Search - Stick Men With Ray Guns :: Some People Deserve to Suffer

A story for you.

Ed Brickell | 12/13/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I saw these guys live several times in the mid 80's and worked with the guitarist for a rare coin and stamp company. The guy we worked for was a complete fool. Let's call him "Blaine," because that was his name. Once Blaine accidentally left the draft of a letter he was planning on sending to his parents in the bin of our office computer printer. I picked it up and read it. The letter was an incredibly angry and almost incomprehensible rant directed at both of his parents. It ended with the line, "I love you very much, but I can't stand you at all."I thought it was hilarious. I took the draft, copied it verbatim, deleted all of the punctuation and paragraph breaks, and sent to a literary magazine as a free verse poem. To my unexpected surprise and delight, the magazine actually published it.If I had never known Clarke Blacker, the guitarist, or heard his band Stick Men With Ray Guns, I don't think I would have done this.You owe it to yourself to own this CD, no matter how you obtain it."