Fucked Up Deep South Gothic

[rutabowa]

so have you read my recommendation yet?

 

[rekil]

in a swamp.
Where they get caught by the one-eyed foul mouthed preacher.

The bloke is his twin, they were orphaned (courtesy of parents dying from voodoo curse/gumbo murder and/or some weird disease) and separated at birth.

 

[phildwyer]

a convoluted upbringing involving brutalisation.

Its not fiction (amazingly enough), but one could do a lot worse than Nick Tosches's biography of Jerry Lee Lewis, "Hellfire."

 

[Pieface]

The bloke is his twin, they were orphaned (courtesy of parents dying from voodoo curse/gumbo murder and/or some weird disease) and separated at birth.

And brutalised by a palsied tinker family who brought him up as a dog-boy

 

[Pieface]

Its not fiction (amazingly enough), but one could do a lot worse than Nick Tosches's biography of Jerry Lee Lewis, "Hellfire."

are there dodgy liaisons aplenty?

 

[Dubversion]

so have you read my recommendation yet?

in the last 10 minutes or so?no, can't say i have

 

[Dubversion]

And brutalised by a palsied tinker family who brought him up as a dog-boy

are there a lot of tinkers in the everglades then?

this some diaspora that passed me by?

 

[Orang Utan]

A whole family - grandpaw, daddy, son, sister/mother fucking a swamp

 

[Pieface]

are there a lot of tinkers in the everglades then?

this some diaspora that passed me by?

Perhaps - it didn't feel right when I typed it to be fair. I haven't got a real grasp of the populace of the area have I?

 

[phildwyer]

are there dodgy liaisons aplenty?

Well let's see... he marries his 13 year-old cousin, late commits bigamy, after that commits trigamy, allegedly murders his seventh (or eighth?) wife... yes I think we can safely say that his domestic relations were fairly far removed from bourgeois niceties.

 

[Dubversion]

A whole family - grandpaw, daddy, son, sister/mother fucking a swamp

that'd be ace.

while all the beasts fuck each other and mutate and you end up with a twenty foot high swampbeastbilly preacher.

 

[Orang Utan]

that'd be ace.

while all the beasts fuck each other and mutate and you end up with a twenty foot high swampbeastbilly preacher.

Who strikes oil and gets rich - Swamp Bling!

 

[Orang Utan]

Except there's something wrong with the oil

 

[Dubversion]

Except there's something wrong with the oil

it contains cursed blood. (pronounced cur-sed)

 

[butchersapron]

gallon drunk

 

[Dubversion]

gallon drunk

they were fucking ace last week

 

[Pieface]

and a snakebit mule with a swollen head split down the nose to reveal the white bone shining in the sun.....

 

[butchersapron]

they were fucking ace last week

I had no idea they were still going/back together. I'm up to about 1995 with *all* my stuff so far, going about 2 years per year. Slow but thorough.

 

[Dubversion]

and a snakebit mule with a swollen head split down the nose to reveal the white bone shining in the sun.....

you're good.

and the mule could perhaps serve as a fucked up Greek chorus to the whole thing..

 

[Dubversion]

I had no idea they were still going/back together. I'm up to about 1995 with *all* my stuff so far, going about 2 years per year. Slow but thorough.

They've been back a little while. Played a blinder, and had Jim Sclavunos from Grinderman / Bad Seeds on the decks (Slade!!!)

 

[Orang Utan]

I'm sure on of Gallon Drunk works in my building. Or used to. What are their names?

 

[rekil]

And brutalised by a palsied tinker family who brought him up as a dog-boy

I think he was brought up as a dogboy by a 3 legged, hairlipped, blind, extraordinarily foulmouthed preacher actually. It makes more sense.

 

[Dubversion]

I'm sure on of Gallon Drunk works in my building. Or used to. What are their names?

there's been several - James Johnston? Terry Edwards? Ian White? they're the permanent members. But also Joe something, Mike Delanian.

 

[Pieface]

you're good.

I stole it from Cormac McCarthy There are so many images in that book I can't get out of my head.

 

[Orang Utan]

there's been several - James Johnston? Terry Edwards? Ian White? they're the permanent members. But also Joe something, Mike Delanian.

I'll ask my boss - he's a fan

 

[rekil]

A fridge full of aborted swampbastard foetuses.

 

[maya]

(edit)

 

[harpo]

Don't forget Boo Radley.

 

[Dirty Martini]

Yonder Stands Your Orphan by Barry Hannah. Satisfies the 'fucked-up' criterion. Contains preacher.

Shelter by Jayne Anne Phillips. More restrained, goes on a bit, but contains swamp.

The Orchard Keeper, Cormac McCarthy's debut. Tennessee. I didn't like it that much, but that was after All ... Horses, which is much better than it.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Right the book's "Scooter" and his real name's Mick Foley. It is definitely Southern, not quite so much of the Gothic but defnitely bizarre, worth reading anyway.

I read his "Tietam Brown". Weird is the word.