Phil Elverum
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OK, it's way past time for me to leave this website.
If anyone wants to keep getting updates about what I'm up to, here is my newsletter for you to subscribe to:
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100 Gecs should go on tour with Neil Young and Crazy Horse as the opener and they should play a potluck at a rural community grange hall. I’d love to go to that show.
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“Oh you’re a musician?”
“Yeah I’m actually the guitarist in Little Peep”
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So far the only pro-streaming argument I've heard is basically "Because I want it. It is more convenient for me to not pay you."
Just because Sp****y's business model is not illegal yet, that doesn't make it right.
Pay the people who make what you love. It's very simple.
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It’s weird, everything I read about Bernie makes me love him more. And I am about as hopeless about the system as one can be. It’s a strange feeling.
Please world let’s get more radical (toward love and generosity).
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Picture 1: a book for kids
Picture 2: on the back cover, rogue mercenary bounty hunter wanted in 12 states, only known photograph, arsonist
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ADVERTISEMENT:
Now please order a 2xLP of the new Microphones album that comes out Aug. 7th, 2020.
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Here's when I got the Andy Kaufman biography for christmas in 2001:
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Just discovered on the inside of her studio closet door. G+P.
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Deep admiration for those bravely struggling everywhere against the assholes who breathe fear and violence. Racism is a deep and real swamp and we must work our way out together. Fuck the police! Black lives matter! Surrender to mutual love and respect.
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still rummaging through the archives, found some originals
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There should be a list on wikipedia called "people born in 1978 on the west coast who think the Grateful Dead is the worst sounding band" and I should be on it.
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One of these days, eventually, people will stop saying how extremely they cry when I’m doing my stuff.
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I can't remember if I officially cancelled the Mount Eerie tour in October. It would be so weird if I were still trying to go on it. No, it's off. Please everyone stay in your crawlspace and hold your breath until we can all mosh again.
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In October 2002 in a letter home while on tour alone in Denmark I drew a picture of everything in my backpack.
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Sometimes people are like "it must have been crazy when the Glow pt. 2 got popular" and I say "not really". For example, here's a poster from then for a show that cost $1.50, a cool price.
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Picture of child and me and Kyle at theme park (branding redacted)
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Today is the release day of “Lost Wisdom pt. 2”. I’m happy to have it coming out.
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Lot's of attention today. Thanks everyone.
I particularly like this algorithmic caramel m&ms ad plopped in the middle of heavy writing about the impossible questions of mortality that have plagued me since childhood.
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ADVERTISEMENT:
"Lost Wisdom pt. 2" by Mount Eerie with Julie Doiron will come out Nov. 8th, 2019, but you can order it now:
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I know I'm just blasting the feeding tube here with advertisements about myself today. It's uncomfortable, but that's what this site is for. Tomorrow morning my album comes out so the time for yelling "look at me" is now. I will recede again soon.
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Thanks for the listening and noticing. I tried my best. I’m glad my song was liked.
Our Album Of The Week is 'Microphones In 2020,' a staggering 44-minute composition from Phil Elverum that functions as a poem, essay, memoir, folk song, and tape-deck symphony all at once
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I hung out with Joe Biden all night last night (while sleeping, dreaming). He said some weird stuff but mostly just listened and tried to get to know everyone who walked by. When he peed behind a tree I thought “cool guy”.
But anyway, you have to vote for him.
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Snow is falling on my pizza slice while I rush through midtown Manhattan to my therapy appointment. This life has weird twists.
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thank you
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It was really fun and to go on tour with Julie Doiron. Here we are manspreading after a couple weeks blasting a minivan 80+ mph through blizzards so we could harmonize in those cathedrals. Thanks everyone.
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...that is, if what you love is vital music and art made outside the perversions of corporate sponsorship and hyperventilating capitalist hustling.
If the people don't sponsor the poet with a home and food, the people quickly turn into ding dongs and the music gets really bad.
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It’s the year 2020. Find me driving windows down alone on a deep forest mountain road blasting The Cranberries.
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Today my parked car was crashed into by an old person for the 3rd time in Anacortes, a town of spaced out elderlies. I assume this will continue.
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PSA:
I'm not on instagram or anything else. I recently learned someone on i.g. was pretending to be me and messing with people. I created an account and tried to get them deleted, but instead they deleted me. Silly and dumb times. OK bye.
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My daughter thought the Santa painting on my wrapping paper needed cheeto dust lips.
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Uh...
so, the shipping of "Microphones in 2020" LPs will be like 2 weeks late. Sorry. Both pressing plant and jacket printer are running late. This world is bananas. Peace and love please.
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Good news everyone! My daughter just diarrhea’d her panties at a poutine restaurant in Montreal.
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ADVERTISEMENT:
These little elephant pins are available again:
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(personal tweet only to Max who wrote me a letter)
Dear Max,
thank you for the excellent letter.
I lost your return address, but I got it and I really appreciate it. You are insightful.
thank you,
Phil
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Bad news:
We are cancelling the Mount Eerie tour in April because of this global pandemic. We'll try to reschedule it for the fall. Please everyone stay sane and alone.
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The title "A Crow Looked At Me" is loosely inspired by Ralph Wiggum in this video:
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It wasn't on purpose that I dressed like this for my entire adult life.
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Tomorrow morning I’m trying a thing called a “you tube premier” where we watch my new song-movie together and distractedly chit chat in the sidebar. You are invited. 10am Pacific.
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If you’re into streaming my music but also recognize that this doesn’t support me financially, my store is here:
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Want to hear me go on and on about my album "Mount Eerie" from 2002-ish? I loved getting to do it.
MOUNT EERIE by the Microphones is one of the most ambitious and challenging albums in Phil Elverum's catalog. In our latest episode,
@PWElverum
goes deep on how the record came together.
Listen at
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It was really really nice to get to play a chunk of concerts in the Eurozone. Now we’re going home. Thank you!
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It’s a new December tradition after these S***ify annual things come out to make a tweet and then witness the firehose of animosity and confusion about the ethics of supporting artists financially.
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This is a picture of me when I was 8 with my Garbage Pail Kids and archaeopteryx shirt.
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haiku:
Pacific Northwest,
every garment announcing
“Patagonia”
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ADVERTISEMENT:
WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT THIS ITS LITERALLY IN 9 DAYS DID YALL FORGET
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It's bandcamp friday today
and also "the Glow pt. 2" by the Microphones is finally back in stock and you can order it from me directly.
Here's a video of back when it was new 22 years ago this exact day.
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Does anyone want an email newsletter from me?
If so, which service is a good one?
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