...a deathly serenade...

Modeselektor or Caribou - in my eyes, I don't see,
or like, the snobbery that can exist in music,
which I spoke briefly about in my novel, A
Voyeuristic Supper. As lofty as my association is
in the ranks of literature, Janet's Jackson's, Velvet
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Rope is quite easily as influential to me as James
Joyce," he said in a somewhat defence of
contemporary Art, and music.
In his Paris review interview Franz spoke
about his affinity for Jazz and his time, "bumming
around playing in Jazz clubs", when he opens up
about this music's affect on his Jazz like writing
prose-style, "I developed the style of course from
not just Jack Kerouc, but Jean Genet, who is an
unsung pioneer in this similar prose style, Miles
Davis, John Coltrane and even from appreciating
the paintings of Yashu and Jean-Michel Basquait,"
he said. "It's a concoction of rhythms and
cadences that derive from my poetic vision of life.
This balance of the meticulous and the wholly
abstract is meshed together with this texture that
is a bit like my outlook on life … you know? It's a
situation where I'm constantly searching for this
drama of the absurd, I like to call it … The
saxophone of a Bechet from his Paris merengue
period, are the songs layered into my fabric with
an edge, of let's say a John Frusciante or, more
fitting a Foo Fighters, and juxtaposed to create
what may seem complicated but my work is like a
walk through a rainy dessert, alone, drinking wine
eating and having a conversation with the women
you love. And finding laughter, even though
you're totally lost, but what you have is this wine,
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