In the most recent updates of my webcomic, VEGABOND, the 3 protagonists have all customized their personal ID clips. Each one gives a little window into who they are, or at least who they WANT to be. Check it out at VegabondNexus.com !

etho and joel are going to be the WORST people to be around this season bc theyre both very. "lol wouldnt it be funny" about everything. like in 3l etho and joel launched MISSILES AT THE CRASTLE FOR FUN and now theyre teamed for the whole season. they live next to the pillager outpost so they can lure them to other people. they keep stealing peoples food because joel kills every animal he sees. etho died in ll because he didnt use his shield while fighting joel and now every time joel gets hurt etho yells SHIELD! SHIELD! its about the parallels its about the fact theyre both enablers and insane and are going to kill so many people

Day 13

(Inspired by this)

SPOILERS [MYSTERIOUS CALL RAY ROUTE]

Every time I get this mysterious call while I'm on the Ray route (day 7), it makes my heart hurt for Saeyoung. When he interrupted the call, he was attempting to sound as calm as possible, telling us not to believe in phone call pishing and telling MC not to worry too much about the situation. It got to the point where he made a joke about it, but when he suddenly apologised for putting MC in fear because of him, I couldn't help but break down and cry. 😭😭

Since he doesn't want his father to catch him, let alone letting him to harm Saeran, he is exerting his full effort to conceal themselves in the deepest part of the void. He is working under a great pressure due to the hacker that has been harassing him by attacking RFA messenger, and it is even worse for him because he is unaware that Saeran was the one behind this. Both the agency that is always pressuring him and the fact that he have to investigate his father's past are contributing factors. The fact that he is able to keep his cool despite the weight of everything resting on his shoulders is so impressive that I couldn't help but feel sorry for him.

Saeyoung...💔💔💔

1/24/24.

I'd never even heard of Wild Carnation (New Jersey) until Record Store Day 2023 when Delmore Recording Society reissued "Tricycle". I'm not totally sure what series of events brought me to these "Superbus" demos, but the lack of a physical release took me to Discogs when I found that "Superbus" was Wild Carnation's 2nd release - 12 years after "Tricycle". It has been reissued by Pine Hill Records.

Like many other Feelies related side projects, the Feelies DNA is unmistakable. Brenda Sauter was associated with not only The Feelies, but Speed the Plough and The Trypes. Those sensibilities are brought to this release as well.

According to the Bandcamp page, Wild Carnation shared the stage with The Bats, Luna and Moe Tucker among others.

the line "you do things champagne could never do" (from Other Pleasures, Michael Crawford) is amusing me bc I feel like I'm on champagne right now except I'm really really not you know I haven't drunk anything except hot chocolate and water and last I checked this doesn't have brandy in it. or champagne either xD

Now that I think about it I've had some very odd dates, but I think nothing tops that gorgeous, absolutely lovely guy who invited me lunch and then explained to me all the ways you can slaughter a cow.

Wild Carnation — Tricycle (Delmore)

“The Rising Tide” buzzes in on a breezy blast of distortion, its guitar lines flaring into droning dissonance, the drums crisp and minimal, the bass a subtle through-line in a deliriously murky roar. The sound filters Velvet Underground fuzz through the jangling exuberance of early R.E.M., and except for its fluttering, trebly vocals it could easily put you in mind of the Feelies. No coincidence there.

Indeed, Wild Carnation was one of an interlocking circuit of New Jersey bands that shared members—and a certain buzzy, drone-y, jangly aesthetic—with the Feelies. It formed around 1992, after the Feelies first hiatus and included Feelies bassist Brenda Sauter, her husband Rich Barnes and drummer Chris O’Donovan. (In terms of intricate interconnections, Sauter and Barnes already played together in Trypes, and they were also in Speed the Plough.)

This Record Store Day release collects the original songs from Wild Carnation’s first album, demo versions of seven of these 12 tracks and what looks like the entirety of a 1997 live gig in Hamburg, Germany. Thirty-one cuts in all, it provides a sweeping view of Wild Carnation’s early incarnation (there was another album called Superbus, some 12 years after the first). If the band was overlooked before, it is fully represented now.

