deals of sunshine

the greatest of all emo songs

2006-01-26T20:23:00.000-08:00

THE GREATEST OF ALL E M O SONGS In No Particular order. just great:

vol. 1
gray matter "chutes and ladders". so great. so balls out.
here

2 or 3 years later they sounded like this: 3 "swan street" (or 'shitberries')
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i have a live tape from a 3 show at 9:30 that is so good and way better than the studio junk. this song especially. and jeff nelson's brother wailing on a sax. i was always convinced that this was just a left over late gray matter song anyway.
both of this shit got a lot of play in my head between my 18th and 20th year on earth.

vol. 2
the BIG BOYS "which way to go". totally awesome tear jerker with the zen arcade fire burning throughout it.
that acid-psych guitar just kills. i could listen to that guitar all day.

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vol. 3
DINOSAUR "the lung" holland '87 (tho it could be '88 i think).
just fucking awesome power emo. thee best band ever during that time. like the best band that ever existed, man.
and oh gawd, the pedal hopping at the end. how great is that?
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and back then DINOSAUR started their set with "severed lips" (from the same show).
that song, the first time you saw it live , would leave you on the floor. the pedal drop blow up part 1/3 of the way through would just knock you over like a steamroller! this is like the coolest, most smoked-out, laziest mellow-emo epic ever. with the greatest pedal hop cloudburst ever.
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vol. 4
SECOND WIND "its all expected"
classic late (or mid, depending on when you were born) period DC. i wish mugface sounded more like this song. the united mutation guy kills on the drums.
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vol. 5
MOSS ICON "i'm back sleeping or fucking or something"
is one of the first 3 greatest of all emocore hits. what a total wordy and historically interesting/intriguing spaz attack. i mean east asian history class interesting.
here

Vol. 6
IGNITION
"rebuilding"
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"proven hollow"
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"anger means"
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just total greatness and total soul. when the 1st 7 came out i couldnt believe it. i thought DC was back.
what awesome sike guitar on proven hollow. that blew my head wide open upon first listen.
i wanted mugface to sound like the last 2 songs; and at the end it kind of did.
i had an ignition patch i got from a London emohead on my fave pair of pants for years.

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Lounge/3106/ignite.html

vol. 7

UPTOWN BONES "locust"
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recorded on wkdu late at night live on the air by oldhead kutztown local mike eidle (oldhead ktown local who came to west caty shows along with a crew of other ktown kids such as the dude who now owns the ktown bottling works) (they were cool and rural from a time prior to all the suburbs near there. and from a time when ktown was way cooler).
this was totally during the height of the Summer of Beads, 1988. complete spaz out and expressionist bass.
and along with dain bramage, the first of the post 'youre living all over' me e m o.

vol. 8

DAIN BRAMAGE "cut loose"
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i always thought this was a rip of the 3 song 'swan street' but who cares cuz its so awesome. and this post mission impossible band featured a certain super hotshot teenage drummer.

and

DAIN BRAMAGE again
here
this song was just fucking great in the day. that guitar is so acid. and its all so huskers cum rites of spring cum old dinosaur.
this song had all the original east coast emo heads (who were really just rites of spring / gray matter heads) completely flipping out. (and in the begining emo was pretty much only east coast.)

and this post mission impossible band featured a certain super hotshot teenage drummer.

the dain bramage songs are just so great and i thank john z. for laying a burn of the LP on me. i lost mine along the way from there to where i am now.

PEARLS>WHH>PISSED>AIRCON AT JEFF PIGEON 01/ 21/06

2006-01-15T18:14:00.000-08:00

the Good Vibes in '06 Movement starts right here

come out for what will surely be a legendary show as locals PEARLS AND BRASS celebrate the release of their 2nd LP on Drag City.
and yes, the Bucket of (mystery) Vibes will surely be in attendance.
so by all means, bring yr thirst for gin mixed with secret ingredients in a big plastic bucket.

jeff le pigeon is located at the northeast corner of that big old wharehouse on 4th and tilghman in the brightening heart of downtown allentown. walk down the little street and enter from the alley behind the wharehouse. when you see friendly LV hipsters hanging around under the moonlight you'll know you've arrived.
WHH starts sometime between 9:30 or 10:00....

JEFF THE PIGEON saturday the 17th of december

2005-12-12T17:03:00.000-08:00

big show. fly yr freak flag high... all LV lo-kills knight

WE HAVE HEAVEN, GSGA, POCKET GALLOWS, OUR LOVERS ARE WITH OTHERS, PINK DESERT.
freak show. WHH will be playing with our invisible violinist! she's that fucking powerful, man! believe it.

heres a new WE HAVE HEAVEN jam called "secret violin powers, ACTIVATE!!!!!!" to, in the words of Yoji Ohtsuki, "feel like a
flying bird from violin sound". recorded on a sony handycam at Betty's in kutztown, PA on december 1st 2005 late at night.
peace everybody. and tranquility...

