Witch Haus Zine Release Party! with Golden Hour / Globelamp / Appendixes @ Mother Foucault’s Bookshop (9/19)

By Cameron Crowell // Co-Editor

I have never booked a show before — something I most certainly downplayed while attempting to put together last Saturday’s show at Mother Foucault’s Bookshop with three of my favorite local bands, Globelamp, Golden Hour, and Appendixes. Is that unethical? Maybe a little bit, but I think there was a greater good I was striving for in that I love all of these musicians very much and I think that other people do too. I didn’t go in completely blind, and did some researching (shouts out to Neil Campau’s zine Building: A DIY Guide to Creating Spaces, Hosting Events and Fostering Radical Communities). Also to be noted, book learning is very important to us all, so having the show in the fantastic bookshop space that is Mother Foucault’s made last Saturday truly special for at least me. Craig, I know you’re not into the whole internet thing, but I wish to send you my gratitude for being so great for local writers, musicians, artists, and readers of Dostoyevsky alike. And of course a big thank you to my partner/co-editor/love for helping me put everything together, run the door, and keep me sane while I perpetually freaked out.

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by Fiona Woodman // Contributing Writer

the roof of my mouth is sore

from rubbing my tongue against it

sampling words before rejecting most

they loll around my brain

crouch at the back of my throat

and lay slack and shrinking, unwilling to be heard

coaxing them out usually requires

someone else to step inside

close the door behind them and sit very still

let the silence hang unpunctured

until after some time these words start to slide

down the tip of my tongue and fall out

and if i wait a few seconds

it’s too late to stuff them back in

they have to remain there, masticated and bare

but solid and mine

some proof of something inside

this muddled mass of muscle and bone

Skip & Paula’s Bruising with Surreality: Paula’s last house party

By Cameron Crowell // Co-Editor

This is a poetry column I am currently working on about a couple trying to travel by train through a non-linear world. On some days the sun sets and on others it rises. Sometimes they talk in places and with bodies and others times they float. I don’t have an order of how to read these in mind. Think of them more like poetry-comic-strips.

Road Trippin’

Isn’t it odd that

Every road trip has a

Boring,

Nothing to see here,

Road?

Dismal,

Not even migrant crops,

Just

A gold and gray part?

Waves of blah, blah, blah.

For days…

It doesn’t matter how much gas

is in the tank,

or how much you “can’t wait” to get THERE.

It’s long.

Slow.

Barren.

Consuming, to the mind and soul.

My energy is drained,

eyes strained.

I want a light snooze.

But,

the monotony and the rhythm of the

pea souped Econline

brings me back to 5 years

and the extended I5.

I’m going to be sick!

My stomach is rebellious!

I focus on the

LOVE that’s to come.

And, what I long for…

LA to Shaver.

Shaver to LA.

What awaits me,

On the other end?

JC, 08/15

Loser Boyfriend / Helens / Dowager @ Smart Collective (8/28)

Jordan Rasmussen // Contributor

Nathan (Nat-dog Tucky-tuck) and Collin Kritz (expert advice giver) of Loser Boyfriend rockin & rollin’ at a show that wasn’t written about.

[All photos taken from the band’s Facebook. It was dark sorry!]

On what seemed like the first overcast day in Portland all summer, four bands and their friends hung out at Smart Collective and things got pretty emotional pretty quickly. Unfortunately, I was 45 minutes late and missed the opener Radler, but I did manage to hear some pretty sweet tunes on a humid Friday night, and then get tacos after the show (shout-out to Bar Carlo).

Album Premiere: Super Projection EP

Cameron Crowell // Co-Editor

This is our first time doing one of these music blog-y things (watch out Noisey!). Anyways, we are super excited to premiere this beautiful little 6-song EP I, Still… by Seattle sad-pop grunge band Super Projection that is an upcoming release by our friends at Good Cheer Records. Super Projection is the musical project of Seattle DIY mainstay Keith Comeau. This EP unfolds like a walk through an old creepy attic where each eerie guitar riff is a box of nostalgic mystery that could be anything from a board game that has Robin Williams trapped inside, a treasure map of Astoria, or just some once-cherished family photo album of your great-great grandparents that your Mom says is priceless but the guy at the pawn shop says otherwise so you get a “free” extra-large pizza out of it. Give the entire EP a listen below!

https://soundcloud.com/good-cheer-records/sets/super-projection/s-etCfK

Skip & Paula’s Bruising with Surreality: Skip and Paula discuss leaving this shit hole

Cameron Crowell // Co-Editor

This is a poetry column I am currently working on about a couple trying to travel by train through a non-linear world. On some days the sun sets and on others it rises. Sometimes they talk in places and with bodies and others times they float. I don’t have an order of how to read these in mind. Think of them more like poetry-comic-strips.