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A bulletin posted on myspace this morning...
"Hey, just a quick update on what's going on in the Jawbreaker world...
The last bulletin I posted mentioned the Unfun remaster. I am going back down to LA this weekend to do it again. There were “flutters” in that first pass, which is a techie way of saying that gummy leader tape splices between the songs made the beginnings and endings sound like they had been drinking, which is a longwinded way of saying that it was fucked up, though no fault of the Man Himself John Golden. Unfun will be available online through the usual providers and in stores in early 2009 on Blackball Records. Extras will include the 7" mix of Busy and alternate mixes of Want and Fine Day. The CD and LP will be available exclusively at Hot Topic for the first few months of release, and then will go out to the mom and pops. Hot Topic, you ask? I said it. They have been incredibly supportive these past few years, stocking our records and shirts in all of their stores. Jawbreaker swag doesn't make it into a lot of national chains, so I'm happy that it's out there where kids can get to it. They recently added Etc. (the b-sides, singles and out-takes compilation with Kiss the Bottle). So if you happen to live out in the boonies, or your indie store just bit the dust of the download revolution, and you still like having something in your hands to peruse-- they carry our stuff. And while you're at the mall, why not visit Starbucks for a refreshing caffeinated beverage, and perhaps pick up a pair of pleated khaki slacks at the Gap? Ah, that's better...
A lot of the myspace people are asking me about the status of the documentary that Tim Irwin and Keith Schieron (We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen) are making. I'd say they are halfway there. Like I said before, these guys have real jobs (and a new kid-- congrats, Keith!) and are making this movie catch-as-catch-can on their own dime, to mix idioms. We just got copies of the Dear You masters and they are going to interview Rob Cavallo next and have him go through a couple of songs.
Which brings me to sad news. Jerry Finn, our friend who mixed Dear You, passed away last month. I do not feel qualified to eulogize Jerry-- we worked with him all too briefly back in 1995. But our time was intimate, and we kept in touch via email over the years. I considered him a friend and ally. The last time we were in contact I begged him to be in our movie. But Jerry wasn't comfortable patting himself on the back in an on camera interview. I think he was content to let the music do the talking, as it were. That's a smooth character right there. Or maybe he just didn't want to give up any of his studio secrets (I'll divulge one here: to keep morale up, when greeting the still reeling from signing to a major label band, say, "Hey, Little Fighters!" That'll do the trick.) So the next time you hear a song made in the last fifteen years that punches you in the stomach while kissing you on the lips, you have Jerry Finn to thank.
I don’t like to speak for my fellow Jbs.
I‘ll hand it over to Blake and send a Chris update when I hear from him…
A Note/Update from Blake Schwarzenbach:
Because I am bad at speaking about myself but excel at projecting my identity onto others and then destroying them I will be brief. I am currently defending my master’s thesis at Hunter College in Manhattan, making music in an as yet unnamed group, and fighting with words on Facebook (it’s an all ages page, meaning you don’t have to be a ‘friend’ to read it; although I think you do need an account, which is free and relatively non-invasive.
Come on by!)
My thesis is on Percy Bysshe Shelley, who appears to have gotten almost everything right and paid dearly for it. The paper focuses on Shelley’s technique of pushing metaphor until all connection between sign and signified is shattered and either some new truth declares itself or a sublime vacuum opens up and we are confronted with the void. Exciting stuff, I assure you, especially when one considers that he was a fiercely principled Republican (in the 18th century meaning of the term: friend of suffrage and the French Revolution, foe of monarchy and moneyed interests), an atheist, a vegetarian, and a wild-eyed beauty in verse. What’s not to celebrate? Well, as it happens, he was universally ignored, reviled, humiliated or suppressed and died in exile. So, this is what I devote my academic energies to, which brings into even starker relief the historically blind trammeling and dismemberment of the U.S. constitution that has gone on these past eight years.
