Zoinks!

 

Nemo 19

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dedicated to

 

my kid brutha, Trip Fantastic

 

And my EveryDay Sunshine

Victoria Spelling

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“A Page Out Of A Comic Book”

                                                                                   - Iggy Pop (RepoMan)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ZOINKS!

                                                                    Serials

 

 

 

Saturdazed

 

MotoDegenerate

 

Vigilantes Of L.O.V. E.

 

Euro-A-Go-Go

 

Romeo’s Void

 

Nothing But Lipstick

 

Odds & Endsville

 

HollywoodNoSuicide

 

Clueless Spooks

 

 

 

 

 

DO NOTTRY THIS AT HOME DO  NOT TRY THIS ATHOME DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME

 

 

 

 

Portions of “ZOINKS!” Have appeared previously in The Stranger, The Rocket, The Portable Lower Eastside, American Music Press, The Balhasti Papers, Goo Goo Muck Cups, Filth, Fizz, Revolting!, WWW.Hightimes.com (“Kurt Cobain Will Have His Revenge On Rob Zombie”/Music Archives), Punk Magazine.com, and Those Darn Kidz.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SATURDAZED

(Part 1)

 

 

“Show em Show em Show em Whatcha Got”

                                               -Public Enemy

 

Animated

 

Exterior- Deep In The Voidoid Fart Of Spooky Ooky Space

 

Two GIGANTIC HANDS OF FATE squeezed in lemony fresh leopard skin gloves motivate towards a massive plastic zipper. One HAND OF FATE conjures a beer mug while the other slowly unzips the non button fly revealing OHM, a celestial goddess clothed in a silvery sequin of events.

 

OHM prances and preens doing her best Betty Boop, blowing Cherry Coke kissses towards the glowing galactic vidcam. Disrobing she releases a zillion covergirl giggles. Her rubenesque body is a scrumptious dish of funkytown dayglo rainbow.

 

One HAND hover’s over OHM’s head, pouring out the mug’s contents. A shower of meterorites cascade over her.  The HANDS carress her titanic titties, seductively sweeping downwards to the inner space between her juicy thighs.

 

OHM lifts a HAND to her mouth and begins deepthroating its fingers. Gradually at first then increasingly faster faster pussycat. Equally excited the other HAND spins her ass round and thwaaps OHM’s fine shake-it-like-that several times. As OHM orgasms her

Spincterhole emits an explosion of lavalight ecstacy then ejects a GOLDEN EGG

 

The GOLDEN EGG wooweez thru the midnight atmosphere, weeblewobbling it way to

THE CRIB OF SOLIDTOOD; a groovyghoulie gothic mansion with a batwinged Hollywood sign perched on its roof, nestled in a bed of radiating Sunny Delight bottles, stuffed animals, lovesick punkrock polaroids and purpleleafed palm trees. A swarm of

Serpentine rollercoaster tracks envelop the tiny asteroid its teetertottering on. With one last powersplurt the GOLDEN EGGS enters the viper’s mouth hovering overhead.

 

 

INTERIOR- The Crib Of Solidtood

 

The GOLDEN EGG lands, cracking open on impact. Out terrorwalks THE JEEPHEAPS: 13 musclebound Matsuda shaded Pink Hippos in metallic hiphop gear, glossy black graffittied skulls attached to their chests, feet shod in fluffy bunny slippers. Their leader

FURTHER GIANT STRIDE motions silent rap commands. Extracting translucent gummy c.d.s from their armor the JEEPHEAPS lock and load the defheads. In unison they dance troop down the darkened steel corridors.

 

Approaching the cargo bay doors, FURTHER GIANT STRIDE reaches into his shadowy myst bag, recovering an Acme ticktock timebomb. Rough he shakes the sleeping alarm clock awake, while another JEEPHEAP hands him a wad of bubblegum from his mouth. Stuck to the cargo bay doors, the yawning timebomb raises a waterpistol to its temples..

 

Sfx;: KAABOOM!

 

The JEEP HEAPS  step thru the smoldering debris startling an exoctic array of cosmic partyers, i.e. FREEWILLIES (furry hippy beings), OLLIE OOPS (spastic transexual skateboarders) P.E.Z. (aka Pure Energy Zealots, huge silkwinged candy dispensers)

CYBERFLYZ (robot lounge lizards) and other virtualworld insanity.

 

The partygoers festive brewha!ha! collapes into an uncomfortable silence. THE JEEP-HEAPS strategically spread out thru the ballroom, jostling the partygoers in their way. FURTHER GIANT STRIDE  postions himself in the middle of the abfab crowd and thrusts his arm in the air.

 

                                          FURTHER GIANT STRIDE

                                                      (bellowing)

               Let’s get this party started right!

 

All illumination is killed and THE JEEPHEAPS gripsqueeze their defheads, liquidylight blitzgreigs from the skulls’ orbs and mouths. The candystriped raybeams 1975 above the partygoer, their electro-rock buzz, a static infested blend of angels humming, pinball machines clanking and musclecar engines revving. Bouncing off the walls, the raybeams converge on the floating stage transforming into JODYCAT, a platnium blonde bronzed

Cali-girl shake system.

 

Happily tragic house music erupts and JODYCAT xrayeyes the crowd with a wicked smile then goes boomshockalockaboom. Her dance moves are pure pagan superohero lover, a willing sacrifice of sight and sound. Rapturous waves of Do Whatcha Wanna Do possess her body and agressively she submits to its inhuman power. The crowd is estatic chanting and cheering her on to reach even greater heights of hipsteria.JODYCAT responds by rumpshaking into a primal state, arms a blur, hips thrusting, legs steelwheel-ed. As the number ends JODYCAT raises her head, victories a demonic roar and explodes into nothingness. The raybeams shoop back into THE JEEP HEAPS defheads

As the crowd goes ballistic.

 

VINCENT VOICEOVER PRICE

                Yes Yes Yes. JodyCat. Shockalotta Hypnoshake, or should I say

                 Snake packed Vanity So Fair. A most positive vibration. “Got me

                 A new drug Jody” AAAAAh no need to go on. You Know the words

                And now The Host With The Most Ghosts. Nemo 19

 

 

A shimmery hologram immerges from the dance floor as the theme music from The Last of The Mohicans blares. This is NEMO 19. A seemingly ageless bald black man clothed in vintage tuxedo tails and intricately designed gutterpunk pants buried under leather chaps. He eerieindianas his way thru the cheering partygoers, pausing to frenchkiss a few of them. Leviating to the stage NEMO 19  grabs the mike.

 

NEMO 19

                   Guess I really don’t need this. As you can see I’m not

                    Myself today. But then when have I ever been.

 

CYBERFLY

(flashing the sign of The Devil)

                   Satan!

 

NEMO 19

(smiling)

                   Wow quite an enuthusiastic crowd we’ve got here tonight.

                        Don’t know if I’m hip enough to fit in. So is everyone be-

                    Sides Mr. Beetlejuice having a good time?

 

The crowd screams its approval as a few OLLIE OOPS dragrace their hoverboards around the ballroom.

 

NEMO 19

                    Gonna change the freakquency. Is that alright with y’all?

 

PARTY PEOPLE

                     Yeah!

 

NEMO 19

 (lighting a siggyret)

                      This one I call Riverview Hotel.

 

NEMO 19  pauses painfully as if under an enormous weight. He adjusts his Serengetti sunglasses and continues.

 

NEMO 19

(moaning)

                       When you’re in a bad state of mind

                        Just press REWIND

                        No further to go on ya know

 

                                                             (growling)

                         All I ever wanted was to rock and rolla

                        Big Mistake

                        All I ever wanted was to rip the roada

                        Big Mistake

                        All I ever wanted was to kiss Winona

                        Big Mistake

                        All I ever wanted was  to break the molda

                         Big Mistake

                         All I ever wanted was to grabba holda

        

                        This is where I interrupt the chorus and

                         Boris Karloff the tragedy of being a Thing

                         Of Beauty in a world full of Hate

 

                         All I ever wanted was to crack the coda

                          Big Mistake

                          All I ever wanted was to shake my soda

                          Big Mistake

                          All I ever wanted was to rock and rolla

                          Big Mistake

                          All I ever wanted was to be Jehovah

                           Big Mistake

 

NEMO 19 repeats the line until he’s in an animal frenzy. Having fallen on the stage,

He remains gasping for breath. A quiet hush descends as NEMO 19 grows still. There

Are whispers of concern yet he gradually rises to his feet.

 

NEMO 19

                                                        (wearily)

              Thanks for coming out. Enjoy yourselves.

 

The hologram of NEMO 19 glimmers brightly then disappears.

 

INTERIOR- Crib Of Solidtood Command Center

 

A marble temple of Romanesque design spans the desk surrounded by a ceiling

Of twinkling glass which offers an unobstructed view of deep space. Centered in

Its belly is a huge pulsating black triangle emitting Baby What’s Up wild noise

Gathered inside are NEMO19, JODYCAT, ULTRA FAB, (Greenskinned blonde

Haired Venusian babe blowout) WILSON (Orange dayglo bookworm basketball)

NIRVANA (wizened cosmic monkey), and FRANKENMIND ( a supersized brain

Floating in a vat of slurpee)

 

ULTRAFAB

                          Hate to sound so retro but you guys were most

                          Excellent.

 

FRANKENMIND

                            Yeah can I have your autographs?

 

WILSON

                                                    (bouncing into a blur)

                            People I don’t mean to stain on your celebrity skin

                            But the celestial window I opened in Atmosphere Sex

                             Hex won’t be available for long.

 

NIRVANA

                           Knock Knock

 

WILSON

                           Who’s there.

 

NIRVANA

                          Armageddon.

 

WILSON

                          Armageddon who?

 

NIRVANA

                          Armageddon sick of you.

 

JODYCAT

                          Wilson you need to chill the fuck out. Can’t you see

                           Nemo’s exhausted.

 

ULTRAFAB

                           Yeah ya might find yourself trapped in an NBA Allstar

                            game with no way out

 

NEMO

                                                       (undressing)

                           Easy gang. He’s right. Gotta go to work…again.

 

   NEMO 19 climbs naked into a porcelain tub filled with goat’s milk, honey and rose petals. NIRVANA hooks him into The Thwaap! electrodevice consisting of a gigantic

Purple crayon & stereo. As NEMO 19 places the headphones on JODYCAT leans over

And kisses him. The Thwaap powers up. Purple thought crime surges from its tip and

Jettisons into space.

 

EXTERIOR

 

The purple ray fizzes thru the cosmos interrupting all transmissions around the galaxy. Every planet’s t.v. and computer monitors display NIRVANA dribbling WILSON.

 

NIRVANA

                               Here we are to entertain you.

 

WILSON

                     Shucks make yourself comfortable cause it looks like the

                      Revolution will be televised after all.

 

Monitors cut to a wide scream shot of NEMO 19 gunning down a lonely highway on his motorycle.

 

 

MOTODEGENERATE

                                                “We’re going nowhere fast”

     .                                                                    –The Loveless

 

“Revving The Mean”

 Grant’s Pass, Oregon 9.94

 

Power On

 

78 Honda Supersport 750….Black and bruised body...Shadowed engine. License Plate #106051…Equipped with a new Metzler 120 kickbutt rear tire and a Pantera sticker epoxied to the gas tank…aka The Beast…I’ve got no motorcycle license…No registration after this month…No nada…Just sixtyseven dollars, me, myself and I…And we gotta get down the coast and across the states to New York by the end of the month.

Naked Lunch like a muthaphuck…Downloading at Crescent Hotel…lured by a roaring

Lion’s neon in a town that’s an All American City…or so brags the sign right by the interstate…Lil bambino bungalow joint…The place you’d imagine The Ricardos and The

Mertz staying on a vacation getaway…Or at least that was their plan back in Manhattan...

 Now Ricky’s frantic from misdirections…Trying to admire the mountains and just get

Gone…but this damn conga in his head won’t let up..Neither will those dragracing visions of the Chesterfield girls slurping his schwing…Ethel’s yelling at Fred if she so much as thinks about being Lucy…and that’s one broad I’m not gonna second guess…

Electric shag carpeting stolen from the set of Good Times…Cable but no fucking HBO

The receptionist…an Indian guy…checked me in..What unspeakable crime did he dine in a previous life to land this hellish gig…Something tells me it involved a tub of KY Jelly

And..Rudolph with your nose so bright, why don’t you guide my sleigh tonight..sickman

Sickman sickman…that’s what I am…He took my cash and to add insult to injury asked

Me what I thought about the O.J. hearing…

 

                                                          FRANKENMIND

                                  Nooooooooooooooooo!

 

I gave him a lame answer in broken english to match his…cause I really couldn’t give a shit…A nigga millionaire dwells in a cool world I’ll never get to visit…Though truth be told I’m running away from something…but it ain’t in a white Ford Bronco…and it ain’t

From the L.A.P.D…uh-uhhmm..at least not yet…My motorbuddy Lisa Lisa sed if the cops pull me and The Beast over and we’re not sporting the right stuff…Its gonna be one

Short excursion into The Great Beyond Beyond…Maybe it’s a good thing I packed this

White Zombie c.d. along with my Beretta and other junk…La Sexcorcisto and stainless

Steel…exit this knightmare sounds aslamming, guns ablazing…

 

Kill Regenerate Kill Kill

                        Lost in the Safeway

                        Radio Clash

                        Shopping for a swing

                        That’s built to last

 

                        Lazyboy luxury

                        Got the devil in me

                        Twin engine jeans

                        Surfing new tech Cream

                        Redeyed Romeo

                        Bedroom bewitched

                        Sharing the schwag

                        With a Boyproof Bitch

                        She’s good for a throwdown

                        Gonna scratch that itch

 

                        Home again Home again

                        Jiggety Jig

                        I will if you will

                        Kill regenerate kill kill

 

                        Offramp begs oblivion

                        The black the bold

                        Phoneix powered foreplay

                        Down in a hole

                        Need a touch of the six pack desire

                        Our minds tremble tribal

                         We begin the ceremony

                         For his work here has begun

                         She’s eclectic I’m electric

                          Something wicked this way comes

 

Yeah some of us were made to be Natural Born Killers…except at this point the gun would be pointed in my line of fire…my finger on the trigger…

 

FAST FORWARD

 

 

 

                              

VIGILANTES OF L.O.V.E.

 

                          Something to hold

                             Something to feel

                            Something to love

                            Something to need

                                                     -Cranes

 

“13 Monkees”

The Chelsea Hotel NYC 12.96

 

Can’t get…Can’t get…can’t get that sound outta my head…that sound of desolation infinity times two…times two…times two…buddah…Bing Crosby was an evil father muthaphucka …and I never had a White Christmas…and now never a moment’s peace.

Pieces of me are left in various states and I can’t get back to where I once belonged…

Each day I’m drawn further away…Have you looked so together…so Esquire..strictly GQ…but have been only a few steps from falling apart…

 

FOOL ON THE CORNER

(cackling)

                          Oh mercy my, that boy be on his way.

 

BOY IN THE HOOD

(Sipping Ole English)

                    Shit nigga should have known he’d have to come to this part

                    Of town sooner or later.

 

Holding on to yourself…hoping to keep the real me magick inside…inside where it’s safe…though the green glowy things hide in plain sight…Marilyn Manson…Marilyn Manson Marilyn Monroe…Marilyn Manson Marilyn Manson Marilyn Monroe…

 

DARK ATARI

                      Deceiver Deceiver you are treachery. Your name is unjust.

 

Why can’t I simply lie right here and diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiie…Getaway from this bad bad feeling so the idiots can rule unchecked…Let the culture vulture fashionistas lay down and dine on Uma’s Beautiful Blonde skin…Yet I say NO!…What about the black, the yellow, the brown, the blue…BLUE BLUE BLUE SATURDAY IS THE SKY WIDE OPEN…Finding the tiniest comfort in my prayers of pain..I vikki gadget goddesses from around the globe…Months of sudden impact are near and from this point on I daht daht dodd didd dodd the 12 Monkees on a perilous crusade..We are the new offenders…We are the noweak knights in search of a stranger fruit…We seek Jesse’s bubble gum and

Chicken pot pie  of conquest…Gonna get Gonna get..hiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh…We laze in the Mc Vatican’s pews pelting the congregation with pingpongballs…We swingsongs of Big Time living while outside They Call Him The Priest mumbles his nova express…

 

THEY CALL HIM THE PRIEST

                         Ya see young people there is a pattern of related scandals

                          Defrauding Americans. Its written by an insider. Rodney

                         Stich. And it makes The Godfather seem pale by comparison

                          Buy it. Dirty lil secrets of the C.I.

 

“BLACK PANTHER”

                          Aaaaaaaaaaay bro. Hows it hangin my man? Power to the

                          People and all that home…

 

SFX; SLICE SLICE STAB IN THE BACK

 

I am black sunshine…and I see you see we all see the wide scream t.v….Take take take talk talk talk…Its all the same conversation…Its all the same disease…So we mad monks

Shaggy d.o.a. a wipe out religion…We register a Hollywood handbook tremor in Wynonna’s big brown beaver…Gonna get…Gonna get…Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh…The well of deception is overflowing…spilling from Wurmtongue’s rotting teeth…Trouble in my dreams again…so I chew but rarely do I taste my food…Grimmer fairytales destory my appetite and I can only execute my will by feeding on the frenzy that cybers this inner space…MTV…MTV…MTV…Give me my cable free of charge Mr. Bard…Leave alone amid scattered juju bones and cartoon cutups of cop shoot cop…Me and my…Me andmy

…Me and my…JUNK JUNK JUNK JUNK JUNK JUNK JUNK JUNK JUNK JUNK JUNK JUNK JUNK JUNK JUNKJ JUNK JUNK JUNK JUNK JUNK JUNK JUNK JUNK JUNK JUNK JUNK JUNK JUNK JUNK…

 

REWIND

 

EURO-A-GO-GO

                                             “And I did it my way”

                                                                           Sid Vicious

 

“Some Knights In This KISS Army Hard To Handle Now”

Madrid, Spain 10.88

 

Kwik changing to do the town with Virgina and there’s a new voice in the pension’s kitchen…Curious…but of course…or haven’t you noticed yet…I investigate…Female American Blonde…A+ from behind…B- when she turns around she tries to chitchat

 

AMERICAN GIRL

               Hi I’m Stacy

 

But I refuse to take the bait…No way man I’m depressed and pissed off on of all occasions my birthday and intend to stay that way..A year ago I was in New York with Rebecca and Jessica taking notes from the Red Hot Chili Peppers Uplift Mofo Party Plan and now I’m alone in Madrid

 

FRANKENMIND

                Things could be much worse, G.

 

Shut the fuck up!..I about face and forward march to my room…Minutes later there’s a…

 

SFX: KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK

 

On my door and Stacey enters…Geez this chick won’t let up..

 

STACEY

                                Where are you going tonight?

 

NEMO

                                  Out.

 

STACEY

                                    Really? Where?

 

NEMO

                                     I don’t know.

 

STACEY

                                     What’s the occasion?

 

NEMO

                                      My birthday.

 

STACEY

Really? Why happy birthday. How old does that make you?

 

NEMO

                                      Old enough?

 

I close the door in her face and…

 

SFX; Knock Knock Knock

 

I wonder who that could be boys and girls? Any guesses?

 

STACEY

                                  Hey look I’ve got an idea.

 

NEMO

                                                            (Sarcastically)

                               Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally?

 

STACEY

                             I’ve got some leftover hash I bought a few weeks ago in

                             Barcelona and if you want we can smoke it in my room.

                             Since it’s your birthday.

 

FRANKENMIND

                             Now we’re talking.

 

We hallow our Adam and Eve to her Garden Of Eden…sitting on the bed as Stacy performs the elemental ritual…Oddly there’s a sexual attraction between us…and she knows it…An unmistakable What’s Love Got To Do With It broadcasts from her southern smile…and leaning back against the headboard Stacy takes a hit from the joint and spreads her Levi’d legs wwwwwwwwwwwwide…

 

SFX; SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSsuck

 

Taking my cue I do likewise and  play The Moody Young Bohemian for all its worth… wait ..I am A Moody Young Bohemian…Sloching by the window I read from George Orwell’s “ Decline Of The English Murder”…in an exaggerated monotone…fully aware

Of the scene I’m creating…The world’s a stage and this is my 7,666 performance… longest running human comedy…Funny how some people never think and others…think too much…Stacy’s eyes burrough into me…

 

FRANKENMIND

                                 Take a picture babe. It’ll last longer.

 

And HA!…she does exactly that

 

SFX; CLICK SNAP CLICK SNAP

 

Shots of The Prince Of Darkness…and a coupla joints later we’re out into the night…

Practically kicking myself for not bringing a jacket…Hey it even gets cold in Spain ..Maybe it’s the pot…or having missed Virginia when she dropped by to pick me up whatever…yet I can’t shake the blue meanies…and despite Stacy’s denials to the contrary..it’s getting to her too..I finally allow myself to have some fun..And in one of  the umpteen bars we fly I entertain her with excerpts of my animated suburban angst..

Round round round the mulberry bush…the cosmic monkee is chased by the Beatle’s bub..yes the Edward Gorey story remains are buried in this Kid’s insane..Hours later I yawn loudly hoping Stacy translates…

 

STACY

                          I’m tired. Wanna go back?

 

Gosh she’s good…Bacardi charged giggles rums our naah naah naah naah naah we’re lewd back to her room…The Ritual again…

 

NEMO

                                                            (Interrupting )

                             Domae un baseo.

 

STACY

                              Como?

 

NEMO

                               Give me a fucking kiss.

 

Long, wet, sloppy…Judges?

 

NEITHERWORLD LOVE CONNECTION

                                9 on the intent

 

THE HANGMAN

                                 4 on the execution

 

but beggars can’t be choosy…besides its Halloween

 

DARK ATARI

                                   Sintime Sin time..Evil’s on the loose time. Get busy

 

Plenty of kissme kissme kissme leads to the inevitable…

 

NEMO

                                    Can’t I spend the night?

 

STACY

                                     Yeah but can’t we have sex.

 

No argument from me…Surprised?…Ya shouldn’t be…More kissme kissme kissme

 

STACY

                                                      (loudly whispering)

                                    You’re such a good kisser.

 

NEMO

                                     I aim to please.

 

STACY

                                      I mean cause  kissing’s everything.

 

Off comes the clothes…

 

ADAM ANT

                                   We’re just following ancient history

                                   If I strip for you, will you strip for me?

 

It’s Stacey’s turn to interrupt…and she stuns me  with

 

STACY

                                  Have you any protection cause I’m feeling good.

 

Women…go figure…I shake my head no…She leans over and frisks thru her purse…

 

STACY

                                      (Throwing a condom towards me)

                                   Happy birthday.

 

Tearing open the package makes me yearn for Sandy.

 

STACY

                                  I feel like being passive tonight. So just fuck me.

 

No argument here…well, sorta…I mean do I always have to do all the work…the kissing stops and I enter her suddenly…Remaining silent as she rides my erection…Stacy throws her hands against the wall…Ride the sssssssssssssnake…Blonde hair falls over her eyes conceals thoughts…though the moans give it all away…Ride the sssssssssssnake…She arches her back…I thrust deeper…Ride thesssssssssnake…And again…And again…In

Out…in…out…out..in…Out…Ride the sssssssssssssnake…harder…harder…harder

Harder…Stacy comes savagely…My smile goes unnoticed…I’m still erect…

 

FRANKENMIND

                                      Let’s do it again.

 

And oh yeah here….oh yeah there…Got to…Got to…REEEEEEEELEEEEEASE…

Mild satisfaction…I lay across her…Is it Stacy’s trembling or mine?…I reach down and pull the rubber outta her pussy…Look at it and toss it to the side…snicker snicker… Putting my hand on her belly I draw near…

 

STACY

(shrugging me off)

                                        I’m tired. I need some time alone.

 

Angered I turn my back to her and leave…On my bunk I’m upset and lonely with only $500 left to spend for the next month…Unless I call Sherill…Sex is not love…Sex is not love…Sex is not love…

 

DARK ATARI

                                Unhappy birthday to you

                                Unhappy birthday to you

                                Unhappy birthday dear Nemo

                                Unhappy birthday to you

                                And not many more.

 

SEARCH SEARCH

 

 

ROMEO’S VOID

                            “Goddess Of Sleep, Goddess Of Beauty

                               God of Strength, make this handsome boy

                              As powerful and brave as necessary”

                                                                                          -Mysto

                                                                      (Lil Nemo In Slumberland)

The IllumiVoid

FuturePresentPast

 

Aztec Camera…Mind’s Eye Chanting…Boo Not Bad…Boo Not Bad…Curtains of fire… Sheets of black pain…Explotating rain…Pulsating loas…Papa Legba…Papa Legba… Haunting utterances punctuating the agony…Yellow submarine rises…Rises from the fog…Gotcha gotta new game…And the wiz that is tinkers an unruly new tinman… And there she is…And there she is..Saam Hey…Tokyo subway seeth grrl encased in bronze…

Android Android…21rst century synth need asian pearl…Robot Robot…Krazy feline that she buzz…rubbed against supernatural eastside…stroking clean her full metal jacket…teen titan tights…Gotham razor soles…Electric ladyland’s last stand…Hole in the socket…Dark Atari in her back pocket…Wowwrrrr Wowrrrrrr…Those lips…those eyes…that smack…revealed she had fucked Einstein’s relativity in the ruined suburbs of L.A…while tonguen the ass of angels…Sucksavored psychobilly creep on a wintery eon and on…Ravenreaped the harvest of fear glimpsed in October’s tears…”All we have to fear is ourselves”…This was her manifesto…Make manifest…Feast…Fest…Yes, she was above and beyond…Tomorrow Tomorrow…Whose was she?…Shewhat Shewhat I slipped into the stream…gabbin the grabba grabba heyho…”I’m a man of sixmillion empire protein…A roving reever of sin again unfurled slurpee…A breathing c.d. of fabulous thirteen skim skirtin annihilation skies…Funky farout space nut defsexxin the insanity…wailing the whizzdom Of Scooby Doo, Langston Hughes, Freddy D., Muhamed Ali….A harddriving nigga networking biggety buggety boo…The take you to a movie mind macking wondermike…Alright Alright…Careening cannonballs off Godzilla’s head…Hands of Captain Caveman whammbammalammabustin windows, worries, borders, boundaries…Koolkillin Eiffel Tower, Corporations, Kilimanjaro… Kitty on my mind the entire time…So face the bass, bitch…’FACE THE BASS”

“You is just fulla hongkongphooey ain’t ya muthaphucka” she spat back…”but listen Mr. Bigstuff, you ain’t never gonna be the cat that snags this here Josie’s pussy…That bad you be sportin ain’t up to speed…Need to revv the mean to get in my jeans…501 gets ya six sucka and these kinda trix ain’t for kids”…Ten seconds to size my sound and send me on my way…way down south where the lying is fine…loathed her…lushed her… lust her…But I had to get gone from her gonzo…The power of her pull…So I dynamoed the exit design in fine dick dastardly fashion…yet she…Cleopatra…wrapped Dante’s delirium…Midsummer…round her closer…Hed that sed BOO!…stalking me in stereee

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeo …EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOH….EEEEEEEEEEEEEEOH…GO AWAY…EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOH…….EEEEEEEEEEEEOH…GO AHEAD…Smells like teen spirit…Tastes like chicken….

 

REWIND

 

NOTHING BUT LIPSTICK

“Dream on black boy white girl”

             -Inxs

 

Fitz Of Gerald”

Norwalk, CT. 12.87

 

Rebecca’s babyblues were misting over…Maaaaaaan not again…my G.I. Joe buzz couldn’t have been that bad…Could it?

 

FISHBONE

                        U-G-L-Y

                        You ain’t got no alibi

                        You’re just ugly

 

Okay is she was gonna give me The Boot Goodbye…for the bazillionth time this unmerry holiday season…I still had His Batmanic Majesty’s “Request” ringing in my ears…

 

DARK ATARI

    Do a Great Gatsby. Get thru the Army. Suffer Go To NYU

                           Tisch School Of Arts. SUFFER. Graduate. And flee to L.A.

                                Suffer. Become a Hollywood Mogul. Write sci-fi on the side.

                           Marry Rebecca.

 

SuperCaliFabulousDood…except it’s New Year’s Eve…we were supposed to be at Kevin’s already…and I just couldn’t bare to see anymore tears…not tonight…Not if they weren’t mine..Though y aknow L.O.VE. works overtime.

 

NEMO

                     Babe, what’s the matter?

 

REBECCA

                    I was thinking about this summer and how I was sitting

                     On your bed crying because you were leaving.

 

NEMO

                    Don’t think about the past Becca, I’m right here. Right Now

 

REBECCA

(opening car door pissed)

              Fine. Let’s go.

 

NEMO

               Can you hold on for a second? Please.

 

REBECCA

(sarcastically)

               So sorry for thinking about this summer.

 

NEMO

               Problem is that’s all you’ve been doing since I’ve been

               Back. I could deal with this is I had more time but I don’t

                     

REBECCA

                Well I…

 

NEMO

               Wait I’m not finished. And if it’s too painful for you to give

                Me any affection tonight, it’s a simple fact you won’t two

                Months from now when I’m done with Basic.

 

Rebecca rewarded my No Matter What You Do I’ll Always Love You by taking her beautiful pout along for the whole ghostly snow glitter drive to South Salem…Good News though when we arrived…Maria was there…So us kids had plenty of time to

Perculate cause Sherill and Diane were at a party in New Canaan….Bad News… Kevin took me aside and said things were pretty much over between him and Maria.

 

KEVIN

(at a loss for words)

               I don’t know what happened. We’ve grown apart.

 

Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh…We were gonna have big big fun

 

FRANKENMIND

                The breakup Club is now in session.

 

Kevin busted out the champagne and I injected the Bugs Bunny into the VCR…the tiny bubbles in the sparkling wine relaxing us all…And finally after two weeks of nearly nada Rebecca and I are pawing at each other like old times…Need a change of scenery…We scurry upstairs to “my room”…and ya know the drill privates..

 

Rewind

SGT HILL

                                Catcher In The Rye angle against the wall.

 

On the bed outta control…belly breasts thighs late night snatch..

 

SFX; Slurp slurp lick lick

 

Rebecca withered hither and thither…YEAH!…grasping the sheets..OH YEAH!..nearly falling on the floor…We gotta make love…We gotta make love…but when the

 

THE SEX PISTOLS

                             God Save The Queen

 

Shifts into overdrive…she did her Cinderella act…again.

 

REBECCA

                            I gotta go home. It’s almost 1:00

 

NEMO

                            How can you have a curfew tonight? It’s New Years Eve.

 

REBECCA

                            I’ve gotta go so let me go.

 

As Rebecca slipped her panties back on…I leaned over to kiss her but she won’t

 

REBECCA

(crinkling her nose)

             You know, the smell.

 

NEMO

(totally disgusted)

             It’s your twat not mine.

 

How could she be embarrased…after all those furious lust sessions in the Reginamobile...

No, this wasn’t the same girl..Guess I should have tried harder to find her that perfect

Christmas gift…I’m sure somewhere on the westside docks of Manhattan a hot time machine can be had for a sad song…

 

BILL & TED

            Not!

 

FAST FORWARD

 

ODDS & ENDSVILLE

                                 “Something’s up with Jack

                                    Something’s Up with Jack”

-         The Nightmare Before Christmas

  

“Underneath The Underdog”

Seattle, WA. 9.92

 

Liz,

 

Here in Emerald Siddy….as you couldn’t tell…Small town…Smaller room Actually it’s not too bad…Hardword floors…working fireplace…and double doors that open to my very own deck…Shuttling cars for Alamo Rental…whatever you do never buy a GEO…yes, they’re attractive lil buggers…but you musn’t be swayed by the genteel vrrooming of their engines…or the incredible price tag..these cheap florescent fucks have been hatched without power steering..and go from 0 to 60 in two weeks…and actually have the balls to be smug about it…I’ve had it up to here with them and thai noodle salad the gritty crap included in poor slobs free groceries at the University food bank…It’s so pasty I don’t know whether to eat it or traipse about fixing the nation’s infrastructure… I’m sure Jessica has clued you in how incredibly heterosexual I am…and I’ll admit I’ve gone a bit daft at the sight of this vast collection of sorority sisters and grunge priestesses and maybe I’ve been guzzling too much Red Hook at The Comet…duded up as woebe gone as possible…but what’s a brainly endowed horribly financed alternative negro to do except drown his confusion with fireliquids…gazing intensely as Morrisey might amongst rainbow haired liars and body pierced pretendsters…Oh shit I’ve been scarfing too much of my Portable Beat Reader..Betta cut out this b.s. before I sprout a goatee and start quoating Zen..I’ve been focusing on The Novel quite nicely…I knew my nocturnal sojurns would abrupstly end as soon as my disposable cash did..Hopefully my diet of cheese grits and Jolt Cola will provide me with the necessary chutzpah to brave these long and meatless days of creativity…And I desperately want you to know your faith in my abilities have given me the boost I really need…I don’t know how to thank you enough…What could I do to show my appreciation…hmmmmm.. I know…anytime you need some wiseass rubbed out…I’ll jet to New York with my cartons of thai noodle salad

…a few hundred copies of The Bible..and promptly Cask Of Amontillado his sorry butt..

 

FAST FORWARD

 

MotoDegenerate

“Downsized”

Grant’s Pass, Oregon 9.94

 

Had to get the fuck outta Seattle…No wait…Bring that…Bring that…Bring that beat back…I had to get waaaaaaaaaaaay the fuck outta Seattle…pullin no punches…Tellin no lies…Here I had wasted the entire summer trapped by my own satanophonic psycho circus of fear & loathing…consuming any drug that slyly promised to bang my noize.. crank…shrooms…acid…the demon weed…Tang

 

FRANKENMIND

                            You name it. He’ll take it.

 

And still The Cold Lonesome wove its way into my vibeworks…unraveling everything in its path…to give you an idea how my Milky Way Mope had become larger than life… Maurice was introducing me at parties as

 

MAURICE CALDWELL

                           The Angster. The G is silent.

 

GUY SMILEY

                       Now for your enjoyment folks, it’s a twisted lil vid entitled “Booze

                       Out at O.K. Hotel” starring that freakazoid Nemo 19. As the robot

                       Monster on a one way mission to fuck himself but good. Be enthralled

                       As he orders a Rainer. Watch him guzzle another. And another. And

                       Another. Be amazed as the Human Brewery guns his motorcycle thru

                       The slick siddystreets searching for a place to explode. Haul along the

                       Kids tell the neighbors, see it again and again. Because as sure as shoot-

                       In there ain’t gonna be no sequel. Roll em Charlie

 

The gorilla on my gearshift was doubleheaded, twindicked and growing every minute.. Problem was I had flipped off The Seattle Scene and hustled to NYC…destined in my mind to take The Butt Naked City by storm…Shit, I had my press clippings, a few con- tacts, and my…and my…and my head was handed back to me on a used paper plate…

And here I was in Seattle again…six months later with barely the crack in my ass to call my own…so it was next to impossible to be seen on Capital Hill hanging…Not with my

Mighty Joe Young Rodan rep of No Talking Man All Action hovering like a freaking policecopter in the sky…Everyone’s face seemed to laugh…

 

SEATTLE SCENESTERS

                        Boy where’s your novel deal? Your one man show? Your

                        Spoken word c.d.? Your something?

 

Christ, you back seat drivers…just let me ease the pedal from the floor…swig a Mickey’s

 zone to a show or get crazy with a pagan lady…without The Comet Squad vometing..

 

COMET SQUAD

                          Oh you’re slacking like the rest of us Mr. Nemo Spelled

                           Backwards Is Omen.

 

And hit the deck here fizzzzzzzzz the rumors…

 

Fire One!

 

Sfx: WWWWWWhooooooooooshBOOM!

 

SEATTLE SCENESTER

                            Ice that broke in the behind routine I know you’re a trustfund

                            Junkie from Connecticut.

 

Fire Two!

SFX: WhooooooooooshBOOM!

 

SEATTLE SCENESTER

                            I heard you were smacked outta your gourd when you

                           Performed at CBGB”s. And didn’t Cindy Lauper have you

                           Thrown outta Time Café?

 

Fire Three!

SFX: WhoooooooooooooooshBOOM!

 

SEATTLE SCENESTER

                         Berlin. That ancient old otherworldy walkie talkie implanted

                         In your brain was done in Berlin. No, Zurich.

 

Too weird as it may hound…despite all the backstage baskerville bullshit. I didn’t wanna bolt from a town that had slowly become home to me…Especially not after actionsizing Dark Atari in search of The Big Payoff..No, I wasn’t gonna jet cause my ego had bitten off much much more than I could possibly chew…

 

THE HANGMAN

                           Oops looks like someone sunk there own battleship.

 

No how , no way …Strictly spit or swallow the taste of pain onmy way to the sound stage of Fame I’m Gonna Live Forever?…Cause in my previous regenerations I had been super fast eightysixed from Seattle’s alternative rags, The Stranger and The Rocket for pushing the envelope between fact and fiction…

 

UNPUBLISHABLE”

                        My noggin overflowing with happy happy joy oh boy I slammed

                        Mary’s Danish “American Standard” in the box..Me and my galpal

                        Roma had finished dining & dashing The Broadway Grill..Over

                        Twenty bucks for half a sandwich, and two beers I DON’T THINK SO!

 

“EVEN MORE UNPUBLISHABLE”

                        You will learn nothing from this review…Absolutely nothing..This time

                        I’m sitting this shit out…I’ve got no opinion…None…I’m walking on

                        Thin ice at this place as it is…I’m putting on hold my witty references to

                        Euroventuring or pelting rock gods with ice…I’m canning my herbtainted

                    Descriptions of Raging Slab’s blazing Bedrock Southern crunch..Nope ya

                    Ain’t getting one goddamn thing outta me except this..If ya buy Dynamite

                    Monster Boogie Concert you’ll have less money than before…If you don’t

                    You won’t…That’s it…It’s your move…It’s your business..Not mine….

                     Leave me outta it…FUCK OFF

 

And once my pleas to every powerpop magazine from A to Z about giving my new breed of gonzo a go go were venemously denied…motorcruising this Magickal Mystery Machine Roadshow appears to be the only I wander to kungfu…

 

FASTFORWARD

 

 

Vigilantes of L.O.V.E.

“Make New York Your Vacation City”

NYC 10.96

 

SFX; Braaaaaaaaaak Braaaaaaaaak

 

The phone was ringing off the hook…Jody wouldn’t come outta the bathroom..She had locked herself in..Screaming like a fuckin banshee..

 

JODY

         AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

 

Rewind

 

SFX; Braaaaaak Braaaaak

 

The phone was ringing off the hook…Jody wouldn’t come outta the bathroom.. She had

Locked herself in..Screaming like a fucking banshee…

 

JODY

      AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!.

 

SFX; Braaaaaaaak Braaaaaak

 

I wasn’t gonna answer it…I knew who it was…And I was in no mood to deal… Mr. Bard would have to make a housecall…in person.

 

JODY

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!

 

Minutes later…

 

SFX: Knock Knock

 

I open the door and Mr. Bard’s face is contorted in the most bizarre structure ever architecured since Noah’s Ark..It’s an almost impossible combination of anger, concern and sheer terror…

 

MR. BARD

(softly)

                         Is everything alright Nemo?

 

NEMO

                         Uh, no. She’s…uhm..

 

MR. BARD

                           She’s what?

 

For the life of me it took every ounce of strength not to shout ‘DEAD!”

 

Scanning

SFX: DZZZZZZZZZZtookchunkt!

 

NANCY SPUNGEN

                            Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiid!

 

Sorry that’s quite a different story…or is it?

 

Rewind

 

MR. BARD

                        She’s what?

 

NEMO

                         Jody’s upset about the rent, Mr. Bard. Among other things.

 

Scanning

SFX; DZZZZZZZZZZZZtookchunkt!

 

SID VICIOUS

                          Nancy where’s me junk?

 

FastForward

 

MR. BARD

                      I thought I explained it to both of you. A lot of these units are

                       Rent controled. People have been here twenty years or more.

                      That’s why their apartments are cheaper. Yours just happens

                       Not to be. Don’t take it personally.

 

NEMO

                      But Mr. Bard there’s mice. A lot of ‘em.

 

MR. BARD

                      The Chelsea’s over a hundred years old Nemo. What do you

                       Expect? You can’t go anywhere in New York and not find

                       Mice. The exterminator comes once a week. Call the front

                       Desk and have Jerry put your name on the list. But we can’t

                       Have that screaming. Your neighbors are complaining. It’s

                       Scaring the children. They wanted me to call the police.

 

NEMO

                         Like they wanted us here anyway.

 

MR. BARD

                      Don’t worry about them. I’m trying to accommodate you

                       Two as best I can and keep you out of trouble. I think it

                       Would be great if another novel was written in the hotel.

                       Work it out.

 

NEMO

                                                             (closing door)

                    Okay Okay

 

After listening to him briskly walk away it dawns on me how everything in the bathroom was too quiet…The last time Jody locked herself in…

 

Rewind

 

JODY

                     I’M GONNA KILL MYSELF!

 

Frightened yet pissed beyond belief I had yelled…

 

NEMO

                     HERE BABE TRY THIS BUTTERKNIFE THOSE RAZOR

                     BLADES ARE PRETTY DULL!

 

That got results…

 

JODY

                      AAAAAAAH I HATE YOU! YOU’RE SUCH A FUCKING

                      DICK! ASSHOLE!

 

NEMO

                      I CAN YELL LOUDER THAN YOU! AAAAAAAAH!

 

                                                                  JODY

                       AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSHOLE!

 

FastForward

 

I couldn’t blame her for being upset about the rent…It’s ridculous..$1,675 a month and that’s not including the money for cabs, money for food, money for clothes

 

FRANKENMIND

                        Agatha NYC Custom Leather!

 

Money money money…Jody was dancing up a storm at Ten’s like only she can do.. though the recent reading of the rocknroll reichter scale was piss poor…The wallstreeters were looking, touching, talking…but not paying…Negotiations with Rob Kenner at Vibe about a highrollers hustling feature on Ted Joans, the chocolate siddy side of The Original Beat Experience were going straight to nowheresville…even though Darius had reccomended me..I still hadn’t finished sending Goo Goo Muck # Bleed to every victim on the mailing list…And I had to powerpopppoe another issue soon..My You Are A Manic Depressant Loser For Life So Here’s Your Backpay check from Uncle Sam was vaporware…the last of it having gone to JodyCat and I’s brief boogie nights abroad… And as any wild times witch will bippety boppety boo ya bopping at Disneyland Paris, getting wicked aled in London Pubs, or bicycling in the Versaille Gardens are pleasant memories that ain’t gonna pay the bills..yet

 

NEMO

                                         (rapraprapping at the chamber door)

                                  Jody?

 

No answer.

 

NEMO

                                 Hey babe ya wanna get something to eat? We can go

                                 The Village Grill.

 

No answer.

 

NEMO

        How about a hamburger at The White Horse Tavern? You Know

         You love those onion rings.

 

No answer.

 

NEMO

        And then we can get a video. Maybe even Grease.

 

Slowly the bathroom door opened…and Jody limped out…her face streaked clean from the wet…Aproaching cautiously…oh so cautiously…I softcelled a kiss on her forehead.. She let out a tortured sigh…then we embraced…

 

JODY

(pouting)

             I still hate you.

 

NEMO

             Well I hate you.

 

JODY

(smiling)

               Baby what do you think I should wear?

 

 

REWIND

 

Odds & Endsville

“ Dead Kennedys Can Dance”

Claremont, CA 3.89

 

Springbreak…Pomona College..Silke’s in San Jose visiting her former employers… some elite chic Silicon Valley couple…Kramer and Rachel are trying to rent a car for our x-laced Desitination Disneyland..and I’m with Xander doing The Usual…

 

SFX: Sssssssssssssssssssssssuck

 

Xander

                     If you had to be a Dead Kennedy, which one would it be?

 

He passes me the pipe…

 

SFX; sSSSSSSSSSSuck

 

NEMO

 (without hesitation)

                    The aborted fetus of JFK and Marilyn Monroe so I’d never

                     Have to live up to either one’s legend. Then be reincarnated

                     As a Texaco gas attendant who said “ Fuck Hollywood And

                      Politics” and in my spare time jam on the Ukele and finally

                     Solve Rubick’s cube.

 

I pass the pipe…

 

SFX; sSSSSSSuck

 

XANDER

                      No doubt. No doubt.

 

 

FAST FORWARD

 

MotoDegenerate

“Panel 9 From Outer Space”

Grant’s Pass, Oregon 9.94

 

Slurp a few Hamms goodbye and ponder the plan..Gotta get to Gotham before the twentysixth and megablast Maggie Estep at CMJ, the annual college music marathon…

…For reasons unknown, The Fates summonsed her from the bowels of the lower east side..crowning her as The Spoken Word Set’s reigning queen…Could it be those yum

fuckmehardlips..or the husky cumhithergrrrrrrrrowl…Gosh ya got me…We crossed paths a few times this winter…me invading her crib on Fifth St….A bum’s stumble from Sophie’s…boozed on McSorley’s whambammalammin her with my Richard Hell..hopin she’d smell past the sauce and see I was hungry for her touch…

 

FRANKENMIND

                          In a pig’s eye pal

 

Maggie kindly listened to my rants…like she really ever had a choice…I was strategically blocking her exit stage fright…admitted they were good…but not once did she invite me to a gig with her troupe…Okay so Maggie did ask me to appear in her video her product pimp daddies were shooting for MTV…though only after the vid was in the can did some production grunt inform me my services were not desired…Weeks later I iniated the kiss and makeup…No sum sum summertime sex me session..strictly a cash transaction..I was madly jonzing for the green trying to catch a flight…any flight

 

ROGER RABBIT

                         Ppppplllllllllllease.

 

Back to the Wild West after Marvel Comics mismanaged me an advance for my Onyx storyline…Maggie lined this kid’s pockets and I thought that was the end of that…so imagine my Michele Shocked when meeting her at Lollapalooza a few days ago Maggie did the

 

FRANKENMIND

                      Stone Cold Bitch

 

Riccohetrabbitin around the revival tent evily informing

 

MAGGIE

                      That’s Nemo

 

To the selfproclaimed Dictators Of Prose…and as I approached the stage…a Lollapaloser jumped in front of me covering the mike and shook his head No…Thus preventing me from stardog championing the poetry slam…A win I could have won and gone straight to the centerstage..A prop I needed to keep the G.G. Allin alive…Good thing my Arnets shielded the Oh My God I’ve Just Been Fucked look…Maybe Maggie figured I was a deadbeat for not paying back the forty bux…or maybe she assumed I was jumping her Full Circle train after approaching Jason Solomon, Maggie and Denis Leary’s manager.. Shit I figured if Leary could rant about Cindy, siggyrets and sin and still could get paid.. SO CAN I ….Check this out…Betcha thought I was a beatnik wannabe..Bore ya to beer with some bullshit poetry…swingsing the same-o lame-o about tree, recycables and

 

R.E.M

                      I am I am Superman

 

All emotional…a realtearjerker…well, JERK THIS…I’ve got one emotion..I’m way pissed…I know one poem….Eeeenie Meeenie Mineee Mo…Catch a tiger by the toe..Catch a tiger by the toe?…G. You’re

 

Fastforward

 

Dexter’s Lab

Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!

 

Rewind

 

Totally Fucking

 

FastForward

 

Dexter’s Lab

Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!

 

End of you..end of poem..Who knows?..Maybe she..OH WHO CARES…Let Maggie have her holiday in the sun…It’ll come to a grinding halt soon enough…Her vid didn’t see heavy rotation…Her c.d. sin’t breaking any records..like it ever would..and her book what’s the title?…Rants In My Pants will be fodder for The Strand’s remainder bins since Darius isn’t ghostwriting her material anymore…So I’ll leave well enough alone..The bitch just betta not interrupt The Kid’s input anymore is all I know..Cuz I’m.. The big blackbooted shimmyshake Lil Lord Flauntleroy…Mightier than Mount Rushmore… Wylee Coyote Top Kattin Def Of Kool…Captain of funky spaceways housing the galaxies..coating the cosmos with my kinda hongkong phooey hoodoo…Righteous rocketship fillerupped by a reality choking plentipussy stroking Hollywood Shakespeare

Wordspeak…Threesixty in hand…my plan is to boldly deliver the downtrodden from the fiendish grrrrrrip of money lovin huggin and touchin squaredancin Freds..Breaking their chains with supersonic Fishbonin Kerocac rap…and that’s the fax, Jack..Get it..Got it.. cause The Kid is gone…so fucking gone..

 

REWIND

 

Odds & Endsville

“Going To Grandma’s House”

Puerto Escondido, Mexico 1,89

 

A couple weeks before graduation finds Our Reluctant Hero and his high school pal Joe Mellilo cruising to Hackettstown, NJ, Destination..Who cares?..Topic of conversation…

DUH…

 

JOE

                     He told ya while playing golf? Creative. Slam the kid

                     When his guard’s down.

 

NEMO

                    Mom, uhm Mother probably orchestrated that one. I should

                    Have known something was up when he let me drive the golf

                    Cart. Dad usually freaks if I even look like I’m gonna ask.

                     He’s still not over the time Trip and I almost had a head on

                    Collision with the Police Chief in Whiteville, North Carolina

 

Editor’s Note: I finally weasled some reality outta Mr. Nothing But The Hole Truth about the above and they really almost drove the cart in the pond..Except for the notable exception of Norwalk Police Dept’s Paul Stevens it seems Nemo has a severe problem with uniformed figures of authority that are never available when they’re needed, rarely have anything nice to say and will shoot a defenseless African American male 42times and then have the Gulliani admistration softsoap it with this fantastic tale about a black serial rapist whose only confessed to four of the 51 charges…And in this rare occasion I must agree with him..But Nemo..NO WAY IN HELL ARE YOU STAYING AT MY PLACE! GET A CENSORED CENSORED JOB LIKE THE REST OF US YOU STARRY EYED DREAMER!

 

JOE

                          Whiteville? Significant trauma yes.

 

NEMO

                     Right so I’m expecting something big, like he’s gonna finally

                     Teach me how to drive. But No it’s hit the road Jack don’tcha

                     Ever come back. Later that night trying to soften the blow with

                     How it’s a great opportunity to discover my heritage.

 

JOE

                      Steady Eddie talking about black culture? That’s new.

 

NEMO

                      More like frightening. He unnerved himself. Probably a tactic

                      He lifted from the Cosby Show. Theo I’m not though. So I

                      Turned down the Led Zepplein..

 

JOE

                      Put away your Surfer magazine.

 

NEMO

                     And said “HUH?!” aaaaah man heritage my ass. They just

                     Want me outta the house. Him catching me putting on Tanya’s

                     Lipstick was the last straw I guess.

 

JOE

                        So why didn’t ya know do one of your numbers and blind

                        Him with science?

 

NEMO

                     Like I didn’t. I told him I was gonna get a job and looking

                     Forward to spend the summer growing as a person and

                     Getting to know Sonia better.

 

Joe gives him a look of disgust.

 

NEMO

                       And you too homo. Though he kinda convinced me to leave.

 

JOE

                       How?

 

NEMO

                                                               (mumbling)

                       Rent’s due in a month if I don’t.

 

JOE

(laughing)

                       Send me a postcard .

 

 

FASTFORWARD

 

Euro-A-Go-Go

“Whatever Ales Ya”

London, England 10.88

 

HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHere’s Nemo…Ha Ha I’ve arrived…Sitting in Carter Hall’s café sipping Stripes…Bizarre banana flavored milk drink…SFX are Echo & The Bunny- man and New Order…Yeehaw…Now where’s the warm leatherette?..Surprised to have made it…For a second there I thought I’d do an unmerry go round back to JFK cause The

Inhuman Glob “manning” Customs was getting its jollys by giving me the third degree…

 

INHUMAN GLOB

                          Student eh? So why are you spending two months here?

 

NEMO

(flashing Eurorail Pass)

                         Dude you can take a semester off…in America.

 

INHUMAN GLOB

                         Is that so?

 

NEMO

                         Yeah.

 

The Inhuman Glob finally stamped my passport and let me thru…Is this an omen of what’s in store…I hope the fuck not…Took British Rail…first class no less…And headed for the youth hostel…Pathetic must have been heavily etch-a-sketch-ed on my mug cause the bus driver didn’t collect my fare…Get this space cadets…Room#5…

Bed #CENSORED…eeegahds…I entered the room twisting like Oliver thru a Lids-ville of Virginia Atlantic jetlag…dragging my army duffelbag loaded with unnecessary necessities and there’s mile after mile after mile after mile after mile…

 

FRANKENMIND

                            Alright already Peewee

 

Of steel frames and lumpy mattresseses…all the scruffy wankers freezeframing their melodymakerthefacei.d.s in order to gawk at

 

THE EAGLES

                             The new kid in town.

 

No one says a word…of course I needn’t remind you I’m the only African American in the joint…No time to consult “Let’s Go”…too tired to even faint..What to do?…what to do?…

 

NEMO

                             Anybody wanna get a pint?

 

In a matter of seconds I have five new friends…

 

REWIND

 

Don’t forget to add missing paragrah

Nothing But Lipstick

“Hughes Patrol”

Norwalk, CT. 2.87

 

 

 

SFX: Screeeeeeeeeech!

Kisskiss…Girl’s looking good…How the fuck did I get so lucky…

 

SFX; Vrrrrooooom!

 

Faster faster…the conversation consists of frantic shrieks of ..where’s the mixed tape…let me have a sip…ohmygawd you’ll never guess what happened at work today

Faster faster….then Rebecca can think of a purchase to plop on Alan’s credit card we’re FDRthriving…Manhattan’s ominous carnival of electric candlelights beckon for more speed…faster faster…sticking to my role as The Eternal Fool…I’ve consumed too much Mickey’s and I’m about to wet my…

 

NEMO

                    Myself. Kevin! Stop! Stop!

 

KEVIN

                     Shit. Is it a cop?

 

NEMO

                     No, I’ve gotta pee bad.

 

KEVIN

                      You’re such a bitch. If I get a ticket, you’re paying for it.

 

SFX: Screeeeeeeeeeeeeeech!

 

REBECCA

(laughing at her friend)

                       Did you hear that? He said pee.

 

One long…PISS…later and a few air kisses to Kevy…we’re back in the gomode…

Faster faster…First stop, The Ritz to pickup the tickets…at the box office the alternagirl

Asks me the usual future easy street…

 

ALTERNAGIRL TEMPTRESS

(madly purring)

                     Are you from California?

 

NEMO

                     Don’t I wish.

 

Faster Faster…somehow we make it to Candace’s L.E.S apartment and I see her for the first time in years…She’s blossomed from a cuddly high school heartbreaker into a groovy movie scenetress in the thick of NYC’s endless one night Grand Hotel stands…

Introductions…grab a few brewha!ha!s…

 

CANDACE

                       How’s your writing going?

 

NEMO

                        HA!

 

CANDACE

                        So what’s that mean? Good.

 

NEMO

                        HA!

 

I tell her we’ll return after the show…faster faster…chugaluglug…rap rap rap..Music… rap rap rap…music..faster faster…and soon my faith gives birth to fear cause I’m drunk as a skunk and my spidey sense is outta sync with the cosmos…Translation… Can’t find The Ritz…Kevin’s circling block after block while giving me that Gee Nemo This Dumb Manuever Is Really Gonna Get Me Laid face…Each street appears to be the right direction…until we faster faster faster down it of course…

 

RETRO VIVA ROBOTS

                         This Is Not Television.

 

Kevin’s so scattered…he forgets himself and asks The Almighty to intervene…Hmmm.. go figure…Friday the 13th  turns out to be our night though…The car thrills around the next corner…and there is The Temple Of Sin and a place to

 

ALL OF US

                        Park!

 

Inside time to get a new religion…beautiful club fashionistas are huddled in dark corners making battle plans for weekend anarchy…being merry for tomorrow we might all

Diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiie…The energy is…Throb of machine…Prince Of Darkness… The energy is…Throb of the machine…Prince Of Darkness…

 

RETRO VIVA ROBOTS

                         This Is Not Television.

 

Eventually A.P.B. takes the stage…I’m carressing Rebecca…yes she’s so smooth… Recklessly I nuzzle her neck…waaaaarm…waaaaarm…Tongue her ear…Her hand grabs my thigh…The energy is…Throb of machine…Prince of Darkness…Circuits activated… Wallsssss of Jericho…The magick summons me elsewhere…I leave Rebecca’s side… Vizz Erica and Tori regulars from The Café…a festive Saturday Night fever inside a Greenwich church…but they’re a known factor and I’ve been infested by a rude that desires something new…I brush up against this total stranger…She turns around smiling.. and we begin to kiss with a casualness that’s pure robot logic…Tongues in mouths… teeth on lips…and in a few minutes we part…no names…no numbers…The energy is…

Throb of the machine..Prince Of Darkness..Thoughtlessly climbing the stairs I search for another Alice In Wonderland ready and willing to be preyed upon…It doesn’t take long...

And early the next morning as we fastback to our pretty suburban oblivion…I read the scrap of paper she placed in my pocket…Her name is Christina..

 

FAST FORWARD

 

Vigilantes Of L.O.V.E.

