Lyrics to Stereo

Stereo

I  receive in stereo

And emit a soothing glow

And I’m in your mind

It’s a clever scenario

When you become your own hero

Then you unwind

There’s a real relation you don’t understand

Mythic box of complications opens in your hands

And as I wade through dissatisfaction

I know you lie

Compromise my dignity

To get you to look at me

And I won’t go away

In the spiral of history

I’ll be there, repeated endlessly

A hero to them, but a tyrant today

There’s a real relation you don’t understand

Mythic box of complications opens in your hands

And as I wade through dissatisfaction

I know you lie

Lyrics copyright 2010 Towbin/Ristaino

Lyrics to The Reason

THE REASON

Punked I push the paper boulders up the week forever

Drunk on mediocre missions chasing trash for treasure

Origami time machines fold my life together

To an endless string of Wednesdays holding now to never 

What can I do? I must pursue this money shot into the blue

And what is the reason

When a soul conceived in freedom

Falls entangled in its dreaming

Is the reason to be?

I’ll melt the mirrors till my fire's smoke and sand

I’ll earn enough for us if you trust me to be your man

(8 days a week)

I work a hard days night the paperback rains help

(I need somebody)

to feed the Heavens underneath my frozen over (hello hello hello)

What makes a teenage carnivore become a corporation whore?

And what is the reason

When a soul conceived in freedom

Falls entangled in its dreaming

Is the reason to be?

I shoulda slaughtered every worthless rule

I woulda tore this fucking world in 2

I coulda sworn I’d never bend or bruise

The Buddha grabbed the ring and tagged the moon

Wish I had know how much I had to prove

I woulda whipped the horse’s eyes to glue

I coulda gave a shit and made a move

I shoulda quit this bitch and spit the truth

But now it’s building up inside of me

Still wearing half a heart upon my sleeve

I’m like a dollar bill without a dream

Fallen far off from the money tree

 So now I’m grinding daily finding maybe

All my time is wasted paper chasing

Faced with endless strings the Wednesdays bring

I’m even melting clouds for silver linings

And what is the reason

When a soul conceived in freedom

Falls entangled in its dreaming

Is the reason to be?

Its this conditioning

To fish for pole positioning

That leaves us living wishing

For a reason to be

Lyrics copyright 2010 Towbin/Ristaino

Lyrics to Cobalt Silver

 COBALT SILVER

The whole world’s bust a nut with out a screw

Inside my magic pumpkin room

Magnetic poles have switched

The tiny earth lost her shit

Broke all her marbles two by two

And if it all becomes too much for you

Picture silver rain painting fields of cobalt blue

And if it all becomes too much for you

Picture silver rain painting fields of cobalt blue

The weather shines inside my heart for you

Showers silver rain feeding fields of cobalt blue

And if it all becomes too much for you

Picture me loving you

Scramble cross this twisting burning world

Butterfly nets catch the biggest wave to drown you down the swirl

Girl no matter what you do you’ll never find a love like I feel for you

unless of course you do

And if it all becomes too much for you

Picture silver rain painting fields of cobalt blue

And if it all becomes too much for you

Picture silver rain painting fields of cobalt blue

The weather shines inside my heart for you

Showers silver rain feeding fields of cobalt blue

And if it all becomes too much for you

Picture me loving you

I need you to need me this way

When you trip across my fate

And you drift over so many lifetimes

Now one of them is mine

If love is blind then defy time

and trace my story on my simian line

Know me in your heart as I feel you in my mind

And if it all becomes too much for you

Picture silver rain painting fields of cobalt blue

(I feel you in my mind)

And if it all becomes too much for you

Picture silver rain painting fields of cobalt blue

The weather shines inside my heart for you

Showers silver rain feeding fields of cobalt blue

And if it all becomes too much for you

Picture me loving you

Silver and blue

Picture me loving you

Silver and blue

Picture me loving you

Lyrics copyright 2010 Towbin/Ristaino

Lyrics to Fall Off the Earth

I believe I am going to start publishing the lyrics to Boduvt here, mostly cause I would like them easily available to anyone who might be enjoying the album.  Please stop back from time to time and eventually I'll have the whole album's lyrics on this here blog, for the record, so to speak.

Let's start at the start:

 FALL OFF THE EARTH
paralyzed as you walked by
we'd been talking about you that day
careless coincidence left me behind
while your next victim led you away

can you understand what you have done?
all said and gone I am the stupid one
I lit my last broken cigarette upon the setting sun
 and burned the dawn

now everybody sings the songs they wrote for you to me
since you threw away the comfort of my company
serenaded by a dead end symphony
and searching for a guarantee
guarantee
guarantee
to the mystery

I sat alone on 2nd ave
collecting my debts in a garbage bag
my broken heart safe for a while
from the synchronicities in a circular file

"goin' to the chapel" played in the air
like a dead end symphony when you appeared
for better or for worse I realized you’d left me forever
and ever

now everybody sings the songs they wrote for you to me
since you threw away the comfort of my company
serenaded by a dead end symphony
and searching for a guarantee
guarantee
guarantee
to the mystery

don’t fall apart for her you're one of the many
she’ll never understand what your love is worth
just play your part in her dead end symphony
she’ll lead you on until you fall off of the earth

Lyrics copyright 2010 Towbin/Ristaino

Links to the rest of the Boduvt lyrics are listed in a nice orderly column somewhere just to the right of these words.  Please take a gander at 'ems. 

