I sat next to John Hodgman on the subway tonight! On the G train, not exactly known as the transport of the stars.
I usually can hardly recognize people that I know in real life, much less famous people, while walking around, and I only recognized John Hodgman because he was heavily annotating a copy of That Is All and the book jacket picture was right there for comparison purposes.
Heather Christle tears it up on the poetsorg.tumblr today. Givin’ e.e. cummings new dinosaur life. Happy National Poetry Month!
<3 Jenny
A++ would LOL again.
(Source: poetsorg)
We’ll make this brief, because it hurts too much.
During the first year of Air France, somewhere in the middle of the last decade, everything seemed to come so easily. At least it feels like that right now. We’d meet on friday nights to drink wine, listen to music and picture ourselves far off, somewhere on the outskirts on the big map Henrik had on his wall. The songs we made during those nights weren’t really supposed to ever leave the hard drive, but somehow they did, and somehow they took us to almost all the places on that big map we had dreamt about. We got to play records at the Rough Trade store in London, we went to the Red Square, we woke up on Iceland during a volcanic eruption, we drank beer at the cliffs of the Niagara, we spent a night in a freezing staircase in Warzaw (otherwise a fantastic weekend), we saw dolphins in the waters of LA, we got a smile from Larry David as he passed us on a street in Paris, watching us trying to open a bottle of wine, we played records for 4 hours under a blistering July sun in New York, we spent a day in the most beautiful spa in Budapest, we’ve heard our nervous voices on radio and TV, we’ve played records after two sold out Saint Etienne shows (but to be honest, only a handful stayed behind to see us), we’ve written a song together with our idol Clare Grogan (although we did managed to botch it) and we got sampled by Lil B. But it’s the little moments that has been the most dear to our hearts, like the days and nights in Brackenbury Village that we spent in our manager’s back yard with his wonderful wife and sons, who made us feel like part of the family, or being drunk on airplanes, just the two of us, and all the people we’ve been fortunate enough to get to know, if only for a night.
And we have probably produced 7 albums since No Way Down; a UK Garage record, a house record, an r ‘n’ b record… but we’ve never been able to finish anything, nothing was ever good enough. We have tried so hard, and we truly gave it all we had. And now we have decided to stop trying, even though it breaks our hearts. But for all the reasons mentioned above, and for a thousand more, we don’t regret a thing.
We wish we could thank all the people who has helped and inspired us, but we’d probably forget to mention half of you, so here’s just a big thank you to those who were involved in the making of the record: Teresa and Kajsa for singing so beautifully, Angelica of Body Language for lending her voice to a song that would have been called “I always think about you when I’m drunk”, our patron Kevin Campbell who helped us in giving this record one last chance (there are no words that can describe just how grateful we are), our Eric of Sincerely Yours, our manager David Laurie, our publisher XL, Joe for running our facebook page.
And much love to Rich Thane, families and girlfriends, sister Hanna, Henning Fürst, Marc Hogan, all of you who sent us letters, all of you who stuck around to watch us play, and all of you who opened your homes and hearts and cars and took us to water falls, big squares, beaches, record stores, monuments, valleys, mountains and zoos.
Goodbye for now. Who knows, maybe we’ll see you again in another shape. After all, we’re people that never stop dreaming.
Henrik and Joel
Gothenburg
Sad news! I have to admire their willingness to only put out the best work. *puts No Way Down on repeat*
The Ramones in the Regis and Kathy Lee show, 1988. HAPPY FRIDAY!
Attention: username gfoss
It’s like being surrounded by NY Times commenters.
COMET M’fing GAIN, Burning Hearts, Seapony, &c.
Frumpies cover band setlist from Death by Audio’s 4th Annual Anti-Valentine’s-Day Riot Grrrl Cover Bands Show. Other bands covered were mika miko, spitboy, discount, X, hole, heavens to betsy, and babes in toyland. I hope all the ladies (and a few gents) that played tonight are in non-cover bands as well because everything about this evening was so inspiring. The girl who took the Corin Tucker role in H2B did a particularly ace job with “Axemen.”
Huggy Bear - “My Best Kiss”
from the Main Squeeze 7-inch
This thing made me think of this thing a bit, no?
Wow. Please read this.
Wow, this is disheartening. I thought I could at least trust the serious pieces in Glamour, Elle, et. al. to be accurate (I suppose because I assumed there was no reason to make up, say, quotes from breast cancer survivors) but I guess there’s always a percentage for someone in obfuscation.