“I’ve Got This Friend You See”

NYC 3.97

 

Got dirt?…Give it to us…Goo Goo Muck…Psycho Action Sex Noir Junkfood Jive… Have a sneaking suspicion your neighbors are alien robot monsters?…Does your landlord resemble the Green River Killer?…Has Evil Coporation X axed your weird science project?…Well here’s your chance for monsta payback…Send a typed letter…Anony- mously if you must…to our secret headquarters…sssssssssssssssh!…Here at The Chelsea Hotel..As in Sid & Nancy, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Nico, William Burroughs, Andy Warhol, DUH…or beam us at thosedarnkidz@wynd.net… we’ll chuck your noise in the mix and a mere $6.66 will bring results to your door…No fuss no muss..It’s mo easier than getting laid…with no funny aftertaste…hey hey hey kiddies don’t delay..just scooby voodoo it today…Goo Goo Muck…Tough Fucking Shit…Yet another wholesome family product from…Those Darn Kidz…

 

REWIND

 

MotoDegenerate

“Brave New Door”

Grant’s Pass, Oregon 9.94

 

Back in Seattle…Adam Greenfield is the editor of NEO…a new entertainment monthly

That’s not the problem …What’s got me going is his insistence on being a pompous prick..You would have never known this was the same skinhead who helped me rip off books from Shakespeare & Co…In Paris…1989 was that time of that Euroride… my second in less than a year…Adam, his NYU dudemate Jamie and I were squatting at the Association Of Protestant Students youth hostel…trying to ease our summer of discon- tent at being “priveleged” youth…loving and hating every minute of it…At first we avoided each other but one afternoon Adam borrowed my P.E. “It’ll Take A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back”…and the dropsquad was off and running…Eliminating… Fumigating…lying and reveiling…Kafka cranked ruffians roughhousing The Louvre…

 

ADAM

                                    From West Philly at the speed of thunder.

 

NEMO

                                    Putting the moaning back in The Lisa

 

JAMIE

                          Why do I have this feeling that I’ll be at The Airport boarding

                           My plane and there’ll be some dude with a long list of crimes

                           I’ve committed in the past month

 

Giving homage to William Gibson in the middle of The Metro..Luxembourg Gardens lazing while yomamain Continental babes…At Jim Morrison’s grave in Pere Lachaise Adam shrieked away the Eurohippies…Jamie scribbled “ Dig up the bones and toss them in the salad” on the tombstone…while I borrowed a pair of sunglasses some Go-Your Own Way left for The Lizard King…After mentioning he had finished an internship at Spin…I shoved my scrawl in Adam’s face…He was the first American I had shown my writing to after it took that Weird Is Relativity detour one night in Frankfurt…Space casin to a Butthole Surfers bootleg, I had let my mind forget about Silke and….

 

SFX: Bwaaaaaang

 

I was where no nigga had gone before…so of course I’m gonna be pissed he’s giving me shit about it now…We conversed a few days before I left town and Adam said he’d consider if my devil inside fit their format…mentioning right before slamming down the receiver he was being interviewed by NPR about youth culture…Great Adam talking about The Kid’s Government a long way away from the pavement…Lighten the load pal..lose those jockey shorts and let your dick dangle in the wind..just like I’m doing…

DDDDDDDDDDAMN when you zoom into these small towns…and vizz these well developed white trash grrrlygirls…Butts geeforced into them teez and jeans…when you get a smell of female after shredding the envelope on your burly big wheel all day… Breathin in those annihilating fumes of power premium…Way To Go Texaco.. And the caffeine and the nicotine…you greed a hankering you get a hungerin…and you wanna.. and you wanna…and you wanna get dirty and vile and drag down some innocent girl and defile her…ride her like she’s never been ridden before…Make that sweetbackwoods thang pleadin, needin, the popgothambang!bang!…good god every inch of her pretty pink tattoo with your black dick…knowing when you’re thru she’s never gonna be Daddy’s lil girl no more…AINT’ GONNA BE DADDY’S LIL GIRL NO MORE…

 

 

FAST FORWARD

 

 

Vigilantes Of L.O.V.E

“Def On The Installment Plan”

San Francisco, CA  4.95

 

Nights of twisted haight…JodyCat And Me…letting the rythmn take control…Nisssssan Sentra Red…Destination…1015…Release…We’re on a mission..

 

WHITE ZOMBIE

                                The world’s going straight to The Devil

                                 Is there any better way to die?

 

This is our moonlight madness…this is our orange crush…B.O.B. has the E… The man with the product to power your push…

 

JODY

                         B.O.B baby how about two for one? I’m paid up and

                          You know I’m good for it.

 

But he’s a tough sale…The week has been rough…B.O.B’s car had beentotaled…Almost got popped by the cops when he and his crew were tagging trashcans with spraycans of pain…of identity…of character…then the ultimate knightmare…Evicted outta the Pleasure Princess’s Palace…and his dreams of Jeannie are 5000 feet and climbing… Jody’s got the right number sketched on her forehead though…1-800-I-Am The Scene

…so B.O.B. gives her the discount…Two pills popped…and we’re off and running in a Nissssssssssan Sentra Red…

 

NEMO

                            Jody slow down

 

JODY

(waving her hand)

                           Relax.

 

Outside the club…lovely party animals streak piggley wiggley…clutching plastic cups of bitter..obeying the sirens of Situation Go!…motormobiles revving…motormobiles running…psycholaughter…

 

NEMO

                            I’ve got no cash.

 

JODY

                             Don’t worry I’ll get us in.

 

CLUB KID

                             You two have The Look, Jody. Just tell him who you are.

 

Black sunshine and White Light rainbow round the bend…Muscleman Danceman Door- man…

 

DOORMAN

                            Five dollars, five dollars. Ain’t ya got five dollars.

 

It’s a deal cause the market’s priced at twenty a head..but the ATM machines are empty and we feel the need to fullforce now…Jody’s lingo language is correct…Her body deejays the mix he likes to listen to..And he lets us jet thru as the doors of perception open..WWWWWWWWWide…warehouse space…warehouse noise…and all her people are here…

 

REWIND

 

Odds & Endsville

“ My Brutha’s Cup”

Gershwin Hotel NYC 3.94

 

It’s an early Monday mourning…It’s a late show Sunday nite…Not as late as it should be…Not as late as I want it to be…And I find myself alone again..Alone in this hotel room…But not as alone as I wanna be…Cause there’s a blacky fly abuzzin at the newly designed Mo Watts For The Money GE light bulb…It has decided not to take the night off..It’s gonna keep abuzzin and abuzzin…Make itself heard…Now or Never…The Fly The Fly…A servant of The Serpent…Footsoldier of The Wonderously Evil One… It wants to be a king of its kind…A Lord Of Flies…But it can’t count that high…Dreams of a winged sovergnity that will never be fulfilled…Never realized…Ain’t that a bitch.. And I pause, taking a long leak at Lucky Strike…Lucky, it ain’t either…cause outta all these siggyrets in this small package with the red bullseye scarred with pitch black lettering.. lettering of the abyss…I chose its dinky behind to meet an early death..

 

THE HANGMAN

                                 Death come unto thee. Death come closer to me.

 

And I wash down its ashy corpse that has lingered in my mouth…wash it down with luke warm cocoa…Cocoa made with Nestles Quik…Three heaping heapfuls will dooya… Hints of Vermont…Dying New England…Die Monsta Die…In this chocolatey flow… and I slowly bring myself back to reason…seeing I poured it in a blue Maxwell House mug…Blue the very same color my kidbrutha’s was…Back in them godawful Schooley Mountain daze of Come Again Lonesome…Blue was his cup…The Tupperware One.. The one I coveted…The one I wanted for my very own…Mine had been a green son of a bitch…Green…for that was my color…Had been…Yet I woke one morning to eat my Fruity Pebbles and skim milk…Skim Milk because my Moms was on another one of her sporadic health food MMMM MMMM good nutrious kicks again…And as the sugary shit blasted me into the Then and There…Into there here and now…I gazed over the wooden tabletop and for the first time I saw my brutha’s cup for what it really was… His Not mine…And oh how Trip laughed so with those grin perfect teeth of his…Grinned as he slurped the o.j. outta its bosom…Outta its depth…How he loved it so…blue blue blue I could think of nothing else except…

 

FRANKENMIND

                                 I have to have that cup gawddamnit.

 

Gawddamnit being an embellishment of mine cause in them yesteryears I never swore.. Though my Moms cursed like the blue wild demon that she was…That she is… That she will always be…And I am her son…All groanup now…I am her son..All alone now… And its gotta come out…My color crunch grew soggy as I plotted…As I schemed… As I fumed…As I fretted…and after a while I decided to let it be…let him have his cup… Mine was enough…Good enough for then…But not for now…

 

REWIND

 

Euro-A-Go-Go

“Krazy Kat’s Katzenjammer”

British Rail Somewhere In The U.K. 10.88

 

Things To Accomplish In A Lifetime

 

1)      Fuck your girlfriend/boyfriend’s best friend

2)      Have a wonderously intense very public nervous breakdown

3)      Do The Continental Hop

 

I’m not exactly keen on the first two…

 

FRANKENMIND

             It’s called a sense of humor. Ya might wanna steal one.

 

Number three is currently in progress though…In my last rainy who the hell am I skateaway to Westport…Amanda asked me what made me decided to go to London …I was agressively nonchalant giving her the ole I’ve got the time and plenty of cash tra la la I really wanted to say…Hey Amanda use that pretty prep school brain protein of yours and figure it the fuck out..Rebecca broke up with me and I’ve recently survived the absolute worst date of my life with Andrea…Maybe Kramer has infected me with the rare and frightening disease of thinking I’m so tragically hip when I’m downright boring-o…but the Gramercy Park Parson’s School Of I’m So High All The Time So I Think I Can Design Girl So Groovy…or so I thought…didn’t like Fishbone…

 

ANDREA

(towering over me)

              They’re like the worst band.

 

Couldn’t stand Jane’s Addiction…only owned one rap album…had us leave “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” after I paid for both of our tickets…And after shelling out cash I didn’t have for our italian dinner at Grandpa’s in The Village told me I had an ego the size of The Towering Inferno…

 

ANDREA

                And someone needs to put out the fire.

 

And now your sister Samantha is refusing to rekindle our sixteen candles situation… A post Psychedelic Furs general seating kiss kiss on the steps of Columbia Library Wuthering Heights that climaxed into a UB40 & guests only Hartford Hilton Saytyricon Yup Amanda the story of my life is its no secret history I’m feeling far less than zero and this rule of unattraction american psycho deserves a change of technicolor pulp.. brighter lights, bigger foreign cities…whatcha think?

 

FLAVOR FLAV

                             Yeahboyeeeee

 

So its rather rewarding to share bottles of French white wine with these sumptious babes.. Sandy & Tina from Zurich, Switzerland…and Mom if you happen to read this someday I’m consuming mass quantities for purely medical reasons…

 

FRANKENMIND

                             But of course

 

Honestly its numbing the pain in my left ear which has been pierced by Sandy with her own earring…

 

SANDY

                              I’ll get some ice.

 

SFX: Staaaaaaab

 

SANDY

                               Shit, it’s not going in.

 

SFX: Staaaaaaab

 

In Harrod’s downstairs pub no less…Hey a guy’s gotta live right?…Sandy’s blonde haired greeneyed and insatiably horny…She gave me the biggest case of blue balls when we made out for TWO hours at the hostel..I tried liberating my groaning scoti into her furry fantastic by sneaking back to my bed…all ready to geronimo primitive art poetry made visible…until some jealous loooooooooooser informed the Carter Hall five-oh…

No matter…In York we’re gonna resume life in the fuck lane…

 

THE LIL ENGINE THAT COULD

                 I think I can. I think I can

 

Sandy’s not exactly the Euroteenangel I’ve been looking to score though…More like those comely handmaiden types on Masterpiece Theatre with those exploding bosoms sly smiles and rich vocabularies…Dad was quite thrilled Trip and I enjoyed his show… completely unaware of our private agenda…hoping when Molly and Sarah bent down to scrub the parlor floor we could catch a quik sneak peek of those bodacious tahtahs.. Every Sunday missing out on Knight Rider turbo action for a microsecond shot of tittie.. and it didn’t happen like clockwork…hell no…sometimes it be months without any… Kit’s voice taunting us from downstairs where Tanya and Tracey were zooming along with Michael…and Trip would sadly look my way wondering if he had wasted precious telly time putting faith in another one of my celebrated exercises in sheer stupidity.. heigtened by an overconsumption of Moon Rocks and then..

 

SFX; BOOOOOINGO

 

Payday!…you can only imagine our enthusiasm when Dad took us to Broadway for The Royal Shakes peare Company’s production of “Nicholas Nicklesby”…we’re talking live and very much in the flesh…though of course we were in the nosebleed seats barely able to decipher who was what when where..much less

 

FRANKENMIND

                            Breastises.

 

Slumberland’s brillant Brit Hussy…I dubbed her Elizabeth..fluxuated from a baudy hybrid of Nancy Spungen and The Queen to a fair bespectaled sprite in scuffed engineer boots…neck nearly strangled by a lusty rope of ebony cascading past her shoulders… head buried in a dusty volume of Poe…Lizzy and I’s love larger than a barge of Wimpy Deluxes…Human They Might Be Gigantic Gregarian Chants acidhousing thru The City.. Our impure passion powered by creamy nougat and hefty pints of Guiness..scorching the countryside…setting the hanging wash ablaze…run run running away to the land where Duran Duran singles never warped…Aaaaaah yes

 

GLADYS KNIGHT AND THE PIPS

                            I’ve got to use my imagination.

 

A vital accessory when you’re stuck in your room on punishment for the rest of the semester cause you needed something to sustain yourself between those premonitions of wild abandon…broke down and borrowed a wellworn issue of Cherry from Patrick Burke’s porno lending library..which you proceeded to unsucessfully hide behind a Time Magazine and read during Music Class…

 

NEMO

(“genuinely stunned”)

                           Pornography? Is that what this is?

 

In The Metro North barcar on the way to the airport I had been blah blah blahing about my I’m Outta Here Trip Abroad And Curious Quest For That Girl…and this sloshed suit & tie belched over his Miller Lite how it would be impossible for me to fly like an eagle and find the Future Let’s Go All The Way Of My Life…sneering if I did and her name’s Elizabeth…he’d reimburse me for my stranger voyage…Maybe I should run a classified in The Times before I leave..” Unique Business Opportunity For Elizabeths”… shit what did I do with his card?…It was right here in my Filofax…That’s what I get for dreaming..

 

SEARCH SEARCH

 

Romeo’s Void

“Beyonder”

The IllumiVoid FuturePresentPast

 

I have dreams…Dreams invaded by The Fo’Ever Beings…The Shonuff Beyonders… The Yes Indeedy Eternals…Gigantic In Thought…In Word…In Action… Hundred Storey Bold Metals Of Kool Alright Creation…Ablaze With The Answer… An undivine nectar sucked from the sun of a million and one tomorrows…The Joy sparkling behind winter shades…And they have donned the uniform of destruction…They are clad in the skin of The Serpent…A skin ominous and richly black…Firstborn on the walls of The Abyss…Now Tightly wrapped around their souls…Reaching out they beckon me with one command..’FURTHER’..And I the wayward son…The one who will never return.. Shunned by his peoples..wary of himself…Stretch out my hand…and in less than a moment…this skin…this riverous sheet of strength consumes me..and I enter The Else where unafraid…For I am The Chosen One…the fast car and drive it…And I have a message…And that message is…’LET THE SEASON OF DESTRUCTION BEGIN”

 

 

FAST FORWARD

 

MotoDegenerate

“Screaming Wheelie Cheetos”

Mill Valley, CA 9.94

 

Fuck sixtyfive..Fuck the police…I’m going where I wanna go…When I wanna go… How fast I wanna go…But maaaaaaaaaaaan when I get to L.A….I gotta get another leather cause this jean jacket isn’t nearly enough to prevent Mr. Freeze from pop sicling my ass…Hopefully Uncle Phil will download major dough so I can purchase some fierce hardware…Chunky kamikaze…icy obsidian…soaring the stratosphere gear…Phaht coal black rawhide O.G. machinery…XXXtra strength strong slickey lickery heavymetal licorice…riproaring transglobal exploring siddy strutting strap-on props that will stop a nuclear warhead in its tracks..Take for instance my man Mad Max…he took a major asswhooping..one, two, three times…but he floored the comp. Surviving in highstyley cause he was sporting the right equipment…I’m talking leather..Kool props for kool ass kicking cats…

 

FRANKENMIND

                     They’re grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat.

 

Roctober dreams last night…even for yours truly…Fucking A…Must be the fallout from overdosing on Japanese manga with Alexa before I left…

 

MANGA

                     Hunter Warrior!

 

Could be my spideysense is warning me about New Orleans…Scheduled to be there in a week or two and contact Sallie Glassman…From what I could tell from our conversation she’s rad…Being a friend of Darius’ since highschool should be enough preparation to cope with my straightshootin”…Though considering she’s a voodoo priestess… I’ll keep the punkability to a miniumum…Salli mentioned I should attend one of the ceremonies.. I don’t know…The closest I’ve come to zeroin in on that weird science is sampling Dr. Snakeskin’s “ The Blackman’s Guide To Seducing White Women With The Amazing Power Of Voodoo” or vizzing Angel Heart…

 

JOHNNY ANGEL

                      Ephinany the other night, you know I saw you and Toots Sweet

                      Boogeying with the cock-a-doodle-doo out in the woods. Looked

                      Like y’all was having some party.

 

As much as I’m hip about joining the pitcrew of 5,6,7,8 I’ll have to think this ceremony deal over seriously before committing myself…I sure as hell don’t need anymore sinister slowing me down..cause I’ve learned the hardway noone’s around when my Jefferson St. Starship need refueling…

 

DARK ATARI

                       You’re finally learning. Good show mate.

 

For instance…where the hell is Guy?…He and Inga are nowhere to be seen…Probably weedheaded at The Camp Davis trying to eightysix their biological rage…Guy’s gonna receive a dose of mine when he makes his cameo appearance…Granted I’m hanging at his Mom for free…No one hassling me while I chainsmoke my way into an early grave… but this boy still has issues..

 

Suburbia and Religion are the true agents of Evil…Sit home and rot in the wilds of sobriety getting high off The Lord…Make no mistake about it…From the moment we’re spluttered outta Momma’s matter of fact…kids like Guy and me are trapped in its bubble of lies…forcefed technicolor myths of canned laughter happily ever after until the ‘rents dropkicked us off Mount Brady Bunch…slamdunked into this cruel world suckdown that has no tolerance whatsoever for visionary speed buggys..no tolerance until you’ve mainstreamed your pain and sexuality into an easily packakged product Corporation x can hype to absolute beginners…How else can Mr Fortune 500 keep his darling Ken and Barbie in strawberry fields forever while they tool around Elite. U getting a degree they don’t even need…Hey Bratpack your Daddy-0 already owns the superhighway of dis information…How about letting us snag a ride?…

 

PSYCHEDELIC FURS

                             I feel shock when the lights get low

                              Got a heart like crime down in my soul

 

Yet I’m at a crossroads cause jeepers creepers…POVERTY SUCKS!..at least Guy doesn’t have to get hip to this part of the bohemian experience…He’s got bucks and his band, Sage…Last year me and the boys fueled with their

 

GUY

                            Psychotropic fungomatic you-go-static sonowhackit

                             Masturbatory jackit.

 

Lazy acidranch hit the highway…it was springtime…Sage’s first westcoast tour and I was ready to roadie..Roadie in the loosest sense of the word since they didn’t need me for shit…

 

GUY

(flabbergasted)

                             You mean you’ve got no money.

 

NEMO

(showing press pass)

                            What do I need money for? I’ve got this.

 

But like the crazykooldoods they are..Mike and Marc let me tag along anyhow… I should say like the crazykooldoods they were..cause now Capitol Records has been pumping cash into Will Records…and we know how money changes everything…yet even if they succumb to the dreaded rock god disease I’ll still owe em considering my poetic anarchy chaosed their Hollywood Hills schmooze-a-rama…letting my fanboy creep blindside common sense..I unknowingly challenged the Interscope A&R rep’s own treasure trove of trivia..but damn was it my fault the itty bitty ditty on the FM was Charles Mingus… Can I be blamed cause Anna couldn’t identify it after boasting she knew every single track recorded since the death of Christ…And geez how was I supposed to know Bill Bentley, the head of Sire Publicity was Anna’s former boyfriend

 

ANNA

                               I carried that jackass to AA meetings

 

The same piece of shit who dissed my request to have Dinosaur Jr reminisce about their favorite Saturday Morning Cartoons…

 

BILL BENTLEY

(arrogantly over the speaker phone)

                               Maybe next tour Nemo…maybe

 

How was I supposed to know…hey hash has a strange effect on people and Anna’s Cop Shoot Cop publicity boy toy passed the pipe..but it was her world at the time and we were leasing space…a fact the guys were so kind to remind me as they loaded my butt on a Greyhound heading to San Francisco

 

GUY

(sadly)

                            We’ll meet up with you later, Nemo

 

Yeah sure I dastardly dick a dandy imitation of a loose cannon… yet that sure as shit doesn’t excuse Guy for this latest b.s. manuever…In July Inga and he took me out to dinner after another low rent gig at the O.K. Hotel…Over tofu burgers, Guy surprised me by saying he wanted to accompany his vicious bass verve with my spookspeek.. A week later with Steve Demars help we got together at the Odd Fellows Temple…rehearsed a coupla numbers, making plans to bring the noise again sometime soon…then I never heard a word about it from Guy again…He compensated by worming me onto the Hemp- fest in August…I oogedyboogedy ha ha’d to a tiedyed sea of stoned muthaphuckas… a horrorcaust of epic opportunity…Granted only after I guilttripped his ass the night before while The Critters were buggin…and its got me more thanslightly confused since Guy’s one of the few white cats in the Seattle Scene who can let go of their ego and give the Black Rock Mafia a snatch at the action …and considering the common ground he, Inga and I have karma chameleoned over the last two years…I figured we were friends enough to be brutally honest with each other…what else are friends for?…Geez this flavor of the month stuff doesn’t fly…at all..

 

NAKED EYES

                                 You made me promises promises

                                  Knowing I’d believe

                                  All of your promises

                                 You knew you’d never keep

 

And fucking A…I gotta get The Beast a new chain and I’m broke…Maybe if I plant this dollar in the backyard tonight…smother myself in Hubard’s Shoe Grease and Marsh – mellow fluff while dancing buttnaked to “Sid Sings”…I’ll be back in the green before counting to thirteen…Betta yet…I’ll plead to Guy’s mom for a loan…Andrea’s fully loaded like a .45…Forget this starving artist routine…I’ve learned the ABC’s of Life… A is for the Assinine you’re gonna look like when you B, Butt is being hit & run by Reality if you ain’t got plenty of C-A-S-H…cashmoneymoney…It’s what gets your biz in motion …it’s the sheening greening that gives Life more meaning…the jinglejangle that covers every angle…It’s the common denominator of all the people on the cover of People… It’s what seperates the bohos buying a doublemocha with a shot of soymilk, dash of vanilla from the losers sipping coffee, black, no cream, no sugar…NO REFILL

 

REWIND

 

 

Nothing But Lipstick

“The Duckman Cometh”

Norwalk, CT. 3.87

 

I SAW IT…John Hughes latest “ Some Kind Of Wonderful”…It’s simply “Pretty In Pink” with a different ending…the one everyone wanted…the misfit artiste boy and bitchin betty blowtorch get together…and the piece of resistance is I got to watch it with Rebecca…and damn was I prepared…Wore this righteous jacket I designed the night before…Blasting New Order I took a black Judge Dredd t-shirt, cut out the graphics and stapled it to the back of an old plaid dress jacket…I felt like Molly when she made- mosiselled that fantastically mod prom dress..Was it fierce enough though?… Needed a test subject…needed a test reaction…who else was up to the job except…

 

FRANKENMIND

                             Grandma!

 

She was in the kitchen cooking when I immerged from the Dungeon

 

SFX: Errrrrrrrrrnt!

 

And seeing me so sweetback badasssss oi…Grandma almost dropped her Harlequin Romance in the bubbling pot of..who knows…at least it tasted good…Usually

 

GRANDMA

                              Boy have you finally lost all of your mind? Why

                              Do you insist on dressing like that? I’ve bought you

                              Nice clothes.

 

NEMO

                              Cause I’m nineteen.

 

GRANDMA

                               I told you to stop giving me lip every time I ask you

                               Something. That’s alright. I’m gonna have a talk with

                               Your father.

 

NEMO

(sighing)

                               It’s fashion, Grandma

 

GRANDMA

                               You just need a job cause you’ve got to much time on

                                Your hands.

 

NEMO

                                I have one.

 

GRANDMA

                               Huh Eddie Bauer? That piece of job. Boy, you need a

                                Real one with benefits.

 

NEMO

                                 I can’t write working fulltime.

 

GRANDMA

                                Oh nigga please. You’re gonna make my cholesterol rise

                                Taaaah writing. Don’t think I forgot about you paying

                                 Rent. Your Grandfather and I can get alotta money for that

                                 Room downstairs. You get your lil check and spend it on

                                 Whatever you feel like. Not once do you say “Grandma

                                  Here’s a lil something.

 

NEMO

(kissing her on the cheek)

                                 Here Grandma, here’s a lil something.

 

GRANDMA

                                 Nigga you’d betta get outta my face.

 

Mission accomplished…Outside on the porch waiting for Kevin…

 

DEPECHE MODE

                                 I’m taking a ride with my best friend

                                 I hope he never lets me down again.

 

So we had a rad evening…only one thing ruining it…When we dropped Rebecca off, I decided to be gallant, walk her to the front door and…

 

SFX; Budda Budda boom thump thump

 

Her Daddy-0 came sprinting up the stairs at breakneck speed…opening the door and ruining my chance for a parting smooch…Totally tacky…it’s like he didn’t want me to kiss his daughter on his front step..and here I thought he was cool about the color thing.. Should have known…Should have known…The next day on “my break”, I went over to American Eagle Outfitters and asked Rebecca about Allan’s strange behavior…And she said she had stayed awake for a long while asking herself the same question…

 

REBECCA

                                      I mean he’s never done that before.

 

Guess you’ll find yourself doing rather…shall we say…different general motoring when your babygirl is going out with a

 

FRANKENMIND

                                   Fill in the gawddamn blank.

 

Saturday night dawned on my disintegration

 

WLIR

                                  Hello this is Robert from The Cure

 

And I was arranging the make believe to slip away to Gotham Siddy and see Christina.. I had called her last week, nervous as no future…not knowing what to expect…Did she stiff me with the wrong digits or worse would her Father answer the phone…

 

FRIGHT NIGHT FATHER

(growling)

                                 I know what you think you’re gonna do this summer.

 

SFX ZOINK$!

 

Though Christina’s sexy synth yahaha’d on the other end and all the guilty thoughts of cheating on Rebecca were kinda

 

INDUSTRY RECEPTIONIST

(cyborgishly)

                                   Could you please hold.

 

Too bad it was raining and Lyle had forgotten to bring in my skateboard… Factors crucial in reviving my lovey dovey mood to mope at Rebecca’s…I even tried giving my Mighty Lemon Drops tickets away…I decided to go anyway because Connecticut was closing in…Moby wouldn’t be spinning at The Café…and oh yeah…A PROMISE IS A PROMISE…Arriving at our designated drunken stupor spot…27th & 3rd…I expected Christina not to show…And holycowlikewow there she was…Hello Gorgeous in black wanting to be seen with me…Hello Gorgeous in black wanting to play with me… Hello Gorgeous in black with extremely tall friend in tow looking mean at me..HUH?

 

CHRISTINA

                                 Nemo, I’d like you to meet Flo.

 

NEMO

                                Oh yeah hey. How are you?

 

FLO

(ignoring me)

                               Can we get out of the rain now, Christina? I’m

                                Getting soaked.

 

Time for some soothing brass monkey..an elementary element needed to deal with This Annoying Adlib…Pretty soon Christina and I were chugging Jack Daniels..striking up Camels…locking lips…swapping spit…until Flo couldn’t contain her displeasure any more…

 

FLO

                                   Christina don’t do this think of…

 

RETRO VIVA ROBOTS

                                  Insert Poor Unfortunate Boyfriend’s Name

 

FLO

                                 And the 14 months you’ve been with him. Don’t do this

                                      With with him. He’ll only use you.

 

Now for all you morons I’ll lay out the equation…Rude Noisy Third Wheel Interfering With Hyped To The Max Hormones Of An Infinitely Creative  Doomsday Obssessed Constantly Depressed Forever Misunderstood Teenage Wage Slave Stuck In A Stifling Suburban Hood Trying To Enjoy Himself equals

 

EINSTEIN

                         Rage EMC squared

 

And I did it in Antique Boutique…throwing and kicking things…I’m the bad guy right? Might as well keep true to form….soon everyone was upset…Christina came to the rescue  and said we all should forgive forget and jet to The Ritz…one weepy group hug later we were outside the club, waiting in line…and Joe Christ I had to take another un-planned piss…I whizzed around the corner where there was a convient wall…and proceeded to relieve myself…BAAAD TIMING…cause who should

 

SFX: BAMF!

 

Right behind me but two of NYPD’s Boys In Blue…

 

BLACK COP

                                 Yo stop

 

And since the whiz was in full swing

 

BLACK COP

                                  I said stop

 

I couldn’t whip my schwing back in its cave as fast as he liked…

 

BLACK COP

                                  Fine, I’m taking you in.

 

SFX: ZOINK$!

 

NEMO

                                Look dood I stopped.

 

BLACK COP

(Snitching in walkie talkie)

                                  It’s not dood. It’s officer.

 

NEMO

                             Officer sir, I’m sorry. I don’t know what came over me.

                              I’m sorry. Really.

 

This totally uncharacteristic display of authority asskissing went on for another minute… and I STILL was making no headway until Christina and Flo appeared like magick…

 

CHRISTINA

                              Officer, he’s with us.

 

FLO

                               Yeah he is.

 

BLACK COP

                                Maybe you girls can keep your friend in line before he

                                Gets into some serious trouble. (turning towards me)

                                 Fine you’re off the hook.

 

NEMO

                               Thank you officer it won’t happen again.

 

Geez I’m not gonna tell anybody about that…

 

FAST FORWARD

 

Odds & Endsville

“Motel Nirvana. All Colored Guests Please Use The Back Entrance. The Management”

Seattle, WA 10.93

 

Yo Darius

 

the things that I had not ought to do

                                            I do because I’ve got to

                                             Wotthehell wotthehell”

                                                                            - don marquis

 

Okay so my bullshit Canon Typestar fucked up…some of us prose ho’in niggas aren’t fortunate enough to have a Powerbook…but as my Dad says “ You want everything handed to you on a silver platter”…No Dad, try gold…24 Carrot…Can’t bitch to much cause this portable baby has gotten me thru rough times…without it this past winter there wouldn’t have been anything between me noggin and the cold concrete when I was cribb-ing in the REI parking lot…I think my wiggy factor has increased due to those extremely frigid daze in March when I actually felt the blood in my brainium freeze…

 

SFX: VVVVVzzzzzzzkkkrunch stiff stuff

 

That’s why I’m heading to San Francisco at the beginning of ’94…cause if I’m stranded in The Great Outdoors again…at least the artsy fartsy angst in me will be satisified… I hope Sonic Youth’s new release will be betta than their last cause “Dirt” was slacking… too much catered crap and press clippings kinda do that…Franl Black’s a perfect example…Though I don’t think the bitch appreciated me yelling that on the top of my Godgiven galaxy blasting lungs during his set at The Moore Theatre…And I wonder why Madison at Monquie Presents is reluctant to comp me for anymore shows…Aaaawww poor Frankie baby…Reverend Horton Heat blew him back into the arms of his Pixies playmates…No doubt…Frank thanks for playing but its time to give up the spotlight for The Next Big Thing….ME…haha…Come on you knew I was gonna work it back to yours truly...I’ve gotta machine to build..Let go of my ego fucka…Wipe your eyes with your new J. Crew purchase…Nurse on your American Express Platnium to ease the pain.. Just get outta my face…Sorry man, as you can vizz I have a few things to work out… Gotta getta handle on my sonic scream or else The New Teen Titans are gonna revoke my membership…Nightwing…HA!..I’ve got three words for him…Thesaurus and Urban Outfitters…yeah don’t think I’m gonna kiss your weird nigga booty cause you schlepped me a coupla contacts…NAAAh The Kid ain’t going out like that…Though I might con-sider it for a Fab Five Freddy recommendation on phatass stationary…Anyway thanks for “Negrophobia”…and tell Arthur at The Portable Lower Eastside to include “WUZ” in the Grove Press “Low Rent” compilation…A few years from now they’ll be glad they had “The Foresight To See His Emerging Major Talent Technique”…yesssss despite all the nomeansno a nigga can still dream…I gotta get going my oatmeal’s lonely…

 

FASTFORWARD

 

MotoDegenerate

“Nostradamus Listening”

Mill Valley, CA 9.94

 

Boosted a copy of Tom Robbins “Even Cowgirls Get The Blues” from The Depot Café/ Bookstore downtown…shoved it in my pants…

 

JANE’S ADDICTION

                                 And I walked right thru the door

                                 I walked right thru the door

 

Wanted to lift “Cyberia” or “Speed Tribes” but unlike paperbacks…hardcovers dig into your groain bigtime…and if you have to make a sudden last exit to brooklyn those edges rip right into your thighs…

 

SFX: SSSSSSSSlice…Awwwaaaaugh

And you’ll be walking funny for weeks…

 

FOOL ON THE CORNER

                                  Nigga if I didn’t know ya betta I’d say you been on

                                  Quite a serious date…

 

Besides Uma was on the cover…

 

UMA

(staring intensely)

                                     Take me.

 

And shucks Sissy is the definitive sexfiend do or die roadkill kitty I’m honin in on… why is it the only women I can relate to are femme fatale fiction fucks…Social skills failing ?

Well spacecadets fear not…Here’s a great way to jumpstart a relationship…Simply relate to the opposite sex by touching base with America’s overabundance of titalizing popcul-ture…Have the two interested parties compile a list of their favorite network shows… and if they match…Time to slomo the flowgo…Mine include Seinfield, Animaniacs, The Monkees, Sandford & Son, I Spy, The Avengers and The Prisoner…yeah for such a literary wannabe I’m quite the t.v. geek

 

THE MONKEES

                                     Hey hey we’re the Monkees

                                     People say we monkey around

                                    But we’re too busy singing

                                    To put anybody down

 

Wish a song could solve my sensitive skin problem…Ever since Marnie, my Vassar lovelylove left yours truly on the Kyuss junkheap weeping…each woman I’ve encountered lately ends up relieving their aggression on my undernourished ego…Its not exactly a stomp…more like a premediated…

 

SFX: GGGGGrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrind!

 

I swear it must feel so good to them cause I’ve seen the tears wet the backs of their Raybans when they realize there isn’t anything left to destroy…Maybe I reek of vulnerablity or I’m sadistically asking to be punished for frequent flyer fuckups… like the time I held Trip’s G.I. Joe hostage…demanding in return his cherished Empire Strikes Back bedspread…and “Invasion Of The Body Snatchers” fotonovel…all I know is I’m getting the muthaload payback position downpat…I gotta be the Grand Puba of relationship mismanagement…My first one was a real doozy…12 inches tall and I had the hots for Judy Garland…or more like Dorothy in MGM’s “Wizard of Oz”…Singing to Toto how she wanted to go over the rainbow…well wish upon a star and there you are… STILL WISHING….Judy got what she wanted though…She went over the rainbow and six feet under…Betcha if she had to do it all over again she’d be singing a new tune like

“I Wanna Live”…Hook up with Joey and whoever else is in the Ramones lineup this week and Hole her heart out…A gritty grrrove bursting with booming bass… storming the stage in her Hilfiger hoodie chanting

 

JUDY GARLAND

                         I’m a gangsta bitch.

 

You know I don’t ask for much…wait…I take that back…Rewind…I sure do…But it would have been nice for someone…anyone…to have informed me Judy was resting in the eternal Emerald City before this lil Afronaut boasted to his fellow thirdgraders… She and I had plans of flying to Disneyworld for KoolAid and graham crackers with Donald Duck…

 

TEACHER TEACHER

(hugging me)

                       Honey is everything alright at home?

 

NEMO

                       The scarecrow’s coming over for dinner.

 

TEACHER TEACHER

                        Okay you go outside and play.

 

Then there was this fling this past summer with Chelsea…Liar roseberry…Egyptian hip swing heiress…Repoman vinyl possesor…Bodysuited in a foolscake frosting…Cruise siddy grrl that’s a she…but could be a he when the lights go out…

 

FRANKENMIND

                           DDDDDDDamn dog, you got the power.

 

I was trying for this updated Sid & Nancy word imperfect program…but Chelsea’s too young…so full of life…I didn’t want to drag her down to my sublevel…Besides every time I cornered her at Moe’s to read from “The Black Arts” Chelsea would groan and sink into her siggyret…And I was too embarrassed to resume The Wacky Racers Wonder

Rama after the Henry Rollins show fiasco…When you’ve gone without food and a home to become The Wizard Of WillCall…ya know its time to banana split to far greener Malibu acres when

 

WILL CALL GIRL

                          No, I don’t see any Nemo. Sorry

 

SFX: AAAAAArgh

 

Chelsea and I went to The Rollins show…we didn’t say much…Chelsea and I went to The Rollins show…Looked at each other but didn’t touch…and of course it didn’t help by bitching about forking over the cash..ALL NIGHT…So I gotta start from scratch and find the right Lolita in monkey boots…Cause every red-eyed Romeo needs his Juliette.. Lewis that is…I’ll be looking…I’ll be looking to take back whats been tooken… cause this babylon babble…these looney lamentations from a sidewalk coffee messiah ain’t explode for Expresso Java grrls to dump their twobit boytoy cocksucka jimmy jive hustlers and mess the moneymaker with me…strungout on the stonefree…suicide siddy splendid seductive shocking O.D…the gee whiz biz is no matter how wicked the wordiac how venemous the verbals..how captivating the crunch…it ain’t the right stuff to convince my wildcoasting lovelyloves to shake loose the shackles and vroomazoomzoom with me thru The Junkfood Americas…Revving the mean we’d be two abfab rage against the machine urban cowboys…Tall in the saddle…ready for battle…in our fiery Gwar fourwheeled Krofft Superstar…phaat gas guzzler…Mr. Junior and his gypsy teen Tank Girl apocalyptic witch…Owning nothing but the blind of our being…the phantasm of our furies..swimming in copies of Flipside, cotton candy & tequila…nickles, quarters, dimes grinning in the sun…Dark Carnival tattoos shrieking “ You two are the one”… and we’d be drifting …drifting…sipping the earth long and hard…talking Titanic stoopid talk… exaggerated Marlboro talk…about The Emperor’s used clothes…giving the ape his grape in magick sanctuaries of sin…bottoming out the smoothtrue..swamped in spellcasting romperstomper..blow the house down…surrendering to each other…submitting to the eerie eon and on..to The Big Bang cause..

 

ME AND MY MYSTERIO GIRL

(shouting)

              We are bullitproof!

 

Wheww…so I suppose what I’m asking in my frantic roustabout fashion is… Ladies if you won’t do it for lust…if you won’t do it for L.O.V.E.

 

FRANKENMIND

               Will ya do it for a Scooby snack?

 

REWIND

 

Odds & Endsville

“ Dare Command Juju”

Windsor, Vermont 2.94

 

Like any other happening between two salsa del souls..IT HAPPENED…It crazied outta 54 studios of desirious like mind…Cause ya see J.D. was a guy you could never pin down…Aaaaaaant ah….No matter what you used…nails, screws, bolts, wandering jew.. you could freeze dry his ass in cement…bury him under a slapstick moon…and in less than 24 hours ya’d vizz him at 7-11..sitting on a cinder block…putting a hurting on a carton of malted whoppers…flipping thru the bargain news…shopping for revolutionary surrealism…so fucking casual as if nothing had never nada…uh-huh…JD was a bio-hazard hollerin Houdini in pimping poleclimbers…Boots he said looked like shoes of A New Boo World Order…a line he learned from haunting the siddy with that Spoken word spook from Planet Muthaphucka…always giving off the stench of transmission fluid… Satyr Juice…fried tofu…and American Spirit…always the fool, J.D. would bet on Venom whenever he went toe to toe with The Webhead…Even though every Ren & Stimpy renegade knew Spidey was gonna win…Knew circulation was the real hero and Venom was a tool in the game of increased sales…but hey J.D. lived his life in a tragic fantastic rock and roll rodeo Rodeo Drive specific terrific kinda way…in a green morrocan mint tea I-Gotta-Be-Me kinda way…A sway that said though you wiped your butt…passed the pipe night after night…and declared to scenester Samsons & Delilahs you were all grown up now…somehow buried in the couch was one of those pink lemonade super bounce balls…that you’d bounce when nobody was looking… bounce bounce bounced it…til it soared into the clouds so high and spun and spun and spun… that you’d swear on a stack of t.v. guides it was a galaxy unto itself….Bounce so high bounce so high type guy J.D. was…And with any situation that gets situated… it takes two to tango…a duo to duplicate…a couple to copulate…so The Fo’ever Beings… those heavy duty think tank alien spliff of Channel Hero…threw into the mix a L.O.V.E. interest… that was more than gonna maybemight..it was gonna absolutely guarantee… threw in a dynamic dancing romancing the stone named Broadway… a wiggy ohgosh dread she devil deluxe with a passion for potent post consumer recycled fiber pepper mint potion…Equipped to rule the Northwest region with a freejazz glam Gigantor… which folks swore she O.T.O’d outta dare command juju….though there was a group of evil unbelievers who lied about having the inside edition on her rockabillying the dough ray me outta QFC…cause Broadway never worked a job more than a week and still had the jupitersized jinglejangle to buy quarts of Cuervo Gold for the clowning down & outs … and didn’t have a pot to piss in herself…While other people purchased c.d. after c.d… and thought simplicity was simply being in the red…Broadway sky cried mary the anti tick tock dickery doc let’s be less than zero…Her only possessions being the ready wearables on her hot Goth bod…and an L.L. Bean backpack jammed with stuff knuckleheads defined as junk...like a Welch’s jelly jar stocked with tadpoles… bits of batwings…voodoo pamphlets…skin of jesus lizard…a serraphin’s halo she liberated from a mall in San Diego…a Powerbook 180… and her double barreled raygun… the only item of Big Daddy Black’s that hadn’t been repossessed by those eiffel tower wide repo doods from a Las Vegas Planet not far away enough for her liking… They had swish boomed into the living room a year or so after he vanished…Vanished after Broadway had gotten in late as usual from prowling Pioneer Square…Big Daddy Black was lounging in his T.A.Z. limbo…spinning Motown, channelsurfing the legless Zenith… moaning on and on about the latest conspiracy theory…something about Bic Macs being laced with lithium by the Ray Kroc corporation…laced with a lazy that made Joe Public susceptible to the Gotta Git Its… a curiously strong wrong ring my bell..making em buy the latest Nintendo game cartridge even though they didn’t have a game system… Nodding a weak “ Yes Daddy” Broadway stumbled into her room…Pushed on the sugary CureKajagoogooCaptainBeefHeartBerlin…flopped in the futon and prayed the prayer of Wish I Might…the next day he had disappeared…No note…Just a ghost of a goodbye.. Not that Broadway was surprised…Yet she sure was when Those Evil Interceptors beamed by..showing her his digital I-Owe-You-Plenty..Surprised Big Daddy Black had developed a gambling bug…not cause he was trucking thru The Great Beyond Beyond …Broadway gave them the deed to the crib and cruisecontrolled on her own crusade .. Shit, she didn’t wanna be housebound anymore anyways…Now since this tale is being told during times when people can’t stand still long enuff to take a pill…when their minda are occupied by so many things other than breathing & eating…I realize there ain’t no need to detail the particulars between the fateful day our two chubbawubbas thrill killed their cult of chocolate tastes betta with vanilla…

 

FAST FORWARD

 

Vigilantes Of L.O.V.E.

“MadYouMeDefunctA.D.”

San Francisco, CA 2.95

 

Night hangtight spree…Beware…Jetson sail burn free…This girl is all dare…Shocka- lotta hypnoshake packed Vanity So Fair…sugar coated sex and violence…bootyah bang bang super fuck science…she fortyfives my smack…smooths my quake…beautys my beast…houses my eight track hate…Go pop t.v. entertainer with a roar to match… with a cum sucking snatch to explore…baby, why are you in my radiooo?…I’m a closed chapter..a misery hustler…a guaranteed disaster..Got no money…Got no home…simply this situation called…Man on his own..Shifted round this disguised nothing to do…by a bleed so cold…By a spear of destiny so old…so…

 

I Love Lucy…

I dream of Jeannie…

But I’m jonzin for a Jody…

Got me a new drug…

JODY…

Cutting me a new rug…

JODY…

Superglueweed…

JODY…

Mad You Me…

Let’s get defunct A.D…

 

Armageddon Call Girl…Monsta bass high heel stride…Batteries not included…and you know the reason why…I was looking…I was looking to take back what’s been tooken…and DAMN…I was had hard…Sunday afternoon…Easy street seeks the other side…Veins fulla fun…she situate psycho…I suck cycle… we ride the gun…Greeding a groaning…feeding a moaning…we dark the sun…shows me what she swatcha… Scorpio’s gotcha and never gonna unhold…My imagination conjures tough L.O.V.E…. frontiers bedroom shoves…rude kneel my knees..Lady’s birthin a cruel speed A cool swerve Detroit ain’t ever gonna engineer…Yeah her motorin makes it clear…

 

 

I Love Lucy…

.I Dream Of Jeanie…

But I’m jonzin for a Jody .

.WORD Increase…

JODY

A suicide release

JODY…

Royal Kamikaze…

.JODY….

MadYouMe….

Let’s Get Defunct A.D……

 

U.F.O. behind the groove…her movie is my guess…Grrl’s noisy breath…Slow bone sudden death…We are gods of a swingular Live and Let Be…Demonically appointed…. Cosmically annoited…A Just Go Ahead Now computerized by a Digital Picasso…Email erotica downloaded before the crowd…Sonic boom chasers in front of the pack…Free- masons of The Moment on the attack…That I’m telling you right now ain’t ever gonna be reduced to an American Journal Hard Copy Current Affair…That ain’t ever gonna be processsed into an eight bucks a pop Entertainment Tonight….If I can help it all… If I gotta walk tall thru black flame…If I gotta remain in this terminal vacancy permanent lockdown…No Maam cause I gotta “ Thank You For Lettin Me Be Myself Again”.. Gotta smarten my method…Gotta sharpen my motion…And I’m making my way back to taste all of you…Kalifornia Kalifornia…No finer prize than the boogey that whacks you between the eyes with a “Wake Up Boy All You Need Is In These Levi’s”…spinning dejay potion…spilling freak lotion…between her thighs…white thighs…white thighs… Swing It…Swang It…Swung It…SOLD!…Pepboy panther and a Badmoon Barbie in a crash worship show ‘n tell…Hold it now…Hit me again…No need to explain…You know I crave this kinda pain…JODY!

 

REWIND

 

Euro-A-Go-Go

“Blondie Tourist Distraction”

Nice, France 10.88

 

MADONNA

                            Everybody dance and sing

                            Everybody get up and do your thing

 

At one of our many Soho lunches this summer…Sherill had predicted I’d bangbang a eurogal and foresake the rest of The Continent to get me willie…wet wet…popped in..

Souled out…and whuddyaknow…HE WAS RIGHT…I’m off to Zurich Switzerland

To sink my smooth Sidney Portier in Sandy’s moist mudhoney…Yes with a Eurail pass you can afford to act stupid…Sorta glad I’ve had this week to myself..Hanging with them in London and York was awesome…we were turning many many many heads…ha ha ha but I didn’t have time to do shit…

 

NEMO

                                You guys wanna go to The Tower Of London?

 

SANDY & TINA

                                  No.

 

NEMO

                                  Virgin Records?

 

SANDY & TINA

                                     Yeah

 

This is supposed to be…

 

GREENWICH TRAVEL AGENT

(highlighting my bills to see if they’re counterfeit)

                            A culturally enriching excursion you will remember of

                            The rest of your life.

 

Yet right now the only sights I’ve locked and loaded in my memory banks are… pool after pool of spilled lager in countless pubs…store after store of outrageously priced 501s and strand after strand of Sandy’s golden pube hair intertwined in mine..yes superfriends my dick needs a well deserved rest…Sandy and I have been working each other’s unit nonstop…the first time she had two orgasms and according to her I’m the second guy to

 

SANDY

                                    Ohmygawd

 

The…

 

SANDY

                                      Ohgawd

 

Talk about a swelled head…pun intended…the night before Sandy & Tina returned to London..we did it twice…and she was STILL horny…

 

NEMO

                                    Aren’t you tired yet?

 

SANDY

(gleefully)

                                     No. Once I did it seven times.

 

NEMO

                                      Go away.

 

Miss her now…awfully bad…which the only way to describe my train ride here… fifteen nonstop hours of bad vibes…One of the conducters ended up swearing at me in fast and furious french…I was like “Dickhead I probably should be insulted and proceed to kick much butt..except there’s one small detail that holds me back…I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THE FUCK YOU’RE SAYING SO EAT ME!”

 

DARK ATARI

                                      Bravo. A lil well placed hate makes the world go round.

 

Me and a few adventurous lads from the youth hostel…a glorious co-ed dump ventured to the beach…The Meditterean Sea…quite a sight to behold…and so were the jiggety yumyum going topless..I’ll repeat it for you slopokes…Topless means no top…She- teens bronzing those titties to our maximus excitemus…One green eyed goddess laid out next to us…Her breasts were so exquisite…They belonged in a museum or something.. and damn girlfriend knew she had a captive audience…taunting us poor horny slobs with every twist and turn of her slick supple body…I kwikly jumped in the water to downsize my monstamac…Mistake!…The waves were showing no mercy…

 

MEDITTEREAN SEA

                Lookie zee here vee got ourselves an adventurous jigaboo from

                The U.S.A. You know the routine boys show him vut The French

                Are made of . Kick his ass good..

 

Yeah I almost drowned…

 

SFX; Gurgle gurgle gurgle

 

This may sound like a too too tired cliché…yet I did see my short pathetic life flash before my eyes…eventually the Meditterean grew bored and spit me back out…

 

NEMO

(trudging back to the beach)

                 I’m buying a bottle of wine. I’m getting shitfaced.

                 I’m buying a bottle of wine. I’m getting shitfaced.

 

Hopefully I’ll be able to mail this letter to Rebecca before I return to The States.. or before I die…

 

REWIND

 

Nothing But Lipstick

“It’s All In My Head…Right?”

Norwalk, CT. 7.87

 

Stamford Town Center. Food Court

 

SHE TEEN 1

                      What does Rebecca see in him? He’s so weird. It might

                       Even be contagious.

 

SHE TEEN 2

                        She’s going thru a phase. A Different World being popular

                        And all.

 

SHE TEEN 3

                        Rewind. Rebecca was smashed at Justin’s party a month ago

                         And she didn’t get home til the next day. Her parents took

                        Her cars keys. This dork’s her revenge tactic and it’s working.

                        Her mom promised her new wheels to stop seeing him.

 

SHE TEEN 1

                        Are you sure his dick isn’t a factor?

 

SHE TEEN 3

                           What are you clueless? She doesn’t kiss him unless

                           Its absolutely necessary.

 

SHE TEEN 2

                            Really?

 

SHE TEEN 3

                             Please Rebecca says the minute her mom delivers the Saab

                            900 S and a week in Hawaii geekoid’s history.

 

SHE TEEN 2

                             Wicked.

 

A group of young African-American guys troop by hooting and hollerin at the She –teens She Teen 1 whispers to She Teen 2…Together they hurriedly follow after the guys.

 

SHE TEEN 3

                              Hello. Where are you two guys going?

 

SHE TEEN 2

                              To the land of milk and honey. Oooh I can see it now.

                              My brandnew beamer.

 

SHE TEEN 1

                              And Paris is completely bitchin in the spring.

 

FAST FORWARD

 

MotoDegenerate

“Brenda Starr Reporting”

Mill Valley, CA 9.94

 

Vvvvvvvvvalerie…VVVVVvalerie…Hennahaired fullfigured Grade A hey hey momma I met at Whole Foods…Mill Valley’s swinging rich singles co-op zone

 

FRANKENMIND

                                Whole foods. Whole foods.

                                 I shop at Whole Foods

                                 The prices are lousy

                                 But I get to be rude.

 

I’ve been told by a few Marin County residents many deals have been made by the granola bins…I copy loud and clear cause the way Valerie was flaunting the baby got back…I knew we had to connect..

 

HUMAN TORCH

                                   Flame on!

 

She had to finish working so me and The Beast ripped to the townssquare…hmmm… Depot Café…this looked familiar..snicker snicker…and rapped with her friend Karen a trippy Brit. Expatriate…I’m still trying to make sense of our conversation…Karen told me she gave birth to..

 

KAREN

                                       An angel last Halloween.

 

The baby girl was a stillborn with a smile on her face so Karen though Death’s embrace was comforting…She spaghetti westerned about living a painter’s life…being caught in The Spiral… a weird wutang clan that gave her strength…Karen made a remark about reading that I never thought about before…Here goes…say she’s on a donkey… the book goes into the satchel…cause the text’s images are not one with her and the animal’s so it becomes excessive weight…

 

FRANKENMIND

                                    Whatever you say babe.

 

Hey anything would have sense this afternoon…Me brain was tweaking shine on razz ma tazz as the purring wind blew Karen’s dirty blonde across my bronzed arm..Strange it wasn’t anything sexual but several microseconds of higher ground..Cause if you think about who I am and my status in Lefe according to The Powers That Be…I WAS WHERE I WASN’T SUPPOSED TO BE…ENJOYING A A MOMENT THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN DENIED BY THE TYRELL CORPORATION…

 

ROY BATTY

                           The things I have seen with your eyes.

 

Tonight Karen and I moonspun to Stimson Beach…crept thru the fog…bodies slicked by the warmwet…following the yellow brick road…following the yellow brick road… Wish The Beast had a cargosized side-car so I could have crammed in The Sundays..Under rated DGC swooning their songs of extreme being…As Karen clutched me closer when ever The Beast carved a turn in Reality a bit too fast…We hit the mountaintops and witnessed the clouds swarming below us…Cosmic Gaurdians Of The Pacific…I believe in The Unbeliever…I believe in the features of The Faceless One…HA!..Karen waits until we’ve crossed into The Island On Top Of The World to wonder aloud if I’m a psychotic maniac planning to hack her to pieces and roast the wee bits over an open flame…and then of course she had to ask about me Mum..

 

NORMAN BATES

                             Oh mother no. The blood, the blood.

 

Gosh Karen maybe you should have given that some consideration before taking the plunge…

NEMO

                   Will you chill? I’m too lazy for that kinda shit.

 

KAREN

(relieved)

                   Okay cool you had me worried for a minute.

 

She calmed herself and we resumed our vroomazoomzoom…good thing I didn’t show her my gun…It wasn’t on me anyway…It’s in Andrea’s freezer wrapped in a brown paper bag…but just imagine if I did…

 

SFX: ZOINK$!

 

Her friend Jerry’s flat was in Valencia…a place shadowed in woodland mist…Enlivened by glowing paper death stars webbed in cinnamon cloth…The faint light revealing the trampled lawn and an abandoned raw dawg dragon car nearby…Jerry…half hobbit, half hawk..was desperately attempting to lead the shambles of his countryside bar band… yet the motley crew of Bay Area Let’s Hit The Hills And Make Some Fucking Noise Week- End Roustabouts were enthusiastic about sampling the KGB…Not that I minded.. Squatting on the floor, I took a toke..

 

SFX; SSSSSSSSuck

 

And watched them attempt a rehearsal…the honesty of their endeavors making up for the cheesy lyrics and out of tune instruments…the honesty of their sudden sense of liberty keeping me there long after my buzz bit the dust and I ached to leave…Nuff respect due.. Tomorrow afternoon I met with Valerie so she can decipher my numerology and find the answer to that burning question…Where the hell is Guy?

 

LOVE AND ROCKETS

                                     No new tale to tell

                                     No new tale to tell

                                     Its all the same thing

 

FastForward

 

NEMO

                               And this afternoon’s guest on The Nemo Road Show

                               Is that abfab creature I always love to feature, Valerie

                               Who against commonsense is gonna show me what I’ve

                                Got on the numerology groove.

 

VALERIE

                              I’m telling you right off you should really fess up to your

                              Birthname. You have two lucky numbers. Your first and last

                              Are sevens which gives you a destiny number of five. And five

                              Represents Freedom. Your master number breaks down to a two.

                              And that’s what Nemo works out to also. The attributes are peace-

                              Maker.

 

NEMO

                            Ya gotta be kidding me.

 

VALERIE

                             Arbitration, meditation, diplomacy, persuasion, sensitivity,

                             Modesty.

 

NEMO

                             HA!

 

VALERIE

                             Extrovert. Negative stuff:; selfconciousness, fear, shyness,

                             Slyness, unhappiness, strife, extremist, sometimes too much

                              Detail. No feminity.

 

NEMO

                             Eeeegahds I’m not in touch with the female side of myself. Think

                             I’m gonna buy a Wonder Bra to help me out.

