go on

 

I have no idea where this came from. Maybe a recent conversation with someone about people who ripped off my head and shit down my neck musically.

I have a question for anyone who cares to answer it. Make me understand. Explain this person to me. To be fair, I'll give you a number of time frames.

One month.

Six months.

A year.

glad you chose a year because I bet you couldn't do it in five years

Mark E Smith. Maybe the point was not so much to understand him but to revel in the range and depth of his ideas and how so many of those ideas were combined, contrasted, transformed and elevated to something beyond your wildest imagination. Never really understood him for a second but how I reveled in such confusion.

the thing I adore about him was that although he represented a certain place I could go to  - it was always a place I could trust. Thick, fast, complex and real. Can I use the term multiplex? Some times I would revisit the same material and get a completely different result.

now I know that the source is finite, I consider the notion of rationing the things I am yet to hear. I bless the idea of how slack I have been over a number of years when I was distracted by other things.

I didn't visit this unique place often, but how I adored being there when I got the chance.

it all started for me with Hex Enduction Hour, with one amazing song. Winter. 

Who knows where it will end. Maybe take time to look around and think about the very idea of another one of these phenomenons again. To continue in a different and unique way.

Along with another John Peel, then the very idea of a local music store who could stock the contents based on taste and imagination. Invention.