IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER COS THAT'S THE POINT
Poison Idea 'The Badge'
Cypress Hill 'Looking through the eyes of a pig'
John Maus 'Cop Killer'
Johnny Cash 'Highway Patrolman'
Fugazi 'Great Cop'
Regulations 'Police Siren'
Black Flag 'Police Story'
N.W.A. 'Fuck Tha Police'
Body Count 'Cop Killer'
KRS One 'Sound of Da Police'
Youth Brigade 'Men in Blue'
Iron Maiden 'The Trooper'
Dead Kennedys 'Police Truck'
The Dicks 'The Dicks Hate the Police'
Ill Bill 'How to Kill a Cop'
Sinéad O'Connor 'Black Boys on Mopeds'
MDC 'Millions of Dead Cops/More Dead Cops (Full Album)'
Subhumans (UK) 'No'
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p.s. Hey. Big, big thanks to scribe supreme and d.l. Grant Maierhofer for bringing the topic of law enforcement into the blog's sphere or context in such a homey yet disruptive and variously musical and so conducive way. Please listen and/or watch as the cases may be, and speak up to him if the inclination strikes. Behind the scenes, I'm still having sleep problems, and my brain is in low gear this morning, so, yeah, sorry for whatever results from that effect as I proceed. ** Mononoke Paradice/혜민, Hi! So glad you liked it! Yes, me too, about the greats' reverence for his work/him, and of course the Bresson connection is the highest of the high kind of validation for me. I'm so sorry you're feeling unwell. Me too, at least in my body's attic. Oh, Mike Kelley's 'Areanas' is your jewelry shop's inspiration? What a fantastic idea. Even my low-wattage brain is producing a light show of association-based speculative dreams. I like your new name. I should find a google translation of it. I will. Blanchot's pattern, yes, crazy, strict and reliable and always just unpredictable. Oh, nice, the link to the making of Pré. Thank you! Everyone, via the awesome Mononoke Paradice/혜민, an image of one page of Ponge's 'The Making of the Pré' is so easy to see. I don't think I've read 'TMotP', but I'm sleepy, so I'm not very trusting of my memory this morning. Amazing characterization! Messing my blog? What? Hardly, my friend. ** Eli Jürgen, Hi, E! I did find that youtube ad. It was many curious shades of awesome. Yeah, the Bieber paintings are beautiful! I would love to see your recent work, but that link was dysfunctional and bounced me to a 404 non-existence notice. Do you mind trying again? What's the newspaper job that has you reading the sports pages? ** David Ehrenstein, It is rather essential indeed. ** Sypha, I had a bunch of 'Clue' obsessed friends. I liked watching them play. It was kind of like the visual and auditory equivalent of reading an experimental genre novel. Cool that you're concentrated on the short fiction collection again. I certainly understand the appeal of a slim volume. Nice potential titles. Maybe my fave is 'Strange and Unproductive Thinking', but know that a good potion of my brain is fuzz at the moment. ** Grant maierhofer, Sir, you rule, due to your gift to the blog today among many other reasons. Good, send me stuff when it gets closer to the pub date and we/I will set something up. Great! I'm good except for being in a strange state caused by almost two weeks of inexplicable yet persistent sleeping problems and some very odd resulting occurrences in my life that would be too lengthy to explain. Heat's still broken. It's actually pouring rain as I type this. Sweet if the HDS post had anything to do with Stanton's current hold on you. Best of the best, and, yeah, thank you again so much for putting the blog in order today. ** Martin Bladh, Hi, Martin! Cool. I'll write to the head of the Fales collection in which my stuff is kept and quickly explain what I know about what you want to do and give my approval, and then I guess I can send you the guy's email address? I'll try to do all of that today if I can get enough coffee in me to remember/concentrate. Here's hoping. I like the idea, and I'm very grateful that you have the wish. ** Heliotrope, Hi, Mark! I certainly like the idea of you laughing uncontrollably for a good portion of a day, and if I had anything to do with triggering that occurrence, I will reward myself with something, maybe a handful of Haribo. Get that dizziness attended to, and hopefully you did yesterday as planned, and let me know what the doc says, okay? I've been having this weird sort of dizziness, inspired, I guess, by my oft-mentioned longish term lack of sufficient sleep. Like I find myself walking down the street like a horse walking backwards. Like I fell off the platform at a metro station and onto the tracks the other day, luckily at an opportune moment. I think mine just needs a couple of nights of shuteye to beg off. Love you like the universe in which the sun is but a quirky speck. ** Tosh Berman, Hi, Tosh. 