TAKING THE ROUGH WITH THE SMOOCH
LP liner notes
by Huggy Bear

The Transmission:
"People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth"
-- Raoul Vaneigem

The Transition:
I’m drifting
I go nowhere
Because love is not as obvious
my map then will be constructed from aromas,
undetectable coffee shops, mood altering alleyways.
I visit routes as you visit lovers.
Stairwells...for wishes and secret messages to you.
Distance implies respect -- now let’s move a little closer...it’s a GIRL/BOY thing, a QUEER thing that alienates all those who detest difference.
It’s the personalisation of politics and the politicisation of the personal.
The soundtrack: rocket launches and the Guns of Naverone.
It’s the desirable state of emergency and the future is ours now.
CAN SUCH A WEAPON AS YOU AND ME BE DISMISSED AS MERE NUISANCE?

HUGGY BEAR
JULY 1993
LONDON


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