Because of the by-laws of the music writer’s fraternity,* I am compelled to write a post promoting “I Can Make You Love Me,” the first music video from Death Kit (the band of my estimable LA Times colleague August Brown), and Please Use Rear Exit, the debut novel from Da Capo-award winning scribe, Brandon Perkins, former senior writer of Urb Magazine. Shout nepotism all you want, we are bound by blood, and bonded by our secret back-room meetings where we plot out the mysterious careers of Deerhunter, Xiu Xiu, and Steve Gutenberg.
Regardless of bias, I suspect that I would thoroughly enjoy both of these projects. Directed by John Christopher Pina (Kanye West, Common, John Legend), “I Can Make You Love Me,” combines a glittering synth-pop melody with a video of a melancholy werewolf. I repeatedly pressed August to admit that it was inspired by Teen Wolf, but he played coy. Consequently, I’m forced to assume that their next video will be a cover of “Big Bad Wolf.” Watch out for Death Kit, they could be dangerous — particularly under a full moon.
The one-liner for Perkin’s novel pegs it as “somewhere between Lord of the Rings 90210 and getting Lost in The Matrix exists a science fiction Gossip Girls.” It details a world filled with invisible girls, “a politically-driven Tupac Shakur, and a “man who’s urinated every moment of his life.” They all live in LA’s buses, which protects them from The Internet and all the dangers outside that are trying to get in. Perkin’s also bills his book as “the first digi-novel to explore what it means to live in a digital age where papyrus ain’t what it used to be…an autonomous bit of fiction that finds synergy in the portals of The Internet.” Insanely ambitious and relentlessly creative, the first four chapters are live on pleaseuserearexit.net, with the rest of the novel to be serialized over five months, one or two chapters a week, all for free. To sweeten the deal, Brandon is also offering a mixtape from DJ Original Bozak—P.U.R.E Hitz, Vol 1, with tunes from Broadcast, Kid Creole, Giorgio Moroder — posted below.
* Hell Week consists of a seven consecutive days listening to Joanna Newsom and Faust records on Pernod and Winston-Salem’s.
Download:
MP3: Death Kit – “I Can Make You Love Me (Extreme Aquatic Remix)” (Left-Click)
ZIP: DJ Original Bozak—P.U.R.E Hitz, Vol 1 (Left-Click)
