excerpt from an unfinished sculpture

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thank you

this cat is mew sick

you know whatjust like the pink fluidi realise there are very few if any artists whose work i like from beginning to endeg trex i dont mind the 3 albums before beard of starsi hate anything after the slider….anything…what a wastebowie….nothing after heroes..bar the odd good songbeatles ..i dont really love the stuff before say revolver so muchi mean i respect it n all that but rarely listen to itthe church…didnt really jump on till heydayand i love priest but hate fucking some of the othersbruce springsteen…nothing after about 1978dylan…same as beatles with ultra early stuffi guess i’m a mid period kinda guymy friend johnny h suggests i “do” exile on mainstreetwow….thats a hard one..to dobecause i love tumbling dice more than anythingbecause i reckon its the ultimate slowish sloppy grinding old rockerhonkin’ tonkin’ boogie woogie southern fried sexy fuckin rocksometimes thats whats its aboutrock gotta be about sex as much as spacebecause sex is part of the holy trinity of sex n drugs n rocknrolln reallyhave you found any better triple pastime than this?so i like my rock to be sexyand i dunno i guess i thought this was you gotta roll me and call me the tumbling dicei can remember blasting this song with delightwhen it came on the car radiomy dad would let me borrow his mazda rotaryand i’d cruise canberras highways n boulevardesdressed in my tshirt levis n thongs (flip flops, you yanquis)i had a girlfriend lived on the other side of the lakein truth i enjoyed the drive there in my dads carmore than i enjoyed actually seeing heranyway i remember turning up one dayi was 17 at the timeand she’d bought sticky fingersand i just couldnt believe how GOOD it soundedpumping outta her rich daddys soundsystem(usually reserved for a bit of sunday classical)wow!and the […]

you know what
just like the pink fluid
i realise there are very few if any artists
whose work i like from beginning to end
eg trex i dont mind the 3 albums before beard of stars
i hate anything after the slider….anything…what a waste
bowie….nothing after heroes..bar the odd good song
beatles ..i dont really love the stuff before say revolver so much
i mean i respect it n all that but rarely listen to it
the church…didnt really jump on till heyday
and i love priest but hate fucking some of the others
bruce springsteen…nothing after about 1978
dylan…same as beatles with ultra early stuff
i guess i’m a mid period kinda guy
my friend johnny h suggests i “do” exile on mainstreet
wow….thats a hard one..to do
because i love tumbling dice more than anything
because i reckon its the ultimate slowish sloppy grinding old rocker
honkin’ tonkin’ boogie woogie southern fried sexy fuckin rock
sometimes thats whats its about
rock gotta be about sex as much as space
because sex is part of the holy trinity of sex n drugs n rocknroll
n really
have you found any better triple pastime than this?
so i like my rock to be sexy
and i dunno i guess i thought this was
you gotta roll me and call me the tumbling dice
i can remember blasting this song with delight
when it came on the car radio
my dad would let me borrow his mazda rotary
and i’d cruise canberras highways n boulevardes
dressed in my tshirt levis n thongs (flip flops, you yanquis)
i had a girlfriend lived on the other side of the lake
in truth i enjoyed the drive there in my dads car
more than i enjoyed actually seeing her
anyway i remember turning up one day
i was 17 at the time
and she’d bought sticky fingers
and i just couldnt believe how GOOD it sounded
pumping outta her rich daddys soundsystem
(usually reserved for a bit of sunday classical)
wow!
and the cover with the zip….oh …well i dunno, do i..?
anyway i was lying there with my head in her lap enjoying moonlight mile
when her mother comes in n says
if steven is so tired he has to lay down then i suggest he goes home !
oh ha ha ha isnt funny how memories are blasted onto yer brain forever..?
but for a while
we were 2 teenagers listening to the rolling stones on our own
and feeling like anything was possible
it had this urgency
this immediacy
it was wasnt some old music hall thing
it wasnt some showbiz sham
it wasnt the fuckin’ establishment n their secondrate “pop”
it wasnt futuristic neither
it was fleshy it was earthy it was “authentic”
(ha ha ha)
(as authentic as english guys singing in a southern accent can be, anyhow)
(course i didnt realize that at the time)
so god i love tumbling dice and i love happy
i fell in love with keith richards sometime in about 1972
and i adored him intensely
i wanted to be him n jagger at the same time
i wanted to lead both their lives
exile on mainstreet
the honky chateau in southern france
the warm wevver
the drugs delivered each day
the filmstars n musicians
the gangsters n the girls
you dont even start recording till like 4 in the morning
coz it takes a while for keith to loosen up
mick taylors starting to loosen up too i guess
loosen up for the long haul
charlie n bill…inscrutable really…along for the ride
charlie always sittin’ up the back
doing his trademark smile at jaggers antics
director ” ok now we’ll shoot charlies smile n wink !”
keith sitting in some room cooking up smack in a spoon
oh you never gonna forget that smell once you smelt it
anitas nodded out somewhere..
keiths sitting at the piano
the rush has hit his head
and his fingers stretch out over the keys
and hes playing some old twelve bar thing
and his cigarette is smouldering
and his cold beer is nice n cold
and gram parsons has just ducked off out for a while
and fuck man
its 1971 and yer keith richards …who else would ya wanna be
well maybe one other guy
and that guys sitting in some fancy restaurant
with his south american wife who looks just like him
and hes swishing down the vino expensivo
and he daintily nibbles at his noo-vo quiz-een
and hes dining with prince blah blah n truman whoever
and hes thinking
fuck ive done well for myself
and sometimes
he wonders what its like for brian jones…being dead, i mean
and he isnt surprised to feel he feels nothing at all
and hes impatient to leave
impatient to get back in the limo
n drive back to the studio
he thinks maybe that the boys are having more fun than him
and hes right in a way
keith n gram snorting the top shelf stuff
and blasting the china white
they strum away on their guitars in the warm semi darkness of the studio
in the future a million music journalists will analyze this moment endlessly
but its gone in a nod and a snooze
and mick comes in
and keith wakes up
and hes singing happy
i need a love to make me happy
his thin n ragged voice the very voice of “authenticity”
and meanwhile steven john kilbey is still going to high school
and arguing with his father about getting his hair cut
and it will still be a few years yet
before he becomes totally infatuated with the stones
and devours their mid period records
and tries to ape them for a while
and he loves stones like bands like aerosmith n the new york dolls
and in england silverhead (remember them?)
yeah what a time
gawd its nearly 40 bloody years ago
ancient history
will anyone be writing about the kings of bloody leon in 40 years?
not on your nelly!

