By Rose Martelli on April 15th, 2009 in
Confused already? Us, too. What we know for sure: The session was filmed for Wilson’s website, SoulPancake — which, according to a separate vid on the site, exists to “de-lamify talk’n God.” Wilson plays a totally competent and polished bongo, adding a plaintive beat to Cuomo’s sweetly restrained vocals. A second follow-up video shows Wilson onslaughting Cuomo with a litany of questions ranging from “Why is there suffering?” to “What is your favorite metal band?”
What’s still a big mystery to us: Is SoulPancake a straightforwardly honest attempt on Wilson’s behalf to detangle Life’s Big Questions, or is it a piece of subversive, Andy Kaufman-meets-FunnyOrDie.com, performance-art brilliance? How exactly did the “One of Us” cover fit into this past weekend’s “The Alternative Nation Countdown Takeover extreme-mega-extravaganza” that was co-hosted on Sirius Satellite Radio by Cuomo and Jason Schwartzman? How did Cuomo and Wilson first meet, anyway? And fer rills, what if God was one of us? Joan Osbourne never told us.