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Kudzu
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Lowell Gaines is wandering through America's Deep South attempting to find direction in his banal life. After abandoning his job at a carnival, he crosses paths with prostitutes, perverts, strippers, psychotics, and a variety of other abject figures. He lands in a bug-infested mobile home next to an old friend and ex-con from the fair, gets a job at a fast food restaurant, and gradually becomes alienated from those around him. Lowell finally arrives at a crossroads: What wisdom he has gained and what path he will take is anyone's guess.
This novel was written in 1989 and has content that might be disturbing to some readers. |
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Sumac
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Wayne Turner is a diligent security guard who lives in a mobile home in rural Indiana. All Wayne really wants is a satisfying work assignment, a family that morally supports him, and perhaps a little hunting and fishing on the weekends.
Yet for all his efforts to achieve his goals, what he winds up with are problems — arguments, pay-cuts, and overdue bills. Wayne throws himself further into his jobs—he even imagines himself gracing the pages of True Detective magazine. Yet his drive and obsession with work go unappreciated by his indolent family: his overweight, lazy wife Ethel tricks him; slovenly daughter Darlene disheartens him; and rebellious son Wayne Junior spites him. At the same time, the values Wayne believes in seem to crumble before his very eyes, and his employers, fellow employees, and family begin getting in the way of every step he takes. Sumac is the story of one simple man's ambitions and dreams, his trials and failures in trying to realize them, and the steps he takes to remedy the pain within him. And as any such story must be, it is funny, cruel, sad, and violent. Cheap motel rooms, convenience stores, strip shows, prison, pornography, drive-ins, mobile homes...Sumac is strong meat!--The Haw River Testimony This novel was written in 1993 and has content that might be disturbing to some people. The cover is by Frank Kozik. |
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Tape Delay
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In 1984, author Charles Neal set about interviewing the major protagonists working in sound, word, and image. Concentrating on the most challenging and confrontational, he deliberately chose the individuals and groups most at odds with the mainstream. His aim was to produce a collection that reflected the cutting edge of the eighties underground.
With only his tape recorder as defense, he solicited hundreds of hours of interview material, as well as photos, original writing, and illustrations. His findings were as intriguing and diverse as the artists included. Often encompassing the taboo and the perverse, the opinions of Nick Cave, Genesis P-Orridge, and Michael Gira now read like lone voices against the tide of creeping commercialism that abounded in the eighties music scene. Also included are contributions from nearly all of the artists, in the forms of photos, collages, lyrics, short stories, and cartoons. Clearly, the confrontational of the artists included within Tape Delay's myriad pages is still visible in today's musical world. "'Tape Delay investigates those rare underground performers who've stuck their forefingers up the butt of commercial (in)sensibility to pursue their own visions. A virtual Who's Who of people who've done the most in the eighties to drag music out of commercial confinement."--New Musical Express Interviews with and contributors include Marc Almond, Dave Ball, Nevelle Brody, Cabaret Voltaire, Nick Cave, Chris & Cosey, Coil, Einsturzende Neubauten, The Fall, Diamanda Galas, Genesis P-Orridge, Michael Gira, The Hafler Trio, Andrew Johnson, Matt Johnson (The The), Biba Kopf, Laibach, Lydia Lunch, New Order, Nurse With Wound, Psychic TV, Boyd Rice, Henry Rollins, Clint Ruin (Foetus), Jon Savage, Savage Pencil, Mark E. Smith (The Fall), Sonic Youth, Stevo, Mark Stewart, Swans, Test Dept, and David Tibet (Current 93). ...a virtual Who's Who of people who've done the most in the past decade to drag music out of commercial confinement. Tape Delay is by far the most ambitious and comprehensive attempt so far to link together the large number of innovative noise-oriented bands to have emerged from the indie ghetto. — Sounds Magazine Tape Delay investigates those rare underground performers who've stuck their forefingers up the butt of commercial (in)sensibility to pursue their own visions. On that level alone it should be welcomed. — New Musical Express Overall, this truly superb book which anyone even half-interested in any of the artists covered should invest in. — Impulse Magazine Essential reading for the serious-minded listener to the "alternative" underground. |
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