![]() ![]() To what extent that voice is ironic is in the eye of the beholder, I guess. Leafing through Supernatural Strategies in the signing line, I went slightly crosseyed: "he mystification of the process is perpetuated via legend-weaving institutions such as rock fanzines, fawning hagiographies, and VH1's Behind the Music…" Ever since the first Nation of Ulysses album, 13-Point Program to Destroy America, with its back-cover instructions on the "mutilation of fingertips," Svenonius has espoused a deadpan and slightly antiquated political rhetoric. Finally, he addressed the demands of the protesters (now leaning against the wall and drinking promotional beers): if every one of us bought a book upstairs, then took it out onto Franklin Street and burned it, the secrets of rock 'n' roll immortality would once again be safe. "I'm in an internet chatroom."īrian Jones and Jim Morrison also turned up, each imparting a rock 'n' roll lesson that Svenonius then scrawled on a chalkboard. (They read from a script and managed to stay in character even when Svenonius interrupted them with ghostly moans.) "You're not dead either!" said one of the four partipants. "This is Paul McCartney." Our first contact with the beyond was, confusingly, still alive. Then he called four audience members to the stage and put on a black robe with a pointy hood, and the seance began. ![]() Svenonius offered to compromise by summoning the spirits that had lent their otherwordly insights to the book. "STOP THIS BOOK! STOP THIS BOOK!" About five people came marching down with signs, one of which read "SUPERNATURAL STRATEGIES IS NOT SUPER OR NATURAL." The protesters demanded that the books be rounded up and destroyed, on the grounds that it robs living rock stars of their professional secrets. He'd only been speaking for a few minutes when shouts erupted from the top of the stairs. ![]() He looked more like David Johansen's dapper uncle than the man I'd seen onstage a dozen years ago: back then, watching the Make-Up at a bowling alley in Chicago, I saw him as a cross between Prince and Cornelius from the original Planet of the Apes. Svenonius wore a flared suit and a pinky ring. ![]() "We're having a teach-in, which concerns the book Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock 'n' Roll Group." So began the WORD event. Scroll to the bottom for a song of theirs, plus the Make-Up documentary Blue is Beautiful and an episode of Sveonius's chat show, Soft Focus.) (Not on Spotify? Neither is the short-lived Cupid Car Club. ![]()
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