Musically, and I think maybe I can speak more clearly about this, I feel as though I am emerging from a kind of muted, reflective nuclear winter. It’s awkward to talk about one’s own music since that is what we ask the music to do; so I’ll say only that it meets my own inner-standard of truth. I believe in it enough to overcome my own fear of making it. Hopefully we’ll find a bassist (a woman, over 30, who rides a bike and can resolve any dictionary disputes that might arise between the drummer and myself) and come to a town near you.
Finally, thank you friends and enthusiasts of Jawbreaker. We did this thing for a long time in the dark – as all bands must – and it is gratifying to hear of younger people finding the band and getting it. The goal was always to connect with others and that seems to have happened so I think we can all claim success in that project.
Kind regards,
Blake"
Nice to get a substantial update from the band. Bummer to hear about Jerry Finn, though. A bit on the fence about Jawbreaker merch in Hot Topic, but hey, whatever gets the band we love into the ears of the next generation.
Looking forward to the repressings!
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Correction: I said in the previous post that Unfun would first be available at Hot Topic before going out to the mom and pop stores. This is not the case. Unfun will be released to ALL retail stores at the same time, fair and square. Hot Topic will carry it—they have our other stuff, which is great if you don’t have a mom and pop around and still like to have something in your hand to peruse. Or you can order it through midheaven.com…
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Wow, I can't believe nobody has commented on this yet...board reading must've really dropped off lately...
ANYHOW--quite awesome to get an update from Adam and--gasp--Blake. Can't wait for Unfun and new Blake music and documentary and and and
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Thank you Adam. Can't wait for the next update!
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Stoked.
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A Note/Update from Blake Schwarzenbach:
I’ll say only that it meets my own inner-standard of truth. I believe in it enough to overcome my own fear of making it.
That's good enough for me. Hopefully, we'll know more soon. It'll be nice to have something new after *gulp* almost 6 years - I listen to JB/JTB so much my 2 year old can sing portions of "Boxcar" & "Little Light".
Speaking of JTB, no less than 7 of their songs use the word 'teeth' in the lyrics. Whassup with that, anyway?
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Quote: from DividedByZero on 9:12 am on Oct. 28, 2008
A Note/Update from Blake Schwarzenbach:
I’ll say only that it meets my own inner-standard of truth. I believe in it enough to overcome my own fear of making it.
That's good enough for me. Hopefully, we'll know more soon. It'll be nice to have something new after *gulp* almost 6 years - I listen to JB/JTB so much my 2 year old can sing portions of "Boxcar" & "Little Light".
Speaking of JTB, no less than 7 of their songs use the word 'teeth' in the lyrics. Whassup with that, anyway?
Hah, I actually brought up this very same point several years ago on here. He does the same in Jawbreaker, such as in "Sea Foam Green." They say - in dream interpretation - that dreams of your teeth falling out, or getting damaged in any way or such are subconscious expressions of your anxiety over your self-image, or how others perceive you. Or, that you're possibly afraid of failing at something or anxious over a new period of your life (transitions and the like.)
Here's a pretty good rundown.
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I dunno, most of my teeth dreams probably stem from how I broke two of mine off at the gumline when I was a young'un, and how I'm still picking fragments of my wisdom teeth out nearly 5 years after the fact.
Teeth lyrics resonate particularly fierce with me.
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Quote: from friendly fire on 10:11 pm on Oct. 28, 2008
I dunno, most of my teeth dreams probably stem from how I broke two of mine off at the gumline when I was a young'un, and how I'm still picking fragments of my wisdom teeth out nearly 5 years after the fact.
Teeth lyrics resonate particularly fierce with me.
Likewise. I haven't had the best luck with teeth in my lifetime (thus far.) Some interpretations also mention that dreams of losing teeth (in one way or another,) are potentially about losing something precious and valuable to you. Which makes sense, regardless of whether you take it metaphorically or literally.
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DividedByZero
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All the teeth-in-dreams things are valid, I've also heard in men, it can symbolize anxiety stemming from fear of castration, or corruption -
Although Schwarzenbach's lyrical references to teeth don't seem to be tied to the conscious or subconscious id, or even losing teeth. More times than not, the lyric implies or actually says 'your teeth' addressing a lover, or confidante.
Pretty sure it's a veiled reference to manbearpig. I'm serial.
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