Carpe Tedium by Worm Quartet

Hello, and welcome to my midlife crisis, presented in the form of the first full-length Worm Quartet album in twelve years. Rand Bellavia once posited that any album you make is a concept album because it's a snapshot of your mindset during a specific period of your life (I'm paraphrasing here.) This album contains several years’ worth of stuff, ranging from songs I wrote ten years ago (the "kid" I reference having to put to bed in “10 Goto 10” is now eighteen and can goddamned well put himself to bed) to stuff I came up with a few weeks ago, so if the “concept” seems a bit fragmentary and disjointed, that might be why. Or I might just be a fragmentary and disjointed kind of guy. That said, this is my favorite collection of songs I’ve ever put together, and I truly hope you enjoy it. Thanks for supporting this “Worm Quartet” thing, I’ll keep doing it for as long as I’m still able to come up with new ideas and get them out of my face in a reasonably non-embarrassing way. Sincerely yours, Four Worms in an Asshole Suit.

Tracklist

1.	Potential Spam	0:27

2.	More of the Same	1:23

3.	My Job Gave Me a Poncho (feat. Brian Graupner)	3:32

4.	Entire Dog	2:00

5.	10 Goto 10 (feat. MC Lars)	2:29

6.	Math is Bullshit (feat. Insane Ian)	1:24

7.	Infobesity (feat. Rand Bellavia)	3:41

8.	Mic Stand	1:45

9.	Too Old for the Pit	2:17

10.	Take the Fire Back (Prometheus Has Left the Building)	3:37

11.	When I Was a Boy	3:21

12.	She Fucked Me at Nick Tahou's	2:53

13.	Prunes and Vomit	1:04

14.	Brandon	1:43

15.	I Want a Pie	0:14

16.	Brick, Dave	0:10

17.	(Put a) Weasel Wagon (In Your Mom)	0:09

18.	Eat the Mail	0:06

19.	Please Stop Stabbing Me	0:06

20.	Can You Horse?	0:25

21.	Who's Got a Bag	0:08

22.	I'd Pull Cobras	0:29

23.	Schoolface	0:13

24.	Everything That's a Parallelogram	0:10

25.	In the Mayonnaise	0:24

26.	Tired of Not	0:18

27.	France	0:04

28.	Do Your Balls Have Names	0:07

29.	I Don't Wanna Go to the Zoo Tonight	0:33

30.	Fueled by Angst	3:55

31.	It's Raining Tacos	1:46

32.	Outroiffic Finale of Endiness	0:04

Credits

released September 22, 2023

Worm Quartet is
Tim -=ShoEboX=- Crist: Vocals, Backing Vocals, Programming, Keyboards, Keytar

Special guests:
Rand Bellavia - Guitar and duet vocals on "Infobesity”
Insane Ian - Duet vocals on "Math Is Bullshit"
Brian Graupner - Duet vocals on "My Job Gave Me A Poncho”
Devo Spice - Duet vocals on "Take The Fire Back"
Steve Crist - Spoken bits on "Prunes and Vomit" and "Too Old For The Pit."

Recorded and produced by Shoebox at The Wormhole, with additional recording and production on “Infobesity” by Doug White at Watchmen Studios. Mastered by Angel Marcloid at Angel Hair Audio.

All songs written by Timothy F. Crist except:
"Infobesity" - Music by Tim Crist / Lyrics by Rob Balder with additional bits by Rand Bellavia and Pete Johnson
"10 Goto 10" - Music by Tim Crist / Lyrics by Tim Crist and Andrew Nielson
"Prunes And Vomit" - Song by Tim Crist / Intro by Tim and Stephen Crist
"It's Raining Tacos" by Parry Gripp
"When I Was A Boy" by Frank Hayes

Art by Kyle Carrozza

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