Fuguers Cove makes a best-of list!

Hi, all --

I don't usually get press for Fuguers Cove, in part because we don't perform live or promote, but I'm happy to report that one of the albums I released in 2017 made a best-of list!

Per the Weekly Alibi:

Fuguers Cove is one of the nom de plumes of underground artist Justin Bendell, a dude who really does live somewhere deep in the Manzano Mountains where he writes, makes music and watchs the clouds. Serio. He’s recorded heaps of music since appearing in this part of the material world, but his summer album release, Colours of our Sickness, is like totally sick in its mastery and twisted exression of pop music and guitar rock tropes. Track 12, “Colours of our Love,” reaches toward exhuberant rock anthem status, almost casually, with blistering drums leading the way. I predict The Oh Sees are going to make this album, but maybe not until 2019.   -- August March, Weekly Alibi (29 Dec 2017)

https://alibi.com/music/54884/I-Dig-a-Record.html

End-of-Year Updates

Happy new year, folks!

Here are some recent and future happenings:

December 30 2017 -- I have started writing & recording drums and guitar for two new fuguers cove albums (Satanism & After Midnight), a Marshmen EP, a Burning Silos EP, and Anarchist Wolves' "To The Barricades," the long-awaited follow-up to last years Kill the Fascist Seed EP.

December 15 2017 -- formercactus published a tiny story of mine called "Some Nights." Check it out.

early December 2017 -- I started a blog called Lyrics to Every fuguers cove Song I Write. The content is self-explanatory. I only have 20 songs on there now, but I'll keep adding till all 300+ are up.

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Coming Soon:

Point Blank Podcast
Kurt & I will be recording Episode 9 of Point Blank Podcast (Cornell Woolrich) and re-recording Episode 6 (Chester Himes) due to an unfortunate technical glitch that damaged the original.


Music

• fuguers cove "Satanism"
• fuguers cove "After Midnight"
• The Marshmen "get slack, fuckers"
• The Burning Silos "Thrash Wizzaards"
• Anarchist Wolves "To the Barricades"
• Euthanized Horse "TBD"

Writing

• Got a poem forthcoming at Origins Online!
• Working on draft three of crime fiction novel-in-progress

Lyrics to Every fuguers cove Song I Write

I will post the lyrics to all fuguers cove songs.

I will post them slowly, album by album, until all of them are up.

Each lyric will be accompanied by a link to the adjoining song.

They are not up yet, not all of them.

https://fuguerscovelyrics.blogspot.com/

Excerpt #2 #nanowrimo 2017

I owned a Mach 5.
It was very fine.
Like a spaceship, that thing was.
Waxed and oiled.
Not an ounce of rust.
I sold it for three hundred dollars the year I tried to kill myself. 

I am writing this month / excerpt #1

Hello "folks" / internet winds:

I am working on a noir-ish character-driven crime fiction novel this month.

It is the same novel I was working on last November; however, I'm adding points of view. Many points of view.

If it is a novel, it is an experimental form. If it is a novel-length poem, it is a very structured one.

Here's the voice of an old man waiting in winter at a bus stop for a bus that never comes.

Excerpt:

Broken down Benz. The vehicle his late wife wanted. She wanted a Benz and he had a problem with the Benz because of the war and because the Benz was an expensive car and he had no need for a symbol like that, but she didn’t understand these things because she had had a dream once. And maybe that was why things did not work out with them as he did all the things a good man is supposed to do but he never gave in and let her have her dream and it may be a small thing but small things grow and fester and become great problems and it was too late to realize this now but oh well.

I have made all 17 fuguers cove albums free on bandcamp

https://fuguerscove1.bandcamp.com/album/buffalo-comfort-ep

This is the most recent EP. Go to the website to download the rest for free.

Point Blank Podcast is fully operational

Hey nerds,

My comrade, Kurt, and I started a podcast where we discuss hardboiled, noir and detective fiction. It's called Point Blank and here is our website. In the first episode, we discuss Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me. It is currently available for free download on I-Tunes.

In subsequent episodes we will discuss works by Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Patricia Highsmith, Chester Himes, and many more.

Please go to I-Tunes and subscribe. 

Note to Self / Prompt #1

What does Luz do on a normal day? Put Luz in a grocery store.

Put any character you want to learn about into a grocery store. =

• What do they buy? 
• What aisles, if any, do they avoid? 
• Do they read the ingredients? Do they check the price tags? Do they do mental math? Or are they guided by hunger and impulse?
• Do they use a cart, a basket, their curled up t-shirt bottoms, pockets? 
• How do they feel in a grocery store -- joy, fear, anxiety, comfort?
• (By the way, what kind of grocery store is it -- fine foods, standard ole, granola co-op, bargain bin?)
•  How do they pay for their food?
• Coupons? 
• They're now in the parking lot. What do they do with their groceries?

PLAYA

Tomorrow, I head north to begin a one-month residency at PLAYA.

Per their website: 

"On the edge of the Great Basin, PLAYA offers creative individuals the space, solitude and the community to reflect and to engage their work through its residency program. PLAYA supports innovative thinking through work in the arts, literature, natural sciences and other fields of creative inquiry and encourages dialogue between disciplines to bring positive change to the environment and the world. "

I hope the experience (which I will share with collaborator / artist / poet Craig Goodworth) bears fruit.