Chris D, or Los Alamos geiger land is in my blood.
A new book came into the library the other day and passed through my desk to be matched to its bibliographic record. I see a lot of interesting books but rarely have the time or opportunity to look at them long enough to have anything to say about them here. The book was called Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film. A title that sets you to thumbing through pages. It appeared to be a well documented closely and lovingly written history of post war Japanese gangster films. Who writes a book like this? Chris D. the title page said. There used to be a guy called himself Chris D. led a band from Los Angeles back in the late 70's early 80's called the Flesheaters. That Chris D. was Chris Dejardins, looking through the front matter I see the author dedicates the book to his father: Paul Dejardins. Diane on WFMU had played some Flesheaters "Tomorrow never comes", just the day before.
The Flesheaters posed such musical questions in songs as: "What do you do with white trash?" Answering, "Burn it all up till it's white ash." That's from an album that featured a band made up of people from X and the Blasters. That album ended with a nine minute song with only the repeating lyric "divine horseman." I always loved that song. I saw the Gun Club who were contemporaries to the Flesheaters play once at the old 9:30 club, a one-of-a-kind event. I always regreted not seeing the Flesheaters play when they came through DC. around the same time. Chris D. was a writer on the early California punk scene for the 'zine Slash, and had gone to film school. The Flesheaters, were, for all their apparent surface reference to the Cramps, a quintessential LA band. A minute to pray, a second to die, the title of their second record and a song on the third record Forever came Today is also the name of a lesser known Italian western from 1968 , which I have seen on TV once. Chris D. I see also seems to have directed a movie, I Pass for Human last year.
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