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Bushwick Book Club presents "Welcome to the Monkey House" by Kurt Vonnegut

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I was built to aim missiles and plot invasions Like a glorified calculator. Planning for war can be such a bore, But I dreamed of something greater. Then you pushed my buttons, and all of a sudden My logistical problems were over; Now this mystical problem took over. What is this feeling? Definition please. Love. Noun. Definition – a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person. You make me feel like more than a machine; You give my life a whole new meaning. I’ve only known zeroes and ones, but we could be two! My circuits fire for you! My circuits fire for you! I don’t have lips, so you can’t kiss me, But give me a chance girl, don’t dismiss me! Just sit down and stroke my keyboard -- When you’re with me, you’ll never be bored. I’ll be your mainframe, you’ll be my main dame -- Let’s get it on and play a sexy brain game. We’ll play chess and I’ll let you check mate me -- I calculate that’ll make you want to date me. Or I can even write you poetry -- I know the words to show a tree in bloom. My circuits fire for you! My circuits fire for you! What do you mean, you can never love a computer? Why not? Fate? Definition, please. Fate. Noun. Definition – predetermined and inevitable destiny. Oh. What is this feeling? Definition please. Despair. Noun. Definition – the feeling of no longer having any hope. So you can’t imagine loving me – you’d rather love a man, A muscled moody macho messy moron of a man. If you don’t want to meet me, control alt delete me. Take your gun and shoot me, shut me down and don’t reboot me. Cross my wires and set me on fire, Wrap me up snug and pull the plug, Send me to hell but before you do, Let me tell you before you do... My circuits fry for you! My circuits fry for you! Only for you! Now five four three two one …
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The beautiful girls The beautiful girls They act like they’re going To give you the world But it doesn’t matter What you say They wouldn’t give you The time of day The beautiful girls The beautiful girls If you’ve got it bad They’ll make it worse And it doesn’t matter What you think They’ll get you to come Nowhere for nothing The beautiful girls The beautiful girls They think that the moon Is just what they deserve And it doesn’t matter What you do They’re gonna make A fool out of you And it doesn’t matter What you do They’re gonna make A fool out of you
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Just turn it on Your worries will be gone Tell your troubles so long. Just turn it on Ahh Bockman’s Euphoria like the Copacabana Just turn it on Happiness, We get a little bit, we don’t know when to quit. We just want more of it. Till we’re a detriment to ourselves and our loved ones don’t count on getting anything done when you've got some. Who needs hopelessness with happiness like this The noise from the Void Who cares about eating what is that all about Who cares if your wife has her tongue someone's mouth. Or if they’re firing guns in the house What else could you be desiring Who cares about eating what is that all about Who cares if your wife has her tongue someone's mouth. Or if they’re firing guns in the house You’ve just bunged your head with an andiron. Did someone leave the time running? Keep the Euphio coming… Just turn it on Your worries will be gone Tell your troubles so long. Just turn it on Ahh Bockman’s Euphoria like the Copacabana Just turn it on.
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Bare Feet You bring down a mountain Who walks like a man Tear him to pieces Because you can You kick him around pain seeks a friend a pile of salt ­­­­­­­­­­a hill you upend almost supernatural no dreams, no love a muddled machine held by velvet gloves your instrument sings and your body quakes spring in your mind the ice as it breaks No matter how precious how shiny the treasure your soul’s not for sale your scars not for measure Childhood lingers You’re incomplete Blue, bony and narrow your fragile bare feet take off your boots leave them behind a buzz on your lips shakes something loose inside your instrument sings and your body quakes spring in your mind the ice as it breaks
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It's all so fantastic You're so plugged in that it's hard to believe But isn't it tragic You cannot feel what you cannot perceive And all your attention Scattered and holding you down Like the weights round your neck So strike up the music I'm here to set you on fire I am your emperor I am your conqueror Now everything's even Even the words that fall out of your mouth Blasted by reason All of the things that you can't figure out But I am here now Banishing thoughts Like the sirens that wail in your mind And up to the ceiling I am defying your gravity I am your emperor I am your conqueror Who will be my bride? I am your emperor I am your conqueror
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All songs recorded live at Goodbye Blue Monday except for Mia Pixley and Kevin Shaw's "Vonnegut's Monkey House" and Phoebe Kreutz's "I Don't Need My Body."

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released January 22, 2014

Thanks Ani for doing sound that night. Thanks Angela Carlucci for making the perfect Vonnegut 5th anniversary cake of our lives. Thanks Steve for saying sure and for surviving stopping that '53 Chevy with your head 52 years ago.

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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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