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HIGH SPEED BLOW-OUT

PREFACE: Premonitions Of Immortality The queer man in the pale blue suit touched his fingertips together in perverse Aubrey Beardsley parody amidst a chorus of Amens. "One of my friends is Iggy Pop of the Stooges," he began, forming each word with an all too telling immaculate precision.

September 1, 1979
Jeffrey Morgan

HIGH SPEED BLOW-OUT

Rubber Dinosaurs, Worms On A String, And The CARS

by

Jeffrey Morgan

PREFACE: Premonitions Of Immortality

The queer man in the pale blue suit touched his fingertips together in perverse Aubrey Beardsley parody amidst a chorus of Amens.

"One of my friends is Iggy Pop of the Stooges," he began, forming each word with an all too telling immaculate precision. "Iggy," he continued, "he stands up to sing a song and as he does, he draws a razor blade across his chest, singing as the blood flows."

Something was very wrong here.

"This is not God's way, this is not the way of one who has been touched by the Lord."

I had turned on the Sony with the intention of watching Jack Benny portray a Nazi in Ernst Lubitsch's classic of 1942, To Be Or Not To Be. In no way, though, had I expected to be confronted with this; some sort of religious fanatic's version of The Tonight Show replete with ersatz Johnny Carson asking inane questions of his guests.

"What about drugs? Are most rock musicians on drugs?"

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