Lost key, Mayday!

"Mayday!'s self-titled debut is one of this year's pleasant surprises. The act (not to be confused with the Saddle Creek outfit of the same name) is the brainchild of producer/keyboardist Plex Luthor and MC Bernbiz. Luthor's early production work for Miami groups such as Algorithm and Spirit Agent offered simple blues beats that sounded like bedroom soliloquies. In contrast, Mayday! is vivid and colorful, with sounds that move from the hard organ crush of "Watchin' Me" to the tinkling and echoing piano keys on "The Customer Is Always Right." Meanwhile, Bernbiz's rhymes are tight and concise, especially in "Micro/Macro," where he addresses the so-called war on terrorism, and in "Angles," where he lays out his philosophy: "Cats have gotten far but not that far, dog/I see it every day -- ass, money and stardom/But everybody's gotta beg, borrow and rob/So I don't owe nobody shit, and I ain't paying for beats." In spite of the publicity that Cee-Lo's chorus on "Groundhog Day" lent them, Mayday!'s success is owed to Luthor and Bernbiz alone." (Mosi Reeves, Denver Westword, November 16, 2006)

there is a short journey from the return home last night until the return home from work for lunch to enjoy some delicious chicken curry that virginia made last night, a simple few steps up the stairs from the car, a sleep, a shower, shave and change of clothes, finding a bagel, groping for ham to take with it to work for breakfast, then onto the motorcycle, wearing that jacket, that darn jacket with the tricky pockets, and who knows, somewhere between here and there or there and here it fell, but really now is that what happened or is it simply sitting in some little shelf space, or under a scrap of paper, or in the crack between two pillows, or inside a shoe, or under the lip of a cabinet, or in the bed, hmmm that is the one place i did not look and i did lean down to kiss her goodbye, so who knows, tonight when we get back home from the may day festivities that will be the first place i look, amidst the blankets, give it all a good shake, somewhere there is a key for squashy hiding, and hooray for the first of may!