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You​’​re Killing Me Fresno

by Brian Kenney Fresno

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anothercalifornian I confess, I listened twice and got 10 tracks so Happy __________ .
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insanitysnail Mind blowing multi-instrumentalists in avant-rock settings are my favourite thing and Brian Kenney Fresno is a rare delicacy. Besides, this album will channel your pain for the planet. That's big. It seems a requirement that you buy it at once. You're probably a musician if you are reading this. Save your masterclass money and buy BKF albums instead. I promise you will break into a new you. Favorite track: Shareholder.
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1.
7-11 Sushi 11:08
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7-11 Sushi Cruisin in my Camaro Got the munchies after smokin some pot So it was 7-Eleven or Arby's when I pulled into the parking lot Now 7-Eleven has Red Bull but Arby's has... So it was looking like 7-Eleven when some dude almost hit my Camaro And he was the driver of the sushi company that delivered to the store And he was all Sweet Trans Am! Sorry I almost hit you there bro! And I was all, no worries dude, but it's actually a Camaro, though And he told me he was scared out of his mind And he didn't know what to do Because his boss knew that he knew They just made the stuff out of road goo Anything they could find It was a multi million dollar enterprind Mislabeling rancid possum Chilled and finely sliced everyone thought it was....delicious No one ever became suspicious Same thing with the raccoon If you usually don't eat them raw you'd never even no........tice Now that's in Fresno In other places they use actual fish In fact they're emptying out the ocean To fill demands for this delicious dish "OH GOD I LOVE THE OCEAN! I JUST WANNA EAT THE ENTIRE THING!" Can't get enough of sushi And all the wasabi you can bring But (Chorus) 7-11 Sushi? Now you've jumped the shark Burning down the ocean Full ignition from the spark Now it's a Sushi inferno It's a seafood conflagration A convenience store apocalypse It's a messed up situation Now you can see the exact second the whole situation went South It's like you people can't be happy till the whole thing's in your mouth What used to be something special, or normal if you're Japanese Turned to a worldwide craze nothing could appease Now you buy some for the baby, get some extra for the dog and cat Insatiability for sushi unsustainable at that Unsustainable at Unsustainable Unsustain Unsus 7-11 Sushi sounds like champagne in jail You came for gas and scratchers, now you're going all upscale? You seem more like a corn dog person, stick with what you know That sushi'd make your butt look fat, get your Slurpee and go ( L side men 7/8 ) (R side men 11/8) (L side ladies 7/8) ( R side ladies 11/8 Seven eleven Sushi? The whole concept seems pretty douchey Whaddya gonna do? Eat it in the parking lot as you sit and idle endlessly in your car? No clear line of distinction From our own path to extinction At least the fish are somewhat smart enough to not do it to themselves To themselves, to themsayee-elves, to themsayee-elves, etc ( Stop extincting yourselves!) (Chorus) So goes the ocean, so goes you So goes 7-11, and all the sushi too So goes humanity, after all we've been through So goes the planet for the profits of a few So go share values of The Southland Corporation So go the Big Gulp, and the self serve nacho station So goes the chili dog court and the worlds "worst ever" coffee So go the Slurpees and the antique pornography.... Analog pornography..... Acoustic pornography...... Hey! "Do you guys like fish sticks? You must be a gay fish."
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Shareholder 08:00
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What shall we do with the oil shareholder now? We went and murdered Monsanto Put a pike right through their head They renamed and rebranded it Changed a molecule instead Oh sure, go kill the CEO But more than that’s gonna have to go To make a memorable impression Affect a long and lasting change Who’s got blood on their hands? (Mob) Shareholder! Shareholder ! Here’s our list of demands Shareholder! Shareholder ! Invest elsewhere we don’t care Shareholder !Shareholder! We’ll find you anywhere Shareholder !Shareholder! We’ll find you, Shareholder Of course they’ll find a new CEO It’s crystal clear what else has to go In an industry that has no conscience or shame You profiteering jackals are the next best place to start A perfect target for our fury and our blame It’s like you sold out the world For a half a cold ham sandwich But your short term profits cancelled out your long term gain Still, you stuffed yourself for lunch after your champagne brunch And the rest of us have nothing left but pain Any child can tell you This can’t go endlessly on Can’t eat ice cream forever When all the ice cream’s gone Buy low, sell high Who cares how many die? You could buy yourself a ticker tape parade Through the empty canyons of your soul Don’t care if all life ends Gonna get your precious fucking dividends You’d blow Satan and all his friends and cohorts For some of those sweet, sweet, quarterly interest reports So distant, what could be colder? Shareholder !Shareholder! Willfully watching the planet smolder Shareholder !Shareholder! Smash your house with a ten ton boulder Shareholder !Shareholder! Might not get any older Shareholder !Shareholder! Capital gains tax withholder Shareholder !Shareholder! That’s a lot of guilt for you to shoulder Shareholder !Shareholder! Let’s help you take a load off by lopping your hat holder Only you possess the tools To pivot away from fossil fuels Divest and re-invest in non planet killing ways Cause no amount of buffering will save you from the suffering We and your guilt will follow you till the end of your days We and your guilt will follow you till the end of your days We’ll find you, Shareholder
