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David Rat

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Hillbilly Hell, The United States

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(From Happy Ending forward by Fiona Helmsley)

A small town boy, David Rat came to New York City in the early 1980´s to be an artist. With big city rock n’ roll dreams he became the drummer for seminal No Wave pioneers "Rat At Rat R". David worked the door at the infamous downtown Pyramid Club, juggled clingy girlfriends and looked forward to finally garnering his father’s approval as a mainstream success in the music industry.

The story-telling quality of David’s poetry calls to mind the lyrical elegies of Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side” and Iggy Pop’s “Look Away.” But immersed within the world of the New York City underground David became addicted to heroin, and began writing testimonies to painful longing and the ritual redundancies of a ...more

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David Rat's Blog: "RAT BITES"

Doug Scharin, Codeine, and The White Birch interview

Doug Scharin is One of my favorite Drummers from one of my favorite Bands and participated in the creation of my
Favorite album of all time
"Codeine...The White Birch"

It is everything I look for in a work of High Art...Beautiful, Brutal, Honest and extremely unique groundbreaking and dynamically entrancing...I often refer to it as the "Gloomy Sunday/Berlin of our time...Doug is a kind and thought Read more of this blog post »

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Published on January 23, 2015 15:25

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David Rat said: " Helmsleys work encompasses everything I adore in any art form. Mainly, CONTRAST. I want snippets of Glittery Beauty in my Ugliness. I want Flowers in my Garbage and Garbage in my Flowers. I want sex and death,hellbound spiritual journey´s etc. And mo ...more "

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“I WILL CHANGE THIS WORLD ABSOLUTELY”
― David Rat, Happy Ending

tags: addiction, inspirational, sad-truth

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“If I said Jim Carroll would you be insulted?"
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― DAVID RAT, Happy Ending

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“A fantastic Riot Boy, Trash the Senses..
-Thurston Moore”
― DAVID RAT, Happy Ending