Primal Scream: Making Trouble In Riot City
Ken Scrudato, Filter, August 2006
THE DOOMSAYERS, the rapture-mongers, the manic street-corner preachers, the postmodern theorists...they all completely missed it. With laser-beam paranoia but eyes wide shut, they all claimed to be looking for a sign of the end; yet arrive it did, that which must surely be the stinging harbinger of apocalypse, and, apparently, no one noticed. Or didn't wish to.
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