from
You Can See the Future,
released March 1, 2024
You Can See the Future
Your Lonely Friend
Mr Skittles
Yer Bad Behavior
Making Money at the Airport
MM-singing, drums on #4
Ken Maiuri - keys,percusssion,ebow,guitars,bass
Tom Mahnken - saxophones
Recorded at Snackwave Sound on 2/24
Engineered by Kenneth Maiuri
Mixed by Paul Kolderie
Cover by - Mrs Lawson
Management - Richard Murray
all songs by Mark Mulcahy 2024
No one was aware that this new kid was an exchange student. He stuck out a little because of his clothes and his shoes and haircut and his posture and his niceness and his eagerness, but I don’t think anybody put it together that he was from some different place. Nobody liked him or disliked him. He just stood in the hall with his wrong, I guess shoulder bag, looking at whoever would look at him and giving them that happyish/dopey friendly smile that wasn’t quite annoying but it wasn’t quite not annoying
and kind of led to the conclusion he was someone you could ignore and not feel guilty about it. After all, he was from some different place that none of had been to and probably never heard of and even if we didn’t know he was exchanged we knew he was foreign meaning the not local kind of foreign, not the exotic different country kind of foreign. Later on in all his classes the teachers told us he was from some place and his name wasn’t normal and he’d be staying at The Shonio’s house until April and then be exchanged either back to his home if that what they call it in his country or maybe go to another place and be different and exchanged there. Even though he had a kind of high voice and some sort of accent and his sentences usually ended goin up at the end and always seemed interested in whatever someone was talking about and he was good at volleyball(?) and he walked too fast in the halls, pretty soon he was just there everyday and everybody liked him ok.I’d say equal to as much as they liked anybody else. You’d start seeing him other places like downtown somewhere or the restaurant or driving by in a car or at church if you went to church or bowling and you’d give him a nod or maybe a what’s up. Not too much, but you could tell he was feeling good about his spot in town. I just assumed he was, but I had no idea what it was like wherever he was from before the exchange. Couldn’t have been that great if he was willing to come to someplace where he doesn’t know anybody and stay there until April and not be able to play volleyball because no one did and move in with the Shonio’s who were not weird but were definitely not totally normal and be the only one in town who had some ‘foreign’ accent and eat food he never heard of probably miss his pets and bring a shoulder bag.Somebody said that maybe he cried when he called back home. That’s pretty sad.