SLEEP WALKING IN MY DREAMS

its true, i'd been doing that. every night. its hypnotic. so i started taking photos while walking around inside my dreams.

"i know i'm talking in my sleep. and sleeping in my dreams. i'm dreaming on my feet. i don't know what it means." ~RAIN PARADE

(download the emergency third rail power trip LP right now)

MARBLE SHEEP, MAGIC & SUPER FRIEND POWERS ACTIVATE

what a beautiful week.
it started below the fairie hill in virginville.

jenny's dogs were pulled toward it by the magikal powers.

on friday, the big show at secret art space.
first WHH concocted psychedelic sound sculptures.

marble sheep from tokyo, on their first ever trip to the usa,
completely sent everyone into an eyes-closed, goa style trance of total liberation

they had tons of captain trip products you never see in the USA.
"green = psychedelic long tunes"

the next night it was north 4th st, just above girard ave in philly.
it was linda's birthday weekend.

afterwards it was another party for linda at the RUBA.
it was a very very late night.

and in the brilliant light of the following morning
it's obvious linda will have a good year.

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and thanks to Radio23, you can jam out to the whole marble sheep show in bethlehem forever!
heres the link (scroll down a bit).

NIGHT OF STAYING PSYCHEDELIC & O'HARA

i can't believe THE MARBLE SHEEP AND THE RUN DOWN SUN'S CHILDREN are coming all the way from tokyo to bethlehem, pennsylvania but i shouldnt be too surprised because bethlehem and the whole lehigh valley have always been pretty happening with underground shows; going all the way back to the sikedelic 60's.
it's going to be the night to stay psychedelic all the way until daybreak.
i love this tokyo band like no other tokyo band; and i could legitimately say that one listen to andy perseponko's copy of Whirl Live was 50% of the reason beth and i moved to tokyo. (25% was MAINLINER's mellow-out record.) (and the other 25% was called "philadelphia in the late 90s".) from their monolithic early stoned out 80s jammers thru their 90s grateful dead fixation to their present psychedelic speed freak-outs, i love it all. all that long, inky, black japanese hippy hair flowing like sea weed out of an old Hokusai print. its probably not as long anymore, and maybe a little gray, but still, its all beautiful, transcendental jams.
also playing is FURSAXA, WE HAVE HEAVEN and PLASTICCRIMEWAVE SOUND. november 6th at secret art space is going to be so awesome!

watch this amazing version of 'rain'

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yesterday i hit Saucony Books in good old kutztown and scored this whole box of John O'Hara works, fresh from some deceased collector's shelves i can only assume. all first editions / first printings too.
i am very stoked to grow my own O'Hara collection so much in one day.

F U C T

a slide i took of jon ajax skating at the Trench with my dad's ziess ikon 35mm in 1983 is now the front side of a tee designed by erik brunetti of FUCT.

erik was probably at the Trench when i took this. everyone used to hang out there. every lehigh valley punker would make his or her way to that spot along route 378 in bethlehem to hang out and meet up and skate and screw around. brian plebani (MFC, etc) took a zillion skate photos there and one of his is emblazoned across a black 100% cotton FUCT shirt too. its rad that brunetti is immortalizing that idyllic, innocent and ancient LVHC scene on the new FUCT 'streetwear'. check out brian's blog with his old photo here. he was another of the OG LV punkers, another of the many oldhead locals that i hope are living well and healthy and happy forever and ever....

WHH . GOODNIGHT STARS GOODNIGHT AIR . ART DIFURIA

off south st on a saturday night.
noise noise noise and melodies.

ART DIFURIA solo set with guitars like the air pushed out from beneath the wings of a million white winged moths.

GOODNIGHT STARS GOODNIGHT AIR doing his thing. could be harsh sheets of white noise and could be beauty washes like air over mountaintops. hopefully both together.

WE HAVE HEAVEN noise, guitars, taped spoken voice, tabla and loops. with just a pair of flabby wings...

september 26th at brickbat

http://brickbatbooks.blogspot.com/

GROOVY TIMES ARE HERE AGAIN

they discovered one black saturday the mobs don't march they run, they run.

but you can excuse the nervous trigger man just this once for jumpin' the gun.

DARK CIRCLES from the LV at JB's one night last week. they are really really good in a semi-rural creeped out Broadcast kind of way. kyle page's drumming is excellent with brianna edwards's awesome hush loop vocal breaths

groovy times groovy times

PHOTOHUT BREADMACHINE for 9/8/09

BREADMACHINE is a free noiser band from the Lehigh Valley of PA. they were around and active awhile ago but disappeared. but now, like spirits compelled to return from the afterlife, they are back.

WELCOME TO PHOTOHUT 3 Women

Jackie and Dave's wedding was sweet. it was nice to attend ~ and to see these three women together for a few days too. they've known each other for 20 years and are still buds. i've known them as this triumverate for nearly that long and theyre still cool together. its like The Witches of Eastwick or something out of Macbeth, right?

i asked her to do this

WELCOME TO PHOTO HUT for 09/02/09

OUTSTANDING IN THE FIELD came by the farm (Eckerton Hill Farm) again yesterday. what a good time.

heres what we all scarfed down, under the setting september sun:
Eckerton Hill tomatoes with capers & croutons made from breads by 14 Acre Farm; followed by cuvee chardonay by Pinnacle Ridge Vineyard, followed by halibut with an okra pesto (made from Eckerton Hill basil); followed by some chamburcin by Pinnacle Ridge, which got all the meat eaters salivating for a whole lamb raised right over the hill from Eckerton. then some more wine (Pinnacle Ridge pinot noir). then a desert of berries from Eckerton and peaches from Scholl Orchard. the presiding chef was Dave Pasternak from Esca.
super good times. and the best way to eat. i mean, outside on a nice evening on a farm field from which all the ingredients come....

stoked for next year's already.

WELCOME TO PHOTO HUTon 08/31/09

night time is the right time

to pull all the dimes from yr pocket

nighttime's the right time

to climb on the rocket

nighttime's the right time
to pull your shoulder out of its socket

nighttime's the right time
to learn a new language

-will oldham

RISE ABOVE RISE ABOVE

'be more than a witness' ~ Flipside fanzine....
making fanzines was a big part of my life for years and years. writing and then laying-out the printed word will always be a part of my life. the whole self-publish, DIY, 'do what thou wilt' aesthetic of rising above and being yourself and being alive, it hasn't stopped yet. some of my old fanzines are part of a show that opens this friday aug. 7th at home and planet gallery on the southside of bethlehem, pennsylvania...
"We Are All In This Together: Zines For Subcultural Solidarity" A show curated by Hannae Pavlick

some very limited edition boxsets of RAW POGO ON THE SCAFFOLD will be available for purchase by every epicurean art collecting patron. and 3 giant raw pogo covers will be mounted on one of the walls. the opening is from 7pm to 10. the show runs all month.

and i will also have some of the boxsets for sale at the big LEHIGH VALLEY PUNKER REUNION in emmaus park on saturday aug. 8th. if you were one of the weirdo crazy downtrodden punker kids in the 80s you'll know how funny and great this could be. like getting revenge after 25 years ('and you won't know what hit you') ('we're tired of being screwed')

COUNTRY / CITY SUMMER NEVER EVER END

wheat in light in our northern liberties crash pad. he passed away gently at the height of the summer. he lived to be 87 years old. i wonder if any of us will ever beat that...

eckerton hill farm, virginville. about to be swallowed by a summer storm.

summer 09, never ever end.