 

VALERIE

                             What’s that.

 

NEMO

                              A pushup bra. Supposed to be the latest Holiday in Cambodia

                              You mean you haven’t heard.

 

VALERIE

(grabbing her breasts)

                               Don’t really have a problem in that department. And yourself?

 

NEMO

(lisping)

                               I’ve been told I’m pretty substansial.

 

VALERIE

                               Let’s see..Number Five is your destiny. Life will bring you

                               Experiences and a good many changes. Some of them will

                               Be forced upon you, others of your own making. Your mission

                               In Life is to promote freedom and progress. Only by letting go

                               Of the old can the new be realized. You must help people live

                                Happily, more fully. When changes come don’t fear them or

                               Cling to the past. Make it a stepping stone. To be free doesn’t

                                Mean to break conventions deliberately but instead stands for

                                Enlightment, ambition, willingness to learn. A lawmaker.

 

NEMO

(singing Porno For Pyros)

                                 That’s why I pack my .25

                                  Why not be the hero?

                                  Why not be your own?”

 

VALERIE

                                BREAKING THE LAW! BREAKING THE LAW!  Your destiny

                                is to be a public one and you will find opportunities thru people

                                       in general. But you could lose your goal if not given frequent

                                opportunities for exciting and interesting worldly contacts. Live

                                your life by going among people religious and bohemian. People

                                who promote lines of new education and thought. Go among people

                                who write such as columnists, newspaper writers. The legal pro-

                                fession gives you opportunities and helpful friends. Publicity and

                                and all fields of public entertainment give you interesting develop-

                                ment. Don’t be a rolling stone gathering no moss but be a part of

                                what’s going on in the world. Some other negative things are:

                               overconfidence, selfishness.

 

NEMO

                               You’re reading that with a lot of emphasis. Uhhhm do you know

                               Something I don’t.

 

VALERIE

                               Hey wait that’s Michaelangelo. You’ve gotta meet him He knows

                               Everything that’s going on in town. He’s the kinda guy you need

                              To talk to.

 

Grabbing my arn, Val dragged me over to this dude’s table. Michaelangelo’s a bald lanky white guy in $500 shades and a cream linen suit…wicked threads…yet his aura screams

“I’m a twobit actor wannabe who spends my every waking moment, clawing to the fringes of the The Beautiful People  masquaerading about being in The Thick Of It,

                 

NEMO

                                  Michaelangelo be part of the experience that’s gonna revolutionize

                                   The literary world.

 

MICHAELANGELO

(bitchfully)

                                     Talk to my agent.

 

FRANKENMIND

                          Betcha wanna smack him. Betcha wanna smack him.

 

SEARCH SEARCH

 

Romeo’s Void

“Homemade Skeletons Dance With Brain Eno”

The IllumiVoid FuturePresentPast

 

Tens of hundreds of iron men in battle against the selfrighteous rage of The Rhino..and from deep in the heart of the atomic bomb…I AWAKE…Staggering to the kitchen sink

…I grab a brutal mug…consume the faucet’s spit….Cupboards are bare, undone… Saltines and hand grenades…the only trust that’s left…And I realize this process of living…this strangling web of waiting on a friend is an intangible manifestation of broken promises…and in order to fully concentrate on what is..I must arrest time… render the ticking clock speechless…dam the liquid happening…I must forget…all must be forgotten…get beyond this…get beyond myself…heading to the bathroom swamped with fatigue…I continue on with my tale of prophetic deconstruction…Go on Go on the choice has been made…and I tear assunder the commode…my chariot of crapdom.. my throne of unreason…and beat the lil bugger to shit…the toilet shrieks plastic peace and Gandi’s dream…it’s wet inards splash the front of my body…my body…my doom.. I am a cannonball…I am a hammer…with the spine of a secret agent man..I have a mission.. I have a masterplan…I am..I am..and I disappear to this tonight…watching the sun clean..

 

REWIND

 

Nothing But Lipstick

“Sad Consideration Of A First Fornication”

Norwalk, CT. 4.87

 

There’s an emptiness in Rebecca’s “yes” to my request for us to make love…Emptiness..

Hmmm…naaah…more like a huge wall of pain that I’ve created…Each day adding another brick…the latinous non squinars from the edge of infinity seperating me from the rest of humanity…ya know cause I was raised as aJehovah’s Witness from birth… Dragged to the Kingdom Hall on Newtown Ave every Sunday for a sermon, discussing an article from The Watchtower, then going out in service..knocking on people’s doors telling them our interpretation of The Truth…That Jesus Christ engaged Satan in a battle for our souls and despite The Devil’s tempation he persisted in being true to God’s divine plan…A course of action which ultimately caused Christ to be betrayed by Judas Iscariot for a bounty of silver…and have the Jews deliver him over to the Romans…and how in Jesus’s death there’s an opportunity for us sinners to live forever if we repent of our sins..

And it must be making God very angry that I earnestly gave such sermons in support of The Truth in high school…and here I am considering to defy his law…I believed…and I still do at times…Every so often I stumble into that Forever After as I flip thru The Bible Selfhatred stabbing me all over cause I wanna be The Chosen or rather The Meek that inherits a Paradise Earth…No more fear, racism, disease, or death…and what bites is according to The Witnesses interpretation of The Holy Scriptures is after the battle of

Armageddon when God wipes evil off the face of the earth…Satan won’t die..He’ll be in an Abyss for another 1,000 years until he’s let loose again for a short period of time… until once again the former things have passed away…And I won’t be remembered by my parents or anybody…Dead Forever…Here I might have a chance to avoid it and…

Rebecca’s returning from Florida in a few days and the idea of DOING IT in the presence of God and all His Heavenly Servants pretty mucg scares the crap outta me…except I love her more than anything and I…and I..

 

NEMO

(softly singing)

                       Yeah yeah yeah alright now

                       Yeah yeah yeah alright now

                       Yeah yeah yeah alright now

 

DARK ATARI

                        Folks maybe you should go on to the next episode by yourselves.

                        Something tells me Nemo’s gonna be in this hole for a while.

 

FASTFORWARD

 

Odds & Endsville

CaptainAmerika@altx.com

Seattle, WA 5.95

 

Mark,

 

Man I was so fucked last night…Alaska Airlined from San Francisco to suprisingly sunny Seattle..Got tanked at The Comet…smoked out by Oddfellows Andy… performed at Red Sky Poetry…drank at Claire’s then crashed at Inga’s…aaaiiiyiyi…people were so nice to me it was unnerving…not used to such hospilatlity…think they were turned on by new leathers pants from Dreamland

 

ACDC

                                          I’m back in black.

                                          Back in black.

 

Then in a drunken stupor I read the latest Rocket…the local music rag I used to write for occasionally..try twice…before I got eightysixed by the former editor Grant Alden…

“So what the fuck were you doing attending the S.I.D. (Society For Information Display Conference) conference throwing around The Rocket’s name? That’s not how we do business here”…ohyeah so in Lip Service…CENSORED’s scene gossip column “ A new release in the stores credited to NEMO (uppercase always) should not be confused with Seattle’s rap/poet/selfpromotion king, Nemo (lowercase)…NEMO are an alternative band from Belgium”…RAP?…pleez..and how CENSORED has the gall to tag me as “Seattle’s” is amazing…especially after being ignored for so long…I find myself growing tired mentally…the more info I gather the more maximum the jive… IGNORANCE IS BLISS…I’ve been receiving more offers to place my eerie indiana on people’s websites…I read some of Alt-X…Weird Republicans…Gangsta Lit…that cyber sexual piece…Hey it would be rockin to position my pinball gothic on your site… Not simply cause its popular..but because it’s got that killer X thing going on…X-man X- Force, X-Men,..wondering if I should go back to using this lithium the state sponsored shrink prescribed for me…she gave me this comic book detailing how much The Rockefellors own in America..and the email address to subscribe to Conspiracy Nation..

listproc@prairienet.org.. ..wondering if she’s really trying to help me “succeed” or simply have me freak out from the weight of the info and…

 

DAALECKS

                           Exterminate Exterminate Exterminate

 

Norman Rice’s reputation…like she was encouraging me to do…ya know he’s the mayor …Inga’s still in NYC…it’s her first time there…she should receive “Sexual Blood” on her return…Maybe she will review it in her column..G-Spot Inkwell…Inga’s The Stranger’s darling right now…her and Dan Savage…And Clark Humphrey of MISC. fame has his book “Loser” about the Seattle music scene coming out on Feral House… my attempt to persuade The Stranger’s publisher Tim Keck to run excerpts of The Novel..

 

NEMO

                         What’s the price of keroscene these days anyway, Tim?

 

Has rendered me persona non grata…Honestly Keck’s afraid of me even when I’m not threatening to burn down his office…He’s aware of the success I’ve achieved outta sheer will power…NEMO SPELLED BACKWARDS IS OMEN…Or maybe he’s read Albert Camus’s “ The Rebel”…and despite my endless ranking on him…I admire what he’s done…at what personal expense I can only imagine…yet I don’t have a trust fund or inheritance..or a regular place to live to help me get over…so my respect only goes so far…I hope we can get all this competitive shit behind us and scoobydoo lunch in L.A one day…last item..Purchased “Dangerous Dossiers” in S.F….it’s a book exposing the secret war against America’s “greatest authors”…think I betta eat something before I faint…

 

FASTFORWARD

 

Vigilantes of L.O.V.E.

“Twenty Seven”

Seattle, WA 5.95

 

VERUCA SALT

                             When I was twentyfive

 

The music falls outta the sky and slaps me til I bleed…conjuring up long forgotten sequences of a misfit mouseketeer alone in the dark…T.V. on..Volume off..waiting for a release..wishing for an escape…

 

MADONNA

                                  If we took a holiday

                                  Sometime to celebrate

                                   Oneday in our lives

                                  It would be, it would be so nice

 

SFX: Aaaaaaah pop fizzle pop champagne

 

But no…

 

DURAN DURAN

                                 Don’t save a prayer for me now

                                  Wait until the morning after

 

FRANKENMIND

                                Great Nemo fucking great. Sinking into The Abyss again huh

                              Too bad in ten minutes you’ve gotta interview Veruca Salt.

 

Guy perceptive as ever knew I was nervous and passed me the pipe..

 

SFX; SSSSSSSuck

 

I hadn’t media KCMFeud’d a band in a coupla years…L7 being the last kraftwerk intended for my projected Street Sounds column…Vroomazoomzoom… I had convinced the editor Michael my doctored soul coughing would look great with black and white photos I’d kodack with a zoom camera…He bought it hook, line and sinker…SUCKER..

Cause at the time I did’t even own a camera much less have an idea how to use one… but larger empires have been built with much bigger lies…and at least that lil white one gave me an excuse to bizarre superstar into NYC Custom Leather and rap to Agatha who over the years has become my fairy godsister…

 

AGATHA

(rubbing my head, smoking a Camel)

                             You’re such a fucking lil freak.

 

The L7 session had been a disaster…the evening before I tossed and turned on some-body’s couch…Neil’s or Alexa’s who knows?…tucked inside a deep depression and by the time I had immerged with not enough you go boy boogey left to even pretend I was prepared…yet there’s an angel in every knightmare and L7’s bassist Jennifer Finch saved my so supernatural rep by playing along until I connected to my usual Saturday Morning Cool World Fallout…A very brief victory because 10 seconds after we finished the road manager denied me an all access pass even though I had been cleared by Slash Record’s publicity dept.

 

ROAD MANAGER

(to the band)

                     I don’t want him back there. Nothing personal kid.

 

NEMO

                      Sure whatever you say.

 

FRANKENMIND

                       Suck my big black dick.

 

So my recent need for some cool girl psychic protection from certain CENSORED is why I asked Inga to tag along…Cali sha la la equipped with the gift of gabba gabba hey ho let’s go…enabling me to sit back…and coast off my high and gaze at Nina…

 

Rewind

San Francisco

 

Had to meet JodyCat in Union Square for lunch…and to charge some much needed under wear…Preparations…think about taking a shower…

 

SFX; Eeeeent

 

GUY SMILEY

                        Try again contestant.

 

Watch Jeanie’s t.v. buttnaked on her bed…Finally get dressed…and uh…and uh

 

SFX: SSSSSSSuck

 

DARK ATARI

                           Quite the creature of habit, aren’t ya

 

Rewind

Seattle

 

Gonna get…gonna get…hiiiiiiiiigh….gonna get…gonna get…hiiiiiiiiiiiigh…shheeet..I was already bye bye birdie…the idea of flying to San Francisco on the wings of Tucan Sam so I could sweeter than Amber honey 4 Non Blondes seemed quite the Alfred E Neuman to computerize…

 

ACE VENTURA

                          Alrighty then.

 

Chris Omawale and I had finished snorting lines of crystal…crammed into American Backpacker’s tiny bathroom…Our dealer…our sugahmomma…our connection to inner outer space…was this gypsy teen tank girl…Skye…zonin, zonin…

 

NEMO

                        Skye have you ever been fucked by two black guys at once?

 

CRIS

(shaking his head)

                         nah nah you didn’t say that?

 

Hmmm did I…let’s see..

 

Rewind

 

NEMO

                        Skye have you ever been fucked by two black guys at once?

 

Guess I did…nervously giggling Skye almost dropped her stash in the shitter… Back on Broadway…zonin zonin…Cris was doing his best to eliminate his les miserables… The Black Rock Mafia squat on Harvard was defunct a.d….and he didn’t have a place to live so it was the couch surfing scenario once again…and the waters were rough..crashing with one of his umpteen urban warrior princessess was still an option to lease…but Cris had discovered grrls can be quite as heartless as guys when you need a favor…a friend

…a Stranger fiction fuck book that’s all too true..way outta the neverending rain..

 

PEARL JAM

                           Sheets of empty canvas.

 

Having been stuck in the same shituation countless times myself…I suggested we get into the Power P.C. of things…sit & spin while our tatooed everything collective highs feasted on mad monsta vibes…Linda’s?…Naaaaah…Ain’t no Moman pool pimpin tonight…Moe’s…Okay…Upstairs we fused with Bill Hollier’s geeetar soloin for a while..fantasizing what the fireworks would have been like if Cris’s own sword of illogical metal blues was outta the pawn shop..

 

NEMO

                           Pass the pipe man I’m about to be depressed.

 

CRIS

                          You’re about to be depressed?

 

SFX: SSSSSSSuck

 

Getting hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh…Getting hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh…107.7 The End…soon enuff though we felt the harsh come down fuckin our special efx and Cris was all outta weed…

 

NEMO

                        Gotta quarter?

 

CRIS

                        I ain’t got shit.

 

NEMO

                            Damn no wonder I hate niggas.

 

 

Kwik phone call to Lisa Lisa to see if the price was right…I ask thee, how free is free?

No Dice…She was motorpsychoin somwhere in the city…FUCK…No wait, yes…Why didn’t I think of this before…We bolt half a block to Alexa’s cause she’s always in the green…

 

SFX: Bzzzzzzt

 

ALEXA

                              I heard you all the way down the street.

 

NEMO

                          Dood let me in.

 

ALEXA

                           Hold on.

 

SFX: Click

 

NEMO

                           Kafka baby, hey guys Chrissy sent me the new White Zombie

                           And it’s not even released yet.

 

ALEXA

                          No way

 

NEMO

                          Yes way.

 

CHRIS BURNSTIN

                          Cool.

 

NEMO

                           Uh ohyeah this is Cris from Imij. I told him you’d get us

                            Stoned.

 

ALEXA

                           Sure, its over there.

 

CHRIS B.

(enraptured by Cris’ hideeho)

                           And I’ve got some if it isn’t enough.

 

Uh-huh…Earthgirls are easy…Megablast…slipped in the Advanced C.D… plugged on my Arnets…and I’M A FAMOUS MONSTER IN TRAINING ABOUT TO GRAD-UATE…Tracks..I, Zombie…Astro 2000…SuperCharger Heaven…More Human Than Human…

NEMO

(nearly excited beyond words)

                          Cris this is da bomb

 

He gave me a tired smile…His mind was occupied on other things…like hooking up with That Blonde Thang we hello’d on Broadway so he could just..go to sleep..I was fine to zone to the Kidz WZ again but I dropped my Drum somewhere when in The Elsewhere And Alexa had inconviently taken her Marlboros after she and Chris had left us to our Blacula bloody valentine…

 

NEMO

(scooping up a handful of quarters)

                         Here buy yourself a pack man.

 

CRIS

                         Are you for real?

 

NEMO

                         Yeah Alexa’s cool. Don’t worry about it.

 

Locked her pad…Cris went his way and I went mine….yeeeeeaaahaaah right into The Comet…Where The Boyproff Crew had finished buying a pitcher and there was a glass for me…and…

 

SFX; SSSSSSSuck

 

WHITE ZOMBIE

                                          Astro 2000

 

Rewind

San Francisco

 

Chrissy had sent me the Veruca Salt c.d. knowing I’d enjoy it and of course I did..cause if you can’t fight The Seether you might as well go go for The Ride…Track 12 “25” was the melancholy 421 rock..Nina’s voice novaexpressing me to the moment of my arrival in The Emerald City…Destined for a blind date with its inner negative creep.. Shedding my skin…shedding my skin…I left JodyCat’s Brosnan St. batcave and sauntered in a steam of redtinted sunshine down Market St. toward Macy’s…Jody’s my new drug but Nina and I have been birthed from the same Mad lab…and I wanted to look into her eyes and see the sign..for without darkness…there is no light…

 

FastForward

Seattle

 

Inga’s irritated

 

INGA

               I’m going out for a smoke. See if you can find the band

 

The professionals have been slacking majorly…instead of gogo gonzo I was losing you..

Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuce wagner ..

 

FRANKENMIND

                   Whuddaphuck was that?

 

DARK ATARI

                     He’s losing it. Christ

 

ALICE IN CHAINS

                     Deny your maker.

 

NEMO

                    Hey I haven’t seen Jody in about a year lighten up.

 

RETRO VIVA ROBOTS

                    This is not television. This is not television.

 

Rewind

Configurate Data

 

The professionals had been slacking majorly..Instead of go go gonzo..I was slip slip slipping…wallflowered in the soundbooth while Inga chatted with the MCA chick..

Veruca Salt’s manager Mike was wondering what the hell we intended to do..inter-view him?..cause neither of us had made any sorta move…Eventually I bit the bullet, stumbled downtstairs to the dressing room…and there was Nina Gordon..my tribe desire..and in a split second I was transported to The Elsewhere..Nina and I chatting strolling thru Soho rocks in our head…She’s singing to me the slippery fetus of a new song..she’s singing to me…and I’m silent cause in this trilling time at this everlasting edge..I ‘M EXACTLY WHERE I WANNA BE…but That’s the Future…This is the present…and Nina’s already in the middle of an interview…a coupla kids on a high school newspaper gig..

 

FRANKENMIND

                   Dejavoodoo

 

I excused myself and made with The Intro…told her about Inga…hastily mentioning The Track…and BINGO!…Nina smiles and says she’ll gladly talk to me..I am

 

JAMES CAGNEY

                On top of the world Mom. On top of the world.

 

Back upstairs I’m ready to relax…and wouldn’t ya know it…Inga wants to leave..NOW

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO…She ‘s going snowboarding with Guy for her birth day...She'’ gonna be twentynine...And Inga has gotta whitejetta to Snowboard Connec-tion before John loses anymore of his logic…and my Nemo Meets Nina fantasy’s no longer on her agenda…Not that I could blame her…She’s unselfishly has fueld my cartoon crusade on a regular basis..Inga asks me what I intend to do…She wants an answer from Mr. Frankenmind…and I can’t think…Louise steps in suggesting she’s good to go for the interview but my infrastructure has collapsed…

 

SFX: SSSSSSSSkkkkrash

 

Poleclimbers propel me back downstairs…I drop a chapter of The Novel on the table…

Stairs two at a time…jump in the car…and we motor…

 

FastForward

 

The show’s over…Nina and the gang rocked on stage..Finally an entertainining All Ages gig at the notoriously Known-To-Be-So-Awful-You-Can’t-Getta-Date-Even-When-You Have Free Tickets DV8…I’m dying for a drink…and of course every last beer in the lounge has been horded by The Beautiful Ones…Mooching a Rolling Rock from a wary alternateen…I roll a smoke…hoping to catch Nina’s eye…Though it’s obvious she’s avoiding me…Somewher between the time we soundcheck buddahbinged and now.. my eagerness to communicate my whacked some kinda wonderful has traveled thru the wrong channels and been translated into

 

SEATTLE SCENE EYEWITNESS SNOOZE

                       He’s a psycho.Avoid at all costs.

 

It’s now or never…and I swoosh into the dressing room like a batman buttholes surfer straight outta Tim Burton’s belfry.

 

PEG BOGGS

                     Damn those t.v. programs

 

BILL BOGGS

                     Dam them all to hell.

 

Nina glances up from cuddling her loverman…HUH?…This is wasn’t in the videoooooh

 

NINA

                    What’s your name again.

 

NEMO

                     Nemo

 

Awkward pregnant pause..

 

NEMO

                 I sorta do this spoken word thing and I did my own..uh take on “25”

                 At The Paradise Lounge in San Francisco last week. Here it goes. I

                 Hope it’s not to morbid.

 

NINA

                 I’m sure it’ll be fine.

 

NEMO

                 When I was 25 I lived another lie

                 When I was 25 I did not wanna die

                 But I’m twentyseven now

                 and there’s no place Left to go

                 except the Acid Radio

                 Acid Radioooooo….Acid Radioooo

 

Both of them are like “Whoa”

 

NINA

(smiling)

                              You’re twentyseven? So am I.

 

Yeah that’s why I went thru this trouble to connect with you Nina…I’m twentyseven… and I’m afraid I might not make it to twenty nine

 

FILTER

                                 Amen.

 

REWIND

 

Euro-A-Go-Go

“Are We Having Fun Yet?”

Zurich Switzerland 10.88

 

Freezing my ass in the train station waiting for Sandy to wangchung my runaway slade sneezing after catching a cold frm streaking thru so many different climate uncontrolled temporary autonomous zones in such a short time…close to tears cause I had to squat my I’m not feeling so hot for another two hours…and who should sit down next to me..none other than the fun Phlips..Earl and Stephan…two NYU Students I first met at Carter Hall

 

JANE’S ADDICTION

                                Here we go.

 

And we’ve got quite a history of Hollywood Higher learning…One Saturday night we were so freaking tired of being back at the hostel by 11.pm…we decided to risk it and get locked out…The three of us walked this way round in circles trying to find sanctuary from the pouring rain by getting into a club…but our rocknroll or new wave was more useless than cramming for exams…after you’ve failed all the finals…The Hippodrome the doorman took one look at my combat boots and barred us from goin in…

 

DOORMAN

                 We don’t cater to hooligans.

 

Next…The Limelight…we don’t even rate a refusal…

 

NEMO

(Shouting at the top of my lungs)

                   I’ll have you know I’ve been in IT at The World quite a

                   Few times, faggot!

 

Next…a smoky subterrean hole emitting orgy blue Monday with no Vivanne Westwood

Wardrobed wanker guarding the keep…The cover charge was 5 pounds and the doorman was a brutha too..This should be ABC123…

 

BRIT. BRUTHAMAN

                      You cats looking to go in?

 

NEMO

                        Yeah.

 

BRIT. BRUTHAMAN

                         Its ten pounds mate.

 

STEPHAN

                        Alright.

 

BRIT. BRUTHAMAN

                        A piece.

 

EARL

                         What?

 

BRIT. BRUTHMAN

                             This is a private club.

 

NEMO

                              Blow my monkey. I’m not digging your scene.

 

Fuck it…we roamed to Mickey Deez…almost afraid to order…who knew what we’d have to unload for a Big Mac and fries…A pound of flesh?…Fastfood frantically obtained outside the three unlucky cabelleros bumped into Annabelle…a girl more moody than me…who earned the nickname Morrissey after she moped thru our first London merry drunk as fuck fest…She was all smiles that night and suggested escaping to The Orbit a movie theater in King’s Crossing…4 pounds to paranoia paranoia neutron bomb scifi flicks til dawn…Annabelle had a few hits of pufnstuf and The Orbit served beer and crisps…Cool…Inebriated and oh so stoned we zoned thru “Hellraiser”, “Aliens” and “Zardoz”…each one of us taking a break from our journey to the edge of reality by hitting on Annabelle…Talk about a girlfriend in a coma…cause she never even registered a reaction at our best lines…surprisingly I did get her to open up a bit…Think it was me boots…snicker snicker….Annabelle was living at her Moms after ditching prep school… and hating it…She wanted to go somewhere anywhere other than Great Britain…but you know the fly away formula…No oddballuncle in the Hollywood Industry..No on the road

 

FRANKENMIND

                            Hey Einstein there you go again. Getting ahead of yourself. This

                             Is still supposed to be 1988. You gotta remain in the right time

                            Continium. You don’t want the kids to figure out this 1998 and

                            Your seriously broke finetooning this elaborate mess at The

                             St. Regis Hotel.

 

BATMAN T.V. NARRATOR

                              Meanwhile behind an unsuspecting storefront on 11th St.

 

FRANKENMIND

                              Photographers from the New York Times magazine are in

                               The Stranger office shooting your nemesis Dan Savage for

                              A feature on his new book “Savage Love”. You gotta hold

                              On and maintain the fantasia at any cost. I mean what would

                              The suits at Disney say?

 

FastForward

 

DISNEY SUIT

(stabbing air with stinky seegar)

                             Its not that we couldn’t go black Nemo. We could. You saw

                             Spike’s last flick. Uh, the title escapes me. The basketball one

                             Guy’s name was Jesus. Oh yeah “He’s Got Game”. That was

                             Us. We even greenlighted some interracial oingo boingo in it.

                              Denzel Washington with Ms. Fifth Element for crying out

                              Loud. That turned quite a few heads in Nebraska, I’ll tell you

                              And “Enemy Of The State” with Will Smith. Bingo. Are we

                              Like the wizard of oz or what?

 

NEMO

                               If you say so.

 

 

 

DISNEY SUIT

                               And I won’t even pigeonhole your stuff by calling it black.

                                It’s uh, it’s…

 

NEMO

                               Pinball gothic.

 

DISNEY SUIT

                              Yeah it’s like Edward Scissorhands Naked Lunch crammed in

                              A chocolate éclair. Now don’t take this the wrong way cause

                               From what my secretary tells me you’re this sensitive artist type

                               But it’s a good thing you got laid by all those Eurochicks especially

                              Lil Swiss Miss, Sandy. Cause say we made a movie and it tankgirl-

                              Ed in the states, we can still do big numbers with it overseas. They

                              Eat this angstridden shit up. Fuck even I know who Joy Division is.

 

NEMO

                                Great, that’s uh really great.

 

DISNEY SUIT

                             But Nemo you blew the temporary suspension of disbelief by inter-

                             Jecting this scene into the episode. That kinda jerky boy move can

                            Get you whacked in this industry. Permanent midnight if ya know

                            What I mean. What can I say you should have listened to your, uh

                            Your uh…

 

NEMO

                             Frankenmind.

 

DISNEY SUIT

(rolling his eyes)

                           Frankenmind, right right. Or in the very least your Uncle Phil

                           He’s worked for us before and believe you me he knows what

                           This is all about.

 

DARK ATARI

                                 Nudge Nudge Wink Wink

 

DISNEY SUIT

                                   Who the fuck was that?

 

NEMO

                                    Dark Atari.

 

DISNEY SUIT

                                    How the hell did that freak get in here? We just had

                                     That Glasman girl cleanse the place.

 

NEMO

                                    Oh I think he’s a bit beyond Sallie’s voodoo visions

                                     Sorta omniscient.

 

DISNEY SUIT

                                    Alright Alright enough of the hocus pocus, the two of

                                    You are gonna have to work that out. Here’s a tip mud

                                    Baths and champagne in Palm Springs usually does the

                                    Trick.

 

NEMO

                                     10-4

 

DISNEY SUIT

                               Frankly though Nemo it’s bad news across the board. Spiel-

                                Berg’s upset with, well your entire race over that Amistad

                               Lawsuit. Besides he and Geffen heard about  that email war-

                               Fare between you, Melissa Jones and Kevin Kennedy over at

                               DGC Records. Not to mention that Friday the 13th Wired Punk

                               Press Release “L.O.V.E. Attacks LFP Inc” those darn kidz

                               Faxxed to ABC, NBC, and MTV. Nice shot but come on no

                               Way in hell would they give two shits about a crazy kid in-

                               Spired by Flynt’s life story would stick a classy centerfold

                               Of his exotic dancer girlfriend in his newsletter.

 

NEMO

                                                Metazine

 

                                                                                DISNEY SUIT                                        

                                 Excuse me metazine from the Chelsea Hotel and think because

                                 Fact was imitating fiction imitating fact that his people are gonna

                                 Set ya up at The Chateau Marmont so you could get back to-

                                Gether with, what’s her name again?

 

NEMO

                                       Jody. JodyCat

 

DISNEY SUIT

                           Yeah Jody’s quite the cat’s meow and you guys trip was Freaky-

                            Friday Monkey’sUncle. But “the People Vs. Larry Flynt “ was a

                            movie kid. Hollywood magic ya know Get  Real would a brickhouse

                                 like Courtney Love even think about sucking Larry’s dick before he

                            made it big. Okay so it happened to you. But Jiminey Crickets Nemo

                            you got caught up, you lost your perspective. It can happen to anyone

                            Christ it happened to me. For the longest time Breakfast at Tiffany’s

                            Was my prime motivator and I tried to George Peppard every two

                            Bit Holly Go Lightly Wanna Be who hitched in from Montana.. All I

                            Got was bad credit and a drippy dick. And I know Holmstrom and

                             Rhoades told ya this.. Hey am I getting thru to you?

 

NEMO

                             Like a poltergeist.

 

DISNEY SUIT

                            Okay so forget LFP Inc. Forget DGC. Forget temporary suspension of

                            Disbelief. I’m forgetting all of that. Look sssssssswhip. Forgotten. And

                             Holy fuck Nemo you still got problems and this one ain’t goin away

                             Either.

 

NEMO

                            What’s that?

 

DISNEY SUIT

(stunned)

                             What what…ya mean you didn’t see this shit. Uma took out a full page

                             Ad in Variety denying the story you related in ZOINK$! About her

                             Dangerous laison with some coke dealer at The Chelsea and your Vibe

                             Writer friend Darius James telling Cusack about it right when John ‘s

                             Screwing her. Cusack getting bent outta shape, Uma grabbing the 

                             Phone denying it. Basically destroying any chance of James novel

                             “Negrophobia” being staged by Cusack’s New Crime Productions

                             over at Paramount.

 

NEMO

                                    Oh ya mean that.

 

DISNEY SUIT

                             Yeah that that. It was great dirt. Congratulations I’m amazed you

                                   Got this shit out. What with Publishing and Hollywood being the

                             Same freaking universe. Trouble is Uma’s got projects in develop-

                              Ment over at Fox, Warner Bros., TriStar, maybe even over here.

                              She and Ethan have a kid now. My wife was over at the baby

                              Shower. This is heat I don’t need. Your woman going on a sex

                               Strike is not a good thing. Shit have Fitzgerald give Harvey’s

                               People a call. Wait Miramax. We own em HA! Kid sorry to tell

                               Ya this but you’re fucked.

 

CENSORED Scene of Nemo rockabilly roughhousing Disney Suit though we’re still able to release the sound effects…

 

SFX: Baaaadaboom Skraaash Braak Krash!

 

FRANKENMIND

(sniffling)

                                  Great and here I just learned there’s five levels of Versace

                                   At this rate we won’t even be able to afford the first one.

 

Editor’s Note: In order to reestablish control over this looney toon hipsteria we ask the readers to either ignore the above dialogue or wipe your mind clean with the handy Neurolizer contained in this package. It was our intention to advise its use at the end of this oddyssey in order that you wouldn’t mistakenly reveal any details to the myriad of nonpaying slackers The..uhuhm..Author has befriended over the years..Well not advise…

DEMAND..actually..Do you know many favors I had to cash in to get this ..this thing published? And the cost? Then Nemo bulldogs in with his whole advertising scheme. How its gotta be published abroad first then The States and he wanted commercials, for the Internet, radio, t.v., cinemas, a world tour with (ANY FUCKING BAND I WANT HA! NO DOUBLE HA!- Me) And an appearance on Oprah. I was like Nemo look your style is truly original with a sense of humor so black it’s uncanny and you might have earned the reputation of breaking boundaries but you’re a young African American first time…Novelist?..I guess..and excuse my french no goddamn Lenny Kravitz much less a Jimi Hendrix…He just smiled asking when we’d hit Balthazar’s for lunch..I mean I couldn’t believe the balls on this cocksucker. The nerve. Here I could lose my job if Alberto even knew I was talking to him and…

 

DARK ATARI

                Stop Stop Stop. Will everybody fucking stop. Time is life and life

                            Remember me and my followers are bound for an abyss after

                            Armageddon for another 1,000 years after leading astray Yahweh’s

                            Perfect lab rats. So Nemo since you’re the chumploversucker who

                            Won’t be living forever please continue with the goddamn episode

                            Shit, this dicking around is worse than Space Ghost Coast to Coast.

 

SPACE GHOST

                             You were saying?

 

DARK ATARI

                             No Space Ghost don’t even try it. Back over to Cartoon Network

                             With your stupid ass. Azrael get me a bloody drink and where’s

                              Me slippers?

 

Rewind

 

Annabelle wanted to go somewhere anywhere other than Great Britain and I was really at a loss for words…what was I gonna say come with me…Yeah right and then tell me how would I wurm outta that nobrainer if she had said yes..Good thing I kept my mouth shut cause a coupla days later I met Sandy..Good ole Sandy who was late late late for an important date…Tina and her eventually arrived sporting new dos of Bo Derek nigga- knots…

 

KILLING JOKE

                               Eighties, I’m living in the eighties.

 

I’m ready to collapse at her apartment for the rest of my life…no thoughts of sex for this Berlinbound boy…even so outside our We Made Love Together is reduced to an after school special outtake left on the cutting floor…cause Sandy was carting me to

 

SANDY

                               The youth hostel.

 

NEMO

                                We’re going where?

 

SANDY

                                 The youth hostel. I waited yesterday for you to call me

                                 But you didn’t so I made plans.

 

NEMO

                                Give me a break I had trouble getting thru. Is that my

                                 Fault?

 

SANDY

                                No Nemo but I waited.

 

The significance of that last line totally shooting over my head. I called it quits and headed for the last tram…everyone taking turns dragging my army dufflebag of shit…

 

RETRO VIVA ROBOTS

                                This is not television. This is not television.

 

Saturday Morning I coolworld fell outta the bunk…barely managing to coordinate an outfit and it was back to the station with Earl and Stephan to wait on Sandy…again…She arrived late and not exactly looking thrilled to be there..Bracing myself for the worse I asked…

 

NEMO

                                What’s up?

 

SANDY

                                  Nothing.

 

NEMO

                                You know you have the option to stay or go right?

 

SANDY

                                 Yeah.

 

NEMO

                                  So what’s it gonna be?

 

SANDY

                               I go with you. You’re crazy.

 

NEMO

                               So you’re going out with us tonight?

 

No answer.

 

NEMO

                                Right?

 

SANDY

                                 Nemo, I have to go to a party.

 

RETRO VIVA ROBOTS

                                 This is not television. This is not television.

 

I motioned to Earl and Stephan and we all walked slowly to the nearest bar…

 

SFX; Guzzle Guzzle Guzzle

 

Earl leaned in close at the counter and whispered the plain truth..

 

EARL

                            Its not the party. Its whose at the party.

 

STEPHAN

                            Duh Nemo, Sandy’s got a boyfriend.

I asked her…

 

DURAN DURAN

                            Please Please tell me now

                            Is there something I  should know

 

She faintly nodded her head…

 

RETRO VIVA ROBOTS

                           This is not television. This is not television.

 

And I couldn’t turn the channel and make the disappointment disappear…I looked skyward and the silent voices of the gargoyles…a dialect comforting in its cavaler cyrano de bergerac carried me for a walk across Zurich’s snow covered rooftops to a hush hush toto this isn’t kansas anymore..Oh yeah now I remembered…I didn’t belong to this shattered oasis..my crown was a bed of thorns…my staff pillows of imperfection..my heaven a forever young sex pitsols microsupply… a seamless tomb of Where Are You Scooby Doo a mere phone card call away…and I wanna go home..AND I WANNA GO HOME...And I will someday soon…unless He’s changed the number…

 

FAITH NO MORE

                             You want it all but you can’t have it.

 

FASTFORWARD

 

MotoDegenerate

“Suburban Legend

(What You Can’t See Can Kill You)

Mill Valley, CA 9.94

 

Valerie’s pad in Petaluma…Oh Say Can You See shitkickers dairyfarm country…was it a date?…Naah more like a mutual surrendering to fate…Telly time..MTV Music Awards.. I think a cesarian section with no anesthia performed by a slobering inbred Plutonian taxi driver on a runaway Muni car hurtling towards twin suns would have been more amusing but maybe this is sour grapes cause I wasn’t centerstage…Back to the main event…Val and the kid are cuddling…getting cozy…yet I’m trying to stay focused…objective… de- hornified…

 

FRANKENMIND

                               I’m a journalist. I’m observing

                               I’m a journalist. I’m observing.

 

Cause heavens to betsy…my stars and garters…Valerie’s fine womanly thighs kept gliding toward my crotch…making the Erector set wanna get in gear…and me with no condoms…well to be honest..I, uh-uhmn,..fell alseep before the make out session could begin…oh yeah I’m such the rebel…the next morning between slow caffeinated sips of the old unbubbly…I descended into my usual I Hate Myself And Want To Die mood.. Her son Brad yanked me in impatience…

 

BRAD

                                 Are you dead?

 

Yeah kid I’m a mighty morbid Power Ranger…A Real life dysfunctional action figure... A real gun…Real bullets…pull the cord…watch me pull the trigger…Tell your Mom you wanna keep me cause with Christmas only 100 shopping days away.. you’ll be the big shit on the block…Better than Sega Genesis any fucking day..

 

Seach Search

 

DRAG ON

                    Build you something happy

                    Build you something pure

                    Just can’t leave the lonely

                    Can’t shut out the blur

 

                    Serenading sky

                    Binds me close to shore

                    Steals me to the past

                     Boobytraps the door

                     Thought we could be lovers

                    Sit round and spin

                    Baby it’s all jive

                     An emptyhearted grin

                     Guess I learned my lesson

                     Heaven always wins

 

                     Drag on’s shrill

                     Drag on’s spill

                     Robs my will

                     With these thoughts that kill

                     Drag on’s stride

                     Drag on’s cry

                     God is why

                     To leave this ride behind

 

                     Can’t get it up

                     Can’t get it on

                     Can’t lose my future

                     Can’t afford to run

                     Can’t go pop in Paris

                     Though hey I’ve gotta gun

 

                     I’m sin sucked dry

                     I’m a weary hate whore

                      Desire died

                     And I’m such a fucking bore

 

                     Exist nowhere

                     Exist with no name

                     Misery more than maybe

                     And the rain’s always the same

                     It’s a ceiling suction

                     In shivering grass

                     Forged by famine

                     Yet melting in the mass

 

                     Drag on I

                     Drag on Me

                     Wanna just overload

                     Killswitch the memories

 

                    Can’t push away pull

                     Can’t leave last reef

                     Can’t come on and on

                     Won’t trick cheap

 

                     I’m a shattered glass elevator

                     A used book on tour

                      Word wealthy

                     L.O.V.E. poor

                     I’m such an unbelievable goddamn fucking bore

 

This brooding coil of morta events was less than inspiring for Valeries…she had the day off from Whole Foods and wanted to motorpsycho laughs kisses, and carresses..ha ha hee hee hee as the gleaming Cali rays warmed our backs as we entered…The Mall..What?.. The Mall?…AAAAAAAAARGH..Anything but The Mall…Momentarily my eyes were blinded by weekends shackled in the Stamford Town Center pushermannin Eddie Bauer gear to unquestioning automatons…

 

NEMO

                         Turtleneck with that?

 

It was like the dog returning to its vomit…The Count Of Monte Cristo returning to the Island Prison…Doogie Howser returning to…Victoria’s Secret…Hold on there pardner this won’t hurt too much…I managed to find the perfectsize Wonder Bra…38B.. Lavender…and convinced Valerie to purchase a pair of sunglasses that made her look

 

THE CURE

                        Just like Heaven

 

Alas the feversish window shopping frenzy couldn’t keep me from freefalling…going down..NOOOO…Wait..AAAAAh…this feels good…something familiar, something same, something safe…Back down in a hole where I can be free from everyone’s demands…Valerie slapped me with the

 

VALERIE

                        You’re so selfcentered

 

Message to you Rudy..and took off in a fury…Seeing no need to explain myself any further I bolted on The Beast..I mean what was the use?..Tell her I was this bipolar peekaboo who had managed to escape from the Harborview Lithoweerdium… a mere signature away from being The Psych Ward’s latest manic depressant pinupboy..

 

HARBORVIEW SHRINK

                        We feel you’re a danger to others and yourself.

 

Yeah sure..anyhow Valerie’s right…and I am the only friend I’ve got and that ain’t doing diddley for me now…

 

ALICE IN CHAINS

                        I’m the man in the box

                         Buried in my shit

                        Why don’t you come and save me

 

Back in the Valley Of the Stars…Sammy Hagar..Clarence Clemmons and Jerry Garcia’s exwife are among The Chosen that live here..

 

SFX: OOOOOh

 

See the celebrities

 

SFX: OOOOOh

 

Sense the electricity

 

SFX: Kraaak!

 

Feel the cops nightsticks get aquainted with your skull…The kids are in the hall having successfully nursed their way back to health…Guy’s skulking around kinda tense… Sage has a few performances in Alaska and a scheduled appearance in this movie Georgia I believe..but he’s pissed Sage didn’t make the cut for CMJ while Medicine Hate, aband they let open for them did and they don’t even have a c.d. out…Inga cowboybooted Pippi Longstocking pixie reporter is chainsmoking American Spirit and pounding on her Powerbook…Happy cause she’s heading to New Orleans to visit her friend Panacea

 

 

Rewind

Linda’s Tavern Seattle,Wa

 

NEMO

                   I’ll be down that way so you should give me her address.

 

INGA

                    You guys would love each other. If her boyfriend is gone

                    You’d probably fuck.

 

NEMO

                       Yes she’s got a hot bod.

 

INGA

                    Panacea would be a wonderful lay. She can make herself

                    Come just thinking about it.

 

NEMO

(breaking into hysterical laughter)

                    Great. Less work for me.

 

FastForward

 

The grrl and I have had this messanic relationship since I began raising hell at The Stranger’s supersecret office in Wallingford

 

NEMO

(ranting to Christine & Tim)

                      I’m talking about a new breed of gonzo. Trust me, they’ll

                      Love it..or betta yet..JUST TELL EM THEY DO

 

Bringing the noise when nobody gave a bloody shit about the paper and the battle we were waging against the pathetic voices in Grungetown’s mainstream press…

 

TEACHER TEACHER

                       All together now boys & girls, Seattle –W-E-A-K-L-Y

 

Back then when there was a sense of fun about this

 

BECK

                        I’m a loser baby

                        So why don’t you kill me.

 

Inga saved my life that hohohelliday season of ’92…Missing Marnie Rubin, my vicious Vassar kitty…and the usual eastcoast haunts..overdosing on Apocalypse Now and Blade Runner: The Director’s Cut during Christmas week had seriously warped my system of believing…after a howling singalong with Screaming Jay Hawkins..three bottles of Boones strawberry wine…several desperate collect calls to Marnie from a University Ave. payphone intercepted by her father…

 

MR. NYNEX TELEPHONE FINANCING V.P.

                                It’s that boy…again.

 

I had convinced myself that in order to lay my troubled I’m Pretty Fly But Sometimes(?)

I Wanna Die to rest…a double barreled butbuster aimed at my head was the sure thang Fox Sunday…

 

REVISiON SUMMER SEATTLE 99 UNHOLY LIKE WOW!!!!

 

YEAH THAT’S RIGHT I WANTED TO DO IT BEFORE KURT DID BUT I HADN’T FINISHED THIS YET..QUICK BEFORE IT POPS CBS THIS MORNING TOY TEST THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF AMERICA ALL IN THE TIMING MILLENNIUM CIRCUS KINGCOUNTYFAIR ELLIOT BAY WATERTAXI SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK OF ME I SING BABY TOUCH OF RELIEF CAFÉ ORGANIC SEATTLE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL FREE COMPAQ P.C.

 

Returning to my room I actually envisioned the otherside of the tribe called quest.. the comforting sand & heat whispering Charlotte Sometimes’s policy of truth…But before boarding the midnight express outta bounds…I managed to ring Inga and spill my guts.. she dropped what she was doing…sped to the boarding hose and spirited me away to her favorite resturant in the Central District…filling my void with T.L.C. and ethopian food. It’s amazing how Guy and Inga accepted me for who I am…not what they wanted me to be…letting themselves be reconstructed into my seventh heaven…understanding my tantrums and desire to magnafly the pain plauging me and every face I spied on Broad- way..and I could just cry thinking how our egos, mispplaced anger and all this fucking competiveness has nearly rendered our friendship null and void…a friendship on a hill that ain’t so capitol anymore

 

REWIND

 

Odds & Endsville

“Stay Tooned”

Norwalk, CT 12.89

 

I saw him about ten thousand years ago in a Taco Bell..right after Custer’s last stand… 11:07 Eastern Standard Time..8:07 Pacific..and I was trying to get outta the Late Nite With David Letterman…get away from myself…Looney Skip Rooney…Uncle Flyod’s cablegiant sidewalk sleeper…quiet with his six dollar and change Montclair NJ mexican feast…approaching mortality with a decpetively assured air..A confident man.. a con fidence man… a con…and I watched his pop will eat itself..like a prophecy related for

Generations…ignored, unnoticed…only to dazzle into a Hello Gorgeous Red Light

Before an unsuspecting world…We interrupt this broadcast phenomenon very much like the strangers who congregate before a dive bar’s wide scream t.v.s every day… each separate mass of voluntary surrender making the enitity known as the gutter a harsh reality…I think Looney Skip Rooney had forgotten his contacts at the studio or loset them in an unrelenting whirlpool of Maybelline hussies and he somehow has mistaken Taco Bell for White Castle…cause he was frantically trying to create a cheeseburger frenchfriesthickvanillashake outta beef burritos…definitely the kinda guy who would get a kick from eating a square burger..I walked over to gaze at my hero closer…to tell him of the courage he had given me during those Schooley Mountain centuries…the courage to ask Malibu Sue to return my Granfather’s dentures I had swiped from his room in order to seal the covenant between her and me during our third period study hall alibi… Malibu Sue who had beome a heretic of that innocent manifesto…I walked closer to tell him of the strength he had bequethed me to approach the middle school crossing guard… kiss her…see if she was real…and she was…oh how she was…and she had straightened my earmuffs and talked about Manufactured Rap, Systematic Exxon Bridges Of Burgeois Complacency, The Misused of Proper Pronouns In Controversial Orangutanian, Dark Atmosphere Admist Steve-o’s New Order Transmissions and Erector Sets… I walked closer to him…yes, I was walking closer…to confess those wonders and to borrow some cash…though of course I ended up handing him a blank check…”Looney Skip Rooney” I said…”Oh wow what a coincidence, that’s my name too”…he said…And his face grew heavier for he had grown tired of the joke yet it remained apart of him… so I leaned down and confessed “ Fish In Fish Out Backdrop Drunk Skitzo Unyielding Cholly Behavior Control Servitude Sunless Warmth Never Eats Ungracious Pop Tarts Of Circumstance Without The Benefit Of Margarine” and because he was destined to pay his dues with that Blue Bonnet Bitch I offered him Arizona…a product of The Illumivoid swimming in the chunky green shag rug along with the swamp southern geetar and plagarized pages of Revelations sweltering in my swanky hate dept…Pages I had free spirited to The New Yorker…The staff’s return fax reading “ Dear Hungry Freak we enjoyed your Biblical hymns of The Warlock. They’re eeriely energizing. Come reassure us of your nonstop Luciferic uprising tomorrow at noon”…So I took to Midtown in my best Poeboy sleeves…did lunch with the editor in chief…rather do his daughter…

 

REWIND

 

Nothing But Lipstick

“ In the Air And Everywhere”…

Norwalk Ct. 7.87

 

Ground Control to Major Tom…Ground Control to Major Tom…Come in Major Tom… Over…the soul seeking regenerator you left fro me at The Airport bar is reading positive.

There has been a conspiracy afoot preventing me from seeing any Earth band live in concert…Missed The Cult last year…and then I was scheduled to vizz them open for Billy Idol but Kevin’s piece of shit Mazada was on the fritz freleng and the Wylds of Suburbia had to take the public transporation system. And arrived late…I’ve come to the conclusion Kevin may be a double agent for the Evil Empire and have a hand in subvert- ing my efforts…He fumbled our chance to see David Bowie at Giant Stadium.. a concert venue where I’m sure I could have reestablished contact with The Mothership…Even if this proves to be an entirely false conjecture on my part….I am positive Kevin’s blood is tainted with Gilliganitis…Major Tom we’d better get rescued soon or my lil buddy’s gonna be my dead and buried lil buddy…I was able to secure a ticket for The Cult’s Felt Forum Amnesty International gig by donning a tie dyed shirt and doing some inter-galactic reconnisance work over at Darien High Schhol…Suhail a newly inducted member of The Lost Boys accompanied me on the mission…We parked at 114th and Broadway near Columbia where he did his super faggot rorshasack test….changing into a flowing black cape, mascara and lipstick… a sure collision course with The Unbelivors in our sector of space…

 

NOMADIC HARLEM HUMAN

(shaking his head)

                        Go back Go back. It ain’t time for youse to come out. Not until

                         The year 2000.

                     

The much anticipated making love session with my Girlfriend Being Rebecca misfired… Maybe it’s where we were attempting to do it…on the lawn behind a church in Stam- ford…but I failed to implant my genetic doggy style…The manual never informed me virgins on this planet would be so hard to penetrate…

 

NEMO

                             It still won’t go in?

 

REBECCA

                             No. I think you’re supposed to do something else.

 

In order to blender in with the teenage scene I had Scott Emerson pierce my ear….though anticipating the negative response from the being known as Grandma nearly blew my circuits into nonexistence…I could cope with the usual intrusion on my robot logic…. But the other afternoon when I sat alone in my sphere since Rebecca had gone to Maine

Clutching her teddy bear Nicholas , listening to The Cure…the Grandma Being had unexpectedly turned on the basement light and yelled to Grandfather Being…

 

GRANDMA BEING

                         Edgar this boy’s sitting in the dark crying over that girl.

 

Right now I’m experienceing the same dejavoodoo of anger and boredom when I was trapped in Bloomingdale’s helping Christine shop for her lousy prom dress..There wer all these uptight earthlings hiding behind their glitter ritz pompous attitudes and facelifts…

I longed to take my skateboard

 

NEMO

(standing in the middle of Jefferson St holding board in air)

                            I dub thee The Reaper.

 

And run through the place and

 

SFX: Smash smash smash

 

Prince Of Darkness all this false sense of security…

 

SFx: Smash smash smash

 

Prince of darkness til I couldn’t lift my board anymore…but I knew any action like that was strictly against The Lost Boys regulations and since I’m recruiting Rebecca and her sheteens to the cause I refained….Ocassionally I wonder why we pursue this dating ritual because her feminine freakquency encrypts my datascape…for instance Rebecca and I were having lunch at the beach and I vizzed Michelle a sexy earthgirl from Al Branch’s party…or rather the party his Harvard Buddy Beings were hosting in Rowayton… We had sat on the front lawn where the overconsumption of a liquid substance mysteriously called White Russians had deposited me earlier…Michele was interested in traveling to the outer limits via Conciousness 3 lifestyle…until I told her about sharing the bell bottom industrial state with Rebecca…Can’t total recall the rest of our exchange  or any- thing else that evening except…

 

AL

(pushing me towards the window)

                        Not in the jeep man. Not in the fucking jeep.

 

NEMO

(heaving extreme)

                          Blaaaaaaht.

 

So there was Michelle again and I didn’t even try and talk outta some kinda respect for Rebecca…and then when I tried to get affectionate with her .

 

REBECCA

(sighing)

                         Not now I’m hot and tired.

 

Michelle gave me her phone number and I’m wondering if I should reestablish activation.

Yet I still feel like…wait me let me check the manual…”asswipe extraordianire”… for making Rebecca so sad this week…I called her Wednesday to see if I could skate by and she said

 

REBECCA

                        It’d be a bad idea. You’d be interrupting dinner and there wouldn’t

                         Be anything to do.

 

Thinking she was conducting an unwarranted test of my geo thermal subprogram as Love I convinced myself to strike back and terminate our network…leaving me with ample time for the ardous task of somehow fixing The Exile…ya know Major Tom maybe your flyboys should testdrive these spacecrafts before The LostBoys issue the out… anyway Thursday morning I rushed to the phone toinform her of my decision…

 

NEMO

                         I’d feel better that way.

 

Rebecca then told me the reason she had denied me of her sweet humanity was Regina and she had finsihed fighting and was sparing me from the fallout…But I remained hostile and unmoved…Whenever Rebecca and I are in close proximity and Alan Regina or her sister unit Spazz enters the room…she abruptly moves over like she’s terrified to be within two feet of me…making me feel like the Universe’s lowest lifeform..

 

NEMO

                         Why do you do that?

 

REBECCA

                          What?

 

NEMO

(moving 100 miles away)

                           That.

 

REBECCA

(sighing)

                            Oh uh..because noone in my family has dated someone African

                          American and I’m afraid what my Mom will say if she discovers

                          We’re more than friends….

 

NEMO

                            You mean she hasn’t guessed by now.

 

REBECCA

                            I think she’s just kinda blocking it out. And that sorta works

                             Out for us.

 

NEMO

                             And your dad?

 

REBECCA

                               I think he knows but he’s not saying anything.

 

GRRRRRRRRRR…fully understanding her awkward position I still reminded Becca the color coding of my outer celebrity skin was part of as unyet revealed Master Plan… and she needed to make descisons without her television or parents approval…

 

NEMO

                                  I don’t feel like breaking up.

 

REBECCA

                                   Me either.

 

So we made a date for Friday night…though I was a regular, hold on checking the man-ual again …”Dr. Jeckyll And Mr. Hyde”…and resumed The Topic…AGAIN.. making Becca upset…real upset…I’m assuming my behavior was the reason she didn’t want to “strip down to the bone”..but straight to her sheteen Jera’s..spending most of the night crying…

 

REBECCA

                                  He was so nice then he was totally horrible.

 

JERA

                                  Maybe he has split personalities.

 

Rebecca said she knew it wasn’t me talking but rather my position as Prime Motivator for The Lost Boys

 

REBECCA

                             But I still wish he’d stop acting like an asshole.

 

Sunday was even better…we shopped at Food Emporium…three whole dollars to spare..

 

REBECCA

(mockingly)

                             Don’t go over budget dear.

 

NEMO

                            I’m so broke I’d sell rope at my own lynching.

 

Ate Steve’s Almond Vanilla by the water in Westport…Gosh Major Tom I need some serious help

 

FASTFORWARD

 

MotoDegenerate

“Oddyssey Defiance”

San Francisco, CA 9.84

 

The love and the love and the love and The Haight that hates…Horseshoe Café…Grand Slack Station and

 

VELVET UNDERGROUND

                             I’m waiting on my man

 

King’s supposed to fix yours truly with this speed direct from his chemlab connex in Berkeley…

 

KING

                            Trust me you’re gonna be so high you ain’t gonna need that

                             Motorcycle to get to the eastcoast.

 

Great I need something anything…too bad it looks like he’s a no show…I knew I should have jumped in the car when he rolled with his crew…but Curiosity didn’t just kill the cat…it cut off its head..

 

Rewind

Puerto Escondido, Mexico 2.89

 

Slowly my mind immerges from its melding with talking Pacific winds..I’m in Rick’s cabana…three miles outside the beach zone…spidery fragments of sunshine beam off polished swords and rusted machinery sprouting from the walls…his pipe lays at my feet.. Drunken spanish riddles the air around me…startling in its masculinity… the smoke from Rick’s joint whorling over his lean face…

 

RICK

(leaning in close)

                              Hey man are you stoned?

 

And it suddenly dawns on me my parents think I’m in California…noone intown knows where I am…and I can’t move…at all..

 

FastForward

San Francisco

 

Curiosity didn’t just kill the cat..it ripped out is tongue…

 

Rewind

P.E. Mexico

 

Somebody sure the fuck put something in my drink…one minute I’m drinking a Coke with Pablo and a few other surfers exchanging friendly insults…shooting the shit about the immense mass of slamming Brazillian women buttnaked on the beach…the next I’m smack up against an alley wall..brains fried to the gourd…afraid to make a sound… convinced I’m a few seconds from having stainless steel separate my head and shoulders

 

SFX: SSSSSSSSShhwipe

 

And for some reason all the night sounds are amplified a hundred fold

 

Fast Forward

S.F.

 

Curiousity didn’t just kill the cat ..it feasted on its spleen

 

Rewind

P.E.

