the singer and secret city
In the early 1990s, fortune smiled when I crossed paths with talented photographer Jason Langer... The alt-rock project that was Myself...
until the hatchet is buried
Liner notes from the limited edition vinyl release of Jeff Bright & the Sunshine Boys – Kill off the Night, releasing March 2022
everybody, let's twitch!
Liner notes and information about The Pleasures Pale and their 4-song Twitch EP, releasing in January 2022.
on instant karma cannot get me
For some human expressions there is no divine time, no appointment with the zeitgeist, no cozy alignment with destiny. Most acquiesce to...
satisfaction, I can't get no
Rock-and-roll music, what is it? From what urge does it emerge? From where did it come? By now, nearly three-quarters of a century past...
suffering the sadist
Growing up introverted and of slight stature, I had my share of childhood encounters with malicious intimidation, perpetually on the...
house of pale
In the fall of 1985 The Pleasures Pale were forming — meeting, writing and recording songs in the house I was renting on Marcella Avenue...
skinny arms ache to hold you
In the middle of 1991, shortly after Darke County re-ID'd into Myself a Living Torch, now-Harlan Bobo, Chris Green, Christopher Fisher...
the curious case of myself a living torch
Somewhere around 1990 or 1991 we got woke.* That is, sometime in the early 1990’s, guitarist Eric Schulz (aka Harlan T Bobo), bassist...
a train track rusted
“A smokestack grey is laughter in the rain / A train track rusted won't carry me away” Dayton's post-industrial ghost haunted my early...
