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Me Here To Do The Thinking #1 - 63 - 75

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"Volume’s not really that important. It’s the size of the room and the relationship of the sound to the enclosure it’s in that makes a difference." - Neil Young On this series, I am joined by so we can listen to the work of Neil Young in roughly chronological order and then talk about it. On this episode: Neil Young Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere After the Gold Rush Harvest Time Fades Away Tonight's the Night On the Beach Homegrown Zuma and, somehow, more. Logo by Theme by John from

SFULTRA #41 - Monroe Girls - Antoine Volodine

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"Never stopped to wonder why then I saw black and my face splashed in the sky" - Neil Young, Powerfinger

SFULTRA #40 - Dai Dark - Q Hayashida

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"Many are transforming in that glorious condition normally described as decay. Transforming through splinter and chemical imbalance. By fading and forgetfulness.” - Brian Catling, Lantern Slides, Several Clouds Colliding

SFULTRA #39 - His Master's Voice - Stanislaw Lem

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“So I think when I’m looking at you, I see you there. But I can’t just explain what you are. I see you there and you could be photographed, but then after you’d been photographed, one still wouldn’t know what your realism was. You’d have to find a technique by which you can give over all the pulsations of a realism of a person… I’m talking bollocks…” - Francis Bacon, The Brutality Of Fact

SFULTRA #38 - Stars In My Pocket Like Grains Of Sand - Samuel R. Delany

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“If you can talk about it, why paint it?” - Francis Bacon

SFULTRA #37 - Red Hook Variations

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Main works discussed: The Horror at Red Hook - H. P. Lovecraft The Ballad of Black Tom - Victor LaValle The Courtyard - Alan Moore Neonomicon - Alan Moore Providence - Alan Moore “So you think you know what terror is As it stares from the newspaper page Yeah of course you all know what horror is It's the rage of the age Well, intimidation doesn't have a focus It oozes from every pore Murder doesn't bother to whisper In this fucking town it roars” - The Badge Means You Suck, AK-47 “Old time, something come back again If you have a start, then you must have an end None of them ever...

SFULTRA #36 - Vurt - Jeff Noon

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"Tell me what you know about a man's affliction PC plod talk pure science fiction" - Cowboy Dave, Happy Mondays

Right Where You Are Sitting Now #2 - Routine Excercise

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"You can't have feelings alone" - William Burroughs, Naked Lunch

Right Where You Are Sitting Now #1 - My Past, Like A Terrible River

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Works covered: And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks Junky: The Definitve Text Of Junk Queer Yage Redux

SFULTRA #35 - Beasts - John Crowley

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"The elementary unit of language — the statement — is the order-word. Rather than common sense, a faculty for the centralization of information, we must define an abominable faculty consisting in emitting, receiving, and transmitting order-words. Language is made not to be believed but to be obeyed, and to compel obedience...Words are not tools, but we give children language, pens, and notebooks as we give workers shovels and pickaxes. A rule of grammar is a power marker before it is a syntactical marker. The order does not refer to prior significations or to a prior organization of...

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