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Mountainhead
by New Juche
I first read New Juche (Stupid Baby) when I ordered a handful of titles from the small publisher Amphetamine Sulphate, and it was surprisingly more well-written than I was expecting (I don't expect the most literary bent from musicians/noise boiz-cum-authors), so I ordered Mountainhead soon after. There are a few scenes bordering fiction that pretty much solidify that this is not to be taken as total autobiography.
This novel continues the general themes of Juche's Stupid Baby - sex tourism in Thailand, failed and failing relationships with the locals, the vicissitudes of life in Bangkok - although this narrative is centered in the mountains of Northern Thailand. Similar filth, depravity, and abasement occur here across Juche's travels in Thailand and Cambodia, and a few run-ins with the criminal world and the police, notorious for extortion.
Juche has a penchant for the poor and the abject, hence his constant acquaintance and relations with prostitutes, as well as those most would deem undesirable, to put it gently. But here in Mountainhead this sexual communion is shared with the landscape as well - Juche frequently masturbates in nature, and, in one scene, ejaculates onto the sand, collects the congealed glob of earth, rubs it on his face, then puts a portion of it in his mouth. Erections abound as well, as though the beauty of the mountain itself compelled him to sexual arousal.
Juche is a photographer as well, favoring the ugliness and desolation of local environs and their inhabitants, although here pictures of the mountain serve as visual refrains between chapters so that we might relish the beauty of the natural landscapes Juche himself has become so enamored with and aroused by, to the literal point of sexual release.
This novel continues the general themes of Juche's Stupid Baby - sex tourism in Thailand, failed and failing relationships with the locals, the vicissitudes of life in Bangkok - although this narrative is centered in the mountains of Northern Thailand. Similar filth, depravity, and abasement occur here across Juche's travels in Thailand and Cambodia, and a few run-ins with the criminal world and the police, notorious for extortion.
Juche has a penchant for the poor and the abject, hence his constant acquaintance and relations with prostitutes, as well as those most would deem undesirable, to put it gently. But here in Mountainhead this sexual communion is shared with the landscape as well - Juche frequently masturbates in nature, and, in one scene, ejaculates onto the sand, collects the congealed glob of earth, rubs it on his face, then puts a portion of it in his mouth. Erections abound as well, as though the beauty of the mountain itself compelled him to sexual arousal.
Juche is a photographer as well, favoring the ugliness and desolation of local environs and their inhabitants, although here pictures of the mountain serve as visual refrains between chapters so that we might relish the beauty of the natural landscapes Juche himself has become so enamored with and aroused by, to the literal point of sexual release.