Monster Mash: Rrsatz Horror Songs from Why Do They Call You Deuce (2022)

“And to Run With the Monster Tonight” is an homage to Warren Zevon’s “Werewolves of London,” Roky Erickson’s The Evil One, and werewolf film classics An American Werewolf in London and Ginger Snaps.

“Eventually the Caretaker” is based on the film I Bury the Living (1958), and features a sub-vocal black metal chorus JJ practiced in the shower.

“Or Is It Eating You” is based on a long poem called The Passage / The Thing, and includes references to The Stuff (1985) and Catcalls (2017). Here are the lyrics:

The boy has grown to hate the stuff. 
This will take him to the final aisle, 
where the cases frame what has 
come to define his cul de sac & all 
its surrounds. Every television tells 
him what he needs to know. Every 
sibling & parental unit is the same. 
Once he saw it move in the family 
fridge. So he breaks the window on 
the final aisle & casts the white foam 
containers to the gleaming floor, 
scored as it is by an endless 
progression of shopping carts & 
Keds. & still there is the center 
display to ruin : grab any stick & 
make it so. & when you reach the 
end cap, take a swing. The damage 
is done before they take you away 
on skates.

We lost the plot but gained our 
footage in the passageway. The trick 
is to watch at least 2 films in a row. 
Otherwise you are trapped in 1 
space, never mind the cuts. The cuts 
are across your face. The cuts are 
how life goes. 

Never stay too long. You become 
the mark on the wall. Or the 
opening. You become the hole in 
the wall. You leave this place. 

In 1 frame the monster is caught in a 
window, only he doesn’t know it. He 
thinks it’s just been a bad night 
flashing the locals. Now 1 has come 
for him. At least the window is shut, 
& he can hide in the kitchen with his 
phone while his wife takes care of 
the mess. The next shot, eerie 
perspective, catches him in the wide 
open sliding glass door. The 
monster inside & out. The 
neighborhood cat he didn’t bother 
to notice. His body torn out of the 
car. Last shot, Bettie Page air 
freshener, vanilla scent.

Find Why Do They Call You Deuce on Bandcamp.

Recorded 2021 - 2022 by RRSATZ.

Mastered by Tim Green at Louder.
Visual design by Adrian Carroll.

Joe sang, once by phone.
Satish played trumpet and muted trumpet.
Dan absently played keyboard and guitar.
N8 flew in to play drums and knew the others.
J †Johnson sang and played bass about horror movies.
Matt played bass and guitar, and also engineered, produced and hosted.
Juan-Carlos played guitar and bass and sang a song under circling birds.

Some of this happened near a turbid canal under an elevated section of freeway. The rest of it happened far and wide because that is one way you can make recordings in whatever year it now is.

Some of us were once in a band called The Scrams. We all left 87102. Joe moved back but no one else has.