illicitizen miscellanea

May 31

did-you-kno:

Source

as well he should be. Those huas are the stuff of legends.

did-you-kno:

Source

as well he should be. Those huas are the stuff of legends.

May 26

You May Know Them From…

2nd Coming from doombilly on 8tracks.

Public Image Ltd (Sex Pistols)

Fred Schneider (B-52s)

The Three Johns (Mekons)

Striplight (Mekons)

Carbon Silicon (The Clash, B.A.D., Generation X, Sigue Sigue Sputnik)

Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros (The Clash)

The Creatures (Siouxsie & the Banshees)

Brian Eno & John Cale (Roxy Music, Velvet Underground)

50 Foot Wave (Throwing Muses)

Jello Biafra & Mojo Nixon (Dead Kennedys, Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper)

Marc Riley With The Creepers (The Fall)

Pete Shelley (The Buzzcocks)

Belly (Throwing Muses)

Silver Jews (Pavement)

Bootsy Collins (James Brown, Parliament, Funkadelic)

Robert Pollard (Guided by Voices)

Jay Bennett (Wilco)

Tobin Sprout (Guided by Voices)

John Doe (X)

Ol’ Dirty Bastard (Wu Tang Clan)

Von Südenfed (The Fall, Mouse on Mars)

Shelley-Devoto (Buzzcocks, Magazine)

Steve Diggle (Buzzcocks)

Dim Stars (Richard Hell & the Voidoids, The Heartbreakers, Sonic Youth, Television)

Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth)

Wah! Heat (*The Spitfire Boys, Crucial Three)

Bryan Ferry (Roxy Music)

801 (Roxy Music)

May 23

and you can hear these too right here

There is not a lot of Illicitizen news. We are still putting the finishing touches on “Feathers and Wax.” We have a buuuunch of exciting shows coming up in June

May 20

Top Artists Played Around Here This Week

May 16

seanbonner:

wilwheaton:

theawl:

skidder:

AdWeek requires you to share certain stories in order to finish reading them. Why would I want to share something I can’t read? And is there anything more desperate a publisher can do? Gross.

I want to talk to the evil stupid-genius that invented this.

Fuck everything about this.

This is bullshit, and just continues to support my decision to leave Facebook.
blog.seanbonner.com/2012/04/15/on-leaving-facebook/

Meh, the barn door is closing. Run!

seanbonner:

wilwheaton:

theawl:

skidder:

AdWeek requires you to share certain stories in order to finish reading them. Why would I want to share something I can’t read? And is there anything more desperate a publisher can do? Gross.

I want to talk to the evil stupid-genius that invented this.

Fuck everything about this.

This is bullshit, and just continues to support my decision to leave Facebook.

blog.seanbonner.com/2012/04/15/on-leaving-facebook/

Meh, the barn door is closing. Run!

May 14

David Byrne is 60 today

Milestones: David Byrne is 60 today — watch full Talking Heads concert filmed in 1980 

May 13

a straw man in a felt hat

He was a pedantic government technocrat

a felt hat on a straw man making an argument with himself

he was the kind of guy who had access to all your passwords

but you’d never give them to him voluntarily

the hypocrisy could tie him in knots

it would leave him out of breath and in cold sweat

the worst part  he was a  open book

he had no secrets, no fetishes, no master plan

he simply wanted to travel through the next day

plying twisted logic to determine what was and was not his job

he clung to arcane rules that had expired prior to the last reorganization

at some point he realized, he did not have a wife in new york

he was not working on a new album due out this summer

he was never going to be a Top Chef, he would always remain bottom 

shelf

he would always remain bottom 

shelf

he simply wanted to travel through the next day

still clinging to ideology left behind by politicians

who never intended to be taken seriously

he fell down and that was as close to standing up

as he was ever going to get

he simply wanted to travel through the next day

forced into the idolatry of other people’s fantasies

he soon realized he had never been alive

and from the lab results returned in the mail

it was clear that he would surely never die

this gave him pause

he simply wanted to travel through the next day

a broken turning signal a bro  ken turn ing sig nal 

abrok en turni ng signal a broken turning signal

on

he hurried into the office to make believe

one more time that this parking deck was a reality.

he simply wanted to travel through the next day

May 11

I know I posted this everywhere yesterday…somehow I missed Tumblr. Anyway, this will be the cover of the 2nd Illicitizen CD “Feathers and Wax.” Photo is by Mike Caffrey of Monster Island Studios. He tracked, mixed and mastered our CD. We hope to release it mid-July. Location information.

I know I posted this everywhere yesterday…somehow I missed Tumblr. Anyway, this will be the cover of the 2nd Illicitizen CD “Feathers and Wax.” Photo is by Mike Caffrey of Monster Island Studios. He tracked, mixed and mastered our CD. We hope to release it mid-July. Location information.

May 08

Bigots

[Bessie] Smith also felt no fear when it came to confronting the racism so prevalent in the South.  Once, when performing a tent show in  [Kannapolis, NC], members of the Ku Klux Klan, in full Klan regalia, surrounded the tent, threatening to pull it down and trap everyone inside. Smith stormed out and confronted them, shouting, “You had better pick up them sheets and run!”  The men took to their heels. Smith went back to performing, as if confronting the KKK were all in a day’s work.

Apr 21

MariaUpdate #11

If you’ve been following along you are already aware that in late February Illicitizen went to NYC to record our 2nd CD “Feathers and Wax.” Things don’t always go as planned, but you can either set on the curb and wait for the bring-out-your-dead man to come and haul you away or, feel like going for a walk

We decided that we feel happy and were not quite ready to submit to this situational malaise. 

Maria goes back to the Dr, Monday. Hopefully they’ll be taking that thing out of her arm.

Feathers and Wax is mixed. The cover photo shoot in the traffic of the Flat Iron district went really well. We’re deciding on the order of songs, and then the mastering and duplication have to get done. 

I think we are still on track for our June release and if not then, soon after. If you are going out for Record Store Day, why not warm up that plastic money with a trip to iTunes? Buy an mp3 and help support Illicitizen as we battle to get this 2nd record completed. For you traditional CD purchasers, you can get a physical copy here.