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Lance's Interests
General
Whatever, y'know?
Music
Albert Ayler, Bikini Kill, Black Flag, Buzzcocks, Ornette Coleman, Crass, Crucifix, Dillinger Four, Bill Dixon, Eric Dolphy, The Ex, Flux of Pink Indians, Huggy Bear, Husker Du, Charles Mingus, Minor Threat, Minutemen, Mission of Burma, The Mob, PiL, The Pop Group, Rites of Spring, SPK, Archie Shepp, Stiff Little Fingers, Television, Velvet Underground, Vomit Launch, The Who, Wire, Zounds
Movies
Land and Freedom, Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Diary of a Chambermaid, Man Who Left His Will On Film, Cruel Story of Youth, Dim Sum, Chan is Missing, Legend of Rita, Nada, Contempt, First Name: Carmen, L'Avventura, The Passenger, Accatonne!, Salo, If..., Billy Liar, My Twentieth Century, Terminal USA, Panic In Needle Park
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Television
Freaks and Geeks, Sports Night, The Office, Adam and Joe Show, Extras, Undeclared, Arrested Development, Peep Show...
Books
Revolution of Everyday Life (Vaneigem), Society of the Spectacle (Debord), Simulations (Baudrillard), Ecstacy of Communication (Baudrillard), Mutual Aid (Kropotkin), Les Fleurs Du Mal (Baudelaire), Paris Spleen (Baudelaire), Terror or Love? (Baumann, City of Quartz (Davis), Ecology of Fear (Davis), Most Art Sucks (Gleason), Senseless Acts of Beauty (McKay), The Bonnot Gang (Parry), Cinema, Censorship and the State (Oshima), As Serious As Your Life (Wilmer), Durruti: The People Armed (Paz), Out of Place: A Memoir (Said), Will You Please Be Quiet? (Carver), What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (Carver), Bad Behaviour (Gaitskill), Kinski Uncut (Kinski)
Chaminade University Of Honolulu
Honolulu, HI
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: None
Major: Music
Minor: Still Hating College
Clubs: Too busy starting hardcore punk scene...
1986 to 1986
University Of Hawaii At Manoa
Honolulu, HI
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: None
Major: Journalism
Minor: Hating College
Clubs: Too busy setting up anti-Apartheid shanty town...
1985 to 1985
The Kamehameha Schools
Honolulu, HI
Graduated: 1985
Student status: Alumni
Clubs: Ka Moi, Quill and Scroll, Hui Mele, Video Journalism
About me: ..
Band. Zine. Label. Shitty job. Not necessarily in that order...
I'm so sick of thinking about music. Being in a band and putting out records has sort of made all music sort of less than important to me. Here's what I've been listening to lately: Les Savy Fav, Archers of Loaf, Eric Dolphy, Bill Dixon, the Raspberries...
I'm sick of watching movies. I've been working at one video store or another for almost a decade now. Recently I've watched "True Stories" (my favorite Texas movie), "The Bridge" (even suicide makes me miss San Francisco), "Elephant" (the Alan Clarke film), "Live Forever" (because I'll watch just about any music documentary) and "Stolen" (because I guess I'll really watch any documentary).
I keep reading though I don't like half of it. I've read a couple of Chuck Klosterman things which were fun, though I don't agree with half of it. Peter Biskind's "Down And Dirty Pictures" is great if not just to drag Miramax and Sundance through the mud. "Stories From The City of God" by Pasolini was great.
Angst, and bitter resentment drive me to create works that not a single idot will ever come close to grasping. Ah, the raw and unforgiving statements that bleed from my soul are so misunderstood.
You scored as Spike. You scored as Spike. You feel like you're misunderstood. When you care for others, it's deeper than they'll ever know. Though no one thinks you'll change/pull through, you'll show them.
This week I lost another amazing friend. He was too young to go... as you were. When someone said to me that we should leave work early to get icecream, I lost it. The last you and I spoke we were going to leave work early and get icecream, and talk about you missing Liberty and not talk about pain and discomfort. Today I left work early and got ice cream, in memory of you and my newly passed friend Chris. Hugs honey. Liberty, my sincere energy your way.
