Department of Rats: Blake le Rat's first Facebook cause page

I couldn't figure out how to make a "pet page" on facebooks for our pet rats, Blake le Rat & Doggy Rat. (I've heard of many people creating facebook pages for their dogs, &c., but there's no easy way to do it. Even Mark Zuckerberg's dog, Beast, has his own page, but he's listed as a "public figure." Why don't they just make "dog" or "pet" or "animal" or "rat" as options?)
Anyway, so instead, I created a "cause" page for Blake le Rat's issue of her lifetime: getting on floor. If you support this cause, I encourage you to "like" her page. The argument of this movement is summed up in the opening lines of the song The Manna Tease wrote for her, "It's a Snoopy Snoopy Poop Doggy Ratty Rat World":

She wants to get on floor, but she's not allowed on floor.
She wants to go explore, but floor could lead to door.
Blake le Rat, you're curious as a dolphin.
You're just a rat, but the world is in your tiny hand.

Pure poetry, and now she has a cause: FLOOR.

The Manna Tease Live at Adobe Books, 8 July 2011

Good morning. The Manna Tease played a small gig at a book store in San Francisco on Friday, and there are a few good videos of some of our new songs. What the HECK, I'm going to put them all up here, if you want to see the show.

We opened with the premiere of "Come to the Berkeley Bunghole," which is about our dream of opening a workingman's wine bar.



Lyrics & chords:

Come to the Berkeley Bunghole

emin

G bmin7 emin
It’s five o’clock in England.
C G G/B Cmaj7 amin9
Jupiter’s closed, but the Bunghole is wide open.
G bmin7 emin D Cmaj7 amin9 emin
There’s a place where the Reagan Administration never happened,
G bmin7 emin D Cmaj7 amin9
And Mama Bethany is always glad to see you again.

emin C G D

Come to the Berkeley Bunghole!

emin C G D

The workingman’s wine bar, the pauper’s pub,

emin C G G/F# emin

Your wallet’s empty, but your glass is full,

Cmaj7 amin9 bmin7 emin

Let’s tap this barrel! Let’s boogie in the club!

The graveyard shift is ended.
It’s Sunday Morning & BART hasn’t started,
There’s a place where the sadness of the street has been suspended,
And Mama Bethany is big bosom’d & big hearted.

Morning breaks in Tilden Park:
The idle rich are hiking with their labradoodles.
But in this place, the music’s loud and neon lights burn dark.
And Mama Bethany makes a mean cup of Ramen noodles.

Allons-y a la Bonde Berkeley!

Le café ouvriere, le pub indigents.
L'escarcelle est vide, mais la coupe est pleine.
On tape ce baril! nous boogie dans le club!

©The Manna Tease 2011

We did two songs from our Epic Murder Ballad Song Cycle, The Manna Sustains: Young Manasseh's Stains & Pink Mary's Stains.





This performance of "It's a Snoopy Snoopy Poop Doggy Ratty Rat World" turned out pretty good:



I did my song "Isa Bowman," the video's here if you care to see it, although the performance was a bit flawed. And finally, here's our much-awaited premiere of tomorrow's chart-topping single "Whoops! my bosoms come flying out!"



Lyrics & chords:

whoops! my bosoms come flying out!

dmin

emin C bmin A dmin
Wonderful suburbs, the roads to the safeway of this world.
emin C bmin A dmin
Stuffed in my tube top, my goldilocks shampooed, long and curled.
A G (emin)
As I fill my cart with seasonal fruits,
A emin G A
My top explodes all over the cantaloops, and

dmin C F A

Whoops! my bosoms come flying out!

dmin

Whoops! my bosoms! Whoops! my bosoms!

dmin C F A

Whoops! my bosoms come flying out!

Powerful pantsuit, the honorable senator from Nebrasker,
Storming the forum, never lack-lustre if her luck’ll last her.
I will muster all my brimstone & bluster,
Ask her how to bust this blasted filibuster, and

Whoops! my bosoms come flying out! &c...

Blast off & cast off into our culture’s future frontier,
Across the universe, headfirst in a shuttle shooting somewhere.
I am absolutely safe in my spacesuits,
But a blackhole ripple ripens my sexy spacefruits, and

Whoops! my bosoms come flying out! &c...

G A G A

Bosoms all over the place! - - - Bosoms all over deep space! ©The Manna Tease 2011

Thanks to The Matinees for arranging that "variety show" + poetry reading. Please "like" The Manna Tease on Facebook.

Videos: The Manna Tease's FIRST GIG - 8 April 2011

It was very dark at this show on Russell St, Berkeley. But I'll post these dark videos of a couple of the songs we sang, because it was our FIRST GIG! & the sound quality is in HD.

The classic novelty song Dead Puppies! in memory of the beloved house dog's recent passing:
It's a Snoopy Snoopy Poop Doggy Ratty Rat World. This song (with lyrics) previously discussed here. Our demo mp3 of this song & others for sale here.

Another from our corn whiskey set, the song "Corn Liquor" by Well Strung. See our useful How To Make Corn Liquor SONGBOOK for lyrics & chords.

And finally, Jesus Christ is a Big Fat Man & Bleck Ram. Please "like" The Manna Tease on facebooks here! If you missed us on Russell St, we'll play again soon!

List of Real Names

I was inspired by Gail Collins in the New York Times real-namedropping in her recent editorial:

...Perhaps if we talk about it long enough I will get a chance to point out once again that Representative Connie Mack of Florida, who surprised everyone by announcing Friday that he would not run for Senator Bill Nelson’s seat in 2012, is actually named Cornelius Harvey McGillicuddy IV.