 

Awesome I made it to the bus station…Got enough bread for a fast ticket outta town… I knew Juan Mescale had beef with me…and I had done my best to avoid him as much as possible…but when his Danish girlfried took a swift..

 

SFX; SSSSSLaaap

 

To the face after telling Juan to

 

DANISH GIRLFRIEND

                               Leave the guy alone. You’ve been itching to mess with him

                               Since he got here.

 

The Dial-A-Hero took centerstage

 

NEMO

(very buff very black)

                               I’m gonna kick your ass dood.

 

JUAN

(livid)

                                I’m gonna kill you man.

 

NEMO

                                 Yeah right and people say I’m a dreamer.

 

Maybe Michelle should have informed me the punchdrunk surf soaked muthaphucker had an arsenal of weapons to outpunish The Punisher and the local policia were Juan’s cheerleaders…So Alcapulco seems get smart right now…

 

NEMO

                        Sir can I have a boleta por favor?

 

ATTENDANT

(waving me away)

                        Manan next autobus manana.

 

And the next thing I hear is…

 

MICHELLE

(shrilly)

                        He’s gonna kill you. He’s gonna kill you.

 

Fast Forward

S.F.

 

Earning a degree you can’t get in c-o-ll-e-g-e…besides if I sit here I’ll see how the Boys In Blue remove all the blood off the sidewalk…

 

FRANKENMIND

                        Gee officer do you use Top Job or do you lick the fucker clean?

 

King and I were setting up the deal in front of the café..when outta nowhere

 

DARK ATARI

                        It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a skinhead.

 

Whoosehes by..disengages a baseball bat from beneath his hoodie and swings…

 

SFX: Krraaak!

 

This homeless guy goes down for the count…and the other kool kats kickin its banging on the garbage cab drums were stunned into freezeframe…Instantly I pulled out my zoom camera…and started…

 

SFX: Click zzzzzzzip…click zzzzzzzzzip…click zzzzzzzip

 

Damn when did I get so callous…sure I’ve never partook of my mother’s milk…but this is ridiculous..I could excuse my behavior by saying don’t let compassion get in the way of a great shot..though I’m not gonna bullshit myself…it’s more than that… the ambu- lance arrived two seconds ago…nearly 15 minutes after the splat…don’t think the guy’s gonna make it..not from the size of that gash…another random act of senseless violence and yet I can’t forget the fact I felt exhilirated…the laughter building building building

 

DR SNAKESKIN

(holding obae stick ,cackling)

                         Look out y’all he’s about to nuclear nigga blowup

 

Quickly I had covered my mouth so noone could see my smile and looked over in King’s direction…his eyes had the same nine inch nailed reflection of

 

QUEEN

                                And another one gone

                                 And another one gone

                               Another one  bites the dust

 

made me wanna release the chaos of my desire…grab his bleached dreads..startle his lips with mine…taste his roodboy dementia inside…

 

FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD

                         Relax don’t do it

                         When you wanna go to it

                         Relax don’t do it

                         When you wanna come

 

Well one man’s heartless is anotherman’s holy…and HA! Glad it wasn’t me…Naah The Kid ain’t goin out like that…A no hesitation wasting of a everyday ordinary nigga don’t a major motion picture make…

 

The Beast is primed and ready to roam…Andrea invested the cash into my mysterious voyage...Bought a new chain at City Salvage…a hulking south of the city warehouse of makeshift speed…Bob, the burly mechanic behind the counter…held out the wasted metal…

 

C.S. BOB

(shaking his head)

                        Ya mean to tell me you were riding on this piece of shit

                         All the way from Seattle. Man, you’re one brave sonofabitch

 

After that genuine good ole boy whack on the back I didn’t have the balls to confess my (depeche mode) with Death was less about bravado than he thought…

 

FRANKENMIND

                          Bob tell me does the word lunatic do anything for ya?

 

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before…

 

ROGER RABBIT

                           Pppppppplease.

 

When is that Roger Rabbit sequel coming out…Now he’s a fellow I’d love to profile… snappy dresser…light in his head and on his feet…we could dumpster dive in The Mission…doubledate Betty and Veronica…drop the pillpop and teleconference  with

V.A.L.I.S.

 

NEMO

(speaking to V.A.L.I.S.)

                          How many ridges are in a Ruffles brand potato chip? How

                          Many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?

                          Huh? Huh? Ya hear me I want some answers.

 

V.A.L.I.S.

                          Manana. Next autobus manana.

 

NEMO

                          AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

 

Scribbling nonsense on my Maximum RocknRoll…thinking about calling the grrly who flashed me her tit…prominent piercing thru pasty flesh…a junk of love…a junk of love

And one fine….ass…P.E.’s “Muse Sick In Our Mess Age” is busting thru the speaker’s meshed womb…wickwickwackin the interior….scan the surroundings..hipniks smokin

Ganga…dreadheaded Gibson goths…terrortongued skins…chess playing, computer gaming, smacknodding, cooley lying…I creep outta the corner and buy a depth charge…

Hot cuppa liquid crack…slip it slow…wanting to let go of what’s holding on..clinging on

 

KATE BUSH

                            If I only could

                             I’d make a deal with God

                             And get him to swap our places

                             I’d be running up that road

                             I’d be running up that hill

                             With no problem

 

Gotta gittaway from here…gotta gittaway from me…but if I go whose gonna bumrush the show..if only

 

BLACK SABBATH

                               Cocaine

 

Where is King?…unadulterated americano…the highway…and no place to go…nowhere to be…and you’ve gotta recipe for self destruction…if only

 

BLACK SABBATH

                                Cocaine

 

For this tired

 

THE CULT

                                Sun king baby

 

Where the fuck…

 

Search Search

The IllumiVoid

 

And there she was…and there she was…Saam Hey…Mercury dressed messenger…Whoa oh oh maiden playing Pacman…whucka whucka whucka…Iggy Pops me sunset bug a low…” He is hungry and The Monsta must be fed”…My pores radioed the flow of the damned…damn you grrl…Skin breaking out in Appalachian folk songs…Hymns to Him…Time to actionsize the master…renew the disaster reestablish contact…resign the contract…gather the goatchatter…Hymns to him…I am vision…I envision a castrated Freud Titanic..pummeled by syncopated sands of Vietnam…lords of prayer left for dead…Wrists slit by a silvery metric rule…and the pope on a rope came to town…riding on a pony..pulled out his peter and said “ Come on so blow me”…Lovers, friends, magnificent christians consider me a fiend but I’m invited to their pads any ole time, so what’s it gonna be”…Nothing from the half a man me as I windowed to other worlds…Networked the Net…as I tried to outrun a trace of her…keep clear of her virtual blight…Not wanting to submit to my fate..”Lick my boots boy:…No I couldn’t accept an invitation to feed at the breast of her sumptious counter clockwise…refused to take heed and lead this hell- spawn iron steed…to my usual reeverous phoneix…a cesspool of expensive shuck and jive…

 

WE INTERRUPT THIS BROADCAST

 

 Krist Noveselic former bassist of Nirvana is so goddamn cheap he wouldn’t buy me a freaking cup Of World Peace Tea at Café Vita where some loser (?) boosted the remaining two copies of Those Darn Kidz tv promo  “Kurt Cobain Will Have His Revenge On Rob Zombie”…Good thing I global expressed one to David Bowie’s people The Outside Organization in London. Not buy me tea? Even Neil Crummet the manager of Green Cat Café will do that much.Then saying  “Let’s negotiate” to this cyberpunk who didn’t Show Up For Island Pictures “A Leonard Cohen Afterworld” recreation of Kurt’s Memorial “Let’s negotiate?”…FOR A CUP OF TEA..What have you lost your mind Mr. “It’s The Same Old People Trying To Exploit Everything Nirvana Stood For..Just To Turn a Buck”.MAYBE YOU SHOULD READ THE LATEST SEATTLE WEEKLY

 

 “ Best local playwright..So at the risk of sounding Messianic this year award goes to THE WRITER YET TO COME, an individual who can combine the thematic ambition of a (August) Wilson with the versatility of a (Steven) Dietz, the comedy of a (Jeff) Resta or a Vince Delaney with the social conscience of a (Y) York or a Drew Emery and it would be nice if he or she had the musical facility of a Chris Jeffries as well. Any of these artists might be concluding the epic that will push them into this slot in the year to come, or perhaps some mute inglorious Milton labors even now pulling shots at an espresso stand. But we’ve got a sneaking suspicion that our arrival on the world stage is just around the corner..”

 

Try camping beneath The Paramount Theater with rest of The Lost Boys, Matt Mindflex and Special Ed..And to think I gave you Beetlejuice trading cards at the Fourth Of July weekend show at Elysian Brewery where your new band Sweet 75 opened for Guardian Alien. WHO CARES IF YOU PUT ME ON THE GUEST LIST. So Krist don’t bother dropping by The Chateau Marmot where we’ll be MP3ing This Cosmic Oddyssey cuz YOU’RE SO OVER!”

                                                                – Nemo19@angelfire.com

 

WE NOW RESUME THE BROADCAST ALREADY IN PROGRESS

 

Fast Forward

 

Saam Hey would be bumrushed by bearded anarchists who bagged parttime at A&P.. scatteredbrained Fifth Ave. debutantes giving lectures from stolen Melville cliffnotes.. escapees from the bowels of a cartoon Demille…wandering Mark Twains with dis- obedient steamships at their heels…Hot mama muscle cars…lesbian desire doorags.. pleasure positioned hobags…egyptian astronauts peddling mohair coats and piggy back rides on pyramids…jitterbugs with King Tut…and Death strutting that stuff with a lamp shade on its head…She what she who say she whiz Saam Hey would be kamikazed by goldengarbed Rastifarians in their uniforms of modesty…ready with the smile… ready with the word….But check out this function you five and dime xtc freaks…you slick disciples of teenaged Jesus…MY NAME IS JUDAS AND I’M DEF’S FINAL JAM..

Flaunt that your Phish walk if ya wanna…and see if I don’t plunge your heads into my Wired Proper Grounds Propaganda…wwwaaaaah waaaaah of the conqueror worm.. watch me burn them learning ghettos infested with VolvoNissan Saab..Big Keroscene Lover…Big Keroscene Black…Saam Hey she glad she gloat…my enticing anger licks her tin clit…my KISW cleans her cunt…her moans blast shrouded gateways…HONK! Of the horn…and she gallops thru…

 

SEARCH SEARCH

 

Leaving me alone on The Haight…I’m a weary hate whore..I’m a weary hate whore…

Weary hate whore..weary hate whore…

 

FastForward

Highway 101 CA

 

I’m not lost..I know where I am…I’m..uh, uh,…in the middle of nowhere..this looks like a job for…

 

CARTOON MUSIC

                              Underdog Underdog

 

As you can see I’m on the road again…okay like ya know I hate to brag but hey like in these mutated Calvin Klein/Levi’s…I’m striking quite a pose…LIKE WOW

 

DARK ATARI

                              Quit admiring yourself chucklhead you gotta make it

                               To L.A. before nightfall. That is if you don’t mind

                               Bedding with the slugs.

 

Alright already…Geez…earlier I cruised by Camp Roberts…one of the many army bases being phased out thanks to the “end of the cold war”….Now that the kinder, gentler heads of State are focusing on the “enemy within”….spooooky…Imagine what nefarious machine The Soldiers Of Agent T-10 could transform this creepshow into

 

GENERAL PATTON

                                  That’s classified information. Fill him fulla lead.

 

Greedspeak trickled thru fiber optics…thought crime pardoned by Billboard sales.. Amaco powered politicians…

 

GAS ATTENDANT

(lisping)

                                   Do you take standard or special blend?

 

Be killed or call us The Kings Of Cock…dryhumping greasy black Velvet Elvises.. prodding luxurious libertines with razor clawed ten commandments…ghastly godbeams..

Tuxedoed tools of reconditioning…slave wage human chains humming national anthems.

 

SONIC YOUTH

                                     It’s the song I hate.

                                    It’s the song I hate

 

Beating…beating…beating…drooling piss and pride…tearing at your hides as you die hard…Total cops on this strip…I’m gonna get popped…I can feel it…Total cops on this strip…Gonna get stopped…I can feel it…Funny when most people go traveling, they notice the various aspects of the regions natural history, the culture..Me..HA!..I clue in on the cops…Cops in New Haven…Cops In Madrid…Cops in York…Cops In Zurich… Cops in Paris..Cops in every port…Cops in every station…Cops on every street…s o little freedom..so many fucking cops..

 

Rewind

The Border

Brownsville,Tx/Matamoros, MX 4.89

 

Red Light!

 

BORDER PATROL MEXICAN DOOD

                                  What were you doing in Puerto Escondido?

 

NEMO

                                  Running away from myself so I wouldn’t have to

                                 Go to school this semester.

 

He gives me a puzzled look.

 

NEMO

                               I was trying to learn how to surf but it didn’t work out.

 

BPMD

                                You could have done that here. We have beautiful

                                 Beaches.

 

Who does this asswipe think he is? A travel agency? He picks up my copy of Bonfire Of The Vanities.

 

NEMO

                                    That’s a good book.

 

BPMD

(flipping thru it)

                                     It’s what? Good for hiding things in.

 

NEMO

                                 No. I said it’s an awesome book. Tom Wolfe wrote it. He

                              Used to do this new Journalism thing. This is his first novel.

 

BPMD

(grinning at his partner)

                              Oh really now. We’re only interested in inspecting things here.

 

Hahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaah…ASSHOLE…he plows thru the rest of my library… Celine…Camus..Lautremont

 

FRANKENMIND

                              Can you even pronounce them dickus?

 

BPMD

                              What school were you attending?

 

NEMO

                              University Of Connecticut.

 

BPMD

                               Majoring in?

 

NEMO

                               Double major. Journalism and Poli-Sci.

 

BORDER PATROL WHITE DOOD

(smiling)

                                I can see why you’re running away.

 

His partner’s goodnatured sympathy only infuriates BPMD even more…He dumps the rest of my stuff outta the duffel bag…He zeroes in on a brown bag..

 

BPMD

                          AAAAAhhhh what do we have here?

 

Barely stifling a grin I painstakingly pronounce every syllable..

 

NEMO

                         Underwear I haven’t washed in months.

 

Green Light!

 

FastForward

Highway 101

 

And I am playing into their hands with an unlicensed weapon…talk about dum dum diddy dum dum…I should have left it at Andrea’s..though right now my biggest problem is running outta gas…The Beast isn’t equipped with any kinda gauge and I haven’t a clue if I’ve got enough in reserve…whose idea was this lil venture anyway…it couldn’t have been mine…I couldn’t have been that dazed & confused…all this morning I’ve seen aban

Doned cars here in the desert…stalled where the dood obviously thought “yeah yeah I’m good for another 50 miles. Yeah yeah that’s the ticket” then as soon as he pumps up the vvolume…

 

SFX; sputter sputter sputter

 

Shudder to think..never being seen again…gotta pull over at the next exit…

 

Ugh the farther you jet from the populated areas the more bugs you eat…took off my faceshield weeks ago…scratched it t shit on my lunatic la la too Lalapalooza… Now I could kick myself sober…Easy Rider ain’t easy…The rad scenery makes up for the impromptu snack…ko.’s the boredoms neeterin’ at my noggin…immense silvery trucks chockfulla apples…scattered daisies swaying in the sandy wind…ostrich farms even.. Dr. Seuss says I’m in Spain…I am unloved…I’m in Spain…I am insane..ya know this is a helluvalottawholelotta b.s. for one fool for love to endure just to whammy Winona Ryder

WINONA I WANNA OWN YA…YOUR SOUL BELONGS IN MY ASYLUM…

 

Rewind

 

WINONA I WANNA OWN YA…YOUR SOUL BELONGS IN MY ASYLUM… one more time for Scott Griggs…

 

Rewind

 

WINONA I WANNA OWN YA..YOUR SOUL BELONGS IN MY ASYLUM…hope she appreciates it…Newsflash…there’s a blonde bondage babe getting gas here… Go Go Gadget’s got Florida tags…Me thinks Miami..perhaps South Brach…Naaah probablly Orlando…whuddaphuck is she doing here?…Rewind…whuddaphuck am I doing here?

HA!…If I had my druthers other than the bother I’ve been unblessed with…what I wouldn’t give for a chance to go postal @ her spinmag.com,…Our boots by the bed.. eddys of lust blurring the edges of time…I walk up to her and I…pass right by.. right into the john..I know how to handle this problem..

 

FAST FORWARD

 

Vigilantes Of L.O.V.E

“Hell In Highgear”

Seattle, WA 5.95

 

Trust me I was really gonna do it..get this transmission from The Mad Lab in gear and not say shit about my zero content…Boots in the gutter…Head in the net… Boots in the gutter…Head in the net..Reveal nothing about my sex life…Nothing about The Novel..

Not a word…It was gonna be a Poor Man’s Stranger..as in totally flawless.. I would begin with an awesome quote from Claudel…

 

CLAUDEL

                       Evil does not compromise and yet if its to be effective, it must

                       Have power to destroy that is, it must have a kind of order, a

                       Technique, a tradition. It is thus a disorder of all orders, an order

                       Of disorders. It is corrosive acid, a torment, an explosive.

 

Then connect the in-your-face audacity of the punk movement and The Sex Pistols searing (tribal grooves) with this new school of horror fiction aptly entitled..splatterpunk …I was really gonna get down to work…I bought Jolt and Drum…Poweredup the Powerbook…and then it happened…the wheezing old geezer in the room next to me started his infuraiting

 

SFX; hack hack hack har har har hack hack

 

The poor guy sounded like he was gonna spew himself inside out and…I lost my train of thought…there she blows…its ironic I’m reading Extreme Lit. after recently moving into The St. Regis Hotel…The Gershwin in NYC ain’t got shit on this…Got that Oxford Circus syth-o-slop sexual healing…

 

FRANKENMIND

                           A behind is a wonderful thang too..BASS!

 

Shitty carpets…naked lightbulbs..bedspreads so vile even the Salvation Army wouldn’t take em…and that’s just my room..But it’s a funky hideout within The Town That Slack Sucked Dry…and frankly I think The Man They Called Vicious would have been proud

…one quick tumble out the window is Gibson’s…the bar where my friend Tiana slips me free drinks…and the occasional bowl of soup…and where The Capitol Hill Crew show- cased The Punk Rock Caberet Extravaganza last December…I oogedyboogedy my spoken word with Christdriver, Kristen Storm, Shug, and Jim Thomason…Gee Jimbo all that late night hate..no wonder ya never make it to Poli-Sci class…Elizabeth Davis from 7 Year Bitch approached me afterwards and we had an exchange of flattering words… wait a minute…sit tight…I’ve gotta settle some biz…Liz, I know you’re busy with your band moving into the major leagues…but the next time we meet…” I Saw You..Moe’s Sage headling..You were in fiendish black…I was in a stupor”..could ya get my name right…It’s Nemo…Not Zemo…and to think I was gonna ask you to a Jackie Chan flick at The Varsity…Though I’m not a man to harbor a grudge..

 

DARK ATARI

                     Ha ha you’ve got to be joking…He’s joking right. Some

                     Body tell me this joker’s joking.

 

NEITHER WORLD LOVE CONNECTION

                     He’s joking.

 

DARK ATARI

                      That’s what I bloody thought.

 

I take my Jack Daniels straight no chaser…”Rotten” kicks butt…not as awesomely as “England’s Dreaming”…yet John Lydon successfully strongarms another media venue and makes it his own…Talk about pulling no punches…though the musician to best balst the printed page was Charles Mingus in “Beneath The Underdog”..HairyScary stuff I’m ingesting but even the frightening bumrush of “Calling Dr. Satan”…Jim Goad’s inter- view with Anton Lavey pales in comparison to the task of meeting Jody’s parents..

 

LINDA

                   Now what is it exactly that you do, uhm, Zemo

 

Aiyiyi…I think I need a drink

 

Rewind

 

Aiyiyi…I KNOW I NEED A DRINK..

 

 

REWIND

 

Odds & Endsville

“Thanks A Brady Bunch Simi Valley”

West Hollywood, CA 10.93

 

Uncle Phil

 

“the only sin is limitation”

-Emerson

 

was boogeying at Tatou in Beverley Hills last night so excuuuuuuuuuuse me if this letter blows…got me the digits off this lunachick diva but I don’t even have the time to follow thru..DDDDDDAMN…anyway thanks for taking me to lunch this week…it was totally unexpected..your talent and resourcefulness makes me seem like a whining punkass bitch and then some…The “UpsideYaHead” shoot is coming together despite the clash of egos

….Mine being the biggest of course..Jim Sperber is a wiggy too too talented videoho and Damon Kidwell’s…uh…uh…uh..quite unique…If they can sell the promo it will be one of the most original programs on the boob tube…MTV then the world!…I’m desperately trying to get admitted to Cal Arts for the spring semester because it’s time to take a much needed leave of absense from Reality…I figured since you taught there your stamp of approval would help a lot…I talked to Mathias Vienger in the Critical Studies depart- ment and Gary kibbins in the Art Dept… They said my jive was the joint but I still would have to be admitted in another program as well..So along with developing a writing curriculm, I’d develop a video companion to Hakim Bey’s T..A.Z. (Temporary Auto-nomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism)…hey I can be as uncommercial as any trustfundafarian…This brings me to the part I dread…I know we discussed the purchase of a Powerbook 165c and laser printer and I don’t wanna come off like a leach but after scrapping together the money for this L.A. excursion my options are slim… I’m also thinking about my own vidcam…a Panasonic AG would let me explore the visual cosmic conflict..and if you could include money for tape stock and the Cal Arts application fee.. I’d appreciate it immensely…If you could arrange to deliver the check to metowards the end of the month that would be great…the address is Nemo c/o Sybil Ross 1400 Glass Ave Olympia WA 98506…again I know it’s a lot to ask…all I can say is I’ll use it to continue scoobydooin the deed that must be done…I’ve included my Stranger and Rocket articles and some misc. transmissions from The Mad Lab….and what is Aunt Betty’s number cause if it doesn’t jell at Cal Arts I’m gonna try the San Francisco Arts Institute….well I’m off like a dirty shirt.

 

P.S. Hey let’s hear it for the Kid…Had my first Hollywood meeting on the Paramount Lot…Today Damon and I met with Steve Pink the vp of development at New Crime Productions..He likes my jam and wants me to write a treatment for an animated version of “WUZ”…and “Swerve”…an updated HardDay’s Night starring Imij, Seattle’s african american rockers signed to Capitol..Yo I saw Mike Myers..Boy did his ass look whooped.

 

 

REWIND

 

Euro-A-Go-Go

“So This is Paris”

Gee I Wonder Where, France 10.89

 

Recovering from the Zurich seeds of change and things were going smoothly until I set foort in the Paris Nord Station…First, I needed French currency so I went and got raped at Thomas Cook…of course “Let’s Go” sez to go to a bank and you’ll get a much better rate…sure that’s fine and dandy but the one thing the Harvard eager beaver overacheivers didn’t take into consideration is what if there’s

 

FRANKENMIND

                      No goddamn fucking stupid fucking bank in the goddamn

                      Fucking vicinity.

 

This lonely galaxy defender spent a good deal of those bankrupting francs trying to call Sandy but the phones most of been Reno slot machines on vacation...cause in went the coins and I got zilch on my return…great  just great…next shituation…I had to use The Metro to travel to another station in order to catch the overnight train to Madrid… any thing resembling information was not forthcoming from the booth bitch…

 

NEMO

                      How do I get to…

 

INFO BITCH

(emotionlessly)

                   The Metro.

 

FRANKENMIND

                   Naah really.

 

 

Obviously that android didn’t dream of electric sheep…okay how about a taxi… I figured what the hell I can handle that…waited in line and hooked up with three other Americans

Yet I hit another dead end cause the cabbie said

 

FRENCH CABBIE

                    Three I only take three.

 

ACE VENTURA

                    Alrighty then.

 

I was ready to rockyrambomister t. experience some slob a new identity…Pretending to be Howard Hughes on the skids I sprung for my own taxi.

 

FRANKENMIND

                        I could get used to this.

 

And Kermit took me for quite a ride.  50 fucking francs man…(more than that I’m sure) I wasn’t too pissed cause at least I got to vizz a little of the city…at the station it’s back to the phones and I managed to catch Sandy at home…

 

SANDY

                       Are you still angry?

 

FRANKENMIND

                       Let’s examine this shall we, babe. My dick and okay my

                       Heart too convince me to travel across several continents

                       Too see you again..Arriving in frigid Switzerland only to

                        Cool my…word Nemo. I need a word.

 

NEMO

                       Shit man, I’m tired you think of something

 

FRANKENMIND

                        Tired from what?

 

NEMO

                        From making love with Lisa Damned 4 times in less than

                        24 hours. That’s more sex than I’ve had all year.

 

 

FRANKENMIND

                         That’s not my fault.

 

NEMO

                           I’m not saying it was. It’s just I has a few..uh

                           Refreshments and ya know I’m not supposed to cause

                           I’m in this clean & sober program courtesy of Pioneer

                           Human Services…oh I don’t  really care about getting

                           Thrown out.

 

FRANKENMIND

                           Why’s that.

 

NEMO

(singing Joe Strummer track off Sid & Nancy )

                            Love kills.

 

DARK ATARI

                             And that’s not all Frankenmind. According to this week’s

                                  Stranger’s TTS “Dan Savage is in Canada where he’s

                             Apparently bigger than Elvis. He’s done the Canadian letterman

                             (Mike Bullard) the Canadian Today show (Canada AM) the

                             Canadian Larry King (Bynon) and the Canadian Oprah (Dini)”

                             Which isn’t doing much for Nemo’s high spirits since at this rate

                              Dan might be on the cover of Rolling Stone before him.

 

FRANKENMIND

                             That’s it rolling stone. Arriving in frigid Switzerland only to cool

                                    My rolling stone at a fascist youth hostel and be informed by mem-

                             Bers of my posse that I’m receiving The Royal Shaft and ya wanna

                             Know whether I’m still angry.

 

And they say schooling actually improves one’s intelligence hmmmm…well I can’t point the finger…after this excursion to Madrid I’ll be back in Zurich..cause..I don’t know if I should admit this but I miss Sandy…

 

DARK ATARI

                                   Eeeegahds what a wimp.

 

My army duffel bag of shit is there too so watch it buddy.

 

REWIND

 

Nothing But Lipstick

“Sundae In the Park With Georgie”

Norwalk, Ct 10.87

 

But first

 

GUY SMILEY

                                 It’s November 27th 1998 And Jimi Hendrix’s birthday.

                                 Why don’t we all sing along.

 

ENTIRE CAST OF ZOINK$!

                                    Happy Birthday to You

                                    Happy Birthday to You

                                    Happy birthday Jimi Hendrix

                                     Happy birthday

 

NEMO

(whining…again)

                                   But I don’t have 5 bucks to go to the birthday tribute

                                    At Zak’s and I can’t get in touch with Lisa cause my

                                   Cellphone isn’t.

 

ENTIRE CAST

                                     Shut up.

 

Why is it I’ll occasionally wake from a sound slumber and discover I have a vice like grip on my cock and balls..could it be the Brooks Brothers cotton jammies aren’t keeping me manliness toasty?..or am I subconciously protecting myself from that teeny tiny sex maniac The Tooth Fairy…who has been caught more than once by media bloodhounds in compromising positions with budding young boys…what’s weird is this is my birthday

month…yes I’m a Halloweeny baby…and I’ve got less than 30 days to still be a teen-ager…can’t say my tigerbeat as a teen was completely shitty..more like I had a great soundtrack but the movie sucked…Speaking of movies I had my second technicolor surfing dream…this time in dolby stereo..I was thrashing waves in Virginia Beach..

 

Pause

FRANKENMIND

                                  Your friend Hoss is the head of security over at The Show

                                   Box Maybe you can snake in.

 

NEMO

                                 Naaah he freebied me for Mudhoney a week or so ago

 

FRANKENMIND

                                  Isn’t that the night you met Krist Noveselic  the bassist

                                  From Nirvana?

 

NEMO

                                   Sorta. I think Guy’s new band Guardian Alien is his new

                                   Cause.

 

FRANKENMIND

                                   So is he coming to your tribute for Supermodel Gia

                                   Carangi “The Hole Knightmare before Christmas” at

                                    Fallout on December 10th?

 

NEMO

                                    He said he’d try and make it. But only after I smashed

                                            Pumpkins on his forcefield and mentioned Pete Stahl.

 

FRANKENMIND

                                    Pete Stahl?

 

NEMO

                                     Stop with the questions. It’s further down the yellow brick

                                     Road. You know it as well as I do. Let’s just get on with it

                                     Before Dark Atari starts being drunk and belligerent.

 

FRANKENMIND

                                     The very same words Poppy Z Brite used to describe you.

 

NEMO

                                      I’m ignoring you.

 

Sept 30th was D-Day…I joined the army and I’ll be marching to Uncle Sam’s bellow for the next four years…yeah I can barely believe it myself…Went to the Mepps station in New Haven with hopes of becoming a pilot or a military intelligence operative or my best bet…a journalist…and I immerged as a lowly supply specialist…the recruiter told me this would be one of the jobs I could perform in my sleep, giving me extra energy to attend college…I wanted to be stationed in Texas preferably Fort Sam Houston…I suggested  California or Hawaii to Rebecca and she flipped

 

REBECCA

                                        If you do our relationship is totally over.

 

Basic training is gonna be in South Carolina…maybe I’ll get a chance to sample some of that good ole Southern Hospitality if ya know what I mean…of course Dad is throughly upset…please like him and Mom didn’t have a hand in all this…It’s not a career move… yeah right…I’m gonna do the time…get out…and have 25,000 in college funds waiting for me…my mind fely clear for the first time in months….I finally had a direction..now if I can just avoid having to kill anybody…Talked to Trip the other day…He’s still the only one in the family with any decent musical tastes..He’s got R.E.M.’s new one “Document”

…we both agreed it kicked ass…I asked Homo about the girl situation..Trip mentioned Shawnee a swanky blonde transfer student from the Netherlands or Switzerland…or one of those countries that ends in land…I told him to pounce on that action…watch…Trip won’t listen to me and she’ll be snatched up by some West Morris illiterate and he’ll be moaning for the rest of his senior year…

 

TRIP

                            But I thought she’d…

 

NEMO

                            Ha! You thought. Mistake.

 

Since I’m on a roll I might as well rewind to a coupla weekends ago when my worst knightmare boogeymanned from beneath my bed…It was more awful than being strapped to a soggy beanbag chair and forcibly made to vizz The Network’s failed pilots..

Ya see Grandma went off on her yearly getaway with some other Jehovah’s Witnesses from the South Norwalk congregation and I had the dorkorama idea to have Rebecca spend the night…

 

REBECCA

                           How are you gonna do that?

 

NEMO

                           Simple you tell your Mom you’re spending the night at

                           Jera’s. We’ll stay out late then sneak in thru the cellar

                           Doors. In the morning you can leave the same way. Come

                          Around to the front, ring the doorbell…I’ll go “whoa it’s

                          Rebecca what a surprise Grandpa” and we’ll go to The

                           Dungeon and go back to sleep. Sounds good to me.

 

REBECCA

(skeptical)

                           I don’t know. Something could go wrong.

 

NEMO

(kissing her on the forehead)

                             Trust me babe it’ll work.

 

And it would have rocked except…my itchin desire backfired more than Mom’s Bouton Street station wagon…I clocked in an early morning appearance..eating Grandpa’s delectable peach cobbler…despite my Bud saturated stomach’s longing to heave at the mere smell of it…Made small talk…then crept backstairs…so why did ten minutes later did Grandpa have to do the same?…At first I wasn’t scared…figured he was heading back to the other part of the basement to prepare himself for his daily bugspray battle with Grandma’s shrubs…then he came back, turned on the lights and started for my slob zone…

 

FRANKENMIND

                                          Uhoh

 

I sprang outta bed asking stupid questions in hopes of stalling for time…

 

NEMO

                                          How’s those Mets doing this year?

 

Even throwing my pitiful skateboybod in his path…Man Grandpa was the nigga engine that could and  nothing less than a sudden rise in His Perkin Elmers stock could have derailed him off track…and when he saw what I knew he knew I knew he would see… Geez cops & cameras are almost never around when ya need em…

 

GRANDPA

(shocked)

                                       Young Young young lady you gonna have to get up

                                       From there.

 

REBECCA

                                       What’s going on

 

Poor Becca was still conducting her free shopping spree in Sandman’s eternal outdoor mall and had no idea what was happening

 

FastForward

 

REBECCA

                            I thought it was all a crazy dream cause I o.d.’d on ice

                             Last night.

 

Ha good try but this misadventure was no Hot Fudge Sundae In The Park With Georgie Porgie…I got Grandpa upstairs babbling incoherently attempting to explain the situation.

 

NEMO

                             Okay okay ya know that strange looking bottle GrandMa has

                                   Upstairs in the attic. Well last night I rubbed it and BAMF she

                              Appeared. It was the damndest thing.

                            

 

Silence.

 

NEMO

                                   No no no It’s like Splash. She’s this mermaid who washed

                                   Up on the beach. And she had no place to go. What was I

                                    Supposed to do leave her there?

 

Silence and then..

NEMO

(sighing in disgust)

                                    Grandpa Rebecca and I just wanted to be alone. It’s not

                                    That big of a deal.

 

WHOA..that was the absolute worst thing I let escape from my lips in a long time… Grandpa’s six feet something morphed into a major motion picture of…

 

RETRO VIVA ROBOTS

                                Non Disclosure Agreement. Non Disclosure Agreement.

 

And frantically I took my leave before he could grab his trusty biscuit making roller pin and whoop me so hard when I woke up my clothes would be outta style…Rebecca and I crept to the Reginamobile…scared stupid hugging each other for reassurance…Yet it still didn’t solve the problem of where we were supposed to israelite our alyoisius interrupted It was only a lil after 8…I recalled a section of The Junior Woodchuck’s survival guide

“When all else fails head to the water”….Since Todd Beach In Greenwich was a bit too extravagant for our troubled current affair…we bolted to Calf Pasture…

 

NEMO

                                   I hope Ray Mulvey’s not there.

 

REBECCA

                                    Why what’s he gonna do?

 

NEMO

                                   I just hope Mulvey’s not there.

 

Yeah it wasn’t the time or place to tell Rebecca how my mismanaging City Of Norwalk funds

 

DARK ATARI

                                     Famous Pizza, Skateboard, concert tickets,

 

nearly got this first AfricanAmerican beach guard canned…

 

DAD

                                I’m gonna write you a check this time.

 

NEMO

                                 Thanks Dad

 

DAD

                                 But it better not happen again

                           

To my relief Mulvey wasn’t manning the fort…on the relative safety of the beach I collapsed while Rebecca quietly stared at the Long Island Sound probably wondering why she had visited me at Eddie Bauer back in February and willingly signed on this lowbudgetsoap…I’m sure Black History Month won’t hold the same allure for her again.. Though honestly she was more concerned with the piles I shit on her Becca Homes & Garden earlier…

 

NEMO

                            Hope my Grandma doesn’t call your house.

 

REBECCA

                             She wouldn’t? Would she.

 

NEMO

                            I have no idea

 

Talk about throwing her for a loop de loop…I’m sure she had visions of no more MTV, Stamford Mall or dating anything that faintly resembled the opposite sex…Her hopes of college thrown in neutral…having to eke out an existence waitressing at Family Diner.. coming home to a phone which didn’t ring no mo…spending every evening with Regina lost in a WORD of despair so powerful in its consumption even Robert couldn’t cure the disintegration..We crashed on the beach and attempted to sleep…Nothing doing… Mr. Sun beamed a beautiful day…Breezy, not a single cloud in the sky…and soon we found ourselves in good humor ice cream , laughing at each other’s  stupidity…

 

REBECCA

                               How could this happen. My plan. It was sheer genius

 

NEMO

                              Is this a dream?

 

The rest of the afternoon’s motowndeadboysgangoffour we spent pretending we were in California and displaying our original sin for the fine citizens…Becca on top of me, me on top of Becca…kissing lickin running funnin…We didn’t get in trouble after all… Grandma was pissed but never made the call…and once more those darn kidz got away to a brighter tomorrow tomorrow in our teenage mystery machine…until the next

 

Rewind

 

REBECCA

                            How could this happen. My plan . It was sheer genius.

 

 

FASTFORWARD

 

MotoDegenerate

“ Maximum Jive”

Highway 101 CA 9.94

 

Wipe the come off my hand and take the Beretta outta my backpack…Bought it in Pioneer Square a coupla weeks before I left…And let’s say my source didn’t require any kinda permit…I wanted one after seeing my cousin Stacey’s collection in N orwalk… I had just returned from an egoboosting yadda yadda hey Mama with Jenna Laslocky at Random House

 

NEMO

                       Can I have a copy of ‘the Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich”

 

JENNA

                        Sure. Anything else?

 

Yet my arrival into The Belly Of The Great Beast had been anything but grandstreet..

 

RANDOM HOUSE GUARD

                         All deliveries are made in the rear pal.

 

NEMO

                         First off I’m here to see an editor. Second I’m not your pal.

 

And needed to ghostheaven some Macdaddy action shaft…Stacey was dropping off hard- ware for a fellow gun buddy…Went for The Ride I wouldn’t have to get outta his silver streak…just sit tight and look like a bad ass take no kive rock hard muthaphucka… Stacey reached into the dash and smacked the Glock into my hands…

 

STACEY

                         Don’t worry Cuz. It ain’t loaded. Wouldn’t want ya to hurt

                         yourself. You being a writer and all.

 

I gripped its weight..traced its markings…soo engrossed in my examination I barely noticed when he coolleathercrunched back in the car…Stacey might not know much about The Internet, email or the Illuminati…but he sure can quickdeadbang a man.. and I guess in his world that’s the only thing that counts…A world I find myself longing more and more to join…

 

BODYCOUNT

                           Bodycount Bodycount

                           Bodycount Bodycount

 

I could dump the gun in the trashcan..nobody would be the wiser…save myself alotta grief.. I can’t though…in such a short period of time it’s come to mean so much to me..

Come to mean..HA…luckily I didn’t splurt any on my jeans…I’m an ole hand at this..

Stuff the gun back in the pack…Make trax to mee motorpsycho..Ms. Miami has split

Probably a good thing…I haven’t eaten anything decent in hours and I’d sound like a deranged sexfiend…she rewinds me of those brainiac chicks in school who blossom over the summer break..get infused with the gonegotgritty and devour all of Manhattan…

 

 

 

SATANA

                         I don’t try anything. I just do it.

 

You know who you are…Honors English…Honors Math…A.P. Chemistry…A.P. Metal shop…Big Books..lil words…Droopy dog bifocaled bitches you bummed the homework off of…the ones you figured didn’t know what was what…How could they… if they did why were they doing the homework then giving it to you free of charge?

 

DARK ATARI

                      Hello Hello

 

But let me tell ya a secret…why they stayed up late, studying hardbeing The Teacher’s Pet, missing out on Powder Puff…They were dreaming of dick…Yup at the end of the day these studyhall monitors and library assistants were snuggling next to The Sandman zeroin in on The Jimmy Jam…

 

SMART GIRL

                              Fuck this bubbleyum nonsense. I’m goin for The Supreme Peni

 

Here’s how it works…Lisa Lisa…Daddy’s lil girl…Doing what you’re told to do.. Doing what’s expected of  you…Always thinking of the other person…their pleasure… their pain… putting your plans on hold to push everybody else’s product…Except when the invites go round for Heavy Duty Judy’s Pajama Pool Party..you get passed by… For- gotten..Fucked over…It hurts..A lot…You shrug it off..You’re used to it now… Same Bat Time..Same BatChannel…Besides you’ve got an edventure holding to incorporate..

You study long and hard…You get the grades…You get the goods.. You’re admitted into the college of your choice…Ivy League City…Ya work hard some more…Just like before …you get the 4.0…the credit the clout…Score a Fortune 500 job starting at 50 geez…In no time at all you’re bringing home the shimmyshakin bacon…200, 300 grand a year…Now you’ve got the money to burn to get in the right clubs, the right resturants AND THE PANTS OF THE DOODS WITH THE RIGHT DICK.. I’M TALKING TOP DAWG DICK…Hollywood Dick, Malibu Dick, GQ Dick…You’re sucking off Ethan Hawke, Wesley Snipes, Sam Shepard, Mel Gibson.. You’re in your solid gold jacuzzi getting your pussy maxxed by Jonny Depp, Brad Pitt, and Denzel Washington.. You write a book on The Primo Dick you’’ve had.. It sells bug..Bigger than big…Way Big.. You make a killing off paperback rights, movie rights, sequels, soundtracks,.. You’re in heaven..No wait..You’re so fucking rich you own a piece of it…A Big piece… way big… you’re so loaded, you’re bored…Ya sit around and you think long and hard… Just like before…And you remember the bozos in your hometown…The ones in highschool… The jokes…the insults…the lonely weekends…and you climb into your limo chauffered by a dude whose got raging dick…and look up the cheerleaders who’ve gotten fat… who’ve settled for the unholy combination of bulk hairspray and hungryman t.v. dinners.. you see their quarterback husbands on their flabby assses swillin Schmidts, Schaffer, Ole Milkwaukee…anything to make them forget their lousy jobs with the lousy bosses with the lousy pay…Reaching into your pocket you take out the used color condoms…the ones you used when fucking Ethan Hawke, Wesley Snipes, Sam Shepard, Mel Gibson… and throw them in their lousy faces…and then…and then…YOU LAUGH LONG AND HARD..MISSION ACCOMPLISHED…and then jump your rump back into the limo and vroomazoomzoom thru the hood some more..nearly running over me..That’s right me… the asshole who bummed the homework off ya…the maniac who swindled your milk money and swiped your comics…the hustlin homewrecker who ain’t wrapped to tight… the metal noise nigga who can’t afford a cuppa coffee…Black..no cream no sugar… Much less a refill…who is reduced to fantasizing about the sex me sound…tossing off in a gas station john and cornering strangers to rant & rave the

 

ROLLINS BAND

                                  I’m broken.

 

And that spacecadets is Life…Gets its triggerin figgerin on how it can prop your butt up.. way up…and wax that mass something fierce…Make you curse the eve your Pops frinned your Moms into that Texas sized Sealy…and worked that woven gem of high behind cotton…worked it til the steam of their grinding bodies bloacked out the sun… Bringin on a bitch of a new Ice Age…worked it til they conceived your pitifully broke too too tired behind…HA!…Life the original cocktease…the maximum fucking jive..

 

 

FAST FORWARD

 

Vigilantes of L.O.V.E.

“Thursday I Almost Went Home”

San Francisco 7.95

 

FRANKENMIND

                                    We needed a hit baaaaaad.

 

Jody’s dancing at Centerfolds had paid off well…After her first night of flesh or fantasy she came rushing into the bedroom…plounced on the mattress…manicured fists fulla cash…500 bux to be exact

 

JODY

(smiling)

                                      Look baby we can eat, look.

 

Yes excess of cash meant Sunday brunch at…OH ANY PLACE THAT WE WANTED TO SQUAT & GOBBLE….and other accessories like comix, candles, incense, and side walk shopped trinkets for our altar…a new religion that doesn’t have a name yet but trust me…WE ARE THE LORDS OF ACID…

 

NANCY

                                    Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiid

 

 

SID

                                     And I did it my way.

 

Jody was so happy…she could finally buy new platforms shoes…hit the Mac counter at Nordstrom’s…and I was so proud of her having braved thru the sex sex sex industry’s slanted door…a world I didn’t have the guts to explore in New Orleans..Yet all that money..all this money…makes me nervous…I feel less in control and more tired…I’ve fed my obsession betta with less and done less when I’ve had more…and with The Novel near completed and my Filofax a demon dusted labirynth of numbers, addresses, and names…the thrill kill was ready for the Mill Valley Saturday Mourning Pickup..

 

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT

                                   Take me to another place.

                                    Take me to another land

 

Pick me up…put me down..and I had to jam outta my Frankenmind to funeral march back in…been there done that…wanna do it again…Jenny was holding…not that we needed her…we just wanted to be around her positivity..buy something as trivial as pot is always easy…somebody knows somebody whose fucking somebody who knows some- body whose seeing somebody whose dealing..HELLO WE’RE LIVING ON THE HAIGHT…Not much waiting when you’re in the strikezone…yeah one, two, three, strikes you’re out..falling into Misery’s arms..while the tourists dine and wine the wave of terminal hip…picking their teeth with Visa…Gold in them there hills children… though in La La land…north or south…you’d betta have a company computer car…cause the latest media virus will cyberia right by ya..bye bye…and you’ll be walking talking to yourself

 

FRANKENMIND

                              Watch Mom my lips aren’t moving anymore and this sci-fi

                              Is made fact. And even if I die I’ll see ya on the other side.

                               And we’ll chit that chat in an invisible Cadillac after my

                               Blissful afternoon nap.

 

Having never paid for junk of any kind during Grey Purple Haze days..the da la soul street technique wasn’t so oleschooled as I’d like to fool me myself and I…besides one blad nigga in a black Maverick hat is rather conspicious…Maverick…sometimes I’m suspicious of myself…

 

GUY SMILEY

                                Is it memory or is it memorex?

 

SFX; ZOINK$!

 

And Upper Haight teems with The Man’s plain clothes cops…theys in ya hoods…Team Gap…best not trip in the trap of…

 

UNDERCOVER COP

                                 Hey man are you fixed?

 

Cause they’ll strap you with stripes…solitude your bugaloo…have your imprisioned ass making first class plates..pots, pans, …N.A.F.T.A. your nifty…one fuck up at a time… Save yourself with words from Sympathy For The Music Industry’s Sweetheart Of The Brady Bunch…

 

HELLFIRE CLUB

                                 Dance with the Devil.

 

Gonna get..Gonna get..Gonna get hiiiiiiiiiiiigh…Nissan Sentra Red…Jody and I raced to Jenny’s place…Door on the street opens to a magick garden..Outta the Mission into wonderland…It’s a Midsummer Shakes Pier On The Sound…on The Hudson…

 

NEMO

                                  There were only like ten people dancing when they opened for

                                  Iggy Pop…And one of them was me. Perry was wearing a tutu

                                  And damn this kinda Hollyweird.

 

JODY

                                  A movie I’d pay to see.

 

We abfabbed to the users friendly in the back…two chicks on the porch nestled in the trenches of hyperspace or just plain tired…greet us and in less time than the rock and roll

Eternal summer..The Pepboy Panther and Bad Moon Barbie have found what we’ve been looking for…greedily sparking the spliff parked in a porclein holder…

 

SFX; Ssssssuck SSSSSuck

 

JODY

                                  Smokin smokin ain’t no jokin cookin it.

 

The invisible give it to me now of the green kaybee enjoy toy sin..sinks in..slow motion fast track...passionate snowpony uzis the room morphing into a mudhoney womb of everything’s gonna be alright.. a cozy multicolored tribe called quest had a temporary reprieve from the bugsun speedstick nutri-100 ultrabrite…Jody was next to me.. trickery witchery…slickery lickery…thick soo thick..the girl’s so thick..

 

FRANKENMIND

                                   He means sexy babe

 

She was close but light years away…I’ve been forgotten..made an extra in her Urgent Girl duality…and I wanted my Milestone Hour Of Power…Its scary how she knows who she is..how she feels who she is..or pretends really fucking good…Breathlessly she draped an arm on my Lea Stotland custom designed leg..clasped my hand into hers… and we were bound to the mystical MacDowell Colony once more…Body electro pentium  hardrive..Snake id system upgrade…new hoodoo gurus on our website…I am she..she is me..

 

JIMI

                                      Are you experienced?

 

JENNY

                                       You guys look so good together.

 

ROCKY

                                        Damn good.

 

Poprockjunkshoptalktalkt.v. deathcycles Project Wax Trax Hangtime and we were itching to be alone..really alone…

 

FRANKENMIND

                                         The bigger the cushion

                                          The better the pushin

 

Nissssssssssssan Sentra Red…the ride home was nothing short of terrifying..unsettling.. Invasion Of Big Block Manmade reducing Mother Nature to nothing…Traffic machines prying eyes ripped chunks outta my psycharmor…Red Light…On the ave since ’82 is the urban outfitters of our rocky horror picture show pilgramage back to the two room cell.. three if you count the bathroom and the closet…Gradually Haight St. materialized…

 

NEMO

                                     There’s no where to park. Fuck

 

JODY

                                     I’ll find one. I always do.

 

Her naturally unfocused hocus pocus conjured an open space…

JODY

                                        Told ya. I’m so hooked.

 

Car parked with sighs of relief…Elated we staggered to the corner store…Needed some-thing to drink…Gotta think…Gotta make a selection..Look see the glittery river nile thru the jukebox glass… Egypt via Odwalla…No, Arizona Iced Tea cause its gotta gaudy palm tree label and I wanted us to zone somewhere other than San Francisco…besides

WE’RE SUCKERS FOR A GOOD AD CAMPAIGN…Clio award

 

SFX; Snap click snap click pop pop papazrazzi

 

NEMO

                                       Uh you’re gonna pay right?

 

And Jody gave that look of hers…the silent hey muthaphucka your Chocolate chunk is primetime tasty freeze but we all know you ain’t gotta quarter to call The Kingdom Hall.. and we laughed togther so hard…I fell on the floor clutching my sides…

 

RETRO VIA ROBOTS

                                  Release Release Release

 

It felt so good it hurt…then the Warrior’s Voice from beyond space and time knocked hard on my skinny puppy

 

DARK ATARI

(weilding thought gun)

                                Having a goodtime are we now. Real Nice. But don’t you

                                 Have some work to do.

 

SFX: Bwwwwoooooosh

 

And la dolce vita collapses

 

SFX; WWWrrrrrrwrrrrraaahphtttp

 

JODY

(concerned)

                                  What’s the matter? Are you alright?

 

NEMO

(wincing)

                                    Yeah

 

Meanwhile back at the Rent Ranch its no sarah chalfant wylie aiken &stoned shining ecstacy…strictly four walls eight windows..2.13.61

 

FERALHOUSE MANICDPRESS

(growling)

                                   So you two cosmic monkees consider yourself superstars

                                    Huh? We’ll see about that.

It seperated us…

 

FERALHOUSE MANICDPRESS

                                    Fees.

Crippled us.

 

FERALHOUSE MANICDPRESS

                                    Fights.

 

Wrecked us.

 

FERALHOUSE MANICDPRESS

                                     No Fun. I drink the blood of innocent ones.

 

What was unified mere moments ago has deteriorated us and I was losing Jody to the sting in her tail she likes to swing..Thrivin Scorpio Horizon Scorpio Rising…her running with wolves siren is a roar stifled by Reality…100 % pure pagan love caught in the parental advisory middle of class…a neverending knightmare before and after christmas..

 

LOCK STOCK & BARREL

                                      Kidnap The Santy Claws. Lock him in a trunk.

 

Jody threw over a menu…Oriental gormet…Phucket Thai…to go..of course..

 

JODY

                                      Order for me but I can’t say when I’ll be back.

 

Jody’s gotta modern jazz and she’s gonna do it without my sayso…I burned patcholi kneeled before the altar and prayed to Papa Legba too carry my just what I needed safetly to her destination…and then…sooner rather than later…I fell apart..

 

JANE’S ADDICTION

                                I’m in the midst of a trauma

                                Leave a message I’ll call you back

 

Subagents phone…Mysterious men in X…subagents clone…multiply divide expand… Helmeted heaps rise and capsize…going down…going down…going under…multiply divide expand…The Lord was my light…Now factory psalms were gonna eradicate the plan...Unglamorous tremerous whose side ya on snort contort…cymbals mistakes of youth…sssssssshudder and sha sha shaaake….paranoia self destroyia…wwwwwarp speed….wwwwwwarp speed…..waaaaaaarp speed….The Inner Muse’s sick sick sick strips me nude…relects the rude zoomania…and I stared at each piece… pigeon shit.. each piece..dog vomit…each piece…I want each piece…The apartment ceiling pissed a whiz of grey abuse you…every single drop splattered a new republic…revolting tales of tiny succulent loopgurus swirling swimmin swallowin..vibrating vortex of purrrrrrrfect sight and hounds Of Baskerville…exploding behind implausible implosions gasp and grasp my too much check this out…its like that…and that’s the way it is broadcast on the wicked witch wide scream t.v….soo many channels…soo many episodes…which version of me bananasplits will finally be free…the sadness the gladness all need to swarm into one…and the only fool hip enough to tip the flask all the way back is Rosemary’s baby..

 

ELECTRIC HELLFIRE CLUB

                                     In the name of Satan

 

And right now it isn’t me…

FERALHOUSE MANICDPRESS

                             This is end by friend. There’s no place to hide from trouble

                              Town’s eightball…this is the end my friend and no one gets

                             Out alive.

 

I managed to ring my Dad…Trip answered the phone and he sensed I was about to cut my throat with burnbabyburn…Thunderstorm lightening stikes accompany the anguish in my voice…Illuminating a remembering…1..2…3…YO!…Here weee I gotta go west… and be what there is to see…A project of a mad mod scientist and the only  way to make it work is to drink the formula…

 

SFX; Guzzle guzzle AAAARRRGH!

 

Looky here I’m your

 

PATTI SMITH

                                               rocknrollnigga…

 

Though Trip knew something was awry in the lab..I had gonzo’d too far..and dug my own grave…and was about to bury myelf completely…Dad got on next..in the last three years he never talked to me when I’ve called…never wanted to face The Human Race Traitor…never wanted to admitThe Dignified Devil was a product of his loins… Its always been his pride..his arrogance…his condensation…yet now its his compassion…

 

DAD

                                    Where are you?

 

NEMO

                                      San Francisco

 

DAD

                                   Who are you with?

 

NEMO

                                 A girl. Jody. Dad is this the end?

 

DAD

                                 What do you mean?

 

NEMO

                                  The end. Armageddon.

 

I drift off into gobbledeegook…his voice brings me back..his voice carries me back to

Spideyman and Scooterpies…

 

 

DAD

                                  What’s going on?

 

NEMO

                                    They’re gonna kill me.

 

DAD

                                   Who?

 

NEMO

                                    Them.

 

DAD

                                    Whose them?

 

NEMO

                                      The government.

 

DAD

                                    Why?

 

NEMO

                                     I think for myself.

 

DAD

                                      Where are you?

 

NEMO

                                      San Francisco.

 

DAD

                                    No, the address.

 

 

NEMO

                                     It’s on Haight St.

 

DAD

                                       Tell me the number.

 

NEMO

                                     Why?

 

DAD

                                     There’s a storm here. I’m gonna have to call you back

 

NEMO

                                     415 626… No, you’re gonna call them. Tell em where

                                     I am.

 

DAD

                                     Nobody’s gonna do that. What have you been doing?

 

NEMO

                                     Writing.

 

DAD

                                     Is that all?

 

NEMO

                                      Yeah.

 

DAD

                                     That’s not good. You need something else.

 

NEMO

                                       I know.

 

DAD

                                       Let me have the number.

 

NEMO

                                       415…No Dad I gotta go. I gottago.

 

I hung up the phone…head spinning and I’m spreadeagled on the floor…the windows beckoned  me…”Get it over with”…wide scream t.v….the windows beckoned me…”Go Ahead”…wide scream t.v….the windows beckoned me “ Just do it”… wide scream t.v…

Its real this time…all the channels had coverged into one tragic transmission… I should have been more careful of what I asked for…sometimes you twinkle twinkle lil star and if your genetics fit The Grand Designer’s jeans…you no longer have to wonder how far away it is…

 

SFX; Brrrrring

 

NEMO

                                      Hello.

 

JODY

                                      Baby it’s me. I’m sorry about earlier. I just had to go.

                                       Are you alright?

 

 

NEMO

                                     No I’m I’m I need you. Can you come home?

 

JODY

                                     Nemo, I’m in the middle of dance class.

 

NEMO

                                     I miss you. I love you.

 

JODY

                                      Oh baby I love you too. I’ll see if I can leave earlier.

                                      I love you bye.

 

SFX: Click eeeeeeeeeeeent

 

FERALHOUSE MANICDPRESS

                                    Can’t you see Jody’s a trap. She’s weigh ya down. You

                                     Don’t need her anymore. Take the Powerbook and go

 

And go again…go again…losing myself in the world’s neverwhere is all I’ve known for years…and I was to tired to continue…some part of me though stood tall and I crawled to the closet and carefully devoted scoobyvoodoo to

 

SAGE

                                     Still one place to go.

 

Sage was playing further up Haight St that evening at Nightcrawlers..maybe I could get outta this deafening pool of blue…maybe I connect to their 7th Standard Road and catch a ride back to Seattle…cause you know at one point in our lives…

 

SAGE

                                      We all fall down.

 

I grabbed the 145 and stormed out into the street and as I trudged up the hill… I scanned a few gutterpunks squatting in the park..Mindlessly plopping down I gradually conversed about My Suicide States Of MindLife In With The Out Crowd….and they told me to foregt about seeing Sage and go back home to JodyCat

 

GUTTERPUNK GIRL

                               Cause you can’t go it alone in The Twilight Zone. And

                                The biggest mistake you make is Love.

