Astral Knife - "Casa del Carajo"

Eric says this particular track is "hot" not in the standard parlance but as in very loud, distorted, and immediate. The semi-audible lyrics were a rape-revenge fantasy penned furiously on a subway car heading towards the Bronx one afternoon after being triggered by news stories of the rapist pig Ariel Castro, who'd held three girls hostage for a decade. We originally performed it with Doll Hospital, a sort of precursor to Astral Knife with Andy Laties and Rebecca Migdal. Several months after this, Ariel Castro did the only thing a rapist can do right, which is take himself off the planet, in his case by accidentally hanging himself in his cell while attempting auto-erotic asphyxiation. But still, a fantasy about growing razors out of your skin and slicing up a rapist with them is still something to crow about. Hey, I should make that the subject of my next painting. Astral Knife in this recording are Eric Blitz, Jenny Gonzalez-Blitz, and La Femme Natal.