Talked to Stephen Egerton on Sunday. We talked about ALL possibly recording a new albulm. Turns out, were both good friends with Chris Gobo, of Sinkhole, Doc Hopper, and The Groucho Marxists. I'm sending my first band on my label, to Armstrong Studios. So it looks like Garage Sale Records is born. I know one olast times we talked, you said you were working on Cringer's Greatest Hits Volume 2. Liberty told me, that one of your friends, was going to make sure it gets put out. It's just not the same without you, we miss you.
PLS LOOK AT AGE RESTRICTIONS!!!GET YOUR TICKETS NOW!!!
Aug. 14th- Oakland, CA- The Stork Club-----21+ Aug. 15th- Lancaster, CA- Lucky's Lounge-----21+ Aug. 16th- Las Vegas, NV- Beauty Bar-----21+ Aug. 17th- Los Angeles, CA-The Airliner-----18+ Aug. 19th- Chicago, IL- The Buzzbomb Club-----18+ Aug. 20th- Denver, CO- Climax Lounge- ALL AGES Aug. 22nd- San Antonio, TX - Rock Bottom Club----- 21+ Aug. 23rd- Houston, TX - Numbers Night Club----- ALL AGES
Just thought I would let you know I'm thinking about you... guess I really miss you... I love that I can still hear your laugh whenever I think about you...
just thinking of you, like always. this summer would have been our ninth year...
while i was walking through whole paycheck this evening, they were playing eighties songs, the go-gos, the cars, the pretenders. you would have known the name of each song off the top of your head, as you always did, no matter the genre of music...
when i walked out of the store, my chin was up, but tears were flowing down my face.
what advice do you have for younger punks? were there things you did that affected their health that you regret now? how has not having health insurance affected your life?
it would also be good to hear from the queer community about the difficulty of getting health insurance because domestic partnerships aren't recognized in most of the country.
how have people dealt with this? how has this affected your lives?
discussion could extend to common issues of diy punk concern such as the industrialization of food sourcing, lack of resources alloted to preventive care, urban design and transportation, mental health, etc., that are intimately connected to health.
this is in no way meant to be a comprehensive list, but rather some ideas to start discussion. you can contribute in whatever form you feel comfortable with: telling a personal experience, interviewing someone with an interesting perspective, a rant, essay/informational piece, cartoon, letter...
anyways, please do contribute! i know many, many of you have faced these issues in various ways.
best,
liberty
Fight the low self-esteem that says you're not worth taking care of -- this is most definitely also the enemy!
mrr punks & health special issue: July 1 deadline *please contribute!*
mrr has kindly agreed to do a special issue on health and punks! it's partially to commemorate lance, as he was such a part of MRR for two decades, but discussion will focus on a wide range of health issues faced by the now-aging punk community.
so many people in the punk community were so good to lance (and to me) throughout all of his health difficulties, and i've been thinking a lot about how we could repay you/them in some small way. i thought it might be good to raise discussion of the particular health issues in this (now aging) community and what we can do to help each other.
it just kills me that if, ten years ago, lance had had a yearly physical he could have gotten his blood pressure under control and none of this would have happened... of course, as a musician, he hadn't had a physical since he was eighteen or so. the community is losing too many good people far too young.
possible topics:
a wide range of discussion from people who have some professional training (doctors, nurses, emts, therapists, social workers, dieticians, etc.) who may not be currently active in the underground music scene, but who have some understanding of health, how the body works, medicine, and the issues particular to the community: the physical stresses of touring for many years on the body, no access to preventive care, no health insurance, low self-esteem, risk taking, insomnia, vegetarian/vegan diets, body image issues, drug/alcohol issues, dislike of competitive sports for exercise, and so on...
resources that you know of: there's probably a good bit of knowledge, advice, and resources hidden away out there that could help a lot of people
it would be tremendously powerful to hear from older punks: what health issues are you now facing (arthritis in the hands from guitar-playing? deafness? other things?) what advice do you have for younger punks? were there things you
