Arab On Radar's Eric Paul Sleeps Amongst The Bones

It's been a while since I focused on something that wasn't directly music related, and even longer since I checked out some spoken word. I think the last thing I talked to y'all about in this vein was about the ever-cool David Cross' live album Blacker Than Black. Well, here is another spoken word performance, albeit on cassette, and via Bathetic Records. But self-serving Rollins this ain't. Ex-Arab On Radar and Chinese Stars main man Eric Paul has given birth to I Sleep With Their Bones, a literary maelstrom that focuses solely on his twisted, evocative lyrics, taken predominantly from his books such as I Offered Myself As The Sea (published by Heartworm Press). It's raw, surreal, heartwrenching, mindbending, and whithoulds nothing. Whilst the bent genius of AOR and to a lesser yet no less relevent extent Chinese Stars aren't with us, Paul still kills in his band Doomsday Student which features 3/4 of AOR anyway, so Im hunting them down as we speak. And now we have this.


Get I Sleep With Their Bones here.

Eric Paul - I Offered Myself As The Sea
Eric Paul - Hard-On Of Iwo Jima
Eric Paul - I Have Nothing Left To Love Her With
Eric Paul - Wastebasket Of My Ways

A naughty lil Jewish man walks into a bar...

Now I know that Sonic Masala has stuck rigidly to music in the past - and most likely will continue to do so forever and ever, yadda yadda yadda. But I like to shake things up a bit, and who better to do it with than an overtly controversial skinny pale bald Jew from New Yawk best known for wearing denim shorts and trialling for the Blue Man Group?

David Cross is one funny bastard. He crosses many mediums through indie and mainstream films, and seminal work with TV, but of course it is on the stage where Cross reigns supreme. He continues to tour his standup routine, and is one of, if not the only, comedian to be signed to indie rock behemoths Sub Pop. His 3rd album Bigger and Blackerer is out now, and is fucking hilarious. If you like your stand up acerbic, satirical, and inflammatory, this is a must.

Have a laugh...

David Cross - The One Show About Drugs And Stuff

And this is a further swerve to left field (although it has a tenuous link with the above skit due to the American show Intervention), and Im not sure how it will go with the other SM-ers - but the fuckers have gone to Barcelona without me, so screw em! I dare you not to laugh at this...I DARE YOU!