Death Is Just Around the Corner
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Joe Biden: not just a hair-sniffing perv, but one of the most evil Democrats of the modern era.
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Now that the occasion has passed, hey, what the hell, have my reading of "The War's Evensong," one of the greatest extended prose passages in English, from Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow.
A declassified private show about Don DeLillo's Mao II and terrorism as the public art of the modern era. Hear more by subscribing at the show's Patreon for the pathetically low, frankly groveling price of $5 per month.
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... In which MJ, after explaining Certain Local Psychoses, reveals that the Singularity is real, just not the way those depraved shitbags want it to be (this episode dedicated to Corey Pein & his Live Work Work Work Die).
As a favor to all you poor benighted souls who don't yet subscribe to https://www.patreon.com/deathcorner, a preview of what you're missing: MJ lays out the legacy of Richard Nixon, the Hillary Clinton of the 1960s, and problems with the official story on Watergate and prize slimeball Mark Felt, better known as liberal hero Deep Throat.
In which MJ perhaps gets too angry to be articulate –– fuck Ronald Reagan till forever –– the lost story of Antonio Martin –– Iran-Contra as the groundwork of the American police state –– Freeway Ricky Ross, the crack explosion, and how the CIA filled the hood with drugs and automatic weapons –– welfare cuts, police militarization, mandatory minimums, 100:1 crack-to-powder sentencing, three-strikes laws, and the private p...
Sincere apologies for being alive –– the CIA is just excellent with regional loyalties –– Julio Zavala and Carlos Cabezas, or, the Justice Department sometimes has trouble getting on the same page –– Danilo Blandón, fuckup kingpin –– Ron Lister & our various covers for supplying Salvadoran death squads, in case you were feeling good about yourself, piggy –– Arkansas, cocaine capital of the US, thanks to your boys Barr...
MJ gets Midwest Ultra Pissed –– hang Oliver North by his heels and let him be eaten on live TV –– Iran-Contra as the basis of the modern police state –– R.I.P. to Robert Parry and the murdered Gary Webb –– the CIA: Drugs Are Our Business, And Business Is Unequivocally Denied –– how to turn the Black Panthers into people you can murder with no repercussions –– La familia Somoza, a novel by Gabriel García Márquez –– ah,...
GRAVITY'S RAINBOW, pt. 3 –– MJ in the Iraqi Parliament, insh'allah –– for a minute there, even Joan Didion was sufficiently paranoid –– Slothrop as a one-man history of American contributions to Nazism –– looms, computers, cellphones, submarines –– the Nazis own your food now, by the way –– GR as spatiotemporal colloid suspension –– Walter Benjamin, who saw everything first and died of it
GRAVITY'S RAINBOW, continued: precursors –– John Quincy Adams, the only president worth admiring as a human being –– America has always been, will always be, and must remain schizoid, and lemme tell you why, young gun –– Herman Melville, the first great American writer, possibly the first American (post-genocide class) –– Gravity's Rainbow as the antidote to V. –– Gravity's Rainbow, mutant novel of sentimental...
DEATH/CORNER is back baby. It's good again. Awoouu (wolf Howl). Now who the fuck in this club is ready for 66 minutes of an attempt at an approach to an effort to find a language in which to begin to talk about GRAVITY'S RAINBOW, part one of a series that may genuinely last until I die?
Not sure if there's going to be an episode tomorrow, so just in case, enjoy a true rarity: an official Death/Corner remix from our days of behaviorist experimental DJing.
McConaughey for Lexus, pt. 2 –– Songs of Praise, o sweet children of mine –– fascist death cults; they made more sense than you might think –– the fascist as both Übermensch and Damné de la Terre –– two fascist dreamers: Ezra Pound and Martin Heidegger –– self-devouring nationalism, or Fascism, American-Style –– blah blah, OK, fine, Trump, el Perón analfabeto –– technofeudalism: move sharpish to the fiefdom of your ch...
The BBC Empire Service: Spotlight on Hitler's Patreon –– fascism cooks, fascism swings, but nobody knows what it is –– right-wing wish-fulfillment as "political philosophy" –– government and corporations rubbin' together till they fuse –– it's not just reaction, it's a return to the primordial sci-fi bullshit past –– co-opting the tactics of left revolution –– station break: Matthew McConaughey f...
THE LEE HARVEY OSWALD SUMMERSLAM SPECTACULAR: Lee Oswald, Secretary of the Fair Play for Cum Town Committee ––– Lee Oswald, Time Man of the Year, 1963-2018 ––– The Eikonosphere, the Kingdom of the Realer-than-Real ––– if you're not rich, talented, or lucky, you can always kill the right celebrity ––– Oswald: CIA since 1959/repeat/Oswald: CIA since 1959 ––– a wandering dyslexic joins the Marines ––– how to "defec...
J. Edgar Hoover and Howard Hughes clean up the podcast industry ––– JFK galvanized into giving a damn ––– two and a half years' secret war against the secret state ––– the U.S. in Southeast Asia: not just "the Vietnam War," but the technocrats' fuckfest ––– W. Averell Harriman and Henry Cabot Lodge take matters, sorry, murders into their own hands ––– the American University and Civil Rights speeches ––– it wasn'...
The Headshot Sports Talk Call-In Show; Group 40, or, The Kill Kastro Klub Becomes The Kill Kennedy Kommittee; the CIA, the Mafia, and a whole lot of heroína; Howard Hughes, the world's most racist vampire (sorry, Peter Thiel); the young John Kennedy, warhawk mediocrity, somehow both stiff-backed and spineless; Patrice Lumumba's head mailed to the Inaugural Ball in a takeout carton.
Nuclear weapons, the Cold War, and an introduction to your friends and wardens at the Central Intelligence Agency; or, two secret wars: World War III (1945-1991) and the American Military-Intelligence Coup (1953-1963).
Before we tell you who killed JFK and why, some further overtones in Lot 49 and Pynchon's work as a whole, plus a very exciting announcement about our big-time crossover into Hollywood moguls (direct-to-DVD frigate class).
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