Episode 130: My Body Is A Cassette Tape, by Calvin Pineda

Calvin Pineda is a playwright, archivist, and songwriter from Kuna, Idaho, with an eye towards the whimsical, pedestrian, and spiritual. They have studied at The College Of Western Idaho, The Eugene O’Neill National Theater Institute, and Bard College. They are a theological seminary graduate, and a three-time attendee of the American Numismatic Association’s Summer Seminar. They perform with their band as Calvin Pineda and The Antacids, and moonlight as a lyricist/accordionist for the multimedia project The Band Formerly Known As PATRICIA. Their most recent project was This Sick Beat: A Ritual For The Dead: an autobiographical karaoke monologue connecting disparate themes of cassette culture, Taylor Swift, and suicidality. They enjoy pad thai, planned phone calls, and Bob Dylan's 1978 album Street Legal.