j. Nathan Weisenthal
Co-Writer,
Co-Director, Caprillian
Bolf
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- The erstwhile
Joseph Weisenthal has been writing music since he
was very young. At the age of six he wrote a song, to the
tune of a Kit-Kat
commercial jingle, about shoes,
which included the lyric "I've got new shoes. They are
lace. They keep me in stride with the human race".
Clearly he was already honing his now legendary
ironic-hipster-pop sensibility. j. Nathan's first big hit
was with his high-school rockabilly band The Force Kings,
entitled "Pride & Liberty"-- a right-wing anthem if
ever there ever was one. Today he stands by every
intolerant word in that lamentable song, whereas at the
time he meant it to be a satire. Since the disolution of
The Force Kings (college!), j. Nathan has continued to
write many unmemorable songs about such topics as
Sanskrit Girls, Mad
Cow Disease,
The Moon, and The Free-Market in Healthcare. While j.
Nathan enjoyed writing these innocent ditties, the events
of September
11th, and
the ensuing star-studded tribute concerts, inspired and
demanded his creativity. The songs in Who is Jim
Holt? are the musical manifestation of the human
condition in modern america.
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- j. Nathan would
like to take this space to apologize for being
hyper-competitive, confrontational, and arrogant. However
he would not like to apologize for his uncompromising
conserative views, which when argued by him, easily
decimate those espoused by bleeding-heart, drug-addled,
hand-drum-drumming, fire-spinning, emo-listening,
puma-wearing, ethno-pimping leftists.
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- j. Nathan also
thanks (in order in which they came into his life) the
following friends and family (most of whom are liberals),
for without even one of them, life would be much harder,
if not unlivable: Leonard, Debra, Mira, Prentiss (a
classical liberal), Rob, Marco, Macklen, Colin, Kathryn,
Gabe, Luigi, Rhys (another classical liberal), Christa,
Emily, Lily, Erica, Nicky, and Corrine. He's probably
left some people out, and if so, they should come up to
him after the show so that he can print up a special
edition program with their name in it, so that one day
when it is a collectors item they can show it to their
friends.
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- Lastly, j. Nathan
is leaving Austin after this performance with no
intention to return. So the musical is sort of like a
goodbye gift to the city about which he has mixed
feelings. However, he has no mixed feeling about his few
friends here. They are lovely, and he will miss them
every day.
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