Random lost souls have asked me
"What's the future of rock'n'roll?"
I say "I don't know does it matter?"
This and that scene,
They sound all the same to me
Neither much worse nor much better
We're so fucked these days
We don't know who to hate or who to praise
Yet we consider this our suffering and pain
When we're so privileged, a fact
We all forget about as
We go whinging all over the place.
How we've laughed as they shoveled the ashes
Wrath hath soured
Blood and death, we will pay back the debt
For this candy store of ours.
Look at those cunts on MTV
With their cars, and cribs, and rings and shit
Is that what being a celebrity means?
Look, boys and girls, here's BBC
See corpses, rapes, and amputees
What do you think now of the American dream?
And our soccer moms and dads
Who raised us brats on these TV ads
I know that they sleep at night
Their conscience is intact
They've convinced themselves of that
Giving money to Jesus Fucking H Christ
How they laughed as we shoveled the ashes
Of the twin towers
Blood and death, we will pay back the debt
For this candy store of ours.
READ IN '07
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Our Ecstatic Days - Steve Erickson
Catching the Big Fish - David Lynch
Is Belief in God Good, Bad or Irrelevant? - Gregg Graffin
The Sunset Limited - Cormac McCarthy
V. - Thomas Pynchon
Superhero Junkies - Kelly Thompson
Bambi Vs. Godzilla - David Mamet
Sharks With Metal Teeth (short) - Stephen Graham Jones
Gabriel (short) - Stephen Graham Jones
The Meat Tree (short) - Stephen Graham Jones
One Saliva Bubble (screenplay) - David Lynch
Ronnie Rocket (screenplay) - David Lynch
Leap Year - Steve Erickson
American Nomad - Steve Erickson
Period - Dennis Cooper
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
The Raw Shark Texts - Steven Hall
Closer - Dennis Cooper
Frisk - Dennis Cooper
Days Between Stations - Steve Erickson
Rubicon Beach - Steve Erickson
Tours of the Black Clock - Steve Erickson
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
The Gum Thief - Douglas Coupland
Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis
The Acid House - Irvine Welsh
Falling Man - Don Delillo
Zeroville - Steve Erickson
Arc d'X - Steve Erickson
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
All Families Are Psychotic - Douglas Coupland