Me Here To Do The Thinking #1 - 63 - 75

On this series, I am joined by Cameron Kunzelman so we can listen to the work of Neil Young in roughly chronological order and then talk about it. On this episode: El Dorado Freedom Way Down in the Rust Bucket Ragged Glory Weld Arc Dreamin' Man Live '92 Unplugged Harvest Moon Sleeps with Angels Mirror Ball Dead Man Broken Arrow Year of the Horse Looking Forward Silver & Gold Road Rock Vol. 1 Are You Passionate? Toast Greendale Return to Greendale Prairie Wind Living with War Living with War: In the Beginning Chrome Dreams II Here's the YouTube music playlist I used to prepare for the episode: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUDw8N12eHdw&si=sGKh8hCfuPNuk9tq Logo by Charles Forsman Theme by John from Vsevolod Plotkin

"People write in magazines that I make different kinds of records just to draw attention to myself. If I ever saw the little wimps that were saying that, then I'm sure that I'd have to fucking kill them … There's many better ways to draw attention to myself. I could kill music critics if I wanted to … I could burn down Geffen Records … I could burn myself down in public if I wanted to—that would get a lot of attention, right?" - Neil Young On this series, I am joined by Cameron Kunzelman so we can listen to the work of Neil Young in roughly chronological order and then talk about it. On this episode: Long May You Run Decade American Stars 'n Bars Comes a Time Rust Never Sleeps Live Rust Hawks & Doves Re·ac·tor Trans Everybody's Rockin' Old Ways Landing on Water Life This Note's for You American Dream and, somehow, more. Here's the YouTube music playlist I used to prepare for the episode: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnq_kwIKDYN_V46nVwrshGdi8zoP8IdKT&si=RK14fXUf_JiAfdQ7 Logo by Charles Forsman Theme by John from Vsevolod Plotkin

"Volume's not really that important. It's the size of the room and the relationship of the sound to the enclosure it's in that makes a difference." - Neil Young On this series, I am joined by Cameron Kunzelman so we can listen to the work of Neil Young in roughly chronological order and then talk about it. On this episode: Neil Young Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere After the Gold Rush Harvest Time Fades Away Tonight's the Night On the Beach Homegrown Zuma and, somehow, more. Logo by Charles Forsman Theme by John from Vsevolod Plotkin

"Never stopped to wonder why then I saw black and my face splashed in the sky" - Neil Young, Powerfinger

"Many are transforming in that glorious condition normally described as decay. Transforming through splinter and chemical imbalance. By fading and forgetfulness." - Brian Catling, Lantern Slides, Several Clouds Colliding

"So I think when I'm looking at you, I see you there. But I can't just explain what you are. I see you there and you could be photographed, but then after you'd been photographed, one still wouldn't know what your realism was. You'd have to find a technique by which you can give over all the pulsations of a realism of a person…  I'm talking bollocks…" - Francis Bacon, The Brutality Of Fact

"If you can talk about it, why paint it?" - Francis Bacon

Main works discussed: The Horror at Red Hook - H. P. Lovecraft The Ballad of Black Tom - Victor LaValle The Courtyard - Alan Moore Neonomicon - Alan Moore Providence - Alan Moore "So you think you know what terror is As it stares from the newspaper page Yeah of course you all know what horror is It's the rage of the age Well, intimidation doesn't have a focus It oozes from every pore Murder doesn't bother to whisper In this fucking town it roars" - The Badge Means You Suck, AK-47 "Old time, something come back again If you have a start, then you must have an end None of them ever could've test with the pen My pen's the equivalent to the leng" - Bad Like We, Wiley Featuring a guest appearance by non-euclidian, cacodaemoniacal podcast entity and academic Cameron Kunzleman, author of the recently published Everything Is Permitted and cohost of many podcasts on the Ranged Touch network including Just King Things and Shelved By Genre.  Interlude by the great Evil Sword. patreon.com/sfultra

"Tell me what you know about a man's affliction PC plod talk pure science fiction" - Cowboy Dave, Happy Mondays

"You can't have feelings alone" - William Burroughs, Naked Lunch