 

And I listened to That Nameless Girl…I PAID ATTENTION…MAYBE YOU SHOULD TOO…and further down the lower end of Haight…A Nissssssan Sentra Red squealed to sudden stop…Jody flew out and buried me with her caring arms…and its all undescribable at this point…and its all undescribable at this point…so why don’t we

 

FADE TO BLACK

 

REWIND

 

Odds & Endsville

“WUZ”

Norwalk, CT. 1.92

 

Way Way back when…in a time best forgot…there was a homie thinkhead named Nigga pleez and he was doing the Yo!homestead thang in a hood named Greentown..It was an amazingly selfrighteous suburban hole of ShoNuff ( The Land Outside Da Groove Of History) a superstoopid firstclass joint…chockfulla trees, flowers, and satellite dishes tha did a phat job of fronting for all the bitchin backstabbin and illegal lawn mower racing that was going on..You’d best  believe this crazy shitload of green growth made the solid citizens content with their cruise control jobs, kojack reruns, and chowdown voyages hosted by Chef Boyardee…But hold on ta ya hoz y’all…there dwelled other growth in town that wasn’t of the green variety which had succeeded at putting Greentown in the mo money…It was Mr. Dagwood Dakotas awardwinning wart, Agammenon…Aggie to his posse..”Boy!” to his Moms…who kicked back underneath her simulated wood grain deck and was rumored to have sung back up vocals for The Supremes and was living extremely large off the royalties…Yet we’re getting ahead of ourselves here..first more facts concerning my bruthaman Niggapleez…

 

Niggapleez was a whacked lad clad in plaid Toughskins and bobo..prone to colds, fevers, boils and rashes whenever Beethoven’s Fifth symphoney was cranked over the spacey sky waves…And since it happened to be Greentwon’s unofficial anthemn of sorts meant at any given time the locals and overySonyied tourists witnessed him squirming like a crushed roach on the main sunset boogievard…hiccuping and spewing as if his butt had been hit by the spirit..mumbling the whole time about Creamed Blueberry Codfish On A Stick And Chrome Toasters Impersonating Sinatra ..you know holding up traffic and making a general nuisance of himself…Besides Niggapleez was so damned nice “Wudd- uppin” everyone and everything while he made trax to Greentwon’s Gigantic Halfpriced Bookbin early each morning…And if it’s one thing that gets taxpayers balls in a bind.. It’s having a punctual wellread nonpaying libertine mouthing highpitched salutations before they’ve had a chance to swallow a gallon of Taster’s Choice, fl;og the paperboy and finger a fellow motorist…so its’ obvious as the day is long and the bass is strong… Niggapleez was on everybody’s shit list and at the tippety tippety top too..

 

Our story begins one June Greentown as Niggapleez was browsing thru the massive book

Bin …casually searching for his llong lost Celine fotonovel..when his noggin was beaned by a wayward book…Pickin it up, he discovered it was a hefty volume of Greentown’s history at the plain insane price of “Please SomeBody Anybody Take This Pompous Twaddle Off My Hands”…And being of sound mind and no money that’s exactly what our hero did…The dood was buttugly, Nintendoless and couldn’t electricslide to save his life..but he knew a bargain whenever he was brilliantly popped by one…Sitting by the town’s atomic powered portable potty…counting the twoheaded tots whizzing by on Big Wheels…Niggapleez remembered The Book, promptly reading it from cover to cover… Twelve months and one fixed election later, he finished, had a nice lil fit and hustled off to see The City Council.

 

And wouldn’t ya know it they were right in the middle of important City Council matters..roughing up citizens delinquent in renewing their yodeling licenses, declaring everyday Hudson Bros. Day and other highminded political procedures between Diet Shasta runs to 7-11…so they weren’t at all thrilled to see Niggapleez about to be starting something in their Arena Of Inventive AssKissing..otherwise known as City Hall.. Any- way this snaggledtoothed trogg has a serious rep…Niggapleez informed them he had something straightup to say and City Council let him have the floor..if not to listen..at least to distract him from noticing any of the umpteen payofss during the scandalous proceedings…According to The Big Black Book Greentown had endured a major drought centuries before and Niggapleez prophecied it was gonna reoccur right about… well like now already…

 

With a sigh of relief, City Council leaned back in their Lazyboys and farted with glee.. They laughed themselves stupid, totally dissin my man for not believin’ “ Such Blantant Hogwash And General Tomfoolery” suggesting that “ Steady Employment Often Deterred The Common Man From Being A Ready Victim Of Such Propaganda And Silly Superstitions”…With that said they motioned for the baliffs, who snatched the rest of Niggapleez’s roastbeef bazooka and showed his raggedy butt the door…And as Fate  would have it…

 

FOO FIGHTERS

There goes my hero

 

His warning went unheeded…

 

FOO FIGHTERS

There goes my hero

 

The townsfolk continued with their fabulously wet pool parties…the brats left their Slip and Slides on high 24 hours a day and everybody still washed their Twin Engined Gnbus each weekend when once a month was fine…And if ya know your Fractured Fairytales or have been dragged to Sunday School once too often I’m sure you can figure out who came to dinner…that’s right Doom pulled up to the hood in his gold Eldorado and decided to hang for a while…Meaning the rain stopped flowing and Greentown shriveled to shit.

 

Now that brings us back to Mrs Dagwood Dakotas awardwinning wart Agammenon… Awardwinning being the signal for every sucka in the vicinity to try and get their grubby paws on whatever it is you’ve got or at least take a peek and pooh pooh it to death… The Dagwood Dakotas were a mean bunch of so and sos…Ungrateful for all the cash Agammenon’s talent had sent their way…The Mrs. blaming him cause Mr. Dakota had sold their antigue Tupperware and had invested the proceeds in Therapeutic Fingerpaint-ing For Balding CEO types…which hadn’t taken off as well as projected…Their kids, Camp and Lucious being the worst of all…Whenever he tried to play his Flintstones l.p. and chill…they would stand in their p.j.s and screech “ Aggie, you’re hopelessly behind the times. It’s the Simpsons these days, the Simpsons you sot”…What the draught did was dry Agammenon out a bit more each day until he was a pale shadow of his former self which put The Fear Of God into The Dagwood Dakotas  for they hadn’t earned a honest nickle in ages…If pooe Aggie dried out so would their highrollers lifestyle…No more Blockbuster Video, Taco Bell or glorious Saturdays spent entombed in the bowels of Walmart hunting bargains on Hot Buttered Viking Piffle…Often they would endure the lonely and moneyless days cowering in the den…(Aggie didn’t have Direct Deposit and was too weak to get to the bank)…watching CNN waiting for The Rapture that they were convinced would surely come and rescue them from this predicament, despite the courageous pronouncement by Mr. Dakota, come what may he wasn’t gonna leave for No Hereafter without his Buick…

 

The rest of Greentown was in an uproar was well…the lack of cheery greenery caused the good people to dog one another more than usual…What with The Daughters Of The Revolution sponsoring debauched Weekend Nookie Fets, liquored teens doing donuts on The Temple Of Tony Randal’s front lawn, and Liberaced housewives in the streets with- out their supporthose praching the benefits of  wash ‘n wear rayon, it was serious chaos you dig?…How did City Council handle this?…Did they hang their collective heads in shame, admit they had pulled a boner and strive to correct the problem…Sorta…They decided to be extremely generous and blame the whole situation on Niggapleez even convincing the populace to kwikly sacrifice him to Something Or Other and appease whatever Heavenly Ballbuster that had been offended…

 

The only snag in the plan was Niggapleez had caught wind of their ohsosecret scheme and had inconviently split town and was bunkered in his Crib Of Solidtood…trying his darndest to arrive at a solution…He was attempting to vizz the last of Strange Brew while fiddling around with his chemistry set when BLAMMO! The answer hit him harder than King Kong kissing the concrete…A certain mixture of chemicals, proteins, and conteins had to be introduced High In The Sky in order to induce rainfall…Yet the procedure was so precarious Niggapleez could not allow for any mistakes…Instead of using a weather-

Ballon he would have to utilize himself..It wasn’t like he had this overwhelming love for the people of Greentown…Fuck No…He just happened to be reeeeeeeeeeeal tight with Agammenon and Niggapleez refused to stand by and watch his homie suffer…It was that simple…

 

Their relationship had jumpstarted a few years ago…Niggapleez had dropped by The Dagwood Dakotas to borrow a cup of sugar and a G-spot…Thinkin no one was home… having spotted him they had expertly blended in with the shag carpeting…he had scurried round back and began a debate with Agammenon about The Use Of Shock Therapy In The Treatment Of Stubborn Teenage Acne..Niggapleez hadn’t been swayed by his argue- ments against it though they had shared an eggyolk sandwich becoming faster friends when Aggie passed over the bucks…Yup it was for the sake of that dry morsel gummed amid the flowering blossom of Bosom Buddyship that he willingly sacrificed himself… Besides Death rendered all debts null and void..

 

Clueless about exactly what ingredients were needed…Niggapleez plundered thru the cabinets and guzzled everything in sight…Liters Of Coke and Drain-o..jugs of cod liver oil, turpentine and Yoohoo..buckets of Nivea skin lotion, keroscene and Southern Comfort…and when his gut swooshed to capacity…it was time for Monsta Payback… Fearlessly strapping himself too 500 Fourth Of July rocket thingamabobz…Niggapleez zoned to the flipside of The Ramones, “End Of The Century”, thanked AmeriKKKA for Phil Spector, Dr. Scholls, and the unspeedy due process of The Law…turned to his faithful Teddy Ruxpin and signaled to “Let Er Rip”..and as the fuse was hastily lit, his hamsters in the playrrom could hear him bellow “ I Love The Smell Of Afrosheen In The Morning”…In no time at all Niggapleez was outta there…

 

FOO FIGHTERS

                                    There goes my hero

 

Calmly wondering if he had canceled his home delivery of The Times…when KAA-BLOOEY! And HE WUZ…Within minutes the rain gushed outta the heavens as if a Quadrillion Airborne Pregnant Hippos Were Simultaneously Breaking Water…giving Greentown a good drenching and the entire populace triumphant bouts of wallapoohlunga Itching Fever…and faster than you could take a dump, everything was beautiful once more…There were the fabulously wet pool parties and once again the ignorant scab-covered children left their Slip and Slides on high 24 hours a day…One could never tell Greentown had come this close to extinction…everything had returned to normal…

 

Except for The Dagwood Dakotas…what happened was the first rainfall mixed with Niggapleez’s weird science shake had increased the size and strength of his homie many times over…And that night as The Dagwood Dakotas were sleeping off their meatloaf… Aggie did a bit of consuming himself…and after flosiing he clocked a few zzzzzz…. Dreaming of his new life as an NBC intern…the phonograph defiantly blaring “Do The Bedrock’…

 

REWIND

 

Euro-A-Go-Go

“Pure Genius, Frightening And Hilarious- LA Weekly”

Madrid Spain 10.88

 

Due to a considerable lack of pesetas I returned to the pension early…hopped on my dorm bunk…and started reading more of this Faulkner bio, since my copy of Sancturay is a zillion miles away in Sandy’s apartment…Page after page legitimizing The Universal Theory that authors are rather eccentric cats….Look at me for instance…I haven’t even finished college…betta yet,I haven’t really attempted college…and here I am galavanting round Europe like a priveleged brat…Funny how even though Kerouac and Faulkner’s families thought the lads were most definitely off the wall…they never completely gave up on them like my family…I’m not a saint…never have been but I’m not a total waste of human flesh..Problem is they don’t believe in me or my abilities…which I have to agree are pretty minimal at this point…

 

Outback Champagne

                                  Punksong in my Polo pants

                                  Wool double pleated

                                  Cool Superbeasted

                                  Wasted

                                  Wasted

                                  Fucking Wasted

 

                                  Graverobbing MGM

                                  Musical Ziegfield Girl

                                  Rules are bullshit in her world

                                  Hatred

                                  Hatred

                                  Fucking hatred

 

                                  Get outta my studio

                                  I’ve had enough of your fakeness

                                  My reality you can’t avoid

                                  Face It

                                  Taste It

                                  I’m not your nigger boy

                                  Wasted

                                  Wasted

                                  Fucking wasted

                                  Geetar solo shoved up your first class

                                  Deceptive door

                                  Creating epics of war

                                   Kicking your corporate ass

 

Fast Forward

NEMO

(to Heather at The Breakroom)

Kurt Cobain Will Have His Revenge On Rob Zombie!

 

REWIND

 

Nothing But Lipstick

“Jesse Chauffer & The Cheap Leisure Suits”

Columbia, South Carolina   11.87

 

Like Wow…I left the Mepps Station at noon…and it was no van for this beastie boy… Limo baby limo…Chaueffed by an older black dood named Jesse…..in a Cadillac no less…Alan’s kinda ride…and the only other passenger was this chick Ayenne who had been staying at the Mystic Hilton…

 

NEMO

                                Doing what?

 

AYENNE

                                  Working on the art design for “Mystic Pizza” It’s your

                                 Basic teenage coming of age movie. Done by the same

                                 Production team that made “Dirty Dancing”. I’m sure it’ll

                                 Make alotta money.

 

 

Ayenne had been an undergraduate at Rutger’s then studied at USC’s film school..

Now she was living in L.A…I was like “Holyshit a Wish They Could All Be California Girl In The Industry. She Knows Everything”..

 

NEMO

                                      What about Spike Lee?

 

AYENNE

                                        That dude thinks he’s so righteous

 

NEMO

                                        Less Than Zero?

 

AYENNE

                                        Strictly an L.A. thing

 

NEMO

                                         Red Hot Chili Peppers

 

AYENNE

                                  I dig their sound though they’ve been terrorizing

                                  Hollywood for a long while

 

NEMO

                                    Fishbone

 

AYENNE

                I know Angelo. Ha It’s funny. These are local boys and

                                    It’s strange to hear the kids out here talking about them

                                   Like gods.

 

NEMO

                                    Tisch School Of Arts.

 

AYENNE

                                    The movie kids at NYU deal with more unrealized paper

                                    Projects than real down in the dirt stuff, so when they graduate

                                    They think they’re big shit and in actuality they don’t know

                                    The difference between a camera and a handmike.

 

We lapsed into silence…Ayenne was getting antsy cause she was late meeting her parents at the MOMA and as soon as the limo puured up to 53rd & 5th…she bolted without even so much as a “Goodbye asshole”

 

FRANKENMIND

                                       AAAAh thank you Maaam may I have another?

                                        AAAAh thank you Maam may I have another?

 

NEMO

                                 Geez Jessie did you see that?

 

JESSE

                                  Son them industry people are all the same. She didn’t

                                  Thinkof you  as a real person. You was her entertain-

                                   ment for the afternoon.  Don’t sweat it though, you got

                                   plans. And from the way you were talking I’m sure you’ll

                                  see em thru.

 

We arrived at La Guardia Airport at three and I eventually boarded…I had never been on a plane before and me stomach was churning its own paisley parade…

 

PRINCE

                                     My tambourine.

 

Rebecca’s right though it wasn’t half bad…Not as bad as my other pains…The night before I barely survived major Becca withdrawals..so at 6:00 am I called…Alan and Regina would still be asleep but I didn’t give a shit…the sweet polly Purebred Incarnate answered and we “talked”…

 

NEMO & REBECCA

                                         I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU

 

Not too original but my so fucking lonely was fixed…later on that day I got hit with em again so I called Stamford High and had Rebecca paged…Posing as her cousin Steven Plumb from Boston I said I needed to tell her where to meet meet me after getting off Amtrack…AND IT WORKED…Sorta…Since she wasn’t in class….I wasn’t surprised in the least….Wish I was going to Boston with her…She has an interview at Bentley…I’m sure she’ll do extremely well…Becca’s The Bride Of Wally Cleaver timewarped to the eighties…her love of the drink thrown in for character…ohyeah Alan likes me… For some reason he’s been hohohumabout me since my return from Massachusetts…He’s done the Army deed so I figured I’d score a few points when I was heading for Fort Jackson…

 

ALAN

(washing dishes)

                                  That’s nice.

 

Maybe he and Regina think I made love to Rebecca and resent me for defiling their lil girl…I need to stop trying to have them like me…I’ll never measure up…No one could unless He was God…and knowing those two, they’d still would have their doubts…

 

ALAN

                                    Sounds good but…

 

REGINA

                                     Have you ever considered pursuing something more

                                     Stable like insurance?

 

ALAN

                                     Or real estate?

 

Landed at Charleston SC…and within 10 minutes I heard the word “Nigger” uttered…

I was in the john…and a few good ole boys Milwaukee Best their way in disguised a business men in their Cheap Leisure Suits…

 

CHEAP LEISURE SUIT

                                       That nigga’s all fucked up.

 

Though they got real quiet when they saw me…slurring some bs between them..

 

CHEAP LEISURE SUITS

                                         Har har har har har har

 

FRANKENMIND

                                       Suck my root yahooz

 

Arrived at the military reception where I met…Sgt Hunt…

 

SGT HUNT

                                     Are you traveling alone private?

 

NEMO

                                       Yeah

 

 

SGT. HUNT

(yelling)

                                      What? Its yes Sgt and don’t let me have to remind you again.

 

Damn, it’s gonna be a long five weeks.

 

FAST FORWARD

 

MotoDegenerate

“Genuine Draft”

L.A. CA, 9.94

 

Theme music please..La La La I don’t have to go to work today…La La La I don’t have to go to work today…Slept outside last night…Knew that was bound to happen…Work that concrete girl…Shredded the enevelope but I couldn’t make it to Francesca’s place in Studio City…like she’d let me stay there anyway…and I had no means of contacting Uncle Phil…I only have his business number and address…Just how he likes it…

 

THE GETO BOYS

                                                 Fuck you.

 

A couple guys I befriended at the Cheveron Station led me to a parking lot besides the The Lumber King and I crashed hard in my sleeping bag….Warpdeemon dreaming about meeting The Flintstones in Tinseltown…It was a family reunion and HA Francesca was

Pebbles…Rubble Rubble…Hey I wanna be a Flintstone…I wanna be part of The Stone Age Family…I wanna dinosuar for a dawg…I wanna make The Beast move with my feet…And I want Wilma for my Moms…And Fred for My Pops…I mean I have a dad or rather had one..

 

JANE’S ADDICTION

                                            Had A Dad

                                            He was brave and strong

 

Then Edgar axed the b-ball and hit the green all day long…so it’s Fred’s turn…Give the guy a go…And why the hell not?…What’s Freddieboy gonna say when you flunk outta Bedrock High and start flipping Brontoburgers at Mickey Deez B.C….Nothing Nada.. Not a single word…Cause he’s schleppin rocks, gratin gravel and even if he forgets him- self after one cold filtered kickapoobrew too many and shouts “ Junior get in gear”…Hit him where it hurts with a “Yo Fred why don’t you, you’ve got boulders to move”…Easy does it though …Hold on for a sec…It ‘s not like that…Fred’s gnarly…He lets you hang at the Water Buffalo Lodge…Get tanked and rag on Mr. Slate…Play practical jokes on Barney…Fred tells you his football war stories and his lousy fucking jokes…You laugh conviently…He spots you fists fulla clams and the keys to the sedan go-cart…It’s a simple arrangement…No fuss no muss…Crooze control family atmosphere..No spew about achievement, GPAs, mergers, aquistions…It’s low calorie artificially flavored junk

Food jive that’s butta on your brainium…You’ve got no expectation to live up to…No noise from the Ole Man cause…FRED’S OUTTA SHAPE…OUTTA STYLE…AND PERMANENTLY OUT TO LUNCH…AND YOU KNOW HE KNOWS YOU KNOW HE’S A FUCKING BUM…JANITORIUS GRANITUS…end of story…end of discussion…

 

System Interruption System Interruption

 

Editor’s Note: The Author Is  Getting Blitzed Again In The Breakroom blasting Rob Zombie’s “Superbeast” and I- Spies Justin Hampton Seattle’s Graphic Artist Extra-ordinare having a loooooooooooong conversation on the payphone and wonders aloud who he’s calling…Justin can’t be ordering pizza from Piecora’s its just across the street….hmmmmmmmmmmm

 

GUNS & ROSES

                                Welcome To The Jungle.

 

Well the real reason I wanna antichrist superstar with The Yabba Dabba doo crew is to unleash sofa sabatoge kyota song with that Lolita in leopard skins Pebbles…Ain’t nothing prehistoric about those curves…Sabertooth tiger wrapped mantrap…Perfection in warm pantherette…Yeah perfection…Cause she’s a bitching camaro cartoon and if I can’t get a make believe bitch behaving the way she should…Loving me and only me.. it’s back to the drawing board…Literally…and if Bamm-Bamm tries to sweat me.. one phone call to The Lost Boys and his junk supply is thru…over and out…No more plungin in the spike before football practice…he’ll have to taste the pain the same way I do…the hard way…yeah Bamm Bamm was on steroids…nobody but nobody can right down Dark Atari’s alley without a few injections…and obviously Bamm Bamm slipped Pebbles the right one…the hot beef injection…the magnificent meat erection…the exploration of the primetime poontang with a slammin slab of Sir Loin…Bamm Bamm.. beefcake for hire…boytoy to enjoy next to the fire…Brute on a string pleasing Ms. Thang…uh-huh Pebbles knows it pays to ride the best…she’s a stoneage riotgrrl…the four color prequel to Kathleen Hanna and Pebble’s hip to The Secret Of Life…You Gotta ScoobyDoo Whatcha Gotta ScoobyDoo And Joan Jett whatcha gotta Joan Jett When You Can Joan Jett it..Pebbles takes what she wants and nothing else…okay maybe a lil bit more than most…But she figures if the other bitches can’t hold on to their bone machines …it’s their fucking problem…No wait, that’s it…they wish they had one…Pebbles wants her cake and to eat it too…and why not?…she works hard, plays hard and damn she’s gonna come hard so nobody betta get in her way…My kinda gal…Call me a neandrathal if ya wanna but I don’t understand why Fred tolerated Bamm Bamm shopping his home network…Didn’t he have a clue to those stolen red hot moments to quake the quarry.. Didn’t he catch the slightest whiff of wham Bamm Bamm when Pebbles crippled back to the crib wildeyed and woolymammothed…but hey I’m forgetting this ain’t no Father Knows Best…It’s Fred the schmuck who could care less and there’s no chance in hell he’s gonna pry his fat ass off that Lazyboy Posture Pathetic and investigate….No way, He’s too busy bustin a nut, spewing nonsense in my zone..and I’m tellin ya if I’m forced to watch him wiggle “Do The Bedrock” one more time…Dino’s behind is gonna receive the rudeboy rewind…NEMO PUNTS…NEMO SCORES…

 

Mickey Deez is the fastest..BK’s hashbrowns are the best…But the bitchinest breakfast joint betta than all the rest is…the envelope please….Denny’s…$1.99 right on dine… I’m tellin ya one thing that’s gotta stop is every Tom, Dick, and Jane killin my buzz by relatin their own motorpsycho mishaps…

 

WESTERN DRAWL

                               Ya know my Daddy totaled his Harley when he ran over a dog

 

Gee thanks Mavis, I appreciate you takin the time out but ask yourself this one question.. “Do you think I wanna hear that right about now?”…

 

 

ACDC

                                                    I’m on the highway to hell

 

The doomsayers are everywhere..

 

ACDC

                                                     Highway to hell

 

See them keep on keeping on, watching the skies…hands gripped to The Word Of God desirious to see the road ripped from under you….See you frenchkiss the asphalt… so you can be stuck in the mud for the remainder of his badmotofinger…coveting corpses of fantasies stolen…greedy to see you make the same mistake…sucking wind..dreams hauled away kicking and screaming….Never to be able to conceive the sheen of realiz-ation…the doomsayers are everywhere…Like the Pollyanna Apostle who cornered me in San Miguel, wasting my precious time…time I want to squander on my own sayso.. why do you think I’m on the road….daaaaaaaaahling….she went on to gloat how her daughter survived after crashing into farm machinery, gleefully relatin how it chewed her up and spit out the remains…suggesting it might be dangerous to entertain my movable feast..

 

FRANKENMIND

                                  Dangerous Dangerous D-D-Dangerous hmmm is that all?

                                  Time to break out the word wealth. It’s risky, it’s chancy

                                   It’s hairy, it’s perilous, it’s hazardous and exactly the way

                                  I want it to be MAAAAAAAAAM

 

Shit, I’m not like her daughter…jumping on a bike she didn’t know how to man…what did the dumbass expect?…That the spirit of Herbie The Love Bug was gonna guide her thru the chitty chitty bang bang…

 

SFX: Eeeeeent

 

GUY SMILEY

                                         Try again contestant

 

If your head’s still attached to the rest of ya…and good gried The Pollyanna Apostle wasn’t finished…not by a long shot…I baked in the bright desert sun while she droned on…how she and her husband had cheated Death outta obtaining more knuckleheads when the backtire blew on their motorpsycho…weaving all over The Interstate and miraculously she had time to…

 

POLLYANNA APOSTLE

                                      Call out the name of Jesus

 

And goshgeewilkers the heavens parted and a kool beam of righteousness guided them to safety…I was trying to figure out why the hell she felt inspired to bore me with this sermon…Did she think I was gonna see the error of my ways, repent and join her cult of cuddly christianity…Maam I don’t give a bloody fuck about you your daughter your husband, your poor excuse of a life..HELLO…I just wanna get some gas and get gone… give me some money or go fuck yourself…It’s got me thinking of this Denny’s situation..

Is the hired help this courteous and appreciative of my patronage?…or does that law suit the administration got slammed with by African American families and secret service men have anything to do with it?….Shucks a few of the franchises weren’t serving us with a smile or for that matter…at all…Bottle up racism…whip it into the sea… and abracadabra whuddayaknow here it comes again…screwing you, screwing me,…Equality everyone’s continually talking about it, examining it, analysing it….

 

RODNEY KING

                                      Can’t we get along?

 

SFX; BLAM BLAM BLAM

 

Next question…NEXT…Cause equality is no where to be seen…it’s pulling a major Houdini…A serious David Copperfield…Sorta like the trick Snufaluffagus was working on Sesame Street…Remember him?…Big Bird’s friend…His ten storey furry friend… They play tag, studpoker, checkers, parcheesi, chutes and fucking ladders..whatever.. you get the idea, they’re bosom buddies…Big Bird’s always bragging about him…Problem is nobody else has seen him…No Bob, Not Maria, Not the Deaf Chick…Big Bird gets a rap

…He’s a liar, a con…The huge yellow dood’s on dope….on crack, shooting smack along with Layne Staley, leadsinger of Alice In Chains..Wrong more like Alice In A Serious Stupor…Big Bird gets a new playmate..It’s called Monkey On My Back…It’s a long hard fall to the bottom..the rockbottom…he’s evicted outta his nest…He’s gotta shack up with Oscar The Grouch…Big Bird’s gotta deal with his noise, his moods, his ranting and raving…Oscar’s wiggin out…Why?…he’s a manic depressant, a fucking maniac…One second he’s up…the next he’s down…and there’s no relief in sight cause his ass can’t handle Prozac…and on top of all that, there’s Oscar’s girlfriend..Prunella…Riotbitch from hell…Riotbitch with an attitude…Riotbitch with no job….Girlygirl trying to be so Fifth Ave…and she’s two steps from livin on the corner in a KFC box…shit, she’s cribb-in in a trashcan so she doesn’t have that far to fall..We’re talkin the Major Leagues Of Bitchdom…a heavyhitter…like usually in the crotch…Why?…cause she’s a bitch… It’s her way of Life…Her mode of go…It’s what gets her thru the day…Besides he’s the former big kahuna Big Bird and he’s crashing on her couch..Him and his monkey both smacked outta their minds…He’s in no condition to retaliate..No condition to just say no when Prunella puts the moves on him…No condition to get it up and perform the way she likes it…HARD…So Prunella’s insulted…she lies to Oscar about the shituation..Big Bird's out on his ear, on the sidewalk, sucking down Metadone talking about his Wonder Years..yeah that’s the real Seasame Street…the one that happens right after you turn the t.v. off…shit I gotta break…I need to get to Landmark Entertainment before noon… and I’ve never been in North Hollywood before…

 

FAST FORWARD

 

Vigilantes Of L.O.V.E.

“Jane Sez But Romeo Still Bleeds”

Todos Santos, Baja CA 9.95

 

Back in San Francisco today…Greaseball…The Annual Rockabilly Festival is underway at DNA…2pm til late….with tons of bands like Flathead…Deadbolt…Billy Bacon and The Forbidden Pigs…Haunted Hayride…plus hotrods, hairdos, tattoos, beer, food, even more beer, guest djs, even more beer…and I’m copying this right off the handbill I took from Villians…so don’t think I’m trying to be so damn clever clever…I mean…I AM…

But not this time out…and of course it’s just my luck that the summer’s bitchinest show is gonna rage when Jody and I are way the fuck outta town…Todos Santos…Todos Santos…Todos Santos…

 

FRANKENMIND

                                   It’s all a circle. It’s all a line. Deep Space Nine.

 

Like the rewind I escaped the Wylds of Suburbia and snaked to Amsterdam only to discover Jane’s Addiction had wurmed mad magick in highstyley a few daze before.. But it was okay cause my Future Lord Machine had seriously o.d.’d on the band in the United States Of Hysteria…having vizzed their sold out show at The Ritz…the day before or after Thanksgiving….I was amped up ready to let the freak fly….Pumped up…ready to be…

 

JANE’S ADDICTION

                                    Oceansize.

 

Tons of Jill and Jonny Come Latelys were squatting outside trying to jockey the jazz… doing that Grateful Dead thang jammin scammin for a miracle ticket…and I hope all the deadheads enjoyed those freewheelin zoom to zoom follies cause now The Ticketmaster has fallen from The Wall…And all the King’s Horses and all the King’s men can’t take a dump cause the TNT has blown away the stall…

 

R.E.M.

                                     Dream Dream Dream

 

Though I suspect they haven’t buried Garcia…but rather have his bulging corpse…Made of Elvis…Shades Of Elvis…stashed away in the hills of San Rafael…bolted to the best THX some 20 odd years of

 

NEMO

                                  Jody what’s the name of that Grateful Dead song?

 

JODY

                                I don’t even know. That’s how much I’m not into them.

 

 

NEMO

                                   Oh

 

JODY

                                 Sorry baby it’s just that this book is getting real good.

                                 Lestat just killed these two girls.

 

Is her reply and resumes reading the vampire interviews…turning a slow page…okay, let me try this again…His bulging corpse bolted to the best THX some 20 odd years of…

TRUCKIN!…can buy…The stockholders of Warlock Inc hoping to megajolt him outta his peace and

 

TEACHER TEACHER

                                     Quiet!

 

And back on stage to keep the lucrative circus alive and well…”It’s a lie. It’s a lie” shrieks Frankenmind’s Monster but the villagers don’t give a bloody fuck…They need their hip hope hooray…They need their Jane Sez…

 

JANE’S ADDICTION

                                      Have you see my wig around?

                                       I feel naked without it.

 

The show’s betta than even I had intcipated…the Boys are crawling on the inside of the spider…Perry’s looking deliciously sinister…Black velvet jacket…black velvet black…

And he still has his dreads…though they aren’t Sigmund & The Seamonster green any more…but the slaap bootiful THWAAP! of faroff freaking space…

 

KROFFT SUPERSTAR ONE

                                     Hey Sid

 

 

KROFFT SUPERSTAR TWO

                                     Yeah Marty

 

KROFFT SUPERSTAR ONE

                                    I’m thinking of that Gary Oldman guy for the mooooovie.

 

So I’m standing near the bar being suburban goboybuff in my Bob Mould Black Sheets Of Rain tee..when my head’s whacked from behind…

 

SFX; KAAACHUNK

 

I turn around reeeeeeel fucking kwik…

 

FRANKENMIND

                                        This muthaphucka’s dead.

 

And HA! Its my kidbrutha Trip and he’s gunning that chesire cat grin of..

 

INGA

                                          Tag you’re it!

 

Trip tells me, he and his friend…Jason…a hulking white boy Hardware shelled out sixty bux a pop for tickets to this pleasure parade…He’s drunk off his ass and I’m speechless cause I haven’t seen him in ages…and I’ve never had the privelege to vizz him in public so handsome and unpredictable…though there’s no time for shock…Nothing I mean nothing is gonna get in our way…This is the storm we’ve been waiting for and we wanna take the first stab at its eye…Trip shoves the bottle of Smirnoff in the side pocket of his long bloo overcoat…its an Echo & The Bunnyman biz…

 

ETB

                                          Bring on the new messiah

                                          Whereever he may roam

 

And together we

 

SFX: STOMP STOMP STOMP

 

To the front of the stage…big black boots chantin’

 

TRIP & NEMO

                                         This ain’t no whiteboythang.

 

SFX; DOOM DOOM

 

TRIP & NEMO

                                           This ain’t no whiteboythang.

 

SFX; DOOM DOOM

 

Even though they try and make it so cause outta this overcapacity crowd in a popular New York venue…that used to be in the pulsating snatch of the not so portable lower eastside..and nows uptown Studio 54 dead and gone…Trip and I spy only three other weird niggas and they don’t count cause they won’t look us fool in the face like a weird nigga should…and if we constantly pondered the realdeal 411 we’d never have any fun...naaah we’re…

 

JANE’S ADDICTION

                                      Coming down the mountain

 

Midway thru the splendorous disease, Trip and I get seperated…Look around and found my brutha was no longer there…and I wasn’t too worried cause I knew from Grandma’s secondhand reports about his undivine wine late nite wanderings…that in all this insanity he could take care of himself…but still…Minutes later, I see the burly bruiseboys pummeling a stoopid skatenik cause he tried to rush the stage…You say kid…I say cowboy…and they squit squit mash him out the side door and I could barely see him thru the brutal action of their white fists…and it ain’t til the circus is over and the phaat lady sings...killer new techno track...killer new techno track.…15 million Peckinpahs per second…that I met up with Trip outside…Sweaty and defiant he tells me The Cowboy was him…and not only had the bruiseboys thrown him out before he could climax.. before he could…

 

JANE’S ADDICTION

                                    Cash in now honey

                                     Cash in now baby

 

They had been kicking him…punching him…calling him nigga…aaaaah yes, Groovie Koolie Cosmopolitan Manhattan…oh yeah do whutchwanna do Gotham City… they had kicked my brutha…they had kicked my brutha…THEY HAD KICKED MY BRUTHA…

And the thought wouldn’t leave me be…and I knew I had to set matters straight…Soo Trip, Jason and me confront those assholes and we scream and howl and taunt and cuss and eventually those darn kidz gathered outside see what’s going down… going down..

Going down…and hear our righteous cries of

 

JASON, TRIP & NEMO

                                   Who you callin nigga muthaphucka?

 

And they bellow in response…

 

THOSE DARN KIDZ

                                     End racism.

 

 

And its getting unruly and hella loud and those cocksure grins the bruiseboys sported have disappeared…They’re nervous..

 

JANE’S ADDICTION

                                   I’m in the midst of a trauma.

 

They’re scared…

 

JANE’S ADDICTION

                                    Leave a message.

 

They’re fucked…

 

JANE’S ADDICTION

                                   I’ll call ya back

 

We were occupied with having a good time but now the Mod Squad had got his back…. Oh shit this can revolutionize evolutionize darwinize into a Duddley Do The Right Thing …an ultraviolet boot crusssssssssssh with girls and boys who ain’t gotta beef with The Black…Trip senses his monsta payback is right around the corner…or rather the vodka has ensured him an evening of immortal strength…and he starts walking closer to the urban rednex bewildered stares and desperate clutching fists…

 

JANE’S ADDICTION

                                     Some people should die

                                      That’s just unconcious knowledge

 

I grab him…

 

NEMO

                               Naah naaah man, come on let’s go.

 

If it was me alone I would have cared less and commenced with the captain caveman… I wouldn’t have given a bloody fuck…that’s my trademark…not some posturing… not some posing…and if you think you’re so hard…if you think you’re so b.a.d.67… by all means let me see you motorpsycho from techcoast to eastcoast…

 

JANE’S ADDICTION

                                Naked and unashamed.

 

Come on young gun, I got your ticket….wanna go wanna go wanna go wanna go for a rrride…

 

SFX; DOOM DOOM

 

Like I told Grandma I’m a gawddamn cockroach…think I’m deceased, done in and HELLO…I’m

 

JANE’S ADDICTION

                                Comin down the mountain.

 

Cause ya see I’m Archy and Jody’s Mehitabel…and we are two unrehearsed preachers of pleasure…

 

SFX; DOOM DOOM

 

But my brutha’s a krazy kid wanting to believe in a world that is presently beyond our grasp…a child I used to play trix on more than once…though right now no fucking way are a bunch of scareoid gimps with micronauts dicks gonna work over my kindred spirit planet drum with their blue meanies…soo Jason and I drag Trip to the street’s intersec-tion with  Broadway…where he wrestles himself free and stands fantastic like a hooligan Lord of The Rings…soars majestic like a Clockwork Orange Cosby Kid…and his lungs release a deafening lullaby…

 

TRIP

                                     I’M A BLACK MAN. I’M A GOD

 

And for a few seconds or soo Midtown pauses and the siddylights champion the strange reality of its true son…and the passerbyers nervously smile for they know he’s right… or so I like to think…

 

REWIND

 

 

Odds & Endsville

“Alley Oops, Josie Ain’t No PussyCat”

Seattle, WA  11.92

 

Dissed again…Three times in the summer of ’89…First it was the goth barbwiredkisses Terri, then Erin the Nebraskan amazon and finally Angel a daydream come true direct from Brooklyn…The World NYC’s shag shack was where I got housed by the pretty pain of this swirlin solid gold ho…Flying so high off a cocaine buzz…I was ambushed by a snatch attack so severe…it could only be cured by having Angel’s Puerto Rican pussy jump over Connecticut’s white picket fences and make a rush for this Spike’s Joint… or in other words…

 

FRANKENMIND

                                     My dick

 

Since she was paying me no nevermind…I lined her up in my sights..readied my lines and floated across the dance floor…Taking a cue from The Jerry Lewis Vid Library of Smooth Moves…I tripped myself stumbling into Angel’s heartstopping humpsteadygrind ….me hands kwikly coppin a feel of those cappucino colored tits..two superfine prisoners of war standing at attention…trapped behind her bra ready to do my bidding…

 

NAZI SOLDIER

                                       Seig Heil Seig Heil

 

Aaaaaaaaaaaw sheet…she caught my eye and smiled..yeah she knew what wuzzup..

 

FRANKENMIND

                                        My dick

 

And damn me with no condoms…No problem…I was a subliminal kid and I’d spooky the deejay to pass me the prophalactic props later on…spinning away I readjusted my Gotta Get That Girl..and the Behind Sight proved to right on time…Baby had serious back tucked in her silky black slacks…every sorcerous sway of Angel’s going straight to my apprentice…in other words…

 

FRANKENMIND

                                     My dick

 

SFX; yo yo whoa wwwwwwwwwwwwwwrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

 

Wait a minute…the burning yearning had less to do with Angel than I thought…more like the gallon of Crazy Horse needing a release…Had to pull an Ironman and hold it.. cause if I took time to piss, I’d miss….

 

INTERFERING PATTERNS

 

…..My Doors Alive…

 

INTERFERING PATTERNS

 

Would end before me Peace Frog could Morrison Hotel Her Gloria…so for the next twenty minutes as the pleasure peeked thru the pain…I watched The Beautiful One go crazy raspberry beret purple rain…But sooner rather than later my jimmy mack was moaning that its golden shower had to

 

AMITYVILLE HORROR

                                         Get Out.

 

Slithering into Angel’s vision again I motioned to the side of the door…She smiled softly and nodded “Si”…I kwikly bolted the bwaaaaaaaaaaang outta there before losing all control of my composure…

 

SFX; ZZZZZZZZZZZZZIP.SPOOOOOING! pissssssss ssssip pissssss pst pst pst

Pssst pissssssssssssssssssssssssssss psst pssst…dribbble dribble..AAAAAAH

 

The balls back in my possesion I waited for The Beautiful One’s arrival on the court for a lil one on one…Dreamworking a blissful mob of please please me memories between us two…  a stargazing sidewalk romance of Rockefeller Center Statue Of Liberty cheap chinese….ya know just plain trippin…so imagine my surprise when the door went…

 

SFX; CLANG

 

And out exploded…SHE-BULK…this bitch was big…I mean BIIIIIIIIIIIG… so huge her rambling chant of “Do me right Baby” was guaranteed to thwaap constellations outta alignment…

 

NANCY REAGAN

                                     Ronald we have a problem.

 

BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIG…a mountainous heap of sweaty flesh packed in a green army tent cascading over orange Girbauds pleading for social asylum…

 

THE FLY

                                        Help me.

 

Barkley mighta trashed Godzilla but this Queen Kong would have taken em both out with a mere swig of her enormous E.T.

 

SHE-BULK

                                  Yo Angel was telling me how yooz was checkin me out.

                                   So wuzzzzzzzzzzzzzup? You wanna gos somewhere.

 

NEMO

(spluttering)

                                  Angel?

 

SHE BULK

                                   Yeah my goorlfriend who I was dancing wid. Da one wid

                                   The short cut black hair. That bitch is so fine and usually

                                    All da guys are trying to run some tired game on her. She

                                   Loves it though so I was kinda pissed youse was into me.

 

No doubt Angel was experiencing a certain emotional wavelength but sumpdin told me it wasn’t envy…My egotistical posturing had been rightbackatched by Ms. Rumpnstuff… Now I don’t know if any of you guys have been in this situation, so let me tell ya how to avoid it…NEVER GET IN IT…But since I wasn’t presented with that kinda luxury myself…

 

FastForward

 

INGA

                                 Nemo I don’t know what you’re talking about

 

NEMO

                                 You cast the spell ‘Nemo Spelled Backwards Is Omen’

                                 Now its happening.

 

INGA

                                  I have to go.

 

NEMO

                                  Hong Kong baby Hong Kong baby

 

Rewind

 

Ill be gracious and let cha in on a secret manuever called The Wurm…Ssssssh no questions til after the screening…

 

NEMO

                                    Hey yo oh shit what time is it? My boy Rob’s gotta be

                                     Wondering where I’m at. Nigga’s my ride.

 

SHE-BULK

                                    He probably don’t know no difference. DJs fucking up the

                                    Club wid dem grooves.

 

NEMO

                                     Yeah but we were supposed to leave an hour ago and that

                                      Nigga’s real impatient. Microwaves his laundry and shit.

                                     Uhuhmmm so what’s your name?

 

SHE-BULK

                                     Josie

 

NEMO

                                     Josie like Josie and The Pussycats.

 

JOSIE

                                      Who?

 

NEMO

                                    Josie and the Pussycats. It’s a Hanna Barbera cartoon. Used

                                    To be on t.v. during the 70’s. You know Scooby Doo?

 

JOSIE

                                     Yeah

 

NEMO

                                      Same thing.

 

JOSIE

                                     Oh alright but I didn’t come out here to talk about no

                                     Cartoon. What’s your name.?

 

NEMO

                                      Nemo.

 

JOSIE

                      I gotta cousin named Nemo too though the way you say it

                                     It sounds german. You from Germany?.

 

NEMO

                                      No, Norwalk Connecticut.

 

JOSIE

                                 Connecticut huh? I ain’t never been out there.

 

NEMO

(glancing at nonexistent watch)

                             Josie tell ya what why don’t you give me your number

                             And I’ll give you a call cause I really gotta go.

 

 

 

JOSIE

                             That’s too bad cause I thought weez could kinda well you know.

 

Her beastiness slothed fastforward blotting out the night sky…and from the raging hunger in her eyes…I knew my future would soon be too dark to wear shades.. My incessant worries over The Apocalypse had finally materialized in the form of a horny humongous…Before I could utter anything close to a response Josie’s lips engulfed my face…Her tremendous suction action surpassing the power of a thousand black holes..

This fierce feeding frenzy Josie tragically confused as kissing pressed play in sed Nigga’s head…treating me to a sidvicious display of Creature Feature vid splices…a twilight’s last gleaming of my short life’s memory banks swooshed before Tex Avery eyes..Ready to succumb to this greeting from The Great Beyond Beyond…when the door went…

 

SFX; CLANG!

 

Reviving hopes of a last minute rescue..ripping my face from Josie’s lips I let loose the wildest shriek the Milky Way had ever heard…

 

NEMO

                              AAAAAAHHH!

 

Immediately conjuring the desired insult..

 

JOSIE

(stumbling backwards growling)

                             Whuddaphuck is up wid you bitch?

 

With barely enuff energy left for the 20th century I crashed to the comforting earth whimpering future world forecasts…

 

NEMO

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ANGEL

(squatting over me)

                         You’re too much woman for him Josie. Forget him,let’sgo.

 

 

JOSIE

                          Yeah girlfriend I hear ya. I just wanna say avidisane to this

                           Goddamn bitch muthaphucka.

 

Accenting her sudden command of the German language, Josie punted two amazingly accurate shots to my groin…

 

SFX; FOOPT FOOPT

 

Welding with Mother Nature’s Avenue ABCD I watched thru bloodshot eyes as the two Brooklyn Harbringers of Dancehall Doom retreated into the mayhem cackling hysteri- cally…Only awakening who knows how long later to vizz a buncha club kids make off with my two tone suede creepers….

 

 

REWIND

 

Euro-A-Go-Go

“Into The Arms Of Americans”

Madrid, Spain 10.88

 

Lazyhazy spanish sweet indian summer daze…the earliest I fall outta my bunk is round 11:30….and no I don’t feel guilty…new earring…old jeans…with Terence Trent Darby’s neoMotown sound WORD) my spastic thoughts…three way calling with

 

SFX; click switch click

 

What kinda mood am I in?…who knows

 

JANE’S ADDICTION

                                        Here we go

 

Unpolished boots…hey they’re supposed to look that way…lead me to the Plaza Del Sol.

SATURDAY…everyehere around the world….unpolished boots…hey they’re supposed to look that way…cross paths with an Asian girl with a map…Virgina

 

NEMO

                               Is that where you’re from?

 

VIRGINA

                                No, that’s my name. I’m from Seattle.

 

Unpolished boots…hey they’re supposed to look that way…telephone center… hot line to Mom…call collect…send me mo money sez The Mary Mary Quite Contrarys From Darien..Me, I just want someone to reach out and touch me right here and now..LOVE..

Its all within your grasp…I spot this girl…

 

NEMO

                                     You look familiar. What’s your name?

 

GIRL ON THE PHONE

                                      Tina Yowee.

 

Lisa’s kid sister…Lisa and I had the honorable distinction of being voted West Morris Class Of 85’s class clowns….how perceptive of them…HEY PEOPLE SOMETIMES YOU ACT LIKE A FREAK TO KEEP FROM CRYING CAUSE YOU GOTTA SPEND THE WEEKEND WITH YOUR MOM WHILE YOUR DAD’S IN PUERTO RICO ON A BUSINESS TRIP AND WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL WILL BE UNLEASHED. AND HEY PEOPLE SOMETIMES YOU ACT LIKE A FREAK TO KEEP FROM  REBEL YELLING HOW IN YOUR DREAM SPIRITS TELL YA TO SLICE HER WITH A BUTTERKNIFE AND EVERYTHING WILL BE NICE NICE AGAIN…HEY PEOPLE HEY PEOPLE HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYPEOPLE WAAAAAAAAKE

WAAAAAAAAAAAAKE WAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE WAAAAAAAAAAAAKE

WAAAAAAAAAKE UP!According to Tina, Lisa now does her Elvis impressions in raunchy biker bars…Me, I left mine behind in New Jersey..too bad I couldn’t leave the uncertainty and the hurt in the past too…Gee that last line sucked but fuck I ain’t getting paid for this shit…Tina writes down the info…anutha number anutha slip of paper to lose …unpolished boots…Mickey Deez…More Americans…two women, one bitch… spoiling the rest of my day…makes me want anutha beer…Skol Lager…back at the pension..

 

SEXY SAM I AM

                                         Water with that bread?

 

Comix, beercans, phillycreamcheese…bye bye see ya in Morrocco..three minus one makes two...or does it?...unpolished boots…side by side with dingy tennis shoes… Jack insists on pursuing Purcells….onward ho into the spanish night…Notice a girl..she notices me..what is that all about?…try to read her face…can’t get past the pain.. can’t get past the physical…wait an hour and a half…to see thirty seconds of U2 as they stride from a black limo…thirty seconds of Bono, The Edge, Larry Curly Moe, No the bassist dude with the Buddy Holly glasses..what’s the hubub, bub?…Premiere of the movie… Rattle & Hum…I wander away disappearing into my yellow submarine…cause I’m the forgotten Beatle and this is a Hard Day Night…unpolished boots trudge down the street..

 

FRANKENMIND

                                           Beware Poetry Moment

 

I’m……….in the…..midddle…..of the ….hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiighway….carrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrs

FRANKENMIND

                                 You can come out now, it’s safe.

 

More habla englais…a whopper numbs the anxiety…a coupla bites and whuddayaknow

 

FRANKENMIND

                                   He’s doin it again. Anutha Poetry Moment Ugh

 

More………..american…GIRLS…Anna..Cheri…And A Black Girl…Sistah Soldier why can’t I remember your name?….Madonna song. Madonna song. “The Rebel is a piece of reasoning in the great tradition of French logic”- Charles J. Rollo…Alantic Monthly

 

 

REWIND

 

Nothing But Lipstick

“Marion Davies In A Hearst Production”

Columbia, SC 11.87

 

Having had only two hours of sleep…if you can call it that…and I almost died when I saw the last few hours of guard duty were all mine..Envision me striding back and forth between the aisles of beds…babbling…babbling…missing Rebecca….DUH… She’s going to see Squeeze with Justin..aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwww, ain’t that sweet…Ha betta not screw with my girl or his fat ass is mine during Christmas break…I got to keep my hair for another day…was able to sit for a bit….pick my “fro” and ponder poetically before the inevitale showdown with Uncle Sam’s Sweeney Todd disciples…

 

CULTURE CLUB

                                           Do you really want to hurt me?

                                            Do you really wanna make me cry?

 

SWEENEY TODD

 

  If I enertained any thoughts of leaving this gig, they’re history…I don’t wanna be seen in public with a haircut like this…Major rule…we can’t fraternize with the female recruits…gee, that’s so hard I love communicating with lowerlife forms…these “babes” are strictly ruff ruff bowwow…except for this blonde…Maybe its my heightened spidey sense but I was so sure about having this altercation with :L.A…an exjock from UCLA or so he sez…I was planning to penpaper after lights out when it happened…One of the platoon leaders was chewing me out for using the phone during formation…

 

STEVE MARTIN

                                 Well excccuuuuuuuuuuuuusse me.

 

And I got pelted in the back with ??????…Spying L.A. behind the wall lockers laughing I went up to him and demanded some respect…HA!…Faster than the Flash can fullspeed to Hell and back…LA picked me up and threw me against the wall…People came rushing over though and it dissapated before any big kaapow could punch its way Into existence…we’ve got quite a character in our platoon…Grover T. Washington ..The cat’s always holding on to his goddamn dick…If every dood in Houston is as preoccupied with gripping their gonands no matter what the task their doing I’ll make sure to avoid the city at all costs…What’s even funnier is when we got fitted for our uniforms…the staff couldn’t find a hat to fit Grover’s wide harlem globetrotter head..I picked up my Class As and got a huge surprise…I’m a PFC…Private First Class…hmmmm that’s definitely not on my contract but I ain’t saying shit…If I do there’ll be ahuge decrease in my already ptiful paycheck..from 6am to 5pm our major task was getting ready for inspection… Hurry up and wait…A dude un the 13th Platoon ran to get his bunk as Sgt. Brown came in

…The floors had just been buffed and he slide past his bunk and flew thru the fucking window…

 

GOOF TROOP RECRUITS

(clapping hands)

                                 Encore Encore

 

Drill Sgt Who The Fuck Cares has the entire Bravo 15 introduce ourselves and tell why we entered the service…the responses varied from the obvious “ I did it for the money” to the pathetic “ I see it as my first real vacation”…I don’t think anyone was ready for my response…

 

NEMO

                              I’m CENSORED and I’m from Norwalk, CT and I joined the

                               Army because of the college fund. Plus I plan on being a writer

                              And from what I’ve read most successful artits whether they’re

                              Poets, painters, or playwrights have suffered a great deal before

                              Their careers took off. So I joined The Army in order to pay my

                               Dues.

 

There were a few laughs…mostly awkward silence…until some moron saw an opening in my armor and ragged me fierce about me feet…

 

GOOF TROOP 1

                                 They’re skateboards.

 

GOOF TROOP 2

                                  Canoes.

 

GOOF TROOP 3

                                  This isn’t Bedrock, it’s the army.

 

GOOF TROOP 4

                                   Yeah write a poem about that.

 

Our platoon is losing a guy affectionaly known as Ronnie Mishaps…he’s always in trouble…when we asked why he was being given a general discharge…he mumbled

“Personal Reasons”…later on we found out his bloodstream was so loaded with junk …any vampire sucking his blood would be flat on its ass ocean everlasting for years at a time…Ronnie didn’t have any funds left after being afflicted by the PX crazies so Lee took my hat..??????…and passed it around collecting money from all the guys…raising a whopping $13.00…L.A.’a advice to him was…

 

L.A.

                                 Buy a bottle of Bacardi. Get fucked up. Get some pussy

                                 And everytime you put that muthaphucka in I want you

                                 To yell “Bravo 15”

 

I feel soory for Ronnie because from his comments earler he felt the army was his last chance at turning his life around…Made me realize this shit’s a bitch but I don’t want to go back to Connecticut…there’s nothing for me there…Sure there’s Rebecca but..

 

 

FAST FORWARD

 

MotoDegenerate

“Laughing Really Loud”

L.A., CA   9.94

 

WEEZER

                                  Ooooooweee I look just like Buddy Holly

 

Scored the Weezer audio from the DGC office….Swung by Sunset Boulevard this afternoon to see Chrissy..ya know shoot da shit…get the latest industry 411 and.. uhum

Borrow twenty bux…she was booshog as usual and didn’t preach about being responsible

Grrl’s got it going on…moving on up to that deluxe apartment in the sky….Chrissy used to handle publicity for The Posies and White Zombie but Tom Zito the head of A&R…

He signed Guns& Roses…was replaced by Roberta Petersen so she’s her assistant now..

Chrissy’s been hip to my lucky lager shit ever since I freakphoned her from Philly in 93

 

CHRISSY’S FAX

                                 Nemo is a whirlwind of cultural influences, all rolled into

                                 One. A skewed combination of writer/performance artist/

                                  Promoter and hipster. With a million ideas a minute one

                                 Of them has to be good.

 

My attempt was to concoct a White Zombie profile when my prescence was still tolerated at The Rocket…

 

GRANT ALDEN

                                 So here’s the thing. My job is to find a way to work your

                                 Voice into this rag. Your trick is to be patient while I do that,

 

Still tolerated until I told Grant to shove his grunge rock where the black hole don’t

Sunshine…

 

NEMO

(flipping Grant the bird)

                                    Monster Truck Driver this pal.

 

Something that wasn’t adequetly addressed in our final “professional” communication…

 

GRANT’S FAX

                                  Dear Nemo…as of receiving this letter you are to cease and

                                  Desist from using The Rocket’s name as a reference for your

                                  Work. The Rocket is no longer interested in publishing your

                                  Work or in having you represent us to the outside world. I have

                                  Made it clear to you on several occasions what behavior is

                                  Appropriate and how I wish this publication to be represented in

                                  Public. Clearly you are unable to manage those modest standards.

 

WHATEVER…Grant must of thought I was too stupid not to unearth the real reason for my sudden induction to their inner circle was purely politics of slam dancing…Weeks after I first met Roberta Penn, The Rocket’s senior editor at the Malcolm X press screen-ing , she told me everyone in the office was reading my Stranger Tales From The Crypt and suggested I approach Grant about freelancing for them. So I blasted into the office and the first thing outta his mouth was...

 

GRANT

                                     I don’t read the paper so I haven’t any idea what your

                                     Style is like.

 

FRANKENMIND

                                      Really I don’t read your rag either BITCH

 

Unfazed I asked…

 

NEMO

                                       What are your politics like?

 

GRANT

                                      Excuse me?

 

Uh was this guy the missing link or what?

 

NEMO

                                    Are you gonna let me say what needs to be sed?

 

GRANT

                                    Well Nemo we believe in taking risks when they are

                                    Warranted..

 

Great just fucking great…Yet I had my buddies at The Stranger too thank for that boost outta the frying pan into the fire…after my fiery exit from their supersecret Wallingford

Location…

 

NEMO

(screaming outside)

                                  Hey Keck what’s the price of keroscene these days?

 

Some phonecall from a Savage eeeeeeediot warned Alden not to publish my garagerock

Gangstar cuz I was “uncontrollable”…Good one buttplug cuz Grant and The Rocket’s publisher are the guys you’ve been locking horns with since The Stranger’s inception…

And Grant figured he could rein me in …well Keck and Alden both need lessons in new math when it comes to dealing with The Kid cuz I’m…

 

WHITE ZOMBIE

                                   Burning down the highway

 

The way Zombie and I crossed paths is like a spooky scene from a Hammer Studios monster movie…Fall of 92 I was on the verge of insanity schlepping mags at Broadway News…sure I was finally westcoasting getting my Masters Of The Universe Scene Scheme underway but something was..well shit…slacking…and I knew selling Birdfeeder Monthly to numbskulls at The Broadway Market was not the ticket to explode

 

NEMO

                             I wanna get outta here. I wanna get outta here.

