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Cat Bran Sammich, Pt. 1

from Scambot 1 by Mike Keneally

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Feeling twisted, Scambot makes his way to the stereo, reaches for Cream Corn from the Socket of Davis by The Butthole Surfers and puts on a Bongwater album by accident, grabs an apple of uncertain freshness and wanders numbly...

Listening to vinyl
Eating an apple
Walking in circles

If I get ambitious I’ll work on the dishes
Walking from room to room

Defaulting to his reliable “nothing better to do” option, Scambot goes online. He checks out the latest column from an old-school newspaper pundit who he hates, the folksy, beloved “Campland” Staniel.

Scambot relies on being incensed by Staniel’s ellipses-studded frivolities. He posts angry, surreal screeds in the “comments” section below Staniel’s column, filled with weird lies. Given his failure to compose anything else he’s happy about, these posts satisfy him elementally.

Staniel’s latest editorial (regarding controversy in the jam and jelly industry) throws Scambot into a comforting tizzy. He taps at his laptop in a trance, and in referring to Staniel uses a nickname he hopes will cause great anguish:

Cat Bran Sammich
There you go again
Refusing to believe in my death and rebirth by cat
Refusing to believe that I flew from my bed in the cold eye of a deep blue twilight...fell screaming in the valley of cats.
Taken to pieces, bit by bit, by thousands of claws and cat teeth.

Their whiskers tickle my skin as it tears, and I lay there in thousands of pieces in the sleeping bellies of cats and they dream there, wonderful dreams about the portions of me they had had.

Their dream balloons floating in the sky above them.
Their dream balloons bump into each other and fuse and I am reconstructed whole from their dreaming and I fly fleeing from their foul, howling mews.

Cat Bran Sammich.
There you go again.
Refusing to believe that you’re not entitled to an opinion.

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Listening to vinyl
Eating an apple
Walking in circles
If I get ambitious I’ll work on the dishes
Walking from room to room

Cat Bran Sammich
There you go again
Refusing to believe in my death and rebirth by cat
Refusing to believe that I flew from my bed in the cold eye of a deep blue twilight...fell screaming in the valley of cats.
Taken to pieces, bit by bit, by thousands of claws and cat teeth.

Their whiskers tickle my skin as it tears, and I lay there in thousands of pieces in the sleeping bellies of cats and they dream there, wonderful dreams about the portions of me they had had.
Their dream balloons floating in the sky above them. Their dream balloons bump into each other and fuse and I am reconstructed whole from their dreaming and I fly fleeing from their foul, howling mews.

Cat Bran Sammich.
There you go again.
Refusing to believe that you’re not entitled to an opinion.

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from Scambot 1, released June 15, 2009
2005-07, I recorded myself doing many sounds at Chatfield Manor and at home.
Marco Minnemann played drums on the intro and the “whiskers” section, recorded by Mike Harris at the Manor, 2006, and Marco engineered and played more drums in his studio in 2008.
At the Manor, late ‘08, we imported the sounds of Solah the cat as recorded by Scott Chatfield, and MH recorded me on added guitars, bass, drums, keys, voices and bells at the Manor ‘08/’09, and then we mixed it.

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Mike Keneally San Diego, California

Mike Keneally has been a lot of things in his 35 year career: stunt guitarist/keyboardist, singer/songwriter, orchestral composer, producer, music director, painter, and more. After getting his start in Frank Zappa’s legendary 1988 big band, Keneally released his first solo album hat. in 1992. Since then he has released dozens more and is working on a new double album.

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