| The Songs | Jordan Minnesota |
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Bad Houses Bad Penny Bazooka Joe Big Money The Big Payback Bombastic Intro Cables Colombian Necktie Crack Dead Billy Deep Six Ergot Fish Fry Fists Of Love Grinder The Hammer Party Heartbeat He's A Whore I Can Be Killed I Can't Believe Il Duce I'm A Mess Jordan Minnesota Jump The Climb Kasimir S. Pulaski Day Kerosene Kitty Empire L Dopa Live In A Hole The Model My Disco My House NewManGenerator Passing Complexion Pavement Saw Pete, King Of The Detectives Pigeon Kill The Power Of Independent Trucking Precious Thing Racer X Ready Men Rema-Rema The Rich Man's Eight Track Tape Rip Seth Shotgun Sleep Songs About Fucking Steelworker Stinking Drunk Texas Things To Do Today Tiny, King Of The Jews The Ugly American |
you can't think about it, really, because if you do then you go crazy, stark
gibbering spitting and pissing in your pants crazy. so you don't think about
it. but once in a while you do think about it, and there's all this weird
shit going on and you can't believe it can all _really_ be like this. you
think of all the bad, bad things you do to yourself out of some weird need.
you go places, bad places, to fulfill some gnawing need, and you do ugly
things to yourself and other people not because of the ugliness -- well,
sometimes because of the ugliness, i guess -- but usually because there's
something else there and you'd do it no matter what. they fuck their
children, for shit's sake. a whole town. bus drivers, school teachers, cops,
storekeepers, housewives. little boys, little girls. very little. they play
games with it, like very special hide-and-seek, and very special spin the
bottle and very special poker. and every day the little boys to get up and
walk to the bus stop with the daddy who mouth raped them the night before, and
they have to get on the bus with the bus driver who rubbed his shit in their
hair, and say "yes ma'am" to the lady who made them lick her the night before,
and then they have to go home, you know, where daddy and mommy have been
making martinis for the little _get together_ later on, and go hide under the
covers where they know they'll be found anyway and day in and day out for the
rest of their motherfucking lives and then they grow up and they have babies
and like i said, you don't think about it because you go crazy.
Look it up, numbskull. None of the parents got locked up, only the guy who finked on them.
This is Jordan, we do what we like Steve Albini: It's not like we're trying to make any great statement or anything. I think it's just pretty obvious -- people shouldn't be fucking their kids. I mean that's a pretty manifestive world. That's just a subject for a song like any other. We're all pretty interested in ridiculous extremes that people go to for no real reason, just because they have nothing better to do. That's a pretty extreme situation, where you have a whole town of people who are actively involved in kid fucking. cDc #84: Is that fictitious, or is it...? Steve Albini: Oh no. You ought to look it up. Jordan, Minnesota [1985] there were 26 indictments handed down by a district attorney for this group of people, which is literally about a third of the adult population of this town, Jordan, Minnesota, who were involved in this elaborate kid fucking ring. They would play these weird games, they'd play spin the bottle, they'd get to fuck each other's kids, and they'd take each other's kids home and things like that. It was really absolutely staggering, right? All these parents got big-ass lawyers, and the district attorney was afraid that these kids would collapse under cross examination, like have nervous breakdowns. With domineering adults screaming at them that they're lying, of course these kids are going to flip out. So, they dropped all the charges. Which means all these kids are going back to their houses, and the exact same shit has got to be going on. Nothing has changed, basically. I mean, you guys hadn't even known it had happened -- that shows you how much publicity there is about stuff like this. And now all these kids are back in their houses. cDc #84: And it's all the kids now, because the parents are the people they're supposed to respect. Steve Albini: A four year old kid, he has no cognizance of his own personality yet. He doesn't even know he's a distinct person from everybody else in the world, and here he is being taught, basically, that the way people interact is by fucking each other's kids. |