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Cough Cough Cough

Jason Cooley — Wed, 23 Apr 2003 17:18:27 +0000

Fucking sick again. This sucks. You know how it is, no need to explain.

May is going to be a busy month around here. Finishing up the School Bus ”Blue Button” CD, mixing some Kochalka tracks, finishing up the Kochalka album, preparing for the very first School Bus live performance (May 17, w/ Swale at Radio Bean), Kochalka gig opening for Mike Watt (May 3, Higher Ground), tooth extraction (May 16), and finally, picking up Led LO/CO at the airport (always a fun job) and driving them to their marathon gigs at Red Square (May 9) and Nectar’s (May 24).

James Kochalka depicts me in his comics as a dog with a robot brain. When we went to Oklahoma last year (which has become the subject of a tune on ”Blue Button”) we were presented by a girlie named Heather Peanut with sculptures of our characters. Thanks, Heather.

bloody wrist

Jason Cooley — Sun, 30 Mar 2003 00:51:43 +0000

So
Last night, screaming my head off, banging on the bass guitar, getting the usual bloody right wrist.
Next morning, waiting on a bunch of 12 year old girls, forgetting about my ugly bloody wrist. One of them saw it and went ”EEEWWWWWW!”

ReadyMade

Jason Cooley — Thu, 13 Mar 2003 00:05:07 +0000

Some girl sent this letter in to ReadyMade magazine:

“The day after my 25th birthday I walked into Nectar’s, the local bar-slash-diner, where there is usually a band and it is usually shitty. But on this night, people that I only barely knew in town-people who give me a special “I’ve got a crush on a rock star” thrill if they remember my name-these people were onstage and in the audience, and they were wearing wigs and smashing guitars and playing Led Zeppelin. And while the air was thick with Camel Lights smoked by domestic-beer-drinking-rockers, I found that I could take a full breath for the first time in what felt like weeks.

ReadyMade is like that night, like the moment Jason Cooley sang, “You need Cooley/Baby I’m not foolin’/I’m gonna send you/Back to Cooley.” Your magazine speaks to people who live in cramped spaces they don’t own and work jobs that aren’t necessarily what they want to do forever. Your 88 pages show that it can all be art, subversive or apparent, simple or complex-the whole day can be fun from start to finish, even if all you do is take five minutes to arrange a “suggestive” display (using yesterday’s produce) for your coworker to find the next day.”

Kelly Horan
Burlington, Vermont

Thanks, Kelly!