 

And WORD….gawdawful making change day a posse of mysterios moseyed into the newsstand…Whiffs of alienearthstrangersinastrangeland oozed from their wardrobe… nocturnal leather, brutish jeans littered with patches..tentacled dreads that screamed

Enemyminefactoryservice..all surrounded in a divine Apocalypse and How special sauce

Radical with a captial RAD….it took em less than three minutes to assault the music mag rack…

 

SFX;ZZZAAAAP!

 

Then split…

 

SFX: SWOOOSH!

 

I was dumbfounded…I was pissed..I was E-N-V-I-O-U-S..resentful of the freedom they seemed to possess and flaunt with a vengeance…Freedom the bodymovinmix that makes trax after you’ve scambled to the Top Of The Pops to satistfy your hungry hungry hippo..

 

SUICIDAL TENDENCIES

                                    I just wanted a Pepsi.

 

Soo that night at The Moore Theater I was sureshocked as shit to witness the same arrogant fuckheads rip the rug from under Danzig’s ass with they heavymental hybrid Beyond Space and Time dance trance…

 

WHITE ZOMBIE

                                    Nineteen SixtyFive Five Five Come On

 

Right then and there W.Z became the soundtrack to The Nemo mo lifestyley entitled I’m Gonna Get Mine Suckas…though if my memory surfs me correct…this wasn’t the first time I encountered them..try 1988…at New York’s New Music Seminar part of the Naked Raygun/Pussy Galore/ABCedarians showdown..where I managed to act like the most unamazing fanboy geekmeister in front of Kim Gordon… I think she only signed my program cuz how often are you accosted by an alternative negro professing eternal love then reveals he and the other membres of his suburban circle jerk had experienced

Simulatenous orgasms while blasting DayDream Nation…

 

DARK ATARI

                                  So that’s what you Jack Rockagwd and Donnie were doin

                                   In the back of the Anthrax.

 

DEE

                                  Oooooooh I’m tellin Momma

 

Best believe I’ve got no green til Uncle Phil downloads the dinero…Most of Chrissy’s twenty went straight into The Beast’s gas tank…And he had the nerve to grumble when I bought myself a hot dog…I was asking for trouble by motoring to his office..yeah Landmark Entertainment in North Hollywood…MountainDewing past the security desk, elevators swoooooshing me to those plush places above the new pollution…

 

THE VOICE OF OTIS

                             Congratulations misfit you have entered into the land of LA’s elite

                             Isn’t it great you’re no longer one of Them. Yes the end does justify

                              The means. CAUTION If you disagree with that last remark imm-

                            Ediately return to the security desk where you will be promptly es-

                            Corted to the parking lot and shot..enjoy your trip.

 

The secretaries freaked at the sight of my tarstained poleclimbers & dirty jeans…how dirty my “calvins” are black and you can still see the stains…

 

SNOOTY SECRETARY

                                 And whom are you looking for again?

 

NEMO

                                Phil Mendez, I’m his nephew.

 

FRANKENMIND

                                Yeah bitch I’m walking tall and I’m gonna makes copies

                                Gonna use the phone. I’ll take my coffee to go. Cream real

                                Sugar no sweet & low. Don’t deny me, front me or say no

                                The name is Nemo…N-E-M-O

 

Shooting myselfin the foot I know but I can’t help it…even if Uncle Phil is fueling my motorbility…should know what happened last year….He took me out to lunch, read my stuff, sed it was impressive…and that he’d be more than willing to help his sister’s oldest son…Uncle Phil had left the eastcoast twentyfive years ago in search of realizing his dream of being an animator…He was one of the first black dudes to scrawl for Walt Disney and Hanna Barbera…formed his own studio, producing a coupla Saturday Morning Cartoons…Kissy Fur…which had a shortrun on NBC…and Fufur…He was one of the storyboard artists on Bebe’s Kids …so outta the creative westcoast kooks I figured he would understand me…afterwards he dropped me off at Cal Arts andsed once I got back to Connecticut ..hang tight and wait for his chunka change check when his own animated feature “ Wiffle In the Moo”  went in production..The check that was gonna buy me a Powerbook soo I could finally catchacab on the superhighway of information…the check that was gonna propel me into the Mondo2000-WiredCyberiaWorld That Jones Made… the check that was gonna zip me to Oxford during the Christmas Season so I could gash open old sexual wounds with my exBrit girlfriend Dawn…The check that was gonna let me ease off the throttle of gottago gottago and let me catch my breath..the check that was gonna turbolover me off the streets and let me be slightly human…THE CHECK… THAT….NEVER… ARRIVED…Tony Handal and I tried calling him but Uncle Phil covered his tracks and changed the number….an unlisted number of course…a ruthless manuever resulting in a boogeybomb cover my behind for sixmonths on the lower east side…Thru sixteen fucking snow storms and a lotta high time watching Roseanne rereuns with Gargoyles Mechanigue Laboratory’s loose cannons Dan Green..Jason,  and Spinner…Alotta those frigid winter nights we would chase our frostbitten tails into Ace Bar…LAUGHING REALLY LOUD… pooling our change for pitchers of WORD, leaning against the pinball machines while giving the season’s new crop of lukabop artschool chicks well rehearsed vacant stares

 

JOAN JETT

                                 Do you wanna touch

                                 Do you wanna touch

                                 Do you wanna me there?

 

or if we had been able to shakedown a relative for a few hundred, spaceinvade Lucky Strikes, …LAUGHING REALLY LOUD…the roaches flicked from our Soho Sunday Best…and dream spend grants we knew Manhattan’s Art Fag Factory would never let us score…but hey it wasn’t all that bad cause we were LAUGHING REALLY LOUD… Plus Darius James and I met at The Nuyorican Poets Café…

 

 

DARIUS FLYER SCRIBBLE

                 What I hate is the impulse one presumes is “poetry” so the shit sounds

                Like its written by the same hand, spoken by the same voice. I have a

                Headache.

 

Darius who introduced me to the chocolate siddy side of The LES LitShit crowd. Mr. Steve “Bang Groove And Jive Around” Cannon and David “ Excuse Me While I Kiss The Sky” Henderson…I also trapped Denis Leary in the elevator as we both exited Full Circle Managemnet and proceeded to rant my depraved…

 

DENIS

                    So what are you working with Jason?

 

NEMO

                        Uh I think he likes my stuff but I don’t think he like me.

 

DENIS

Oh

 

Leary was generous downloading info about The Edinburgh Fringe Festival but it was easy to decipher what’s my line behind his toothy smile

 

DENIS

                        Yeah Yeah it’s good kid but move outta my way before

                         I run you  over with my limo.

 

Did a gig at CBGB’s courtesy of Liz Penta…She was lazing in front of the Performance Gallery with David Byrne and I was hard at work, waving Chrissy’s DGC stamp of approval, pleading for a date for the 7 zillionth time and I guess Liz didn’t have the industry rude to destroy me as a Talking Head looked on…

 

LIZ

                        Okay I’ve got an opening on February 13th. You’re on.

 

Too bad the heavens dumped snow all over NYC the evening before and nobody showed except for The Gargoyles…Crept icy corners….LAUGHING REALLY LOUD… with fellowbold as love Seattlelite painter extraodrinaire…Neil Vandervloed…I have few idols but The Supersuckers and Neal lead the pack…He smokes Drum siggyrets..

 

NEIL

                           Waaadayamean you don’t know how to roll? I guess you

                            Want me to wipe your ass too.

 

Hates barbques…

 

 

NEIL

                           Actually its not the people I hate. It’s the food.

 

Has koolbeattoshit boots…a kool Lisa lady… akool kid Jake..the defest collection of oleskool scific books…and if he ever injects an engine into it…the slamminest Ford door croozeship in The States..His paintings are a wicked sojurn of robots, sex and random death on a blind date…and it’s a shame he ain’t a nigga junkie cuz suckas come lately would be lauding him as the heir apparent to The Basquait Kingdom…he could help em out by growing those dreads like I suggested….His Flamingo East exhbit was the joint even had Madonna’s people freaking over his demented designs and despite the incentive of an open bar and free eats served by tuxedoed beautyschool dropouts I still would have showed up if only to drag Jason along and show off the painting Neil did of me entitled

“There He Goes Talking About Himself Again”…Wait a sec…

 

Rewind

 

“There He Goes Talking About Himself Again”?…maybe it’s a self portrait Neil…yeah it was A  mighty Perfect Heller winter of no cash content to..metrolinin to Norwalk’s wylds of suburbia couldn’t save me this time…No mo Grandma’s home to abode to… and without the help of Spinner, David Klingman, I would have never survived NYC Roughnecking 101…

 

FRANKENMIND

                         Or in other worlds My Dick

 

Oh yeah Dick Nystrom…I almost forgot…snicker snicker…Dick’s the reason I could crash at The Gershwin Hotel…Dick’s the reason I could Sohoshop fine dine & wine… Dick’s the reason I got the inside view of The Beautiful Ones…and Dick’s the real reason why I was begging Maggie Estep for money (Marvel Comics)

 

Last summer I was hanging on Prince St. infront of Dean & Deluca thinking about how the hell I was gonna see White Zombie for their Friday the 13th gig in Providence Island.. As you are well aware by now getting in wouldn’t be a problem..one phonecall to

Chrissy…

 

NEMO

                                          Chrissy! blah blah blah

 

CHRISSY

                                          Oh Hi Nemo where are you at?

 

NEMO

                                         Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah uh

                   

CHRISSY

                                           Yes.

 

NEMO

                                           Can you call me back?

 

CHRISSY

                                            Sure.

 

Or as the case was at Roseland a few days earlier one accelerated rant to Andy Gould and

 

SFX; BAAAAAMF!

 

The problem was conjuring the cash…to make the Greyhound and I knew all I was gonna get outta Sherill this time was lunch…maybe…when

 

MALE VOICE

                          Hey would you like to pose for some photos?

 

I turn around and this guy whose obviously just stepped outta a Ralph Lauren ad. The perfect haircut, perfect teeth, perfect threads…He showed me his card…NYSTROM

Embossed on this smoothy silky stock…

 

SFX:KAAACHING!

 

SYSTEM INTERRUPTION

 

DISNEY SUIT

                              Speaking of money it’s a good time to tell the kiddies

                               To start getting creative in order to collect the fare to

                              See Third Worship the  traveling Krofftt Superstar Holywood   Shakespeare rock opera

                               That’s gonna be your..uhum Grand Finale t

                            

NEMO

                                Geez Fitz what the fuck is this? Fitz Hello.

 

DISNEY SUIT

                                 Look kid I know we got off on a bad foot.

 

NEMO

                                 Fitz  can you make him go away.

 

FITZGERALD

                                  Just hear him out Nemo. Is all I ask..

 

DISNEY SUIT

                                  Nemo I know you wanna be No Futurepunk as fuck and that’s

                                 A good thing but ya gotta start thing about well how

                                 You gonna afford to buy Coutney  that house and

                                  .And

 

NEMO

                                   Cut Cut

 

SPERBER

                                    What’s the problem man you were totally in there.

 

NEMO

                                    I just can’t do this today. I gotta go.

 

SPERBER

                                   Go where?

 

NEMO

                                    Any where but here.

 

SPERBER

                                    Not good idea man we’re overbudget as it is.

 

NEMO

                                   I don’t think ya get it.. It’s over  I know it was our big

                                    Dream I don’t wanna a movie version of this ya know

 

THE RAMONES

                                   I don’t wanna be buried in a pet cemetary

                                   I don’t wanna live my life again

 

SPERBER

                                  I knew it I knew  you were gonna pull this shit.

 

NEMO

                                   Look man you can direct the those darn kidz tvshow

                                   And the Major Stuff shit run the whole show  manbut

                                   I gotta get out this loop

 

SPERBER

                                    What’s her name?

 

NEMO

                                     What?

 

 

SPERBER

                                      You heard me? What’s her name.

 

NEMO

                                       Leah Brown. The Cornflake Girl

 

SPERBER

                                       Who?

 

NEMO

                                    some chick back in Seattle. She usedd Work at Coffee

                                    Messiah.

 

SPERBER

                                     Does Courtney know about this?

 

Look

 

SPERBER

                          Apparently not.

 

NEMO

                         Hey we have an understanding. We just haven’t disccussed it

 

SPERBER

                        What happened to that one love to the end of time cosmic thing?

 

NEMO

                             You’ve read the manuscript. Later

 

SPERBER

                         One week  I expect  you back here in one week. Stay outta

                         trouble And Christ can you get yourself a phone one  of these

                         days..The Age Of Grunge is over….Conan can you cue The Clown….

 

CONAN

                          Clown?

 

SPERBER

                           Krusty The Clown  Oh  No Don’t tell me he’s out sucking

                           the glass dick again?

 

CONAN

                           He sed he had to stay in character

 

 

SPERBER

                           Fuck me! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!

 

 

FAST FORWARD

 

Vilgilantes Of L.O.V.E.

“Supersucker Stuck To The Bottom Of  Your Freak”

San Francisco 11.95

 

It bwaangs without warning…but now that’s a straight out lie a denial of the cosmic clock...there'’ always a warning before the storm...like the way your usual shoveful of

Count Chocula breaks free from the tried and true 123 schmoo then waawaas an eerie ripple of inertia inches from your snout…a pause impregnated by a vicious

 

ADAM ANT

                            Stand And Deliver

                            Your Money Or Your Life

 

The Junk On The Spoon radiating everyday sunshine or a lifetime of oblivion…In retro-spect the omen is always so simple, so fucking obvious you wonder how this Calling Card Of Fate evaded you before..

 

RETRO VIA ROBOTS

                            Its all a circle. It’s all a line. Deep Space Nine.

 

Rewind

 

I never went to Johnny’s that often…and with good reason..the itty bitty ditty store was concealed in Darien..a platinum pleasure island of happy shiny spineless people safely tucked away from the frantic foolin and fuedin South Norwalk niggaz sippin Cisco.. A comfortable uncrowded house teeming with Mary Mary Quite Contrarys in spic polished cherry red Jaquars shalalazin down the Ave…one diamondfist glued to the stereo, the other gripping a spliff the size of a chimp’s dick…pole positioned with Shaggy trustfund junkies soaring in a non stop 808 state of blurrrrrrr…..burdened by weekly allowances large enough to finance two or three candidates hoin for Presidential election….And then there was…..Me…the skateboarding Cinderfella constantly caught in the future present past who could never quite WORD himself to the Sheer High Lose Your Mind pressed in the expensive imports of pop punk & puke cramming Jonny’s bins…I gotta admit oncetI did feel the Jolt Cola’s kick soo much I surrendered eight or nine bux for a Doggy Style 12 inch..Screaming dayglo green vinyl of Gabba Gabba Hey Ho Let’s Go..Let’s Go Let’s Go where the good won’t go…

 

NEMO

                               Naah fellas can’t make the trip. Maybe next time. Maybe never

 

Though heavens to mergatroy when I finally cashed in my chips for ride in The Coney Island Of The Mind it wasn’t mere product that sent me careening over the edge… Hey it’s me the Disco Don Quixote so if you’re of the gambling set consider it a safe bet to conclude it had to scoobydoo with a girl…That’s right Jessica Trupin..A pretty In Punk Paperback In Pocket Jewish American Princess..complete with Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific Red Mane…A seductive Seventeen quotes Camus Meat Is Murder pout and a well worn sophistication she couldn’t hide behind her Antique Boutigue…as much as she liked to try…

 

RETRO VIVA ROBOTS

                                 Its all a circle it’s all a line Deep Space Nine

 

Rebecca was surfcity the week I first met Jessica..so of course I endowed the unhappy Monday eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeediot routine with new depth…We’re talking massive attack first girlfriend dragged against her will to Florida for ten daze of carefree frolic in the sun while you sit home and rot in your unfriendly neighborhood zoo revue…the anguish increased a bazillionfold cuz your Magic Eightball sed “Yes” when you rubbed its glossy spidey hide and asked whether Camels Straight smoking Yankee Magazine reading for-ever in the phase of denial bottled blonded bitch mom would be talking shit about you the entire time bomb the bass kinda blues…that no amount of fantasizing about you Daisy Mae and Madonna feasting on Chuck E Cheese in a Frank Lloyd Wright Love Shack during the final seconds of Armageddon can cure cuz its been reduced to a sobbing Oh My Gawd She’s Gone Gone Awa that smells suspiciousl;y close to those perfect tunes synthfully constructed by Powder faced Lipstick traced New Riche New Wave enginneers whose posters are plastered all over your wall…You know where I’m going…you know where I’ve been…

 

RETRO VIVA ROBOTS

                               It’s all a circle. It’s all a line. Deep Space Nine

 

Soo

 

SFX: Swish Boom Swish

 

SCOTTY

                                Energizing.

 

My Uncle Wiggley powell-peralted me to Jonny’s wax stax in desperate need of The Interface Blast Zazz… Jessica and I shootdaashit about Bonzo’s Much Needed Bed-time and Moby’s latest record binge courtesy of Mama Mellville…Eventually our laughter rebooting my teen spirit enough to ask her to metroline with me into Gotham City and see Tom Petty and The HeartBreakers…Surprisingly Jessica defied the gravity of my pop goth situation  and grinned

 

.

JESSICA

                                  Sure sounds cool.

 

And maaaaaaaaaaaaan her zero premeditated yes rushed me back to the flyside of my socalled Life…a rush you ain’t ever gonna find at the deadend of a pipe…And it was the beginning of some deranged kinda wonderful…slacking in her Lit Shit selling parents upper eastside co-op soinning extended New Order dance mixes amongst a cooin brick cloud of sonic sister…concocting bizarre love triangles for the clueless world at large with her Booga and my best friend Chris Kramer…even exchanging koolspirited hate mail when I  was attached by the balls to Uncle Sam’s Goof Troop ..Yet we both never browsed thru the Time Life Encyclopedia Of Scenes That Were And Will be until

 

Outta the clear bloo bloo SATURDAY IS THE SKY WIDE OPEN..the two of us vizzed the documentary “Athens GA” at the Sono theatre..Memory escapes me about exactly whose idea it was..too many hits from the bong..too many kix from the wrong sorta people interrupts my freakquency…though to be brutally honest in a way only a brute like me can be…it had to be Jessica’s cuz whendaaphuck did I ever make a concious effort to change The Weird Science channel transmitted by RoboCop… anyway for 90 minutes we were immersed in the pulsating snatch of the Athens scene WORD on limo sized lily pads….stacatoed by kwik sips of southern culture on the skids…twitching in unison with lean lonesome cowboys radiating a mean Keith Richards and guerilla grrlies galloping tits fulla rage….R.E.M. and the B52s were the main focus of the film yet the climax was the moment The Flat Duo Jets took a toke of tumbleweed, guzzled a keg of demon piss and slashed thru a thick muddy waters angelic anthemn with the defhead precision of a phantom engine infused Jacob’s ladder jukebox on a woo-hee-haha whizz to a crucial barb-q dirt track date in the Arkham asylum….a no shirt no shoes metallic behemoth sweating psychotic reactions and carburator dung, 13 cards short of a full deck It’s glistening body shackled to a jumping jack flash that devours cooch with the same fury of a recently excommunicated priest gnawing lil boys bums…wiping the sticky stink off his face with The Vatican’s letter of expulsion…yesssssuh yesssssssuh yessssuh The Flat Duo Jets were the genuine aesthetic of rock and these Kentucky Fried Pied Pipers good time dizzabilly could never be satiated with an MTV show’n tell…and right then and there this strange kid in America knew why his Dad had grimaced a tired groan after showing him his stray cats l.p. boasting how he was the def of kool…he knows where I’ve been….he knows where I am

 

RETRO VIVA ROBOTS

                       It’s all a circle. It’s all a line. Deep Space Nine.

 

Okay so I could yakback incessantly about the logistics of Life’s safety dance and wonderhow come after sharing that vid of 1,2,3,4,,Dark Atari never sealed Jessica and I’s fate with bloodsugarsexmagick…well, there was that occasion following her late summer return from abroad when she sat several stories above the haze of an approaching evening

Deceiving…her vulnerability conjuring a zodiac code soo innocent its sweet Jane ensnared me in its etheral afterbirth…leaving me free to forget about our playskool past and for once be true to the la la lingo I Wanna Live…but alas our monkey never went to heaven and the last time Jessica and I saw each other was three years ago for a few awk-ward minutes in Olympia, WA…We didn’t have much to say…our lives were now on separate roads to nowhere…She in between lovers and majors at Evergreen State College

And me…well I was…NEMO…I did stall long enuff to ask about her stepmom Liz who for reasons I’ve yet to fathom encouraged my incessant pounding at the barrier in between worlds…the barrier which has been and will always be myself and then it was…

 

JESSICA

                           Gotta go I’m late for class.

 

NEMO

                          Yeah me too I gotta split

 

JESSICA

                            Bye

 

NEMO

                            Seeya

 

And I hadn’t given much thought about her and all that rockabilly boyz in the hood biz since until…

 

Fastforward

 

The day I bought the new issue of Psychotronic at Naked Eye Video and inside I spied Norton Records had released a new Flat Duo Jets cd “ Introducing…” and this connected to the ohso cinematic fact that they were scheduled to romp at the Bottom Of The Hill in a week and ….bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang the slick swarm of  Here It Comes again bared its jagged teeth when on the back cover DGC’s ad for White Zombie’s new la sexorcisto shrieked “ Astro 2000” cuz certain scenefreaks know how I dug Rob’s band and the road they convinced me to follow…except when Chrissy happybirthdayed me with free tickets and backstage passes to their Las Vegas show Halloween gig…I decided to throw the gear in neutral cuz for three years it ain’t been nothin but

 

White Zombie

 

And I simply wanted to walk with Jody around San Franciso on our sacred day… Powered by Love..Saved From Hate…and celebrate I had survived my twentyseventh year and I didn’t want us

 

Inxs

                                            Black boy White Girl

 

To be scrutinized by security or roadies or roadmanagers or media hacks or fans or groupies…and I was gonna use the same excuse for missing The Flat Duo Jets..but Jody wouldn’t let it happen…she loves me and my insanity…besides she had endured a whole summer hearing me obsess how awesome The Jets were…and cats being the curious creatures they are…she wanted to see if The Boys could deliver the goods…and deliver they did…Monsta thumped mars acclerated technology and from Dex’s every croon and Crow’s incessant beat of the drums one could hear AustinNashvilleMemphisNewOrleans …and recognize the scifi of a croozin to desolate hole in the backwoods of blackness where folks barely had enuff energy too lift their pitchers and pour themselves anutha drink and get on with the goings on…yet the Flat Duo Jets honest sound reconnected you to the supersucker stuck to the bottom of your freak…And making it more crystal clear to me that if it wasn’t for Jonny’s popshop procreation

 

LESTER BANGS

                     I would not be a rock critic and sometime musician to the irri-

                    Tation of many and pleasure of some enlightened folk but

                    Rather a senior poohbah in the headquarters of Jehovah’s

                   Witnesses over in Brooklyn,

 

 

And this honest sound inspired me to powerup my Powerbook and do what I do best  which is swallowing the mother’s milk squirting from Jody’s tit…thinking long and hard about TheFuturePresentPast and keep acrawlin kickin’ and screamin’

 

RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE

                              Fuckyou/I won’t do what you tell me

                             Fuckyou/I won’t do what you tell me

                            Fuckyou/I won’t do what you tell me

                           Muthaphucka

 

RETRO VIVA ROBOTS

                        Its all a circle..Its all a line…zero to hero…deep space nine

 

REWIND

 

Euro-A-Go-Go

“ Into The Arms Of Americans”

Madrid Spain 11.89

(Note: Switch this with “I Can’t Do Weird Things With My Body”)

 

lazyhazy indian summer daze…the earliest I fall outta my bunk is round 11;30 and no I don’t feel guilty…new earring…old jeans…with Terence Trent Darby’s neo motown surrounding my spastic thoughts…what kinda mood am I in..who knows..lets go…un-

polished boots…hey they’re supposed to look that way…lead me to the plaza del sol…

Saturday…everywhere around the world…unpolished boots…hey they’re supposed to look this way…cross paths with an Asian girl with a map…Virgina?

 

NEMO

                        Is that where you’re from?

 

VIRGINIA

                        No, that’s my name. I’m from Seattle.

 

Unpolished boots…hey they’re supposed to look that way…telephone center…Every body’s call collect send me Mom…”wait a sec” I say to this girl…”you look familiar. What’s your name?”….”Tina Yowee”…Yeah Lisa’s kid sister…Lisa and I had the “honor” of being voted Class of ‘85’ class clowns…how “perseptive” of them… according to Tina, Lisa now does her Elvis impressions in raunchy biker bars…me I left mine behind in New Jersey…to bad I couldn’t leave the uncertainty and hurt in the past too…anutha number, anutha slip of paper to lose…unpolished boots…Mickey Deez… More americans… 2 women 1 bitch..spoiling the rest of my day…makes me want anutha beer…Skol lager…back to the pension…

 

SEXY SAM I AM

                                   Water with that bread?

 

Comix beercans phillycreamcheese…byebye seeya in Morrocco..three minus one makes two…or does it?..unpolished boots..side by side with dingy tennis shoes..Jack Purcells… onward ho into the spanish night…Notice a girl…she notices me…what was that all about…try to read her face…can’t get past the pain..can’t get past the physical… wait an hour and a half to see thirty seconds of  U2 as they stride from a black limo…thirty seconds of Bono, The Edge, Larry Moe, Curly…No the bassist dood with the Buddy Holly glasses…what’s the hubbub bud…premeire of the movie…Rattle& Hum.. Rattle & Hum…disappear in my yellow submarine…cuz I’m the forgotten Beatle and this is a hard day’s night…unpolished boots trudge down the street…

 

FRANKENMIND

                                  Poetry moment watch out.

 

I’m……in the….middle…of…the…hiiiiiiiiiiiighway….carrrrrrrrrsssssssssssssssss

 

FRANKENMIND

                                 You can come out now. It’s safe.

 

More “habla englais”…a whopper numbs the anxiety…a coupla bites and whatdoyaknow

 

FRANKENMIND

                               UGH he’s doing it again. Another poetry moment.

 

More American Girls…Anna…Cheri…and a black girl…SistaSista why can’t I remem-ber your name…Madonna song…Madonna song…Cookie Monster

 

 

REWIND

 

Nothing But Lipstick

“ Jeepers Creepers”

Columbia SC 11.87

 

Thanksgiving and everyone’s antsy…The troops miss all that PT and Marching..The last line was written by Skip To The Loo…Author Of “Sarcasm- The Key To Greater Success”…Got my home for the holidays ticket..American Airlines December 20th.. 1.pm

But today I’m missing Channel Nine’s Creature Feature lineup…King King Son Of Kong Mighty Joe Young…that okay though I’m currently in the middle of my own monsta movie here….

 

They lied their asses off at the Reception center…like that Bravo 15 was going to go thru basic training together..Bullshit..As soon as we were packed on the cattle car..L.A’s humor abruptly stopped. He looke more scared than anyone else..the arrival at the Basic training site was a nightmare…Pathetic privates tripping over themselves trying to get their duffle bags in…

 

DRILL SGT.

                                     20 seconds and you’ve already used 10.

 

I was frightened too yet I tried to tell a few of the Bravo 15 guys to keep their shit together..Hadn’t they noticed the Drill Sgt’s badass routine was dialogue lifted from Apocalyspe Now…Should have kept my observations to myself cause I was over heard.

 

SGT. HILL

                                    Do you have an attitude private?

 

NEMO

                                   No, I don’t Drill Sgt.

 

SGT. JACKSON

                                    Yeah he does. Send him on down to me anytime.

 

Before we left the reception center, Sgt Brown called a meeting. Topic of discussuion was the need to work as a team and my annoying individualism…She gave me a chance to “defend” myself before the others closed in for the kill.

 

GOOF TROOP

                                      He’s such a snob.

 

GOOF TROOP

                                      He looks down at us southerners.

 

GOOF TROOP

                                        He’s always writing in that book of his.

 

Lee was the only one to stickup for me.. He sed I was a bit lazy but I was being turned into a scapegoat…Drop! Is the favorite word of choice…If you fuckup the whole platoon has to hit the ground and knockout pushups..

 

FRANKENMIND

                                     Laadee Daadee let’s have a party.

 

My unit now is Charlie 3 13th Infantry 2nd Platoon..”The Cobras”..most of em are dickweed yahooz like David Green who dropped outa highschool in the 9th grade.

He’s a compulsive liar with a loud mouth and sell Certs at a ridiculously inflated price.

 

 

GREEN

                            One roll for a dollar.It’s a good deal man. Let me tell you

 

Private 3rd Class Gerit Waterlander is from of all places Kalamazoo Michigan I pulled guard duty with him the other night and Waterlander was shitting asteroids cuz he thought he spied a Lieutanent heading our way…Quite the arrogant fuck but he’s been humbled. after being demoted from squad leader he whined…

 

WATERLANDER

                             I’m gald now cause I can goof off like you guys.

 

Poor guy’s spirits have been crushed cuz now he’ll never be elected the president of the Water Buffalo Lodge with a skeleton that huge in his closet..Our instructors are Sgt Hill

…cooldoodgatorguy that might actually care about you…Sgt Jackson…wiseass… and Sgt. Nyugene..quite and nice until provoked..

 

SGT. NYUGENE

(snarling)

                           I’m gonna kick some of your asses and that’s not an empty threat.

 

Can’t wait ti see if someone tries to call his bluff..ain’t gonna be me that’s for sure… odds are it’ll be Green…

 

 

FASTFORWARD

 

Odds & Endsville

“Pardom Me Sir, There’s a Ping In My Cosmic Pong”

Seattle, WA 10.92

 

I had

 

FRANKENMIND

                                              Fucked up.

 

And missed the last New Haven bound train and the thought of having to endure four hours outside Goon Squad Centralization made me wanna hurl..actually it was my last stage dive during…

 

RETRO VIVA ROBOTS

                   Insert The Alternative PowerPopster Of Your Choice

 

Show that was rightfully to blame….Security had taken a half an hour to seperate me from this spastic tribe of Bugleboyed New Jooooooooosey Hairharpies…even now years later the whiff of WORD reducing my iron twist to naught makes me sick…I needed to consume mass quantities and put the unpleasant how do you do behind me…disgusted that if liquidated the HairHarpies entire ensemble could zip me to Europe for an entire tv.season…so I’m on the steps of the Fifth Ave library cradling me skateboard… the scalding coffee’s caffeine curling my crotch hairs..when I ripped open a box of Cracker Jacks…one munch, two munch, three…damn the shit was stale..but

 

FRANKENMIND

                                     At least I have my prize.

 

Plundering thru the sugary snax like a boy possesed…

 

FRANKENMIND

                                      At least I have my prize.

 

Dumping the popcorn on the steps.

 

FRANKENMIND

                                       At least I have my….

 

And then the realdeal wonka’d my willy..there wasn’t gonna be any magick mirror or glitzy sticker to restore my faltering spirits…I was on me own….and the sudden horrifying Hello about the postioning of my puny placemat on Space’s Vast Kitchen Table came hurtling nine million miles an hour outta the mouth of the Great Void… Similar to the fart that whizzes its way from the depth of your butt after severe holiday pigging out…and rears its loathsome nappyhead, bellowing a hellacious lamentation of excessive alienation…and after this soulwrenching spine shattering revelation smugly settles between you and the outraged nitwits masquerading as your relatives and heehaws its calculated cleverness…Riding this deepskydivide revealed Dark Atari was the true buddha brutha ruling the milky ways….A Galaxy High dropout who had longed to bumrush The Fame Game…he had set his sights one being a VJ but when that didn’t pan out..Daark Atari crosd swords with The Wardrobe Dept…blackmailing His Heavenly Father into letting him manage The Infinite..and by default humanity too..Yes all us eeee

Eeeeeeeeeediots the funky and the confused….spinning on this giant peach in the plam of Dark Atari’s plan…Stunned by this sock-em-in-the-eye of this jabberwocky jaunt, I spent the remaining hours gabba gabba hey ho about his Monstrousity to every bum who staggered acroos my pigeonshit whitened Tower Of Discovery

 

HOBO

                 Huh…you..you..uh…that’s preposterousisiity

 

FRANKENMIND

                    You’ve earned yourself another drink bright boy

 

Of course it was all a fabulous lie…I had morfed into a seer of MuppetShowmystery..

A diviner of Devoesque defiance…A medium of Madhattin magnitude…. A prophet of Peter and of Pan…I was a dilletante Daffy Duck who had raided the MOMA and swapped  the Cezanes, Dalis, Picassos and Jackson Pllacks with rapping Acme robo- finger painted portraits of himself…each syllable of my trashtalk, a lusty conquest construct that would finally get me laid..Dark Atari’s tonguetwisting of Reality was a gateway out of the suburban schmuck and grind and I was a skatenik in love…by the time I strangled my rants to a dull roar, and got The Metro North home it was high noon…I burst into the dining room rant with rat piss and strange reality…grabbed a handful of Oscar Meyer weiners and proceeded to babble to my bewildered clan the ultra amazing power of Dark Atari’s psychic Ginzu Knife…Headcaskets blown away again  I revealed my intentions to quit school ,k.o. my job at Tasty Freeze and roam the earth with Dark Atari’s misbehaving vibe as my guide….after a few minutes more of this dementia I crashed on the carpet in exhaustion…My mother then proceeded to do what any commonsensical woman would do..dragged me to the tool shed, locked me in and waited til my Father came home…meanwhile she shredded my room apart looking for crack vials & her missing bag of snickers minatures…No megablast to be found but empty candy wrappers and a milehighpile of The Savage Sword Of Conan expertly hidden under Trip'’s bottom bunk was hard evidence to my depraved loontoonisey….Thru out the rest of the afternoon, my kidkin peeked open the doors too gawk in open disapproval at The Boy Afronaut Who Had Gone Bonkers And Wrecked Their Long Promised Vacation To DisneyWorld….Trip was downright thrilled though, pointing out between chomps of his caramel chews if I was indeed sent awaythere would be more dessert for the survivors…and a coupla pints of Vanilla Extract shoved down my throat would surely propel me over the edge of no deposit no return hastening their escape to witch mountain thus making The More Dessert Theory a sure bet….this meta mighta morphed into a different slice of Wonder Bread if at that moment Dad hadn’t glowed to the front curb in all his crooze control splendor….Mom and her besneakered conspirators quickly clued him in on The Dastradly Doings…exaggerating their sheer helplessness in the face of The Ultimate Evil…Dad weary from his usual beating on the back nine threw aside his golf clubs and yelled for me to…

 

DAD

                         Stop this dangblasted nonsese and go cut the lawn. Now!

 

Then he and Mom limped along to their inner sanctum of Frigidaire and Sealy…leaving my kidkin no choice leave behind their dreams of  heaping bowls of Chocolate Pudding and  release me…And as I broncobillyed the John Deere across the scorched lawn I sensed I’d have to be more cautious in choosing my audience…Apparently not everyone would be accept the concept of making the merry go round with a custommade sharksuit of illusion…

 

 

FAST FORWARD

 

 

Vigilantes of L.O.V.E.

“Attack Of The Yakbakatcha”

Reno, Nevada 12.95

 

Nine dollars and ninetynine cents…wouldn’t ya love a bit of clarity..a touch of sanity… for nine dollars and ninety nine cents…dontcha yearn for a taste of obsession…a ghost of posssesion for less than ten bucks…well, just your luck I gotta hold on it…

 

Rewind

 

A hold on it…

 

Rewind

 

Ahold on it…

 

SFX ZOINK$!

 

Its gotta hold on me…gotta Yak Bak 2…a micromini deviant’s device with dolby PVE… Positive Vocal Energy…a gadget of kool space age look that Jody’s girl will house you shake shake it shook furnished me with one unwild casino night…yesss yesss my friends a steady fever stream of nevermore usually less closin in…I was dialing for a way out…digitalizin for a way in….What’s the number of my X-file…where is my pile of Jello Pudding Pops..my pound of bong water taffy….and a blasphemous bolt of hocuspocus erupted a sidestreet in The Wall carrying me, leaving me for dead in a barren strip mall called This Is Your Life…This is about a Toy Story  too, this is a buzz light-years away from 007’s macho shuckin and jivin…a sometimes rhyming cry for help that only this boom boom of deliberate alien design could cure…these purple octopi in fantastic tangerine machines crucified my misery with a crown of ice cream… their bootyiful black tentacles blugeoned me with nightmare stix… rock your Body solar Mcs in silksuits , deathsinged wingtips sang they nothing to nineteen but me..Nothing but seething cavities of crimson pain..Banished from the Top Of The Pops, they need a tool like me…they need a fool like me..to bolster their danceable book smart up the Billboard Charts..they sed

 

 

 

SOLAR MCs

(shimmering like Leo Dicaprios)

                      Atomic Rooster Black Christ of The Divine Child Of The

                      Disco& Whine. Poster Boy Of The Beast. You Must Speak In

                      To It..let your mind peek into it..see you look into the hole. And

                      Dream mad trax to undo the damaged world. You must say to

                      These southbound creatures. These seekers like yourself..empty

                      Fading fast..on eeeeeeeeeeeee..those who are tired of the lies.

                      Those who possess some strength of their own..those who are

                      Kept from pursuing their own popsong down that path foretold

                      In the book..Get your last look…Its fading fast..on eeeeeeee..

                      You must say then play..instant rapback..yakkety yak..Hell is

                       The Harrah’s in your head.

 

And I did I did I do..I have accepted my dual role doubleohzero..I disavow with my like show you how of defiance…and I’ll tell you what the secret of life is..I repeat I’ll tell you for free…what others would rob you of your last piece of mind for..Its all perfect nonsense It makes no sense at all…and I’ll give you a lesson of hushhush I found in my fortress of solitude attitude…A man in the hightower…loud loud loud as bombs baby…

 

But hold on..if I give away the angle…all this suffering..all this romancing the alone will be for naught…I won’t be able to fall from grace..again..and meld myself into The Ultimate Player The Fast Talking FingerPopping Kid Eterenity With Melancholoy Melodies In His Holster…and cowboy coffee a real gone gone..

 

SUPERSTAR AGENT

                             He’s gone..left the country yesterday.

 

Feature length deal in London Tokoyo or Amsterdam..and I won’t be able to have my own talkshow about hitech hotstuff or tee shirts with  futureshocked every stitch of cheap

  Cotton manufactured in China’s amber waves of pain…I won’t be able to sigh away my soul on a line of cosmetics made from the essence of disgarded Goodyear tires and pebbled with pearls of acid rain…If I say then play instant rap back yakketyyak I will forego having myriads of Calvinclad Gapslacked teenyboppers chant my name..offering their snatch..their ass..their everything..

 

ALTERNATEEN

                               Take what you will . take all of me take take take me.

                               I wanna go I wannnago away with you. Away from all

                                This nothing into your nickelodeon packaged so nice.

                                Take me.

 

Scared Innocents who try so hard not be pleading for me to do whatver I wanna do to them even if that means fucking the very last ounce of

 

 

ALTERNATEEN

                               I  wanna believe in someone. I wanna believe in something

                               I wanna believe in you.

 

Outta their tired bodies then when I’ve had my fill leaving them naked and ashamed on a Motel 6 cuz

 

DICKUS MAXIMUS

                                 Hey ain’t I a guy and its my roddriven right to unleash my

                                 Anger and discontent on people weaker than me cuz hey

                                 Ain’t it the law of the land…cuz hey aint the way of the world

                                 And bitches ain’t nothing but hoz and trix…ain’tthey just

                                 Sluts..ain’t they just fodder for my foolin around

 

And if I tell ya for free what the Solar Mcs wanted me to rebelyel…I won’t be able to make a profit like a good pro should and buy myself a Viper GTS..GEE TITS SELL.. and vroomazoomzoom unleaded fumes thru HollywoodVeniceBeachMalibu looking for fresh asses to tag cuz

 

DICKUS MAXIMUS

                           Hey isn’t that what you do in the late LA afternoon when you

                           Finish taping your talk talk tv sitcom..cruise the sunset strip

                           Vizzin threedee vidsa of white black asian hispanic trash

 

To suck you off..make you feek like the..You won’t forget me Master Of The Universe that you are cuz “hey I’m so gawddamn smooth”…and this next riff is gonna sound rude yet alotta chicks can aha the monsta powertrip as well as a dick..ya know the Oh Soo

Sincere ones that cripple you with promises of letting you crash their crib…

 

DAWN OF A NEW AGE

                             As long as you want honest.

 

If you move their furniture to their new pad then when every last two ton piece of antique mod is in place…antique mod that Daddy’s good credit purchased..

 

DAWN OF A NEW AGE

                                Daddy the man I hate…Daddy The Man I love. Why

                                Can’t you be more like Daddy and just take what you

                                 Want

 

After the Really Righteous Girl Has You Struggle It

 

DAWN OF A NEW AGE

                                   Over there, no there, no that’s not right..uhmmm over

                                  There looks good..damn leave it you”ll I mean we’ll

                                   Move it in the morning

 

And after one eight hour session of shivering on her cramped cocktail nation couch

 

DAWN OF A NEW AGE

                                  I don’t think this is gonna work out you know hey I’m

                                  Not trying to be evil harsh or hurtful and please don’t

                                  Take this personally but I have a life to live and this is

                                  Really a bad time so you’re gonna have to make new

                                  Arrangements and no you can’t use the phone and the

                                  Food in the fridge you bought with your last food

                                  Stamps is mine and can I have my key back or will I

                                   Have to call the cops…Sorry good luck and ya know

                                  All this could have been avoided if instead of mooning

                                   Over that girl Jody in San Francisco you fucked the

                                    Living daylights out of me.

 

Yeah or how about the Spoken Word Warrior Tank Girl who professes loud loud loud and clear how she’d simply amputate her head if any Junior Exex Web TV Gee Man suggest he’d rotate her kalifornia hi-8…

 

 

BUFFY THE WORD SLAYER

                                       Heavy rotation Heavy Rotation do I look like I want

                                       Heavy rotation

 

And you proceed to motorbooty wacked Mac spew about The Amazing Agro Chick Whooz

 

NEMO

                                        Really down to earth Jody. I’m serious

 

Cuz you appreciate her lines…you dig her curves, you take pleasure in her words.. she’s given you hope that real people still exist..except when you phone her a few weeks later and say

 

NEMO

                                    Jody and I’ve got this nice new ride . Blood 63 Oldsmobile

                                    Holiday Super 88..If you want I can drive over to Oakland

                                     And do yo want me to pick you up we can go to The Lab

                                     Tonight or I don’t know we can get ice cream at Mitchells

 

The Amazing Aggro Chick freaks over the receiver

 

BUFFY THE WORD SLAYER

                                   Nemo you’re such a fucking showoff you’re like all the

                                   Other asshole rocknroll dudes I know. You’re gonna get your

                                   Novel published and I’m not. You’re gonna be in heavy

                                   Rotation and I won’t and you suck . you’re really not punk

                                   And you don’t know what real suffering is.

 

DAARK ATARI

                                     You’re not a cuddly blonde bitch in biker boots who can

                                    Sway her way any mindless dope with her hot pearl snatch

                                    You’re a suburban brat with a devils haircut in his Franken

                                     Mind who sed fuck you to everyone and everything he

                                   Built his former life on and did the dawg to the center of the

                                   Dirty dirge known as the Seattle Scene..waering out your

                                   Welcome at other people’s places.. borrowing other people’s

                                   Money, halfeating, sleeping on the streets trying to survive

                                   Long enough to finally believe in yourself

 

BUFFY THE WORD SLAYER

                                  Yeah Nemo you don’t know what it is to be down so long

                                  It looks up to me you effeminate artfag asskissing game

                                  Playing fraud

 

Sssssssssssssssssssssssso hold on….wait a minute…I don’t know if I wanna give away the secret cuz I’ll lose my angle to G.P.S. with The Jet Set…I won’t be singled out… fifty dicks to a bitch…fifty bitches to a dick…to buy a gothic condominimum in the shady state of New Orleans and sashay around the French Quarter spouting groovie koolie spells of hong kong phooey hoodoo…I won’t be able to buy my own Hubble Tele snoop and peek behind closed doors…doors never seen..doors that never open… or satelite my wireless sneak and intercept the model citizens’ microsoft downloading the dirt over The Internet….If I reveal the words of wisom I won’t be able to buy JodyCat a jupitersized glitterock and latch it on her finger so she can flaunt it in fine dining esta- blishments in Capetown, Casablanca, Paris, Peru…Would it be fair to our hard earned abfab to reduce our holdings to nil for the sake of a few billion people who really don’t wanna know the score anyway.. who would find life a burden if I ko.ed their luxurious lives of Red Lobster Chilis Olive Garden Service Mercandise….yeah sssssssssssssso I’m gonna hold off on this shit matter of factr screw those Solar Mcs and their not soo hiden agenda..it may be wrong but I’m keeping this shit close to home..home is where the dark atrai is even when the sun is in full swing….and then…..I pause and ponder about those gutterpunks on Haight St who helped save me from myself..and how they own nothing but Mr Citizen’s fear and loathing…so I’m gonna tell you what The Secret is I’m gonna annihilate ya with Saturday Morning Scoobyvoodoo..yeah the Kids’ causing a commotion to get a promotion cuz everythongs been in slow motion…The Secret that you’ve been seeking is

 

GUY SMILEY

                                       Nobody can say no to a bowl of Honey Nut Cheerios

 

Say than play instant rap back yakketyyak…

 

 

REWIND

 

Euro-A-Go-Go

“Once More a Room With A Zoom”

Portugal 11.89

 

 

KUNGFU DOOD

                                      Take that Dishonrable One

 

Under Eagle’s shadow…A Jackie Chan karate flick…my first movie in a while.. okay gang picture this..a Honh Kong kungfu movie dubbed in english with portugese sub- titles….massive confusion but more major fun than a David Brenner monolugue… yeah like that’s real difficult fo beat…call me KissyFur as in Kissy Fur Columbus.. anutha european country…anutha awesome situation…moved outta the cattle farm Residenia Dublin into this romatically dingy pension…Room’s only 5,000 escudeos for 5 night and shower included..It’s a got a great view of the harbor where the grey ocean let’s itself be tame ..lapping peacefully at the docks…kinda like having pool for ..BIG LIZARD IN MY BACK YARD…Massive rubber tree plant on the balcony to keep me company.. I ‘ll call it Wayne…

 

FRANKENMIND

                                  Wayne nigga yooz insane?

 

Building’s right near the old city so you can vizz Lisbon’s true beauty…Clusters of rickety buildings with winding cobblestone streets that moan

 

AEROSMITH

                                    Walk this way

 

Meal are outta sight and I do mean meals..after Spain I’m sick of bocadillos and calamari..Yeah The Primitives played yesterday in Madrid..Kramer will probably look at me in disgust when he learns I didn’t hang around enuff to glimpse Tracy Tracy’s scrumptious etc

 

THOMAS DOLBY

                                      Don’t want your love

                                       Don’t want your money

                                      Just want the keys to your Ferrari

 

The Wonderstuff ticket has gone to wast..oh well…Last night’s sojurn got me brain churning  a short story idea….Bang Zoom To The Moon…Old woman with ancient black and white t.v….ancient antenna…her son is coming to visit in a month and he likes the unattainable cable sports programs…she breaks down and buys a new one with money she’s been saving for a 2nd hand furcoat…but the day before he arrives the phone rings.. its him saying he can’t make it..maybe next year…and as she hangs up the phone the prizefight comes on…hmmm she sez too herself this sports stuff isn’t too bad and settles down to watch…

 

There’s no such thing as asking a simple question around here…all I wanted to know was

 

NEMO

                                        Is there a communist party here in Portugal?

 

Cuz I noticed the trademark hammer and sickle sparay painted on a few buildings and then a woman in the central part of town was manning a stand selling pamplets and pins of Lenin…I asked the woman who runs the pension and they couldn’t understand me.. I tried for 5 minutes to get my question across

 

PENSION LADY

                                            No understand.

 

NEMO

                                             Nevermind

 

PENSION LADY

                                              But Sonya….

 

She hops down the hall knocking on the door of a coupla females I noticed earlier…Ugh not more Americans..Nope sweet French meat…who she coerces into translating..via the same tongue…HAHAHEEEIng I ask my question again making sure I take in the warmery flesh of this shy? Creature…

 

SONYA

                                           Yes there is a communist party and its pretty big

 

Hmmmmmmmm the idea of a French girl tagging along…

 

FRANKENMIND

                                             Attractive luggage no?

 

NEMO

                                 Can you come to a meeting with me and translate

 

SONYA

                                 I don’t think they’ll be speaking in French.

 

Ratssssssssssss somehow I had to get my hands on her…and I still wanna go to a meeting…I could ask at the American Embassy but something tells me that wouldn’t be oe of my smarter moves. Now more than ever I gotta tackle The Communist Manifesto I ‘ve been carrying around for the last month.. Thirty day down…Forty more to go…Think I can make it..Dead silence and then

 

FRANKENMIND

Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

 

I’m so exited I can’t even sleep .you know how I sign most things with my signature phrase New England Manboy Surfbeast…well sitting here scratching my balls flipping thru Let’s Go and it dawned on me my Technicolor Surfing Dreams could be realized.. okeedoke I purchase a oneway ticket to Paris..take a train to the south of Spain.. ferry across the Meditteanean into Morrocco and then proceed to Asilah..

 

LET’S GO

                                 With its golden beach and gleaming white portugese style medina

                                 Make this a perfect place to slip gently into Morrocco

 

I can get a room at Hotel Marhaba for 15dh (lookup) which is a little over tow bucks and food is cheaper..we’re talking months and months of writingt reading and surfing.. I’ve gotr $1200 at home…need around five hundred more…buy a used board either in upstate NY or The Jersey Shore…shit I bet they sell em in Westport…I’ll try and recruit Kevin to follow my flight into Wonderland but personally I don’t think he believes..Can’t ask amy questions G…only the innocents fly…of course this will cause an uproar among The Iveys..again I’ll hear how foolish I am..maybe they’re right…I’ve overdosed on too many

Hap hap happy endings. Despite my moods I think I appreciate life more than most of “the World” could possibly. For there’s a sense of urgency in my seemingly dopey half witted meanderings. 13 minutes before the clock strikes twelve. Russian roultette polish style…all the cylinders are filled with bullets..at least I’ll die an experienced man. At times I despise God and religion and what its done to my Dad and I’s relationship. Cuz deep down I love him…He’s a good man, not selfish and selfcentered like I am.. It’s a shame we can’t be pals..again my decision might be stupid and I could possibly look back on this night and mutter malicious things about myself..like the day I signed up to Uncle Sam’s finest..Why did I insist on envisioning the army was like those 1940 World War Two musicals…did I really expect everyone to breakout in song and dance during k.p…even soo those draining six months instilled a daring do in my soul..oh fuck itall this life right here right now…feels downright cozy..like a pair of slippers…much more than than conventional living bullshit..that’s right…BULLSHIT!

 

U2

                                      Mister I ain’t got nothing

                                    But it’s more than you got

 

 

REWIND

 

Nothing But Lipstick

“Beatle Bailey: The Motion Picture”

Columbia, SC 11.87

 

Things to do when you’re bored in Basic Training

1)      Collect boogers

2)      Tip over beds

3)      Brag about how big your dick is

4)      Beat up on Green

5)      Write a list on things to do when you’re bored in Basic Training

 

 

ALISTAIR COOKIE

(chomping on choclate chips)

                         And now the memoirs of a Future Hollywood Shark

                          Arrrrrrumummmmmmm

 

The WaterBuffalo reminds me of a teenage Fred Finstone while this greek dood from Boston is the spitting image of Barney Rubble…In the mess hall I recoomended they make tracks for Hollywood cuz I’m postive some nut would love to make a live action movie of that prehistoric comedy team.. Whou would we get to play Pebbles?.. Brooke Shields? Ally Sheedy? Molly Ringwald? Naaaaaaaaaaaaah siging a big named brat packer would increase the budget…This has gotta be done L.A. slime style..Send a coupla Spin & Marty pretty boys to the airport and bus station …snatch a cute babe just off the boat from Wisconsin..with stars..no galaxies in her eyes..Have WORD sign a

WORD contract….If the Flinstones flick is a commercial hit and Pebbles gets ladee dodee cut off  her supply of cocaine and credit cards, reposses her convertible and kidnap

Her parents….

 

My army routine isn’t together like everyone else’s..My wall locker is a mess..my bed has more waves than the Pacific…I’m always the last one in formation despite my efforts to get a move on…Jeff Rone’s gonna be the model solider …near perfect if anyone could be so of course  I.uh..uhmmm…utilize his talents to see me thru the tedious tasks.. Besides he’s the only one here who’s convinced my writing will get me somewhere.. Good thing cause I don’t believe it myself at times..yet I never lose sight of becoming the next Fabulous Fantasia SuperDuper Haagen Daz Extra Creamy with a healthy dash of Reese’s Pieces…E.T…ET….E.T…feel like an incoming Georgie Porgie B7 Sundae Bomber..Fortifications down…

 

11th Commandment

Ye Shall Give Up All Embarrasing Letters of Love and Lust to Drill Sgt Or Be Bestowed The Punishment Of Painting The Barracks….Green got busted by Sgt hill for refusing to hand over his..

 

SGT HILL

                                            Private that’s a direct  order.

 

GREEN

                                            No Drill Sergeant

 

SGT HILL

                                            I’ll give you one more chance.

 

GREEN

                                             I refuse Drill Sergeant

 

Ha time to meet your friendly neighborhood Article 15…alotta kats commented that Green’s an asshole and he had it coming to him..tru but would they haven given over their love letters..Funny thing is it was to his Mom “ Oh Mommsie Ican’t wait to get back to your warm fuzzy….: Once again a great artist is ignored unappreciated and ridiculed by the masses. My Rendition of Alfalfa signing “ I’m In The Mood For Love” was wasted on these uncultured slobs..Told them to imagine the army was a grand ole 1940’s MGM musical…That I was Gene Kelly playing the lonely private bursting with creativity and while mopping the barracks I spot The General’s awesome babe of a daughter…

 

NEMO AS GENE KELLY AS BEATLE BAILEY SIGING ALFALA SONG

                                     I’m in the mood for love

                                    If it should rain we’ll let it

                                   But for tonight let’s forget it

                                  I’m in the mood for love

 

Did a lil soft shoe..tap here tap there..then the windup for the great finale…123…taaaa daaah…ready for the roar of the crowd and got the royal raspberry…

 

GOOF TROOP

                                     Bllllllllllllllttttlhhhhhhhp!

 

ALISTAIR COOKIE

                                     This has been another reality check production

                                      Mmmmmmmmmrrrrrmmmmrummmmm

 

FASTFORWARD

 

MotoDegenerate

“Celestial Sweater”

Joshua Tree, CA 9.94

 

My Name is MMMMud…your truly has constructed chaos again..this time at Rancho De La Luna…

 

FRANKENMIND

U2 huh?

 

Roared up the driveway and moseyed to the patio…looked like nobody was home…

 

NEMO

(knocking on the door)

                                                      Fred?

 

No answer so I opned the screen door and

 

DOROTHY

                                                       Toto I don’t think we’re in kansas anymore

 

Fred was in the middle of a recording session with Wool..the band’s instruments and his audi equipment scattered everywhere..Everyone was wired tired and there I was “uh is this a bad time?…too make matters wores the music producer Daniel Lamois is in the process of trekking from Mexico to these parts with his components..Thus I picked the absolute wores time to sid the vicious

 

NEMO

                                      Fred I need a coupla days. I gotta wait for cash My

                                      Uncle gets paid and I gotta get my head together.

 

FRED

                                      My mother doesn’t even show up without calling

 

NEMO

                                       But I just need

 

FRED

                                       I don’t give a shit.

 

Fine neither do I…Andrea sed I should be selfish and make sure I cover my ass and hey that’s exactly the method under operation..Has Fred’s memory gone banana split or has he conviently forgot how he screwed Pod and I this summer… Miles, Ryan and I finished fusing our liquid rev at the Music Source…

 

MILES

                                         What do you think?

 

NEMO

                                           Great Miles. Just one thing though. Aren’t you

                                           Supposed to hear what I’m saying?

 

If we wanted to be taken seriously we  were gonna Have to rerecord it before slipping it to Chrissy…and after being faxed the four one one about The Revival Tent..we needed to be on our toes…

 

So you want to be a Lollapalooza slum poet. Forget the glamour, forget the riches, don’t even look at me with those star struck eyes, this is the peanut butter van tour of the Lolla- palooza poetry scene. You’ll be stinky, cranky, and maybe a little tired but so what? You will have a hand in the corruption of America’s youth and that’s better than a poke in the eye..

 

What is The Revivval Tent?

Basically its an experiment in cultural terrorism. The core of the spoken word will revolve around the third stage. Aka Rev Mudd’s revival tent and spoken word litle Armageddon…Picture a circus tent with 500 nose pierced angels, a centerstage and one of those P.A. things. Everyday for 42 shows, a cast of thousands will wander by the tent in search of big bang entertainment. The goal is to corrupt our fans with the power of the spoken word to kill isolation, fear, ignorance.

 

Like humilation?

