I'M READING AT OXFORD UK APRIL 9TH

Oxford was dubbed 'The City of Dreaming Spires' by poet mathew arnold...

and so i'm extremely chuffed to be invited to read some bits from WE WON'T BE HERE FOREVER during the Editions Of You exhibit at O3 Gallery in Oxford Castle, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England in a week. because the original Future Recordings hand made hardback edition is so excellent looking. i'll be reading and john from the pretty great SLEEPS IN OYSTERS and ray of DIASONIC fame will be doing a one-off improv collaboration as the live-jam soundtrack. MINUS PILOTS couldnt make it but this will still be good. can you come to oxford? please come!
the exhibiton looks pretty rad too. it opened this past saturay. lots of cool stuff to look at, including the WE HAVE HEAVEN record that's just out on Caesar Cuts and EASY. my cover design that was silk screened so well by chris reject is displayed for all to see (and for sale for all to buy. so is the soft cover EASY edition of my book).
here's yr schedule if you can make it: CLICK HERE

after hanging out in oxford & london, beth and i are gonna take the eurostar to paris and visit james and kara, 2 kutztown chums who are currently living the life in the City of Light, gawd bless their fortunate heads. i'm gonna read at Culture Rapide again. i'm gonna read a few really 'pa dutch country' pieces for theyre enjoyment, because maybe they miss the way the soft hills look and the sound the peepers make now that its almost spring for real.

this is also like a big serious landmark commemorative trip for us too. it will be 20 years since beth and i started hanging out. 20 years since beth's birthday party on pine st that we split from with out anyone knowing and took off to the atlantic ocean...20 years, wtf. i cant believe how fast time flies. from 10th & pine and all over philly to tokyo to NYC to virginville to oxford, to london, to paris and so many far off spots in between, total All City Lovers. (for the next 20 years and 20 after that gawd willing.)
life rules 4 lyfe 4 evz

WE HAVE HEAVEN Feel The Power LP

OUT SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON
(like in 5 days)
we wanna play some release shows. how about in a downlow yoga studio?

i designed that rad looking mehndi-handed cover
chris reject at xLVANx is screening them, i screened the labels, CAESAR CUTS is putting it out,
you will be able to get one from them soon.
we support the People Power movement in Egypt and for all people!!!
because they are being reasonable by demanding the impossible. and getting it!

2011 IS GONNA RULE

its a new year and there are some new things coming...

this is a photo by jared stimpfel who recorded WE HAVE HEAVEN for a grateful dead tribute compilation on Nice Pooper 'zine's label. click on it! he's a rad dude and a seriously great drummer (for SECRET CUTTER who are great as well)

the WE HAVE HEAVEN album on the CAESAR CUTS label will be released shortly. its a serious jammer with 2 epics over 10 mins each, and 2 jammy almost pop ditties that are much shorter. chris giordani of SOARS recorded it in 2 sessions; one featuring rachel lambdin's psychedelic violin and the other featuring renee uzzardi's classical vedic tabla that she studies half the year in Varnasi, India. the whole thing will trance you out. go to CAESAR CUTS soon for buying infos...
and of course, THE EASY SUBCULT will be selling them too.

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2011 should also see the release of art books on AMERICAN TYPE:WRITER Press by 3 of today's brightest subcultural stars and legendary heads; BROTHER JT of the original sins and the creatures fame, ERIK BRUNETTI of FUCT fame, and BRIAN PLEBANI of Fractured Seconds fame. look for these graphically inspiring and mentally head warping books to drop before summer.
and of course you can still get TULIP HAS A ROOM by Jon Vance of MOSS ICON fame. its a great collection of writing by another legendary head.
and get my book too if you havent yet!

