1. Guided by Voices Redmen and Their Wives
2. Guided by Voices Best of Jill Hives
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3. Robert Pollard Far-Out Crops
4. Guided By Voices 14 Cheerleader Coldfront
5. Robert Pollard Town of Mirrors
6. Guided by Voices Little Whirl
7. Guided by Voices My Impression Now
8. Guided By Voices Dayton, Ohio – 19 Something And 5
9. Robert Pollard White Gloves Come Off
10. Robert Pollard The Ash Gray Proclamation
11. Tobin Sprout To My Beloved Martha
12. Guided by Voices Awful Bliss
13. Robert Pollard I Get Rid of You
14. Guided by Voices Johnny Appleseed
15. Robert Pollard Kickboxer Lightning
16. Guided by Voices Chicken Blows
17. Guided by Voices Exit Flagger
18. Guided by Voices Kicker of Elves
19. Guided by Voices Don’t Stop Now
20. Guided by Voices Father Sgt. Christmas Card
21. Guided by Voices Tractor Rape Chain
22. Guided by Voices Huffman Prairie Flying Field
23. Guided by Voices Big School
24. Robert Pollard Pop Zeus
25. Airport 5 The Cost of Shipping Cattle
26. Robert Pollard Vibrations in the Woods
27. Robert Pollard Edison’s Memos
28. Guided by Voices Game of Pricks
29. Airport 5 Stifled Man Casino
30. Airport 5 How Brown?
31. Tobin Sprout All Used Up
32. Guided by Voices Do the Earth
33.Guided by Voices Cut-Out Witch
34. Guided by Voices Queen of Cans and Jars
35. Guided by Voices Back to the Lake
36. Guided by Voices Lethargy
37. Guided by Voices On the Tundra
38. Guided by Voices The Official Ironmen Rally Song
39. Tobin Sprout The Last Man Well Known to Kingpin
40. Robert Pollard Subspace Biographies
41. Guided by Voices Car Language
42. Guided by Voices The Goldheart Mountaintop Queen Directory
43. Guided by Voices Wrecking Now
44. Tobin Sprout Water on the Boaters Back
45. Tobin Sprout The Crawling Backwards Man
46. Go Back Snowball It Is Divine
47. Guided by Voices Atom Eyes
48. Guided by Voices Non-absorbing
49. Robert Pollard Whiskey Ships
50. Robert Pollard Enjoy Jerusalem!
51. Guided by Voices My Valuable Hunting Knife
52. Guided by Voices Matter Eater Lad
53. Tobin Sprout As Lovely As You
54. Robert Pollard Weatherman And Skin Goddess
55. Robert Pollard Dunce Codex
57. Guided by Voices Gleemer
58. Guided by Voices Shocker in Gloomtown
59. Guided by Voices Postal Blowfish
60. Guided by Voices Teenage FBI
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p.s. Hey. Starting on this coming Tuesday, the blog will be going into reruns and will lack p.s.es of any substance for approximately two and a half weeks while I’m away traveling in Australia and, briefly, in Hong Kong. I will explain how that’ll work in more detail on Monday, but just to give you an early-ish heads up. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi, David. Those ‘Casino’ opening credits are a total beauty, aren’t they? And the ‘Casino Royale’ ones are too. I loved that ‘Casino Royale’ film when I was a kid. I’d like to see it again. Thanks! ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. Oh, thanks! I don’t know Darren Banks’ work, but a quick viewing of the initial portion of his site intrigues me a lot, and I’ll rectify my lack. ** Bill, Thank you kindly, sir. Please do your Hsuian magic with those squishes. Pretty please? Glad the stuff hit some sort of interesting spot. Have a swell weekend! ** Thomas Moronic, Thanks, Thomas. Cool. How’s your weekend shaping up? ** Sypha, Hey. I’m an ‘Ernest’/Jim Varney fan. I’m not embarrassed in the slightest to say so. What he did was very slight and particular, but there’s something really exciting and beautiful in that character, I think. I have read quite a bit of Bataille’s non-fiction, yes. I of course heartily approve of you diving into that stuff. ‘Tears of Eros’ is great. I like a lot of his