It Is A Difficult Thing, Being A Mule is about being a mule you're not a donkey, you're not a horse, you're something in the middle that no one really wants. Harry the Hornless Unicorn is about a unicorn born without a horn and feeling incomplete. John's School to a collection of Christmas songs (check out Rudolph Dance Party on MySpace) to songs about animals that contain what he calls "clunky metaphors." Mathlete, now 24, writes about anything, from his earliest songs about a ladybug and his high school friends at St. The songwriter has been dreaming up fragile, sincere, weird songs since he received a four-track recorder on his 16th birthday. At its heart, though, the spectacle is about the music.
Mathlete is a little like the Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne a ringmaster juggling layers of props, costumes and instruments to create a jagged masterpiece of art, comedy and performance. I can't rehearse, I can't expect other people to." At the beginning of this year I thought it should be about having fun, having anyone who wants to play do so, worrying less about rehearsing.
"For about two years there was a steady lineup, and then people started filtering in and out. Some regulars include former Infernal Bridegroom Productions staffers and members of the indie-rock band the Dimes. It's a lo-fi, indie-pop spectacle with a revolving cast of characters that last year included 30 people. He's also the leader of the Mathletes, which isn't like any other band you know. "I'm not going to do anything else in my life that will get me a chance to speak at Harvard," he says. He's the the man behind the deadpan Internet phenomenon, Marmaduke Explained ( ), which has landed him on a panel discussion at Harvard's ROFLCon in April along with the Homestar Runner creators, the guy that perpetuated Chuck Norris' mystique, and some LOLcat scholars.
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I'm just trying to keep everything from derailing completely."īut for a guy who doesn't feel comfortable onstage, Mathlete sure knows how to attract attention. "I'm not usually paying attention to what the crowd is doing. "I'm not altogether that comfortable onstage," he says.
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