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THE INSATIABLES DISCOGRAPHY

RELEASE DATES

1993–1994 (single in ’93; CD in ’94)

More (Is Never Enough)
(CD and song)

• “Chicks and Money” (’93)

• “Face Time Is the Right Time”

• “Licentious to Kill”

• “I Wanna Be Seen (at the Scene)”

• “Futurific”

1996

The Insatiables Get Large
(CD)

• “Get Large”

• “Papa’s Gun”

• “Eight Is Just Enuf” (sung by Absurda Nightingale & Alchemy)

• “Saturnalia on My Lap”

• “Black Holes and Bum Fucks”

• “Loverrs”

1998

Blues for the Common Man
(CD and song)

• “No Destiny”

• “Invisible Party”

• “The Ruling Class”

• “E Pluribus Unum Wampum/(Money, That’s What I Want)”

• “The Sleep of Faith”

2000

Multiple Coming
(CD and song)

• “Six Times Tonight”

• “No Master, No Messiah”

• “Adam and Lilith”

• “Zim Zum Blues”

• “Eve of Deconstruction”

Recorded in 2000, 2001; released in 2003

The Noncommittal Nihilists for Nuthin’
(CD)

• “La Pantera Rosa (Falstaffa Nights/Martian Days)”

• “Friendsy for You”

• “Fuck Like a Woman” (sung by Absurda Nightingale)

• “You Coulda Been but You Ain’t”

• “The Nihilist’s Prayer”

• “Outrage … Big Deal”

• “Mystic Fool” (added after Absurda’s death)

U.S. Tour 2003–2004

Euro Tour 2005–2006

2006

Dieseasee
(Alchemy, Silky, and Lux; Mindswallow on about half the tracks)

• “Dieseasee”

• “Knot My Neck”

• “The Meth House Around the Corner”

• “Viagral Newmoanya”

• “Mysteries and Enemies”

2008

The Great Awakening
(their last studio record)

• “Saturnalia Gone Down”

• “Exile’s Revenge”

• “Shake, Shimmy, and Shibboleth”

• “Hungrier, Harder, Sadder”

• “Too Free to Be Free”

• “A Theist Falls”

2012, recorded in 2010

More or Less, Alive
(Mindswallow rejoins; Laluna joins)

• “Live at the Grand Canyon”

• “Beat Attitudines”

2016

Oeuvre and Out
(boxed set)

Two new songs:

• “The Harmony of Doing Nothing”

• “Savant Sensation Bluz”

OTHER PROJECTS

1970

Fast Enough
(the Baddists)

1975

Chain Saw Disco Massacre
(the Baddists)

1989

The Slo Learners
(Absurda and Alchemy’s first band)

1991

I’m Your Black Doorman
(cowritten by Alchemy; recorded by the Hip Replacements)

1997

Puttin’ the PFunk in FPunk
(Lux Deluxe solo album)

Down on Me
(the Come Queens, guerrilla-girl band with Absurda, Silky Trespass, Dress Shields)

1999

Mah Dude Was a Slut from Tulsa (and He Made a Slut Outta Me)
(recorded by Tammy “No Win” Flynn aka Absurda, and Jimmy “Bad Breath” Davis aka Alchemy; written by Alchemy)

2007

Songs for Pedestrian Tastes
(CD of cover songs done by Mindswallow)

Alchemy, American Style
(Alchemy solo; ltd. edition vinyl EP)

“Goin’ Down with George” (single released in ’04; backed with “Between Iraq” and “My Heart Place”)

“Dyin’ to Be Your Hero”

“Zombie” (cover of Fela)

“I Ain’t a Marchin’ Anymore” (cover of Phil Ochs)

“Fixin’ to Die Blues” (cover/mashup of Bukka White and Country Joe tunes)

“Whitey on the Moon” (cover of Gil Scott-Heron)

“Once I Was a Soldier” (cover of Tim Buckley)

“American Ruse” (cover of MC5)

2009, 2013–2015

Ferricide
(Mindswallow’s heavy metal band)

Smeltdown
(2009, CD)

Pedd-o-file
(Performance-Enhanced Death Drugs) (2013, CD)

Ferricoshus
(2015, CD) (with Alchemy uncredited on “Irony’s Maiden”)

2015–2016

Chansons
(Alchemy and Laluna) (only as download; no vinyl or CD)

• “Liquid Love”

• “Mirror Me”

• “Dreaming Double/Nightmaring Alone”

• “The Harmony of Being One as Two”

2009–2018

33 Visitations
(recorded but never released by Alchemy)

SALOME SAVANT CV

REBIRTHDAY

September 21, 1966

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Mystagogy

Advanced degrees in Sanity—Collier Layne Institute of Mental Depravation, various dates

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1965   
ARTillery
. Street Side Gallery, New York

