Our Wallflowers review is going be posted on the Vinyl Distict at 2:45 pm, and the editor is promising us we'll get more shit than we ever got for our infamous Fugazi article. We're hoping it will be the first of many reviews we write for TVD, as we've had the itch to write on music since we blew up our career years ago. Anyway, check it out if you want, and be sure to write something horribly negative. Better in the gutter than on a pedestal, as E.M. Cioran once said.
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September 28, 2012
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Why the flying festering fuck have I never seen a Cioran book. Ever?
All the best!
Posted by: Martijn | September 28, 2012 at 01:56 PM
You write great music reviews. I like the recent one about the mice that listened to too much Eagles, and had to flip a lever to get turquiose.
Posted by: bulletholes | September 28, 2012 at 03:16 PM
Awesome! I'm so happy for you! Don't forget us little people.
Posted by: gillian | September 30, 2012 at 03:39 AM
Thanks folks. I won't forget about you little people, don't worry. You're the wind beneath my wings...
Posted by: UF MIKE | October 01, 2012 at 08:55 AM
Martijn, I heartily recommend The Trouble with Being Born. It's the essence of his wisdom, distilled to incredibly bleak aphorisms. Find it and be filled with futility!
Posted by: UF MIKE | October 01, 2012 at 09:06 AM
Thanks for the reading tip, Mike. I probably badly need a shot of Cioran to compensate for Thoreau's optimism I am experiencing at the moment.
I am really taken with his simplifing gospel. I have sold some books and CD's and thrown out my couch believing this would make me happier. So far it's not working, but perhaps I should simplify and throw out more useless things, like underwear and coasters; and how many Dubliners records does a man really need?
Ah, I ain't kidding myself: it's all an illusion and nothing will make me happy. So far the search for Cioran has produced no results though, but I'll keep my eyes peeled. Thanks.
Posted by: Martijn | October 01, 2012 at 11:48 AM
Thoreau? You shock me. you do. But in a good way. I should probably read the guy--maybe he'll inspire me to toss out the new tv that's causing me so much trouble.
Posted by: UF MIKE | October 01, 2012 at 12:42 PM
Thoreau is very much into Nature and its virtues and a repulsion of hollow modern society, which you are not I believe, so I don't know if he speaks to you. He does to me. But he is a very good and clear writer and has lots of humour as well. And I dig the utopian dream castle he built. If I let him influence me even more, perhaps I'll become an abolitionist and anarchist myself.
Posted by: Martijn | October 02, 2012 at 05:30 AM