SLEEP TIGHT

2005-11-29T15:42:00.000-08:00

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sleep tight in warm orange light, under a blanket of psych, because yr alright.

since the release of sleep tight #4 peeple have been emailing me about the previous 3 sleep tights. especially the 2nd one; because that one came with a CD

comp featuring FURSAXA and AIR CONDITIONING among other sikedelic troubadours. numbers 1 and 2 are in their

second pressing, so as of now they both exist in editions of 350. and there are like 40 or so left here in my pad. number 3 was the weird one we did for a

show at black floor gallery in philly. the show consisted of a film & an installation by some friends of ours that had to do with that cole porter song about Miss

Otis. there wereonly 75 of those pressed and no more will ever be made.

i fuck around a lot and make various little perfect-bound books for myself and a very miniscule amount of other peeple. some of these exist in editions of 5 or

10. most of them, like the Beth Duby is Everywhere book, exist in highly insane editions of ONE. some of the ones i've made i regard as totally priceless and if,

like a fire or something happened to them i'd be totally crushed........

and yes, i would make some little books for you too. but you would have to pay me a lot of money then. but fuck, if that's yr bag let me know.

this all done under the AMERICAN TYPE: WRITER press imprint, btw, lol, imho...

WE HAVE HEAVEN w.t.p.

2005-11-28T05:52:00.000-08:00

improv to the max and super pretty jamz. we have heaven is loop guitars & violins & drums & mararcas & shakers & whatever. to peace everybody out. and tranquility....
WHH is with the peeple. & it is very very nice to play musics with peeple again.

listen to this WHH ...jam recorded at Betty's in kutztown pennsylvania on sunday the 28th of november 2005.

WHH is playing soon. go here for informations.
we are going to make up some heaven for ya'll

Tristan Egolf R.I.P

2005-11-05T18:15:00.000-08:00

i just got back from Tristan Egolf's memorial service in lancaster, pa.
it was a beautiful Indian Summer day in that cool, little and old city center. it was a perfect fall day.
lots of peeple were there. lots of peeple from almost all areas of Tristan's life and historical trajectory.
i hung with my friends from philly, representing the Friz scene which existed in 'PhilthTown' from 1993 maybe to 1994? i mean the first Friz scene which was centered around the Friz on 13th and walnut above that liquor store next to the Indian joint on the south east corner of walnut and juniper.
the stuff that went down there and was created there and was said there was totally bitchin' usually. on afternoons in Art's stewdio in front of windows open letting the sound of philly in the early 90s wash over us and go thru us. or late nights in the big room hanging out and doing stuff like listening to records or watching something or cooking or watching art cook or simon eat. or talking. always talking about all of the above. or late at night watching bands play and watching the scenesters of the early 90s philly scene do their thing. (i got a big lump on my forehead from a big mug some one threw during kitschchao at the friz.)
i knew Tristan within this millieu.

and i knew and cared about almost nothing else but this millieu for a long time.

within this scene most everyone was committed to living the life.

he was crazy good times and smart. he was determined and fearless. and he was mellow, physical and bouyant.

kitschchao were fierce and tristan was funny and terrifying as their singer.

this afternoon i saw peeple from this era all together in one place for the first time since those times. it was not unlike a show at the friz or a late afternoon lounge out on the Friz's roof, a football field long and wind swept within the caverns of original skyscrapers up walnut, hair always blowing in the sun, or the rare hang out in Big Greg's room. or sitting together talking in the big room or around the 16 track friz recording board. always talking about everything.

but it was way more sad and sedate and brightly lit.

~Eric
here is the cover page of the issue of raw pogo on the scaffold within which i interviewed tristan. and a photo of tristan on the roof of the Friz which illustrates what i mean above, about how it felt to be up on that roof, standing upright in that cool urban space up in the sky with the bank buildings on walnut like a mountain range of finance behind you and philly rooftops ahead.
young.
and warmed by the sun.

a toast to Tristan Egolf from California Literary Review

I'M BACK SLEEPING OR FUCKING OR SOMETHING

2005-10-31T05:27:00.000-08:00

"I'M BACK SLEEPING OR FUCKING OR SOMETHING"
i still love that MOSS ICON song. to the max.
the screamer/freak out parts on the 7" version still send chills up my spine.
i sat in a van a long time ago and talked with Tonie Joy about all this:
"i remember you formosa"

i will end up living in Formosa/Taiwan within the next few years...
walk down craggy trails to beaches. whisper observations to each other, beth and i, on widswept vistas over oceans all around Asia once again. walking around cities and towns from Hainan to Okinawa to Lovina to Laos.

walking around

thee hypnotics ruled

2005-10-25T07:11:00.000-07:00

i loved this band so much for a time that i wore a leather trench coat and tried to kill the pigs. this was before the 80s turned into the 90s. and just a few months after. this was when they were peaking. this was when the Weird Panther Party was forming and hammering out its revolutionary manifesto.

this is one of the greatest revolution jams ever, "earth blues" from the soul trader 12"
the shit still chills......but alas, within a few years they were pretty beat & bad.
art difuria took that picture many many moons ago.

and there's this mp3 of "soul trader" from a 1990 show in philly
up against the wall motherfuckers, indeed

www.easysubculture.8m.com

i am bored and it is night

2005-02-25T16:52:00.000-08:00

i am bored and it is night time in virginville pennsylvania. there is snow outside the window. its quiet and cold. we are about to continue listening to A Confederacy of Dunces read by Arte Johnson. should i smoke another cigarette? look to the hill through the light made by the street lamp? drink coffee? take a shower? check my email? take a picture?start a book? start a blog? relax? i am doing it all right now.....