My name is John Wozniak and I sing and write the
songs for Marcy Playground. During the late 70's
I lived with my family in Minneapolis and went to
the Marcy Open School. It was one in a group of
experimental hippie schools that had opened in
Minneapolis at the start of the decade. I was
seven, and more or less a shy kid. I would sit in
the back of the classroom, listen to records with
the guinea pigs; I never hurt anyone. During that
time, there were some kids who wanted to beat me
up; real mean kids from my neighborhood. When it
came time in the day for recess I was too afraid
to go out onto the playground because I knew
these kids were waiting for me. So I stayed
upstairs in the classroom, looked out of the
window, and listened to "Free To Be You and Me."
From the window I could see the whole playground
and everyone on it.
Everything happening at once. I made up stories
about what I saw, and who I saw. Although the
experience was ultimately depressing, I found
within it a foundation for a future self. The
strange way in which I see the world today can be
directly traced back to the time when, as a
little boy, I sat paralyzed by the unfortunate
realities of life as I looked out of a school
window and down onto the Marcy playground.
Click here for the rest of John's bio
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Track 1: Poppies Track 2: Sex and Candy Track 3: Ancient Walls of Flowers Track 4: Saint Joe on the School Bus Track 5: A Cloak of Elvenkind Track 6: Sherry Fraser Track 7: Gone Crazy Track 8: Opium Track 9: One More Suicide Track 10: Dog and His Master Track 11: The Shadow of Seattle Track 12: The Vampires of New York |
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