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this is a marvelous piece of audio art. while the highly refined judgments of FT critics may quibble over relative album rankings, the rest of us can enjoy the scathingly precise yet cheerful skewering of modern media that is the heart of the performance. paranoid rumor, incoherent phone messages, newspaper reports, audiotapes, new age superstitions, paranormal research, advertising for beer and carpets, travelogs, military training, live reporting and inane newscasting of extreme motorcycle stunts and an end of days marching band parade in attractive mouseblue uniforms -- all are woven around happy harry cox's trailerpark new age business and his mission to contact the aliens who may or may not be responsible for the "the comet" and the big hole it has created in the desert. and what secret is trailer park manager art holeflaffer trying to reveal?
listeners today may not recognize the parody of howard cosell in the sarcastic jibes of reporter pat hatt, but that doesn't matter: each type of media voice mocked in this performance lives on in some corner of contemporary media. and that is really the comedic basis of the album: uncertainty about what we know, and how we know it, is still served up to us by mirthless and dimwitted talking heads; nothing has changed there. and even when there is a mystery as uncanny as a comet crashing to earth, life goes on, preconceptions drive behavior, and what we think we know marches us all, trusting and hopeful, into a hole in the desert. not much has changed there either.
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