philosophical books. I don’t know if you want or need recommendations, but, if so, I might suggest ‘Visions of Excess’, for one. You might have fun with one of his odder books, ‘The Trial of Gilles de Rais’. Anyway, I think you probably have a path laid out. ‘Literature and Evil’, is, of course, great and one of his easier reads. ** Rewritedept, Well, thank you. Sexy beast would have been quite a stretch, but thank you. Mm, you know … I don’t remember how old Nick is, if you ever told me, but since you call him a kid, I assume he’s a kid. Kids are figuring things out, the world, themselves, exploring, experimenting … They’re focused on themselves, as they should be. Maybe what you present isn’t something he feels like he needs to explore or understand right now. I don’t know, obviously, but I think you’re taking the fact that his attention is elsewhere way, way too personally. And you’re trying to read him like he’s a peer, your age, an adult, a friend or a crush. He’s a kid, man. A relationship with a kid is great opportunity to explore things like selflessness and objectivity and study your own needs and why you have them and stuff. Chill, basically, is my advice, ha ha. I hope my birthday is fun and not depressing too. I don’t have a lot of hope for, but hey. Naw, birthday schmirthday, whatever. Birthdays are so overrated. ** Chris Dankland, Hey! Cool, perfect way to watch them. The ‘LCTG’ credits are super-minimal. First there’s the stupid animated logo of the distribution company. Then there’s the title in big white letters on a black background. In Helvetica? Can’t remember. Then the words ‘a film by Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley’, again white on black. Then the film starts. At the end, again, simple white on black credits, one after another: actors, us, crew, music, thanks, etc. While a minimal, kind of weird, sad song by Niko Solorio plays over them. Totally basic. Oh, yeah, ‘Dawn of the Dead’ credits, I remember those. Those are cool. They must not be online ‘cos I really scoured. Next time I see Stephen O’Malley, I’ll ask him who he thinks has the best BM or DM lyrics. He’s a scholar of that stuff. If I actually remember to do that, and if he tells me, I’ll pass his pick(s) along. Oh, and maybe I’ll shoot a quick email to Brandon Stosuy and ask him. He’s one of big honchos at Pitchfork and a great pal and Metal i
s his musical life love. Oh, awesome, that title you picked out for Twitter is really great, yeah. Ditto, yeah, re: the Butler and Krilanovich books. Speaking of, do you know how close she is to finishing her new novel, by chance? I’m kind of jonesing for it. That little scene you mentioned in ‘Lords of Salem’ was by far my favorite thing in that film. May you have the finest Saturday and Sunday that those two days can produce! ** Okay. So, I decided to mark the occasion of my birthday by heavily indulging my reverence for the holy triumvirate of GbV, Pollard, and Sprout. I invite and even strongly encourage you to celebrate my birthday by clicking as many of those Play buttons as you can stand because what they lead to is the happiest, best part of me. Or something. There you go. Have good weekends. See you on Monday.
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haha this is like a giant sandwich of scissor-kicking happy. HAPPY BIRTHDAY DENNIS! much much love from often-indiscernible-but-affectionate-regardless me xxxx
Oh, and just to be a completist: There was one song that was supposed to be there but I seem to have spaced out and forgotten it: GbV 'Liquid Indian'. And there are three songs that would have been there but they had no video version: RP '40 Yards to the Burning Bush', RP 'And My Unit Moves', and TS 'Liquor Bag'. Later.
