Keeping the fun alive

This week, Big Phil continues his darkly satirical assault on the Bush Administration and other renegade institutions, and produces a brand new mispronunciation of my name.

“That was Ken Tur-etz-y,” Phil declares after playing my new song, I’ll Get Old And Die. “Did I pronounce it correctly? Probably.”

Previously, Phil has contributed Tur-zetz-ky to the lexicon of Turetzky alternatives.

Phil doesn’t give a crap, and that’s what I like about him. Get a load of the close, where he delivers his show notes over background music provided by brother Clay Thompson, whose electric “Cool Talker” almost demands the return of cheesy ’70s porn. Continue reading

Posted in: Podcast Roundup at 7:44 pm Thu, Jul 26, 2007.

Springboard to Demento

David Tanny loves funny music, has hosted his own Internet radio show for years, and I don’t think he minds at all that I stepped on his head to get to comedy music icon Dr. Demento.

David was the first Webcaster to play my songs, spinning tracks from my EP, Look What I Made!, on DFSX Comedy Radio.

Turns out DT has an ear for talent. My Fat Ass Itches was the No. 5 song on the DFSX Top 50 for 2004, and four months later, reached No. 3 on Dr. Demento’s Funny Five.

Thanks for the boost, Dave! See ya later! Continue reading

Posted in: Dementia at 5:57 pm Wed, Jul 25, 2007.

More Morris; too much Harry

Harry Potter’s just about everywhere this week. Do we need Harry Potter at the grocery store?

I walk into Albertsons to buy a package of chicken breasts, and a wizard hands me a cheap green photocopied flier promoting the new Harry Potter book.

As I move through the aisles, squeezing cherries, thumping cantaloupes, tearing open bags of cookies and kneading mounds of raw hamburger, a woman’s voice hustles the new Harry Potter book over the store intercom.

“Be here at 12:01 a.m. to get the new Harry Potter book,” she exhorts in a tone more suited to seafood specials and two-for-one cupcakes. “It’s the laaay-est one! Don’t be the laaay-est person to get the laaay-est Harry Potter book!” Continue reading

Posted in: Podcast Roundup at 10:55 pm Fri, Jul 20, 2007.

I’ll Get Old And Die breaks on KMCC

Brandon Higgins had been bugging me to come down to Waco (that’s in Texas) and record some tracks in his spacious garage apartment, and so the infamous G-1 Sessions occurred in January 2007.

Among the semi-completed songs was a live, raw mix of my uptempo protest song, I’ll Get Old And Die, featuring Brandon on drums and me on vocals and guitar.

My better judgment told me to stash the song with the rest of the half-finished compositions on my hard drive. Instead, in a fit of ego, I gave the song to Tyrone Kahn. Continue reading

Posted in: New Stuff at 7:20 pm Wed, Jul 11, 2007.

Lyrics and band info

I’ll Get Old And Die

I’ll get old and die one day
I’ll get old and die
You’ll see me on my cloud waving
Bye, bye, bye
At the time I take my leavin’
Then I guess I’ll just quit breathin’
I don’t need a damn good reason
I’ll get old and die! Continue reading

Posted in: Lyrics at 7:16 pm Wed, Jul 11, 2007.