Saturday, 17 July 2021
It comes to an end...
Sure the story is transgressive but I was very surprised that when I would recommend the book to friends that on explaining the plot they were all seriously appalled. Never had that happen before. I was disappointed in the film version sadly but hey make up your own mind.
Here's Dennis talking about the planning for the series
I had a general sense that the cycle would consist of five novels, but that wasn't set in stone. Within that premise of five novels in mind, I'd decided that each of the middle three books would concentrate on one of the ways in which I viewed my subjects. The second novel (Frisk) would prioritize the libidinal, sexual, erotic appeal. The third novel (Try) would prioritize my emotional response. The fourth novel (Guide) would prioritize the cerebral, intellectual, and analytical. The fifth novel (Period) would present what remained after all of the examination, trickery, and damage of the central three novels, creating Closer's decimated, resolved twin. So the task of writing Closer was to both realize all these predetermined notions while creating a novel with enough material within it to sustain the cycle that would follow.
Dennis very kindly promoted my blog when I first started it for which I shall be forever grateful...
"...Mona, Hey. Oh (...) yeah, I remember. You were in Amsterdam when I was there? That's crazy. Crazy 'cos I had no real friends there, so I wish our paths had crossed. It's great you're going to do something on Mike Hart. I can't remember if I ever met him properly -- probably -- but Compendium was such an important and great place, and even though I don't get to London often, I miss it terribly when I'm there. The last reading I did in London was there. Your new blog is lovely. I'll be a reader, and let me alert the folks around here. Everybody, Mona, friend of and occasional commenter on this blog, has a terrific new blog that brings all kinds of things to the fore, from the great Lizzy Mercier Descloux and Miles Davis, for instance, to decisive backroom stuff on nasty Sarah Palin and much more. Check it out..."
...and yeah it would have been good to have got to know each other in Amsterdam though we did work out that we both got showered with broken glass when someone obviously had taken offence at William Burroughs' reading at the One World Poetry Festival at the Melkweg and smashed this glass door just after he had gone through it but the next five or six people which included Dennis and myself were not so lucky. I still have a recording of Burroughs reading that night (November 12 1985) and when I finally get it digitised Dennis will be the first to get a copy.
Dennis has just posted over on FB that even Kirkus and Publishers Weekly have given starred reviews for I WISHED, and that these are the "first ever stars from those places. Trippy." It is also always worth checking out Dennis's blog which is one of the greatest out there. Trust me and here's The New Yorker explaing what happened when Google removed his last blog
Finally to confirm when exactly the Burroughs reading was I found the clipping above from an online Jeffrey Lee Pierce archive where it also says this about his Amsterdam appearance:
Interesting that it doesn't say what he read at this, his second ever reading, isn't it?. Truth be told he was paralytic and after five minutes (if that) of mumbles he was escorted offstage by Simon Vinkenoog. Sadly I'd seen him in worse states before.
Friday, 16 July 2021
Little Axe - Grinning In Your Face / Seeing Red / Tear the System Down (If I Had My Way)
Recorded at Grounds For Thought, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA 28/3/15
'The Hacienda must be built'
They Steal We Suffer Mix
Tracklist
1 Stealing (Original with Bim Sherman vocals) - Tackhead
2 Privatisation Program - Gary Clail
3 More Is Insane (10" Mix) - Strange Parcels & Bim Sherman
4 Privatise The Air (Part 1) - Gary Clail
5 To Be Rich Is A Crime - Jeb Loy Nichols
6 Stealing (Extended Version Bim Sherman vocals) - Tackhead
7 Food Clothes & Shelter / These Things Are Worth Fighting For (Young Gods Club Mix) / Privatise The Air (Part 2) - Gary Clail
8 Stealing In The Name (Live) - Little Axe
Production by Adrian Sherwood and most tracks feature Skip McDonald on guitar, Doug Wimbish on bass and Keith LeBlanc on drums
Paris, Texas
Last night I mentioned this film to someone who had never seen it and was trying to explain just how perfect it is in every way. As for Sam Shepard's script well...
I've lost count how many times I've watched this film but it's being lined up again
Here's Ry Cooder on that amazing score
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Thursday, 15 July 2021
This Is A Restricted Mix
So yesterday when I was putting together the The Thème De Yoyo Head mixes I managed to delete the version of High Ideals and Crazy Dreams I included. A day of searching numerous hard drives and a post to the FB On-U Sound page later and eventually I found it. Turns out it was an unreleased 2001 mix by Adrian Sherwood given to someone back then. Anyway this led to a few more finds in the drives to add to the Silly Mix previously posted. This Restricted Mix includes the On-U tape archivist Pats Dokter's remix of High Ideals, a bit of a Mark Stewart 'As The Veener of Democracy Starts To Fade' Megamix entitled 'The Wrong Name & The Wrong Number (This Is A Restricted Mix)' which I'm pretty certain from memory was spliced together by Jethro R Binks (who was responsible for putting together the 'Major Malfuction' version excursion a while back then 'Cowardice Dub' from 'The Lost Tapes' release. This is followed by an unreleased version of High Ideals by the Strange Parcels with Skip MacDonald singing. Bernard Fowler sang one version and a different Skip mix was released in Japan only. The last two tracks are songs which Mark Stewart played as works-in-progress on Steve Barker's On The Wire show in 2010.
Wednesday, 14 July 2021
Thème De Yoyo Head Mix (1 & 2)
Tracklist:
Intro
Lankum - The Wild Rover
John Martyn - Eibhli Ghail Chiuin Ni Chearbhail (BBC Session 10/73)
Hugo Race & Michelangelo Russo - Motor City Is Burning
John Lee Hooker - Motor City Is Burning
Low & Dirty Three - Down by The River
William Tyler & Luke Schneider - The Witness Tree
Applecraft - The Benefactor
Belly - Are You Experienced?
The Icarus Line - Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers
C.C. Sager - King Tubby In His Kitchen
Low - Disappearing
Scritti Politti - Skank Bloc Bologna
Thom Yorke - Creep (Very 2021 RMX)
Tracklist:
Intro
African Head Charge - Throw It Away
Renegade Soundwave - Renegade Soundwave (Whistling Guitar Mix)
Nicky Skopelitis - Tarab
Tweaker (ft. David Sylvian) - Linoleum (Tearglass & Plateglass Remix)
Future Pilot AKA VS Alan Vega/Revolutionary Corps Of Teenage Jesus - Meditation Rat
Black Cab - Frankie Teardrop (Live at Pure Pop St Kilda January 4 2013)
Billie Ray Martin - The Crackdown (Oicho Remix)
A Certain Ratio - Musik Kontrol (ACR VS Massey Mix)
Jan Hammer - Crockett's Theme
Art Ensemble of Chicago - Thème De Yoyo
Anita Lane - Home Is Where The Hatred Is
Consolidated - Who Controls The Past (Adrian Sherwood Dub Remix)
Bill Laswell - Asha (ft. Asha Puthli)
Tapper Zukie - M.P.L.A./Dub
New Age Steppers - Crazy Dreams & High Ideals (Unreleased Adrian Sherwood 2001 Remix)
Artwork: Chris Hanis
Just got to say one thing: FUCK - that new Thom Yorke ('featuring Radiohead') version of Creep is absolutely FUCKING awful. Go to mix2 where I suspect the average age of the tracks would turn out to be what...30 years old and there is SO much more invention at play...'old man music eh?'
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Leftfield's Remix & Dub Version
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