TULIP HAS A ROOM by jon vance

jon's book TULIP HAS A ROOM is at the printer now.
american type:writer No. 020
if you ever heard MOSS ICON or had the extreme fortune to have seen them, then you know jon was a total madman with the lyrics. the oddest, coolest lyrics back then (1988 especially, considering how dire and ridiculous most of the hardcore scene was during that year).
i'm extremely chuffed to get to put this out. 70+ pages of words and cabalistic illustrations, by a guy who's survived since then and is still kicking now, as mysterioso as ever. so just like back then, readers will be left thinking 'what is up with this guy?'
order it now at EASY / AMTYPEWRITER

oh yeah, you know whats up with him? he's supposedly a direct descendant of Edgar Allan Poe. haunted........

just watch this old MOSS ICON jam and dig the words. an 18-19 year old hardcore kid was thinking all that? wtf...

PARIS TO BARCELONA (on the hipstamatic)

i flew to Paris to meet Beth and read some of my words at Culture Rapide. Beth had been travelling for 3 weeks already by this point. we had a flat up on the top floor or an old joint in the 1st arrondisement.
we tripped out allover the city, from belleville to bastille (where we hooked up with Bimbo Tower and discovered the awesome FAREWELL POETRY); from montmartre to the sorbonne, like all city lovers.
i love Paris.

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we booked south to Rennes le Chateau, the little tiny mountaintop village of mysteries in the Languedoc, and checked out the sacred geography and the holy mountain of Bugarach as well as the history of the Cathars and the fucking papist crusaders who killed them off & gouged out their eyes & burned them alive. but obviously, though in secret, that gnostic religion still survives to this day, and from the tops of magically arranged mountains its still a holy place....

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Collioure is a pretty little port town on the Mediterranean, where the pyrennees tumble into the sea, just above the border with Spain; where fauvism was invented, because of the fantastic light, colors and wind....

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we snuck into spain. and the locals said 'catalunya is not spain!'
but one thing was certain: Barcelona rules. i could live out the rest of my life living between Paris and Barcelona and the geography in between. and making wads of cash....

we were so sad to leave.............

WE WONT BE HERE AUGUST 28

WE WONT BE HERE FOREVER but i will be in philly on august 28th reading from that book of mine at brickbat books with DRAGON TURTLE and FURSAXA and ZILLIONS, so i'm hoping that you would make it and i was happy that you could.

AMERICAN TYPEWRITER

i am american. my type is writer.
WE WONT BE HERE FOREVER (my book) is sold out from Future Recordings but is now out and for sale on the cheapo new AM.TYPE:WRITER / EASY SUBCULT shopping site.
i'm reading from it on saturday august 28th at brickbat books. my good friends from the poconos and brooklyn DRAGON TURTLE will be jamming behind me and supplying the soundtrack to the ether.

next project out soon on AM.TYPE:WRITER is TULIP HAS A ROOM the first book by none other than Jonathan Vance who was of course the amazing lyricist madman behind MOSS ICON, one of the greatest bands ever in the entire 50 year history of rock music.
you know that band right? you'll want to pre-order Vance's book for sure.

this is a photo of jon vance:
the site isnt so happening looking yet but it will be. lots of old obscure easy releases are going to get rereleased and lots of shirt designs are gonna be produced in the studio after our travels are all done so sit tight my friendly patrons.

go HERE to buy some stuff. thanks.

VIRGINVILLE 2010

WE WON'T BE HERE FOREVER is almost OUT.

the Easy / AM.TYPE:WRITER soft cover editions of We Won't Be Here Forever arrived yesterday. actually they arrived during the week but we were living in philly for work; but since virginville is such a cool little chill place and our friends wayne and jen can go and pick up our mail at the tiny post office, they brought the big old box of them down to slingluff gallery in fishtown for me because we were supposed to meet up there on thursday but we never did because we had to work 12 hour days on different sets and locations for this robert di niro, bradley cooper movie we're both working on which is going to be sooooo amazing.

someone said we wont be here forever was 'like richard brautigan + phillip k dick'.
i want the story to be like mark e smith + zecharia sitchen + goethe's Truth and Fantasy From My Life. you decide.

once i package the MINUS PILOTS CD soundtrack with the books, perhaps employing a colour obi or 2 inch band around the book i'm not quite sure, they will be for sale to my friendly patrons. email easysubculture@gmail for further instructions. one day i'll have a shopping site at easysubculture.com and it will be easier than ever.


i'm not sure when the colour edition of the book on the Future Recordings label will be available, but go there for buying info on that edition. they will be sure to look rad. and future recordings is a very cool label.

