My Top 5 Songs of 2009: #3 “This Party Took a Turn for the Douche” by Garfunkel & Oates
Riki “Garfunkel” Lindhome and Kate “Oates” Micucci run a respectable heating & air conditioning business in the valley. But in their spare time, they write and record songs of immense social and economic import. In fact, their debut recorded release Music Songs maintains the entire economy of Togo (the country, not the sandwich shoppe).
Known in Los Angeles for songs such as “Sex with Ducks” and “Me and You and Steve” Garfunkel & Oates have developed what could generously be described as a book club’s worth of followers that gather from time-to-time at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. They then go straight the Scientology Celebrity Center across the street where they reëdit Losin’ It for the rest of eternity.
Their “show” must be experienced to be believed. You can’t simply watch the 8th season of Scrubs or The Last House on the Left. You must go, sit, watch, listen, imagine, drink more, and find the meaning for yourself. From the depths of your soul the song “Weed Card” will call to you. You will hear “Pregnant Women are Smug” and divorce your wife. You will listen to their “Worst Song Medley” and kill four of the five members of Deep Blue Something with your mind-grapes.
But above all of these is their first foray into the world of what Dr William H Cosby Jr calls “hippity-hoppity” music: “This Party Took a Turn for the Douche”.
Chronicling a night historians are now calling “The Night,” Riki & Kate don their G&O masks and take us deep into the world of the Los Angeles party scene. But this is not the scene that it once was. Gone are the day’s punch and home by midnight, now the scene is populated with those that would see it destroyed. They are the douche. And now thanks to the brave Kate Micucci and the very, very tall Riki Lindhome you know how to spot them.
Garfunkel & Oates official site.
