MUSIC DUMPZ

Here are pictures of some recent shows bands I am in played: (Btw: I never explained this but this blog is just to keep track of things I'm doing.... Its utility to the public is most likely nil.)

Amelia @ Bernie's August 19th, photographs courtesy of Dana Curran:






































Lose The Tude @ The 15th House August 22nd, photographs courtesy of Bret:


























Lose The Tude, younger with more pajamas:




Other joke hardcore band I was in, Dorm Life Sucks.... playing in the basement of the OSU dorms:


Bands I'm not in that I like right now:






And this Kanye Video.

AUSSI:
This god awful article about Envelope.

TURIN'

The band I'm in, Amelia, is going on tour with baby Ryan and baby Austin's band, Delay (I think someone else is in it too?). This is important because I finally get to go to both Maine (where I will live someday, collecting lighthouses - wearing heavy sweaters with shorts) AND Brooklyn. Also I will eat a hot dog in Allston + Candace will be present. In Akron we will visit my boyhood home at the Akron Aeros' stade. Here are the dates:

August 6th - New Brunswick, NJ 7pm @ Meat Town USA
August 7th – Allston , MA 8pm @ House Show
August 8th – Brookyn, NY 8pm @ The Fort 1414 Lincoln Place W/ Landlord, Bad Blood, Witches
August 9th – Worcester, MA 8pm @ 11 Forbes St.
August 10th – Portland, ME 8pm @ 176 Coyle street w/ Dylan Bredeau
August 11th – NH @ TBA
August 12th – Syracuse, NY 8pm @ Castle Rockmore, 113 West Borden Ave. W/No Connection
August 13th – TBA
August 14th – Akron, OH @ TBA
August 15th, – SOUTHWEST FOLK FEST! http://www.myspace.com/southwestfolkfest 2 day fest! Aug. 14th and 15th, $7 each show @ Church of Rock 4300 Howard Ave.,
August 16th - Chicago, Il @ The Fun House w/ Arkansas? (Their last show EVER.)
August 18th - Columbus, Ohio @ The Monster House w/ The Winslows, State Lottery
August 19th - Columbus, Ohio @ Bernie's Distillery (dreams do come true) w/ The Winslows, Tin Armour, New Creases, Papermoons
September 4th - Columbus, Ohio @ Monster House w/ Cars Can Be Blue, Lemming, Lovely Eggs

THIS IS OUR ROADIE:














This is what we looked like playing Berea Fest:














AUSSI:
Mark Bouchet's "Watershed" at the Venice Biennale. Genius.

AMELIA / PHERAMONES SPLIT TAPE

Ask me for one in person or send for one in the mail.
115 W.10th Ave. Columbus, Ohio 43201. The tape is 2 to 3 dollars - whatever piques your fancy.

In the Pocket Tapes, Austin's tape company that he runs out of 115 1/2 W.10th Ave. made the tapes. I recommend their services for all your out-moded audiophile needs.

Listen to the Pheramones side here.

ALSO: Side note about the artwork. This is designed by Maryn Jones with some color choices and lettering by Pat Crann. For those of us who have some knowledge or experience with or about Jehovah's Witnesses you will recognize the purple triangle as the symbol the Nazis branded witnesses with in concentration camps. More than a thousand witnesses were killed by the National Socialists along with jews, gays, leftists, gypsies and anyone else who could be othered in Germany at the time. Growing up as a Jehovah's Witness I always had that sort of nagging feeling that it would only take a mere spark to inflame opinion against myself and my family in a similar way. As I grew up I realized that though I was now an atheist and unaffliated spiritually, I could still be sent away by the hypothetical nazis for any number of things: leftism, degenerate art or antagonistic journalism. ANYWAY, long story short - it's interesting that this symbol, the purple triangle, is on this release since Maryn has no knowledge of this at all. It's very "full circle" for me since those feelings of being othered at an early age and being in opposition against the state since birth are what I feel led me to eventually be interested in punk in the first place. What strikes me even further about it is the 1940's style of dress of the women, chronologically appropriate for the chilling connotations the design brings to my mind.

More info on Jehovah's Witnesses in Germany during the war years.