Read Josh's Post Because It's More Interesting Than This

After reading Josh’s post about the SW greatest hits record – I went to their site just to take a trip down memory lane. I remember getting a few of those records when Billy and I worked at KDI – either that or I dreamed the whole thing. I like some of those songs. While I was looking around I saw that HopeAndNothings is putting out a book that’s sort of about the Weasels (did anyone ever call them that?) and sort of fiction…A Hard Day’s Weasel? No one ever made that.

HopeAnd Nothings is a cool publishing house (if that’s the right terminology). They put out books written about (and usually by) Chicago punk rockers. This was the only publisher I seriously considered sending the now scrapped floatingBasement book to…I mean I fully intended to publish that piece of crap myself – but I thought that if there was one publisher out there…

Enough.

bigDrag is probably going to change its name to Action City. Chris B has some cool artwork that I’ll talk about more (and maybe post here) later. I just want something to use for our first CD single. I want it (as if I matter) to come out sometime in December or January. I hope the song we put out will be this thing called Dil – but since Dev and I can’t even agree how to spell the song’s name…

…have I talked about this before?

One last thing on Josh’s most recent post - he ended talking about what it takes to shock people. What he suggested makes sense – and reminded me of that part of the Aristocrats explaining why the joke was no longer shocking and the only way to “save” it would be to include racial slurs etc…Again, saying these things isn’t crazy. But I think – no matter what the context – or the mores of the day (I’m making a fool of myself again) – the ability to say something horrific quietly always carries with it the requisite shock value – and then some. It’s what makes Xenophon’s work – even in the translation of a limp-dicked 19th Century British philologist who doesn’t understand the book – powerful and full of surprises (even of the unwanted kind) in any time – for any audience. Maybe I should’ve posted this on Lies and Exaggerations – but I guess I didn’t want to waste his space with this shit.