Full Past Noise is an experimental postmodern metafiction. It serves as an allegory for America, told under the guise of a young DIY garage rock band called That Old Time Religion touring their debut album Full Past Noise across the country.
Full Past Noise Has Arrived
That Old Time Religion is:
Clive Cassidy: Vocals
Olsen Elliot: Guitar
Boone Knight: Bass
Tripp Driscoll: Drums
“My survival depends on your reading of the story. That is where the straight line comes in. I can see my death. It’s boring. My life is the part where it gets good.”
“This is the only other way to never disappoint. To go rabid and savage. To be pointless, violently so.”
“Try to keep up, or be lost in irrelevance, lightyears away from renaissance.”
“To test the limits of chance, to see the point where it becomes your truth.”
“Looking back at the time, if it were a choice, you might still be a baby.”
The boys and their trusty van run into many characters along the way. They will face politics, love, sex, entertainment, food service, education, grief. It comes in the form of executives, managers, vacuum cleaner salesmen, pornstars, octogenarians, police, punks, and even you! All sides of the American coin are flipped as Z Staehling and his protagonists try to make heads or tails of the American condition. The novel is narrated by an omniscient being amidst constant existential crisis and we are taken through time and space for a true rock and roll joyride.
"What starts out as sensible turns into hysterics of chaos and disorder when the question of solution comes.”
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“The pendulum will never stop swinging, and though it gains the most momentum in the middle, each half wants to ride it to their own end. So it just goes back and forth and back and forth, never settling on anything less than radical.”
Full Past Noise experiments with stream of conscious writing and exhibits a mathematic and hallucinatory prose throughout its pages, and even when the last word is read, the book continues on in an infinite pattern beyond the confines of the text. The story cannot be bound by a singular spine. You will read things from Full Past Noise and they will appear in your life. And when that happens don’t fret but walk around. Talk to people. Keep the epic going!
“If you deal enough at random, the world will make meaning with your hand.”
This here is a journey towards discovering what makes America pulsate and where its blood pumps from.
This near-epic would be loved by any fan of Rock and Roll or Satire. fans both young and old would take something from it and give it to someone else less weird. Full Past Noise pulls from the humor of Breakfast Of Champions, the depths of Naked Lunch and the magnitude of Infinite Jest to make a cacophonous orgasm of neo-pastime.
“That’s a life, the gist...
Now we sail from all the wind we brought. Setting!”