Loopmania
posted: 21 May 2010 05:41 AM
Wow, this loopmania around the 10 Year has really catalysed a lot of already jet burners! It's exciting to have so many things become so many other things. I myself am now embarked on a new top secret 10 year track, to be unveiled in due course. All of which foregoing convolution is by way of a thank you to you and you and you, too. In time many of these things using my things will become a thing available net-wide via Spotify and other profit-poor platforms of doom for the once-earning artist. Still, at least it looks good. And the GUI is dandy!

Love Is In Me Like Water Remix Archive
posted: 09 May 2010 07:09 AM
The 2nd 10 Year Loop Infection Remix Archive arrives today with "Love Is Awake In Me Like Water" download live. Featuring samples from "The Thin Red Line" and my own short poem, this is solemn soundscaping fodder. Audacity will be rewarded. Get some! http://depositfiles.com/files/ovt1qz5h0

I Carry In Me My Mother Remix Archive: Return of the Remixes!
posted: 08 May 2010 05:54 AM
To doubly scratch the Ten Year itch I am resuming posting archives of remixables. The first to arrive is an archive for my track, I Carry In Me My Mother . Please feel welcome plus to remould this mini-mastepiece crafted from my poetry and voice and your own good loops. Get some! http://depositfiles.com/files/2mls1co3x

Infected Spoken Words Loopage
posted: 08 May 2010 12:27 AM
Under my Infection Project nom de loop "The Other Mind", I will be posting a new cycle of spoken word material featuring my poetry being read by a variety of new voices. Latest in this series is two poems - "Volatile" and "Innocence" - read by English artist Jack Wrigley. I prize Jack's voice for its timeless yet legacy British qualities, redolent of the classic Great War vintage of W.H. Auden and his like. In addition we have London-based South African expat Michael Fleck reading. More of work from both these fine fellers to follow. Please listen to these loops - I am so glad to see Hannah Galli here, too, adding to the spoken word count! - and see if they trigger/inspire any loop-related activity. All for 01, and 01 for all!

It's good to be back.
posted: 22 Apr 2010 01:38 AM
Thanks for taking me back into the TG chart, not once but twice It feels good to be a loop grunt once again, fighting the good fight for sound. I'll be doing more of the same now, creating, conniving, colluding and edit-wise corrupting. Just saying.

"Div Joyvision" Live on Bandcamp
posted: 15 Apr 2010 01:36 AM
Bandcamp DIV JOYVISION the album I recorded with michael dent and which youse guys have remixed to a tee is now available at Bandcamp. If you haven't already sampled it, Bandcamp is a supafine site for we artists. Anyhow, while I wait for the second volume of Div Joyvision remixes to hit iTunes, this re-promotion of our work could use some re-promotion. Perhaps consider simpy boosting it on your own sites and so forth? And in the meantime I am gonna tackle the 10 Year thang.

Where did I go?
posted: 10 Mar 2010 04:00 AM
I haven't been as active as before here for some time. Yet, the work and fellowship that has come outa my ongoing involvement here is a big deal to me and in part the bedrock of what I am always creating. Lately I have been nesting at The Great Prize album @ Bandcamp . Bandcamp I recommend bigtime for simplicity and efficacy. Some of the trax on this album are in collaboration with Dave Fuglewicz. I've put the loops I made for youse guys at Internet Archive, too, by the way. Not sure what I'll be doing here now. I want to work from scratch again but my modus operandi has changed a great deal since I first appeared on these pages as "Datawhore". Whatever happens, Tapegerm is always very close to my robot heart.

Ready To Go: Spoken Word Loops Read by Lenore Herb
posted: 17 Jan 2010 12:14 PM
My spoken word project grows now with the introduction of what will be a series of readers of my work, the first being Vancouver video artist and archivist Lenore Herb who has also done videos and remixes of my "Datawhore" material. Up now are two versions of Slide, a take of Wave, and one of Strength. It's my intention to offer a wide range of material this year for youse guys to remix to taste.

