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SPLEEN

A rentboy does not a Rimbaud make

About Me


The Flesh Happening - WASTE (2007)

My Interests


Rimbaud, Iggy, Verlaine, Burroughs, Bowie, Leadbelly, my grandmother. The origins of punk, blues, beat, Dada, alternative or underground culture, buggery...

I'd like to meet:

I hooked up with this website primarily to meet people who might be a help in furthering the infamy of my band The Flesh Happening .....
Bleed / Hitler & Jesus by The Flesh Happening
Available Now...

My 2003 book DEPRAVIKAZI

Music:

The Velvet Underground, Stooges, Can, David Bowie, John Coltrane, Pixies, Joy Division, Leadbelly, Hank Williams, Carole King, Buzzcocks, Duke Ellington, Kate Bush, Woody Guthrie, Le Tigre, Television, Harry Partch, Miles Davis, Virgin Prunes, The Ronnettes, Bessie Smith, Patti Smith, The Smiths, Suicide, Little Richard, Ramones, Jacques Brel, The Cramps, Chuck Berry, Captain Beefheart, Dolly Parton, Cab Calloway, Jane's Addiction, Leonard Cohen, The Clash, Johnny Cash, Grandmaster Flash, Sonic Youth, The Orb, Nina Hagen, The Doors, P J Harvey, Billie Holiday, Nine Inch Nails, X-ray Spex, Tom Waits, The Fall, Lydia Lunch, Antony and the Johnsons, Public Enemy, The Carpenters, GG Allin, Bob Dylan, The Pogues, Bauhaus, The Shangri-Las, Tricky, Libertines, New York Dolls, Gram Parsons, Richard Hell, Edith Piaf, Nirvana, Nick Cave, Nick Drake, Ray Charles, The Cardiacs, Neil Young, Noel Coward, Jimi Hendrix, Diamanda Galas, Sex Pistols, White Noise, Pulp, Pink Floyd, Flying Medallions, Jeff Buckley, Bonzo Dog Band, Charlie Parker, Joni Mitchell, Bjork, Bad Brains, Verdi, Aphex Twin etc... Guess I should Put in my band The Flesh Happening , as we make the kind of music I would like to hear if I wasn't the one making it...

Movies:

Darren Aronofsky, Spike Jonze, Paolo Pasolini, Harmony Korine, John Waters, David Lynch ...

Television:

Anything that is informative, stimulating or just good mind-wank.

Books:

Last Exit to Brooklyn, Tropic of Cancer, Naked Lunch, Story of the Eye, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Our Lady of the Flowers, Fox in Socks, The 120 Days of Sodom, guess I should put in Depravikazi because I wrote it.....

Heroes:

These aren’t necessarily all heroes but I felt they should get a mention; Rimbaud (of course), Verlaine, Iggy, Burroughs, Bowie, Ginsberg, Leigh Bowery, Hubert Selby Jr, Henry Miller, Quentin Crisp, Lindsay Kemp, Hunter S. Thompson, Jean Genet, Dylan Thomas, Baudelaire, Poe, Plato, Warhol, Coleridge, Crowley, Huxley, Basquiat, Spike Milligan, William Blake, Chris Morris, Edward Lear, Aubrey Beardsley, R. Crumb, Hieronymus Bosch, Marcel Duchamp, Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, my grandmother...

My Blog

QUEER RIOT

All the bitter twisted twitching Of the sour sadistic fags Who spend their days just bitching Bout the cheapness of your drag   They cut you with an acid tongue And strut about the scene Well I'...
Posted by SPLEEN on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 09:27:00 PST

"DEATH RATTLE" EXTRACT FROM DEPRAVIKAZI

The present, I hold only in contempt For it is now and now and always now Whereas the past embroiders on itself With recollection's corners worn by time The future holds its openness unwrit It is a ...
Posted by SPLEEN on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 06:42:00 PST

USELESS PUMPING

What is this vision my mind is revealing Could it be all that I see is the ceiling Could it be all that Ive known and I trust Is tainted by matters of longing and lust   As I lay in my bed on my...
Posted by SPLEEN on Mon, 05 Jun 2006 07:19:00 PST

SEPTIC LEG

Oh, sing me a song Of your souls sweet salvation Dont dig yourself deeper In dark degradation Dont lie there and languish In lepers repose With an cunt for a mouth And a cock for a nose And a moulderi...
Posted by SPLEEN on Mon, 05 Jun 2006 07:17:00 PST

ANAL JOY

Oiled as the wetness of the womb All pebble-dashed upon the drum My silence echoes round the room The copper taste of salt and come   Into this gasping burrow delves The ferret as each piston-pum...
Posted by SPLEEN on Mon, 05 Jun 2006 07:14:00 PST

LAUDANUM AND LAVENDER

I on my bed in limbo lie My moonward face fixed to the skies Lank space and scytheless time abound In twice five miles of fertile ground   Laudanum and lavender Heavy lids and vacant stare In Xan...
Posted by SPLEEN on Tue, 24 Jan 2006 11:10:00 PST

THE DE SADE SUITE

(Written in the De Sade Suite of the Black Tulip Hotel Amsterdam)   In this infernal bridal suite Furnished with chains and straps and stocks Hired for two nights to consummate Our love and tor...
Posted by SPLEEN on Tue, 24 Jan 2006 06:45:00 PST

WASTE

Do you remember that night? Those few wild hours of our lust I was young and didnt know you But I wanted love and gave my trust   I who you fucked with great fury up the arse I who you fucked fir...
Posted by SPLEEN on Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:52:00 PST

HITLER AND JESUS

My Hitler, my Jesus, my one and my two One was a German and one was a Jew One was quite wicked, the other, quite weird One had a moustache, the other, a beard One had a parting, the other, nice sandal...
Posted by SPLEEN on Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:47:00 PST

PENAIL PETER

Waking after the long deep sleep that often followed a strenuous evenings session pumping glutinous white puddles of fluid across scraps of paper, salvaged from magazines and underwear catalogues- it...
Posted by SPLEEN on Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:45:00 PST