Krisal Trelis Sontin

When KMO and I were in middle school we were obsessed with learning the lyrics to our favorite songs. We would make a mix tape of top 40 hits off Z104 and then proceed to listen to them over and over, attempting to decipher the lyrics into a spiral notebook (we would take turns being the writer so we could both practice our handwriting). Yes, these were the good ol’ days before the internet when you had to sit outside on the deck listening to the radio your boombox. Artists that I distinctly remember decoding were Blackstreet, Puff Daddy, and Ma$e (yeah, we were ghetto, cfl).

But, being team olson, we obviously couldn’t stop at that. We had to maxx it out as hard as possible. In the times where we had already deciphered the lyrics of all ten songs being played on the radio that week, we could make our own remixes. Girltalk style. (Im pretty sure that girltalk would cite us as his muse if asked in an interview. )

Our “girltalk style” involved recording ourselves (on my talkboy) singing lines to a song while the song was playing so we could have the music in the background and then interjecting funny quotes from movies. I think. I can’t exactly remember our majestic concoction of song to movie quotes, or how much we would change about the song. I do know that these songs we would “write” were anywhere between 25 and 60 seconds long. But I do remember one of the mixes that will be engraved in my memory forever:

Sophie B Hawkins playing (with AMO&KMO singing over it): On a February morning in the courtyard birds were singing your praiseeeeeee
KMO (in the old man voice from ace ventura pet detective): WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT RAAAYYYYYYY FINKLE?
AMO & KMO (giggling uncontrollably and trying to sing): As I lay me down to sleep, this I pray, that you will hold me dear
AMO (making something up that makes no sense and still laughing): nothing, why do you?
Sophie B Hawkins continues playing for about 10 seconds while we laugh so hard..then the recording ends really awkwardly in the middle of a word

As you already know, the above excerpt does not give any sort of justice to the original masterpiece. I have a voice that you could only describe as angelic and kmo has the powerful ability to sound exactly like that old man from ace ventura. After recording the ‘final’ version of all of these songs onto one tape, we decided that it needed a name. What better then to combine our names to make a new one. After all, we were mixing media, voices, and songs. It made perfect sense. Krisal Trelis Sontin it was. We wrote it in sharpie on that little white strip on the tape cassette. A masterpiece was born.

Kmo, I hope that you still have this tape somewhere in your mountain laurel bedroom, and that we can publish it. just another team olson memorabilia item to add to our list. itunes will probably pick it up soon and make it into a top selling MP3 and then obviously our performance career will skyrocket from there. We’ll wave to you all from the top of the charts.

Fuck your ass, amo