EMPTY Re-mix Archive
posted: 30 Dec 2009 12:58 PM
http://depositfiles.com/files/zse3o4x9o By popular dementia!

Remix Archive For Tapegerm Experiment Hogs
posted: 22 Nov 2009 04:43 PM
It's backwards but it might just work. Dave Fuglewicz had done a fantastic remix of a track by my new "band", The Carbon Manual. So I have archived another track of ours, "Ice Sleep", so that any of you can add your own and other Tapegerm loops to create a unique TG remix of this track (out soon on a Red Star Digital Music EP). The band mix resides at http://thecarbonmanual.bandcamp.com/track/ice-sleep if you wanna hear it. I invite my colleagues here to have big fun bending and shaping this spoken weird ambient Krautrock offering. Grab it @ http://depositfiles.com/files/9b260xmh8 Any problems getting the stuff lemme know. JSG NULL MC DATAWHORE BTW Friends: "Null MC" is my new name. "Datawhore" has served me well for over 10 years but it's a new century, and modern times call for a new name. So I will be retiring da Ho and bringing it with "Null MC", your reliable Zen loop master.

Life is good
posted: 02 Nov 2009 10:09 AM
Life can be good – not that I would know personally, dwelling as I do in an enduring, self-perpetuating nightmare (and, in any case, not entirely a “person”) – and as evidence witness the factoid that I, humble emissary of the world Loopera (that’s “loop opera”, in case you aren’t too good with word mash-upping!) hereupon sports count ‘em six trax in the Twenty top songs on this weird site. Between exploiting, nagging, bullying and comprehensively burying thou guys in loops, concepts and caustic emotional abstraction it seems I’ve become a BMOC! But, spuriously, I’d like to accept my rejection speech with a big thank you to Zebra Mann, whose dedicated production of parts of my “Worldless” text are edifying to unfold. I was prone ten to fifteen years back to write thousands of words in this vein; only recently and after a long break I ventured out of curiosity to again attempt this variety of intuitive scribing. Having heard Mann’s championing of my fave self-generated sample, I made my usual slime ball approach and wheedled some hard work out of the poor schlep. May the Chapters be many! What else I am doing? As usual, flogging Fuglewicz to produce yet more goods. Sniffing around for other collaborations. Biding my time…

My Little Empire
posted: 27 Oct 2009 01:28 AM
Greetings once again to my esteemed TG colleagues. While Zebra Mann posts pieces of my soul - witness the "Questions" using text written by yours truly channeling a 486 from its rest home - allow me to point your in the dereliction of my many other musical machinations: This here is the Soundcloud site. I love this set-up, very chic and harboring many weirdos. Soundcloud The inevitable blog detailing my more "normal" output plus all the usual. Built, Not Born:-/ Enjoie!

New "Convoice" Voices Pack
posted: 12 Sep 2009 12:56 AM
These "Convoice" files have been on backup CD's of mine a long time. Some date back over ten years to cutup text experiments I was deep into around the time the Millennium Bug was supposed to crawl across us. Three of them came a bit later; one, "Ice Sleep" has become the basis of new work of my own with my new band project The Carbon Manual . I look forward to hearing what you do.

More from the '****
posted: 09 Sep 2009 04:32 AM
The Mental Anguish opus has buzzed me considerably. The work put into these pieces - all the collaborations and remixes hereabouts - is marvelous. Just so you know I am not slacking - as if! - plans now revolve around the eventual release of "Recollage 1: Loose Change" - that collects and recent original material for another iTunes blow-out. In addition I will release an EP of collaborations with TG stalwart Dave Fuglewicz, whose reinventions of my work are stunning. This iTunes release-to-be, to be entitled "Sleep on the Edge EP" after one of its tracks, should, knowing the iTunes queue, see digital daylight in 2025. Oh and I will soon be using my "real" name here, Jeremy Gluck. I have been "Datawhore" for over ten years now. Time to split the street and make an honest living...