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Plastic 14:10
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There’s a fantastic amount of plastic Plastering the planet, blanketing the globe There’s a fantastic amount of plastic It’s in your rugged athletic footwear It’s in your sexy bedroom robe Islands in the ocean, mountains to the sky It’s in every single person, it’s in everything you buy Satellites like cigarette butts casually infecting space Plastic’s the empty Dorito bag of the entire human race We’re awash in plastic, drowning by the day Designed for instant obsolescence, but to never ever go away It’s a planetary scale abuse, trillions and trillions of single use Burying us in our grave of overconsumption And the flowers on our headstones we’re all made from plastic And the cars that drove the mourners there, you guessed it, plastic Electric safe and compactstic With the promise of Spring at lastic Yes, plastic was the answer to all the problems Then the problem turned around and became plastic Back to haunt us from the pastic As the cumulative effects became drastic Hey! I found your old toothbrush from when you were six years old! It was right there with all the other plastic crap you’ve ever been sold And it wasn’t going anywhere, or was it ever likely to Combined with the plastic of the billions of all the people around you And you can’t get away from it no matter what you do All for the Saudi princes and the profits of Wall Street Avenue So you’re got Senators in the plastics industry Plasticity in the senators Not to mention The Plastics Council or The Plastics Lobby You got plastic in your food you got plastic in your children You’ve got plastic in the center of your soul Now there’s just no way to talk about plastic Without being angry or sad Unless you sing about hemp And all the advantages to be had One of the things that’s so rad Anything that can be made from oil can be made from hemp But the purveyors of greed aren’t farmers That’s who they ran out long ago What they sell instead is just a death pollution When there’s always been a simple hemp solution So they fooled us with a stupid triangle For forty fucking years Never recycled anything but only shifted gears towards making YOU GUESSED IT, More Plastic! Cause everyone felt so, placated All their concerns had been ,vacated It was cheaper to make it new, no actual recycling to have to go through Just paid the redemption to pacify you And so from the depths of the Mariana Trench, to the highest Himalayan summit All you guitar playin heroes, it’s in your picking hand as you strum it It’s in the hot water hoses of your house if you re-plumb it It’s in the title of this song years from now when you still hum it (12 tone crowd choir, boys against the girls) Plastic you, Plastic me, Plastic us, Plastic we. Plastic, It’s what we do, it’s inside of you, it’s never far, it’s who we are It’s who we serve, not what we deserve While hemp’s the clear path forward As you humanity positions itself toward Cleaner transitions toward future solutions For the threatening scourge of plastic pollution
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Aquapocalypse 09:42
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When you come to the realization It’s the end of our civilization When you connect the dots Aquapocalypse, that’s the word Today they nudged an asteroid A hundred gazillion miles away In the hope they could save humanity From being smashed by it one day They measured mountains of math To compute its future path Knew where it had been, to know where it was going Quantum calculations on a galactic scale Compared to the fairy tales and horse shit Those other guys have been throwing It’s a Dyer situation yet some still deny it showing It’s a drier hotter nation and it shows no sign of slowing Aquapocalypse, Aquapocalypse It’s a killer little silly word that just rolls off of your lips Just sayin it makes you thirsty and swill down another beer Sing and dance a happy song about how the end is near Aquapocalypse, Aquapocalypse NASA tried to tell us Fresno would be an uninhabitable wasteland Even worse than the one we know today Like The Mayans and The Toltecs And even now out by Chowchilla You can see the drought destroying our whole way Nothing short of civilization ending No campaign of reality bending No amount of fossil fuel defending Can change the inev Can change the inevita Can alter what NASA learned through all their massive spending Aquapocalypse, Aquapocalypse Get yourself some salsa and a bag a chips Just enjoy the show, cause here we go Don’t even stand a chance without a lotta H20 Yeah we’re gonna fry, all will die Ain’t never leavin Fresno even though we try Just can’t get away to Morro Bay Without adding to the problem that we face today Slowly dyin a thirst might sound like the worst But before you go insane, here’s what gonna happen first When you start to hallucinate You know you’re almost there Feel like you’re spinning on The Tilt-O-Whirl At the Big Ol’ Fresno Fair But you can’t even get a Pepsi A cinnamon roll, or soft taco A frozen banana or ice cream Cause it’s only a dehydrated delusion Just a feverish daydream and you’re all (Choreographed section) Outstretched arm Crawling on your knees Stare into the sun begging for “water, please!” Grab you throat Smack your lips Point your sunburnt trembling fingertips Ass out Shake your hips