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Gender Fault, Quake
by Dan
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Charles Bradley - "Why Is It So Hard" This city is leaning on the kill switch. There's heavy brown water in every open crack, in every place to breathe. Dark brown water. It's not a flood but it's definitely a drowning. Everybody's about to throw up. This city's a wretch. A wet, lurching wretch. I don't give change to homeless people anymore, I only give bills. Red alert has never been redder-cheeked. Buses and cars and trolleys and subways, they're just stirrin' shit up. Just stop moving. Turn off the Internet. Cancel all phones and friendships and phonies, cancel all fucking and flirting and flying off the handle. Just take a break from tryin' to get a break. 'Cause if this doesn't stop pressing on my chest, if the heaviness doesn't let up, if gravity doesn't give, if walkin' stays just as hard, then I'm gonna lose it and I'm not gonna get it back. Please, city, swallow the dark brown water, take that on for all of us, one last time and we'll make it better somehow. [Buy from Daptone Records] Death - "Politicians In My Eyes" "THIS IS FOR YOUR SAFETY." [Buy from Drag City] Posted by Dan at January 28, 2011 5:27 PMComments
Lose it,surrender,relax into your rebirth. Touch and Song will be there too. Posted by Carrie at January 28, 2011 10:10 PMI've consumed StG for many years. The music is consistently good, however it's the writing that has made me a lifelong fan. This story stands out. Posted by adam at January 28, 2011 11:32 PMand here i was praisin kanye for sampling Gil S-H 'who will survive in america' ... praise this song. thanks for the writing.. NJ tryin to push through too, but more storms coming this week Posted by kelly at January 31, 2011 10:29 AMthanks adam, and carrie, and kelly. Posted by Dan at February 1, 2011 12:50 AMmmm mmm. charles bradley. doesn't get much better than that. and.... repeat. Posted by jeanine at February 4, 2011 10:09 PMPost a comment |
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Sean Michaels lives in Montreal, where he is writing a novel. His work also occasionally appears at McSweeney's. Follow him on Twitter or reach him here.
Dan Beirne is an actor and writer living in Toronto. He writes fiction fiction fiction on here. It may feel true, but it is never True. He is most proud of his most recent project The Bitter End. Email him here Jordan Himelfarb lives in Toronto. He is an opinion editor at the Toronto Star. Jordan's posts appear at Said the Gramophone only on the last Wednesday of every month. Email him here. Site design and header typography by Neale McDavitt-Van Fleet. The header graphic is randomized: this one is by . 
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