"Surrendered to My Function" Free Album Download
posted: 07 Sep 2009 03:24 PM
"surrendered to my function", from 2000, is an exploration of WORDS, of what lies beyond the end of what can be done with words... an unambient soundscape rooted in the cutup method of Gysin and Burroughs. At the beginning of 1999 Jeremy Gluck received an e-mail from Binda23. Having established a mutual obsession with cut ups and experimental sound, they commenced an intensive collaboration via e-mail, exchanging files and holding regular creative meetings courtesy of AOL Instant Messenger. using output from a conversation with Fred, a desktop Artificial Intelligence program, Random Verse Lab, and online cutup machines, STMF invites you to surrender to your function of Unlanguage and its uses... conceived in cyberspace/recorded england 1999 Created by BINDA23 / J S Gluck Recorded in 2000 by Binda23 Programing/Machines/ Mixing/ Sound and Music: Binda23 Unlanguage: J S Gluck http://soundcloud.com/jeremy-gluck/surrendered-to-my-function-cd-2000

Soundcloud Player feat Tapegerm Artists
posted: 31 Aug 2009 02:03 PM
Latest tracks by Jeremy Gluck

Recollage 2: When I Die Remixes - Live on iTunes
posted: 19 Aug 2009 06:29 AM
As of date the "When I Die" remixes album, including several by Tapegerm collaborators, is available on iTunes. Under the artist name Jeremy Gluck and michael dent, this album is a superb picture of the talents of the artists here and to whom I am endlessly grateful for their support and collaboration. When profits break ten dollars I'll send you all a share! Spread the word, promote the album and your role in it, we can all benefit from its release. Any comments or queries, let me know :-)

Datawhere?
posted: 22 Jun 2009 12:15 AM
None of you have been asking where Datawhore has been these past weeks since the triumphant end to the first great cycle of michael dent collaborations. You'll have noticed my loopy loops being featured in several monstrous mixes, the latest of which, Dave Fuglewicz's Sleep on the Edge is based around a short poem of mine and which exemplifies the kind of very cool collaboration I had hoped would encompass a new spoken word concept.

Meanwhile, in other lives I am working overtime on two new projects. The Carbon Manual, based in Bristol, is another spoken word naked out to lunch exercise; and there is a major collaboration on recording and remixing a track by Suicide's Martin Rev that will feature producer luminaries such as Marty Thau, Dub Gabriel and Brendon Moeller.

When exactly a solely Datawhore track appears again remains to be seen and heard. Until then, Datawhore will never be Databore, and thanks bigtime to all my friends and colleagues here for their juice.

Hat Trick in the Mainline
posted: 10 May 2009 11:57 PM
"Gratitude: The great attitude!" I read once in some hoary positive thinking tome and to a trainee misanthrope like acid on flesh 'twas. But even I - whatever that means - has to express abundant gratefulness for the heady hat trick I see before me on the Top 20 plays. Dave and I have conspired to enchant you tough customers and the payoff is sweeter than popcorn (salted). Thanks, guys! Pretty soon I'll be posting a second set of loops, crazier, crisper, less toneless, more tuneless. It's gonna be big.

"The Point Is" Remix Archive
posted: 05 Apr 2009 05:27 AM
"The Point Is" marks the end of a long and productive cycle of work with Canadian poet michael dent. There may be further collaborations but for now this epic ambient piece is the bookend to much toil and fun. Here is the download remix archive, a mighty 400 megs plus of loops and samples that you can use to make whatever you like. Link: http://depositfiles.com/files/kly77sght

The Nature of My Dream Remix Archive - Re-post
posted: 26 Mar 2009 02:13 AM
The Nature of My Dream Remix Archive Another chance to download this archive. A few of Dave's loops and two spoken word files is all you get...but not all you can get out of it. http://www.sendspace.com/file/bqo219

