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[sabotabby]

Classic used bookstore find!

I was meeting my friend for dinner and the aforementioned karaoke, and ended up in the Annex with a half hour or so to kill. I popped into Seeker's, headed over to the "Left Studies" section, and found this:



It's a 1974 book about how any style of music that the author (a batshit insane pastor) doesn't like—from any music written by black people to the Beatles—is a communist plot to destroy the children and possibly turn them all gay. It's apparently a classic text of wingnuttery. I smirked and was about to leave the bookstore when...


Yeah, whatever. Like I wasn't going to buy it.

...I went back. There was a section on Woody Guthrie. The author mentioned Joe Hill. He described the IWW as the forerunner of the Communist Party USA.

For $6, how could I possibly resist?

Lest you doubt the seriousness of this book, Dr. Noebel reminds us:

Never in the history of American music have so few made fools of so many. Never have so many sheep been led into singing the enemies' songs. Never in the history of the world has a nation survived with such mental and spiritual brainwashing. "Such apparently slight causes destroyed Greece and Rome, and will destroy England and America."

Dr. Noebel has also written such gems as "Christian Rock: A Strategem of Mephistopheles" and "The Homosexual Revolution."

Comments

[pretzelsalt.livejournal.com]

That is beautiful.

I can't stop staring at the hammer treble clef!

[sabotabby]

It may need to be an icon.

[culpster.livejournal.com]

I have a couple similar things about Hollywood, and I also got celebrity born-again books: Charles Colson, Susan Atkins (of Manson family), Eldridge Cleaver (Fire and Ice!) and the guitarist for Kansas. Fun!

However I wouldn't be at all surprised if Mr. Seekers Dude believes every word.

[retinal-strain.livejournal.com]

Yeah, he's into that whole batshit insane anti-Semitic, lizards from outer space rule the world David Icke nonsense. There was a great picture of him in ARA's On The Prowl newspaper, (#17, summer 2001) hanging outside with other Icke organizers during an Icke talk in Toronto with bugged out wild eyes.

[sabotabby]

They now have a vast collection of works by LaRouche. I'm tempted to pick one up, but Mr. Seekers Dude might then consider me a potential convert.

[jenlight.livejournal.com]

I want one.

[sabotabby]

I had no idea that there were still copies floating around. Check your local wild-eyed tinfoil-hatted used bookshop!

[corvus.livejournal.com]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orNLsDTae4c&eurl=

[sabotabby]

And if you can afford to buy this, thank a dead Iraqi!

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

Well aware of this undisputed gem of loony froth-at-the-mouth literature, thanks to my friend Mr. alfaguru and his Odd Books site. Loads of similar batshit insane reading matter therein; the Nino Volpe one in the top left hand corner will be right up your street!

[sabotabby]

•The vivid shame which I felt after an ESP manipulated dream of vigorous homosexual behaviour, just before the 1964 election.
• My oppressive Thanksgiving Day 1964 dinner.
• The uncontrollable teeth chattering I suffered from time to time during the disintegration of the Soviet empire.

I am so going to look for this.

[bike4fish.livejournal.com]

Well, if Christian Rock isn't the idea of Mephistopheles, I'd like to know who else we should blame it on.

[sabotabby]

I'd blame marketing execs, but I don't think that the two options are mutually exclusive.

[mistersmearcase.livejournal.com]

I just realized I don't know what the original is of
"In Russia, [noun] [verbs] you!"

[sabotabby]

It was started by a Ukranian comedian named Yakov Smirnoff. According to Wikipedia, he is also responsible for this atrocity.

[brownfist.livejournal.com]

I need one. This needs to be on every Lefty's bookshelf, oh and by the way I have spent way too much time reading stuff by David Horowitz.

[sabotabby]

You can borrow mine if you want. Did you get D. Ho's book? I want to buy it used or something because it looks as hilarious as this one.

[brownfist.livejournal.com]

No, no I have just been reading his shit online. The guy is nuts.

[sabotabby]

You should write to him. You'd fulfill all of his conspiracy theories at once!

"Which side are you on?"

[febrile.livejournal.com]

Oh, it does my Wobbly heart proud!

Re: "Which side are you on?"

[sabotabby]

And mine! There's a very earnest analysis of all of the Red references in Joe Hill's songs, as well as a description of "a vicious parody of 'There is Power in the Blood of the Lamb'." (I can only surmise that he's talking about "Industrial Union Grand," which doesn't seem very vicious to me, but what do I know?)

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

David Noebel... This guy is one letter away from being a leftie York U iconoclast :]

[sabotabby]

Actually, when I first glanced at it, I thought that it was a serious book about Marxist musicians by David Nobel. Which would have been worth reading, I guess, but not nearly as funny.

[lopukhov.livejournal.com]

I have that book! A friend gave it to me 2 or 3 Winter Gifts Days ago (back when it was still called "Winter Gifts Day").

[sabotabby]

I'm calling it that from now on.

[emak-bakia.livejournal.com]

"Christian Rock: A Strategem of Mephistopheles:" amen to that!

[sabotabby]

I wonder if I can find a copy.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Why did you post the cover twice?

[sabotabby]

I picked it up, flipped through it, thought it was too silly for words, put it down, started to walk away, thought of how silly it was, and went back and bought it.

You've just been given a disturbing look into my brain.