Hani Zahra - "Cannibal Crime (Wait Wait Wait)"

On death row, they give you a last meal. Anything you want. Some people get Pepsi and fried chicken, other people get bacon and eggs. Timothy McVeigh got two pints of mint chocolate chip ice cream (Ben & Jerry's). But Martin Tent, convicted of multiple counts of cannibal crime, had an unusual request. He requested a grocery store sheet cake, the kind with the chemical compound icing and the day-glo cake-y flesh, and danced in it. Took his shoes off (no laces), smiled for the first time in a year (the last time he was reading a Double Digest and a 6-panel comic called 'Spud Dud' made him crack one) and danced in the cake. It came through his toes and licked up all around his ankles, and he did this for ten minutes, or the length of a meal. One of the guards, when they were taking him to the chamber, sort of nodded back towards the cell and muttered, "What was that about?" But Martin Tent just said the same thing he always said whenever someone addressed up, right up until the end, "I'm innocent."

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The whole Hani Zahra record Along Those Lines is really special. Their album release is April 5th at The Bowery Electric in NYC. See all the info on their bandcamp.

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