WE WON'T BE HERE FOREVER

out soon on The FUTURE RECORDINGS label, the hard cover version of WE WON'T BE HERE FOREVER , packaged with a CD soundtrack by MINUS PILOTS from England. We Won't Be Here Forever is a long short story or a short novella written by me in Virginville and Philly in the last half of 2009. the illustrations are by me as well. and beth added watercolours over them. hope you will both buy it as well as dig it.
There will be a soft cover edition on EASY SUBCULT / AMERICAN TYPE.WRITER too eventually. those will be a little bit cheaper of course, and will also come with the MINUS PILOTS thing.
but the first edition ones on Future Recordings will look amazing so get that one if you can. and there will be a book release somethingsomething in philly this spring too. i'll keep you posted. i like keeping you posted....

go here: http://futurerecordings.bigcartel.com

WELCOME TO PHOTO DUMP 2010

2010 is all's abouts outside so far.

VIRGINVILLE FILM FEST 09 DVDs ARE HERE

the DVD comp of films from this year's VIRGINVILLE FILM FEST have arrived at easy HQ and are ready for you to buy! just in time for you to give as christmas presents. relive the greatest moments from the 2009 virginville film festival in the comfort, safety and warmth of yr own home during the holiday season. films included are by the following filmmakers and all of their films are great: mike shellito, paul meatsquat dworakivsky, burt dodge, wayne miller, the oakenors, kristi robbins, james ravelle, simon nagle, eric de jesus, dave keller, bryce katzman, james jewell, mary jo rosania, shemp, james antonson, dan leathersich, andrew and brett amey and last but not least, dionne lennon. all the commercials by the VVFF's sponsors are included too. get stoked. get nostalgic for summer evenings on the farm watching films under the stars as the threat of rain causes everyone to bite their nails off!
each DVD is $10 post paid or $5 if you can stop by & get one of us in person. you may paypal the $10 to
VIRGINVILLEFILMFEST @ GMAIL . COM
we ship the same day. how's that for service? and by all means, get in touch for the 2010 film fest! make a film, contribute to the community, or just come and hang out and loll around in the grass while watching everyone's films!

go here for more info on the festival.

TRISTAN EGOLF R.I.P

i came across my old blog while googling for criticism of Tristan Egolf's last book KORNWOLF. i'd totally forgotten i was writing that little blog 4 years ago. but i was chuffed to remember the below post. i wrote it immediately after getting home from Tristan's memorial. its so fuct to think of how early he took his own life. could he have been one of those authors with 10 or 20 more novels in him? or hundreds more stories? we'll never know. his oeuvre consists of just 3 novels and a messy, sad ending.

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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 a kitschchao show 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.
we were friends and co-conspirators.
kitschchao were fierce and tristan was funny and terrifying as their singer.
i did the cover of their 7".

this afternoon i saw peeple from this ancient 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 early 20 century skyscrapers up walnut street, hair always blowing in the sun; or the rare hang out in Big Greg's room. or sitting together drinking & talking in the big room or around the 16 track recording board. always talking about everything.

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

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click the below for part of an interview we did when he was in KITSCHCHAO. man, how messy those times were...

check out DTO, which is the band Tristan was singing with when he decided to call quits on life. they feature Jason from KITSCHCHAO. theyre pretty excellent. Jason owns Trinity Framing in philly. give them yr business.
Dave from KITSCHCHAO runs the KC myspace. go listen to the jams by clicking here.
the last time i saw those 2 ex-KC dudes was at Tristan's memorial. how are you guys doing?

and check out KITSCHCHAO's 'peter stumpe' 7" on compuliv. thats song is the first manifestation of tristan's kornwolf compulsion. he had its since childhood. i did the cover. that was so long ago now...

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).