The White Knuckle Sandwich building, drawn here for a postcard for a gig at the Fez, in NYC. And here it is in color, for a slide show from our performance at the Kitchen, Millennial Mouthful.
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White Knuckle Sandwich (2)
August 13th, 2011 · Comments Off on White Knuckle Sandwich (2)
White Knuckle Sandwich (1)
August 12th, 2011 · 3 Comments
Anne Shapiro, Jennifer Duffy, and I joined forces in the ’90s as White Knuckle Sandwich. We performed in many theaters and clubs in NYC, including frequent shows at the Duplex and the Fez. We wrote a jingle for MTV, and had a couple of songs in the movie Bad Bride. Our 1999 CD had 22 […]
We Have No Life Beyond Our Daily Life
August 12th, 2011 · Comments Off on We Have No Life Beyond Our Daily Life
This song was first performed as “I’m Sorry Now I Spoiled the Santa Cake.” At a Christmas party, cartoonist Michael Kupperman and I, under the influence of stimulants, altered a cake depicting Santa Claus in an unflattering way. Our hostess did not approve. The song was first performed by White Knuckle Sandwich, with Anne Shapiro […]
Why Do We Have To Die?
August 11th, 2011 · Comments Off on Why Do We Have To Die?
This is a bare little song, on a text I found in an old children’s encyclopedia, The Book of Wonders (1915): Why do we have to die? Death must come to all things that have life. All matter in the world is either living or dead. Inanimate things do not change. They remain always the […]
When I Sleep
August 5th, 2011 · Comments Off on When I Sleep
We All Will Do the Hukilau in Heaven
July 15th, 2011 · 8 Comments
“We All Will Do the Hukilau in Heaven” was a bit of lyrical theology, envisioning heaven as a vacation in Hawaii. It was part of a show by Doug and Barb Roesch, American Excess, examining televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker. It appeared at NYC’s Middle Collegiate Church in 1986. Barb Roesch did the choreography; […]
Walter and Danny
July 15th, 2011 · Comments Off on Walter and Danny
Walter and Danny talk things over in this one-pager from Carousel Comics (2004).
What Is True Happiness?
July 13th, 2011 · Comments Off on What Is True Happiness?
A setting of my own abridged translation of a profoundly disturbing passage in the Fioretti di San Francesco, in which Saint Francis opines that true happiness is being beaten mercilessly with a heavy knotted stick while contemplating Christ’s suffering.
Waltz
July 7th, 2011 · 1 Comment
This rather exuberant waltz was written for a performance with Bob Berky at the Museum of Modern Art (NYC) in 1985. Here’s the way it starts.
Walter & Benny Strike a Deal
June 29th, 2011 · 2 Comments
“Walter & Benny Strike a Deal” appeared in Legal Action Comics #2, an anthology edited and published by Danny Hellman in 2003 to raise funds for his continuing legal troubles with Ted Rall. Benny’s name was originally Danny, but I rechristened him so that readers wouldn’t think he was a puzzlingly inaccurate caricature of Hellman. […]