What Is Up With Dad

from The Kilogram of Gold by Paul Kotheimer

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Scribbled indecipherable symbols until dawn. Pulled out the mower and did doughnuts on the lawn. Went to the bus stop with his trousers on his head. Then missed the bus completely and went straight back home to bed and slept for twenty-three straight hours. Poured a great big bottle of aspirin out on the bathroom floor. Queued 'em up in single file 'til the line stretched out the door of the garage. And then the neighbors called to ask what's going on and Mom said, "Everything's all right. Oh yes, everything is fine. Haven't you heard about that contest at the supermarket? Yeah, we're competing for a valuable prize." All of that was lies. Yeah, but we all were thinking, What is up with Dad? What is up with Dad? What is up with Dad? And then he went down to the basement and stayed there all afternoon, which I guess is pretty normal for a Saturday in June. But then my little sister turned and asked me, "Hey, what was that sound?" So she went down. The pool table was turned over and there was a laundry basket stapled with a staple gun over each of its legs. So she said, "Daddy, what is it supposed to be?" and according to my little sister, he said, "It's a field of cows." We helped him take it all apart and then we flipped the table over before Mom got home from Aunt Jeanine's. But we must have left the duct tape on the wash machine, 'cause she found out. And when she found out she said, "What is up with Dad? What is up with Dad? What is up with Dad?"

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from The Kilogram of Gold, released June 3, 2011
Lost electric guitar track by Benjamin Spoden. Acoustic guitar, autoharp, harmonium, electric bass, lost tambourine track, drums, and vocal by PK.

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Paul Kotheimer Urbana, Illinois

For well over 30 years now, Paul Kotheimer has been writing songs. And then recording them. And then putting them together into albums.
At first, way way back in the actual 1980s, he used a cassette player and a microphone from Radio Shack. Now he's the proprietor of Pillow Monster Home Studio, complete with lots of musical instruments and recording gear and one actual pillow monster. YAY MUSIC! ... more

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