My Life with Max

From The Secret History of the Cedar Valley

Album Information

A cassette release by Iowa City band Horny Genius in 1986.

Track Listing

• Side One
  1. Cappy Dick's Insane Avengers
  2. For Your Information
  3. Closet Vibrations
  4. Vertical Hold
  5. I Could Be
  6. What to Plant This Year
  7. An Aesop's Fable
  8. Back in the Garage
  9. Walking in a Volcano
• Side Two
  1. Hallway
  2. Neo-tech Man
  3. Wild Bill
  4. Safetypin Man
  5. BMW
  6. The Mad Irishman
  7. Boneyard
  8. Future Reference
  9. Experiments in Zero Gravity
  10. Cappy Dick's Insane Avengers (reprise)

Liner Notes

SO SOMEWHERE IN THERE YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO DO SOMETHING PHENOMENAL THAT EARNS THE RESPECT OF YOUR PEERS , FRIENDS AND RELATIVES. UH-HUH. SO AFTER YOU DECIDE THAT THAT’S SORTA RIDICULOUS YOU CARRY ON DESPITE THE EMBARRASSMENT, JUST TO SAY PISS-OFF TO THE EXPECTATIONS OF THOSE PEERS, FRIENDS AND RELATIONS. AND SOMEWHERE IN THERE YOU DECIDE THAT IT DOESN’T MATTER EITHER WAY. SO YOU CARRY ON JUST TO SEE WHERE YOU END UP. SOMEWHERE IN THERE YOU BEGIN TO LIVE A SORT CARTOON EXISTENCE WHERE TIME SPEEDS LIKE A ROADRUNNER ON AN ARIZONA HIGHWAY OR HANGS LIKE THE ETERNITY JUST BEFORE ELMER FUDD IS SMASHED IN THE FACE BY A FRYING PAN. SOMETIMES IT CAN BE BOTH WAYS AT ONCE LIKE BEING IN THE MIDDLE OF A CAR WRECK. THE TRIUMPHS AND UTTER SCREW-UPS ARE LAUGHED AT WITH EQUAL LOUDNESS. SOMETIMES ( MOST TIMES) THE TRIUMPHS ARE THE UTTER SCREW-UPS AND THE SCREW-UPS ARE INDEED THE TRIUMPHS. THE MAGIC BOARD WRITES YOUR NAME AND EVERYBODY LAUGHS AT THE THOUGHT OF THAT ONE TIME THEY SAW YOU AND THAT ONE (PROBABLY MORE) STUPID THING THAT YOU DID ( AND YOU PROBABLY LAUGH JUST AS HARD). AND SOMEWHERE ON THE BATTLEFIELD GLADYS KNIGHT SINGS THE NATIONAL ANTHEM, WHILE CUSTER AND WILD BILL HICKOK FIGHT IT OUT AND THOMAS EDISON FILMS IT ALL DRUNK-ON-HIS-ASS ON THE FACE OF THE MOON. THAT’S LIFE WITH MAX.

My Life with Max was produced, recorded, and can be blamed on Horny Genius. All songs written by Horny Genius and are copywritten 1986 (big deal) Recorded at Uhl House in Iowa City, IA on Tascam 4 track and alot of energy.