I stumbled across this record when I was browsing at Amoeba looking for Rites of Spring albums, I was far beyond pleased. One Last Wish; a brief history via wikipedia - was a short-lived post-hardcore band from Washington, D.C. It was formed in May 1986 by members of Rites of Spring, and split up in January 1987.
Amidst the breakup of Rites of Spring in 1986, three of its four members - Picciotto, Janney and Canty - went on to form a new band after picking up Michael Hampton, former guitarist ofThe Faith and Embrace. With the name One Last Wish the band began playing shows in August 1986, which were mostly in the D.C. area and included a series of benefit shows. Their sole recording was done in November 1986 at Inner Ear Studios in Arlington, VA. It was engineered by Don Zientara and produced by Ian MacKaye. After the dissolution of the band, both Canty and Picciotto would join MacKaye in the band Fugazi. One Last Wish broke up shortly after mixing was completed, and as a result the album was not released until 13 years later in November 1999, on MacKaye's Dischord Records label; Dischord had decided against the release in light of their growing reputation as a label of defunct bands. Prior to this release of this record, titled 1986, only one single, "Burning in the Undertow", had been released, having been on the Dischord benefit sampler "State of the Union" (April 1989). After the band's breakup, Picciotto, Janney and Canty would reunite with Michael Fellows of Rites of Spring, taking on the new name Happy Go Licky. Hampton would go on to form the band Manifesto.
I did absolutely nothing today and yet I accomplished so much. I arose around 4pm and finished The Taking of Pellum with my pal Shayne. Travolta drops "motherfucker" twenty to thirty times minimal. But this is really about the movie we watched right after; Visioneers starring your boy, Zach Galifianakis. Basically in this reality people don't dream, everyone flips each other the bird, and people exploding is a serious epidemic, I mean come on, their job titles are words like "TUNT" or "GOOB". This vision of society is actually quite accurate to how this world is and will become, its hardly a satire and more a glimpse into our dismal future. Every scene is aesthetically pleasing and I immediately related to Zach's character George who see's the nothingness that is our existence.
WELCOME TO THE JEFFERS CORPORATION The Jeffers Corporation is the largest and friendliest and most profitable corporation in the history of all mankind.As part of our ongoing effort to improve productivity, we have authorized the release of this film as a method of recruiting new TUNTS into our ranks.- Mr. Jeffers
Synopsis: First time feature filmmaker Jared Drake makes his directorial debut with this quirky black comedy set in the near future, and concerning a curious spike in cases of spontaneous human combustion. The Jeffers Corporation is the largest business in the history of mankind, and they got that way thanks to their strict philosophy of happiness through mindless productivity. But when people begin literally exploding due to unhappiness, Jeffers Corporation Level Three TUNT George Washington Winsterhammerman (Zach Galifianakis) begins to fear that his time will come sooner rather than later.
George lives a comfortable yet completely uneventful life, and when he starts having dreams in which he’s the first President of the United States, his doctor informs him that they could be signs of impending explosion. Later, as the dreams become more frequent and his co-workers continue to detonate, George is prompted to reevaluate his mundane existence. Judy Greer, Missi Pyle, and James LeGros co-star in an existential black comedy featuring music by Tim DeLaughter of the Polyphonic Spree.
~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide, www.visioneersthemovie.com
Check this band out, Boyfriends, they deserve your time. They sound quite similar to 1994 but that shouldn't be a surprise considering Boyfriends is composed of Mike and Chris, also members of 1994 and the other two members Matt and Bean, Bean in which does not speak english. These guys are definately a band to keep an eye out for, keep checking their myspace for updates for recordings and shows near you (and hopefully me). I wish I had funding and a location to set up a northern California music festival so I can fly or drive out the bands that have trouble making it out here, especially our friends overseas! But I won't go on and on about all the bands I wish I could see. Boyfriends Myspace
I've been meaning to mention this band for a while now so please direct your attention towards Boys and Sex, embodying members of Boy Problems, Snowing, Cassilis, and Make Me this PA based trio takes me back to a time when things mattered and things seemed much simpler, pretty much the better part of the 90's. Beautiful melodies, fast, passionate vocals, and even the lyrics have a simplicity to them that only further reminds me of how things used to be. Describing music with words has never computed for me, it just seems redundant. I have little faith in words.
