I wrote this around 2009, and made a quick demo, but didn’t return to it until I began seriously pursuing recording again in 2015. It’s yet another “kitchen sink” song, containing a lot of the funny or unexpected word combinations that had occurred to me around that time – in this case, featuring some particularly ridiculous images.
The song is meant to be a sort of a comic riff on Dylan’s "Positively 4th Street" or Lennon's "Steel and Glass.” And again, the listener is hard pressed to determine if the singer is legitimately calling out a very weird person or if the singer himself is deluded about the object of his scorn.
On her first release for RVNG, Discovery Zone makes lustrous, winking pop music that's equal parts pleasant and mysterious. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 9, 2024