The Silence Is Deafening

Over the past couple weeks, I have handed out dozens of copies of The Aluminum Album. It often happens something like this:

Casual Acquaintance Making Small Talk: "Hey Jennie, what ever happened with
that album you were recording?"

Me: "Here it is!" (whipping a CD out of my purse) "Keep it! Look, I want you to know that we know it's terrible....that is its charm. No really, keep it! No, I INSIST."

The absolute worst thing, as far as I'm concerned, would be if someone thought that WE thought that the album was actually good. Because then they would pity us. Ha. We have no illusions about it being good. But I hoped that being up-front about its badness might prompt some humorous jokes about it. I pictured people listening to it, and having a good hearty laugh, and writing some sarcastic reviews on the blog.

Instead, pretty much no one has said anything about it to me at all, to my huge disappointment. The exception is one listener's inquiry as to whether he was correct in believing that the background noise in "You Know I'm No Good" was generated by a bevy of constipated back-up singers (it was not; that's the kazoo). I was grateful that someone finally made a joke about it, but it doesn't really count in terms of "feedback" since it came from Brad, who is in the band.

Sigh.

Maybe the rest of you haven't even listened to it?

Please, make some jokes!