Hundreds Of Dead Bodies #15 - The Stone Tape
"Empty hills, no one in sight, only the sound of someone talking..." - Burton Watson, 1971

"Empty hills, no one in sight, only the sound of someone talking..." - Burton Watson, 1971
"You know, to a certain extent I think the formula “the end justifies the means” is valid in music". —D. D. Shostakovich (1968)
"More than ever, some sort of new arrangement seems in order, some dramatic and unknown arrangement – anything to find release from this heartbreaking sadness I suffer every minute of the day (and night), this killing sadness that feels as if it will never leave me no matter where I go or what I do or whom I may ever know" - Thomas Ligotti
"It is the custom for the barber to shave the deceased, to powder him, whiten his face and rouge his cheeks and lips, and dress him in a frock coat with patent leather shoes and black trousers, as if going to a ball, may God forbid—this shall not happen to Makso." —Testament of Hatji Makso Despic, drawn up in Sarajevo, 29 March 1921
"Sadism, hostility an essential element in love. Therefore it’s important that love be a transaction of hostilities." _ Susan Sontag, Journals.
"I have reached the end of his dreary and repugnant tale of a sense interned in an alien carcass and lumpen by the malignant spirit of the moral majority I have been dead for a long time Back to my roots" - Sarah Kane, 4.48 Psychosis
"...'Therefore,' he reasoned with himself, 'it is love coming to claim me: I have been so long without love, hated at home, living in terror of my children’s lives: it is pure, tender, normal love.' He began to think of other things..." - Christina Stead, The Man Who Loved Children
"This guy's really my favourite kind of victim. Buried in his books, weighed down by cds and videocassettes. It's vile. Loves all the sick writers, accursed artists, degenerate whores. Likes his decadence arranged in alphabetical order. A good spectator, in good health. Knows how to apprecaite the genius of others, from afar, you know. And of course with moderation. Sleeps well, conscience always clear. What we did at his place was a moral duty. " - Virginie Despentes, Baise-Moi
“Love: a hybrid emotion made up of various other emotions collaged by some weak individual's mind to try to quell a particular horror that's not been wiped out by more standardized symbols like Christ, etc. Nietzsche, right? Whatever.” ― Dennis Cooper
There are very definite aspects to our culture pattern which give psychopaths encouragement. In America we put great value on the acquisition of material gain, prestige, power, personal ascendance, and the competitive massing of goods. —William Krasner, The Psychopath in Our Society, Neurotica II, 1948 Thursday
"As if there were a control so marvelous. you could teach it to eat pain." _ Maggie Nelson, Jane, A Murder
"[She bites God in the wrist. An immense spurt of blood lacerates the stag, and through the biggest flash ofl ightning the Priest can be seen, making the sign oft he cross. When the lights go on again, all the characters are dead, and their corpses lie all over the ground...]" Antonin Artaud
"But is not every square inch of our cities the scene of a crime? Every passer-by a culprit?" - Walter Benjamin
"To know our enemies' minds, we rip their hearts" - Shakespeare, King Lear
"The relation between God and human beings is often mediated by the sign of the weapon" - Elaine Scarry
Solo episode where I talk about the unexplored potential of big data and rap music, prompted by reading an article about some Bob Dylan text analysis bullshit.
I'm joined by Mairead (@20000tinyjars) to talk about vending machines, youtube vlogs about vending machines, videos of people beating other people up and how youtube can work with the individual experience. This is the channel we primarily talk about: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLx3LXnWAAML6e59hhW3uKw
I talk to Baltimore City Paper Deputy Editor Brandon Soderberg about the logistics, organization and consideration it has taken to cover the last few years of rallies and protest in Baltimore focused on endemic widescale police brutality
I talk to comedian Gemma Flynn about what being a comedian is like post podcast boom and how to find an audience eager to laugh about, not at, rap music.
I talk to comics critic Joe McCulloch for an hour about Jason Shiga's excellent comic Demon. http://www.tcj.com/author/jog/ http://www.shigabooks.com/?page=001 Full disclosure: this show is indirectly sponsored by this comic in a way which is too convoluted to explain so by all means construct an elaborate conspiracy theory.