"When I Die" Jungle Remix by Eric Debris Live Now
posted: 03 Mar 2009 03:50 PM
Eric Debris' remix of the ever-popular "When I Die" features this week, a heavy jungle mix that pushes hard on the spare parts that make up the archive. Here is some background Mr. Debris, a substantial cult artist:

Wikipedia says "They were heavily influenced by The Clash and The Sex Pistols on one hand, and on the other by an electro approach related to "Metal Machine Music" by Lou Reed. They relied on heavily distorted guitars and replaced the traditional rock rhythm section of bass guitar/drums with a synthesizer and drum machine, a then-unique approach that foreshadowed the experimental possibilities that were explored by later post-punk bands such as Big Black. They were also known for their radical image (the color scheme of albums always being a stark black, white and red), and subversive lyrics sung in French.

"They were met with much enthusiasm in England, particularly by John Peel and the Rough Trade label. (Métal Urbain's single "Paris Maquis" was Rough Trade's first release.) They had an enthusiastic but small audience in France, receiving little exposure. The punk rock scene was not as popular in France as it was in England, and they did not interest the French media as English bands like the Sex Pistols did. As a result, the band broke up by 1979, though members scattered to form such groups as Metal Boys, Doctor Mix and the Remix, and Desperados, as well as joining Ashpalt Jungle.

"Métal Urbain had focused their efforts on singles, and only produced one album, Les hommes morts sont dangereux, while active. However, since their breakup, several compilation records were released, gathering their singles with additional material such as BBC sessions and live recordings.

"Their electro approach was very innovative for its time, and the group are a reference point for such groups as The Jesus and Mary Chain, Bérurier Noir, and the producer Steve Albini. They have recently recorded a new album, produced by Jello Biafra."

The Nature of My Dream Remix Archive
posted: 17 Feb 2009 08:21 AM
A very fast turnaround on this archive but I am enthused by the track and curious to see how other artists here handle it. A few of Dave's loops and two spoken word files is all you get...but not all you can get out of it.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=F9HEUOML

ARCHIVE

"Recollage": Datawhore's Advance Plans for the Past
posted: 15 Feb 2009 10:36 AM
With the posting of Bad Seed Mick Harvey's remix of "When I Die" the last great phase of the Datawhore project is closing. All that remains now is a bookend epic, "The Point Is", currently under construction subject to breaks for mental rest. When that is finally completed there will be a pause and then the commencement of a whole new, even more intensive phase of collaborative creation.

The new phase will be marked by the release of the first of what will be two and possibly even more volumes of iTunes remix albums collected under the title "Recollage" and heavily featuring Tapegerm artists. At the same time there will be the appearance of the first Datawhore loop pack, "Convoid", featuring dissonant sounds and, also, spoken word fragments taken from my first novel, "Necrotrivia vs Skull", which has lately been digitised and which I hope will provide interest in creating a kind of "oddio" book output.

Keep those remixes coming!

Freesoundproject
posted: 14 Feb 2009 10:48 AM
Check out this fantastic sample archive! http://www.freesound.org/index.php

MICK HARVEY Mix of "When I Die" Hits Tapegerm - Celebrities, Even!
posted: 11 Feb 2009 09:57 AM
In what must rank as a coup in the annals of Tapegerm history and thanx entirely to the murky and exciting music past of micheal dent, I am thrilled to present a unique and very exciting collaboration between Datawhore, michael dent, and Mick Harvey from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Harvey's short, lazy mix is elegant and beautiful. Enjoy!

Datawhore "OLIVIER" Remix Archive available for download!
posted: 08 Feb 2009 04:19 AM
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UK88E1WV Hot on the heaps of remixes courtesy of you guys and gals here is another archive from a "Div Joyvision" track, "Olivier" feat. michael dent and one awesome field recording sample.

The Alta Vista Audio Search Is Dead!
posted: 06 Feb 2009 05:17 AM
A brief note to mark the passing of the Alta Vista audio search tab, suddenly absent, much-missed and the source for years of marginally legal samples of all kinds upon which Datawhore built a little empire. Other audio searches will come and go but...looks like it's time to really get legit'.

