Musings on the Most Ridiculous Band I Can't Stop Listening To

Nil By Mouth

TotD has an announcement: it’s enough with the oral histories. Our friend and skydiving-instructor (“You look smart, you’ll know when to pull the cord.”) David Gans has an oral history about the Dead coming out soon, and it will be praised and plugged; after that: no more oral histories.

Until then, here’s a short one about the Dead’s incredibly Dead-like relationship with the city of Austin.

13 Comments

  1. spencer

    Dallas, got a soft machine…….having not read the Burroughs book what are they referencing ? Thank for the link also

    • spencer

      http://www.postertrip.com/members/images/5111b.jpg

    • thoughtsonthedead

      I expect other people to need the Google talk, Spence.

      But not you, buddy. Not you, too.

    • thoughtsonthedead

      Seriously, though: wasn’t the soft machine Burroughs’ way of describing the beaurocratic/goverment/business people of the city that crush one’s spirit just as well as any steamroller?

      • spencer

        Many sorries for the Google laziness. I was preoccupied with pig sodomy, Taylor Swift, Fela, gymnastics, and those kids on my lawn. Soft Machine has been on my bookshelf unopened for far too long.

        • thoughtsonthedead

          Tay-Tay and Fela on a mixtape in the car; kids in the car for gymnastics; run the teens on your lawn over along the way; drop children off; sodomize pig; read.

          STOP MAKING ME SOLVE YOUR PROBLEMS FOR YOU, SPENCER.

      • tor_haxson

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

  2. Morning Douche

    The “numbers” strat

    http://www.austinchronicle.com/binary/3c63/music_feature1-1.jpg

  3. Robin Russell

    Your Daddy’s got them Deep Ellum blues.

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