Posts Tagged Suicide
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November 1, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: We Bonded Over Sonny Rollins and Faith No More And Lenny Kravitz And So Much More
We lost a good one this week, a soldier no longer reporting for duty – his war over; he wore it as well as he could, I guess. If you asked me to take a guess on who might succumb – and how fucking gross and dumb – I might just have stammered his name. […]Archive
June 9, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 66: Suicide– “Suicide”
Another of those bands/albums where I knew about it, knew I was “supposed” to have heard it, etc. But the truth, obviously, is I had not. I did know about Suicide. And Alan Vega. But mostly just from reading books that document the era, from seeing docos, from the history of music… I knew a […]Archive
March 27, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 200 The Last Cigarette In The World
I watch another boat in the harbour sail out Sitting on my own in the bay By the time you get to China on that slow ship I’ll have bitten all my nails and crumbled into the carpet You had no clear idea of what you’re looking for You only knew you couldn’t stay […]Archive
July 24, 2014 by Simon Sweetman