You Give Yourself To Him

Pavement “The Killing Moon/Green Grow The Rushes” (live in Liverpool, 1999) – This has been one of my personal favorite Pavement live recordings for some time now, but I just found a nice clean digital non-tape copy and I couldn’t help but want to share it here. This is worth downloading if just the segue into R.E.M.’s “Green Grow The Rushes;” it’s Pavement at their most beautiful.

Buddy Starcher “History Repeats Itself” – This is yet another selection from the wonderful Happy Listener’s Guide To Mind Control tape. Basically, this is a numerology/conspiracy nut solemnly listing off the trivial coincidences linking the Lincoln and Kennedy administrations, with “God Bless America” playing in the background. According to the liner notes, this single actually hit #39 on the American pop charts in 1966, which may officially make this the most bizarre Top 40 single of all time.

I promised something exceptionally creepy yesterday, and I’m going to follow through. I wasn’t entirely sure if I really wanted to post this, but what the hell. A few weird Google search results leading to this site aren’t going to hurt me.

Jason Moss was a precocious young man who developed a keen intellectual interest in serial killers as a teenager. Moss’s interest led him to correspond with some serial killers as an attempt to gain insight into their minds, which he achieved through psychological manipulation, deception, flirtation, and ego-stroking. Moss’s relationship with John Wayne Gacy was the most complex, and Moss later wrote a book titled The Last Victim about his experiences with Gacy.

The recording here is taken from Moss’s telephone conversations with Gacy, and I’m guessing that these excerpts all come from a point fairly early in their correspondence.

(Moss/Gacy audio courtesy of Grant)