Rather than commissioning pieces, the fourth issue of Beat the Dust was open to all writers to submit work. No theme – anything was considered. So, expect blasphemy, a gravedigger in Disneyland, Mark Ronson having sex with Lady GaGa on a piano, a dwarf pissing on dolphins, an actual message in a bottle thrown off the Isle of Wight Ferry and a child killer. Yep, it's creamy literary goodness, folks.
1. Death Letter - Son House 2. Poor Black Mattie - R.L Burnside 3. Going Down To The River - Mississippi Fred McDowell 4. It's Bad You Know - R.L Burnside 5. Ball and a Biscuit - White Stripes 6. Tupelo - John Lee Hooker 7. Richland Woman Blues - Mississippi John Hurt 8. Me And The Devil - Robert Johnson 9. Crow Jane - Skip James 10. Jack Of Spades - Mance Lipcomb
Submission Date:
14 May 2010
Category:
Commentary
In Podcast and Chap-book
Title:
Zola and Me
Excerpt:
Simon Crump (author of Neverland: The Unreal Michael Jackson Stories, My Elvis Blackout, Monkey's Birthday and Twilight Time) has been obsessed with Zola since his dad gave him a copy of Germinal to read when he was a kid. Simon’s now writing a book about his obsession. Here’s a taste of what we can look forward to...
1. New York - Sex Pistols 2. 53rd & 3rd - The Ramones 3. Venus - Television 4. Union Square - Tom Waits 5. The Message - Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five 6. Subway Train - New York Dolls 7. Slaughter On 10th Avenue - Mick Ronson 8. New York, New York - The Dictators 9. Goin' To New York - James Blood Ulmer 10. Harlem Nocturne - Lounge Lizards
Submission Date:
14 May 2010
Category:
Commentary
In Chap-book
Title:
Echoes & Reverberations
Excerpt:
Steve Finbow, inspired by a paragraph in Maurice Blanchot’s The Writing of the Disaster has created cut-up-style lit crit piece...
1. L.A. Woman - The Doors 2. Lookin' Out My Back Door – Creedence Clearwater Revival 3. Peaches - The Stranglers 4. The Seed 2.0 - The Roots 5. In My Secret Life - Leonard Cohen 6. Good Times Bad Times - Led Zeppelin 7. Conditions (I Just Dropped in) - Kenny Rogers 8. Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division 9. In The White Room - Cream 10. Once In A Lifetime - Talking Heads
Submission Date:
14 May 2010
Category:
Commentary
In Chap-book
Title:
The Starving Artist Motif as a Life Philosophy: Literal and Psychological Starvation in Knut Hamsun’s Hunger
Excerpt:
In Knut Hamsun’s Hunger, the author’s protagonist, who at least partially represents the author himself, reflects the Dionysian in Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy through recognizing the intrinsic relation of suffering and joy in the creation of art in the quest for a unifying sense of oneness...
1. 2046 - Shigeru Umebayashi 2. In the Mood for Love - Shigeru Umebayashi 3. Ashes of Time - Frankie Chan 4. Berlin Alexanderplatz - Peer Raben 5. Eros (Wong Kar-Wai segment) - Peer Raben 6. Querelle - Peer Raben 7. Katzelmacher - Peer Raben 8. Horror of the Malformed Men - Hajime Kubaragi 9. Diary of a Shinjuku Thief - Juro Kara 10. Search and Destroy - The Stooges
Submission Date:
14 May 2010
Category:
Commentary
In Chap-book
Title:
Walls of Berlin: Urban Surfaces - Film – Art
Excerpt:
Here’s a preview of Stephen Barber’s new book on film, memory and urban surfaces focused on Berlin. It’s forthcoming in 2011...
1. Alternative Ulster - Stiff Little Fingers 2. 25 Minutes To Go - Johnny Cash 3. Mississippi Goddam - Nina Simone 4. We Shall Overcome - Pete Seeger 5. Fight The Power - Public Enemy 6. Road To Peace - Tom Waits 7. The Partisan - Leonard Cohen 8. Harrowdown Hill - Thom Yorke 9. Christ For President - Wilco & Billy Bragg 10. Cunts Are Still Running The World - Jarvis Cocker
Submission Date:
14 May 2010
Category:
Commentary
In Podcast and Chap-book
Title:
Susan Tomaselli on Gil Scott-Heron's The Vulture
Excerpt:
It's a shame that Gil Scott-Heron is still best known for that track on his 1971 long-player Pieces of a Man: “You will not be able to stay home, brother / You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out. / You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip, / Skip out for beer during commercials, / Because the revolution will not be televised"...
Author of The Tokyo Trilogy, Stephen Barber’s Top 5 Horror Films:
J: Nosferatu (1922 – F.W. Murnau) A: Vampyr (1932 – Carl Theodor Dreyer) P: Horror of Malformed Men (1969 –Teruo Ishii) A: The Eye (2002 – Pang Brothers) N: La Vie Nouvelle (2002 – Philippe Grandrieux)
Submission Date:
08 Dec 2009
Category:
Commentary
In Chap-book
Title:
Mishima: Death-Fragments
Excerpt:
In a television interview recorded in 1969, the year before his death by self-disembowelment and decapitation by one of his acolytes, Yukio Mishima spoke of how ‘an extreme form of eroticism’ had always driven his life, unleashed by his experiences of Tokyo under warfare and the sensation of imminently-expected death he experienced there, and carrying him far beyond the stratified parameters of Japanese literary and cultural life, as though that life had been choreographed towards death, by his close friend of the 1960s, the instigator of Ankoku Butoh dance, Tatsumi Hijikata - as a set of compulsive gestures, simultaneously pathological and exquisite, and propelled, too, outside the anticipated boundaries of the corporeal and the rigorously annotated sensory categories of Japan, always a hairsbreadth away from both orgasm and erasure...
Steve Finbow is the halt noon, nodded, and a betrayal of mattering by index. The singeing. Crowside. He writes because of the alarming surge of pears. He once sifted the many objects sincerity cancels. He has lived in stratum, absent peelings, and a mouth the shape of hours. Empty soda burns. Parallelograms to slit his thought. His work. The connections. He is an amphibian repeatist.
Submission Date:
07 Feb 2009
Category:
Commentary
In Podcast and Chap-book
Title:
oi, you’ve spilt my beer! - Steve Finbow comes and has a go cos he’s hard enough
Excerpt:
I'm not pulling punches here. As editor of Red Peter & co-editor of 3:AM Magazine, I have to read hundreds of submissions. A larg...
In 1996 Joseph Ridgwell walked out of his dead-end job and decided to walk the earth. At some point he found himself at the Beach of the Dead in Southern Mexico. It was here that he and his companion RR built a couple of shacks high up on a jungle cliff top, and named them the Huts of the Lost Elation. During a very vivid and revelatory Peyote trip, Ridgwell took up a pen and began writing, and he has been writing ever since………………
Submission Date:
07 Feb 2009
Category:
Commentary
In Podcast and Chap-book
Title:
do creative writing courses kill creativity?
Excerpt:
I’m a totally self-taught and self-educated writer, an autodidact. I’m not the first and no doubt I won’t be the last. Recently, a renowned literary editor asked for my opinion on creative writing courses and what, in turn I thought of the burgeoning creative writing industry. ...
The Diggers were a radical community-action group operating from 1966–68, based in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco. Their politics were such that they have sometimes been categorized as "left-wing." More accurately, they were "community anarchists" who blended a desire for freedom with a consciousness of the community in which they lived.
Submission Date:
07 Feb 2009
Category:
Commentary
In Chap-book
Title:
trip without a ticket
Excerpt:
[Originally published by The Diggers, ca. Winter, 1966-67. Reprinted by the Communication Company SF 2nd Edition 6/28/67. Included in The Digger Papers, August 1968.]
Our authorized sanities are so many Nembutals. "Normal" citizens with store-dummy smiles stand apart from each other ...
Christiana Spens, author of The Wrecking Ball and the graphic novel, The Socialite Manifesto - One Day in the Life of Ivana Denisovich, died today by accidentally setting her hair on fire.
Submission Date:
07 Feb 2009
Category:
Commentary
In Chap-book
Title:
factory girl lies exposed!!!
Excerpt:
It came to my attention recently that the bad movie of yesterday, Factory Girl, was a bunch of prettily made up lies. This is perhaps apt, considering that Edie Sedgwick acted only in Warhol’s intentionally bad cinematic ventures, but there was a feeling that Factory Girl thought i...
Henry Lawson (17 June 1867 – 2 September 1922) was an Australian writer and poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period, and is often called Australia's ‘greatest short story writer’.
During his later life, the alcohol-addicted writer was probably Australia's best-known celebrity. At the same time, he was also reduced to begging on the streets of Sydney, notably at the Circular Quay ferry turnstiles. The authorities harassed Lawson constantly for unpaid debts, and the somewhat odious Mayor of Sydney and the myopic NSW government, refused to bail him out.
He was imprisoned at Darlinghurst Gaol for drunkenness and non-payment of alimony, and recorded his experience in the haunting poem One Hundred and Three - his prison number - which was published in 1908. He refers to the prison as "Starvinghurst Gaol" because of the meager rations given to the inmates.
On his death, of a cerebral haemorrhage in Abbotsford, Sydney in 1922, the powers that be, being a bunch of useless hypocrites, felt it fitting to give the great man Australia’s first ever state funeral. Many decades later, Henry Lawson was featured on the first (paper) Australian ten dollar note issued in 1966, when decimal currency was first introduced in Australia.
Submission Date:
07 Feb 2009
Category:
Commentary
In Podcast and Chap-book
Title:
letter to the Bulletin (1903)
Excerpt:
Dear Bulletin
I'm awfully surprised to find myself sober. And, being sober, I take up my pen to write a few lines, hoping they will find you as I am at present. I want to know a few things. In the first place: Why does a man get drunk? There seems to be no excuse for it.&n...
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