Coincidentally Boys and Sex and Boyfriends are putting out a 7inch together in which they are sharing, not splitting. Here's what one of them had to say when asked about their Spring 2010 "share" rather then "split" 7inch they replied, "...you are wrong. it is not a split. we are sharing it. we are one. together. the term "split" conjures up feelings of adversity; something we do not wish to strive for. this is a celebration of our communion of work as not only two bands, but seven friends coming together as one. seven people whom share thoughts and ideas together. we are merely on separate sides of a record, my friend, and that is as far apart as we'll ever be...get into it. and buy that shit when it comes out. "
My life started lending itself to photography a few years ago and so I've since manufactured myself into these pictures. I found myself in me the night of Brandon's funeral, but I'd give it back if he was somehow still here with us. So if you know who's running heaven these days, tell them I'm ready and willing to negotiate-- I want my faith in humanity back.
If I could go back in time to when I thought shit was sad, I'd punch myself straight in the fucking face because it gets worse man. It gets much much worse, and the sooner we realize that, the sooner we can start dying.
does ditching teenage fantasies mean ditching all my dreams? ∞
So today I installed Ableton 8 and after some oil and frustration I was able to get my midi controller basically set up. I only played around for maybe 30 minutes due to the fact I spent the entire night dedicated to installation and setup. Once I found a little something I liked I wanted to record but of course there's complications with recording that I'd much rather not go into further detail about. Ableton Live is hard software to just try and pick up and learn, butt fuck it...Here's a ghetto ass recording of the first little jam. Its "live" I suppose, I couldn't figure out half the things in Ableton so I opened up virtual dj for the beat, played the keys through Ableton Live, and recorded it all blasting out of my speakers with the microphone on my laptop in Garageband. The end trails off into some random Dirtyloud song in case you were wondering. Feedback and criticism please me. "Able" Download This morning I opened my eyes to nothing and from that came this... another live recording of my second attempt of messing with ableton live. "90's Movies" Download I suppose I'll also put up two other tracks I fucked up. One is a Underoath remix and the other is just funny. "Under Mix" Download "Pathetic" Download Here's me wishing I knew a drummer... "Everyone" Download "Everything" Download Lastly, two old demos, if you can even call them that... "Out my Window" Download "Double Take" Download
I can't stop grinding my teeth telling myself, "this isn't happening..."
To the left is the insert that was inside the Failures LP (Charles Bronson, Das Oath, and Holy Molar's Mark Mcoy's most recent project) I purchased a few weeks ago. I deem what the he explains to be important and valid information that is necessary to understand in order to help more properly comprehend how we view the world. That out of the way and this being the first but unofficial post I'll try and explain what we are going to try and accomplish with this blog; nothing. We will be sharing our photos, art, short stories, poetry, music, news and our views and commentary on the landscapes in which we live and people that inhabit it. I should go off on some whimsical poetic rant about how I miss the past or how things used to be but honestly, I've grown tired of looking backward, it makes moving forward much too difficult.
So today I installed Ableton 8 and after some oil and frustration I was able to get my midi controller basically set up. I only played around for maybe 30 minutes due to the fact I spent the entire night dedicated to installation and setup. Once I found a little something I liked I wanted to record but of course there's complications with recording that I'd much rather not go into further detail about. Ableton Live is hard software to just try and pick up and learn, butt fuck it...Here's a ghetto ass recording of the first little jam. Its "live" I suppose, I couldn't figure out half the things in Ableton so I opened up virtual dj for the beat, played the keys through Ableton Live, and recorded it all blasting out of my speakers with the microphone on my laptop in Garageband. The end trails off into some random Dirtyloud song in case you were wondering. Feedback and criticism please me.