The 1967 Casino Royale is one of the maddest movie follies of all-time. There's a marvelous article in "The Quarterly Review of Film and Video" (I'm on its editorial board) from several years back that's more than worth reading. Producer Charles K. Feldman had scored such a hit with What's New Pussycat ? that he decided the next thing to do would be to star Peter Sellers as James Bond. Because of a very peculiar rights set-up, that particular Ian Fleming book wasn't part of the deal that produced the UA Bond films. So having secured the rights Feldman set to work. The trouble was that Sellers, though brilliant, was also bat-shit crazy. His participation in Pussycat came about through his ability to take what had originally been written as a cameo role and pile on ideas that resulted in it being a leading one. It was a huge success for one and all, but he was insanely resistant to Feldman's Bond project. He'd agreed to do it and then made himself unavailable. So Feldman decided to go into production anyway and try as best he could to persuade Sellers to show up and d scenes. This is why the film had five directors, and an all-star cast. Jackie Bisset told me that in her scene with Sellers he was there for the master sot but refused to do close-ups with her. So she was fed all her lines by an off-screen Val Guest (one of the many directors). the result is a mad thing I have great affection for
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Happy birthday Dennis! Hope it's a fantastic day. Much love to you.
So many great songs here – thanks for sharing these. "Redmen and Their Wives," "White Gloves Come Off," and "Cut Out Witch" are long-time huge favorites. There are a few tunes here that I don't know at all – excited to check them out.
Is the Australia/Hong Kong trip at all related to your birthday – or just coincidental timing? Any particular things you're looking forward to checking out there?
You asked about my novel – the update on that isn't really fit for the blog. Maybe a Skype conversation when you're back home? Things aren't bad, but pretty complicated.
Been asking around here about presentation possibilities for Like Glow Towards Cattle. There's LGBT film fest, but they seem to be in shambles right now and the local film society caters to 70-year-olds. The place where I occasionally screen films has some content restrictions which rule it out. Anyhow, it's a long shot but I've put out feelers to several independent presenters and small festivals and will let you know if anything comes back.
Happy birthday man! Enjoy your travelling.
Hey Dennis, hope you have a good birthday tomorrow. I'll probably end up wishing you a happy birthday proper on Facebook.
Yeah my brothers and I were obsessed with Ernest as a kid, both the films and the Saturday morning show. I recall the last few Ernest films being pretty dire though… our favorite one was probably Ernest Goes to Jail.
Thanks for the Bataille references, I'll try to investigate some of those.
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Happy birthday Dennis! Have fun in Australia and Hong Kong!
Dennis,
Wow, it’s your birthday! Woohoo! Assuming you won’t see this until Monday, what did you do to celebrate? I hope it wasn’t as much of a drag as you were expecting and was instead a very, very, very great birthday! If it does suck, just pick a different, better day to be your birthday instead. I’m excited to hear about what you end up doing on your trip, especially in Hong Kong. Have a great time, travel safe, etc etc etc.
Caves are very cool. I had a class last semester where we learned about cave drawings and I thought it was super cool. The idea of their being all of this stuff underground that we might never know about or that did exist but has since been destroyed. Art that had an entire beginning and end without anyone other than the creator ever seeing it. Or maybe a cave that no one has ever ever ever seen or recorded. It’s like, you could be walking over something that doesn’t even really exist, you know? But there it is, maybe. So, Kentucky isn’t all bad, technically.
That trip you took sounds totally amazing. I think everyone dreams of doing something like that, so it’s great that you really got to do it! My best friend and I have been talking about taking a trip up to New York to see your papers at the Fales Library, but it seems like we might end up flying. It would be a lot more fun to drive, though, since neither of us have been to the NE before.
Anyway, have a great weekend and birthday and trip and ! I will listen to your songs and send out lots of good vibes.
An especially large and gushing amount of love this time,
Jeremy
Dennis,
Happy birthday Dennis! And more importantly, happy travels! Hong Kong?? I am so jealous! I love how Hong Kong looks, circa 1973, in Enter the Dragon! Topographically interesting.
My fave songs in this space:
Atom Eyes
My Valuable Hunting Knife
Liquor Bag
Bulldog Skin
Again, happy birthday Dennis! The world is a much lovelier place with you in it!!
