Name: The Sole Survivor of the Crash by 16ozClawHammer
Duration: 4 min 15 s
Description: A ton of stuff I made over the last 15 years that was never finished. Partially because I have real things to do and partially because it's rubbish. Also, production levels in the bin because I don't know what I'm doing. But after almost two decades in a digital attic - fuck it. Who cares?

Written and performed by Danny Davies, Simon Meddings, Harry Medium, Marty Perrett, Dave Probert and Ian Todd, and produced by Danny Davies with help from a crying towel.

Music by Shutbin the Immortal (feat. Capt. Hollywood)

RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/onefivesevenone

Episode 3 - Your Back Teeth

Please note: this conversation starts about 10 minutes in -- by this point my wife and I are both completely flustered by the oppressiveness of the rep.

So! Last week my wife called to disconnect our service with Comcast after we switched to another provider (Astound). We were transferred to cancellations (aka "customer retention").

The representative (name redacted) continued aggressively repeating his questions, despite the answers given, to the point where my wife became so visibly upset she handed me the phone. Overhearing the conversation, I knew this would not be very fun.

What I did not know is how oppressive this conversation would be. Within just a few minutes the representative had gotten so condescending and unhelpful I felt compelled to record the speakerphone conversation on my other phone.

This recording picks up roughly 10 minutes into the call, whereby she and I have already played along and given a myriad of reasons and explanations as to why we are canceling (which is why I simply stopped answering the rep's repeated question -- it was clear the only sufficient answer was "Okay, please don't disconnect our service after all.").

Please forgive the echoing and ratcheting sound, I was screwing together some speaker wires in an empty living room!

Updates:
7/15 - Comcast has issued an apology: http://corporate.comcast.com/comcast-voices/comcast-statement-regarding-customer-service-call
7/16 - I have continued to reiterate publicly that I do not want Comcast to terminate the rep, and that I believe the call itself belies a deeper, systemic dysfunction:
https://twitter.com/ryan/status/489576392250519552
https://twitter.com/ryan/status/489576399636676609
https://twitter.com/ryan/status/489576406301413376

Comcastic service disconnection (recording starts 10 mins into call)

Instead of just an incapacity for feeling, a deadening of soul, the predator-grade depression Kate Gompert always feels as she Withdraws from secret marijuana is itself a feeling. It goes by many names — anguish, despair, torment, or q.v. Burton's melancholia or Yevtuschenko's more authoritative psychotic depression — but Kate Gompert, down in the trenches with the thing itself, knows it simply as It.

It is a level of psychic pain wholly incompatible with human life as we know it. It is a sense of radical and thoroughgoing evil not just as a feature but as the essence of conscious existence. It is a sense of poisoning that pervades the self at the self's most elementary levels. It is a nausea of the cells and soul. It is an unnumb intuition in which the world is fully rich and animate and un-map-like and also thoroughly painful and malignant and antagonistic to the self, which depressed self It billows on and coagulates around and wraps in Its black folds and absorbs into Itself, so that an almost mystical unity is achieved with a world every constituent of which means painful harm to the self. Its emotional character, the feeling Gompert describes It as, is probably mostly indescribable except as a sort of double bind in which any/all of the alternatives we associate with human agency — sitting or standing, doing or resting, speaking or keeping silent, living or dying — are not just unpleasant but literally horrible.
- Infinite Jest

(Sorry it sounds shit, still working on it)

a nausea of the cells and soul (rough mix)

A ton of stuff I made over the last 15 years that was never finished. Partially because I have real things to do and partially because it's rubbish. Also, production levels in the bin because I don't know what I'm doing. But after almost two decades in a digital attic - fuck it. Who cares?

The Sole Survivor of the Crash

Second Ultrafoetus EP, released 15.8.11 on Valentine Records

Free download: http://valentinerecords.bandcamp.com/album/will-this-do

The Sole Survivor of the Crash

16ozClawHammer

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