Loop Me Baby, One More Time One More Time One More Time
posted: 29 Jan 2009 01:46 AM
Do any of you young whippersnappers out there wanna help an old Datawhore and make a Datawhore Tapegerm Loop Pack together? I have the sounds - plenty of those - I just need them all looped scientifically. If you're up for a little hobbyist 'whoring let me know. And while I have your retention, thanks for the remixes that have now put three and/or four of same in the Top 20. I am now looking at a double i-Tunes effort! Stay entwined.

RECESSION BITES: DATAWHORE MADE REDUNDANT ;-)
posted: 26 Jan 2009 01:25 AM
Mental Anguish make our day once more with a monster 'mix. I've put myself out of a job! Datawhore retires...actually I'm gonna archive the rest of the "Div Joyvision" stuff first and inflict it on all you campers! This remix mania couldn't have come at a better time. I was getting to burn-out again. This is huge lo-maintenance fun.

And next? You guessed it! A Datawhore Random Loop Challenge! Yeah, you heard me: a thingamajig from every D-**** Tapegerm dent-inflected track for you to mangle freely. Expect said monstrosity any day now! And thanks again. A group drug?

"Hurting Me (Self-Harm)": Datawhore Releases Re-MIX Archive!
posted: 24 Jan 2009 03:06 AM
"Hurting Me (Self-Harm)" has proven my most popular piece on Tapegerm. I've included some previously unused samples in the archive. I am curious to see now what Tapegerm remixers make of this track, which has had nearly1500 plays here. DOWNLOAD: http://depositfiles.com/files/3kzelnyjs

This track emerged out of research into self-harm. I used the Free Loop Sample Pack loops from Hebephrenic, seeking to create a mournful dark ambient feel, which their superb sounds made possible. Research on, interest in and experience of self-harm led to the recording of this piece evoking the world of self-harmers, some of whom have lauded it.

DOWNLOAD: http://depositfiles.com/files/3kzelnyjs

REMIXES-A-GO-GO
posted: 22 Jan 2009 02:14 AM
It's alive! Mental Anguish's awesome remix of "When I Die" is in the weekly top 5 and there are now enough remixes to make for one fine iTunes release. In the near future there will be new archives and new collaborations, a bookend Datawhore-dent track to mark the end of the first phase of that enterprise and the beginning with Lenore Herb of a new one. Thanks to all of you and especially to some of you.

Datawhore iTunes Remix Archives: The Beat Grows On!
posted: 12 Jan 2009 08:01 AM
Everybody's doing it, remixing Datawhore-dent tracks for the coming iTunes album of destiny! And here is another song archive to de- and re-construct, the immortal Roll For You! Roll For You: DOWNLOAD LINK: http://www.sendspace.com/file/jzpc45

Remix Heaven! Thanks, Gang! Keep 'em coming!
posted: 12 Jan 2009 07:31 AM
A kwik Than-Q to you Tapegermers who have already repsonded so enthusiastically to the call to remix a Datawhore-dent track for our forthcoming iTunes album! I'll repost the linx shortly.

REMIX A DATAWHORE TRACK, LIVE THE DREAM!
posted: 03 Jan 2009 02:14 AM
Hello All I've taken the Datawhore/dent/Tapegerm track WHEN I DIE and zipped it ready for remix and invite all of you to download and undo it! There's some choice T-germ OMNITECHNOMATRIX loops in there plus the other essential fixings. Have fun! The best mixes will be part of a forthcoming iTunes album! Download the archive here, kids!

Datawhore and michael dent: "Mack the Night" video by Aston Walker
posted: 02 Jan 2009 09:57 AM
A video for the Datawhore-dent track by rising video maker Aston Walker.

"When I Die" Video by Oliver Coles
posted: 02 Jan 2009 09:48 AM
Fantastic laser video by Oli Coles.