Now you’re doin the Aquapocalypse (repeats 3X) Now you’re doin the Aquapocalypse—- Now The USA should just invade Alaska Blast apart the glaciers Harvest all we need Icebergs on a train to Fresno Just for growin raisins, watering our weed Slush for makin Slurpees, suds for washing cars Puddles for our driveways, ice cubes for our bars Flushing down our toilets, overwatering our lawns Cleaning out our ears, filling up our bongs Brewing crafty beers as Aquapocalypse nears Or Ice cubes just sold separately as Alaskan souvenirs I guess we had a good run I know I had a lot of fun Driving my truck around playing shows for everyone So apologies to the children You should have been born sooner Before you even got to play, the game was done (Chorus 1 and 2, transitions into “Not St Thomas” Aquapocacalypso.) When you come to the realization It’s the end of our civilization When you connect the dots Aquapocalypse, that’s the word
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Six Lanes To Pismo 13:53
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We need to help out others Understanding that's not hard We need more public housing Just "Not In My Back Yard" I'll hang out with your prostitutes I'll even wash your feet Just don't put in the high rise housing Where Shaw and Glen Avenue meet Now compassion is a virtue But in Fresno that can hurt you We all need human dignity And housing at an affordable price But for the property in question You know the project's just too large And you might be right if you thought Some lunatic's been left in charge Soon you'll have seven stories staring down In some suburban sucker's side yard With a little booth by your bedroom window For the armed security guard And after every car drives through The iron gate slams hard This is what the signs say in everyone's front yard Traffic, Pollution, Congestion! Traffic, Pollution, Congestion! Quiet residential little neighborhood Won't be good.. Inundated hundred daily trips The word "insipid" rolls off your lips The phrase "Insipid Urban Planning" rolls It just rolls off your lips. It'sinsipidurbanplanningit'sinsipidurbanplanningit'simsipidurbanplanning Backed against a constant traffic jam Instead they'll all drive by where I am Tires squealing, fentanyl dealing Sideshows on my quiet quaint lane Diaper dumping stereo thumping diaperdumpingstereothumpingdiaperdumpingstereothumping And we'll have Traffic, Pollution, Congestion Traffic, Pollution, Congestion Oh man, don't get me wrong I love single mothers and drug dealers Just examining all the details, and the angles of this song There's four.... You've got your development and re-development players And a shocking lack of thoughts and prayers From the big business churches that run this town They offer political coverage for the powerful Blessings for donations Credibility to the corrupt culture of the construction corporations And for all the tainted tithings that flow into their coffers You know they're laundering good will for all the money Satan offers For their diabolically evil public relations seeking clients For developers in a Fresno, it's elementary political science It's elementary, my dear Fresno More pavement, More Jesus, Six lanes to Pismo! More Pavement, More Jesus, Six lanes to Pismo! Ok, you bougie rich entitled racists Are always letting us know what you think If there's a whiff of fairness for the under privileged Oh, you're gonna make a stink But no, not everything's about you Or your self victimization Or your economic stigmatization Or your racial discrimination Or your corruption served up Fresno Style Or your Jim Crow laws held all the while Or your ongoing red-lining To which Whitey's always taken a shining Like a child, I hear your constant whining About people ( like you) that don't belong here Or your fortified white guilt that you've translated into fear Oh, actually it IS all about that and more But mostly Shelter, Affordable Housing! Shelter, Affordable Housing! "Hey! Let's form a committee! We'll end homelessness in the city! More profitable to pretend to be involved We'll clear em out and call the problem solved We'll get a grant and blow it Don't need results to show for it Cause in the profitable private sector We do just what we please Which is follow the trail of money Motives never altruistic No concern for housing homeless Making money's more realistic It's the public face of advocacy Skimming and grifting bureaucracy Whoops! We spent that money all on us? Let's consult our records.... Paid for lots of studies Got massages in Carmel California Luxurious lunches at the winery where we all swore not to tell Not to tell about our families European getaway no pay vacay Paid for by the public well it's in our interest not to tell It's inourinterestnottotellit'sinourinterestnottotell.... But to help the homeless go to hell Cause they haven't ever bought a hot tub or a deck for me Some snow tires, or hookers, or cheap business suits Cocaine bricks and hookers from the South side Or hookers all filled with cocaine So we'll just deny them their humanity And get our own signs manufactured Getourownsignsmanufacturedgetourownsignsmanufactured Get our own signs made that just say More Studies! Fat Paychecks! Blue Ribbon Panels! More Studies! Fat Paychecks! Blue Ribbon Panels! " (Room quad-sected, encouraged to "Fight Like Hell ") ( Left Center) TRAFFIC, POLLUTION, CONGESTION!! TRAFFIC, POLLUTION, CONGESTION!! ( Far Right) MORE PAVEMENT, MORE JESUS, SIX LANES TO PISMO MORE PAVEMENT, MORE JESUS, SIX LANES TO PISMO! (Far Left) SHELTER, AFFORDABLE HOUSING! SHELTER, AFFORDABLE HOUSING!! (Right Center) MORE STUDIES! FAT PAYCHECKS! BLUE RIBBON PANELS! MORE STUDIES! FAT PAYCHECKS! BLUE RIBBON PANELS!!

