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They've only had one Issue 2, but already we wonder how we ever got this far without. Where have you been all my life Slake?
Saturday, February 19 at 7:30 p.m.
The list from Slake.la -
• John Albert (Wrecking Crew) on Van Halen:
“It is a style of playing that will so dramatically alter the musical landscape that thirty years later it will sound normal, even rote. But in 1978, this burst of unabashed virtuosity and noise, something we’ll later learn is appropriately called ‘Eruption,’ earns unexpected respect from three punk rock children and one middle-aged country rock musician. As the whole thing reaches a frenzied crescendo of undulating distortion, the four of us start to laugh.”
—from “Running with the Devil”
• Greg Burk (MetalJazz.com) on the sanctity of blanco tequila:
“It goes without saying that when you’re drinking cheap white tequila, ice and mixers must be avoided. There is purgation to be accomplished, and a penitent does not affix pompoms to his flagellum.”
—from “Absolution”
• Hank Cherry on the fallout, psychic and otherwise, after the flood in New Orleans:
“After Hill’s murder I became convinced that going back was folly. By all reports, the town had turned into a swamp of violent dysfunction, something it teetered on when I lived there. At the end of this past April, though, I turned forty just as BP’s oil rig exploded, sending the region into disaster mode once again. I knew I had to get back there before they sold the last of the oyster po’ boys. It was only half a joke.”
—from “Bayouland”
• Jackie Gorman (The Seeing Glass) on final moments:
• James Greer (The Failure) on the subtle art of fabrication:
“Now that she thinks of it, Oscar isn’t even sure that the drug-addled motorcyclist in George Allen Parker’s story was male. For some reason, the details have already started to withdraw from her memory’s outstretched arms into the kind of dense fog one normally associates with London, but which in fact occurs in Paris regularly, though not as regularly as one might wish. In fact, this fog can happen anywhere, though no cases have been reported for many years in Valdux, South Dakota.”
—from “A Yellow Coincidence”
• Joseph Mattson (Empty the Sun) on a cloudy night in Little Tokyo and Chinatown:
• Amy Scattergood (Squid Ink) on going missing:
“Exposition: Abandoned car, dirt road, collapsed
coat, single shoe on the shoulder. Her husband
memorizes the horses in the sky while police
detectives lift her fingerprints from the wheel
and the wind lifts the last of her perfume.”
—from “Fugue in D Minor with Dissociative State”
• Laurie Wheeler on matters atmospheric:
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