Saw It in Books, Read It on TV
Mark E. Smith's forthcoming self-penned memoir, Renegade, now has a publication date of April 24, 2008. The book was originally announced for a 2007 release (under the title The Two-Year Gap), but has been pushed back several times. Even now, Amazon UK lists Renegade's subtitle as "The Lives and Tales of Mark E. Smith", but Amazon's picture of the book's cover indicates that its subtitle is "The Gospel According to Mark E. Smith". You're enjoying this, aren't you Smith?Hopefully it will make a better read than the 2003 biography of MES as told to Mark Middles, which turned out to be as much about Mr. Middles as it was about Mr. E. Smith. Not to be outdone, Middles has now written a Complete Guide to the Fall's Music, which is to be published a month after Renegade (and two months after Latch Key Kid, the real next Fall LP).
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Egads, that track-by-track "Complete Guide to the Fall's Music" is going to be the size of a Greyhound bus. To keep the book slim, they should simply write "We have no idea what he's going on about" on every page.
Bloody penknives sink the bother, catchpan bastards with buttered arses in the sick-ward toll paper - and you fuckin need eight tins of it, each morning, under a brick library full of rust. [stumbles to guitarist's amp; randomly twiddles knobs; punches bass guitarist; hurls mic stand to the floor; exits stage left. We hear the sound of a bottle breaking.]
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A moose bit my sister once.
My wife got bit by a zebra, and a tapir urinated on my mother. True stories, both!
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