applied communications "applied communications bites the big one"
From Analogue Trash:
“The song, from the upcoming album, applied communications bites the big one, has a basis in reality, from Wood’s own childhood, in fact. “In 1998, as a 12-year-old, I spent a weekend with my uncle’s very eccentric, mysteriously wealthy, much older girlfriend. Just me and her. We watched the Olympics, ate ice cream, made an eBay page, and she somehow had a literal star named after me.”
“I had free rein in the pool house and play house. The play house had ska-friendly checkered floors and ‘this is your brain on drugs’ posters on the walls. The pool house had a water bed.”
Continues Wood about the album, his first in two decades, and the song’s place within it, “Making this record, I found myself meditating on a bunch of oddball childhood memories, and then drawing connections to all the problems and neuroses that drag me down today. (As well as all the weirdness and wonder that lifts me up!)”
“Along those lines, this track connects the alienation I feel around younger people today with the alienation I used to feel among older people, over a bed of 909 bossa nova beats, pitch-bent flutes, and warped saxophones.”