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Curators of Earth

by Joseph Airport

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1.
Fooligans 00:47
You’ve got chainmail Would you mind if we entered your mind? It would be great If good things would happen But we’re just Jockeying for perdition We’re fooligans Happy to butt heads
2.
I pulled the cord out I got the washout Felt the pressure drop Couldn’t get a word out Earth was coming fast Timing crackerjack And I broke my legs And I broke my legs I broke my legs Jumpsuit rippling Heard the pencil snap
3.
Cycling goggles leave grit on her cheeks She’s been tooling around on that thing for weeks On the motorbike given unto her care By an estranged husband late of Bellaire Hitches up her skirts So the pipes don’t ignite ‘em Blasting down Edsel Where coppers can’t find ‘em And she peels out in the speakeasy She’s vaulting from chairs and dealing out dares Like a madwoman And she downs exactly what whiskey she’s given She’s the original and notorious Nancy McNiven
4.
Ellis Island 1936 Stick close to cousin Henrik He knows all the tricks To get us through So we don’t end up In that room Down through the decades To present day Joseph Imports rolls that way Cargo truck on the way New York City ‘38 Our wares never second-rate Bringing in the tunes And charismatic singers So they don’t end up On the loom Down through the decades To present day Joseph Imports rolls that way Euro-luxuries every day
5.
Taste Bugs 01:38
Spawning Swarming False-spring knuckleheads Fawning Boring Fishnet spazztecs Ratify artistic intents When the taste bugs fly Chewing all that cud Sucking all the blood Live wire locusts Neon taste bugs Termite empire It’s all about the buzz Teach your larvae well Then you drive them from the hill
6.
Instrumental
7.
Let your forehead’s Crowfoot creases Cross the bridge Furrowed in dissension Let the noble line Of your Roman nose Run true In stately declension Glowering! Pupils hot Philosopher’s volute Flared Complete To the point Of your Roman nose Get your neck straight Wattles quiver Bare your teeth Your violent intentions Let the noble line Of your Roman nose Run true In stately declension
8.
Cody’s many whippings Drove him west Beyond billboards and Death Valley Together They banded together Green sheen on the ocean Where Cody’s tribe will dwell Only time will swell Together They banded together
9.
Meet me in Sydney You know your plan Is easier than that So don’t try to sell it We can’t change the program To accomplish the mission Dropping hell to revive the letter That doesn’t understand coincidental Meet me in Sydney Please
10.
I need a total honesty confidante For tears not meant for the pillow One with Australian proportions And a purple lawn bra And mockery 360 24-7 You deliver the four-word throat chop Townshend is not alone
11.
Instrumental
12.
We’re sipping it down Filtered by the seams Of red stripes on the calf And the jam between toes Got quite a nice bouquet Gymsock chardonnay Our tongues curl for a drop Of rich and cloying slop Gymsock chardonnay He’s ruling the paint It’s talk to the hand Get in your grill Wade into the stands King of the paint! No greater reward Taller than mountain Sharper than sword He’s ruling the paint He’s shutting it down He’s driving them out He’s bringing it round Pulling shit out of a fire And making it fly That’s why they called him Skyhook Boxed out Man-to-man Abandoning Zone defense/coverage Triple double Take it up the middle Defensively responsible And a tiger in the lane Freeshot prince Toeing the foul line
13.
There’s nobody here to get Your head out the back They practiced 1… 2… 3… For all the right reasons Sometimes I can’t see the narrow view But I know she’s a friend to you What’s something in those eyes? Not something I can answer Checking out the terminal map It’s a very modern hairport Eminently accessible Escalator salons
14.
I’ve got a bike For this water fountain A Lady Lada Radio station Take the courtesy van From the Gemini Diner I live in a computer On a seven-digit timer He’s a big-time broheim He’s running red lights It’s nothing like the movie Let’s never wedding again
15.
I made a rope out of you Braided the hemp Tied up my dreams of you The dreams that you sent I tied a knot into you Cinched up the cord Tamped down my dreams of you Once I got bored I made a rope out of you I cut the cord into two
16.
League Math 02:35
The coaches were looking Then it morphed into A six-footer or a 10-footer Everybody else notices League math For 2,000 miles And a turtleneck around the shirt Available on the vagabond thread But never saw him at dessert time Snap-snap like that They’d snap-snap like that Everybody else notices League math Here today Shuttered at the beginning But it’s going right He had a lot of traveling calls But he’s a really good football player Just not a sportsman Just not a sportsman Disguised as fungible League math
17.
Wasted my time Nose in the books Making up words and Dreaming up hooks All flights are delayed today On the psychedelic runway I should have gone to film school Frames-per-second spell truth I was making up words Approximating pictures Not aiming fingers and thumbs To frame compositions I should have gone to film school
18.
Don’t you wanna sit next to me? Hold this while I put it together All that I heard I gave the earth for And his eyeglasses And these are for you How did this part get on here? You’re happy—so sit down and eat These contents are sundry And liable to shift
19.
Malevoline 00:34
O malevoline O malevoline On twin six-lane blacktop We’re evil We’re speed O malevoline
20.
Your specifications mean nothing to me I can’t even read them I can’t even see Last night I couldn’t get it on This morning I couldn’t get it off But it’s the trial of leaping That leaves us profound Down to a tuck and a cough Let me take you down to the tombs below It’ll be just like it was at Amontillado We can settle this Brick by brick My friend My brother Surely you can see Your specifications mean nothing to me
21.
Why tapdance around the inevitable? Opened up to the luminous world In all shades of white Your heart is a paintbrush And I the buffoon who never saw it coming Twelve haymakers in The game show of hands Transmitting these collisions to Uneven Steven Reaching for a grail As the canvas rushes up Overwhelming to porcelain stamina I’ve only got one ghost to give Facing off against the runts When you’ve faced ’em down enough It’s how to take a punch

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released September 20, 2016

All songs by Joseph Airport
©2016 Tsunami Patrol Music
JAR-007

Joseph Airport is Jereme Sanborn, Matthew Cutter, Ben Penry, Joe Patterson, Jason Short and Dan Nolan

Blake Stenning: Bass
Dan Nolan: Bass (track 10)
John Toerner: Alto sax (track 12)
Suzanne Turner: Backing vocals (track 18)

Recorded and mixed at Joseph Airport
Track 10 recorded and engineered by Tobin Sprout at Moonflower Studio in Leland, Michigan
Track 17 mixed by Blake Stenning

Lovingly fucked with by Peopleperson in Dayton, Ohio

Cover painting by Dan Patterson

Thanks: Robert Pollard, Rockathon Records, Joseph Airport Records, Rectangle Creep, Girls of the Big 10, Chinese Notebook, YOU

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"Vector 23 is full of driving post-punk ... Bowie-inflected art rock ... and, at least to one listener, shades of Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd." —MAGNET Magazine

"... An eccentric, zany little album whose catchy tunes and peculiar lyrics can put a grin on your face." —The Fire Note
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