Welcome to the future I hope you like fish!
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All songs written in response to Vonnegut's GALAPAGOS.
All songs recorded live January 21st at CounterEvolution.
counterev.com
Photos by Herb Scher, herbscher.com
Flyer by Julie Lamendola

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released February 24, 2016

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The Bushwick Book Club Brooklyn, New York

We started in January 2009 playing songs written in response to Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions. We haven't stopped since. We've written & performed songs inspired by everything from "On The Origin of Species" to Dr. Seuss to Raymond Carver. There are BBCs popping up nationwide now. Bushwick Book Club Seattle started in 2010 & is run by Geoff Larson. Our nerdy dare-devilry knows no bounds. ... more

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