accelerando

e when youre on youre onaint it the truth in spadesah ya like my little music month…?i strew songs before me like flowersi write em i throw em forthi never think of em againsongs burst out of me like universes burst out of sleeping vishnuthe compensation for growing old is experienceexperience is a good thing to haveeverytime you do something you get experiencemore n more n moreoh then you start to get a feel oh delightful dayyou grok you suss you understandyou can do it just righti dont care where or on whatyeah gee whizzanywayi cant just leave ya high n dry without all those new songs you accustomed to gettingso because i am all heart and seeing how much you need this musicand seeing how some generous subscribers will cough up some more doughto make this all possible (natch!)because it takes a bit of time to knock this stuff offand i know you’ll appreciate i just want my artisans standard rateie whatever you care to chuck in my hatand thanks very much to those who did so during septemberi feel sufficiently motivated to continuei have more brand new stuff on the waymy garageband is out there practicing in the garagei walk inadjust a few levelslennon n bolan in my head whisper hintsi let them have their wayone 2 3 fourthe hi hat counts inthe guitars crunch downthe acoustic 12 strums with gustothe drum wallopthe bass all rubber boom boom boomwoweerocknroll children oh sweet mother of fuckin’ mercyoh this devils music got me shaking my idi cant believe im such an old foolish masterreleased from youths constrictionsfocussed by yoga and swimming amplified by mother natures lovely plantsmoving into more parts of my braini work feverishly day n nightpainting writing dreaming shudderingi heat up and i freezei think of nothing else […]

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when youre on youre on
aint it the truth in spades
ah ya like my little music month…?
i strew songs before me like flowers
i write em
i throw em forth
i never think of em again
songs burst out of me like universes burst out of sleeping vishnu
the compensation for growing old is experience
experience is a good thing to have
everytime you do something you get experience
more n more n more
oh then you start to get a feel
oh delightful day
you grok you suss you understand
you can do it just right
i dont care where or on what
yeah gee whizz
anyway
i cant just leave ya high n dry
without all those new songs you accustomed to getting
so because i am all heart and
seeing how much you need this music
and seeing how some generous subscribers will cough up some more dough
to make this all possible (natch!)
because it takes a bit of time to knock this stuff off
and i know you’ll appreciate i just want my artisans standard rate
ie whatever you care to chuck in my hat
and thanks very much to those who did so during september
i feel sufficiently motivated to continue
i have more brand new stuff on the way
my garageband is out there practicing in the garage
i walk in
adjust a few levels
lennon n bolan in my head whisper hints
i let them have their way
one 2 3 four
the hi hat counts in
the guitars crunch down
the acoustic 12 strums with gusto
the drum wallop
the bass all rubber boom boom boom
wowee
rocknroll children oh sweet mother of fuckin’ mercy
oh this devils music got me shaking my id
i cant believe im such an old foolish master
released from youths constrictions
focussed by yoga and swimming
amplified by mother natures lovely plants
moving into more parts of my brain
i work feverishly day n night
painting writing dreaming shuddering
i heat up and i freeze
i think of nothing else but music
until i hear the song i always wanted to hear
i tune n strum n pick n croon n loon n soon more
more more more
well well well
i’ll lay it on ya
your wanting it makes it so
your servant
sk

fragment from a eurotrash musical