1966   
Art Is Dead
. Central Park/Murray Gibbon Gallery, New York

1969   
Do Not Disturb
. Murray Gibbon Gallery, New York

1971   
This Is Not a Pipedream. Dream and Listen
. Video; Gibbon/Documenta

1976   
Flowers, Feminism, and Fornication
. Murray Gibbon Gallery, New York

1982   
Women of the Scourge (and One Day Myth of Fine Arts)
. Murray Gibbon Gallery, New York

1985   
The Berlin Wall Burning
. Performance/sculpture; West Berlin

1995   
My Head IS Different
. Lily Fairmont, Los Angeles

1998   
The Beauty of My Weapons
. Gibbon-Passant, New York; Lily Fairmont, Los Angeles

2008   
Pillzapoppin’
and
Electroshock Ladyland
installations
Baddist Boy
collages. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

2011   
Electronic Fire
. Special installation; Art Basel Miami

2013   
Remembrance of Things Past and Future
. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

2020   
Myths and Mystagogues
. Whitney Museum, New York (she does not attend)

CREDITS

1
:
that week I was dying too
.

Grace Paley, “Living” (1974)

2
:
a man got to have a code
.

Omar Little,
The Wire
(2006)

3
:
The sleeper is the proprietor of an unknown land
.

Djuna Barnes,
Nightwood
(1937)

4
:
foul dust

“Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it was what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald,
The Great Gatsby
(1925)

5
:
a new screaming comes across the sky
.

Thomas Pynchon,
Gravity’s Rainbow
(1973), first sentence

6
:
the little pleasures of life

Wassily Kandinsky (1913)

7
:
Don’t mess with the Wongs

Richard Price,
The Wanderers
(1974)

8
:
have mercy on the man who doubts what he’s sure of

Bruce Springsteen, “Brilliant Disguise,”
Tunnel of Love
(1987)

9
:
his bloodless aged lips

He suddenly approached the old man in silence and softly kissed him on his bloodless aged lips. That was all his answer.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
The Brothers Karamazov
(1880)

10
:
Someday you will ache like I ache

Courtney Love, “Doll Parts,”
Live Through This
(1994)

11
:
the ceremony of innocence is drowned

William Butler Yeats, “The Second Coming” (1919)

12
:
You don’t own me

John Madara and David White, “You Don’t Own Me,” recorded by Lesley Gore (1963)

13
:
to the time with you to keep me awake and alive

I get so tired of working so hard for our survival

I look to the time with you to keep me awake and alive

Peter Gabriel, “In Your Eyes,”
So
(1986)

14
:
The impossible is the least that one can demand
.

But in our time, as in every time, the impossible is the least one can demand—and one is, after all, emboldened by the spectacle of human history in general and American Negro history in particular, for it testifies to nothing less than the perpetual achievement of the impossible.

James Baldwin,
The Fire Next Time
(1963)

15
:
imminent peril threatening you and all the faithful

It is the imminent peril threatening you and all the faithful which has brought us hither. From the confines of Jerusalem and the city of Constantinople a horrible tale has gone forth.

Pope Urban II, speech at Council of Clermont on the capture of the Holy Lands by the Seljuk Turks (1095)

16
:
One can look back a thousand years easier than forward fifty
.

Edward Bellamy,
Looking Backward
(1888)

17
:
And don’t be late. Don’t be late
.

If I don’t meet you no more in this world then

I’ll meet you in the next one

And don’t be late

Don’t be late

Jimi Hendrix, “Voodoo Child,”
Electric Ladyland
(1968)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Over the many years that this book came to life, I depended upon the critical insight and support of so many friends. I am grateful to them all. There are many more—and they know who they are—who have my unending gratitude.

Raj Bahadur, Corinna Barsan, Michelle Berne, Mike Brander, Peter Bricken, Christine Byers, Mike Cahill, Christine Cassidy, Edward Cohn, Nathan Currier, Heather Dadamo, Dennis Danziger, Ken Deifek, Samantha Dunn, Hope Edelman, Leslie Fiedler, Peter Frank, Amy Friedman, Seth Greenland, John Harlow, Hal Hinson, the late Dr. Al Hudder, Tony Jacobs, Mickey Kiernan, Michael Korie, the late Paul Kozlowski, David Martino, George Melrod, Heather Miles, Dr. Jeffrey Miller, Tom Martinelli, Dwayne Moser, Stephen O’Connor, the Oliva Family, Allen Peacock, Craig Pleasants, Sheila Pleasants, Marie-Pierre Poulain, Steve Rand, Dr. A.J. Rellim, Rachel Resnick, Steve Rockwell, Alison Rowe, Britt Salvesen, the late Imogene Sanders, David Schulps, Kathy Seale, Michael Small, Jon Wagner, Dr. Kathleen Walker, and Nancy Wender.

My agent, Jennifer Lyons, for her sanity-saving phone calls.

The 18th Street Arts Center, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The Durfee Foundation, and The Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (COLA division).

Everyone on the great staff at Other Press. Especially Judith Gurewich and Anjali Singh, for their ceaseless efforts to make this book better. And an extra special thanks to the remarkable Terrie Akers.

To all of my cousins, who often think I’ve descended from another planet, but who always support and love me.

Most importantly, my mom, who passed away this past spring, my dad and my wife, Suzan.

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