DJO2is aka Mr.ThoughtCrime (ft. Rich Boucher) - "Portrait of an Adolescence in Record Reviews" (Pt. 6, The Damned, 'Phantasmagoria,' 1985)

from Toxic Waltz: Songs Inspired by the Poetry of Victor D. Infante by Various Artists

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Rich Boucher resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Rich is proud to have served two terms as a member of the Albuquerque Poet Laureate Program’s Selection Committee and as a member of the 2008 & 2014 Albuquerque City Poetry Slam Teams, and additionally as the Associate Editor at Elbow Room Magazine. Rich’s poems have appeared in Gargoyle, Yellow Chair Review, The Nervous Breakdown, Apeiron Review, The Mas Tequila Review, In Between Hangovers, Menacing Hedge, Lotus-eater, Cultural Weekly, MultiVerse (Write Bloody Publishing), and he has work forthcoming in Anti-Heroin Chic and in the “Walls” and “Survival” editions of the Poets Speak Anthology. You can learn more about his work at richboucher.bandcamp.com.

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Portrait of an Adolescence in Record Reviews (Part 6)
By Victor D. Infante

The Damned, “Phantasmagoria” (1985) Reinventing myself daily, sometimes multiple times within the course of a day. At school, I was crew-cut hair, OP shorts and T-shirts. I blended, but perhaps too much. Perhaps it was obvious I was trying too hard. Tried sports for a bit, then stopped. Bought a black trench coat and adorned it with Elvis Costello and Stiff Little Fingers pins. Goth one Saturday night, New Wave the next. No one seemed to notice. Or maybe everyone noticed. It doesn’t matter. It’s all theater, playing parts until one of them fits correctly. A friend played Phantasmagoria in the office of the gas station where he worked, and I sunk into it, lost.

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from Toxic Waltz: Songs Inspired by the Poetry of Victor D. Infante, released August 4, 2017
Words by Victor D. Infante, vocals by Rich Boucher, music by DJO2is aka Mr.ThoughtCrime.

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Victor D. Infante Worcester, Massachusetts

Victor D. Infante is the Entertainment Editor for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, the editor-in-chief of Radius and the author of "City of Insomnia" from Write Bloody Publishing. He lives in Worcester, Massachusetts, with his wife, and has serious opinions about politics, pop music and "Dancing with the Stars," not always in that order. ... more