AGRESSION Full Circle CD
AMY DENIO Greatest Hits CD w/Tom Cora, Chris Cutler, etc.
ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS Crying Light CD
ARTHUR RUSSELL World Of CD
AZUSA PLANE Tycho CD
BARK HAZE Total Joke Era CD w/Thurston Moore
BLIGHT Detroit CD
CHRIS WATSON Dark CD
CLUSTER Sowiesoso CD
CONFLICT Time to See Who’s Who CD
DAF Hitz Blitz CD rare and hard to find, also kind of shitty
DAGON In Desolationem Per Nefandum CD (Vasaleth drummer)
DELTA 5 Singles CD
Destroyers from Western Skies CD USBM comp w/KRIEG, XASTHUR,DEMONCY
DRUNK INJUNS Where the Sun CD
ELLIOTT SHARP /SOLDIER STRING QUARTET Cryptid Fragments CD
FACES Nod Is as Good as a Wink CD
FISHING WITH JOHN CD w/John Lurie of Lounge Lizards, Tom Waits
FLOWER LEPERDS Original Group CD (Adolescents related)
GANG WIZARD Byzantine Headache CD
GERMS Germicide CD French import on ROIR Europe/Danceteria
GOATLORD Reflections of Solstice CD NWN edition
GOSLINGS Spaceheater CD
HAPPY FLOWERS Flowers on 45 CD
HAUJOBB Polarity CD
HI RECORDS STORY CD w/Al Green, OV Wright
ICONS OF FILTH Onward Christian Soldiers CD
ISENGARD Hostmorke CD
ISENGARD Vinterskugge CD
JAN DUKES DE GREY Sorcerers CD (like Incredible String Band)
JASON CRUMER Walk with Me CD
JOSEF K Only Fun in Town/Sorry for Laughing CD
KILLED BY DEATH 1 CD
KILLED BY DEATH 2 CD
KING CRIMSON Court of Crimson King CD
KROHM Haunting Presence CD
KROHM World Through Dead Eyes CD
LEFT HAND RIGHT HAND Humdrum CD w/Karl Blake
LEO KOTTKE 6 and 12 String Guitar CD
MAGMA Udu Wudu CD
MAMMAL Double Nature CD
MELT BANANA Cell-Scape CD
MOVING PARTS Wrong Conclusion CD (pre-Mission of Burma)
MUTIILATION Sorrow Galaxies CD
N.I.L. s/t CD (Imperial of Krieg, Twilight, etc.)
NOKTURNAL MORTUM Taste of Victory CD
PETER BROTZMANN (Full Blast) Black Hole CD
PETER MURPHY World Fail CD
POPOL VUH Hosianna Mantra CD
PRIMAL SCREAM Echo Dek CD (Adrian Sherwood dub mixes)
REAGAN YOUTH Pop Classics CD
SNAPPER A.D.M. CD
SNAPPER Shotgun Blossom CD
SOLGER Codex 1980 CD
TRISOMIE 21 Plays the Pictures CD
V/A Verschlungenen (Schimpfluch related)
V/A Worlds Finest HC CD w/NECROS NEOS FARTZ etc.
VELVET TINMINE CD (comp of B-team 70s glam rockers)
VIBRATORS Public Enemy #1 CD (early singles etc.)
WHITE MICE BLasssTPhlEgMEICE CD
Are you fucking serious??? I would have lined up to get my hands on that. Conan.
Such a good idea. Also why are you getting rid of your White Mice CD? I’ll have to tell
Jolly and Will and they won’t be happy. Well Will doesn’t ever seem happy, but you don’t want to see a man named Jolly get mad. Melt Banana too? Gang Wizard? The Happy Flowers? But I just cleaned my cut out with a wire brush!!! You need to write one of those obnoxious “scene” bios like “Our Band Could be Your Life” about Gainesville,
get all the posers talking about the Central Florida punk scene in the 80’s and 90’s and how it was seminal for the development of blah blah blah. And make fun of all those Posi-youth motherfuckers who couldn’t stay straight edge but still loved having tons of rules to live by. Either that or do a period romance novel like Wuthering Heights. Or combine the two. Period scene romance novel. Steam Punk romance? That might sell.
Just put Iggy Pop in there somewhere and I’ll read it.
I am fucking serious, and I did months of research getting ready to develop a pitch. Of course, I play the first Conan movie like some people play favorite albums (i.e., to establish a comforting, familiar background atmosphere while I nap or do shit around the house), and “Anvil of Crom” from the soundtrack is my ringtone, so “research” could effectively be swapped out with “going into my house,” but I re-read all the Robert E. Howard stuff as well as a significant chunk of the L. Sprague De Camp/Robert Jordan/John Maddox Roberts/etc. pastiches, the reissued Savage Sword of Conan mags, Marvel Conan comics, and new Dark Horse stories, plus revisited other genre classics like Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and Grey Mouser stories and all Moorcock’s Elric stuff… Man, I was going to do such a good Conan book, so chock full of adventure and violence and fuckin’ and hoisting tankards of mead and wizards and shit… It would have been so good.
I am wholly compulsive when it comes to bands, so it was either sell the White Mice or buy their entire discography. Nobody took the eBait, so it looks like I’m stuck making space in the Ws after all.
Gang Wizard is boring; when I want Happy Flowers I want I Crush Bozo and not much else. Speaking of Happy flowers, for more than 20 years I have been contemplating this tattoo:
Because it’s just so damn cute I can barely stand it, eeeeeeeeee!
I lived through all that “Our Band Could Be Your Life” shit and the guy who wrote it is an ass-knuckle who cribbed quotes from 1980s zines and presented them like they were recent.
The only successful bands to come out of Central Florida’s punk scene moved here from other places and were hated by all the locals. Straight edge people pretty much evaporated on contact.
Everything I know about romance is circumscribed by six humble letters: J B L I S and S. I guess that’s five if you don’t want to count the S twice.
Iggy Pop lives next door to my friend Kevin. Kevin says he doesn’t see Iggy around too much, but when he does Iggy is usually only wearing one shoe.
One of the best things i ever saw was when the Wham! City kids went on tour with the “Baltimore versus” fest and DJ DOGDICK was spinning his brand of cracked out 8-bit happy hardcore whatever and projecting a Jimmy Joe Roche psychedelic Trash video of Conan wielding his mighty blade. The whole time I’m standing there hypnotized with some 7ft tall metalhead beanpole screaming at the top of his lungs " THE RIDDLE OF STEEL!!!" and that, my dear Hughes, was just the beginning of how weird/awesome that night got. I think it culminated with the Lord of Baltimore ,Dan Deacon, shaking his adorable fat ass around and making the kids piss EGA graphics into their own mouths.
I wish you could see that video. . . oh wait HERE IT IS. Just watched it again…there
really is a lot to like.
You should right the Conan book anyway. Just for you n me, in fact you should write us into the story, we can be bards and go along for the ride while Conan cleave foes in twain.