'Soap', yes! Mostly small press publishers in English, yeah. A couple of university presses. A lot of books o.o.p., but gettable for not insane prices. Interesting about your wish for a live-in editor. I wish I could clone myself whilst removing whatever it is in me that can't be totally objective but maintaining within the clone a strong emotional connection to what I'm writing about and then conjure said improved me when the going gets tough. I am a baseball fan, albeit pretty lapsed since I've been over here. But, oh, the Japanese's love of baseball played no small part in why I loved being immersed in them. 'Rhubarb', okay, great, thank you! I will check into that today. Sounds very tasty. Thank you again! ** Steevee, Life in Russia for gays is becoming absolutely barbaric. I'm glad to see that social media seems to be making noise about it. I guess the Olympics, and the thrust to boycott it, whether that happens or not, is a conveniently timed thing that will force governments to have to take some kind of stand. But, yeah, Putin, for one, is pure evil. ** The Man Who Couldn't Blog, Hi, Matthew! Yes, the Ofelia Hunt interview, exactly! Everyone, May I urge you strongly yet kindly to click this and read an interview with the great Matthew Simmons aka TMWCB, whose new book 'Happy Rock' is one of my favorites of this year? And he's interviewed by another terrific writer, Ofelia Hunt. Anyway, click that. Me too, utterly, on Welles' chosen pastime. The exact way he said 'We will sell no wine before its time' is one of his most sublime achievements. Up there with the way Johnny Rotten said, 'We mean it, maaaan.' ** Rewritedept, Oh, re: grandpa, okay, yeah, I get that. I can imagine that doing door would be fun. Wait, I've done door in my life. That's obviously why I can imagine it being fun, I guess. My day? Uh, waited for a bunch of the day for Fed Ex to deliver a package. Worked on novel. Emails. Went to pick up another package from an inconveniently placed and weird Chronopost outlet. A couple of phone calls. This and that. Birthday? Tomorrow. What's that word ... shit, oh, staunch. Staunch that blood. ** S., At long last. Cyber-trippy. Everyone, S. finally has a new Emo stack for you, me, and the world at large. Laser Emo. Yes, you read that right. Laser Emo. ** Misanthrope, I'm down with the tired effect. I mean down with your tired effect and with mine as well. Or I mean down on mine. Yours is fun, at least from this distance. John would only cast Bieber if he does a what's-her-name ... Amanda Bynes type of meltdown thing and then fades into an obscurity from which John alone can rescue him. 'Cecil B. Demented' is great! Well, then, yeah, may the gods make her stay down there forever. ** James, Hi, James! Good to see you. My pleasure re: the Ponge. I don't know of 'The Way Way Back'. Is it new? It probably hasn't yet reached here or creased the attention of those who hype what's coming here. I'll check for it. Thank you, buddy. Hopefully in October, yeah. Much love to you too! ** Chilly Jay Chill, Hi, Jeff. The collection I spotlit is really good. Maybe I'd recommend starting with 'Soap', which is kind of his tour de force. Yes, I love 'Commercial Suicide'. I think it might be my favorite Colin Newman solo album. I love all of them a lot. 'Not To' is really great. 'It Seems' too. I would get those. 'Provisionally Entitled The Singing Fish' and 'Bastard' would be second tier. But, yes, I love 'Commercial Suicide' a lot. I was just listening to it not two days ago. ** Thomas Moronic, Novel locked brain, dude, so totally understood. ** Bye for now. Sorry for my haze. Click those vids in GM's post today and wake yourselves up whether you're sleepy or not. You'll probably be glad. See you tomorrow.