Love,
James
Marilyn wishes you a Happy Birthday, Dennis!
Have a wonderful birthday, Dennis. You truly are an extraordinary person. So glad to know you and your work. You know, it's not every writer I'm able to read – in fact, I'm not a great reader at all – but your voice is always super-cool to me. Thanks for all you do – have a great day!!
Oh, almost forgot: had I dream I went to see LCTG – now this is one dream I know will easily come true (soon I hope).
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DENNIS!!!
And thanks for inviting us all to the GbV party. I think I've raved to you in person about how perfect I think Game of Pricks is. There's this tiny bit of the song, when the melody changes and there's the "You can never be strong, you can only be free," and later on the "I climb up on the house" … I could live inside that part of the song and be very happy. Also, I hope you know that I can't actually listen to The Best of Jill Hives without thinking of you in the best possible way. It's made me teary more than a few times – I guess I link it to you and therefore your work and how that's impacted on my life in such a deep and long-lasting way. Wow, getting a bit mushy. Nothing but love is swooping across the water in your direction. Have a great day, Dennis xoxo
Also, have an amazing trip. I'm excited for you to go to Hong Kong. I'll be interested to hear about that. I'm hoping to go to China with my boyfriend at some point. He's heading back there in February to see his family and for Chinese New Year.
hope the birthday was good. obviously, you're about to have an amazing time.
I have a semester starting Monday and as usual am behind and anxious. you'll be busy with birthday responses and travel preparations, but maybe you'll have two seconds to throw an idea at me:
My class will hear Genesis P-Orridge speak at the Phillips Gallery in DC on Jan 21. Anything I should show them (or give them to read) to prepare, or encourage them to ask about? It's kind of odd that this is happening; don't know if it will be a huge event or not.
Anybody else want to weigh in on this?
I will throw some more stuff out here once I get work in order — while you're away, I guess.
Birthday love,
Bernard
Hey Dennis,
Clicked on the blog to see what's happening and it's your birthday and a Robert Pollard & co day! Have a great day, and a smashing year. Dunce Codex and Pop Zeus are my current favourites featured here but I have loads to still familiarise with in the opus. Not on here but loves of mine are Diamond Boys (Circus Devils – Escape is oneofmy favourite albums ever), It disappears in the least likely Way (RP) and Birds (GbV) It's all good! Have a great trip!
Pascal
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Dear Dennis, happy birthday, my literary father. Hope you're having a great trip. I will see you when you return. love & respect to you, x
Hope you're having/had an awesome birthday, Dennis, and a great year ahead!!
Happy Birthday, Dennis!
Hey! Hey! Birthday!☆*:. o(≧▽≦)o .:*☆
@ DC, here's wishing you the happiest of all birthdays! Thank you for this teeming GBV etc compendium, too. Your travels sound potentially awe-inspiring and I hope to see or read some record of them on your return, if you can do that.
I'm hoping we can push on with ART101 next week as the art school's video editing suite will have opened its doors for the new year. When you're back we should finally have episode 3 online and I can only pledge that it'll be worth the wait.
BLUE EYES #10 is online as of right now: Real.
Super Happy Birthday, Dennis!!!xx
Hope you had a wonderful day.
How's the Australia plans coming together?
Love
Paul
hey, hope u had a happy birthday !!
i bought a bunch of these songs on itunes & made a good GvB mix for myself, this post is awesome
i kept replaying 19 Something And Five over and over, i like that song a lot
i haven't heard any updates about Grace Krilanovich but yeah i'd love to read another book by her too
the other day i started reading The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Flaubert, have u read that one? i've only just started it, but i'm a little bit surprised by it..a lot of the book doesn't feel modern to me, or at least it seems really different from Madame Bovary & Sentimental Education. it reads more like an ancient book. maybe that will change as i read more, idk — but i guess it's surprising b/c i think of Flaubert as exemplifying this specific literary period, but the book that he spent so much time on doesn't come across to me as belonging to that period. anyway i'm enjoying it so far, it's very much in line w/ a lot of the things i've been reading lately
sending u all the best birthday wishes !!
