billytombs: so what about romanticide? Jack Bierce: Can't say as how I've much to say about Romanticide. It's kind of a drunken, hungover blur to me anymore. Mostly it was about getting sucked into and devoured by Poetry, Music, Art and Film... Yet also by Personality and Hero Worship. I think that Poetry opens secret, sacred doors. And if it's originating from an altered whiskey-and-drug-fueled state, as opposed to some kind of blissful optimistic inspiration, those particular doors end up opening more into shadowy and subterranean realms. It's like a form of demonic possession that can, and has, killed many a man of Art, Music, and Poem. The darker road is more preferable though because bubbly light-inspired poetry is grotesque and nauseating, in my opinion. It's the Reader's Digest of the Soul and it is only inspiring to the pretentious, unintelligent, and feeble-minded. It takes the deeper introverted minds absolutely nowhere. Thought I'd pass this along to you, even though you may probably already be familiar. This song reminds me of the Camper Atwater Days. I used to listen to that Johnny Cash cover album all the time. Johnny covered this 1999 tune by Will Oldham (aka Bonnie "Prince" Billy)... "I See A Darkness". It's a rather dark song about depression and addiction to begin with and Johnny Cash only made it even more bleak-sounding. But Oldham re-recorded it in a semi-Country uptempo cover of his own song and the juxtaposition is pretty mesmerizing. It's a great song in all three of its versions. Video's a bit weird with the creepy eyeball stuff, but I very much dig it. Oldham's the real deal.
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