last week the candle factory burned down. everyone just stood around and sang, ‘happy birthday.’ -steven wright

birthdays are the absolute worst.  like halloween, all this expectation leading up to the event, worsened by the dizzying ring of family & a couple of friends, hovering around, emotionally poking the fuck out of you “so what do you want to dooooooooooooooooooooooooooo?”
see because unlike halloween—when the witching hour strikes & the miracle 24 [...]

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TONIGHT!!!!!

9:00 (show starts PROMPTLY @ 9:30–NO BS y’all!!!)
@ FUSE, chapel hill.  next to nightlight.
desark w/
pygmy Lush
old growth
12Xu
ghastly city sleep
this is our last show of tour w/ghastly & pygmy lush.  it’s been a beautiful thing.  i hope you can come out to support this show.  i’m leaving for some trip somewhere to somehow go do something, [...]

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updated venue info for tour!

finally.  god i’m lazy.  check out the “tour” page!  email desark [at] gmail [dot] com with any questions i will not be able to answer!

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“you know the problem with the human body? not enough middle fingers.” -newsom

i’m thinking i will start a charity for those inclined to donate their cold hard cash to something utterly unrighteous.  for instance, my personal transportation needs.
my car is a dead.  well, technically it still runs, but the important thing to know is that i have to get a new car.  and as much as i [...]

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RICHMOND SHOW

i left for what was supposed to be a 4 day end-of-summer trip, but the trip just kept on tripping, and the impending cold just kept on colding, and suddenly it’s been three weeks and it’s winter, and it’s raining all the time now, and still all i got is this borrowed bag stuffed with [...]

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new song! “which of you assholes ate christmas!”

never open christmas on somebody’s advent calendar if it’s only december 3rd, i don’t care how drunk you are. it’s a dick move.
here’s a new one featuring Chris & Johnny from Pygmy Lush, from the farmhouse show in Ashburn VA a few weeks back, on the beautiful outdoor stage Mike built, captured by Janelle’s [...]

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THE GAINESVILLE FEST…”what’s the deal y’all???!!???”

i thought our Fest show was on Halloween, so before it got moved to Friday (<–deets coming soon, promise!) we took it upon ourselves to document the painstaking process of finding the perfect costumes.  thanks Blacksburg, yr a fun/cheap date.  anyway, whatever, we’re not playing on Halloween anymore, which is fine, except i sort of [...]

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HARVEST CELEBRATION SUNDAY

from pygmy lush (please email us for more info!):
HARVEST CELEBRATION w/PYGMYLUSH AIMEE (DES ARK) and LIZA KATE
hello friends.
we wanted to invite folks to a nice quiet early evening celebration of the new autumn this sunday sept 27th with our friends and amazing muscians aimee argote and liza kate.
the gathering is at our home out [...]

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HOLY [raw] CRAP BEST SHOW EVER!

if you know me, then you know that “going on tour” is synonymous with “tour of food.” the grand canyon is beautiful, it’s true, but i was just wondering, you know, if they got any raw food restaurants around there…?
anyway, 2 days ago my mom & i decided to have a two-day raw food [...]

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if you hate me right now…

…because you paid for a blank CD, let me know and we can work it out! or just be mad, and watch as yr anger manifests into some kind of nasty chronic disease later in life.

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