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Hope Inscribed on Handbills

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"Jemuel held a box of records in his arms. How many dreams did it contain? How many hours of hard work did it represent? … Who could put a price tag on something like that? Thankfully, Jemuel didn’t have to. He kicked open the back door and hefted it into the trash.” (from Cometbus’ ‘I Wish There Was Something I could Quit’) – I wrote hope while I was thinking about my proposed (and since abandoned) dissertation subject – zines. the sheer overwhelming quantity of these things is ridiculous. to me, at one time, and still to a certain extent, they represented what was so great about punk and the DIY scene. each person could be their own publisher, and the zine could serve as a form for their free expression and an experimentation with their identity and their ideas about their community, and that would interact with community itself. but then the reality, when you compare it to the countless pamphlets of religious fanatics in the late 19th century, for instance, is that this form has far too many obstacles on the road to that ideal. at its lowest, it is an idiosyncratic and disposable missive from some lonely being that none of us have the time or the interest to engage with. when you start to scale the idea of DIY up, when you think of it as the ethic and principal for organizing, for instance, just a city, and a small one at that, the reality is that not everyone can be a producer, not everyone can embrace this form of production and activity, because the resulting glut of expression would dilute and ultimately neuter the significance of the collective result. ultimately, each person would have to gain value from the act of production and *only* that act, because only so many would receive the positive feedback and enthusiasm of the community, and I’m just not sure that that feedback isn’t integral to the process. shouting in an empty cave is only entertaining for so long, just as shouting in a crowded cave in which every one else shouts quickly turns into a painful cacophony. any way, I could ramble about the contradictions and ambiguities and catch 22s for ages, but that’s the basic idea.

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A Pamphlet pushed aside Some impersonal reply To the world’s indifferent slight

The only company that keeps me Is disappointed reality Lives spent in private meaning Time wasted keeping time

A voice afloat atop Currents of context Too much keeping track

Send out these feelings to the world My nerves against burning screens Signals crossed and prayers sent With fervent but futile intent

Chaos noise Confused by the echo Of a thousand souls Breathing in time The impossible duty to honor The solitary signs of each

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from Hope Inscribed On Handbills, released December 8, 2009
chris craig eric

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damezumari Tulsa, Oklahoma

the band - started march 2003, from tulsa,OK. and san diego, ca
in its last recorded form:
craig maricle - drums
chris skillern - bass, voice
stephen paul - guitar, voice
eric titterud - guitar, voice
the band has previously included:
doug johnston (drums) and daniel sutliff (bass), who both played on the first three demos,
blake foster (drums), and aaron thornhill (bass) and mike laughlin (drums) ... more

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