Vandal X

Hello my name is bob.

I posted quite often here years ago and thought I'd come back for bit.

I live in the high desert of Nevada with my rescue Greyhound....Macaroni.

My musical taste is seriously all over the board but tends to be thematically dark and transgressive.

I have a local radio show that airs once a week called Left of the Dial....my primary focus is old and new noise rock.....with slippings into noise and industrial.

I collect vinyl, books and art....and have a bit of a t shirt addiction.

I hope to have some conversations about music (obviously)...about art....about film

jadis

Awesome man, sounds like you'll fit right in. We love dark and transgressive here, whether it's music, film or books. Welcome!

Who are some of your favorite authors?

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Vandal X

Thanks!

Georges Bataille and Antonin Artaud are my core, I return to them often. Jean Genet and Louis-Ferdinand Celine and Paul Bowles are some favorites as well.

I read The Songs of Maldoror at least once a year and always keep a spare copy to give away.

More contemporary favorites are Dennis Cooper, Thomas Moore, Audrey Szasz and Steve Finbow. Pretty much anything Amphetamine Sulfate or Infinity Land Press publishes I'll read.

How about yourself?

jadis

Man that's awesome. I love Bataille, Artaud, Genet and Lautréamont.

I love Bataille so much that I went to see a museum in Paris based on one piece of writing by him and I'm not someone who normally goes to museums... I don't really "get" painting as much as I'd want to, but I had to see the Gustave Moreau museum based on an essay by Bataille and it was worth it.

Genet is another obsession of mine. Reread the five early novels numerous times. The plays are not for me but I'm not a big theatre guy in general.

Bowles I'm only beginning to get into, though I've kept hearing about him for the longest time. I watched this documentary the other day:
https://www.musicbanter.com/media/89...t-now-209.html

I've always been fascinated by the Ian Homes character in Cronenberg's Naked Lunch, and turns out it's based on Bowles (and the Judy Davis character on Jane Bowles).

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Vandal X

Tat would be amazing.

I live close to San Francisco so I visit City Lights Books often. Which is about as close as any american can get to Bataille.

I have heard that about the Frost characters in Naked Lunch. The Sheltering Sky is and likely will remain my favorite novel.

jadis

I need to read The Sheltering Sky one day, right now I don't have the time or mental energy to read a novel so I'm sampling his travel writing and short stories. I love the absolute lack of sentimentality or any well-intentioned piety in the descriptions of North Africa and the Middle East.

He wrote the music for one of the segments of Dreams Money Can Buy (1947), a collaborative film on which many of the most important Dadaists and Surrealists collaborated. It's the segment beginning around the 54 min mark. I remember watching it on Google Video, years and years before I would know who he was.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3guoqOFlFE

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Drjohnrock

Cool. Can the station be accessed online? If so, when is your show on?

rostasi

Is this the same "bob." who's the long-distance runner "bob."?

Vandal X

Yes! It gets played on 97.7 fm in the Reno area but can be listened to on the radio stations website.

https://kwnkradio.org/listen/

My show is called left of the dial and it airs on Sunday nights at 8pm pacific.

This week I paying respects tot he passing of Jim Kimball.

Yes it is! How are you rostasi?

rostasi

Great to "see" you again. I'm doing great! I'm still doing radio too.
It's been a 50+ year thing for me, but after Dallas and Chicago,
I settled on another Community Radio station - a little over 9 years ago -
in an art town of 10,000 people: Silver City, NM -
and I'm loving introducing different genres to folks there.
On occasion, I'll post recent shows here, but not every week's show 'cause
I'm busy with all kinds of creative projects and all that ...
but shows going back to #444 at the beginning of the year are available
on Substack thru the "Random Radio" links that I leave here.
I was looking your show up - there's a bunch of "Left of the Dial" to wade thru,
but you've given the website, so I'll visit there.

Good to hear that you're livin' life pretty much the way you're wanting to(?)
I'm guessing that these marathons you used to run might be taking a backseat these days?

Again, good to hear from you.

Rod

"DJ Faster Than You"

This one might be closer to your liking:
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