LISTS March 7, 2025

5 Metaphors for Greg Ginn’s Guitar Tone on Black Flag’s Damaged (1981)

Perry Genovesi
  1. An electric can opener shredding a comic book.
  2. A car alarm going off in an on-fire circus tent.
  3. A sped-up recording of that scene in How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966) where the sewing machine stitches the dog's tail.
  4. A car alarm blaring during a funeral on a dewy Sunday morning.
  5. The moment a father notices—while kissing his daughter’s nose as he and mother return to their house after a week in Atlantic city—a silver party tassel hooked over the corner of the family portrait.
Perry Genovesi lives in West Philadelphia, works as a public librarian, and serves his fellow workers in AFSCME District Council 47. He's a Best Microfiction 2024 nominee, a 2025 The Best of the Net Anthology nominee, and his published fiction has been featured in Santa Monica Review, Bridge Eight Literary Magazine, Gone Lawn, and collected on tiny.cc/PerryGenovesi. He misses that period in music when a song would stop, someone would shout, “Remix,” and the remix would commence.
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