now online in a newly digitized archival reissue. Girls On Fire teams up with Psychodrama for this blown-out Noise classic before the Noise movement existed!
Album info page at HalTapes website, including liner notes, additional artwork, and reviews: http://www.haltapes.com/diary-of-a-shiteater.html Diary of a Shiteater is a volcanic bubble of cut up samples and songs by me, Girls on Fire, with my old bandmates, who were then in the second incarnation of Psychodrama (Brett, Rob and Mark), plus snippets by other artistes and found audio —— All put through the metaphorical meat grinder with audio levels pushed into the red even more than The Velvets' White Light/White Heat, and blown out speakers crackling with distortion. Very demonic. Like a horror movie version of the documentation of the John Cage/David Tudor performance of Variations IV recorded at the Feigen/Palmer Gallery in 1963; with the distorted voices and art opening/party conversation. Brett and Rob would send me cassette tapes and I interspersed them with the stuff I was coming up with. I don't think that I sent them the tape in advance to review or approve before it went out into the world. I also don't remember their reactions to the tape either. However, I do think that Brett came up with the name "The Chicken Fucks" and I definitely remember coming up with the name "Girls Who Hate Their Mothers". I think that we went with the different names because both of those names seemed more even more aggressive to us like the cut-up process/sounds on the tape than even Psychodrama or Girls on Fire. includes the Girls On Fire songs-- “I Wish I was Andy Warhol” “I Feel Sad About Tennessee Williams” “Eva Hesse” “My Telephone” “Sylvia Plath was Smart” “Cindy Sherman” “Beautiful Sexy Luscious Car Crashes”
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Leslie Singer
6/16/2019 18:34:45
Hal, thank you for this post and for the great job that you did digitizing from the original “‘master” cassette tape. What was old is new again!
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6/17/2019 13:30:52
More Girls on Fire! Why do i always hear about something cool i desperately want to hear while listening to cd’s I have’nt heard for a while, but already commited to finishing listening to! Putting this on after the EC compilation! By the way, Leslie, i got a new set of headphones so i can record more tracks for our collaboration again!
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Leslie Singer
6/18/2019 06:28:20
Ditlev, thanks! I think that you’ll get a kick out of this crazy one! That’s great that you’ve gotten your new headphones. I’ll send you something soon!
Chris Phinney
6/18/2019 06:26:03
Listening now, I love this reissue as I never had the tape, awesome noisy cut ups, Definitely pushing the envelope! Like Leslie mentioned before to me would have been a hell of a show Psychodrama/Skoptzies at Antenna, to bad this never happened!
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P-A.H
6/18/2019 17:34:08
Brutal and fun stuff. I love it!
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Adam J Naworal
6/18/2019 23:08:23
I somehow forgot to tell you, P-A, but your letter and artwork safely arrived at the Naworal household :D
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P-A.H
6/19/2019 19:49:36
Glad to hear it! Hope you liked it. :) 6/21/2019 15:01:05
I got your postcard too P-A! I forget wich cassettes i sent you last, but i’ll send you some more soon!
Leslie Singer
6/23/2019 21:35:53
Thank you!!
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Adam J Naworal
6/18/2019 23:07:56
Excellent stuff of course!
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Leslie Singer
6/23/2019 21:34:15
Thank you!!!
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CIII Goff
6/20/2019 15:50:49
The GI Joe Motorized Battle Tank! I wonder what might have happened if Reagan and Andropov had gotten together one sunny 1983 afternoon to listen to this tape... It has all the qualities of classic 1980's cassette culture noize -- punk rock ain't got nothin on this stuff.
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Leslie Singer
6/23/2019 21:40:44
Charles, thanks so much!
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Penny
6/20/2019 23:18:51
U rock!!
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Leslie Singer
6/23/2019 21:41:42
Thank you!!!:)
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Rafael González
6/27/2019 11:01:26
You are a big inspiration! I love this work and I love your words.
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Leslie Singer
7/9/2019 04:32:09
Mucho gracias!!!
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Rafael González
7/9/2019 09:57:56
My pleasure! I love your work!
Juan Angel Italiano
7/8/2019 17:38:28
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Leslie Singer
7/9/2019 04:33:51
Wow! Thank you!!!
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Leslie SingerAfter high school and a year in the DC noise band, Psychodrama, I moved to SF in 1982. Archives
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