In 2017 the Bushwick Book Club hosted a terrific multi-media event for the launch of my coloring book Legacy
Among the artists performing was Jetty Swart. Now Jetty has launched a music video and a song based on that coloring book novella. To view it, in all its ethereal glory, please click here.
The lyrics are as follows:
Baccarat strikes a match
She knocks her flaming knuckles against her forehead
Then she chuckles
Sparks fly up, landing snowflakes hiss and sizzle
Baccarat strikes a match
False eyelashes frizzle, fall to ash
Melted spandex runs up her flesh
Amazing blazing tits are just about to pop and splash
Baccarat strikes a match
A living torch in the dark sky
On scorched, smoking spike high heels
Her platinum blond curls are burning but she won't cry
Baccarat strikes a match
Cloaked in smoke, snaking 'round her nakedness
thick as a black feather dress, she jokes about him choking
Baccarat strikes a match
Then she dances a little more
In the smoldering ring of everything she wore
That has fallen to the floor
Jetty Swart
It’s always a rush when your work inspires work in a different medium
The Panic! at the Disco album Time to Dance is reputed to be based on my novel Invisible Monsters. As thanks, I wrote the band into my story Loser.
And there’s the perennial Brad Pitt collaboration with the Dust Brothers, This Is Your Life. To hear it, click here.
Wowwww that’s a unique sound. Love the trombone. What is that a dog bowl mute?? I know nothing about horns. Guitar player. Jealous of that pedalboard setup.
Got a question for ya. What would be your advice on taking a similar approach to writing a novel in the format of Jesus’ Son? I absolutely love what Denis Johnson did. It feels like you’re sitting next to a guy you’ve just met at a bar and he’s just telling you the most random, miserable, intriguing shit about his life. I’d like to steal the format, but I want to make it my own and I don’t want it to come across as a Jesus’ Son cover band. Any advice on imitating without seeming unoriginal?
I remember reading the line “The only difference between martyrdom and suicide is press coverage” in Survivor and realizing that that’s where Panic! came up with that song title.