ok. settle in. i've got a tale of coincidence for you.
circa. 1984 i was at citr radio doing whatever it was that i did and had recently been befriended by a guy named joe naylor. joe was, and maybe still is, a guy far too smart for his own good. at the time he was working on his masters or his doctorate in something i'm sure i wouldn't understand. joe was also a great guitar player and messed around making music and working with musicians and...well, doing whatever joe wanted to do - because the most important thing to joe was and still is, joe.
anyhow.
joe and i became friends, and i'm not even sure how it happened but it did. and i'm pretty sure it was me who first mumbled the phrase, but it could have been joe - no, fuck it, it was me...i made mention of how i thought we should do a thing i had thought of, i, weedeater..as a parody or play on i, braineater...i, braineater being local artist and musician jim cummins alter ego. i had made a tape loop piece using spinal tap's 'big botom' and used the name and now it was going just a little farther.
joe wrote some music, we wrote some lyrics and i, weedeater was born. we actually recorded a couple of tracks and made a video that was eventually played on much music - with erica ehm mispronouncing my last name...instead of pronouncing my last name, harry, like tom, dick and harry, she pronounced it 'hari', like hari krishna...nice.
and that was the life of i, weedeater.
the other day cam e.mailed me and asked me if i'd be able to help out jim, as in jim i, braineater, cummins with his dad's lawn. could i cut it? yup. i sure could. so there it was ...life imitating art...after twenty or so years, and after many, many lawns, i was now cutting i, braineater's lawn - kinda. it's a big circle my friends.
i have become i, weedeater to his i, braineater.
i love it.
g. xo
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