Alles ist kaputt, according to Eric Din

Din leans in on his Schlager side, this time with a clear New Wave bent. We’ve heard plenty of ranting against Ai-Slop, appropriately so, but have you heard it in broken German-English? Germinglish, if you will. We’re pretty sure this is the premiere specimen of Germinglish General Ranting About Everything (GGRAE) in the civilized or uncivilized world today.
Many a streaming option here.

By the way, the title case is correct: Alles ist kaputt

Stylized per German standards, you see. If it were English, we’d generally capitalize each word, like Alles Ist Kaputt

But, German it is, so the stylizing is correct. WILL the Apple Music editors balk at this affront to standard practices? We’ll soon know. If that’s kaput.

“Belligerent Brain Pudding Surprise” single by Eric Din

Din’s Beet Poetry expeditions continue with this timely observation complete with organic bongos.  We include the lyrics below, for careful academic scrutiny. Beet Poetry is described by scholars as Beat Poetry only with vegetables. Everything exactly makes sense. Carpe Diem.

Belligerent brain pudding surprise
Abrupt and total demise
Cataclysmic crowd-sourced self-own
Buyers remorse, better luck next time
Belligerent brain pudding surprise
Reality, truth, are words no more
Deep fake fuckery, soft and buttery
Mmm, I’ll try!
Belligerent brain butter surprise
How many fucks does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
Why did the chickens cross the aisle?

All the little fascist pigs (bong bong)
On the morning talk shows (bong bong bong bong)

Eating their young in a carnival orgy
Carnivores carney big tent cave-in
Nothing means anything
Meaning is not a thing
It was in previous centuries
Belligerent brain pudding surprise
Glean from this what you may surmise
All is lost now, that is the prize
Congratulations, be on your way

All the liberal jellyfish (bong bong)
Slurping corporate money (bong bong bong bong)

Belligerent brain pudding surprise
Our best don’t want to run for office
I asked some of them, they just scoff
I understand, for me it’s off
Sign petitions, yell at the street
In my blogs and songs I bleat
Supporting lesser evils
This is better because they’re lesser evils
Maybe write it down
Learn the lesson for next time?
I’d also like a pony
Belligerent brain pudding surprise
Oh well, whatever never mind
Mind the bollocks in the bunkers under Motel California

And if this don’t make much sense (bong bong)
It is not supposed to (bong bong bong bong)

Ask Margot Robbie in a bubble bath
She is the best explainer

© 2025 Eric Roy Dinwiddie
King Roy Music, BMI

“Washed Up” by Matte Martin

“Washed Up” is essentially about the difficulty and guilt one experiences in trying to relax and get one’s mind off things when so much wrong is going on in the world.

A lot of the song was written by singing melodies into my phone while I was on vacation in Hawaii in late 2024. When I got back to my piano, a lot of Popol Vuh started to sneak into the structure, along with The Beach Boys’ Holland album.

A huge thank you goes out to The X-Ray Men for their excellent feedback and for being great guys, in general.

Dedicated to Brian Wilson.
Written and performed by Matte Martin.

Halloween Everywhere

Berkeley Cat Records has a Halloween song. How did it happen? Oh, mysteriously, of course, but there it is!


The download on Bandcamp there costs a whopping FREE until the day after Halloween, and then it’ll be a buck. Or an eye of newt.

Halloween Everywhere was composed and decomposed shortly before October 31, 2025, by Eric Din from an idea from Matthew King Kaufman. These two have collaborated on a number of songs along the way, but never a Halloween one, to our knowledge. In fact, this is a first for Berkeley Cat Records as well. Just in time for tricks and pies, have at it!

I Promise Not To Drunk Text Bobby About Getting The Band Back Together, by Eric Din

Berkeley Cat Records cannot verify the veracity of any of the statements herein, but we HAVE signed up diligently, for Ska Yodeling lessons.

https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/ericdin/i-promise-not-to-drunk-text-bobby-about-getting-the-band-back-together

Astonishingly, Songs From The Garden by Russ Ellis goes Streaming, Oct. 11!

Why October 11? Oh because October 11, campers, and because Apollo 11.

Songs From The Garden – full-length album by Russ Ellis & fam, came out on November 20, 2021 exclusively on CD and Bandcamp, where it shall ever reside as long as the electrons shall flow. The BIG Mews is that now it is available for pre-order at iTunes, for all our beloved Apple Music users. Here is that momentous link:

https://music.apple.com/us/album/songs-from-the-garden/1839923501

Spotifiers can “pre-save” it, too, whatever that means. AND when it goes live in those venues on October 11, it will at the same time be live at ALL the streaming services from pillar to post, sea to shining sea, hither and yon.

Garden well.

Russ and daughter Zoe, who also sings on the record

Just Waiting For The Rain, by Eric Din

Our very own Eric Din is up to his record-making shenanigans again, this time in a folk-rocky mood. Per the artist, “I don’t believe I’ve made a rain song, before. Well, now I have!” We applaud this and also laud the excellent attire on Berkeley Cat himself, who adorns the cover. May the rains come when you need them, literally, metaphorically or however you like. Here is Just Waiting For The Rain