Datawhore's New Frontiers: Sound, Vision, Dysfunction!
posted: 02 Jan 2009 06:28 AM
After a period of calm dysfunction Datawhore and his band of merry ultramen is back with new material, a bunch of videos, mixes aplenty and who knows what all!?! "Give us more remixes," you cried (alright, not literally) and so I and we have with a new and exciting mix by Vancouver artist, activist and creative Lenore Herb: check out the "Caligari Mix" now"! Also just posted is the video for "Olivier" from the "Div Joyvision" iTunes album. This is a mad video, essentially being no more than a corrupt *.avi file. But look at it go! Look forward to more remixes, and more videos, too. We've only just begun.

"Div Joyvision" by Datawhore and michael dent & other drugs
posted: 02 Jan 2009 06:21 AM
Datawhore is a sound poet based in the UK and creating solo or collaborating with a number of other artists. Datawhore's sounds cover a wide spectrum, from the outrightly ironic and satirical to the very serious and intense. Recently Datawhore released five albums on iTunes - the first four displayed in the accompanying image - the most recent being "Div Joyvision" comprising a collaboration with michael dent. An intro follows:

Roll for You The second of my collaborations with Michael. I didn't know until I had completed it what it was about precisely, but the abstraction of working oblivious to the context of the words paradoxically facilitated a soundscape for them. Although I find Michael's best work piercing, I also enjoy working to a sense of "unlanguage", or "words as things", and to this end use a great deal of repetition and monotony (i.e. "on and on and on") to make the words mean nothing.

Ashtray My first attempt at intuiting Michael's meaning proved successful, from a baby boomer Patsy Cline clip sure to sync with our mutual timeline, to some dissonant loops that create a characteristically muggy, foggy Datawhore undertow.

When I Die The anger, plain-talking and stoicism in Michael's short text points up the pluses of his work. He can be verbose, but it's these laconic pieces or fragments thereof that make him interesting to me. Human, damaged and defiant, his attitude can grate but there is a core of almost perverse compassion that even if only inferred yet proves attractive.

FACEBOOK GROUP
posted: 14 Sep 2008 07:27 AM
The new Facebook group for the Datawhore - michael dent collaboration welcomes you @ DATAWHORE DENT

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Jeremy Gluck
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The following items are available directly from Jeremy Gluck.

