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Guns, Books, Etc.

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

Giving up on authenticity.
“Sorry for painting the word twat on your garage door.”
Noam Chomsky remembers Howard Zinn.
“‘She stared right into the camera with that baleful glare,’ Crews said. ‘Break your back with that stare.’”
Camille Rose Garcia and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
“I shot him in the nuts with bird-shot because he was beating my daughter.”
Fuck the Olympics. (I have no idea what it is. I just Googled “Fuck the Olympics” and it was the first thing that came up.)

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The gospel singer

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

I just learned that Lydia Lunch, Sadie Mae, and Kim Gordon had a short-lived side project in the 1980s called Harry Crews. Which included:

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The Harry Crews collection

Monday, July 6th, 2009

The University of Georgia Library has a podcast about their newly acquired Harry Crews collection, including audio from Crews himself. You can download it here.

There’s a lot of good stuff, my favorite being audio recorded by a student on the first day of a Creative Writing class taught by Crews, starting at around 5:00.

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Harry Crews on violence

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

From Alternative Reel.

Contrary to popular belief, I’m not a violent person. But if you wrong me, I’ll kill your fucking ass, and I’ll spend the rest of my life in jail. I’ll kill your fucking ass and you can count on it; depend on it.