Looking back, absorbing now, casting a gaze toward the ugly red horizon, this is the liturgy we have left to us ... as WSB said, "until the bare lies shine through": To see Big Bad Bill read the whole thing in all his glory, watch this video of WSB reading "Thanksgiving Prayer": Amen.
More Off Topic: Halloween is for The Cramps
Picking up on my last post, I have to highlight The Cramps, whose amazing singer and founder, Lux Interior, left this mortal coil this very year, 2009. RIP LUX. Here we have The Cramps performing "Call of the Wighat," one of the best rock'n'roll numbers of all time. My momma had twin babies on one…
Way Off Topic: Halloween Punkin’
It's that spectral time of year, so I thought I'd highlight my two favorite Halloween numbers from the punk era. Though they both share the same title, "Halloween," the two diverge wildly in their treatment of the subject. The first "Halloween," by The Dead Kennedys, sneeringly asks that musical question, "What's so special about Halloween…
Ed Desautels' Maximum Fiction 