Stepping Out

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Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive to Death "The Dirty Street" from Some Of Us Are In This Together (Don't Stop Believin', 2011). Video by Clyde Peterson. Triumph of Lethargy plays tomorrow night at the Rendezvous in Seattle with Blood Red Dancers and John Atkins (764-HERO, The Can't See, etc.)

Image of the Day

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Beautiful cover art for Some of Us are In This Together, the excellent new album by Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive to Death – out this week on Don't Stop Believin' Records. (Stream it here.) It's available on CD or gatefold 2LP, which comes with an insert with lyrics and drawings by Ashleigh Rauen, a print of a painting by Spencer Moody, and a 3" round embroidered patch.

More Obscure Sunshine

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For whatever reason, the Arch-M video I posted above reminded me of the video for Triumph of Lethargy's "Sincerely, L. Cohen," which I used to watch in Brooklyn when we were thinking about moving back to Seattle.

Tonight & Tomorrow Night:

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Grin and Bear It : )

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Tonight as part of the Seattle International Film Festival, Los Angeles band No Age is performing an original live score to L'Ours (The Bear), a 1989 film by Jean-Jacques Annaud. Take that, Grizzly Bear.
From siff.net:

When a rockslide kills a mother bear, her cub Douce becomes an orphan in the threatening Canadian Rockies. Luckily, she encounters Bart, a full-grown male bear on the run from hunters after mauling their pack animals. Though the ill-tempered Bart initially rejects Douce’s companionship, the cub wins his affection by licking Bart’s gunshot wounds. Psychedelic mushroom trips and a rendezvous with Doc (the effeminate male bear who plays Bart’s love interest) are woodland fun at its finest, but the invasive fear of being hunted drives The Bear forward. Staged with trained bears and filmed in the Italian Dolomites, Jean-Jacques Annaud’s film seems like realism in drag as documentary. Yet it’s this feeling that makes The Bear a magical discovery and a welcome departure from the ordinary wildlife exposé.
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As Douce and Bart sift through the maladies and joys of their precarious existence, so too does No Age’s music filter raw sensation through art-punk chaos.

I like bears, I like the Canadian Rockies, I like mushrooms, I like art. I like punk, I tell you what. I like that stuff. I'm not sure about the chaos, it's complicated.

No Age Every Artist Needs a Tragedy mp3

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Triumph of Lethargy also playing tonight, at The Mix in Georgetown (info here)

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Loud good times

Whiskey in the Van

New Triumph of Lethargy video:



"RC & Whiskey" from the new 5-song EP Old Jail (Order it from Luckyhorse Industries)

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Behind the Green Door

Some photos from last night's show at the Green Room:

Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive to Death

Past Lives


Top five shows of 2008 in no particular order:
-Past Lives/Triumph of Lethargy at the Green Room
-Laura Veirs at Union Hall
-Cave Singers at Union Hall
-Fleet Foxes at Bowery Ballroom
-Hello, Blue Roses at Glasslands

Present Life, Past Lives

Some miscellany for Monday as I'm juggling a ton of stuff this week.

The other day Emily and I took a walk through the woods in Seward Park, one of several Olmstead-designed parks on Lake Washington.

It's kind of crazy having an old-growth forest in the middle of Seattle – it feels really remote in parts. The other day I was there (just me) and this song came up on shuffle, which was weird and cool and added to the mood:

Grand Hallway Seward Park mp3 (More info at The Stranger.)

It is rare and memorable when shuffle gets something right.

Saturday we walked along the waterfront on a path that goes north out of downtown Seattle.

There's a big grain elevator there and this ship from Panama was unloading its haul, while another waited at anchor in Elliott Bay.

Sometimes even just looking at boats feels like vacation. After that we went to Lowell's in the market and had some clams and Manny's.

Later that night we went to The Anne Bonny and caught the opening of Bald Man Art, a new exhibition by Ezra Dickenson, while enjoying some refreshing beverages with gallerist and proprietor Spencer Moody. I recommend stopping by soon and often – it's a great show and the Anne B has a never-ending collection of interesting things going on.


Tonight Spencer's band Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive To Death is playing at the Showbox. Here's a video for their song "Demolition Man."


Triumph of Lethargy is playing with Past Lives. I meant to post about the record release party for the new Past Lives EP several weeks ago, and not just because it had one of the cooler flyers I've seen recently:

Past Lives is destined for greatness – check out some samples on their MySpace page, pick up the EP now at Suicide Squeeze, and head over to their website for more info.

And I think that pretty much brings us up to speed for the moment….