How to Make a Monster

The story I've been trying to write since 1985. I hope you get something out of it.
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-Judgement Day

The judgment day is not some far off moment with a giant white man on a throne, a book of names and a movie of your life. The judgment day is today and tomorrow and everyday we look at ourselves honestly to see that we're acting like pieces of shit. That is how we attain the Kingdom of Heaven.

Six albums with which to be stranded in Nueva-Austin:

 AUSTIN as we knew it is gone. Happy weirdo reject people blotted out by Trustafarians, hip artists with credit, and people who wanted to be here, while having no idea what the city was about (Which is pretty much Don Walser sitting on a front-porch couch off Enfield, talking about the migas con queso at Tamale House on Airport), at least to me.

 Arise Poseurtown! Long live MTVania! Fuck yeah SXSWicity! 

But anyway, being stranded in this now lifeless husk has made me think of how Austin was once an oasis in the horrible desert that is Texas. So when I want to pull the reality-blinds and sequester myself in a point of light, I need some good music to build an auditory foundation. These are five albums which do the impossible job of being good from beginning to end AND never getting old.

6) Pixies- Surfer Rosa: Somewhere along the line of the great culture war of the 90’s there was a schism between the 20 somethings. The younger set fell in love with a young Seattle troop known as Nirvana. Along with the rest of the Sub-Pop label they went on to transition America to music that was a bit less happy and a bit more ugly. The older 20’s hadn’t yet lost their sense of humor and were entranced by the Pixies. The pixies were what the hippies thought the Beatles were, plus their music was actually not for infants.

5) Devo- Freedom of Choice: Robot men on the march. Smile the future is here and it's brought some badass music for you to listen to. 

 

4) B52's- Self-titled: There was punk and there was New Wave and there was the B52's. This album of screaming, cranking, madness is like a mix of pure MDMA and a young Traci Lords telling you that you're "cute".

 3) Bus Boys- Minimum Wage Rock n Roll: Rock n roll soul. A promise of coolness that the 80's failed to deliver on. Oh you thought the 80's were cool? Imagine how much cooler if this checkerboard weave of black and white aesthetic had been allowed to fully manifest. 
 

2) Gary Numan- The Pleasure Principle: The first album post Tubeway Army. Numan had mastered the synthesizer. A bunch of them in fact. He sometimes plays 3 or 4 in a single song. That sound was the sound of science fiction personified and endless possibilities. 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akLKrd7zlS0&list=PL373D04E2616E65E8

 1) Unknowns- Dream Sequence: I stumbled across this ultimate work of genius at Ralph's Records, in Lubbock Texas, in about 1989. It was used and the cover flashed-back to a Mod 60's band that should have but never existed. The sound? Western/surf/ska. Like the feeling you got on Saturday night when you could stay up late and watch the monster-show.

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