Big D! Happy Birthday! Again. What'd you do for your bday? Anything criminal or filthy or remotely rebellious? Come on, get out there and fuck shit up!!!!!!!!
I'm listening to the first song now. Goddamnit, as much as I hate to admit it, I like it. 😉
What's weird about the other day's post -and this is how fucked up my hearing is- I listened to every one of those songs -not all the way through but generous samples of each- and I swear I heard voices on almost all of them! Many times, they were just slight, under-the-radar, deep and rumbling voices. Obviously, I mistook something instrumental for a voice.
That's why I listen to songs over and over and over. I just don't get everything in one go. I hear something new on almost each listen. I usually have to keep turning the volume up and up and up.
The Big Red One…well, it's the oldest fighting battalion -or whatever they call them- in the Army. It's also known as the "Fighting First." But they have a big red patch on their sleeves with the number 1 on it (in white). Hence, the Big Red One. I don't know if they still have the big patches or not. But they're still the 1st infantry battalion or whatever, and as far as I know, they're still usually the first into combat.
Hmm, goofy Green Berets. F Troop didn't have any Green Berets in it. Maybe the Rambo movies skewed you into thinking that? One thing I find with most military I know -lots of former military where I work- is that most of them are nerdy and goofy as hell. I mean, I am too, but that's the way it should be. Our military guys should all be walking John Waynes!
Speaking of John Wayne, you believe that shit about him having 44 pounds of impacted feces in his colon/intestines when he died? They supposedly found that during the autopsy. I know the body will adapt to almost anything, making you look perfectly normal when you have, say, a 20-pound, basketball-sized tumor in your stomach or whatever, but 44 pounds? Really? I guess anything's possible.
Hope your bday was great. 😀
(Btw, LPS has lost 19 pounds himself. Changed his diet and has been exercising.)
Hi Dennis – happy birthday!!! Hope you had a great day. I enjoyed joining the party online and watched most of the videos this morning, I was going to watch them all but then I got sidetracked but I made it more than halfway through…. quite a few of the songs I hadn't heard for a while, and/or hadn't seen the videos, and since you chose them, there was that good side in there for today. I got Suitcase 4 in the post just this week, so I had this extended and fairly epic Suitcases past and present listening session leading up to the weekend this week, so this day comes on top of that 🙂 The videos for 'Redmen and their wives' and 'Huffman Prairie Flying Field' were made by a friend of mine actually, he's done quite a few fan videos, they're very evocative and quite popular, and I keep trying to encourage him to make some more 🙂 Here's 'Exit Flagger' in NYC, ten years before 2014, last of the three shows on the Electrifying Conclusion tour in NYC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p08KirA7xms (we were at these shows and I found this video among the photos later) and Paddy Considine and Band of Pricks doing 'Huffman Prairie' at Euroheedfest 3 in London: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF-fsBAIrJ0 Good to see 'Postal Blowfish' made it in there too, the GBV fan list of the same name still exists, more than 20 years later 🙂
….and wow, hope you will have a great trip!
