The precinct was aglow with orange and red as the Arnold manor belched great black clouds of smoke in its conflagration. The bohemian youth of the family, one Micheal Arnold, had escaped, guitar in hand, from a window of the massive structure and now stood watching the great citadel that had held so many of his ancestors return itself to ashen mediocrity and dust.
His music kept the young orphan alive through many a moon. Played he his songs of woe and misery in the parks and shanties of endless towns and cities, begging for a bit of copper, till at last the juvenile came upon the glittering port-city of Santa Barbara, where sprightly gutter-children played on the sun-drenched cobblestones and skittered amongst the hairy legs of vulgar sailors searching for the next brothel. It was while exploring this newfound paradise that Arnold met the illegitimate child of a woman of easy virtue and one of the vast filthy mass of merchant seamen, a man who subsequently dissapeared, as so many of them do, when a shipwreck sent him spiraling into the abyss of the great ocean.
Young Michael Salvucci, being an able instrumentalist of many stripe, including that most sublime of apparatus, the accordion, and knowing that his mother could support him no longer, suggested to young Arnold that the two vagabonds join forces and ply the saloons and concert-halls of the town with their own brand of folk music.
The youths shook on it, and Antlerboy was born.
More change was to intercept these two, however. From the ancient, windswept deserts of Arizona another came, having heard of the fine musics of the fair city of Santa Barbara. As he was among the most accomplished of his kin in that dry wasteland, he wished to prove his mettle out west, and thus, stumbled upon our two heroes as they plyed their trade in a dark and smoky bar room one midsummer's day. In sheer spontaneity, in a way onlookers have since recanted to have to have been almost as if by fate, this newcomer leapt to the stage, over the heads of the astonished crowd, and began to play. He fit, as the final peice does in a puzzle, and Antlerboy was complete.
BABY CALENDAR is on tour from Florida and playing at Giovanni's on tuesday May 30th. 8pm.
they are really fun and you should definately come out and see them!
they will be plying with some isla vista locals.
it's FREE and will be a blast! bring your friends!
