[kj] Some more "reports"

[Karen Weil]

Alex: Well said.  

k.w.

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From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On
Behalf Of Alexander Smith
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 5:34 AM
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] Some more "reports"


Trust me, most of these sites haven't the first fucking clue who Killing
Joke is. Hell, the site I work for .... TODAY.com .... even published an
article about it (in my absence, being that I was on vacation last week).
This is a website who considers Bruno Mars, Maroon 5 and Adele cutting edge.

To these media outlets -- and literally thousands just like them --   
this story is simply one they saw come across the wires about "a pop
singer." The fact that he's "missing" under strange circumstances  
outweighs the fact that no one's heard the name Killing Joke --   
beyond "one hit wonder" status (hello, "Eighties"). And, again, for most of
them, there will be no follow-up ... or "bounce" story ...  
about it unless Jaz turns up ... well, dead. There, I said it.

Chances are, as has been suggested,  Jaz is either in PR-enforced "hiding,"
is debilitatingly embarrassed (something you'd think he'd be used to, by
now) or has fucked off back to "Cythera" off New Zealand in a vain attempt
to rustling the same (blue) feathers he did circa the Iceland episode (when
most of us were still in school). Isn't there even a passage in the trailer
of "The Death & Resurrection Show"  
wherein Youth exclaims that any time it seemed the band was about to reach
another level of success, Jaz would do something to fuck it up?  
Well, then ... here you go.

All that's old is new again.

I am sort of bored with people WELL OUTSIDE of the Gathering sending me
links to the story they saw in the regular press about it -- as if they've
got some sort of scoop I didn't know about. I mean, what are we, fucking
novices? OF COURSE we know Jaz is missing, and OF COURSE he's done this
before. Now, fuck off back to your Olympics and your hip hop and your
Kardashians, you fucking sheep.

Sorry, I sort of hate my job these days.

Alex in NYC



On Aug 1, 2012, at 7:46 AM, Ana Madani wrote:


> I wouldn't have thought most of those sites/mags had ever heard of KJ, 

> never mind providing news of them.

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