about

After I broke my mind making the movie to accompany the album, “The Future Is Fresno”, I had to do something else. After that giant production, I wanted to return to live based recording, as that has an immediacy and reality to it that better showcases what I attempt to do. I also wanted to spend time with the keyboard, as I’ve never really played the keyboard. That turned from learning some basic things into a giant songwriting production, incorporating all of the sounds I found.
I wrestled with my ineptitude, versus wanting to make a live based album, and went with ineptitude, AND doing the live based album.
So, I did the E-drums with my foot pedals, as I do live, and sang and played keyboard with MainStage-a live based performance program- patches strung together in scene dependent splendor, at the push of a button. You just push a button!
I also incorporated lots of samples that I created from sounds found online at Freesound.org, and Arturia brand software donated by Frank Giordano.
Auditioning thousands of sounds takes a lot of time. Computers arefrustrating.

These performances were all captured live, with no “overdubs”, and were edited for best performances as needed. I kept performances for their life and vitality, often embedded with “errors”, which keeps the raw element intact. It is joyously not perfect. I feel the “errors” give it a humanity that big studio projects are often stripped of.
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NERD ZONE:
There are no loops or click tracks. Samples were played from keys, with and without pitches.
I used multiple drum trigger inputs with varying thresholds-on the same instrument/sounds- for depth and variation in amplitude.
2 different kicks, 2 different snares. 3 pedals, played with one foot.
All of the keyboard sounds and relative volumes and panning were premixed, and recorded as two stereo tracks. Vocal effects were added in the post-mix, and were not done live, only so that they would still be mixable later.

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released October 5, 2023

released July 18, 2023
BKF: Keyboard, Samples, E-drum Foot Pedals, Voice, Song, Engineering.
These five songs are all recorded live, with the best performances edited together and mixed liberally. Vocal effects are added at the mix stage, so as to be able to, mix, them. Also: I’m not a keyboard player, these are the only songs I’ve ever known on one. I’ve embraced things I’ve always loved about synthesizers that actual keyboard players might find cheesy, so I hope you like cheese. ALSO, also, the reason most of these songs start out like a child’s introduction to playing keyboard, is that it was an adult’s introduction to playing and writing for keyboard. Also, also, ALSO, that’s a parody usage of the “Let It Be” intro, so I’ll see you in court, Paul.

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Brian Kenney Fresno Fresno, California

My name is Brian Kenney Fresno, and I have this super fun solo ROCK show
where I sing modern TALES of urban legends and epics of the absurd- in a
sing along format, mostly about Fresno Ca, my home town, and everytime I say
"Fresno", everybody eats the raisins and says "WHOOO!" in a group
experience.
It's really fun!
Everybody laughs a lot! ... more

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