Texan wierdos, Attic Ted churn out an "Insane Asylum Country Gothic Carnival" organ driven clip-clop. They perform in cardboard masks, influenced by synthetic cubism, whipping themselves up into a manic frenzy for their live shows. Frontman/organ grinder Grady Roper rants with glee as the waltzes stumble down into a drunken wobble and sour oscillations swirl throughout.
For the past four years Attic Ted has been performing their Christmas "Opera" Mary's Little Secret- a tale of the Virgin Mary sleeping around with a traveling performer and giving birth to the little baby Jesus. It took a while, but it seems the Texan Bible thumpers have finally caught on and have called a protest to this year's show, in order to stop the blasphamy (sic). Grady Roper says:
So I go to the laundrymat last night to do some wash, and realize that Attic Ted has been getting talked about...not by the young artists and rockers but by some stuffy old fart sniffing Christians...trying to ruin our holiday fun! It makes me feel like all that hard work is finally paying off. Too bad our show doesn't start until midnight. I think them protesters will be out of Christmas carols by then.
It might all be a hoax, but...I dunno, it's Texas...Texas scares the shit out of me. Hopefully the flyer is genuine and the protest adds to the demented proceedings. Grady informs me that Mary was to have a miscarriage this year but fate stepped in and the little baby Jesus will be alive and kicking when he slips out.
If you're in the San Marcos area, Attic Ted will present Mary's Little Secret on Saturday, December 22nd at the Triple Cown. Here is a video of them performing a song from the show. Also! Listen to their song Climbing Up from the Attic Ted Land Suite.
Is that poster for real? I'd have to look closer but besides the obvious spelling error the grammatical errors are rolling thick. Maybe they mean that Attic Ted's performance defames and insults "blasphamy" and degenerate thinking. I suspect that "blasphamers" and degenerate thinkers wold be in a better position to judge that. BTW, it's blasfamers not "blasphamers."
But that's just off the top of my head. I haven't checked the dictionary since they are so expensive and hard to come by.
Posted by: bartleby | December 21, 2007 at 09:41 AM
This si the greatest flyer I've seen Grady Roper put out. It was up at the coffee houses. Any how I'm a resident of San MArcos, Attic TEd shows are always fun at the Triple Crown, which is a great townie bar that plays some of the best live acts South of Austin. I went to the show, Spooky Texas- an experimental psychedelic western desert setting band opened up and were amazing, I had to leave immediately after they played because I had enchiladas for dinner and...
Any how I've seen the Marty's Little Secret show before. The last time I saw it, Grady put the show on the the FEast day of the Virgen de Guadalupe, 12/12. Which was great, he even printed out little hymnals for every one so you could sing along with the mass. By the way RIP Propergander. Propergander was a little anti-comic zine that Grady published inSan AMrcos on news print for about 10 years. He just printed the last issue ever.
Posted by: John Strodtman | December 24, 2007 at 06:59 PM
I, for one, was fooled. I work with tourists on the weekends so they must have all been in on this, just portraying a certain manner which would lead me to believe certain things.
Posted by: bartleby | December 25, 2007 at 11:17 PM
Something is going totally wacky this holiday season.These guys recorded an entire cd of Holiday classics on crappy Casio keyboards. My kids have it on repeat and it's driving us crazy. It is unique, but holy geez what's with all the 80's and space referrences????
www.kasiokristmas.com
http://www.vimeo.com/2344860
Posted by: Vivian | December 13, 2008 at 05:51 PM
Something is going totally wacky this holiday season.These guys recorded an entire cd of Holiday classics on crappy Casio keyboards. My kids have it on repeat and it's driving us crazy. It is unique, but holy geez what's with all the 80's and space referrences????
www.kasiokristmas.com
http://www.vimeo.com/2344860
Posted by: Vivian | December 13, 2008 at 05:52 PM