Health Update #28: Mojo Nixon and the Alternative Soundtrack of the 80s
It's been over a year since my first diagnosis (1/24/2023) and just shy of a year since my first staging at Stage IV (3/3/2023). I'm still here. February 7th: Mojo Nixon died today. Or was that yesterday, I'm not sure. It was probably after midnight and this side of the International dateline, so I'll assume it's today. For those who don't know, Mojo Nixon was an iconoclastic rockabilly/psychobilly satirist who got his start in the mid-80s, taking aim at Reagan era corporate America with songs like "Burn Down the Malls," "I Hate Banks," "Destroy all Lawyers," "Debbie Gibson is Pregnant with my Two Headed Love Child," "Elvis is Everywhere," "Don Henley Must Die," and "Jesus at McDonalds." He was an imperfect encapsulation of the counter-cultural rage in that industrial wasteland, the musical equivalent of Texas Chainsaw Massacre . Looking back through recordings of Mojo -- interviews and MTV ...