Cheapen The Punch

"Thus, paralleling the general expectation of multiple orgasms instilled by the proliferating sex industry, the cinema has created the multiclimactic film in which narrative sense and dramatic structure are sacrificed to a sequence of sensationalistic shocks-a soullessly carnal genre appealing to the lowest common denominators in human nature: erotic titillation and the childish love of being thrilled or horrified. (Where linear development lingers on in the film world, it does so mainly in limply ironic form, typified by the designedly meaningless drift of the ‘road movie’.)" - Ian MacDonald, Revolution in the Head: The Beatles and the Sixties

 "The past can't live on your truth. That's why the ghosts still haunt you." - Shouting Sword, Hesitation Marks , Subliminal Vandalism Hear/Listen

 Found out about this band from Bob N . on 3 Songs Podcast . From the Netherlands, We Are Joiners produce a fuzzy, pop, early rock and roll, only youth can evoke, vibe the velvets birthed into the world. A weird cross between Neutral Milk Hotel and Buddy Holly. Sometimes it reminds me of playing tackle football on a snow-covered streets. And sometimes it reminds me of the smell of chlorine and noticing girls for the first time. Regardless, I envy the young bastards. God bless them. And I'll keep listening.  Hear/Listen  

Cheap Radio # 1  Wilco - Jesus, Etc. (Unified Theory of Everything Version) R. Ring - Stole Eye Buddie - Sunday Morning The Drin - Walk So Far The Underground Railroad to Candyland - Dead Leg Radioactivity - No Connection Winged Wheel - Monsella Idle Ray - Coat of Many Colors Michael Beach - I Never Had Enough Time With You The William Lovejoy Intention - Fire In The Mountains Come - SVK Car Seat Headrest - Cosmic Hero (Live at Tramshed, Cardiff, Wales) We Are Joiners - Johnny B Goode The Gorgons - Alone My Dad Is Dad - Anti-Socialist Yo La Tengo - Brain Capers Hark - Dandelion  Tow Heads - I Wanna Be In Your Life (So I'll Die) Hear/Listen

 

 Two menacing sermons that are headed in different directions with the same force, belief, and intensity. 

"If I announce on Facebook that something of mine has been published, non-literary relatives and acquaintances, for whom publication seems to be something like winning the lottery, will offer their mandatory congratulations. That is not, of course, the same as their reading what I have written. However, “No prophet is taken seriously in his home town”, as one translation of Jesus’s remark would have it. It’s even less likely that a writer of serious fiction would be taken as serious by their acquaintances. Non-readers have always outnumbered readers, of course. But my impression at the moment is that writers outnumber readers. I have not profited from my literary efforts materially in any significant way. Serious dedication to authorship, or to the arts generally, is unlikely to have practical consequences of a happy kind, as everyone working in this sector knows. Ego-boosting rewards of a less material kind have actually been rather paltry, too. When an editor publishes something...