Gosh, I really don't know where to start. Sue P. Fox (Kicking Giant, Witchy Poo) is an Olympia-type wordcore freak and she makes me very, very happy. I put on this CD, listen for awhile, then drift off and start thinking about something else. Then every once in a while my attention re-focuses on Fox's quavering, demented voice, and suddenly she's talking about tar people and KFC and blood and riding the bus and pus and egg salad sandwiches and breeders and perspiring feet and who knows what else. And then I tune out again, because really, how long can you listen to someone going on like this before you start getting a bit demented yourself?

Light Matches, Spark Lives is a collection of Fox's material from 1993-1999. Some of these tracks are available elsewhere, but there's also a bunch of new material, as well as some older, very hard to find tracks.

Oh god, she's doing it again. This one is "Doing a lot of stuff on a handshake and a prayer". Ahhhhh, what is she talking about?! Fox has a tendency to switch voices depending on which character is speaking, and for some reason many of her characters speak in tweaked-out, halting jabs. It's very disturbing but also very entertaining.

Okay...So there's a lot of good stuff on Light Matches, Spark Lives. There are seventeen tracks, a number of which feature a sloppy rock 'n' roll backup band that provides a pretty nice backdrop for Fox's sloppy poop 'n' sex monologues. Others tracks are just Fox speaking, which is equally effective.

"Eye witness in your head controlling your behavior news."

In addition to the audio tracks, there's a CD-ROM track on the disc, which contains Fox's comic "Doing a lot of stuff on a handshake and a P.R.A.Y.E.R." It's just as strange and wonderful and disturbed as the audio tracks. From a page with a blue, scarred, extremely large-lipped alien woman under a "MENSA" sign: "So when geese fly south in a "V" formation one side is longer. Do you know why? Cause there are more geese on that side." It's pretty hard to explain.

Then there's "Chicken", which is sort of a cover, or a sing along, or a something having to do with that "there's a lonely man there on the corner" Phil Collins song. Basically Phil sings in the background while Ms. Fox goes on at length about being a gay, white male. It's a very strange effect.

"Killing your clone is still murder."

Oh boy. Just get this CD, okay? It looks good, it sounds good and it's really, really weird.