Sorry for the lack of news. Things were incredibly hectic while I was getting ready to go to Europe and I have been away from the internet for a few days. I was in Amsterdam for a few days visiting Lucas, Diana, Sarah, Lodevijk, Dorein, Jan-Erik, and others. It was a surprise to run into Jan-Erik who was in town from Copenhagen to play some shows with the spirit that guides us. I am in France for a couple of days and have been enjoying some nice food. I’ll post more details about my trip soon. In the meantime, Will and Matthew are doing great work taking over mail order, so don’t worry about your orders arriving. The Unwed Sailor : Magic Hedge 7″ is available for order, though copies are going quickly until more arrive from Switzerland. The Unwed Sailor/Toboggan split 7″ is also available on-line, but won’t ship until they arrive from Switzerland. I’ve added a few more titles to the btv store. There are a few items ready for Christmastime, including a White Stripes Christmas 7″, the Pedro the Lion Christmas 7″, and the Low Christmas cd. Go see Denison play in December. Full dates and information…
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This has been a busy weekend. Johnathon from Unwed Sailor flew back from London via Philadelphia and managed to stay here for a few days before resuming the flight to Seattle. So, Friday night, we met up with our friends in Me Without You who played at the Northstar Bar. I skipped out during part of the show to go see Appleseed Cast, who were thoroughly impressive as they faithfully rendered the lush beauty from their Low Level Owl records. Definite worth seeing. The evening ended with a crowd of us in South Philly getting cheesesteaks/cheese fries and us getting home at about 4am or so. Saturday, Johnathon and I met up with a book printer to discuss a limited edition version of The Marionette and The Music Box. It’s too early to unveil any definitive plans, yet. Later in the evening, we met up with Tom/Steph/Joel/Sarah and some other of their friends for a quick dinner and ventured into the city to see more people in South Philly. On Sunday, we made it to see Harry Potter later in the very rainy day before hanging out with more people in the city. I haven’t seen the first Harry Potter…
I am listening to some old cassettes that a friend leant me because I couldn’t find my copies. I mean who listens to cassettes anyways. Anyhow, the cassettes in question are bits and pieces of old material from the early Casa Recordings, where Damien Jurado and his friend Eben Haase would make cassette recordings over old tapes and sell them for a few bucks. I’m listening to Lo-Life #1, material from Damien himself. Go look over the old discography at the Damien Jurado website and bask in your failure at being a true fan, myself included. I also just found the Maremont Upstairs master that is Damien with a female singer, three songs that were going to be a 7″ like four years ago [It’s also not on the discography, but it exists, I swear.], but never happened. This all will be remedied to some extent. At some point, in the next three months/three years, there will be a limited vinyl only re-issue of the greatest/interesting hits of this material on btv. This is an unofficial statement that I can withdraw at any point due to failure for the actual release to materialize. Why is this happening? Because Damien wants…