vascular hermeneutics
I'd like to meet:
"Some pundits have argued that rock bands such as Kickstart, Peruke, Sudden Infant Dance Syndrome, and KillIntelligentDesign are the future of Rock and Roll. However, this narrow view of the future has been rebutted elsewhere. Self-styled rock sophisticates and aficionados believe the future of Rock music is SKANKABLE SPEEDY SLUDGE ROCK, and this future belongs to three terribly good-looking savants from Iqaluit who together are known as TICK."
- Peter Mansbridge, The National, CBC News. 6/2/2006
(folks, you just can't make this shit up.)
Music:
"These songs, if you will, are the product of considerable.... artistry, and the result is a punishing exposition of Skanky Sludge Rock, lending a prima facie credibility to claims of Post-concussive Syndrome by those few lucky enough to experience TICK live. In fact, I tell all my clients to see TICK live and as often as possible".
-- Dr. Scala Vestibuli, cochlear implanteur
(The threshold of pain is the SPL -Skanky, Punishing, sLudgerock- beyond which sound becomes unbearable for a human listener. This threshold varies only slightly with frequency. Prolonged exposure to sound pressure levels in excess of the threshold of pain can cause physical damage, potentially leading to hearing impairment and tinnitus.)
Movies:
we prefer to say cinema, but only because it rhymes with enema...
I've been thinking fondly of Chauncey Gardiner lately.... and of how our current dear leader smacks of a certain Francis Marion Tarwater -ness, which is both troubling, and fascinating. Though this has nothing immediate to do with Being There.
And, of course, Gov. William J. Le Petomane. -Lolly
Books:
they can hurt you. bad.
Heroes:
June 26, 1987 -
G.I. Jesus , alleged voice of Sludgy Skank-Rock supergroup TICK, enters Cedar-Sinai with complaints of congestive headaches. An MRI reveals an object of relative mass to the Cape York meteorite lodged in his sinus. In a tense, unprecedented, 32-hour surgical procedure, the mass is removed using state-of-the-art plasma laser technology. Unfortunately, the mass brings with it substantial portions of his frontal lobe, including bits of Broca's Area and motor cortex. A small portion of the temporal lobe is damaged by what physicians (and Jello Biafra) typically refer to as, "fumbly fingers." Mr. Jesus will recover without incident, however, going on to deliver what critics later claim to be his "most sparkly performance" on the highly influenced album Various Random Bullshit with TICK, which earns TICK the rare and coveted Atlantic Juno award for "Best Cardioid Microphone Manipulation in a Laboratory Setting." G.I. Jesus is entered into the Guinness Book of World Records as "The world's most unintelligible Skank-Rock singer" later the same year.
