Under All This Sh*t There's Gotta Be A Pony!

Dear Charles Terhune,

Thank you for submitting “Sun Days” to Strange Horizons, but we’ve decided not to accept it for publication.

To help us keep response times low, please wait to submit another story until August 7 (three weeks after you submitted this story).

We appreciate your interest in our magazine.

—Lucas Johnson

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Ah, well. Sucks to be you, then, right? Heh heh.

Seriously, some sort of indicator as to why not would be nice. I know it’s a lot to ask. Don’t leave a guy swining in the wind.

“Until hell won’t have it!”

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Dear Charles Terhune,

Thank you for submitting “Sun Days” to Strange Horizons, but we’ve decided not to accept it for publication.

To help us keep response times low, please wait to submit another story until August 7 (three weeks after you submitted this story).

We appreciate your interest in our magazine.

—Lucas Johnson

First Reader, Strange Horizons
fiction@strangehorizons.com
Submission guidelines:
http://www.strangehorizons.com/guidelines/fiction.shtml

Ah, well. Sucks to be you, then, right? Heh heh.

Seriously, some sort of indicator as to why not would be nice. I know it’s a lot to ask. Don’t leave a guy swining in the wind.

“Until hell won’t have it!”

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Hey, katz! What’s the hapz? Let’s get cracking on the tunes!

ERNEST RANGLIN

Mr. Ernest Ranglin is one of the premier reggae/ska/dub guitarists of the last, oh, 60 years. So the cat’s played on everything, pretty much. I first became truly aware of his work when I heard a track off of Below The Bassline, an album of covers of famous dub and reggae tracks. I bought that and then it got lost in the midst of a ton of other things I got. Recently a friend asked me who I was plaging at our yoga studio and I said, “Ernest Ranglin.” He scribbled the name down and that was that. He later loaned me the CD which I forgot I already owned. Abracadabra I fell in love with Ranglin’s work all over again. There’s so much stuff he’s worked on that it’s incredibly hard to pinpoint it down to one or two. But here goes…

Wow! Then we got this sweet Beatles cover:

There’s more, so much more but I think the best thing to look for is the playlist of his. Put it on and let it go on autoplay and you will be very happy.

MC900FT JESUS

I’ve forgotten why I put MC900 Ft. Jesus here but… I guess I was thinking about race, which I do from time to time. And I was thinking about rappers who sound black but are white. When I first heard MC900, I thought he was some crazy black guy. His music was so out of left field, having lots of elements of Detroit techno in it as well as industrial elements. There was the sick Charles Burns artwork for his debut album. When I went to go see him in some dive in Danbury, CT., I was looking out for a black guy. I saw someone by the merch booth and went up to him and asked him to sign my CD. He looked at the cute Indian girl behind the merch table and shrugged then scribbled on it with a sharpie. I thanked him and walked away. Looking at the inlay I realized he’d signed it DJ Zero. Doof.

When MC 9-0-0 took the stage to open for Severed HEads I discovered he was in fact a skinny, gangly white guy. Double doof.

Well, here’s Too Bad by MC 9-0-0:

ELLIOTT SMITH

SInce they used a song of his at the end of True Blood I got to thinking about Elliott Smith. This is really the only song of his I know but it’s a goodun. ANd this video in particular kinda rocks. Dig:

That’s what I got for youse. Hope you dig it.

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Hey. I’ll actually somewhere on the East Coast driving up from a weekend in Jersey so when you read this it’s not like I actually posted it seconds ago. Whooo! It’s like it’s the future or something!

Anyway…

M+M ICE AGE

I know I did an M+M song a while back but while sitting in the hotel room in East Windsor, NJ, I was listening to stuff on my laptop and I have almost no music on it but for some Sun Ra and M+M. This was the first thing that came up.

SPRINGSTEEN

Funnily enough my daughter’s friend who she’s hang in with this weekend goes to the same high school as Bruce Springsteen. So I gotta do a Springsteen song. Only I don’t wanna do one of his better known ones. So here’s Trentemoeller’s remix of State Trooper.

Joy Division’s ICE AGE

I just put this in because my room is fucking freezing and it’s 86F outside.

TRIBE

Rememember Tribe? 90’s Boston band? Lead singer was fine and they rocked kinda. This was my favorite song of theirs. It’s like if M+M covered Kraftwerk. Kinda.

PILOTPRIEST

Simply put: Pilotpriest rocks. Listen up:

His full album just dropped and you can own some fine ass electronic shit for only ONE DOLLAH!!! So go buy it now, yo!

That’s all. Safe travels!

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That is not a bad rejection right there, folks! Decent start to a weekend I should say!

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Phew! It’s a hot one! Need to cool down with some tunes. I suggest you fill the tub and sink with ice, beer and snacks. Then settle in with your laptop nearby and check this out.

BILL WYMAN

It’s hard to say who the ugliest member of the Rolling Stones is but my vote in Bill Wyman. Saying this contradicts most of my beliefs but there you have it. Bill’s really just a tiny, creepy English perv. Read the Stones bio by Terry Southern if you don’t believe me. Sure, he essentially invented the fretless electric bass and created some of the most memorable bass liens in rock. But he was also a hopeless philanderer and notorious pursuer of barely legal girls.

This song is a prime example of that, where Wyman picks up some young thing and jet sets with her. The arrangement of the song is weird and has stuck with me over the years since i first heard it in 1981. The weird drum machine and tropicalia beats are hilarious short of boring. The song really bears up to only a few listens before you feel like you need a bath and a good scrape with an iron loofa.

The other songs from this era are so lackluster it’s best not to mention them. Ever.

RICHARD H KIRK

It’s your regular dose of RHK from CRT. THis video is a hilarious mashup of Kirk’s “LoopStatic” bombast/electro/tropical/techno along with a B grade jungle girl flick. Good for hot weather. Or a light workout.

AL-JABR (RICHARD H KIRK Pt. 2)

One thing you may or may not know is how RHK has a zillion aliases. Even the most diehard fans don’t know them all. One of the better know ones is Al Jabr. This album came out in 1999 I think and is to ally a hot weather record for me. THis video is another great mashup of footage from Assault on Precinct 13. RHK/AL-JABR has a major league deep funk feel to it that I cannot get over. Always hopping, always smooth.

This song is the opener for Al Jabr’s “One Million And Three” and put simply the isht is hype! The song grooves slow like a Fela track and clock in about as long at a leisurely 9:05. But dig the crazy crime movie it’s set to! I think it’s my favorite of all these mashups!

Stay cool, kids. It’s not supposed to be anything but hot and humid for a looong time!

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Yo.

I only have one song this week. But that’s because I cannot for the life of me get rid of it. It’s stuck in my head ever since I put it in the playlist of the last VSS. It’s crazy. Just check it out and then check the making of video.

Check yourself.

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