"Her Favorite Song" featured on the newest Invisible World with Frank Todaro show

Agents

AoV's smash hit "Her Favorite Song" was recently featured on the last episode of Frank Todaro's Invisible World interview show (its episode 36 if you want to listen to the show on Frank's site.) The hour long web show features Frank and yours truly (Zuben aka Phil) talking at length about pyramid shaped ufos, the ghost of TV's first superman, George Reeves, underwater orbs, and meaning behind the Agents of Venus name and our album title, Boduvt. Dig in and dig it:

I have to say, this interview just barely scratched the surface of a larger subject I'm looking forward to exploring, either with Frank or here in blog form (probably both). That subject, the seemingly contradicting understanding of the planet Venus being represented historically (in western traditions) as either Venus or Aphrodite (or maybe Isis or Mary Magdelene, perhaps?), the goddess of love and beauty, as well as Lucifer, the first cast out angel from heaven, the Lightbringer, that much maligned representative of all things hidden and nefarious in this world.

I inadvertently seem to blame the Freemasons for representing the latter in our discussion, without being able to really explain why I say it and what I really mean by it. I'm not going to go into it yet here, but I will eventually explain myself in a future post (hopefully in the near future). I do want to admit that I have nothing against those wacky kabalists the Freemasons in general. During the interview, I was trying to spout out a large idea in a small amount of time, and I didn't really formulate my idea all that clearly.
If you'd like to learn more about Venus in relation to Freemasonic symbolism, you might want to check out this earlier post, which features two great video presentations about the subject.

Suffice it to say, when choosing the band name, I was trying to find a way to bring to polarities, two opposing ideas together under one roof, so to speak, in hopes of creating a higher level of perspective on just what the morning star (Venus) means to our little planet and our world traditions. It seems to me that its time to unify polar opposites, not only because we surely could use a fresh perspective on the seemingly endless struggle of good and evil in this world, but because the struggle itself is indicative of a 3rd dimensional perspective, as the push/pull of the polar opposites seems to be (to me) the creative force in action in our world, and I believe, since we appear to be moving into times that call for us to broaden our awareness of higher levels of reality, then the act of unifying these polarities is the action that propels one into these higher levels. I promise somewhere down the line I will do my darndest to explain this further (or "furthur," as the Merry Pranksters might have put it.)

Later on in the conversation with Frank, we talk about several pyramid shaped ufos that have been spotted in the past year or so.  One that appeared above Moscow right after the Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Price and the Norway Spiral appeared, and one much more recently that showed up to dramatic effect over Taiwan.  They are both worth having a gander at, so for those of you keeping score at home, here's video of both pyramid 'boduvts."  Consider it extra material to enhance your experience as you listen to the interview.

Here's the Moscow Pyramid:


and the Taiwan Pyramid (this one is especially cool):


Keep looking up -- there are Boduvts out there waiting to have a conversation with you.....

Zuben

Fall Off the Earth featured in the teaser trailer for the feature film Blood Was Everywhere

Boduvians

Zuben here.   This summer I (in my alter ego of mild mannered Phil Ristaino) had the good fortune to act in a cool slasher film called Blood Was Everywhere.  I played Kevin, a funny stoner mooch brother of the main character Angela.  It was a great experience, everybody in the cast and crew were top notch, and it should turn out to be an unusual take on a slasher movie-- sort of a cross between Gus Van Zandt's Elephant or Last Days, Linklater's Dazed and Confused, and the original Friday the 13th films.

I also managed to hand out a bunch of AoV albums to everyone involved, which has led to our lead off track, Fall Off the Earth, being featured on the teaser trailer for the film, which was just released this past week.

Grok it:


You can find out more about Blood Was Everywhere at their website or on facebook.

Ride a Boduvt All Over the Web (or, LastFM is pretty cool)

Boduvians! At long last, Agents of Venus' new album is all over the web.

If you look to the right, you'll find links to buy the album on ITUNES, AMAZON, and CD BABY.

The best deal to get the physical CD is on CD Baby, only $9.99 (which also sells the album on MP3 for the same price). You can download Boduvt on Itunes for only $9.99, too! The best price to get the MP3 album is on Amazon - only $8.99! Sweet, yeah? Seriously, this is a freakin steal. You can also purchase the CD on Amazon, (its a little pricier, but if you want to spend the dough, we ain't gonna stop ya). Any of you NAPSTER freaks can listen to full songs and buy AoV:Boduvt here.

And the coolest discovery: LAST FM! This site is great. Not only does it allow you to hear new tracks from our album, you can also add it to a music library, along with music from any other band you may dig, and Last FM will create a playlists for you, free streaming your own AoV inspired radio station. Dope! Make it happen here!

So what are you waiting for? Ride a Boduvt to Synchroni City all over the web, and grok hard with your Agents of Venus!