You Tube Dismay Pt 3

The 3rd in a series of ongoing pieces of research into the despair-inducing phenomenon of You Tube comments by the public. Eventually, the governments of the world are going to take away the democratic vote and the evidence they will give to prove that people are not responsible enough to make informed and intelligent decisions will be the comments found on You Tube. Mark my words.
Anyhow, here is Harvey Milk's lumbering, wonderful, strangely touching but extremely heavy song I Do Not Know How To Live My Life as audio only on the 'Tube:



And, like a morning on the toilet follows any truly excellent night out, here are some choice comments:


cyurisich (2 days ago)
damn, this is some seriously bad music


daltondeuce (1 month ago)
Yup..this sucks...

PunkOutProductions (1 year ago)
Creston Spiers is my best friend's dad her name is Audrey Spiers!

fraublucher (1 year ago)
Their music is fucking PHENOMENAL but the mush-mouth vocals get on my nerves after awhile. I like the guttural screaming it's just that he sounds like he has a speech impediment like Elmer Fudd sometimes.

GlowStormLion (1 year ago)
translating 'getting stoned' into sounds.... blasted!!

orangespear (10 months ago)
harvey milk are the best band that has ever existed period since The Smiths.

easeone2 (7 months ago)
The Smiths are just gay.

stjreid (5 months ago)
not sure how the smiths and harvey milk got compared to one another... the smiths was a europop band that was great during the eighties and Harvey Milk is a current awesome sludge band out of athens georgia... that's like comparing Depeche Mode to Crowbar or something...

Oh well. Watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoYhwHu3mDk and remind yourself why You Tube can be good.

1.47

Get yourself to 1 minute and 47 seconds.

Elvis Print

I did this for my Mum for Xmas. It's Elvis doing Guitar Man with Al Casey's red Hagstrom Viking on the 1968 Comeback Special. I have a handful of test prints of this if anyone would like to buy one. They are a little bigger than A3 in size (approx 31 x 44 cm) and are litho printed onto heavyweight matt-finish paper. They are a little more expensive than my normal gig posters and can be signed if you so desire.

Brokaw / Farina Poster

Kogumaza 7" Artwork

Mock-up of the forthcoming Kogumaza 7" on Low Point for the purposes of checking how the colours fit together. It's transparent red vinyl with (deliberately off-centre so it looks wobbly when it plays) blue labels and it comes in a golden yellow vintage 7" sleeve that we're getting in bulk from the US. Songs are "Sevens" and "Mara" and it'll be out as soon as it all comes back from the manufacturers.
Both songs have just been put up here to listen to as well: www.myspace.com/oogamaza

Felix LP

I keep meaning to post a link to this:



Out now. Buy one whydontyou? Photo-diary of our recent UK tour to follow...

Italian Car Photos

Now showing at Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sumlin/sets/72157623398758364/

Limited Edition "Tiger" Screenprint

My first ever limited edition print is available on pre-order now from I Dress Myself by signing up to their mailing list which will give you first dibs on all their other marvellous print-based goodies. It goes on sale to everyone else on February 11th. It's a seven colour print on 270gsm paper measuring B2 size (50 x 70 cm) and thanks to Pete's patience and skills it looks lovely. The illustration was originally done for a poster for the Get Hustle back in 2007. Here's my page over at the IDM website: http://www.idressmyself.co.uk/shop/artist/chris-summerlin
There are plans afoot for a t-shirt design that will be the ultimate addition to any Fender Jaguar/Jazzmaster fan's wardrobe too. Watch this space...