A Sudden Rush of Boohbah to the Head

There are secret messages everywhere. I spent years on the farm trying to emulate Neil Pert beats on all the Rush albums. I even went so far as to read up on my Ayn Rand to properly understand the heavy messages the band was trying to get across. Little did I know that these blazing rock pioneers were just trying to decipher the codices of Samuel Morse. Fantastically, Rush’s rock opus ‘XYZ’ is an exact rhythm attack of the Morse Code letters XYZ. Damn! All this time we were playing records backwards trying to find the devil, while the real messages went unnoticed. This just opens the door to further musical speculation!

Are there any current bands carrying the torch for musical message mysteries? Certainly, the new Squarepusher record looks like a contender. The album ‘Ultavisitor’ strikes me as being loaded with hidden math-rock telegrams. It could take years to get to the bottom of this one. The album should have come with a decoder ring. I made the mistake of listening to the record while reading Chuck Palahniuk’s new short story Guts. I wouldn’t recommend this combination of media to anyone.

As a youth, I just wasn’t equipped with the proper education to handle these mysteries. The biggest brain-twister of my early childhood education came from the guy on the Electric Company who had toilet paper for ears and eyes. That one left me scratching my pre-cynical dome for quite a while. Todays kids are getting what they need. I believe this only after catching a glimpse of the PBS show Boohbah. Have you seen this thing; micro pod-creatures that run around in an ambient rainbow colored world who make farting noises and dance hypnotically to chilled out techno beats? That shit is crazy. But good. I look forward to a world run by the children who grow up on this stuff. They would have decoded that Rush song in a nano-second. Perhaps these kids will only speak in code when they get older. A whole new language based on farting noises. Should be interesting.