The Turkish Baths, Cabana 12 – Fiction

April 19, 2002

When my friend Cindy suggested we go to the Turkish baths, I thought it must be some sort of historical, living museum-type place. But you don’t get naked in museums. At least, not the last I checked.

The Night I Died – BANG BANG BANG, Chapter Two – Fiction

April 19, 2002

Everything she’s saying is true. So true it’s fire, and I’m almost gonna explode, like blue ice shattering… “I’ll show you. I’ll show you, Jack. I’ve been holding it inside, trying to control it, but now I see I was just waiting, just waiting Jack…” I’m screaming.

A Blackheart’s Tale – Todd Brendan Fahey – Fiction

April 19, 2002

I was patently unprepared for the metamorphosis that took place just after the Christmas season, when Jurgen called me from the Ogden city lockup and asked me to post the five-hundred-dollar bond because no one in his family would.

Coroner’s Corner – The Joy of Inter-personal Mayhem – Column

April 19, 2002

Jugulars are splayed open, skulls are scalped in up-close detail, a bayonet is slowly pushed through a chest, a girl is stabbed and humped to death, a head is shotgun-blasted to chunky oblivion, a maggot-infested mother zombie gropes from her grave, and much more.

Underground Station – Column

February 22, 2002

It’s a hardcover, about 300 pages, and well-designed by Dutch undergrounder, Joost Swarte. It’s chock-full of obscure magazine covers, European oddities, and lost and forgotten trading cards and record covers that Crumb has done over the years that never saw real exposure.

Import Zone – Column

February 22, 2002

To coincide with the recent re-release of the late Serge Gainsbourg’s catalog, Mercury France gave 14 of his best tracks to top electronica gurus to recreate and the result is I Love Serge.

The Night I Died – Fiction

February 22, 2002

Where’s the project? What the fuck am I gonna do? Burning up in this hell and she’s cackling like some ninny-throated witch through that wall. Cranking up that goddamned techno music.

The Album of Le Nouveau Millennium – Fiction

February 22, 2002

I have seen the future of music, and it is exemplified by one album, an album of such greatness and utter transcendence that it encompasses all of our feelings, hopes, dreams and darkest fears, and it has a good beat, and you can dance to it.

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