VV(1) Suck Hour

[s~Z]

Thomas, continuing his fine job of hosting VV(1), said, "The scene at
the Sailor's
Grave nevertheless makes me think more of a celebration than of satire."
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>From The Knitting Factory's http://www.knittingfactory.com/knotes/

Knotes: If Pere Ubu was a response to post-war industrial America, what is
Pere Ubu's response to post-industrial information age, or digital age,
America?

David Thomas: Pere Ubu was not a response to post-war industrial America in
the way I suspect you mean to suggest. Pere Ubu was a celebration of
post-war industrial America. We have to this day a deep and abiding
affection for its consumer society. But we were, from the beginning, acutely
aware of our place in the stream of history. We were the last of the
Americans... like the last of the Mohicans. We were the last ones to have
known the Golden Age and we were among the first to see the dimness come,
and we knew what that meant, and yet we could not find it in ourselves to
weep. Still we had seen for ourselves how the sun used to shine off its
polished surfaces. So clearly and pure. (After us come the barbarians.)