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August 14th - Rotten Stinking Mouthpiece

Ian Rennie
Aug 14, 20261 min read

his is a fragment of a story turned it not a different story. An inspiration from the culmination of an old film where Lon Chaney Jr's part was rewritten to contain almost no dialogue, apparently due to his recovery from surgery, with this song's title being part of his only dialogue.

There is a delight in finding the art in shlock. The Indestructible Man is a short film of no real note and seemingly not a tremendous about of quality, but the motivation of the tragic monster at its core is enough to build a song around. Beauty from destruction, flowers from the wastebin. Everything grows.

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