(Full disclosure: This humble scribe is one of those refugees, and a contributor to Black Clock 7.)
The fete will include readings by Aimee Bender (noted Jane Siberry fan), sci-fi writer Samuel Delany (whose masterwork “Dahlgren" is a little like a long- lost Wagner symphony), Greil Marcus (the man behind the desert island concept, not to mention the smartest stuff you think about the Sex Pistols) and Joanna Scott (who surely likes music too but Google won't tell me what).
Every issue, Steve Erickson, Black Clock editor, visionary novelist and essayist, has made a soundtrack that musically reiterates the theme -- past ones have included sex, travel and politics -- but Sunday's event will be the first time he will release the soundtrack to the public. Fork over $13 for a copy of Black Clock 10, featuring Francesca Lia Block, Denise Hamilton, Emily White and Howard A. Rodman (who also wrote the film “Savage Grace"), and you'll get a copy of his limited edition soundtrack for free.
Here's the tracklist:
“Gnrique," Miles Davis
“The Big Sleep," Max Steiner
“Double Indemnity," Miklos Rosza
“Body Heat," John Barry
“If You Go," Helen Merrill
“Peter Gunn," Henry Mancini
“Vertigo," Bernard Herrmann
“The Bad and the Beautiful," David Raksin
“Harlem Nocturne," Harry James
“Touch of Evil," Henry Mancini
“It's a Lonesome Old Town," Frank Sinatra
“Laura," David Raksin
“Marlowe," David Shire
“Taxi Driver," Bernard Herrmann
“Park Avenue Beat," Fred Steiner “The Fountainhead," Max Steiner
“Long Ago and Far Away," Jo Stafford
“Chinatown," Jerry Goldsmith
If this isn't the aural equivalent of a blinking neon hotel sign in a broken-down part of town, I don't know what is. Or, as Erickson himself told me, its the soundtrack for “driving the mean streets of L.A. at 2 in the morning."