And then, today, we watched Eddie Izzard's classic "Engelbert Humperdinck" sketch in Dress to Kill, where he dwells at length on Gerry Dorsey's name change. So, I will now compile a growing list of REAL NAMES of actors, celebrities, politicians, and anyone else who has an interesting real name. (Please leave suggestions in the comments.) I'm generally leaving out people with stage names, pen names or rap names whose real names aren't especially interesting or hilarious (like Samuel Clemens or Robert Zimmerman), and leaning more towards people whose birth names could be career killers, or are just vaguely entertaining to learn.

Tom Cruise - Thomas Mapother IV
Ben Kingsley - Krishna Bhanji
Muhammad Ali - Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.
Woody Allen - Allan Konigsberg
Snoop Dogg - Cordozer Calvin Broadus
Jon Stewart - Jonathan Stuart Liebowitz
Kirk Douglas - Issur Danielovitch
Lauren Bacall - Betty Joan Perske
Billy Holiday - Eleanora Fagan
Jodie Foster - Alicia Christian Foster
Gene Simmons - Chaim Witz
Judy Garland - Frances Ethel Gumm
John Wayne - Marion Morrison
Mel Brooks - Melvyn Kaminsky
Albert Brooks (actor) - Albert Einstein
Martin Sheen - Ramon Estevez
Kiefer Sutherland - William Frederick Dempsey George Sutherland
Sting - Gordon Sumner
Charlie Sheen - Carlos Estevez
Pat Benatar - Patricia Andrzejewski
Larry King - Lawrence Zieger
George Orwell - Eric Blair
Cary Grant - Archibald Leach
Winona Ryder - Winona Horowitz
Alan Alda - Alphonso D'Abruzzo
Engelbert Humperdinck - Arnold George “Gerry” Dorsey
Gov. Bobby Jindal - Piyush Amrit Jindal
Elvis Costello - Declan Patrick MacManus
Demi Moore - Demetria Guynes
Bob Hope - Leslie Townes Hope
Bono - Paul David Hewson
Lady Gaga - Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta
Michael Caine - Maurice Micklewhit­e
Miley Cyrus - Destiny Hope Cyrus
Anne Bancroft - Anne Italiano
Whoopi Goldberg - Caryn Johnson
Vanilla Ice - Robert Van Winkle
George Sand - Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin
Baron Corvo - Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe
Mitt Romney - Willard Mitt (Milton?) Romney
Buster Posey (Giants catcher) - Gerald Dempsey Posey III
Pelé (Soccer player) - Edison Arantes do Nascimento
Fatboy Slim - Norman Cook
Al Pacino - Alfredo Pacino
Marquis de Sade - Donatien Alphonse Francois Sade
Jack Palance - Volodymir Ivanovich Palahnuik
"Baby Face" Nelson (Gangster) - Lester M. Gillis
Chuck D - Carlton Ridenhour
Nero (Emperor) - Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus / Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus
Pablo Neruda - Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto
Erykah Badu - Erica Wright
Groucho, Chico, Harpo, Zeppo & Gummo Marx - Julius Henry Marx, Leonard Marx, Arthur Adolph Marx, Herbert Manfred Marx & Milton Marx.
Reince Priebus - Reinhold R. Priebus

It's a Snoopy Snoopy Poop Doggy Ratty Rat World - The Manna Tease

Earlier this March on Fox News, pundit & former Senator Alan Simpson (R-WY) made the following comment about kids these days:

If they care at all about their children or grandchildren, and sometimes I doubt that – I think, you know, grandchildren now don’t write a thank-you for the Christmas presents, they’re walking on their pants with the cap on backwards listening to the enema man and Snoopy Snoopy Poop Dogg, and they don’t like them!

In our apartment, we have two pet rats, Doggy & Blakey. We already sing to little Doggy the Snoop Dogg songs "Doggy Dogg World" & "Gin & Juice" (with the lyric altered to "Scoop Doggy Dog" for purposes of scooping her up) from his classic 2001 album Doggystyle. Simpson's brilliant remark, tho, inspired the following song to sing to our rebellious rats, who just won't do what their elders want them to do. And dropping like a poop, it's the FIRST MANNA TEASE SINGLE, "It's a Snoopy Snoopy Poop Doggy Ratty Rat World!"



If you require to download this song, it costs a dollar at this mp3 store.
Please "like" The Manna Tease on the Facebooks here!

Here are the lyrics & chords:

It’s a Snoopy Snoopy Poop Doggy Ratty Rat World

G F# bmin
Scoop!

C D emin
She wants to get on floor, but she’s not allowed on floor!
C D emin
She wants to go explore, but floor could lead to door.
amin C/D G E7
Blake le Rat, you’re curious as a dolphin.
amin C/D G Cmaj7
You’re just a rat, but the world is in your tiny hand.

G F# bmin

Scoop! It’s Blakey!!

G F# bmin

Scoop! It’s Doggy!!

emin D Cmaj7 amin7/D G F# bmin

It’s a Snoopy Snoopy Poop Doggy Ratty Rat World!

She’s snuggly & she’s small, she’s cuddly as a doll.
She’ll welcome my caresses with little doggy kisses.
Doggy Rat, stop drinking my wine!
You’re just a rat, but you’re drunk & feelin’ pretty damn fine.

G F# bmin

Scoop! It’s Doggy!!

G F# bmin

Scoop! It’s Blakey!!

emin D Cmaj7 amin7/D G bmin7

It’s a Snoopy Snoopy Poop Doggy Ratty Rat World!

emin D Cmaj7 amin7/D G F# bmin

It’s a Snoopy Snoopy Poop Doggy Ratty Rat World!

Scoop! It’s Blakey!! &c...

© The Manna Tease 2011

UPDATE! Here's a live video, from Adobe Books, July 8th, 2011.