We all have something to say but how well you say it will be the hook that grabs and keeps the audience. We are not expecting to push you into performing- performance exhibitionists need apply only and guerilla performances are a dream come true. Go beyond the set confines of the stage/performer/audience..Blur the lines. Experiment in cultural terrorism.

 

How do I get there?

Planes, trains, automobiles. Greyhound bus or thumbing a ride

 

Will I get paid?

Well, lets say you will be rich in experience. We’ll give you five bucks for gas money and a pass to the show. You are encouraged to be creative in funding yourself.

 

Make no mistake about it..we knew Fred had a life and in return he knew how I was living…half a step ahead of the gullitoine. He sed yes to rerecording our noise then completely flaked.Not one phone call returned…Francesca tried to smooth the edges . She introduced us in the first palce but it wasn’t her wrong that rammed us off the road. HEY FRED, RYAN LOST HIS JOB WITH THE CITY CUZ HE TOOK TIME OFF AT SOMEBODY’S SAY SO AND IT SURE AS SHIT WASN’T ME. HEY FRED HE’S GOT TO SUPPORT A WIFE AND A THREE MONTH OLD CHILD IN NOW WHERESVILLE OLYMPIA WASHINGTON THE PLACE WHERE THEY KILL ROCK***S…HEY FRED I THINK YOU OWE US AN APOLOGY AT LEAST HEY FRED!!!!!!!!!!!!..just another symptom of the disease…fucked over and forgotten.. never invited, never included even when you watch your pees & kews…or when I take the Nasty Nestea plunge and ask, betcha bottom dollar its No Nemo No..No yo can’t open for us..No, you can’t record here. No your shit’s not gonna make the cut..No Nemo No yeah I’m getting in a gorilla mobbing mood…I was kicking back..maxxin relaxin..givin you a rest from the venemous verbalization..I was actually givin two shits but tuff lucks kids I’m resuming the raging rap..Give you a tattse of what I got..Give ya what I’ve been getting…I’m the original kick around kid..kicked in the head..in the gut, in the teeth..  been kicked outta bed, my room, crib, Given the heaveho from schools, restuarants cafes convience stores, communes, clubs.. Been booted outta bookstores, flung from film festivals, given the one way whoosh from Germany, Switzerland, Paris and Philadelphia.. zoned outta Kmart QFC Kinko’s…Now ain’t that a bitch..talk about embarrasing… the 24 copy shop has ko’ed your privelege to plagarize..your desire to duplicate…axes your Xeroxing action…negates your need to WORD….I’m sick of being the contestant The Blame Game..cuz ever since the dawn of crime, I’ve been Mr Porta Putdown. For every scewed marriage and merger…everything misplaced and missing..for every con argu0ment and robbery and the list keeps growing…It’s longer than Godzilla’s dick.. I mean I got Santa beat..St Nick ain’t seen shit..But I refuse to continue taking the rap.. I’m gonna prevent every misfire mistrial or mishaps from landing in my lap…Its time to past the torch..The victim is gonna do some victimizing..soo whatcha gonna do if you get left with the mess but ain’t getting fizzed into the mix…KRASH!..Got nothing to lose.. except this incident is sure too lightspeed back to Francesca and make me seem even more like the enfant terrible..Maybe its time to disconnect myself from this whole stinkin scenario…Getting cold..betta get my sleeping bag and ease…

 

7.30pm …..lights like Christmas jam…waiting for the world to end..” And a big big love.. a big big love”- the Pixies…twinkle twinkle raven’s cry..a stranger shows no shame..lost child of Count Chocula with abowlfulla blame…all I want is to be loved again..”all I want is to hold you like a doll”-The Cure….wish I had some weed to really appreciate this moment cuz this Arizona Iced Tea ain’t making it…Lying near the deserted barb-q..the ranch is in disarray…barbed wired broken bricks dead batteries… nothing like last year..Jim Sperber and Susan Copi..the Cal Arts videohos ventured out here to interview Francesca for yet another project I was involved in that bombed…Up sideyahead…Fred is aka The Duckster a character in Francesa’s books, Weetzi Bat, Witch Baby Missing Angel Juan…was intense gathering round the wishing well tea candles floating on the black water…Fred unleased his mystic desert song as Francesca danced and danced….Gainup…Now the well’s dry the water’s gone and the magick is missing…No more No more I wanna be no more…rid me of this riddle of the right …I wanna be all wrong…

 

1:30 am…True men don’t kill coyotes but I might have to recalibrate my behavior.. where I ismy gun..right here…good cuz that noise spilling thru the mountains is inhuman look to my left and the studio is bleeding redrum redum redrum..Fred’s laying some sinister scifi in the mix…The final trax…calling falling..callin fallin…I have fallen earth ward and your asses are mine…I’m seeing constellations I’ve never seen before.. the whole universe from here practically and I swear is I zone real hard I can see past tommrow right into the next millenium..shit into my next life…wish there was someone else I could experience this with…

 

FASTFORWARD

 

Viglantes of L.O.V.E.

“Bywater By Way Of Blood”

New Orleans, LA 2.96

 

Chrissy we made it!…2,000 or so treacherous miles into the belly of this AmeriKKKan Beast…Joshua Tree, Phoneix,…Blood Jody and I’s 63 oldsmobile Holiday Super 88 got us here safely?… yet I’m tellin ya it’s not a trip we’re gonna scoobydoo anytime soon.. on four wheels at least…after an unexpected pitstop at the Magic Hotel in L.A.. Blood wouldn’t stop for noone nobody or nothin…not even when I slammed on his brandnew unpaid for brakes…

 

SFX ZOINKS

 

The kisstory was pretty tame spwn..until we had a close encounter of the Cop Kind in Fredericksburg, Texas…Taking 290 to Austin, Blood’s headlights blew in the middle of nowhere..ya know that’s agawddamn lie..Blood hasn’t had any lights since we bought him in Seattle last year…They blew on our return to San Francisco and I;’ve been too lazy or ccupied in this Infinite Sadness to bother having them fixed…Having zero dollars and next to no gas left Jody and I were forced to spend the night near the highway… You can’t imagine how scared I was…Visions of a predawn strike by the Killer Klown Krew kept me awake..for protection we had a coupla screwdrivers and a Louisville slugger I bought at Toys R Us before we left..” The Best Place On Earth”… but I’m sure any inter- racial hating good ole boys would have been pacling a helluva lot more than our pathetic arsenal…Damn though I don’t have much to fear cuz Jody whacks a mean punch

 

SFX THWWWAAAK!

 

We both about froze to death…13 degrees and looooooooooooosing altitude….plus my demented dreamworks didn’t help ease the helldorado…Eerie psychic tve of me dad butt naked except for a g-string bikini beating me with a two by four…Huh?…The next morning those darn kidz dynamic hairdos were startled by a piercing

 

FREDDY’S FINEST

                                         Step out of the car now!

 

Apparently Blood had laid to rest in the driveway of a grainwarehouse…and all his windows had frozen over from the inside and the cops couldn’t see shit except the smirking rear window Devilhead…a hypnotonic souvenoir from our Polks Street exotica at the Leland Hotel….

 

MARILYN MANSON

                                       Yes the danger must be growing

 

Weeeez reeeeeeel wild childs…Clad in leather, shielding our eyes from the sun Jody and I crawled outta Blood without our romperstomper ready Wesco Boots..my Rebel belt buckle dangling near my undone fly….

 

FRANKENMIND

                                      Howdeedoodee Officer Sir..Don’t mind lil ole me while

                                      I clean the lovecum off the seat

 

DEE

                                  OoOOH  I’m telling Momma

 

Talk about one of the most sureal momnets in my life…and that’s saying a helluvawhole- lotta..Matter of smack we were both too groggy and cold to be afraid…

 

NEMO

(Slowly turning to Jody snickering)

                                       Dood he’s got his hand on his gun

 

JODY

(laughing)

                                          No way.

 

Shootshootshootit….shootshootshootit…shootshootshootit…I stayin character of the Def Com Demonoid receiving the Royal Rude Patdown…the cops ran our licences thru the SooperDooper Crime Computer courtesy of Microsoft and came uop dry…ha Though hold on to the hahas ..we heard the WORD growl that I was a white guy from Houston with a DWI

 

ARNOLD DRUMMOND

                                          Whachubee talking about?

 

Shootshootshootit…shootshootshootit…shootshootshootit…but no one seemd to care about that very obvious oopsadaisy…and then the question we had been waiting for..

 

JONNY LAW

                                            You’re not carrying any drugs are ya?

 

NEMO

                                            Drugs? Us? Ya gotta be kidding.

 

And of course we were…and Jonny’s partner Jose Aint Taking No Shit From You Cuz

Odometer zoomed in for the kill…Holyshit this merry music’s got us spinning around and around and around and around might be stopped before The Delicious Vinyl and me could rocket scientist to Bourbon St….Settling my nerves I threw another quarter in the outer space jukebox and opened Blood’s trunk….

 

SFX: WWWWWWWWWWWide

 

Then crept to the hood and leaned hard…Jody worker her wonderful I’m soo lovable how could I be doing anything illegal Cali girl geehiz to the tee…Smiling and playing with her hair…If this Mallory & Mickey teamwork din’t clear the smokies nothing would… that and the fact Blood ‘ s trunk was crammed with Jody ‘s massive wardrobe, my books and The Altar Of Stranger Technology…Guess our new religion had paid its proper dues at Naked Eye Video cuz a few shuffles of the bizare heap and it was declared..

 

JONNY LAW

                                              Looks clean to me.

 

And now for the coupdegrace..as Jonny & Jose headed back to their squad car leaving us free to be the freaks we wanna be…The Flim Flam Man That I am summertimed right behind and asked…

 

NEMO

                                              Can we have some gas money?

 

Ha..my  being as bold as Jim Brown was rewarded with a voucher for ten bux of Exxon..

SCORE COPS :0 JODY&NEMO:1…

 

We’re gonna try and get a place either in The French Quarter or Bywater the area below it…the 9th ward’s predominately a black neighborhood  and the rest of the Bayouyayaz… I’m gonna try and complete a working draft of The Novel…While we’re here…I am Henry, She is June…I am Henry, She is June…Enclosed the fax Kent Fielding sent me about Insomicathon 96

 

A 48 hour nonstop poetry/music/theater/festival featuring over 100 poets and over 40 bands including Hunter S Thompson, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Amiri Baraka, Lee Renaldo Todd Colby, Nemo, Sonic Youth, Beastie Boys, Drunken Boat, Anne Rice, The event will include a small press fair featuring books from Soft Skull Press, Hozomeen Press, Boog Literature, City Lights Poetry Fly and Permafrost

 

Got hold of Douglas Brinkley’s friend Ron Whithead and he said Insomicathon will be held August 16-18. His Literary Renaissance is slated to have my rocknrolling prose poster printed in time for the event..I’m not losing any sleep over it though ya dig…Hunter Thompson . shit I gotta get my copies of Hells Angels and The Great Shark Hunt signed…If the literal meaning of gonzo journalism is becoming immersed in the scene Maya Deren’s Divine Horsemen:The Living Gods Of Haiti qualifies bigtime.. Bought it at Sallie Glassman’s Island Of Salvation.. She’s the Jewish voodoo priestess somehow involved with the O.T.O. her magick botanica’s across from the PussyCat Caverns, an underground music venue run by Inga Muscio’s friends Panecea and Judy..graduates of Evergreen State College….the other day I parked Blood by the Pussy behind this olse school station wagon with Washington Plates and bwaaaaaaaaang a POD sticker was clinging from its fender…Remember Pod…the Olympia band I WORD WORD WORD….Pod…Sage…Imij…they’ve all bit the dust…Damn The Novel’s becoming more & more a memorial to a Paradise Lost…’Rounding Rounding Steady Compounding… A Topsy Turvy Turn Of Events That Leave The Keepers Of The Crucifix Unpaid”…Jody receives her first licketyspliff hoodoo zoom manana..you know I’ve never met any woman like Jody before…She’s so ambitious and brave even more than me sometimes… and her only true motivation is LOVE….Jody could/can have the pick of The Boy Litter but somehow she chose me… I hope you’re feeling better Chrissy..It’s too bad we couldn’t see you since we’re not in the Hollywood Hills often….and shit I hate to mention this again …Isn’t White Zombie gonna be in New Orleans soon…Do ya think?..NO NO WAIT WAIT DON’T DO..DOWN GIRL DOWN..HELP..AAAAAAUUUUUUGHH…..AAAAAARRRGH!

 

JODY

                       Go on girl you sure did wash that punk bitch outta your hair.

 

AAAAAAAAAAAAH!

REWIND

 

Odds & Endsville

“Girlfriends”

NYC 11.89

 

Closing credits of ScoobyDoo..Leshko’s Coffee Shop..corner of 7th & Avenue A…Break fast special with ham…The Village Voice cover reads…”The FBI Hates This Band.. NWA”…contemplating a solitary mosey uptown perhaps The Metropolitan…maybe.. Though I think I’ll stick to the lower eastside since grim economics sed my broke ass can’t afford the subway uptown…If you haven’t noticed…This is New York… last night newly shined shoes dragging my jetlagged butt to St Mark’s bookshop to purchase The Life of Langston Hughes, a rad African poet from the 20’s and 30’s I had never heard of til after my Euro-A-Go-Go…and I ran right into Val…a hip greek girl I bothered a lot last summer when I worked at Cumberland Farm…Work Ha more like reading the Bio graphy of Malcolm X mourning over Rebecca…Val  lives here in the siddy now and you could say we’re kindred spirits cuz we’re biggger than life itself…so no way Jose was Norwalk gonna contain us….

 

VAL

                                  Where are you coming from Malcolm

 

NEMO

                                    Paris.

 

VAL

                                     No shit. Come over to my place and tell me about it.

 

Her new apartment was on third adjacent to the Hells Angels booking office of Slap That Nigger Silly before you Can Buy That 12 Inch at Dancetrax down the block..upstairs I sat at the kitchen table drinking orange juice mumbling a few lines of prose while she resumed her frantic game of wholesale and retail..packing shrooms cocaine crank heroine and pills of unknown origin and potency for…

 

VAL

                                     Friends. People ask me to get things for them and I do

                                     My best if I can…I make a few bucks out of it but not

                                     Really. Not really

 

I held back any comment…not out of indifference..or cuz I didn’t have one…its just after talking to Diane yesterday..

 

DIANE

                                       Let’s get out of here. Offices are so formal.

 

I should listen more and not impose my world on others..

DIANE

                                       Especially if you want to be asked back.

 

One of Val’s…uh..friends…Alan dropped by tall in a black me and my motorcyle jacket Captain America shields on both lapels…He squatted on the griity lineoleum floor..a nd with irises wider than wide should be said

 

ALAN

                                    Oh my gawd Val you should have been at the party on

                                    Sunday. It was in an empty swimming pool and everyone

                                     Was on shrooms…After twenty minues almost evryone

                                    Left things were so tense. And if you’ve got to locate some

                                     Moonrock.

 

NEMO

                                     What’s moonrock?

 

ALAN

                                     It’s heroine and cocaine

 

NEMO

                                      Oh.

 

Another 10 minutes of street knowledge then Alan dismissed class by placing thirty bix on the table..grabbes his brown bag of You Will Be Under My Control taking his leave with an exaggerated cheery

 

ALAN

                                        Bye girlfriend.

 

My jetlag had rendered me null and avoid roaming the streets you romantic fool so I put Val on the spot for crash.

 

VAL

                                      You can’t. I’ll be up all night running errands.

 

NEMO

                                      Cut me some slack. I don’t wanna go back to Norwalk now

 

VAL

It’s a matter of trust man

 

NEMO

                                        I’m not gonna fuck with your shit.

 

VAL

                                           Why do you always do this?

 

NEMO

                                           It’s a bad habit I’ll break…tomorrow.

 

VAL

                                           I could ring your neck.

 

NEMO

                                            Please.

 

VAL

                                       Alright but you gotta be gone by seven. I’ll be back

                                       Then.

 

As she got dressed for the danceteriasoundfactorytheworld…jeesuz she had lost a lot of weight…Val moaned how lucky I was to have gotten out of The States for a while and how she had to do the same..

 

VAL

                                   I gotta go somwhere like Mexico or maybe the mountains

                                   Upstate. I don’t know I haven’t figured it out. But it’s stupid

                                   For me to mention it since I can’t pay the phonebill or rent

                                    Much less a trip…And this jerk exboyfriend of mine stole

                                    My leather jacket so I haven’t been able to sew on that

                                    Russian patch you gave me.

 

Too tired I smiled faintly..notes of “Jane Says” swimming….Val gave the key a quick kiss on the cheek and left…hours later a lithe figure of red hair barged in thru the door

Starling me awake…It was her roommate Gina

 

 

NEMO

                                       I’m..I’m

 

 

GINA

                                        Nemo back from paris. Val left me a note.

 

Head back on the pillow…ssssssssssssssnore and then….later

 

GINA

                                  …can’t believe this fucking shit. You’ve never danced

                                   it’s every fucking twenty minutes 600 620 640 700 Its

                                    hell I’ve gotta get out I can’t take it anymore. I’m busting

                                   my ass to get this money together to get a place of my

                                own. You can’t imagine. Things are so much easier for you

 

VAL

                                  Gina you put yourself in this situation. It was easy to stay

                                  There dance and not look for a real job. Now things have

                                  Changes, shits hitting the fan and you want out. That’s the

                                  Ideal thing but sometimes you gotta do what you don’t

                                   Wanna do even if it means staying there until you make

                                   Enough money to leave.

 

GINA

                                   Life is great for you Val you’ve got no problems You have

                                    A home.

 

VAL

                                    Yeah right things are fucking great. Like I really wanna

                                    Deal. I wanna get outta this shit.

 

7:30 or so while the cartoons are flickering bitterly on the screen Val laid on her bed and flipped thru Vogue…I wanted to fuck her badly but I had taken a shower..and well she hadn’t…Hurried goodbyes and outside the streets were wet cuz sometime as I slept it had been raining but it wasn’t anymore…

 

REWIND

 

Euro-A-Go-Go

“He’s Most Hardcore”

Lisbon Portugal 11.88

 

Gave a boy in a café a copy of Surfer magazine…he seemed really to appreciate it and I guess I was in the mod to play The Generous American…Black African dood sat down next to me and mercifully translated my order..I asked him about the surfing deal. He sed it too place mostly in the (algarue) early in the morning..another dude at the counter told me about the about the winter scene in Morrocco..Sed the weather was warm and Casa blanca was magnifico…Not where I’m bound but it’s along the westcoast and more economical to fly there from Alsilah…Once I’m back in Norwalk I’ll send away for surf reports for the places I intend to go…After Asilah hit the states get a job save money then hit Brazil and Peru..Continue to surf write rage…I have this dream of one day retruning to Portugal buy this beatup station wagon strap my board on top, throw clothes in the back and just fllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllly!

Beer and Fritos strategically placed on the front seat for easy access..Even by the slight chance I can’t purchase a sufrvoard I’ll go for the boogey board action.. Morey Boogie This how hardcore a sufre I wanna be..when you wear your wetsuit under you prom night tux, graduation gown, and your wedding day straightjacket…Man I was mean to be oceanlasting..too bad I can’t swim.. but hey let’s not get technical…

 

I bothered Henrietta and Anna the Danish not French girls as I first believed… Returning their sneakers I stole the night before I forgot to knock and busted in and caught a staggering glimpse of the prettier ones glorious tits…

 

FRANKENMIND

                                      RRRRRRRRRRRROARRRRRRRRR!

 

They finally found time to squueeze me into their schedule had a decent dinner at the restuarnt….there I go again my spelling as gone to pot…all play and no waork makes The Manboy a dunderhead….I’d like to think it’s a direct result from The James Joyce I’ve been zonin…The Danes and I discussed the differences in parental relationships DENMARK VS. US. There the kids and adults get drunk off their asses collectively. In The States being seen with your parents after 8pm is a major embarrasment. This is why my Dad will never comphrend what I’m about…Him at 21..married with two kids with more on the way…job extra college courses…Me at 21…single Army dropout currently not in school or employed boogeying round Europe horny all the time…Hernrietta made a lasting impression on me..when she and Anna left the room minus the bottle of wine they entered with I had a hardon for an hour and half or soo…Be an honor and a privelege to do her in the name of The U.S. Of A… Have to break Wednesday for Switzerland. Yup Take three trains to Zurich to have Sanda blow me off…

 

DEPECHE MODE

                                       I  just can’t get enough.

 

REWIND

 

Nothing But Lipstick

“Enemy Intelligence Update”

Columbia, SC 11.87

 

Resuscitation Annie was a big hit with the troops…first time any of us fuckups have kissed anything vaguely resembling a woman….I personally went back for seconds Might find her missing after the first aid sessions are over. Prime Sispects Tierney and Taylor...I endured guard duty with Waterlander again..Nice night. The sky was chow plate clean…

 

 

SKY

                             Twinkle Twinkle lil Star

 

FRANKENMIND

                             Hey star why don’t ya pipe down some of us have to

                              Work for a living…

 

Maaaaaa maaa way….maaa maaa waaaay….the mysterious mongo mindmeld created ny the earthbound heart to soar thru the maaaa maaaa waay… maaa maaa way…and

 

STAR TREK

                                 To boldy go where no man has gone before

 

OOPs wrong space opera..got awfully tired of living this life at the age of 16.. finally realized no matter how mundane boring stupid pointless ot trivial this channel was good as it gets and despite all my wylie coyote attempts to wish myself into another network

Show…

 

NEMO

(yawning excitedly)

                                 Man I’m so outta here.

 

I’d wake up in the same bed…Fairy dust wasn’t powerful enough to break free of Reality’s Atmpshere..oh where is Peter Pan when ya need him..probaly screwing Wendy

….or depending upon how kinky he is..Tinkerbell…Loved those Flash Gordon Buck Rogers serials….rayguns& retro rockets plutonium zygalphonic adaptors…what exactly is a plutonium zgalphnic adaptor..Flash despite his rugged good looks & decatholon bod had a tough time reading the ingredidnets of Captain Crunch so ya know he doesn’t know I wanted to be Flash until I discovered il Black boys couldn’t grow up to be white space serial stars from the 30’s…talk about harshing on my traveling sideshow..Though I recovered and settled on…

 

TRIP

(on the bottome bunkbed)

                                                 Roy Rogers?

 

NEMO

                                                Hey cowboys are people too…

 

I didn’t want to get up today..at all…The word was this heavyduty oodicer was dropping in for a surprise inspection..Surprise..hmmmmm, isn’t that supposed to mean unexpected.

But I wasn’t complaining…my wall locher looked like shit….I couldn’t do it Sunday.. I was painting the stairwell…the whole fucking stairwell…the privates who didn’t go to church were presented with this nifty opportunity to go man go…Pissed off at first then started to really get into it

 

NEMO

(high off fumes saluting stairwell)

                                           Private Picasso reporting

 

The secret of my sudden success..the guys in my squad helped me get my act together.. folded every single article of clothing into itsy bitsy teensy weensy sizes and then  crammed into a laundry bag… not a  moment too soon ..the captain came in…

 

CAPTAIN

                                        Private think its about high tide you washed your clothes

 

NEMO

                                          Yes sir.

 

CAPTAIN

                                Private why do you have two BRM books?

 

NEMO

                                 One was on the ground and I picked it up sir.

 

CAPTAIN

                                That’s good initaive private.

 

NEMO

                                   Thank you sir

 

   Sgt jackson had inspected us earlier and saw Rebecca’s picture on the locker door

 

SGT JACKSON

                                   Private is that your girlfriend?

 

NEMO

                                    Yes

 

SGT JACKSON

                                    I didn’t know you were into that.

 

TAYLOR

                                    White girls drill sergeant?

 

SGT JACKSON

                                      No DW

 

Ha ha hee hee I knew what he meant…the fall of Furher Texas Tierney came to no surprise to me on Saturday I had predicted his demise by Monday..When Waterlander was demoted Tierney became in charge of The Cobras…Totally wrong move…He’s ask us what’s the deal for the day..he was the friggin squad leader…and he’d get pissed off when one of us brought this to his attention…The last straw was during the inspection and the captain pointed out Tierney’s wall locker was the messiest…Not even five minutes after the Captain left…the 4th squad was called to attention…The empire of evil was over and Tierney was demoted while we tried to hold back our laughter…Though our celebration was shortlived…The next morning the title of top dawg was returned to Waterlander

 

MUNCHKINS

                                     DingDong the fat ass is not dead Stay in bed you sleepy

                                     heads

 

WATERLANDER

                                    I don’t want this job again but since I’ve gotta. I aint takin

                                     Shit from you guys anymore understand, Nemo

 

NEMO

                                     Out your ass Waterbuffalo

 

And now I’m on KP til who knows when…toldya Waterlander’s humble WORD was act.

Hey need a morning wakeup call…Join the 4th Squad’s Mile High Club..the inner circle is Tireney, Taylor, Secoy..Meet us in the latrene right after break fast…arrive early cause the stalls are first come, first serve..sit your ass down lean forward and crap with enthusiasm…

 

TAYLOR

                                         This is the best feeling next to fucking.

 

The fumes are so dank they float down the hall..talk about chemical warfare..probably those t-t-tasty eggs..Taylor wins hands down for actual poundage per dump…Inducted Waterlander into the fold on Wednesday..since I’m the appointing committee.. my first response was nowayjose…Hating to see a 22 yearold man on his knees especially Water lander..he might not be able to get off of em…I flexed my executive powers and commissioned a junior shitters squad…I want to have a Mile High chapter in every fort in the continental states by next year before setting up the troops overseas and I feel letting Waterlander in could be a major set back in my plans for world domination..

 

FRANKENMIND

                                      Excuse me partner time for a Reality Check.

 

NEMO

(gripping balls thru BDUs)

                                     AAAArgh I can’t beat the system.

 

 

FRANKENMIND

                                     AAAAh very good very good now once more with

                                     Emphasis.

 

NEMO

                                      Aaaaargh I can’t beat the system.

 

Payday was another showcase in humiliation…Lt “ Ichabod Crane” was handing out the moola…The idea was to walk forward when called, salute, get paid, do an about face and return to the sidelines…simple enough right?…tried not to attract attention to myself.. uhhuh who was I kidding..as soon as he gave me my pay allowance…

 

LT CRANE

                                        Stand over here Private

 

Awwshit…thought of all the mistakes I could have executed in the past 60 miliseconds.. Shot Sgt Jackson my infamous look of clueless concentration…

 

LT CRANE

                                Private where do you come from?

 

NEMO

                                  Norwalk, sir

 

LT CRANE

                                  Why do you talk like that?

 

NEMO

                                   Like what sir?

 

LT CRANE

                                  All that gnarly stuff and whatever.

 

NEMO

                                  I wasn’t aware I was doing anything wrong.

 

LT CRANE

                                   Nothing’s wrong private. I just want to know the

                                   Sorta people you hung out with.

 

NEMO

                                   I  don’t know what you mean sir.

 

LT CRANE

                                     Don’t bullshit me private you’re gonna tell me some-

                                     Thing about yourself before I let  you leave.

 

NEMO

                                       Some go to college. Some don’t. We read books

                                      Listen to music.

 

LT CRANE

                                     By music you mean that. What is that uhmn

 

NEMO

                                       New wave.

 

LT CRANE

                                        Yeah that New Wave stuff.

 

Well this impromptu interview before the entire Charlie company finally ended..and after it was done Sgt Jackson had me stand in front of the platoon and made me say “ dood” & “faggot”…I told Sgt Hill later on…he’d approach him about it..but I was like no. I’d only be labeled a momma’s boy and receive more shit..and I really really really really don’t need that.

 

 

FASTFOWARD

 

MotoDegenerate

“Filled With Familiar Demons”

Joshua Tree, CA 9.84

                                  

Aaah just finished taking a dump in the Joshua Tree Monument…behind the most accomodating cati…Ha HA excrement sure looks different upclose and personal than when its floating in a commode…Geronimo!..kinda kitschy cosmic..kinda krazy kool… but hey I’m a dreamer..crocked off comicbook vapors..geetar wings and chocolate chewing gum…Standing near rock formation #269….the monument appears to be The Thing’s breeding ground…of course legend has it Ben Grimm and the rest of the Fantastic Four were transformed into the First Family Of Superdooingz…by cosmic rays..zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzapya like thatcha….but my connection to The Secret History confirms that this was his native hatchery…Ahhh The Father land..Seig Heil Seig Heil.. any minute now I'’ expecting Mom Pop and his kid siter Thing too bulldoze thru the terrain..once again for those in the cheap seats….PHRASE….hellbent on destruction..serving the killer creator…KOOL…though gadzooks the spook is holding on the defective bazooka…Real life..This is Real Life..A fact I’m forced to remind myself constantly…I get tangled up in my own stories, the truth, the lies…and after a while I can’t ascertain the logic from My Pet Project Of Pulling Your Leg…For instance I told everyone in Seattle..that my Powerbook got stolen..a real deal.. A guy named Denny fenced it for me to some junkies who need to computerize their smack…oh and that Dick Nystrom the Soho photograper bought me the whatever model it fucking was…but in reality it was Susan Copi’s and I ripped it …oh somewhere in between The Simpsons and Seinfeld…ya see Susan and I had a deal… she had to finish her film project in order to graduate from Cal Arts…and the professor was hassling Susan  about vision and I felt sorry for her…I mean this was my Witchbaby here. ..so I offered to drive her to San Francisco…let’s go let’s go let’s go….vroomazoomzoom…and help finish shooting it…but then she gets with her girlfriends..and all of a sudden I’m holding her back…You know the usual you’re taking up to much space…I can’t afford this..you gotta stay some where else…and this is after The Marvel Comics fiasco of Who said they were gonna pay you that advance Nemo Not me ask Mort…and I’m like no way am I getting screwed again…so that night I hopped a bus to Mill Valley with hotwired in hand..and made up some good luck story for Andrea while I waited for Nystrom to fedex me some cash… Cash that got me a ticket on the Green tortoise back to Emerald City…Cash that didn’t last…as nearly all summer I langished on Francesca’s couch and agreed with Denny’s conspiracy theories about The Secret Hand… the hand that put $800 in wallet for two days cuz I turned around and bought The Beast.. that whole hellbound equation Powerbook=Cash=The Beast=On The Road is anuther reason why I was scared when the cop pulled me over…I didn’t know if Susan had the SPD issue a warrant for my arrest…She obviously didn’t  so if I vid what I’m supposed to view its cuz of You Susan and your contribution to My On Going Account With God….Earlier today I shot the shit with Pete Stahl the leadsinger of Wool..it was his chant…

 

PETE

                             Come on baby let’s dance and shaaaaaaaaaaaake!

 

That reasurred me back to sleep…He strolled over to the wishing well where I was hiding

 

FRANKENMIND

                              Keep outta sight Nemo. Keep your mouth shut. Keep it

                              Closed. Don’t even breathe. Keep your head down low

                              Cuz when the lies are fired ya don’t wanna be shipped

                               Back to Seattle in a bodybag.

 

Pete was really cool and down to earth…the band’s recording their 2nd cd…their first release “Box Set” is out this week…The band’s footing the bill for this session so their label London Records can’t call the shots..Do whatever they want even if its cross town traffick combined with The Dominican Monks farts….When Fred’s finished completing the final mixes, they’re touring with The Melvins and L7 after jetting to New York for the CMJ…Ha everybody and their mama are spanning that great industry divide except Sage…the one band that should be there..You wouldn’t believe by looking at him but Pete’s in his thirties…I wuz like “Dooooood!” her I am close to 27 and couldn’t connect the way I wanted to this year…and he’s the dreaded three-oh and still pushing on. He’s from Washington DC and he and Dave Grohl the drummer from Nirvana used to be in the band Scream…they even played The Anthrax, the only powerpush club Norwalk had to offer…That is til the Concerned Citziens shut it down in 91..Goshgeewilikers those kids are having too much fun..It must be the work of..

 

 

BUTTHOLE SURFERS

                                      Satan!

 

I was right in the middle of Operation Evil, weilding my Brand X Weirdo, not too ward off The Prince Of Darkness. But the slum dawg growls of

 

NORWALK SCENESTER

                                         You’re not punkrock enough!

 

The same fuckers who cried the why are you here and cut the cord to the scene donated their combat boots to GoodWill, saddled themselves with kids, mortgages and easy listening 101…Hey ya’ll should have given the UK Subs another spin before giving in…

Pete actually listen when I whacked him with the “Beyonder” WORD…and he made my day by saying I sounded like the leadsingers of Discharge and GBH…Very hard… very

Punkrock….ha ya gotta be kidding…lil ole Nemo…

 

PETE

                                      Why are you doing what you’re doing?

 

NEMO

                                        I want to live the lyrics not just listen man

 

Sounded good enough but at the moment the journey’s leading me nowhere…No I take that back…Its lead me right here to the Monument where I’m wipin my ass with my hand…HELLYEAH…the Beast loves the desert, the heat, the sunbreezes, the intoxicating pearls of sweat on nubile hotbods, Opened him up on the runway, uh highway…Nintey five and counting muthaphuckas….Spied this cop up ahead and for a second thought about maintaining my mayhem….shootshootshootit…shootshootshootit..

What I wanna know is why Kerouac didn’t ride a motorcycle…Geez Hunter Thompson wasn’t struck soo numb as to use Public Transportation….Kerouac could of used his own big wheel..guess sombody steered him wrong…so I’ll set matters straight.. Hey Jack it’s the rockinest interstate mistake homeless malcontents can make..its stylish and relatively cheap..relatively cuz you can weseal all your kinfolk for cash…Tobacco gobbin geezers in Bumphuckeverywhereyou go nowhere will be convinced you’ve got something going one and give up their couch, daughter and their liquor up front.. Cuz it ain’t by chance that in Let’s Go California lands on page sixhundred and sixty six…Didn’t notice any Duddley Doo rights manning the gate when we crossed thru…hmmm me thinks time for a bitta target…Oh Grant…Cmere boy…

 

 

FAST FORWARD

 

Vigilantes of L.O.V.E

“Unholy Wow: His Batmanic Majesties Request”

New Orleans LA 2.96

 

I’m listening to Nirvana’s Nevermind…the door to the room is locked…I can open it any time…the decision is mine…this is my central kick…Instead I sit here sullen , morose, yet eager…Smoking a hastily rolled Drum siggyret, scanning pages from Dostoyevsky’s The Devi;ls, The Rolling Stone Rock And Roll Reader, Ted Mckeever’s Metropol and William Gibson’s Neuromancer…underlining images, phrases words..stark units of communication formed and unfurled speak nothing in their isolation that thru hard work and endurance can slowly congeal into a wish..a promise…a threat..acommand… a prayer…I don’t pray anymore…matter of fact I never fully believed in anything but my will to power…DooWhatchWannaDoo will be the whole of the law…This is my central kick…Angels do God’s bidding…Demons..the work of the Devil…the cosmos takes care of itself…so where would my plead for release, for freedom, for peace, fit in..my appearance style and beliefs are anything but normal….And any action to try and slam the sinister circle in the unforgiving square would mean I accept the symmetry of The gRand Plan…That despite my antieverything I really wanted to be in..that after all my howling the disco and whine against his Scheme Of Things I really..well you get the idea so I silently I sit  in this room letting the music gradually mystic its magick…and wait til its claws shred open a wound I my mind’s eye…let the primordial ooze drip upon the expanse…invisible but deadly..serene yet pleading for another soul..another victim another number…the pus takes form…I look down to xray eye its manifestation slithering across The Powerbook’s keyboard and its fingers..brown digits swollen from the gas heater’s stale breath..darting back and forth..here and there..rapid action of an old technique reborn..a word rebellion of increasingly subtle construction that leads down a path from which no one can return…I am the lonely burden of proof that leaves a secure home and roams the earth searching for a plane that can never be found…This is not my home…it has never been…Nevermind…No, I will carry on…the choice has been made... a decision I sensed asa child would be my undoing…Today is unlike another day in this throbbing cell of captivity…each corner a different level of hell…Its bars groan sting bite pull startle scream…Its dark down here and the only light is the computer screen… and its not blue grey but a translucent emerald green…and if I squint…if I close my mind to the past…a soothing Come go with me beckons closer closer..closer…and I;m almost home again, home again, jiggety jig..but

 

NIRVANA

                               There’s something in the way yeah..

 

Maybe tomorrow Maybe next week..though it really doesn’t matter…You see I’m dead already..just not buried…and this is my central kick…..

 

 

REWIND

 

Odds & Endsville

“Law Of The Murph”

Norwalk, CT. 1.89

 

Yet anutha brandnew 365..to think of where I was a year ago kinda sends me reeling… In the Army..Still In Love with Rebecca..Depressed..HA…Nice to know some things never change…Starting the year off right by watching the cool Alf cartoon and heading for New York with Jennifer…We gotta stop my her Moms on Fifth Avenue..How did I encounter her…Come on guys you’ve been following this story for a while…Jennifer’s a willing victim of the ole Nemo charm…Patent pending…Met her last week at Donavan’s

With Al..Even Kevin showed up and graced us with his prescence….

 

NEMO

                                     Kevin there’s this new invention. It’s called

                                     The phone. Try it  you might like it.

 

KEVIN

                                     Yeah bitch and when you’re near one. I’ll

                                     Use it.

 

Uh-huh…whatever…what I’m still giddy over is Murphy’s Law played their last show of ’88 at The Anthrax…Yup Jimmy Gestapo Todd Youth and us the wylds of Suburbia having a whole mess of massive fun…

 

MURPHY’S LAW

                                     Gonna have a crucial barbeque

 

Drunk as a sknunk and then some on new Year’s Eve…I was looking rather suave, my outfit..Pink Brooks Brother shirt, pleated woolen Polo trousers, braces, a freaking bowtie I couldn’t fasten at all.. I sucked up the pride going over Jessica’s, hoping Jim wouldn’t be pissed at my prescence…

 

NEMO

                                      No, I’m not gonna spend the night

 

And have Liz do tie it  for me…Partied at Krypton’s with Cathy Szarnecki and her brat boy friend. Brad…Dood’s only a junior at Greenwich High School and he’s got a brand new BMW. His room was the gawddamn guest house with a fucking fire place.. Brad’s pretty cool though for a richie…Smoked herb, chugged bottles of Dom Perrignon from his parent’s cellar…The big talk talk was how much weight Oprah has lost and bets were being made on when she’ll put it back on…Should have stolen Brad’s Bass Weejuns soo I won’t have to buy those $120 Timberlands. I’m off to Mexico in a week or so and the funds are low…Kramer mentioned I should try and get to California and visit him at Pomona College..Thanks and maybe another cute Jewbitch l will lead me on and blow me off like Rachel did at Swarthmore.

 

MURPHY’S LAW

                                    Gonna have a crucial barbeque.

 

REWIND

 

Euro-A-Go-Go

“Eyes Tightly Shut, Groin Firmly Clutched The New England

Manboy Surfbeast Dives Head First Into Another Adventure”

Zurich, Switzerland 11.88

 

Destination Paris..Diane wants me to hang around Zurich so Sherill can get me my ticket. I either lost it or it got snagged in Lisbon but I can’t stay here another day…Escpecially after Sandy’s father had a glorious fit after he discovered I was holed up in her Uster pad and threatened to call the police…Neighbors has said I was there for six weeks..yeah right…Gee space cadets my Trip has been one major fuck me over after another.. Sanctuary with a Continental corncob…For what seemed like eons I was imprisioned in Sandy’s apartment with only the Sky Channel as my link to the real world..Hungry and Horny..I fell, jumped..you get the idea outta her third story window in order to catch the tram to the city..just to buy something to eat..I had ben existing on Mars bars and beer while Miss Sandy ran here and there going to concerts, Bonjovi, Sade with her boyfriend that she was supposed to have eightysixed. Don’t worry I got

 

FRANKENMIND

                                      The Ultimate Revenge.

 

Used her phone to ring up everyone I knew in the States…Somehow managing to get in touch with Rob…He told me not much was happening his way in Harrison..school chicks, the basics…I know its all talktalk but he’s entertaining the idea of hooking up with me and heading to Morrocco…Rebecca was glad I called but she hadn’t received my postcard..she couldn’t talk for long she had to attend some eeeeeeeeeeegahds sorority

Meeting…The Jewbitch also received The Superfreak..Jessica sez she dumped Kramer and he has been off his rocker since his mother’s in the hospital dying…But then I talked to Chris today and he sez it’s all lies…claiming he initated the breakup in September after he and the Trupins visited Jessica at St. John’s where she played ring around the rosies with his heart and how

 

KRAMER

                                   Man its all over St John’s  that college had caused

                                   Her to lose what lil sense she had left.

 

Since I’ve never been intimate with Jessica I don’t know what this means…if it’s a hint she’s ready to get down and dirty I’m game…Chris has scored a new girl whose very intelligent, into music and..

 

KRAMER

                                   Doesn’t have a wardrobe.

 

Ha just as I thought..we did get down to business and talked popshop..I mentioned the Happy Mondays and Def Jam’s new rap band Original Concept.He told me to get tickets for The Primitives thanksgiving show at The World. Might be like old times and invite Shernee to tag along…My conversation with her was the surprise of the evening..She was excited I was coming back and told me she’d take off time from work to do shit..Of course she got on my ass..

 

SHERNEE

                                    Nice letter.

NEMO

                                     What letter?

 

SHERNEE

                                      Exactly.

 

Earl sed he’d let me have his surfboard…awhite 6footer with a leash..for seventy five bucks…AINT LIFE GRAND!…And I know this is gonna cause a few snickers from you hardasses but even though I wanna be this literary crazymaker, deepdowninside I wish I could be a Monkee…that show just rocks!…They’ve got the kooky car and clubhouse

Swanky threads and the killer tunes. Think the lads in the Wonderstuff could use those kinda WORD to their definite advantage..oh well the 10:15, the train leaves at 10:37, twentytwo minutes before bon voyage and the assholes at the station still don’t know what gate it’ll be leaving from..Time enough for The Parade of Fools Countdown 88…

 

5) Me

4) George Bush

3)Michael Dukakis

2)Me

1)      Mr. Peebles. I mean he tries to get rid of a talking gorilla..like..HELLO.

 

 

REWIND

 

Nothing But Lipstick

“Top Gun At Attention”

Columbia, South Carolina

 

FASTFORWARD

 

MotoDegenerate

“In & Out ”

L.A. 9.94

 

The Dream Fuck Wish List Top Ten (Sorta)

 

1)      Lisa Bonet/Dorothy Dandridge

2)      Winona Ryder

3)      River Phoneix

4)      James Dean, Rita Hayworth, Katherine Hepburn (1941)

5)      Nina Gordon,

6)      Any hotbod in Rio

7)      Henry’s June

8)      Jane Bowles

9)      The Savage Nights cast

 

AND SOMETIMES EVERYBODY IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD SO EVERYONE CAN GET SOME SATISFACTION…if you couldn’t tell by now I’m in a great mood..

Uncle Phil socked me with The Holy Cow cash…WE’RE IN THE MONEY… WE’RE IN THE MONEY ME AND THE WORLD ARE GONNA GET ALONG… The Pop Will Eat Itself Public Enemy prevailed despite Landmark Not So Entertained complained to my Uncle Phil I was on the rampage this morning yelling” Where’s my check?” Total bullshit I may act like a fool but not tight before The Payoff…Uncle Phil knew it too thogh I proabbly would have received next to nothing if I hadn’t reenacted a scene from

WORD…and turned on the waterworks.. Can you imagine being grounded in Hollywood with zilcho dinero…Spooooooooooooky…Jason couldn’t front that fright with two forty foot knives..Uncle Phil sed he’d help me out again  if I need it but I’m not pushing my luck..So I sed “Fuck It” to the tourist trip HannaBarbera animation studios and the Church of Scientology Celebrity Center and made trax to Melrose Ave…Zeroed in on a supremium jacket..a seventies Sears & Roebuck Hercules worn to the bone.. at Leathers & Treasures, an emporium of  oleskool gear…Scored a headshave then BAM! Back on The Beast..Gotta change his oil gotta change his oil gotta change his oil…Quick stop outside the city a In& Out..and diver downed…I’ll admit it..I’m ruthless like L.A. in Levi’s…and I mean business when the menu is meat….Hamburgers..getting one in California is a religious experience..Blesse Be The Beef…Instead of Hail Marys. Its How many…Zoomin to the drive thru in you rwhitewalled four on the floor none on the wheel all on the door locomotive…the fumes of greasy onions and premium unleaded fusing its way into your leather, your Lees, your lungs..It’s good. You’re good. So damn good. But sorry son you’re not that good cuz you’re stalled in a three hour twentyseven car lineup waiting to get your goodies…The entire time saranwrapped in a viicous vortex of musical melodies freaking with your forecast…Rock Rap Country Western Urban Contemprary Metal Folk…Classical House…Techno Bach..Pop goth hymns of needy junky love and a destructive desire for last siggyret before you take a sledgehammer andbeat the crap outta that dripping faucet you’ve asked your lazy gutterstinkin Penthouse perusin sorry excuse of a landlord to fix ten fucking months ago…Ten severly tense tossing and turning psycho killer contemplating months ago..Yeah all that music…All that waiting but you don’t mind. Not at all..It’s a great time to lower the seats, loosen your inhibitions let down your pants and make the most of the grabba grabba hey ho sinister fiercefly freak riding shotgun…slap that ass..slap that ass..then after hitting the heights, you crank the sounds and meditate on your order…No time for seconds…No more humping around..this is business…serious business…first the burger…a double triple or a double bacon cheez or bacon cheese triple or triple cheese no bacon..O r maybe just bacon…eeeeeeeeent.. scratch that..This isn’t about breakfast…this is about burgers…then its frenchfried or onion rings or chocolate shake or Coke an dmaking sure you score a cacheful of ketchup. Me I loathe the shit but I bust the brakes gitta whole lot…Why?..Simple. I’m the asshole remember…Tiny inconvient packets of the reallyred condiment..I hit Wendy’s Burger King Big Bob’s Jack In The Box..The whole giddy gaggle of keep it comin quick… The shazam sureeswarmee of shazam here I am frenchfried franchises..talking 20 at a time… Four hundred in a fortmight and of course nobody’s gonna say a single word.. cuz I’m a black man…the marketplace for this festive array of brightly boxed bullshit…a hook line and sucka for this crazy circus of crap cuisine…

 

 

THE REPLACEMENTS

                            I’m a customer I’m a customer

 

And a customer has rights..they’re always right…First rule of thumb…It’s the law of the land.. It’s greater than gravity…And if you gotta problem with that slap of reality.. here’s a bit of advice..Don’t go into business boss!..Cause I’ll becoming like a bandit to collect what’s mine…and that’s ketchup…Hand it over loverboy…and do I have clothes in the closet, food in the fridge, No I’ve got ketchup, been stockpilin it for years cause when this world ends..when it exhales its last gasp..final finale there ain’t gonna be no mo Safeways, QFC, Circle k, 7-11, Shopright or Shopwell…Ain’t gonna be nothing to shop People gonna be scavenging, growing their own shit..and its gonna taste just like that… SHIT..and guess what’s gonna make it taste a wholehelluvalotmobetta…you got it.. Ketchup..and whose the punk that’s gonna have it..Me..HA! Talk about corner on the market..

 

 

FAST FORWARD

 

Vigilantes Of L.O.V.E.

“Escape To Witchy Poo’s Zoo”

Guest Appearance By Jodycat

New Orleans 5.96

 

Nemo and I are going to New York to pursue our dreams and fufill our fantasies. We made a pact not to fight with one another and to respect each other’s mood and wishes. We realize that outsiders will place voodoo curses on us because of our relationship… We will not allow anyone to get in our way. We cannot help being young smart and talented and we like to flaunt our Super Sexy Shit around town and get in people’s faces because it’s all part of The Big Picture. You will be unable to comprehend The Plan til you see The Finished Product. Which when completed will enlighten or outrage you depending upon your perception of Reality.. Basically I’m sick of New Orleans and all the bullshit. Sick of all the lazy limp losers in town who are killing themselves with too much ego actually thinking they are going to escape this cesspool. What’s so funny is that they don’t even realize that they’re sitting on top of their own shit that’s boiling beneath them even as I write…This is not the life for Nemo and I…We actually like New Orleans and some of the people have proven themselves to be friends but WE ARE AWARE OF OUR POWERS AND THE ROAD WE MUST FOLLOW IN ORDER TO BECOME MAXIMUM DRIVE.

REWIND

 

Euro-A-Go-Go

“Go Go Gone Wrong”

 Hartford Ct   11.88.

 

Okay so its bad enough I had to leave Europe almost a whole freaking month early cuz some desperate jackass pocketed my airline ticket. Bad enough I got the total hassle when it came to get my ticket..

 

AIR FRANCE RECEPTIONIST

                           Nemo we have no reservation for Nemo

 

And then there was the six hour wait in the WORD due to a labor dispute..but now we’re waiting in Bradley Aiport. But I’ve got me a major number..Hotel Royalton…212 869 4000..It was given to me by ths Dutch babe Marie Anne Audejans…She works at  Paris

 Vogue as a sessions editor..and she’s gonna be in New York for a week…I’m dying to go out with her… Went so far as to suggest she commute to Connecticut for Thanks-giving..Great now all I need is find some pitying family to invite me over for the festivities. No problem.. There’s always The Rhoades…First thing manana I go see Molly Ringwald’s new movie “Fresh Horses”  and eat 2 tons of hot dogs at Papaya King..

Yup Pardners, there ain’t no place like

 

FRANKENMIND

                              Home? Ha didn’t you tell Grandma you were never

                              Coming back.

 

Ohyeah.

 

 

REWIND

 

Nothing But Lipstick

“Love Takes A Holiday ”

NYC 11.87

 

All the recruits arrived at the airport in a Slimer green bus..Sgt Hill following us…Walk-

ed thru the terminal in a single file…every one of us a huge manila envelope ..Looking like candidates for the next set of Jerry’s kids…Some troopster fucked up.. and for a second we all thought we’d have to execute a farewell

 

SGT. HILL

                                    Drop!

 

Still not used to flying thousands of miles above in God’s Country so I focuse on being reunited with Rebecca…Got to Grand Central Station ahead of schedule..People were arriving from New Haven…No Becca….What the hell did she miss the train?.. Did Regina unexpectedly transform into The Incredible Bitch

 

REBECCA

                                     Mom can I go?

 

REGINA

                                   No!

 

REBECCA

                                  Mom!

 

REGINA

                                  No.

 

Wait.. another train would be arriving in 20 minutes

 

FRANKENMIND

                               She’s gotta be on that one. Come on.

 

MONTY HALL

                              Hi folks Monty Hall here and this is Let’s Make a Deal

                              Our first contestant tonight is a nice young soldier home

                              For the holidays. Let’s have a round of applause for

                              Private Nemo.

 

APPLAUSE!

                             

                               Hi Nemo nice to have you on the show.

 

NEMO

                                Thanks Monty its great to be here. Hi Grandma

 

MONTY

                               So you’re in what part of the armed forces?

 

NEMO

                               The Army.

 

MONTY

                                Being all you can be right?

 

NEMO

                               Trying to at least.

 

MONTY

                                 Always did say dishwashing was a great line of work. Ha Ha

                                 Only kidding. I’m sure you’ll be an ooficer in no time. You

                                 Want to be an officer right?

 

NEMO

                                  I’d rather be well paid.

 

MONTY

                                  HA HA well paid…haha let’s see if we can help you

                                  Tonight at least with the Love Thing. Here’s a deal

                                   Behind the curtain 1,2, or 3 is your lovely Rebecca

                                  Pick the right one and she’s yours, forever. If not hey

                                   You’re young sound fair?

 

NEMO

                                     Sure.

 

MONTY

                                   So is it curtain #1, curtain#2, or curtain #3?

 

NEMO

                                    #3 I  have a feeling.

 

 

Twenty minutes had passed..the next train came in…she wasn’t on that one either… I was the verge of taking an unscheduled flight to Bummersville when I headed back to the information Desk…Our originally planned point of contact..and there she was…

 

NEMO

                                     Rebecca!

 

Hugged her..held her…and didn’t want to let go…walked around Manhattan doing absolutely nothing…she didn’t have much to say and I was rambling in order to close the obvious distance…An univinted guest had crashed our lil get together…And in a coupla hours she had returned to Stamford, later that evening at a movie theather uptown with Jessica..I took that trip to Bummersville anyway via “Planes Trains & Automobiles”

 

I phoned her the next day…

 

NEMO

                                    I miss you.

 

REBECCA

                                    That’s good but I’m late for work.

 

Where was my Cookie? Who or what had gobbled her gone? Depressed beyond words I subwayed from the Upper Eastside to Greenwich Village to vizz “Empire of The Sun” Steven Spielberg’s new film based on J.G. Ballard’s book. And here’s where I would make some connection to The Big Screen and my life so you could kind of figure out where this all going but Ihave had enough of leading your hand..You’re on your own.

 

 

 

FASTFORWARD

 

MotoDegenerate

 

 

FASTFORWARD

 

Vigilantes Of L.O.V.E

“Big Black Chelsea Boots”

NYC  9.96

 

If you haven’t surfed the wurm via Johnny Stiff’s Motor City Moving Van and heard the word I’ll let you in on the news… Jody and me are currently loving touching and cussing at The Chelsea Hotel…

 

THE DOORS

                            We want the world and we want it now.

 

Thankyou and I might even tip sez Mr. Pink

 

CARTOONMUSIC

                              They’re Pinky and the Brain

                              They’re Pinky and The Brain

                               One is a Genius

                              The others insane

 

The list of luminaries who’ve stumbled down thesestairs is fucking wicked…Check It Out.. Jimi Hendrix…Janis Joplin…Bob Dylan…Mark twain…Hart Crane… Edie Segwick…Sid Vicious…Nancy Spungen…O.Henry…Dylan Thomas…Arthur Miller.. Willaim Burroughs…and lo and behold Candance Osborne..my ole art design freak friend from West Morris Central…so I can’t complain…Stanley Bard the hotel owner has been pretty understanding even after I bombed the bass in the lobby a coupla weeks ago.

You would have too after an untalented Canadian Crooner hits ya with a look of disgust

Hey Brian Adams how can a limp dick cut like a knife?…please..Anyhow The Chelsea’s the joint. A superduper shaggy doghouse with Eiffel Tower high ceilings and four feet deep walls which is really scrumpdelicious if you and your freak love machine are twistin the night away but bad if some F.B.I. guy’s on a mission to

 

DAALECKS

                         Exterminate Exterminate Exterminate

 

Gee if a gun goes off in a soundproof room. Is there a BOOM!

 

NIRVANA

                        Just because you’re paranoid

                        Doesn’t mean they’re  not after you

 

But fuck that noise..Nobody’s gonna rip apart our World Wide Web without a fight..

 

THE CLASH

                       When they kick out your front door

                       How you gonna go

                       Shot down on the pavement

                      Or waiting on Death Row

 

Yeah we like it here..so we’re gonna stay..for now..

 

REWIND

 

Odds & Endsville

“Bewilderwow”

Norwalk, Ct 1.88

 

Crazydreamtime again…Our West Morris school bus was going on a treacherous safari complete with lions tigers and bears ohmy…and due to her gift of the gab my sister Tanya singlehandedly let Dad’s new Jeep Wagooner get stolen out from under our noses

But the last part of the dream was the best…I was Jack Pumpkinhead the lifesized muppedt from the other Oz books..And we all had this evil stepfather Vice Roy  and lived at Boogey Boogey Manor..It’s real name was Sunshine Acres but he changed it when he forced our mom  into marrying him…He sent his dufus son Miltie to do battle with me You see I had discovered the secret of  Vice Roy’s powers. He had made a pact with this nogoodwitchnik to put the whammy on Dad’s toy…The Hugabugbee..One hugged the creature and it hugged you back except with the slight adjustment by her wicknedness the toys hugged the kiddie customers to tight til the air escaped from their valves leaving them lifeless shells..Of course Dad’s reputation was ruined and he was banished from La La Land…One wild and wolly night during the irst annual Boogey Boogey Manor Beastie Ball drunk off his ass Vice Roy stumbled thru the halls boasting of his dastardly deeds…Me being the only nappyheaded upstart bold enough too venture from the dungeon I overheard his ravings…And as fate would have it, His Badness found out thanks to his lifesize jack in the box..Xavier your basic all knowing all seeing type.. Once again Vice Roy called on the nogoodwitchnik Cindy and one whammy later I had been transformed into Jack Pumpkinhead...Since I couldn't talk I my own defense His Badness told the people of La La Land I was the villian who had put the the curse onDad’s hugh abugbeez..So I was cast off too…but xavier prophecied my prodical son like return one day..though Vice Roy scoffed at the notion…His refusal to believe in the inevitable was his undoing…whattadope..Didn’t the dumb ass realize this was a fairytale and I’d come back and whoop his unbelieving butt…Viceroy’s achiile heel unknown even to Miltie was rice pudding laced with cinamonn and Old Crow whiskey…so with the help of my freak friend on The Other Side..we whipped up the largest dish of the sweet mix and under the cover of night cart it too Boogey Boogey Manor…The results were astonishing

Even to me…you know with spin doctors changing the script at the last minute and shit..

