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NEGATIVLAND BOOK BURNING
Now.........we're up to our long-distance dedication. And this one is about kids, and pets, and a situation that we can all understand, whether we have kids or pets or neither. It's from a man in Cincinatti, Ohio. And here's what he writes: Dear Casey, This may seem to be a strange dedication request, but I'm quite sincere, and it'll mean a lot if you play it. Recently, there was a death in our family. He was a little dog named Snuggles. But he was most certainly a part of- let's come...let's start again. From comin' out of the record. Play the record, okay? Please... That's the letter U, and the numeral 2. The four-man band features Adam Clayton on bass, Larry Mullen on drums, Dave Evans, nicknamed "The Edge", on --this is bullshit! Nobody cares! These guys are from England, and who gives a shit? It's a lot of wasted names that don't mean diddly-shit! This is bullshit. This is bullshit. Who gives a shit? Diddly-shit. Diddly-shit. Diddly-shit. Nobody cares! Snuggles. Snuggles. He was a little dog named Snuggles. This is American Top Forty... this is bullshit! When you come out of those up-tempo goddamn numbers, man, it's impossible to make those transitions... and then ya gotta go into somebody dying...Goddammit if we can't come out of a slow record, I don't understand it... Why are we doing these instrumentals, cause we got 'em? I don't understand it.I don't understand it. I don't understand it. Will somebody find out the goddamn answer? Goddammit, goddammit, goddammit. Oh fuck! Snuggles. Fuck Snuggles. Okay, I want a goddamn concerted effort to come out of a record that isn't a fucking up-tempo record everytime I do a goddamn DEATH dedication! It's the last goddamn time, I want SOMEBODY to use his fuckin' brain, to not come out of a goddamn record that is, uh, that, that's up-tempo and I gotta talk about a fuckin' dog dying!! Boy, this is fuckin' PONDEROUS, man. Ponderous, fuckin' PONDEROUS. This is American Top Forty... right here on the radio station you grew up with. Music Radio One-Three-Eight oh fuck!
(photos by Marc Hawthorne)
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Negativland's Potluck Book Release Burning: After a potluck dinner,
attendees of this event were led through snow covered woods past
a series of candle lit installations with hidden speakers playing
various sounds (including a loop of U2's "I Still Haven't
Found What I'm Looking For") and heard various stories about
little dogs. They finally found what they were looking for when
they arrived upon a huge bonfire blazing beneath a large effigy
of a ghostly white dog with red eyes that was suspended three
stories high in the air. This dog (named "Snuggles"
after the deceased pet mentioned by Casey Kasem on Negativland's
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