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Month: June 2021
Getting Punked By Patti Smith
I wanted to be Lou Reed, but I wanted to kiss Patti Smith’s barefoot feet, crawl up her white dress, untie the red scarf that she had tied off round her upper arm in an echo of the ritual of the spoon and spike, and worship at the Altar, with Marie, whoever she is, in […]
MoreNirvana in a Burger Joint: A Tale Of Corporate Fast Food Hell
After picking Billy up in Los Angeles things went on just as they always do. We bounced around California a while. He hated California. Something to do with a spot of police brutality back in the early seventies, where he was off his head on acid, and pissing out of a car. A normal person […]
MoreBrown Sugar and Women’s Graves being Dug in Rock n Roll Songs…part deux I guess…
There would be a time when I would feel unsafe when someone use a jibe that used my emotional response to my own abuse against me. The whole “so you don’t dig brown sugar….but you don’t see rap as bad..whaddabout Knoxville girl” – a song about domestic violence leading to murder comment would have thrown […]
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Blood On The Streets (June 21 21)
Walking up _____ Street today there was a lot of fresh blood. Not a lot of police. A lot of tape. We had missed it. The blood was still wet, so presumably not by that long. D____ insisted on walking us past the mess, past the alleys that the freaks creep out of all hours […]
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