And really, that’s a good thing, because there’s not a single dud on Tricycle. From the noise-addled propulsion of “The Rising Tide�� straight through to the folk-picked intimacy of “Shaker Tune,” the main album cuts are uniformly engaging, and you get to hear them more than once, in various iterations.

For example, “Susquehanna 142,” a nod to the trains that crisscross Garden State sets up a hazy, mesh of intersecting guitar picking and lilting vocal descants. If you like that, and how could you not, the compilation provides additional context in the form of a barer, folkier demo and a pensive live version that brings out the tune’s dreamy side. Later, “The Lights are On (but No One’s Home)” blares and buzzes with feedback, a dirty crust under its careening, multi-voiced harmonies. A live performance brings the main melodic line to the front, emphasizing its hooky, poppy side and submerging the roar of amps.

The live cuts also provide a peek into Wild Carnation’s influences, with covers of Patti Smith, Neil Young and the sister band Speed the Plough. Barnes challenges the audience to name the band that wrote one of the most obscure covers, offering a free CD to anyone who gets it right. The CD goes unclaimed because even among the most ardent German audience, no one besides the band is very familiar with The Grass Roots. The song — “Wait a Million Years” — fits pretty neatly into Wild Carnation’s aesthetic, though, with sharp, power pop guitar licks, bashing rhythms and a melody that is both triumphant and minor-key melancholy.

You could certainly approach Tricycle as a Feelies side project, noting its similarities and thinking a lot about whether the music is better or worse. But this extended reissue argues for considering Wild Carnation on its terms, with stronger folk roots and careening, often thrilling vocal parts. Delmore will be putting out a similar package around Superbus in the fall, and even if it’s as long as this one, it seems like a pity that there wasn’t more.

Jennifer Kelly

trype is the character of all time. she's like, smh shallow bitches only value me for my extreme levels of fuckability. well i am vert smart too. i have replaced my blood with coolant. and then you look at her and she looks like this

The Trypes - Live at Maxwell's 1984

I'm doing something fairly extravagant next month — extravagant for me, anyway. I'm flying out to the east coast to see the Feelies! And not just the Feelies. Opening up the Jersey City show on Nov. 18 is none other than the Willies, the Feelies side-project I wrote a huge piece on for Maggot Brain earlier this year. Amazing, I can't wait.

But wait we must! In the meantime, let's dig into a recent piece of archival treasure from the Feelies family tree — the Trypes! This newly unearthed audience tape of the band at Maxwell's is an essential follow-up to this year's Music For Neighbors reissue, an audio verité document of the band at its live peak. Beautiful, unique stuff. Nothing else really sounds like the Trypes, with keyboards, e-bows, percussion, woodwinds and chanted vocals sending you into a Garden State reverie. The whole thing closes with a glorious "Here Come The Warm Jets" sing-along, so you know you want it.

I think this whole playlist could be of interest to some of y'all...? seen @aquariumdrunkard's most-recent "bandcamping"

bbeeing ttirdd is so messed dup. wwhat do you mean my brain jsut stop cooperatinf after a certain point kf eepiness. gensrs fucked up ☹️

making patch pants lmao

The TRYPES

"Music for Neighbors"

(LP. Pravda rcds. 2022 / rec. 1984) [US]

I forgot for a hot minute my dad calls me "Little Sister" and I know it's form the bioshock games....

But not my lost boys ass immediately playing the "Cry Little Sister" song in my head.

6/22/23.

Lewsberg (Rotterdam) is one of my favorite bands from Netherlands (the other is Bingo Trappers). Lewsberg grooves like Mo Tucker and strums like Lou Reed. And yes, I know that means they can remind a listener of the Velvet Underground. By extension that means they also recall The Feelies, The Trypes or Speed the Plough.

A couple of years back I bought the excellent "Six Hills" 7" released by Speedy Wunderground. Now we have this two song cassette containing 2 alternate versions of songs that will appear on the soon-to-be-released LP "Out & About".

This cassette looks to be self-released. If interested, check out another great Rotterdam band, Kwartet Niek Hilkmann.