One day, back in 1975, John Trubee was sitting on his ass behind a cash register at a convenience store in Princeton, New Jersey. He was bored out of his mind. Wouldn’t you be if you were sitting behind a cash register at a convenience store in Princeton, New Jersey? What would you be doing? Reading? Doodling? Sudoku? Not John Trubee. Instead of wasting his time with some sort of piddling nonsense like number games or reading a book, John Trubee decided to take advantage it. He decided to do something. He picked up a pen, grabbed a piece of paper, and started to write. The words poured out of him like they had been inside him all along, just waiting to get out:

Stevie Wonder’s penis is erect because he’s blind
It’s erect because he is blind…

And now here you are, 31 years later, sitting at your computer, reading those words he wrote so long ago. How did that happen? How does something scrawled on a legal pad behind the register of a convenience store in Princeton, New Jersey wind up preserved for three decades? I’m not sure, but it probably helps if it’s the most brilliant fucking thing ever written in the history of mankind.

Step 1: read this short essay about how “Peace & Love (Blind Man’s Penis)” came to be recorded.

Step 2: watch this (nsfw) flash video set to it.

Step 3: try to figure out how you’re gonna do all the things you have to do this week with AN ASPLODED BRAIN.

(via metafilter)