Stemming The Rose

by Straight Panic

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bought at birth; bred to fight The broken promise of the coming generations Raised for a future that no longer exists Rut in ego You made me You made all of us In your image, So striving to unmake, the mask is slipping Each grasping, selfish sweaty fuck: You made me You made all of us Rut in ego You made me You made all of us Funerary illusion, Imaginary friend—dead at 14 but stillborn, stumbling shuffle through childhood (until you finally learn you're dead) The last test to take— graduate into disappointment; a gentle-man and a scholastic pervert
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Asunder 08:33
June 5th 1967 15 ships in the Suez canal 8 years to drown in shadow a pathetic national average unspecial and inauthentic we're just like you (FUCK) i hope you're happy i hope you get what you want when i gave myself away to not be good enough to not be what you want i just wanted to be enough i forgot the feel of living only living through it mistletoe remains green in winter no more snowfall on the continent
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I am not ashamed To know babylon's scrawl Written upon my skin In blood and fire and ash This city's beautiful Inescapable on fire Downtown steam And laundered shame Thirty feet above gasoline blooms Steam and ruin Above corpse Hostage wrapped in black plastic Christ like a pinup Homo will not inherit Homo will not inherit I'll inherit margins Dreaming Impenetrable bodega Turned inside out Steam Milky vacancy Fiery alleyway The silhouette of man Homo will not inherit Faggot will not inherit Inheritance of stupidity, Erasure, exile Inside police chalk lines You abandoned your body To our indulgences Homo will not inherit Faggot will not inherit

about

"The machinery of control has rendered our very existence illegal. We’ve endured the criminalization and crucifixion of our bodies, our sex, our unruly genders. Raids, witch-hunts, burnings at the stake. We’ve occupied the space of deviants, of whores, of perverts, and abominations. This culture has rendered us criminal, and of course, in turn, we’ve committed our lives to crime. In the criminalization of our pleasures, we’ve found the pleasure to be had in crime! In being outlawed for who we are, we’ve discovered that we are indeed fucking outlaws! Many blame queers for the decline of this society—we take pride in this. Some believe that we intend to shred-to-bits this civilization and its moral fabric—they couldn’t be more accurate. We’re often described as depraved, decadent and revolting—but oh, they ain’t seen nothing yet."
— A Gang of Criminal Queers, "Criminal Intimacy," 𝘛𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘺


"[O]ur imaginations function only in hope of others' misfortune, in the raptures of disgust, in that disposition which impels us if not to commit infamies, at least to contemplate them. How could it be otherwise on a planet where flesh propagates with the shamelessness of a scourge?"
— E. M. Cioran, History and Utopia

credits

released May 3, 2024

Written/Recorded April - September 2023, Providence, RI Except
B1, contains a sample of “The Homosexuals,” CBS Reports (aired 7 March 1967).
Written by Mike Wallace, William Peters, and Harry Morgan
Additional field recordings from Minneapolis 2016, New Orleans 2017-2019
B2, written September 2016
A live version was previously released on cassette by Fusty Cunt, February 2017.

Art/Design by SPEEDSICK, with minimal direction from Thomas Boettner

Live photo taken by Collin Heroux (@innovacancy)
Fuck The Fourth Fest, 2 July 2023, AS220, Providence, RI

Mastered by Grant Richardson at Hex Audio Labs, Minneapolis, MN

𝕾𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙 𝕻𝖆𝖓𝖎𝖈 is Thomas Boettner
For booking, purchases, commissions, or correspondence: [email protected]

Stemming The Rose: Abrasive Industries Like Minds, Arturia MicroFreak, Behringer UM300, Behringer WASP, Chase Bliss Generation Loss MK II, Death By Audio ROOMS, Digitech Digidelay (2x), Digitech Metal Master, ElectroFaustus Drone King, ElectroFaustus Drone Thing, GoldWave (v5.67), HMHS Electronics throat mic, HP Victus, Korg MS-20 mini, Landscape AllFlesh, Landscape Stereo Field, Molasses Industries Generator Organ, Molasses Industries Tryophyte, Radio Shack CTR-96, Roland 404mkII, Roland VT-4, Trogotronic 658 Mother Mutant, Trogotronic 669 Bosshog, Vivlex Booster, Windows 11 Home, Xenyx QX1222, Z'Vex Lo-Fi Junky, Zoom H6n



THANK YOU: Craig Davis, Kyle Watson, Alec Eberhardt, Andy Grant, Andrew Hurtado, Jimmy Aly, Gregg Cook, Doug DeWalt, Ian Tyler, Isaac Tyler, Brandon Wald, Dom “Uncle Nicky” Colucci, Jeffy Hardman, Derek Rush, J. Peterson, Scott Kindberg, Thomas Puopolo, Anjilla Ulfhednar, Richard Ramirez, Sean Ramirez-Matzus, Alex Ford, Charles Garey, Gyna Bootleg, Dave Public, Will MK, Josh Tracey, Mackenzie Kourie, Matthew Azevedo, Travis Bos, Rain Matheke, Desdemona Alyx III, Luk Henderiks, Matthew Himes, Trinity Lopez, Devin Howe, Alice Salem, Claire Cessna, Robert Brantley III, Iris Duvall, Josh Cocoros, Alec Lambert, Sian Austin, Maggie Siebert, Jayden Barber, Johnny Ray, T. Imbalance, Bob Bellerue, Lawry Zilmrah, Wyatt Howland, Laurie Peterson, Caleb Crittenden, Rosemary Malign, Dolores Dewberry, Nathan @ 1911, Justin @ Mayday, WYRD RECORDS, ARMAGEDDON RECORDS

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