you asked how I was a while ago and I was going to write back but never got around to it… I'm mostly pretty good, still here in London, still going to lot of shows, still do that weird and wonderful and slightly dysfunctional little band of mine, go to work etc. it's getting more and more difficult to be here though, for a lot of people and also the good places/venues that make the city what it is. We have to move house soon too, so that's both a little exciting and a bit nerve-wrecking right now, but I try to see the positive side, hmmmm… we'll see…
"we exchange love like radiation",
D.,
Wanted to take this opportunity to say thanks and you rock! Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday, this got me on a small Pollard kick… Or could be a large one. Some favorites off the cuff:
burning flag birthday suit
tractor rape chain
girls of wild strawberries
man called aerodynamics
everybody thinks I'm a rain cloud
No sky
don't stop now
subspace biographies
gold heart mountaintop queens directory
watch me jumpstart
Hit
smothered in hugs
bright paper werewolves
Kicker of elves
I am a scientist
the best of jill hives
look at them
evil speakers
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oh, i know. i'm just bummed since we used to be total buds and now he won't even acknowledge my presence. to be fair, i also haven't spoken to him in pretty much any context since, oh, last february or so. and, i'm sure it's my fault, anyway. i drive people my own age away since i'm temperamental and constantly depressed and insecure and emotionally needy and i hide it behind this mask of irony and sarcasm andemotional detachment so people won't figure out what an asshole i really am or… something. i think it's like those kids who get bullied a lot so they make jokes at their own expense so no one else can hurt them. i mean, i probably wouldn't be my friend, if i weren't me. but, that's probably the low self-esteem talking.
meanwhile, i am completely fucking heartbroken for a different reason. listening to 'aladdin sane' and crying and obsessively refreshing twitter and fb in hopes that someone will come on with a statment from db that it's all a hoax and he's alive and well and about to announce a tour or something. lemmy dying i could handle. but bowie's someone whose music has meant so much to me for pretty much my whole life. as in, pretty sure my parents had a tape somewhere of me doing a goofy dance to 'changes' when i was three or four.
please promise me not to die for a really long time. i can't handle losing another of my heroes any time soon.
what's yr favorite kind of apple? i really like honeycrisp and fuji and sometimes granny smith ones, but i think my all-time favorite has to be pink lady apples. if you've never had a pink lady, you should remedy that. they are perfection in the form of an apple.
was yr birthday ok? my weekend SUCKED. work tomorrow. i'm hitting another one of those spells where all i want to do is lay in bed all day and get drunk and avoid the outside world. sorry i'm such a mess and everything. i'm sure the last thing you want to do with yr monday morning is play shrink to some 30-year-old (ok, still 29 for another month and change) who can't manage the world or do anything right and be a grownup and all that shit.
i think you missed my other post from friday. so. here it is.
ps. sorry if sometimes i come off as, at best, a gushing fanboy, and, at worst, a borderline stalker. i just… you're the best, you know? and yr work means so much to me, and it's so great that you're so inclusive and nice to everyone who posts here and makes this place important, and it's so great that you at least pretend to give a shit what all's going on in our lives and everything (although i'm sure you actually do care because you're just that great of a guy). it means the absolute world to me and i'm sure the rest of us who post here because you're so great and generous and kind and everything. really. i just really adore that you take the time out of yr day to do this for us. it's amazing. so. thanks. have the best weekend and i will try to do the same.
hope yr monday is great. i am going to go cry some more and listen to all my bowie records and cry again. talk soon.
-c.
oh, and some of my fav gbv/pollard/sprout tracks…
learning to hunt
tractor rape chain
subspace biographies
game of pricks
drag days
shocker in gloomtown
last man well known to kingpin
awful bliss
a good flying bird
redmen and their wives
jill hives
artificial light
kicker of elves
queen of cans and jars
my son cool
brides have hit glass
do the earth
postal blowfish
key losers
dodging invisible rays
my impression now
closer you are
cigarette tricks
surgical focus
things that i will keep
huffman prairie flying field
acorns and orioles
a second spurt of growth
sheetkickers
it's like soul man
etc. i think my all-time favorite is 'hold on hope.' jk, but wouldn't that be weird if someone really did think that was the best gbv track?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
Hope you had a great one, my dear, dear friend.
Shitloads of huge hugs and kisses and all my very best wishes,
Your friend forever,
Armando.
fuck, did you hear about Bowie???!!! i cant fucking believe it. i fucking cant. this isnt happening. fuck. i wanna cry. it cant be true…
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I could not resist commenting. Exceptionally well written!