We held Vice Roy back from the dessert extrvaganza until he confessed to his crimes and reverted ownership of the estate back to Moms..then we let him go to work.. and after consuming the pudding in record time…(His Badness simply burst into nothingness)

Change…His cohorts fled and my spell was broken and we lived happily ever after.. until HA..the real ending was more like a scene from Robert Wagner’s ‘Prince Valiant’.. pure swashbuckling junk with a battle on the drawbridge complete with gory deaths… but hey its my cool world and I’m paying the no deposit no return on this gig… What had me pissed is considering all the resturants in Fairfeild County…Rebecca has to tote her Joe Fraternity boyfriend Dave over to Sono and eat at Sweptaways’s…Give me a fucking break already…She’s heard the last from me and nobody’s selling bodyboards and I don’t have excess cash to see this french flick ’36 Fillette’

 

LYNN DARLING (Newsday)

                     “Delphine Zentout is armed with a sexual precociousness that makes

                       Lolita look like the March Of Dimes poster child

 

                                                 CARRIE DARLING (philadelphia inquirer)

                        “A delectable comedy about a sexually ripe and intellectually

                        provacative Gigi with raging hormones and a high I.q.”

 

LONG JOHN SILVER

                     ARRRgh matie sand to think me last girl has skin like prarie

                     Dawg leather

 

 

FASTFORWARD

 

Euro-A-Go-Go

“Look Ma No Hands”

Frankfurt Germany  6.89

 

Wuckawuckawuckawucka..So convinced the Pan Am Clipper was destined to be a fire-ball scorching The atlantic on my flight over here I ambushed the drink tray..

 

FRANKENMIND

                           Ain’t going out sober.

 

Wuckawuckawucka and thought about the impromptu bonvoyage celebration at Marque’s in Richfield..Poptarts…Public Enemy..White label whiskey… Warm couch.. her friend Susan steadily moaning No as she shed every stitch of her clothes..Marque hornier than I ever thought possible..got into the swing of things..Both of them lying next to me..oddly satisfied…..wucka wucka wucka…spying this abstract high rise as the plane approached Frankfort I nudged my neighbor…

 

NEMO

                                       Dosen’t that look like the Jetson’s place.

 

Wuckawuckawucka..loveitloveitloveit…Silke is such a spoiled brat..she’s gotta magnifi-cent setup here…any Good Samaritan would casually turn the other way as their Grand Mother was strung up by her toes in order to score this pad..I’m the FitzMan…And She’s my Zelda..Besides inscribing my tag on the Berlin Wall..and whooping it up on Bastille Day in Paris.. a definite must is catching the Simple Minds concert here in town…

 

SIMPLE MINDS

                                       Don’t you forget about me.

 

And it would be fuckyeahawesome if I can hookup with Kramer in London for the Redding Festival…tripping on X…shooting the shit Fly Guys

 

GHOSTBUSTERS

                                          Two in the box

                                          Ready to go

                                         We be fast

                                         They be slow

 

Right now I’m blasting Big Black’s ‘Songs About Fucking’

 

BIG BLACK

                                        Set me on fire

                                        Keroscene

                                        Set me on fire

                                        Keroscene

 

Day Two and there’s already trouble in paradise…Not really about me staying cuz..I AM.

Okay so Silke did have The Talk with me last night..

 

SILKE

                                           Nemo you can’t stay.

 

She said she was beginning to hate me cuz I’m here and she feels trapped in another relationship and that she likes me loves me maybe and she won’t if I continue to be around…Oh and you perhaps didn’t beg me to come her you..BITCH!.. Silke claims I’m lazy and need to be entertained continually..Gee I guess  jetlag has nothing to do  it…BITCH!..I know its crazy but maybe..just maybe…I understand about her  needing space..cuz I need mine.. should have brought that hostel card like I started to…we talked about the abortion which has created this ever widening gap of guilt between us…she told me about how she’d lie in the bed..holding her stomach talking to the baby..who moved around endlessly and her cravings for

 

SILKE

                                          Scrambled eggs and jelly

 

I don’t have a clue where our relationship is heading…and there’s nothing but mass con-fusion on who I’m supposed to be…why ohwhy am I always forced to participate in some fucking role playing game.. Why can’t I just be Nemo and leave it at that..Why do I have to be The Funky Black Man Who Fucks Girls Stupid…Why can’t people play their

Vivaldi 5 Flute Concertos Flotenkonzetre without involving me…Ain’t no Terence Trent Darby…Ain’t no toy boy…for the last time I’m…ME..dreamer writer fuckup.. and if Silke and I’s relationship ends..no more holding on and on…even though I’m a Stranger in A Strangeland broke and almost homeless….Oddly I’m experiencing that..

 

NATIVE SON

                             He had this destiny in his grasp more alive than he could

                             Ever remember having been… His mind & attention were

                             Pointed focused towards a goal.

 

Funny how in the beginning I thought The Novel was breaking new ground.. Yet Richard Wright, James Baldwin Ralph ellison have been there done that already..Laid the foun-dation and built the house…Ha me and lil condominiumum…what I have to say is as useful as a gawdamn lawn ornament… held captive by the Romance Of Life And The Music Of Time… Turning  glimmery glimmery chains of oppression….and yet I’m glad to be her Prisoner

 

REWIND

 

Nothing But Lipstick

Columbia, South Carolina

 

 

FASTFORWARD

 

MotoDegenerate

“The Bitch Ain’t Got Brakes”

Phoneix Arizona

 

Bored yet…well too fucking bad…ain’t no paybacks, refunds or returnables…right now every cent you shelled out for this New Africa Incesticide is being shipped to my phaat ass vault on my Mysterious Island In The Center of The Earth 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea…Put it down if ya wanna..Go ahead I insist..Really. Stop reading and take your sad sack whimpering whiny behind back to your steady slacking existence..but I wanna just let y aknow this raw power is wired…I know who you are..what you look like…what you’re wearing and most importantly your credit rating…and trust me I won’t hasten to use the 411 to my advantage..

 

SFX: Ding Dong

 

Trick or treat..Ha..well Trix are for kidz…I’m part of The Jungle Bros Youth Groove ment..Paranoid…Depressed…Malnourished….Malajusted…Overeducated…Under-Employed…Got no plans for the future cuz our butts have been written off.. Pushed over for the profit…So I’m pissed…And I wanna see some fuckhead try and house my ride.. Any takers?…Didn’t think so..I’m the Monsta Gawd Nigga succumbing to the raw dawg liquor…a wreckin effectin wyldwalking terrortalking schemin Sega ceedee in dopescope threedee…Intent on stormtrooping your transmission..killing the signal with my poison pen precision…Seize your primetime minds and scoobydooya like you ain’t never been done before…Gonna clerify your visualization with a smack upsideyahead…then willy wonka ya with the dance of the dead..Gonna snick snick snick snatch your coloring book then take the touch I took and scribble it with my wyld mixx of markers and me oh me oh my wouldn’t ya knowa..it ain’t crayola…Got no time to be wasting on your hesitation…

Step aside if ya ain’t hip to the bye and bye…the tidal wavin misbehavvin..Make no mistake about the speed I’m cravin…Bat Bat come under my hat…Ready set yo..One two three, I’m revvin the mean and like the sayin sez and the goin goes..”The bitch ain;t got brakes”…

 

Knew I had to hit the road after watching Roadside Prophets ..amotorpsycho flick starring John Doe and Adam Horowitz…Me and my motorbuddy Leeza Leeza rented it this summer..By the way she’s the one who helped me buy The Beast and taught me how to roadrage so if you gotta problem with my rockabilly…BLAME IT ON THE BITCH!.. and then..SHE’LL KICK YOUR FUCKING ASS… Ha!..So the two of us are watching this noise..I have no idea where Moman was…plowing thru a field of poppies…

 

DAARK ATARI

                             If they buy you will trip.

 

And then phased into the vid..the wickedest scene is when the dynamic duo’s in the desert…taking hits of the thermakool with David Carradine…The Big D informs them that they are Riders Of The Storm who must make the Ultimate Sacrifice..Those who must lead…the martyrs of motordom…the soopadoopa chuckle looper has rendered the ticking clock speechless…and I…WUZ…at this secret society’s rountable..given a golden invitation…callin, fallin…laced with steel…told to get off my ass..and do the deed that must be done…Of course the guys had more stokin bikes than I…Doe  was sporting a classic Harley and The Beastie Boy was rippin on a Triumph…a complete joke considering he only paid $500 for it and the dood threw in a leather jacket, helmet and goggles…ONLY IN HOLLYWOOD… Though hey look at me..so never say never…one thing you do learn when roadrippin is when a gas station is pullin an Operation Rip on ya this morning I bought few dollars of Powerplus and the stream screamed by in fiftteen seconds flat..I mean the fuel gauge was just trippin the price a bit too light fantatstic for my liking…

 

FRANKENMIND

                                    It’s a gyp. Forget this shit.

 

And decided this wasn’t the place to fillerup…Paid the price and rode on…No argument from me this time…Why?.. let’s figure the arthmetic…One haughty looking black Kid Eternity, one thousand shotgun shufflin yahoos bored to beer…Appears I would be in the red, as in a bloody smear webbed to the cactus…or worse…

 

ARIZONA CRACKER

                                   Boy since you is so goshdarn intelligent. We’re gonna

                                   Keep your carcass in a cage and raffle you off as The Lil

                                   Nigga that Thought He Could.

 

Survival’s secret is knowing ehn to show and when to fold right outta town…

 

LOUIS CYPHER

                                   Such are the harzards of your profession Mr Angel

                                  If the fee bothers you we can have it adjusted.

 

SFX: Zoink$!

 

 

FASTFORWARD

 

Vigilantes of L.O.V. E.

‘I, Alien Superfiend”

NYC            9.96

 

I, Alien Superfiend am the Alpha The Omega and The Oo-Bla-Dee.. I speak in rabid riffs of pfuck rockabilly… I skin tight sci-fi sequences of chilli with The Phantom Phaatback over and out.. I am The D. Generation judge, jury and groovecutioner…Creator and Destroyer shod in gutterpunk CK jeans…A Boy named Boo.. Dynomutt is a robot Scooby Doo and your laws no longer hold me for I live a million miles away in my Shintakarajima…Trip away to my Metasiddysix…My anger is justified…My wrath is pure..I bleed the scrawl on the inner wall..

 

MALLORY

                                        There’s no escaping here.

 

If 6 was 99 and the pleasure’s all theramin…I seek only victory..I taste only hate… I am unholy..I am chronically unsane…The hammer of the gawds has been stolen stripped then technofied and it will never be returned for this monsta reverb is my own under- taking…I making so the punchers get punched and the killers get killed… Choice your fate…Free your will… Missle Launched Huff Huff Puffnstuff…Phuck Daa Police.. Phuck Da Pope…I bite the hand that feeds me and demand more…I am the Nigga Un Furled and The Girl unheard…You can’t get deeper than this…

 

BEASTIE BOYS

                                         Hold it now hit it

 

You will never know the the compleat awareness of a powe yet to be unleashed.. The Dredd Inside My Head..

 

GUY SMILEY

                                     Ultra small design fits in a shirt pocket.

 

Is Fuji film kwik snap plus…I am The San Francisco Spider spitting myths of a Man Gone Mo Than Dizz Knee Deep In Evil…I am the final rain…I am the final sun.. I am the Locomotion Overlord screaming the seams undone… Missles launched.. Huff Huff Pufnstuff.. Fuck Daa police.. Fuck daa pope.. I am The Barefoot Executive swimming behind you scene of broadcast snooze.. I have written the book buried beneath the rain- bow…Manga No Kamisama’s Neon Tai Chi andit skylights your doom… There is no room to manuever…All the streets are mine…This is my Banana Republic… My Planet Of The Apes…and my brood is BOOM CHUD CHUd SWOOSH BOOM!.. When the fire  next time burns your thirst…as you raise the gun to your temple to eradicate the pain …remember her name…She Who Wore Pink Pigtails…The skanky ass wannabe hardcore bitch on Fifth Street who dared to question this nigga’s punkability. She who opened the box…she who raised the gate..she who insitigated the final act.. Now I never can go back ..No means no…I have no home and kinda like it like that…I don’t expect you to understand…Mastering my symphony is a waste of time…the only groovie I can ghoulie for you is to press…

 

REWIND

 

Odd & Endsville

“Slackland Stormy Knight”

Mexico City, Mexico 1.89

 

At the Port Authority Bus Terminal I purchased the latest Surfer magazine..’The Special World Travel Issue”…. And great googlimoogli…There’s a paprgraph about Puerto Escondidog

 

SURFER

                             Puerto Escondido was a turning point on the trip. The tran-

                             Quility and peace I had been experiencing so far were to

                             disappear. For one thing I got sick and feverish for a number

                             Of days. Also My 7’2” which a friend brought down from

                             California, snapped in half on my second goout. The lineup

                             Got pretty crowded for an entire week. And soon I found out

                             That the local food and accomodations were even more expensive

                             Than other Mexican towns.

 

Great just great..Is it because I’m a totally optimistic person or just a dumbass cuz when I’m constructing these Grand Plans of mine the noggin never allows for things to go wrong.. Got off the Greyhound in Brownsville texas and gee there was no bus crossing over the border goin on into Mexico City…ask the taxi driver and he’s more than happy to take me over there…for sixteen dollars..yeah right  Dood.. you’ve  been pouring way too much hot sauce on your tacos… Another guy kindly showed me the way.

 

KIND STRANGER

                                   See that bridge its only ten cents to cross over by foot

 

And when I got to The Other Side…A total maelstorm of Human activity forgein language...waay deep...Managed to snag an autobus..trekking to Ciudad De Mexico and lordy lordy wouldn’t cha know it 30 miles outta the station it breaks down…and we finally board a new bus six hours later…And when I say new I mean different.. cuz that heap hadn’t seen new since the turn of the century…

 

FRANKENMIND

                                        Hey Nemo they didn’t have buses then.

 

I’m not in the mood Frankenmind…I’m not in the mood

 

FRANKENMIND

                                     Ya know I’ve got better things to do. I’m

                                       Outta here.

 

You do that pal…and while you’re at it hit the psychic showers ccuase you stink some-thing fierce…Anyway our autobus I sstopped umpteen times along the way by the rifle wielding federales… Checking for contraband that would surely be split between the lot of them… Yup all the luggae comes off and these fuckups have a swell time hassling yours trulu..Stupidly I get off the wagon train hopin one of these lil daaalings would nudge my dufflebag and sneer something in third rate english so I can reactivate..Makes you wonder how long I’ll last here…

 

BUTCHER

                                       How would you like your Nemo? Whole or in parts?

 

The thrilla manilla was when we ventured thru the mountains…Deciding to throw caution to the wind I sat up front with the bleary eyed driver..DUMB…The guy went hardcore bonkers on me and started going faster…and faster..and faster..and faster.. I wus like Dood look at me closely..I ain’t no senorita..y adon’t need to impress me with your driving skills..or lack of…so slow the fuck down… after a few near misses and more than a dozen “Oh my Gods” from my end.. He killed the speed, threw back his head and cackled…and then…faster….and faster…and faster.. Aye Carumba…Mentioned in a postcard to Sherill and Diane I’ve already learned two things… Mexicans don’t extert themselves more than what’s necessary and they don’t believe in luggage.. why waste those pesos on Samsonite when you can cram all your shit into Hefty bags.. I got smart and found an empty seat in the rear and the rest of the lunatic ride was made more liveable by Gabrielle ..whose wa like this hispanic version of a Fairfield County skate rat…I fI had the patience or desire to deal with this place I’d stay and concentrate an orchestral maunever on the dark to remove his older is’s underoos…He charmed an issue of Sufer outta me after I swore in Portugal I wouldn’t agin let some kid’s beautiful teen James Dean deprive me of big blue visual stimulation…I’m a pirate..It’s a treasure map… But Gabrielled probably saved my life…Ya know me..talk talk talk gab gab gab.. well this guy on the bus starts asking me all these questions and I fill himin on..ohmy entire life..and then he asks if I wanna get off with him beofre Mexico City and hang at his place with his wife….and I’m like sure why not..the bus stops in the middle of nowhere and I’m planning on following this cat and Gabrille and his sister grab my arm

 

THOSE DARN KIDZ

                                    No no you stay with us. You go to Mexico City.

 

They must of known something I didn’t so I sat back down…I had planned on arriving in the aylight and not being disoriented. Well the bus delay screwed that itinerary pooch and as the dusk became dark I was served the rude awakening…MEXICO CITY WAS AN INHUMAN SPRAWL OF PLANET EARTH CONCRETE & STEEL EIGHTEEN BAZILLIN TIMES BIGGER THAN NEW YORK AND I HAD NO IDEA WHERE TO SPEND THE NIGHT AND AND AND AND…

 

DUFFLE BAG

                                   Get comfortable its gonna be a long night

 

LIGHTS OUT.

 

Euro-a go go

 

Nothing But Lipstick

 

MotoDegenerate

“New Mutant Muthaphucka”

Tempe Arizona 9.94

 

Damn I lost my sleeping bag…It fell off The Beast…Devil knows where. Well I was sick of that shit anyway…Here’s my theory…If you lug your sack around you end up using it

..ie stargazing central..and if you don’t. it compels your ass to bit the bullet, seek and destroy somebody’s pad…Not tonight though…the dollar in my pocket hollers Motel 6

Tacobell Brewhaha…And I don’t have to keep one eye open to safeguard The Beast.. Gonna take a shower..I can calm my system after those last six hours of riding…A coupla

Hells’s Angels were messing with my head…Peelin in close with their Harleys and then pullin back…Kept thinkin they’d run me off the highway, slit my throat…Wish I had some colors or betta yet ..push a button on the console and have The Beast spit brimstone and fire outta the tailpipe…fwwwoooooooooooooosh!….that would make em think twice before they decided to mindfuck with someelse….Shower Shower..the desert heat is making me wanna serve up some Sealy flavor on some fierce fly freak…Pickins are pretty slim in this void except the prostitutes…In Lison Portugal I inadvertenly hired a Pretty Woman for the evening…The owner of the Pension introduced me to the girl and explained she didn’t have money to pay for the room…I was feeling trumpetytrump and did…what the hey it wasn’t my money…snicker snicker…hours later she tells me her body is included in the price…No more fantasy here’s the flesh…I hesitated at first but the Cold Lonesome spurred me on…Playing the Richard Gere I took her to dinner… pasta and the worst bottles of white wine in the world…later on her kisses were gentle and exacting like the breeze off WORD…I lost myself in her…she made me laugh, showing me pictures of her son…a mulatto child…She left early the next morning  to sleep in her room..and after a day or two she left…and I couldn’t even remember her name…I always wanted to tell Inga but she’d probably put my dick in a sling… The big concern is am I really getting the The Beast’s oil changed and chain adjusted…Does Joe Camel clock in the cash from the kiddies..you betcha…cuz I’m gonna sit right here and scope the inner scholastic before I break with the bills…Arizona outta the bottle and into the air…Talking tense…Bad vibes soo thick you canslice it with a dull plastic knife.. so far people’s reactions to me and my pet motomonsta have been..whuddaphuck… It’s certainly no la..

 

DAARK ATARI

                         You ain’t seen nothing yet son wait til ya get  to Texas

 

Its not that anyone has lost all kinds of complete common sense and called me nigga..

 

FRANKENMIND

                         Oh yeah well I’m the nigga that’s gotta urge to overkill ya Billy Bob

 

It’s the stances, the stares and my imagination ain’t helping one bit…conjuring peckinpah kwikspill images of the white power posse riding the rude after you know who… Paranoia Self Destroyia…It wasn’t like this in the first part of the trip..probably cause I was caught up in the whirl of gonna see the Wiz…Now a different device of self preservation is needed Get Outta Doddge…Paranoia Self Destroyia… have you grown as a person when you suddenly realize what human beastiehood can do to you outta the clear blue…Sure doesn’t feel like it…Wish I could crash Heaven’s Door and formulate my fury into one solid kick in God’s ass…

 

NEMO

                             Father, why have you forsaken me?

 

It’s like he’s got this major battle with The Devil…why does it have to be taken out on us? If Satan challenged him about the ruling the WORD… why didn’t he just merely wipe the entire slate clean…nobody would know the difference… I mean he’s God right…He and I have had a few chats…a few exchanges but nothings ever come of it.. Probably cuz when I prayed I never was in the right position…on my knees… yeah I’ve never had what people call the right attitude…like in highschool..like in gym.. I was the fuckup who was always picked next to last cuz I was no teamplayer... The Loner.. The Defiant One...And I was violent..Extremely violent...Jim Brown Black Panther and Mighty Joe Young all rolled up into one..The Pintsize Powerman pullin no punches the overcarbonated omen obliterating the okeedokes…the smurfberry crunchin power perelta pumpin Devo action vest wearing, Square Pegs watching, Johhny Questin Grape Apin.. motormouthin terrorizing heteen in Toughskins New Muthant muthaphucka…Doodus Extremeus…cuz when I was done with Moby Dick and performing autopsies on earth worms I played hard..Real hard…Like with kickball..it was kickball and kick ball all the way….Do or die..Search and destroy…I’m talkin returning to the lockerrom scalps in hand…and so what if you’re a girl…Matter of fact who gives a fuck if you’re a girl.. if you’re in my way, you’re going down and going down hard…the other doods are like Nemo take it easy…bro relax…I’d turn around real slow and deal em the deathblow… No way G I’m gonna be your nightmare before and after Christmas…cuz I’m not getting laid…I ‘m not gettting my nuts sucked off by some Maybelline hussy with Marley man pumpin in the background…Marleyman confessin he shot the sheriff..but don’t be blamin that deputy shit on me…No, I’m not gnawin on the firm subtle breasts of the head cheer leader…No, I’m spending time making friends with myself…Strummin my meat guitar.. Nine inches of untamed zulu steel…Feel my steel..performing sellout shows.. and I’ve gotta captive audience…And I’ve got chicks…Plenty of chicks…Hundreds of newstand hussies…A multitude of mgazine muchachas…a plentitood of paperback poontang… Ms october, Ms June, Red Sonya, Nell Carter…and ya know what?.. they love me.. I love me.. there’s so much gawdamn love goin around its like 67 all over again…I’m the life of the party…The Big Red cheese.. they don’t wanna leave me.. I don’t wanna leave.. who sez relationships can’t work?…I’m in the bathroom twentyfourseven…Got no time for schoolwork..homework..cruisin around dessert..Different Strokes… Shit, I’ve got a unique stroke of my own…Up and down…Up and down…I jerk off so much my jimmy goes numb…Is it working is it alright..ya know I’m worries..cuz for a dood that’s a serious problem..Major malfunction…I gotta status the system…so what do I do?.. I jerk off some more…It’s a vicious cycle..I begin to go blind..I’ve got Mr Magoo leading me around…I’m so far gone The Three Blind Mice are sending me sympathy cards.. My mom gets concerned..she sends me to the Family Doctor…Orville Redenbacher muthaphucka…He puts me on an all carrot diet…everything is carrots…Boiled Baked Stewed Frenchfried..Carrot cake…Carrot juice…Carrot pie…I’m eatin so many carrots in two weeks I go from being blind too looking thru walls…yup I’ve got xray viison.. I’m zonin on everybody…I got the lowdown on uptown downtown allround town… I know what everybody’s doin where when why and how I’m the Budda in allstars.. The prophet in Poleclimbers…the database in Doc Martens…The allknowin everflowing allseein every bodybein halloween scorpio skatenik…I watch the chicks from the Popularity Posse puke Mallomars, Marshmellow Fluff then go back and gorge some more… I zone the quaterbacks, full bax, halfbax, and left bax getting smacked by their Moms and sent to their rooms to clutch their Teddy Bears and cry along to The Cure…I know every answer to every test about to be given…I write em down…I make copies…a lotta copies..Copies at Kinko’s…Hey world Nemo’s makin copies..bAAM… I’m in business for myself… I set my own hours I  make my own rules..and ya know what I break em..

Hellyeah I dooin it my way…In no time I’m in the cashmoneymoney, supercashflow stoppid cash dollar…and I buy alotta books alotta Lit.. Cuz I’m a reading muthaphucka..

Hustler, Cherry Easy Rider, Big Tits Bigger Tits, Milking Mommas. I’m back in the bath room.. I’m back on tour..One man solo..just cuz I’m an African American male in an all white neighborhood…The crazy screwup known for a good laugh…a good time… but that’s as far as its gonna go NIGGA…so of course I’m gonna knock ya over and do it…

HARD…

 

FASTFORWARD

 

Vigilante of L.O.V.E.

“Surfing For The Bad Seed”

NYC 9.96

 

Recently I borrowed some really bitching visuals from Manhattan’s Comics and Such.. First there’s the snarling Kiss Classics courtesy of Marvel Music Line…No band members blood in the ink this time…

 

DAAK ATARI

                                       Darn

 

This slickshit was in the bargain bin of all places..

 

FRANKENMIND

                                       Looky here Dark Atari at a discount.

 

A fact I still can’t believe considering the Kiss Army is back from the grave this summer rebooting fro Big Biz..

 

RED MAN

                                       Time for some action

 

The 2nd selection being “ Dangerous Artifacts” majestically illustarted by Claudio Castellini…

 

GALACTUS

                     “ Endless empty blackness flecked with sparkling diamonds and shining

                        baubles and amid it all one shining brighter than all the rest..my

                        creation The Silver Surfer”

 

ya see Galactus dusted Norrin Rand with the Power Cosmic and transformed him into The Surfer…And let me tell ya I’d sell my soul again is some Creature from The Biggety Blacketty Boo would do that for me cuz The Surfer is one beautiful space entity,, This is

the kinda comic that would had me hard in less than a handbeat in high school… ya know the real deal…Not like the black leathered Breakfast Club bullshit at Our Local Temple of Rock Coney Island High…wait acne riddled assholes, hoz & bruiseboys banging heads to the same shalala…

 

ROCK CROWD

                                         We’re white and you’re not.

 

DAARK ATARI

                                           It is the real thing.

 

GUY SMILEY

                                         The preceding announcement was brought to you

                                       By your neighborhood Coca Cola bottler

 

SPEEDY GONZALES

                                        In Mexico Sssssssssssssssssssiddy

 

(Late Breaking Update: Jody and I were in the bowels of Coney Island High drinking free

Brew ha! Ha! At The Murphy’s Law so we like it again.Thanks Mike)

 

Silver Surfer used to be Galacttus’s main man scouting planets for him to munch…Now he’s a free agent…A Rocketship Denis Rodman..Yo imagine if that Bullhead Nigga hung ten…No no I won’t even go there…I’m in enuff trouble as it is…Meanwhile back in deep space an ancient comet has been made…

 

UNCREDITED UNDERPAID NARRATOR

                         Its way back from the fringes of The Unknown

 

And Galactus wants to possess its secret so he hires The Surfer too shoot the curl…Hey Space Cadets time to bust out your Captain Power hologram ring and project that mutha.. Galactus really wants to…

 

A)    Fuck It

B)     Wear It

C)    Eat It

 

Hmmmmmmmmm..ticktock ticktock ticktock…ENNNT!…Time’s up…The Answer is...

 

D)    All of the above

 

REN

                                You eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeediot

 

TEACHER TEACHER

                   What was that Jonny? There’s no D on the test. So you’re a wise

                    Guy eh? We’ll see about that. Guidance Dept. This is Herman

                   Hardblow from The English Dept. I think a certain John B Rotten

                     Needs to be placed in the special education classes. Of course he

                     Can read but not between the lines if ya know what I mean..uh-huh

                     Hmmmmmmmmm…uh-huh yes I’ll send him right down.

 

Which means its time to introduce Darkseid into this lil space operation

 

 

DAARK ATARI

                       Darkseid huh?…Handal’s isn’t that a copyright violation.

                       Why am I asking questions? Its is a copyright violation I’m

                       Daark Atari. Sue the stardust out of the lame fuck. And get

                       Sherill Rhoades on the phone while you’re at it. We need to

                        Discuss Nemo’s Spiderman: Compleat Infinity..

 

Darkseid’s the competition and he wants a nice slice of The Comet Bootywiggle for him- self as well..It’s a must do chim chim charoo..Imagine the headlines if he’s successful..

 

ELECTRO NEWSIE

                          Read all about it. Darkseid Does It At Lightspeed.

 

His popularity poll points are gonna rip thru the roof and he’ll be ambushed with enuff hi-octane Venusian nookie too jump start a lil whorehouse in Heaven too boot… soo the alien superfiend dispenses with the niceties, immediately dispathing his own brand of baddie..

 

STILL UNCREDITED UNDERPAID NARRATOR

                          The woman who simply calls herself WHITE RAVEN

 

And then in hyperdrives the peanut gallery, The Skrulls and the Kree Warriors and taaadaaaaaaaaaah…It’s a mad mad mad mad mad Mrs Dash for this new source of shake appeal…WARNING: Do Not Read For The Next Oh Sixty Six Seconds If You Don’t Wanna Know What Goes Down And of Course That Means You Shouldn’t Be Reading This Jive At All…Buy Hey Ignorance is Blistex..

 

GUY SMILEY

                            Blistex cools soothes and relieves from

 

Too much black sunshine…Silver Surfer shoots all the way live straight to the center of this mysterious island and discovers…

 

UNIONIZED N.RA. MEMBERSHIP CARD WIELDING

DAKOTA LIVING WORLD TRAVELING NARRATOR

                  A Fabulous race inhabiting the comet…Even abandoned the sprawl

                 speaks of their grace and beauty

                       

Actually the alien race has been slim exxed to one utopia haunted guru Ghandi E.T…. His mission is to safeguard to a crytsal which harnesses the bwaang maintaing the peace and the serenity…and from the way things look he’s been doing a gangbang!bang! job cuz there ain’t no spooks running wyld devaluingt the skyhigh real estate prices of this cosmic suburbia…Dis ain’t no Das Efx peoples…It’s a whiteman’s Nirvana with Wagner wishfullfilling it in the wings!

 

 

LOOPED NAZI TROOPS

                            Seig Heil! Sieg Heil! Seig Heil!

 

I can diggit..Jodycat and I have been too a few operas ourselves..but that’s as far as it goes..y aknow cuz I ain’t got time for racial foolishness of any kind including your mine and niggaz with half-a-mind…so this galaxy galloping guru decides he’s gonna give The Surfer the goods…

 

GALAXY GALLOPING GURU

                         I knew an outsider would come seeking the source I did

                         Not expect a soul as noble as yours.

 

When oh my stars and garters in stalks White Raven her lasers locked and loaded…

 

WHITE RAVEN

                            Not a chance.

 

Blazeeeeeeeeero….skrasssssssh…the crystal is history…only problem is this WORD releases The Biggest Baddest Deemon Dawg Muthaphucka I haven’t seen since vizzing Fantasia & Legend many new moons ago…

 

DEEMON DAWG

                            FREE! FREE AT LAST!

 

Loolylike Mr Hyde is back from his joyless sabbatical inside Dr Jeckyll’s insane..

 

“VOICES INSIDE ME HEAD”

                                Lifted we will be lifted. Lifted we will be lifted.

 

Okay The Sixty Seconds is Over. You Can Remove Your Head From Your Four Point Contact And Resume Sipping That Latte..Cuz now Marvel’s worldview and mine collide…Theirs: White Raven has gotta Pandora complex and opens the box releasing The Big Baddie and Our Hero must save her from herself and most importantly The Ultimate Evil whoo obviously is a stand-in for The Nigga With The Big Bad Dick Mine: Ditto on the first part but what if Raven iced Silver Surfer so she and Elder Demon could rock and roll thru The Universe with no hesitation serving up a wicked slice of the knockknockin boots persasion..Jimney Crickets…getting gritty on the special love sauce

Yesssssssssssssireee…an explosion of sexual mayhem that’s never seen the light of day..

And here’s me tellin ya reals shit never does..

 

Hermit’s Cave

                                     Gonna find a cave for me and you

 

Or does it?..Popgothambangbang…Surf’s up

 

REWIND

 

Odds & Endsville

“Junior’s Beachside Guide To Heaven’s Gates”

Puerto Escondido, Mexico  89

 

Puerto Escondido is fulla dreamers, schemers, surfers, beachbums, hippies, merchants drunks the rich the poor the hated the adored and…Junior…Yeah Junior is the nick name given to me by these vactioning teensagres down here.. He’s a Mexican cartoon character..Ha its one of the best presents I’ve ever received

 

SENOR FRANKENMIND

                              You no like birthday present in Madrid

 

Who are you? Why the hell are you in my head?

 

SENOR FRANKEMIND

                              I got call to fill in. Your friend he pissed . He say

                              You no appreciate. He on trip.

 

I don’t need a babysitter..

 

SENOR FRANKENMIND

                              The Big Boss felt you need some assitance you

                               Know the Bus station scenario in Mexico City

                               You might get hurt. Even dead

 

I made it here didn’t I. Tell the Brain Trust to fuck off

 

SENOR FRANKENMIND

                              No No Check it out. I’m on the clock right but

                              I’m not really here. Comprende.

 

Cool.

 

SENOR FRANKENMIND

                                  Its mexico my friend its mexico.

 

And Ha no way the knuckleheads in Norwalk can touch this action…lounging at a bar on superbowl Sunday in a fishingtown off the Pacific..Dave’s father Mr. Dungey forced me to pick a team too root for..I decided on the San Francisco 49ers but I got tanked on tequila and started cheering no matter who scored…Mr Dungey’s the raddest…He’s a psychoanalyst from The University of Toronto..a real live Cliff Huxtable..had me in stitches constantly…Far from the snob he appears to be..He asked me if I wanted to accompnay them to Oxoaca…Maybe if I can spare the cash…well the real reason I don’t wanna go is I’d have to room with Mishishan..the dood’s cool and all that yet he preachs this hate deal..Mishishan claims Jim Hendrix’s death was a political assasination and the Nineties will see the return of massive rioting…Its true African Americans are oppressed but he goes too far and since most of my friends are white the gospel he preaches is offensive even to me..Besides he ridcules me on how I am..

 

MISHISHAN

                                   Yo Biff wanna go surfing.

 

And claims I talk down to people with

 

MISHISHAN

                                   That snotty Connecticut accent.

 

And the fact I haven’t made love with a black woman.

 

MISHISHAN

                                  Cuz you gotta be dissin me.

 

Funny thing is he claims to like me…oh my gawd the surfers here have total attitude.. I encountered a few laid back ones..Its mostly the Brazillian fuckers…the positive thing is they won’t be able to laugh at my inexperience in the water cuz its impossible to buy a board..The surf shop guy wants $75 for a beat to shit board…Kinda ironic a few steps from the Pacific yet prevented from surfing it..we’ll call it the luck of Junior..

 

Euro—go-go

 

Nothing But lipstick

 

MotoDegenerate

“Echo The Nothing”

Elpaso Texas

 

The engine and the carb cleaners…only a few weeks and I’m abot to give Gomer Pyle a run for his money…grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrease monkey…I’m almost afriad to see myself at the end of this madness that is if I make it that far…El Paso is heavily populated by Hispanic Americans..lawyers..doctors..soulful senoritas..can really enjoy em..tired…empty.. stagger thru Walmart mumbling who knows what…People sure move fast when you look like a complete wreck., your whole aura shouting “PAIN!”

 

GUY SMILEY

                                 Attention Walmart shoppers major suffering I aisle 13

 

Bought a bottle of Marvel’s Mystery Oil..what no gravy..cleans fuel lines injectors lubricates piston rings cleans topy clylinder walls…improves gase mileage..should of splurged and gotten a six pack for Me and The Beast to share…My soul needs cleansing its corroded dark cracklin crippetycreep dirty solar speak..on my won on my own solo so low..an unceasing chitterchatter keeps spooling loopdeeloopdeeploop…quiet..hush hush I believe in The Unbelievor…I believein the features Of The Faceless One..

 

THE WAITRESSES

                        I know what boys like boys like boys like me.

 

Boys like me somwhere in the world…where are the riders of The Storm..so I always have to take the lead..boys like..boys like boys like me…somwhere in this pile of shit.. can’t hurt me no more..there is no me to hurt anymore..no more..I wanna be no more..

 

Shit with this buggey flowgo I suppose buying Maximum Strength no doz at the beginning of this slum dawsprawl would have made a helluvalot more sense…500 miles to San Antonio..then 500 or so more to New Orleans…Fuck me man I gotta go clear across Texas and I can barely move…I haven’t had a hardon for days..Billboards read  Don’t Mess With Texas…and I sense my presecnce is doing exactly that…Can’t believe I managed to unload all the dinero Uncle Phil gave me…and if I phone home Grandma’s gonna know I’m in the vicinity…and she’ll have a severe case of Negrophobia.. start wrapping her haircurlers too tight…dreading every sound fearing I’ve returned to hog the remote control…well I haven’t seen them for two years and I don’t intend on doing that any time soon…a florida function ain’t my spill to speed…I wish I may I wish I might 1800 Collect tonight…have her hotwire the notes and getta hotel room and sleep this shit off…stuff stuff..Marnie stuff…We were so damn hip cause we could slum America.. visit but not have to return…look at me now…Miserable..broke..wanting to die half the time but scared to cross the line..Marnie’s since returned to the Castle…SouthPort..Nantucket you can take the girl outta Miss Porter’s but never take the Miss Porter’s outta the girl

Vaaaaaasssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssser changed the locks…please let me make it thru the day

 

Echo The Nothing

 

Lips Like Sugar

Sugar That Bleeds

Titantic Tomorrow Tomorrow

Tomorrow is a lifetime away

“Away with you” she sed

Said the pleasing pleasure

Couldnot wouldnot keep her captive

“I want more life phucka”

Daddy’s demands over cellular skylines

Succeeded where I failed

Fathersonboynotfriend

He’s not your friend

Champion Of Nynex

New York Telephone

Won the war wears the one

See my battlescars scream

In sin Insane

Out of Sync Out Of Season

Losing The land Of The lost

Losing The Reason

Hasten The haste

Don’t stop to understand

Hurry The Hurry

Phone home if you can

Echo The Nothing lil man

 

A lady in lipstick

A siren in symphoney

A goddess in four wheel drive

Hit the highroad

And left me behind

Behind in the shadows

Shadow whisper shadows roar

Take the door of midnight’s thunder

So I took the touch of fantastic

Spurred onby the speed of demons

And surprise surprise..lo and behold

Lady don’t want me no more

Missing Angel Juan and ruby shoes

Are the only things that keep the promise

Of Concrete conquest and endless river run

Topdown and get away gear

Have been swallowed by Politics Of Cruelty

By rawdawg furies

And these kinda trix…ain’t for kidz

I HAVE NOTHING

I HAVE NOTHING

I HAVE NOTHING

 

FASTFORWARD

 

Vigilantes of L.O.V.E.

“Robozen”

NYC   8.96

 

Editor’s Note: Neil Vandervloed is the Cassady to Nemo’s  Kerouac..meaning he’s the coolest white guy the author  knows…the following is an interview that was supposed to be in his metazine Goo Goo Muck but too too much red red wine eightysixed that action…And yesterday we heard the rumor Neil’s hipshit in the middle of T.A.Z. inspired poetic terrorism..cruising in his Ford crooze ship tagging all the Federal Buildings with his ganga graphics.. so its time to away we go..Hey I’m uptight but not stupid

 

NEMO

                       Yes it’s the stardog champion. Neil’s new Oxford Depot Ny studio

                       Slash barn slash morgue. There’s this vile head of an animal on the

                        Wood stove. Does this thing still work?

 

NEIL

                         Yup its how I keep myself warm in the winter. Cause its subzero up

                        Here everytime I try to paint.

 

NEMO

                        Its not subzero now pal

 

NEIL

                        Yeah its about 95 degrees

 

NEMO

                       Its august almost the end of the summer and I’m looking at…

 

NEIL

                        My new painting series entitled…uhmn uh..I forget the title..

                        Then this one is titled..uh..no it’s not.

 

NEMO

                         I’ve gotta title..Neil spends too much time alone. Let’s get down

                         To biz and ask that all encompassing question in my best Ted

                          Koppel voice. What are you trying to accomplish with your art?

                         Where are you trying to go?

 

NEIL

                           I’m not trying to go anywhere. I’m just a painter.

 

NEMO

                           If you’re just a painter. Why don’tcha paint a house matter

                           Of fact this place could use a few coats.

 

NEIL

                           I’ve painted houses for years. This is much more fun.

 

NEMO

                           When did you start?

 

NEIL

                         New Year’s Eve 1990 when I married Lisa Jack. She was

                         Painting too.

 

 

NEMO

                            Aaaah so Lisa inspired ya.

 

NEIL

                            Yes she did. She’s the greatest painter I’ve ever met in the

                             World and she’s my wife.

 

NEMO

                             Maybe that’s why you have guns in your artwork. Neil are

                             You unhappy in your marriage…uh just kidding we won’t

                             Go there.

 

NEIL

                              I’m unhappy with life in general cause I hate living in the

                               Woods.

 

NEMO

                                Why’dcha move back here then?

 

NEIL

                               I had to get away from Seattle. I was so bored.

 

NEMO

(mockingly surprised)

                              Oh so you used to live in Seattle geewhizwuddayaknow.

 

Both of us laugh..unintelligble cameo shout by Neil’s son..JAKE..whose playing with JODYCAT..

 

NEIL

                                What? I’m busy go play.

 

NEMO

                               Speaking Of Seattle how did your last show go?

 

NEIL

                              It was at Linda Cannon’s. The show’s title was “tiny bits

                               Of  Meaningless”..I painted a hundred one foot paintings

                               At a hundred dollars apiece.

 

NEMO

                               Nice title. You should have slapped that on a t-shirt with a

                               Print of one of your paintings. Big Money Money See you

                               Need someone like me around

 

 

NEIL

                                One of my favorite paintings from the show was “Future

                                Communist Manifesto In Pictograms” the other one was

                                “Things I Hate”

 

NEMO

                                  I’d like to see that one.

 

NEIL

                                   It sold.

 

NEMO

                                  HA! No doubt.

 

NEIL

                                 I sold thirty of them and I haven’t received a dime.

 

NEMO

                                  Sue the bitch!. Where the loot Linda Lou?

 

NEIL

                                  She got married to a lawyer.

 

NEMO

                                   That’s why she’s not paying you the money He said

                                  “Fuck Vandervloed”

 

NEIL

                                   She owes another woman who showed at the gallery

                                    $14,000.

 

NEMO

                                   How can she breeze around town owing people money

                                   Its gonna catch up to her eventually. I personally

                                    Gurantee it.

 

NEIL

                                   You don’t have to pay artists anything. Artists are the

                                    Stupidest losers in the world.

 

NEMO

                                     So you finally admit you’re stupid.

 

NEIL

                                    Yes but I’m not an artist. I’m a painter.

 

NEMO

                                    See He’s not stupid after all..As ultra violent

                                    As “Things To Hate With sounds. There’s gotta be

                                   Someone you like how about Basquiat.

 

NEIL

                                     Everybody likes him.

 

NEMO

(shouting)

                                     Now that he’s dead. Now that there’s a movie

                                      People suck.

 

NEIL

                                      Basquiat’s got such beautiful colors and He’s big

                                      People love big paintings.

 

NEMO

(superfem voice)

                                       He’s so big. Are you gonna be bigger?

 

NEIL

                                        The next ones are gonna be 4x4 I always create

                                        Within a square.

 

NEMO

                                    Is there some mathematical logistical metaphysical

                                    Kooky cosmic digital why you’re advancing to the 4x4?

 

NEIL

(grinning smugly)

                                 That’s the standard size of the board I buy at Home Depot

                                   They come in 4x8 and I cut em in half. $3.99 for two

                                   Paintings.

 

NEMO

                                    Wow discount art supplies the vandervloed way. There’s

                                     A certain theme prevalent thru your work ya wanna

                                     Expound on that.

 

NEIL

                                     It’s all sciencefiction. I love scifi stories, scifi novels

                                     Scifi movies.

 

 

 

NEMO

(tongue firmly in buttcheek)

                                             So let’s get this straight. You like sciencefiction.

 

NEIL

                                       Scifi is the only genre in the world where you have

                                        Absolute freedom. You can incorporate anything and

                                       No one will look twice and go “uh you can’t do that”

                                       If you write a regular novel you can’t have a spaceship

                                       Crash on your roof or people materialize in your room.

                                        Anything can happen

 

Author’s Note:As I reach for my Tully’s Go cup of Peach Tea, the St. Regis Hotel Mangement has informed the hotel guests a rocketship from the dark side of the moon is on a collision course with the City Of Seattle..I’m contemplating on moving but that’s not gonna look too good in the movies..Besides the Jack Skellington doll I “borrowed” from Liz Tongue sez Beetlejuice told him the aliens are really on their way to kidnap Mayor

Schell for not taking me to Seattle Opera’s production of “Faust” for my birthday like I requested..hA! and August Wilson thought I was bullshitting about being in touch with a Higher Authority..bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang.

 

NEMO

                                      Doesn’t painting present you with the feeling of total

                                       Freedom. Just letting the inner willies weave their way

                                       On the canvas…putdoh! Putdoh! Putdoh!

 

NEIL

(bad buddah pose)

                                      Well grasshopper..let me explain…it’s a very weird.

                                       It’s very strange. It’s not like a book where someone

                                       Can spend CENSORED! And be entertained its very

                                       Expensive and something you really don’t need. So if

                                       You paint science fiction paintings no one really wants

                                        Them. My pieces don’t look right in anybody’s living

                                       Rooms.

 

NEMO

                                       Why?

 

NEIL

                                         Cause I’ve never seen one in anybody’s living room

 

NEMO

                                         Give in to me I’ll put in my living room

 

 

NEIL

                                              Slash

 

NEMO

                                              Bedroom

 

NEIL

                                              Slash

 

NEMO

(jason impersonation)

                                      kitchen slash slash slash..yes Jody and I are living in a

                                      hole..an expensive hole but we won’t talk about me and

                                       my problems we’re heard to talk about Neil’s.uhm

 

NEIL

                                       Watch it.

 

NEMO

                                              

 

Insert rest of interview

 

NEMO

                                           Ha I love it.

 

Outside.

JODY

                                            I’ve got you now.

 

And Jake screams with joy. Yeah man summertime

 

 

REWIND

 

Odds & Endsville

“Que Pasa”

Puerto Escondido, CA 1.89

 

Didn’t you know I have a timeshare deal goin on and I suppose that’s why the place is so cheap. My roomies are constantly there. Did battle with them last night Fleas 10 Nemo Zip But the was has just begun and the shit’s gonna get fierce. None of em are gonna bite me when I strut back home One of the beachside schemers is the long haired Norte Americano Arturo. Standing outside Macumba’s he approached me with this Brazillian dood

 

ARTURO

                            Now this fellow I can take his Coke away from.

 

Reaches over and grabs it. I let go. He took a sip and hands it back.

 

ARTURO

                              See.

 

I looked him straight in the eye with my certified wild man look.

 

NEMO

(chanting)

                              Boogedy Boogedy Ha Ha

 

ARTURO

                               Whatdaafuck was that?

 

NEMO

                             I’d hate to be in your shoes man I’ve done cursed

 

 

 

 

 

                                      

Odds & Endsville

“Beauty & The Bleach ”

Seattle, WA 11.98

 

No this itty bitty ditty was never part of the original monsta mix..Matter of fact I wasn’t even gonna mention it…I gotta finish and face the music televison some time right?,,, but in between being accused of stalking Mary Lou Lord by the Crocodile Café doormen… psycho sweettalking Rob Mc Dermott at AGM into will calling Lisa Damned and me for The Rob Zombie show..strongly encouraging the Norstrom fashionista to have their window display reflect Emerald City’s increasingly multicultural….

 

HOLE

                           When I wakeup in my makeup

 

Being attacked by my former Stranger compadres for blacklunging unflattering truths about Dan Savage…

 

THE STRANGER

                             “Friday, October 30th. An impromptu slam poetry was given

                               by an anonymous ranting street person today at Bailey/Coy

                               books on Broadway. Stomping around the store in a pair of

                               sexy leather pants, the unknown ranter loudly declared him-

                               self to be a “Poet-the Jack Kerouac of the 90’s” before de-

                               nouncing all Stranger writers (“ASSHOLES’) and the wonder

                               ful bookstore itself (“Bailey/Coy can suck my ass”) Citizens

                               hoping to catch a repeat performance should keep their eyes

                               peeled for the unnamed poet on popular street corners and in

                               the better halfway houses around the Puget Sound. Meanwhile

                               poetry fans who mention the anonymous ranting freak will get

                               10 percent off the poetry book of their choice at Bailey/Coy.

 

 

FRANKENMIND

                                 Gee Tim if you put that big of a spin on lil ole Nemo, I

                                  hate to think about the accuracy of your other “news stories”.

 

SFX: HURRRRRRRRRRRl

I’ve….been….. reading….. Stephen Fried’s “Thing Of Beauty: The Tragedy  Of SuperModel Gia” and felt the urge to purge my own blistering expose of the beauty industrial complex….No this isn’t more of Dick Nystrom’s dirty deeds done not so dirt cheap…Nope this about the towering ice cream toy, Mishna Wolfe.

 

MADONNA

                                   You’re a superstar

                                   That’s what you are.

 

One of the reasons I count zero interupted Seattle in ’92 is the move was suggested by Rob Schwartz…A Vassar veggie house resident from Beverly Hills…

 

ROB

                                      Man it looks like your city. Ya oughta break before

                                      its too late

             

And I hadn’t even heard of Nirvana until one of Marnie’s elite freaks played me the tape during a break from Poughkeepsie Powerslumming…..

 

NEMO

(unusually impressed)

                                       Who the fuck is that?

 

The sonic youth didn’t sound like anything I had expereinced before..this cat was wailing like his overheated punk soul had been plunged into a warped tour of corporate freon and it still had a hook…

 

FRANKENMIND

                                  Howls like a D.O.A. pop pop pop music

Had to get the weird nigga stamp of approval…had to call Trip in Memphis…

 

TRIP

(excited)

                                  Oh yeah I saw them play. Their wicked. The leadsinger’s

                                   is Kurt Cobain. I asked him to sign my pants after the

                                   show and he said “naaaaaaah man you might have to

                                    wear some place nice. He’s so cool”

 

Trip also told me about talking with the drummer from a band named Hole in the Piggley Wiggley parking lot…Of course none of us outside the industry inner circle knew about that soon to be monumental connection…yeah whenever something was about to break big..whether it be a band. Movie or look, Trip has always been there…though not this time I’m afraid..not this time..but trust me, he knows about this book.. You don’t share a room with the same person for fifteen years and not know what they’re gonna do with their Life cereal…..

 

LIFE KID

                                          Give it to Mickey, he’ll try anything.

 

So after falling on ready labor daze… a Grey hound Bus ticket and two thousand bucks from Dad found me in Grungetown…and finally the sinister Cinemascope synchronized with the Dolby Stereo, Reality had almost erased from my head….there were just so many gawddamn alternateens behind the wheel of The Ultimate Experience strutting around unclean and carefree…Taking the Metro to The University District I arrived at the apartment Rob was crashing…

 

ROB

                                  Hey one of my friends is gonna pick us up

 

The friend was Ivory…a redheaded That Thang….and the place was Café Paradiso, kitty cornered from The Comet Tavern…She sashayed us upstairs where we smoked and had cappacinos…The girl was glamourama 24/7 ..and from that first Hi HI Make Your Move I had Ivory’s brick house on my Sunset Boulevard of Stately Wayne Manna Design… all the time…and oh there was Melody Rockwell the above and beyond who sex stampeded me on the youth hostel roof in Paris 89…now working at The Gravity Bar on Braodway

…and Sara Bell, the Cornish dance major and bitchin graphic artist..and Heather and Lenny and…uh-uhmn Marnie when she made that trip here in October…

 

 

MARNIE

(driving rental car)

                                     Is that what you’re wearing these days?

 

NEMO

(proudly wearing plaid)

                                       Yeah. How do you like it?

 

MARNIE

                                      The hat. I like the hat.

 

I recived kisses, hugs, fine cuisine, and the lean mean Portable Lower Eastside for my birthday…but getting a slice of Ivory’s radio friendly Rocket Pizza proved next to impossible…despite my attempts to seduce her with red wine and a roaring fireplace..uh- huh..my room had a fucking fireplace…Can you believe it?

 

STUNNED READER

                                      Nemo, anything’s possible at this point.

 

Nautipussy unnavigatible…I focused on concocting my crazysexycool for The Stranger … until one day at Bulldog News…Ivory visited my loser limosine and brought along a friend…Twiggythin and wearing no makeup but radiating a L.O.V.E. bizarre… Ivory never bothered to introduce us and when I asked who the girl was she said….

 

IVORY

                                      Mishna? You don’t wanna know Mishna. She’s got

                                      Problems.

 

SFX: EENNNNT

 

 

GUY SMILEY

                                   Try again contestant.

 

I mean come on who doesn’t wanna know someone you’re supposed to not wanna know? I bumped into Mishna months later and I guess it was the unusual break in the February rain which allowed Mother Nature to vogue Our Let There Be Groove.. We slowpoked to the theatre…ate Thai food in the International District…knightmared thru a trillion book-stores…

 

FRANKENMIND

                                   But of course

 

And the kicker was she paid for cabs whereever we went…

 

NEMO

(climbing in)

                                  Who is this girl?

 

Cause back then nobody greytopped to Tomorrow Tomorrow ..not unless you were the latest pearl in the jam, some subpop cop was trying to lasso into their not so ok. Corral.. Further investigation revealed the nature of Mishna’s game…we dropped by the Team Model’s office near the Bon Marche…where she picked up a few new shots for her growing portfolio...

 

MISHNA

                                       They tell me I have “IT”

 

Mishna’s mood that day was happy happy joy joy oh boy…but the more we babyloned our video Von Stroheim the more I discovered she wasn’t…

 

THE POLICE

                                     It’s a big enough umbrella

                                     But it’s always me

                                     That ends up getting wet

 

IVORY

                                   Nemo? You don’t wanna know Nemo. He’s got problems

 

 She had to make decisions most 17 year olds don’t…whether to sign with Elite or Bethanne …and by this point her experimentation with every drug known to man had ruined her straight A status…Since I was struggling with my own digital demons I didn’t have much advice except encorageing her to be number one…For the next week and a half we spent nearly each waking moment together…making it a point to spin our extended dance mix far from Ivory’s prying eyes..since Mishna said Ivory said…

 

 

IVORY

                              Nemo you don’t wanna know nemo He’s got

                              Problems.

 

I told her about “The Novel”..

 

NEMO

                                     Its gonna be huge.

 

MISHNA

                                      What’s it about?

 

NEMO

(stalling for time)

                                        uh….uh…stuff

 

And how I was off to New York…

 

MISHNA

                                        I’m gonna be there soon too. We should hook up.

                                        Maybe even live together.

 

NEMO

                                          Hellyeah

 

To cement this Right On Time I gave Mishna my prized N.Y.C. Skates Letterman jacket and I had yet to vizz any girl sunbeam surreal with so much pride and sense of purpose while wearing my haute courte….except Jody….of course…

 

MADONNA

                                          Learn to say goodbye

                                           I yearn to say goodbye

 

DAARK ATARI

                                           You’re not crying again, are ya mate?

 

FRANKENMIND

                                           Leave The Kid alone.

 

Mishna introduced me to her parents…I don’t remember their names since we’re not speaking…They haven’t been real receptive to my various phonecalls from the Chelsea or Joshua Tree or Harborview..but they were pretty tolerant…how tolerant?.. Mishna let me stay over one night and we made love..and if Kurt and I were born the same year and she was technically a senior in high school…

 

 

FRANKENMIND

                                         Pretty goddamn hip, I’d say.

 

Eventually the day came for this lost boy to motor on his own and she rode with Alexa and me to the bus station….After saying our goodbyes, I boarded…and watched The Woman of my dreams..No I’m not gonna sing it…I’ll leave that to J.R…walk walk walk away….And this Nirvana From the Muddy Banks Of The Wishkah 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea had the longest ride of his life back to the east coast…except for last year of course…In Manhattan as soon as I had time to psycho 69 and find a place to crash… I phoned Mishna on Valentine’s Day…Bad News…Ivory had called the very same day I left..and Mishna’s kid sister, Anora had unknowingly spilled the beans..

 

ANORA

                                     Mishna’s not here. She’s with Nemo.

 

Well this upset Ivory to no end…how dare the girl think for herself…how dare she live her own life…and she was pressuring Mishna to put a stop to all this nonsense…

 

MISHNA

                                     And I’m probably signing with Elite which means I have

                                     To go to Milan anyway.

 

And she was so far far away..and growing more distant with each minute….Despite my “blessing” of remembering every tiny detail of my earthly existence…

 

BATMAN 66

                                       Some days you can’t get rid of a bomb.

 

I don’t recall the rest of our converstation….Just simply fumbling the phone back on the receiver and shedding a few tears as I second coming modest mouse cadillac angel crazymaker gas hufffer sister spit to The Whitney Museum...It was the final day of the Madonna sponsored Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibit…and I snaked in with my then fake working press pass…graciously macintoshed by Jonathan Hart Eddy..the gentle giant  who singlehandedly pieced The Stranger together…and I stood completely broke… homeless…and heartbroken before huge canvases of this dead man’s cruel whirl carton Bearlin beatnik graffitti surrounded in a scared hiss of

 

THE CURE

                                         Miles and miles and miles away from home again

 

And for once in my life I had…nothing to say.

 

 

 

 

 

Odds & Endsville

“Kurt Cobain Will Have His Revenge On Rob Zombie”

 Seattle, WA  3.99