«Egg Emoticon» Spotify Playlist
For the first day of Standard Time—and the unveiling of new emojis—HERE is a musical elixir for adjustment into winter.
Hapi Phace and I use the egg emoji as a mutually-decided-upon symbol that can mean “received,” “just woke up,” or sundry accord. It is a key element in the creation of digital cartouches on iMessage.
This emphasis on the egg emoji came to be because I love eggs—which I eat constantly in good health—in keeping with their implication as a symbol of birth, emergence, and creative possibility.
For our Karload of Klowns performance troupe—which will be presenting its new show, Erection Day, this Tuesday, November 6th, at 8 p.m. in the Gene Frankel Theatre at 24 Bond Street—Klown ringleader Hapi created the Egg Emoticon staff, a tapR mâché sculpture that my character, Palimpsesto, uses to indicate approval during segments.
Emoticons are a representation of human facial expression using keyboard characters: this playlist represents stages of human emotion balanced by a focus on wellness. Each song represents a character.
In keeping with the spirit of the latest Karload of Klowns show—which features apropos samples from the seminal British pop group The KLF (a name that can alternatively mean “Kopyright Liberation Front” or “Kings of Low Frequency”)—the playlist starts with “Justified & Ancient (Stand by The JAMs)”, featuring Tammy Wynette on vocals.
This song starts with the chant “All bound for Mu Mu Land,” a place synonymous in KLF lore with their Trancentral recording studio, a forum for spiritual realization. As the song “Last Train to Trancentral” explains in its LP version: “I’m going into Trancentral where I can, you understand, liberate and free the psyche, balance my mind and my body….”
On the cover photo, I am wearing a homemade KLF hat José Joaquín and I found years ago at the Urban Jungle on Knickerbocker Avenue, a Johnson buffalo plaid zip-up flannel jacket, Levi’s Engineered jeans, and ‘be happy’ frames by Sabine Be, outfitted by Artsee.
Karload of Klowns Erection Day stars Hapi Phace, Gail Thacker, Colleen O’Neill, Nora Burns, R. Thomas Gordon, guest hitchhiker Edgar Oliver, and yours truly.
Photo by Goor Studio
