Given MAGNET’s detailed coverage of the end of the Mendoza Line—a beloved, ragtag countrypolitan bar band that went up in flames in 2007—it only seems fitting that we have plenty of access to the formation of the Jescos, the new group featuring the Mendoza Line’s Timothy Bracy and Wooden Wand’s James Jackson Toth, as well as Bracy’s wife, singer Elizabeth Nelson. Bracy has found his rambling pub-rock foil in Toth on the forthcoming Remembrance Of Things Trashed, a debut album that guts it out for rock ‘n’ roll glory. Read our Q&A with Toth and Bracy.
James Jackson Toth: I tried reading The Atrocity Exhibition in high school, and it made no sense to me. As an adult, it still doesn’t make a great deal of sense to me, but I keep reading it. I’ve recently detected a loose narrative that approaches linear and continue to view the book as a code to be cracked. It’s my favorite J.G. Ballard book, not counting his excellent short stories. Like Gravity’s Rainbow for people who take a lot of drugs.