"Necrotrivia vs Skull" Digital Edition Item Number: NVSS01 Cost: $10.00 (USD) Now in a new digital edition with graphics by Aston Walker, "Necrotrivia vs. Skull" is a cult novel penned by myself (as Jeremy Clarke) and published originally in 1989 by 4th Estate. Place your order using my Paypal address and the ebook will be dispatched same day! The story: It's late twentieth-century USA, and two marketing moguls have the commercial life of the nation by the throat: Mr Rock of Necrotrivia, a psychotic blue-collar fascist, and SKULL supremo Sandy Silence, born-again Christian and Ivy League smoothie. Between them they are greedily exploiting Mr and Mrs America's insatiable appetite for junk. Meanwhile an extra-terrestrial intelligence operative, lately a convict, has materialised in up-state New York. His knowledge of the ways of men comes entirely from a Dictionary of American Slang and TV transmissions which take ten years to reach his home planet. What will he do down here, at the mercy of junk food and junk culture... and Mr. Rock? A natural at copywriting our non-human anti-hero soon finds himself in the middle of a titanic struggle for product supremacy, the bauble in question being the first narcotic breakfast cereal. Snap, crackle and skin pop? - Notes to the digital edition - It has been over twenty years since "Necrotrivia vs.. SKULL" first appeared in print. I started to write it when I was fifteen. Almost fifteen years later I resumed, though I can't now remember why. Having churned out a high pile of badly typed pages encrusted with legacy Tippex I randomly copied a half dozen and sent them to start-up publisher 4th Estate along with a handwritten note to the effect that if they didn't publish my novel it would be their loss. I didn't have the patience to prepare the requested 10,000 word sample. A few weeks later came a polite letter from their fiction editor Giles O'Bryen: Was there more of the book? If so, would I consider completing it for publication? I met with Giles, a tall, well-spoken fellow, and the deal was done. I toiled for weeks on the book then and handed it to Giles, who wisely cut half of it to make of a chaotic sprawl of words one almost intelligible book. The dialogue, all cutup from collected lines from diverse junk media, my travels and elsewhere, was intended to make the whole enterprise more hip and oblique. I like it myself. Over the years the book has attracted some admirers, notably Aston Walker, a talented animator whose digital images enhance this new edition and who is currently collaborating with me on developing it for the screen. In retrospect it is strange to consider how the book was written on the cusp of a technological revolution that would have fitted well with its development and premise (Aston has caught this well in branding the story’s prime product “digital”) but I like the fact that its absence makes it more timeless and also true to the old school media and pulp writing that informs its style and content, the latter signposted by the book’s dedication to Shell Scott, the key character of numerous outlandish, loveable pulp detective novels by Richard S. Prather, who in his retirement I tracked to New Mexico and had pen a testimonial for “Necrotrivia”. On publication the book sold around four thousand copies. I wrote another novel for 4th Estate, “God Is Love – Get It in Writing” but it was put into hardback first and suffered an ignominious fate in the wrong market. Then I spent three years on a more serious, darker novel, “The Love Gun”, which in the midst of a recession was widely rejected. Of that book no manuscript survives. What readers have said about “Necrotrivia vs. SKULL”: "In my quest for meaning in an absurd world and disaffected society I found my drug of choice to be of the literary kind. And having read a wide range of things from the classics to various manifestos from some brilliant to some not so bright persons, I do say with great confidence and a bit of pie in the sky megalomaniacal madness that Necrotrivia v. Skull is a superbly creative, double-plus funny, and a highly original masterpiece of prose. It should be read by everyone with at least a room temperature IQ as well as the most highly educated. Anyway, in a world consumed with economical verbiage, it is sometimes quite appropriate to buy a book. I highly recommend this great masterpiece by Jeremy Clarke! It will knock your socks off!" "It’s not often that a great story, well written comes along which makes me laugh and laugh. I want more, who is this man Clarke and why is he not a best seller and where can I get more of his books from. Find it, read it and share it." "This is basically a tragedy. A tragedy that this book is now out of print, a tragedy that I can't find any other books by this author ANYWHERE, a tragedy that my review is number 1 and not number 111, and a tragedy that the only reason I ever read it was by finding it for about 50p ($1) in a Bargain Book Store. It's also a tragedy that the only reason you'll probably even be reading this review is if you were looking for something else. But enough of that - I would just like to say that this book is a piece of biting satire on a par with 'Catch-22' and says more about the consumerist, mass-marketing 80's and 90's than 'American Psycho'. We see society through the eyes of a first time visitor (an alien) who's entire speech is formed from the sound-bites and advertising slogans that we are bombarded with day-in, day-out. What at first sounds like complete gibberish turns out to be incredibly apt and completely relevant in most of the bizarre situations that he finds himself, from joining the Marketing Company from hell, to promoting an addictive breakfast cereal, with a few dead bodies in between, all the time filling himself with an incredible array of junk food and e-numbers to keep his strength up. This is a hilarious (like all the best satire), thought-provoking and extremely well-written book that even has the confidence to parody itself towards the end, and the fact that it isn't currently a blockbuster film starring John Cusack, Christopher Walken, Harry Dean Stanton and Steve Buscemi is, you've guessed it, a tragedy…" Trivia: I randomly came upon a Myspace profile recently named after the book. It turned out the proflier's Mom likes it. Div Joyvision Cover Image . photo by: DW Hurting Me Gorgeous still from Aston Walker's video for "Hurting Me (Self-Harm)". . photo by: Aston Walker Michael Dent @ CIUT Radio, Toronto Michael Dent debuts "When I Die" (Mick Harvey 'Annoying' Mix) on Toronto's CIUT!. photo by: