THE MUSIC

Dietz grew up in Richmond, Virginia, among such musical giants as Brian Bowers, Duck Baker, Aimee Mann, Cracker, GWAR, that woman who sang “Hit Me With Your Best Shot,” Alabama Thunderpussy, and Single Bullet Theory. Why he hasn’t made more of himself, given such influences, is among the mysteries that taunt me.

Because You Just Never Know

An ethnomusicological lecture demonstration on the life and works of Ottoman “Blind Squirrel” Dietz, Parts 1 through 4

Part 1

Songs in this part are “Sleeping Beauty” at 7:10 and “U-Boats of Jamaica” at 13:10.

Part 2

Songs in this section are “It Might Be Love” at 7:10 and “I Burn For You” at 11:29.

Part 3

Songs in this section are “Watching TV With the Dead” at 0:36, “By the Waters of Zebulon”at 5:13 and “The End of the Line” at 10:23.

Part 4

Songs in this section are “Forgive You” at 1:54, “Floating Alone in the Dark” at 6:44, and “I Miss You Sunday”at 10:45.

Nene Concertini, parts 1 – 4:
Love, Ostensibly: The Blind Squirrel Love Cycle (abridged)

Ethnomusicologist Charles Wilkinson attempts to explain, without attempting to defend, Dietz’s romantic mishaps and misapprehensions.

Part 1 It Might Be Love

Part 2 I Burn For You

Part 3 Watching TV With the Dead

Part 4 By the Waters of Zebulon

L Haru

The zombie dance from “Swamp Gas: Attack of the Zombie Killer Space Aliens: The Musical”.

Bend in the River

Down at the 7-11 Store

Todd Rundgren may have gotten Leroy a woman, but Leroy’s bastard grandson is still pretty clueless.

I Who Have Seen Nothing (Juliet’s Song)

Given that Dietz and his archivist are polar opposites in most relevant regards, I marvel that we share a deep fondness for Shakespeare’s Juliet. He has gone so far as to write a song from her point of view. Perhaps he has simply been working through successive, and quite reasonable, crushes on Olivia Hussey and Claire Danes.

 

The Stackpole Loop

The Stackpole Loop is a series of thankfully short instrumental pieces, the cassette tape recordings of which were found wrapped in what seems to have been a poem, also composed by Dietz. The poem may have been intended to explain the meanings of the pieces; unfortunately, due to their having been stored together in a baggy of unknown (and it is all probably for the better) provenance, the paper on which the poem had been written was in an advanced stage of decomposition, leaving this to posterity:

And I prayed to the gods of the Seventh House,

And I prayed to the Stackpole Loop,

And my autographed photograph of Mighty Mouse

And my bobblehead Betty Boop.

Extensive further research has turned up no references to the Stackpole Loop, as phenomenon, theory, or seminal techno performance art collective.

Oberon

 

Stack 7+

 

Sometimes I Talk To Myself

This is a found fragment of a much, much larger work.
Dante was surely referring to something like this when he wrote, “Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.”