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The point is not everyone, not even a few, are going to LIKE the Fall. That is exactly the point. I am gutted by this latest passing. He is my go-to spokesmen for a certain discontent. I am not religious but am easily influenced by a confluence of sympathetic synchronicities: his lyrics speak to me – transparent yet playfully inscrutable, is he also dyslexic?, the use of chaos poetics to stir up the bloated consuming middle, Ballard, Beefheart, Can, H.S. Thompson, Camus, Stewart Lee, Philip K. Dick [was reading him the day he died], Pope John Paul 1’s murder [see our Wet Dreams of the Pope, his Hey! Luciani], DIY strategies, autodidact, worker sympathies, eternal contentiousness, resistance, withering wit, distortion, using radio as a musical instrument, crafty cultural allusions, can’t “really” sing, beer, Joyce, transgressive lit., taking the piss out of, mesmerizing repetition... mesmerizing repetition...
• Amsterdam • Ethno-Illogical Psycho-Radiographies • 28.01.18
