I’ve got five minutes to fake my way thru a post about Chet Faker, the Aussie chill-rapper from Downtown Records (Gnarls Barkley >> Brett Dennen), coming to SF’s The Independent next week, before my battery runs down.

1. He’s Melbourne not Sydney which reminds me of my basketball teammate Kent Lockhart, in Dandenong, former All-Australia first five, and art teacher.

2. He uses the f-word in his biggest hit so far “Talk is Cheap”, or the m-f word.

3. I shaved my beard recently and never did get it to hang like the “weird new America” types and their Aussie co-facialists. I have left a wee bit between lower lip and chin; and elder leaving Thomas Aquinas after a special mass I attended asked me about it and I used the term “soul patch”. Terry chided me about saying “cheers” to a Priest. I liked the stain glass of TA. Forgive me for I have sinned in that I’m only on point 3 of 5 and am 12,000 miles away from Chet Faker, buzz band or act.

4. My title alludes to both a Dave Brubeck composition “Take Five” and hipster died-too-young jazz-beau Chet Baker. The buzz-kid rapper’s real name is Nick Murphy.

5. Booked by Ryan Craven of Windish Agency. My shortcut evaluation of an act is too start with “contacts” button. Old habits. Monkey on my back. I met Tom Windish for the first time in Chicago in fall of 2000, on a dog and pony show or showcase at Fado with Jerry Hannan and Chris Cuevas. And then again at SXSW in 2009 to ask about Alela Diane, Marie Souix and that whole scene. Not sure why I confuse Ryan Craven with Erik Carter who books Xiu Xiu and Deerhoof out of Houston. Not sure if I’ve met Ryan Craven. Not sure if Windish would remember meeting me, twice or whatever it was.

6. I prefer Chet Faker to Colt Ford in my file of “New Acts Whose Initials are ‘C.F’

No batter

6. did they sample actual chet baker trumpet in intro to that song or any old trumpet or was in synths? I would have gotten Ambrose Akinmusire of somebody from kneebody, as if.
actually, i only heard first 20 seconds because the thing was slow to buffer. I think it went from 1.7 to 1.8 million hits in the time I pasted it here, if that explains a few things. There is another song with 5.2 hits or plays. Reminds me that Sy Musicker and David Wiegand on KQED were talking about new Cassandra Wilson, and also Nels Cline playing tonight in SF. Wilson re-make of Red Guitar, is that Joni Mitchell? It’s a mixed blessing for Nels to be in Wilco.