Episode 13: Asymmetrical Battle of the Bands (w/ Jake Hanrahan)

Tonight's the night, and everyone is out rocking their best fits. It's the big Battle of the Ideological Bands, and every scene in town has its own champion in the show. As the concert hall fills up though, and tensions rise between the anarchists and the tankies, and the left libertarians and right libertarians come to blows, one man remains aloof, Jake Hanrahan of Popular Front. A man without a scene. The single guy in town too cool to be tied down a single ideology.

The theorists slowly file in, through the back entrance of the venue we call post-post-post modernity, depending on who you ask anyway. These guys are hip, you can tell by how they dress, the pins they fly on their jackets, the carefully chosen iconography of whatever bullshit they believe displayed proudly across every article of clothing. For weeks now they've practiced, regurgitating their pedantry of choice. When they get up stage, they know just how to dazzle, with flourishes of the choicest jargon adorning the most frenzied rhetorical shredding audiences have ever seen.

Jake "Post-Ideological" Hanrahan though, he has something these other acts don't. A style all his own, and his ideology can't be bought in any store. He's developed it in clubs all over town, watching every act up there tonight. Like a chameleon, he moves in and out, undetected, between the carefully constructed commodified identities everyone else adopts. He doesn't care what these hipsters think of him, and he's about to rock their world with the performance of a lifetime. He'll give them a something they haven't seen before, a truth solo that's out of this world. The only question? Whether the audience is ready.

(Intro Theme: "Spirits" by Cor Serpentis, from the album Atria. Outro Theme: "Lifetime of Grey Skies" by Nishiki Prestige, from the album XOXO. Interlude: "Living Machine" by Smoke Access, from the compilation Greenhouse I. All music courtesy of Lovecrypt. Episode mastered by Tryppocales Records)