Some here might find it far fetched...but links are always
fruitful... As Rara-Avians are listing tales of revenge, down
in OZ they are about to bestow honors to someone who in
numerous songs, in tales (And The Ass Saw the Angel), in film
scripts (The Proposition) and film soundtracks (The
Proposition, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward
Robert Ford) weaved many tales of maihem and
revenge...Speaking here about singer, musician, writer Nick
Cave, whose professed love of writers like Ellroy or Harry
Crews...falls well within our topic... For those interested
read (below) this from the Sydney Morning Herald...
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From heroin to hero as Cave enters hall of fame Mix of the
deranged and the humorous Š Nick Cave is finally to be
honoured by the Australian music industry. Bernard Zuel
October 18, 2007 Nick Cave began his recording career almost
30 years ago - not so much by knocking at the door of music
industry respectability as lobbing hand grenades over that
door then dancing on the corpses. With his band the Birthday
Party he spent much of the 1980s making a raucous blend of
blues and industrial punk, which seemingly chased down the
hounds of hell with a mix of the deranged and the humorous.
"Hands up who wants to die," he sang once. "Release the
bats/sex vampire/bite," he said in another song. The fuel for
his music then was equal parts the Bible, the southern gothic
novels of Flannery O'Connor, the music of Johnny Cash and
heroin. Not surprisingly, the mainstream music industry in
Australia wanted nothing to do with him, his fame coming in
London and Berlin. Cave's music with his next band, the Bad
Seeds, calmed down and over 13 albums it explored the
territory of political ballads and love songs. It dabbled
with the charts via a murder ballad duet with Kylie Minogue,
was included in the soundtrack to the children's movie Shrek
2 and performed at the funeral of Michael Hutchence. But the
Australian music industry still couldn't bring itself to give
him an ARIA award. Next week, however, that same industry
will honour Nicholas Edward Cave, once of Warracknabeal and
Wangaratta and now of Brighton and Hove, by inducting him
into the ARIA Hall of Fame at the ARIA Awards on October 28.
He will take his place alongside such unlikely companions as
Slim Dusty, John Farnham, Renee Geyer and Angry Anderson.
Cave, who turned 50 last month and is now widely seen as one
of this country's finest songwriters, is also a novelist (And
the Ass Saw the Angel), screenwriter (The Proposition and
Ghosts Š of the Civil Dead), a religious commentator (the
foreword to The Gospel According to St Mark) and soundtrack
composer (The Proposition, The Assassination of Jesse James
by the Coward Robert Ford). Although there have been no ARIA
awards, it's well known that the ARIA board has been offering
Cave his spot in the hall of fame for five or six years, but
he had always declined. What changed his mind? Maybe turning
50; maybe the thought of something to show his four sons; or
maybe enjoying the perversity of being lauded by some of
those who had spent so many years being horrified or
disgusted by Nick Cave. Nick Cave and his band Grinderman
play at the Enmore Theatre on Saturday and Sunday.
On 10/17/07 8:31 PM, "sandbagger1969" <
bookgasmbruce@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Three that come to my mind if not mentioned
already:
>
> The Vengeance Man - Dan Marlowe (in that great new
Stark House collection)
> Point Blank - Richard Stark (Donald
Westlake)
> The Long Wait - Mickey Spillane
>
> -Bruce
> www.bookgasm.com
>
>
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