Detail from Family Stoned flyer by Stephen Sharrett. Spring 2013.

Defaceman J Card for Flying Tapes by Stephen Sharrett. Spring 2015. www.flyingtapes.bandcamp.com

the San Onofre Lizards. Fall 2013. Photo courtesy of Stephanie Lemeiux.

Flyer for Feel Young show. 3/25/15 

JCard for the San Onofre Lizards and Flying Tapes. www.flyingtapes.bandcamp.com

JCard for Feel Young and Flying Tapes. www.flyingtapes.bandcamp.com

J card for FAMILY STONED and Flying Tapes.  www.flyingtapes.bandcamp.com

To have that sense of one’s intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference. If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with us, so little perception as to remain blind to our fatal weaknesses. On the other, we are pecularily in thrall to everyone we see, curiously determined to live out—since our self-image is untenable—their false notions of us. We flatter ourselves by thinking this compulsion to please others an attractive trait: a gist for imaginative empathy, evidence of our willingness to give. Of course I will play Francesca to your Paolo, Helen Keller to anyone’s Annie Sullivan: no expectation is too misplaced, no role too ludicrous. At the mercy of those we cannot but hold in contempt, we play roles doomed to failure before they are begun, each defeat generating fresh despair at the urgency of divining and meeting the next demand made upon us.

Joan Didion, “On Self-Respect” (1961)

Sick.

Tape release show. 

Come on out!

Family Stoned "Rituals" Live at the Lost Horse Saloon in Marfa, TX 2013. Video by Howard Nuggler.

the Family Stoned - "River's Edge"

This band rules.

Destruction Unit performing Night Loner for Vice / Noisey / Newtown Radio off the upcoming Deep Trip album.

http://noisey.vice.com/blog/the-newtown-sessions-destruction-unit

River's Edge recorded by Capt. Tripps Ballsington in Olympia, WA @ High Command 2013. Music by the Family Stoned. Shot in Portland, OR 2013. 

so stoked.