The kid can write his own ticket!

Podcast: Tasty Logic
Date: March 28, 2009
Title: Tasty Logic — Episode 34
Download the show: Episode 34

City For Conquest: Sensitive composer Arthur Kennedy’s sitting at the piano during mobster Elia Kazan’s fancy blowout, and reluctant welterweight Jimmy Cagney implores him, “Come on, Eddie. Play that song that I like.”

So Arthur Kennedy begins his sweaty classical masterpiece, and the partiers ignore him, start talking even louder, and Arthur Kennedy responds, bitterly, “I’ll show them,” and breaks into a wild, cheap, popular number he’s been holding in reserve.

Predictably, the crowd instantly perks up. As they gather ’round the piano, snapping their fingers, a Broadway producer rushes up and shouts, “The kid can write his own ticket!”

Is this artistic success? No? Well, at least the people are listening!

Hair me, feel me

“One week you’re great and the next week you’re shit,” I told podcaster Mark Ramsey, as we recorded after business hours in the tiny outer office of his family’s North Dallas wholesale wig business, which also serves as the Tasty Logic studio. “Or nothing, which is worse than shit. You would rather they hate you than ignore you.”

Tasty Logic was an early entry in my Podcast Roundup when Mark, then based in Houston, played My Fat Ass Itches on the Dec. 9, 2006, edition of his show.

He’s since mounted a Dallas Cowboys/fantasy football podcast called Pigskin Radio, and with this episode announced he’s “rebooted” Tasty Logic as a Dallas-Fort Worth arts and entertainment show.

Blah, blah, blah

We talked about the usual stuff — the origin of My Fat Ass Itches (Thanks, hemorrhoids!), Big Lots vs. Dollar Tree and the now-familiar story of How I Got Started In Music.

Mark allowed me to plug my upcoming set at the Deep Ellum Arts Festival, 11:30 a.m. Saturday, April 4 on the Artist’s Underground stage.

I also performed my own reviled tunes, Her Shit Don’t Stink and My Fat Ass Itches, inadvertently blasting the vocal mic. Sorry about that. Sometimes I don’t know my own strength!

But ultimately, the discussion helped me focus on a winning strategy for the 21st Century — cultivating hate.

Victory in defeat

“That’s what I go for now. [Audiences] don’t realize they absolutely love what they hear. They’re reacting to it. They think they hate it, but I know they love it,” I said.

“When I’m being kicked out of the bar, that’s a victory for me and them. Do they realize when they’re banning Her Shit Don’t Stink and telling me never to play it again, they’ve actually had a reaction to it?

“I need to convince more people to hate me. Then I’ll know I’ve made it!”

Tasty Logic interview: Ken Turetzky  (22:50).

Posted in: Interviews at 8:46 pm Sat, Mar 28, 2009.

7 comments

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   Ste says:
   

   12:52 am Sun, Mar 29, 2009

   Your live sets that you post Ken are great esp with the witty comments b4 and after. I don’t know why I keep playing your err …material…Maybe I do like it !! You are a bit like me ..you say it like it is! A lot of “artists” can’t take any form of critique, you seem to thrive on it!

   You have a few fans over here in Engerland and a few persons have wrote to me and said you are crap but then they are comparing you to the mainstream shite artists and are so narrow minded when it comes to music.

   Any new ditty’s in the pipeline? Another Jerry Lewis impersonation would be great ? Perrrrrlease! Love the accent!

   Did you catch that guy called Simavi on Episode 535 of Dalecast doing “Fly me to the moon” et al? He was good! You will be on my LIVE@FIVE show later today at 5pm BST.

   Hey! how about doing me an ID for realRADIO1?

   BTW when I first “discovered” you on the Podsafe Music Network, I nearly DIDN’T play “Fly me to the moon” First impressions were ” Gawd, he’s killed it !!lol then I listened to it 3 more times and I was hypnotised! I’m still trying to snap outta it now lol !!

   Cheers

   Ste

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     kturet says:
     

     1:02 am Sun, Mar 29, 2009

     Fourth impressions are always the best.

     Steve, you’ve got to forward those angry e-mails to me. Wouldn’t mind reading the positives as well, just to, uh, maintain a balance.

     Why don’t those fools attack me on my own blog? That’s what it’s here for!

     Any future “Jerry” tracks will require some thought. It would likely be another cover, but “Fly Me To The Moon” in itself is likely a serious violation of copyright. I’ve never performed the song live, because I’d have play it karaoke style, with the sound bed behind me. In other words, I’d be just another Dr. Demento parody hack.

     Didn’t catch the Simavi FMTTM (what was that, a cover of my cover?), but I’ll grab it from the archive. And I’ll get that realRADIO1 bumper to you.
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   Ste says:
   

   1:48 am Sun, Mar 29, 2009

   Hi Ken

   Those “emails” got lost after I had a major system crash about 7 months ago and I lost a lot of data.

   Shudda sent ya them ages ago! There was only 3 mails anyhow and they were just narrow-minded sheep into dance music etc.

   Anything new ya come up with Ken would be great.

   Cheers

   Ste

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     kturet says:
     

     1:13 pm Sun, Mar 29, 2009

     Steve:

     I remember writing those e-mails.

     When are you going to play more Cher?
3. 

   Out of Order says:
   

   1:14 pm Sun, Mar 29, 2009

   Your insight into the whole audience hate thing was very good. Kinda’ makes us thankful to have been blessed with so much of it whenever we have performed.

   Out of Order

   Monson, Mass.

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   kturet says:
   

   1:18 pm Sun, Mar 29, 2009

   OOO:

   As you know, I’ve heard your music, and that audience disdain is well-deserved!

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5. 

   Ste says:
   

   1:32 pm Sun, Mar 29, 2009

   You want Cher? Are u Strong enough?
   

   More live shows coming “real” soon!
   Ste

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