From ANDRAS JONES: DAVID URY is Champ in Lodge 49. Champ is the Jim Ignatowski of the Lodge 49 universe. Obviously damaged. Deceptively wise. Endlessly entertaining. This isn’t David’s first bite at the oracle. He was our guest back in 2015 for a live event filmed at Obsidian in Olympia around the time of the birth of David’s daughter, who is the inspiration for his question this time around. Obsidian is the setting for the song David gets as his answer. “Absolutely No Sense of Humor” is about a very large comedian from Olympia, an ex-con with machine gun tattoos on his arms, who blew up at me after a different Radio8Ball show at Obsidian. The comedian is still so angry at being referred to as a “clown” all those years ago that he recently manufactured a complaint that I was harassing him because I stood at the bar during one of his shows. It’s ludicrous of course or, as the song says “fucking hilarious” but no more so than the time David attended a Radio8Ball show we presented at a theater in Los Angeles with the K Records recording artist Mirah, which included a theater full of women booing me for covering Liz Phair’s “HWC”. I don’t know why the things I do engender such a strong response but that appears to be my karma. After the R8B show with Mirah in LA I remember David laughing and saying it reminded him of an Evergreen seminar, which is a joke you may not get if you are unfamiliar with Evergreen or seminars but hey, my dad was one of the people responsible for the Evergreen seminar format. My whole life is an Evergreen seminar!
POP ORACLE Song of The Day (August 4, 2019): RECESS MONKEY “Birthday Bite”
