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yes, CHAINSAWED...I woke up to the sound of a chainsaw in my hallway, outside my "office"; phil traich-off "borrowed" the cross, added barbed wire to it, and threw meat at it for bad performance art (on video---beta). He returned it with his proffes…
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- What Instrument(s) Do You Play
- Bass, Drums, Voice
- About Me
- born in bloomington in 66, lived there until 83... never had a real band in bton (sort of half-tried the summer of 83 before i left) but for a few years (81-83) hung out with a lot of people who had been, were or would be in bands... went to pretty much every show that happened in bton during those years that wasn't at a bar, and snuck into some of the ones at 2nd story, and even co-hosted a couple of one-off radio shows on wqax (the offensive show, and women in punk) before getting kicked out of the station...
as for my relationship to the MFT site, i'm not spending too much time on it but i really like what barge said: "In the end it is what we all went through and it's actually cool to sort it all out instead of ignoring it." so if you have some past shit with me you want to work through, bring it on (just not in a public comment, please) because i'm all about sorting it out. and if you are among the people on this site who just want to keep your nostalgia shallow and fun, and blissfully ignore the real shit that went on, like date rape and depression and serious substance abuse, then i'm not really interested. sorry, does that sound harsh?
- What bands are you or have you been in?
- 85-86: ten tall men (sf bay area)
87: yeastie girlz (sf bay area- myspace.com/yeastiegirlzofficial)
92: growing up skipper (nyc)
96-97: profits of misery (nyc-myspace.com/profitsofmisery)
2006-present: joda (nyc-myspace.com/nojodemos)
also presently playing bass in huasipungo (nyc-huasipungo.com)
- What city are you from?
- bloomington, indiana!
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- At 2:14am on April 27, 2009,
Michael Ost said…
- Hi Jane. I've got a couple of pix with you Phil Tammy and me. How shall I send them? Love ... mo
- At 11:57pm on August 21, 2008,
Craig Dalrymple said… - Hey, Jane! Thanks for the friends add! Here's a 1982 picture of you at the WQAX Meadow Dance during the Moto-X set and a 1983 photo of you talking to Eric (White) Spears in my family's kitchen after Ross Danielson gave you a spontaneous haircut. The other pictures are of Moto-X and Yellow Rain playing in my basement and my band Lurking Fear in '86 and '87 in Columbia, Missouri.
Hard to believe, but for the first time in 23 years, I'm living in B-town again and I'm really glad to be back.
Cheers, Craig
P.S.: You can check out Lurking Fear songs, lyrics, photos, art, and more at our myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/lurkingfears
- At 6:27am on August 21, 2008,
Craig Dalrymple said…
- Hi, Jane! How's it going? Great to find you on this site!
This week I moved back to Bloomington! After 17 years in San Francisco, 4 years in Colorado, and 5 years in Columbia, Missouri, where I was a dj, published a 'zine called Scream magazine, and sang lead vocal for horror punk rock band Lurking Fear. I got a found a job at the IU, moved to Bloomington from Colorado Springs this Sunday, and began my new job on Monbday.
I'm celebrating my return to Bloomington this Friday by going to see John Barge's latest band, The Walking Ruins, at Uncle Fester's on Kirkwood.
I have many fond memories of my WQAX days in Bloomington from 1983-85 and have a bunch of party pictures that I'd be happy to send you of Moto-X and Yellow Rain playing in my basement as well as Moto-X at the WQAX Meadow Dance in Dunn Meadow that you did such a great job of organizing in the summer of '82. I sent all of my Moto-X photos to Frankie Camaro so that he can use them to illustrate a new CD he is putting together of unreleased Moto-X songs called Congo Road.
I hope you are well and wish you all the best.
Take Care,
Craig
- At 2:55pm on July 28, 2008,
Simon Trolley said… - I got yer Yeastie Girlz 7" years ago, and used to play "You Suck" through the PA system all the time at our squat gigs at the Dole House, in Peckham South London. Was forever getting asked, "What band it this?" whilst it spun. Had no idea a B-Town girl like yerself was in 'em. Awesome record, awesome band ! I saw the band "Consolidated" play a gig in London at the Mean Fiddler, and they covered one of your songs - their version REALLY sucked.
- At 10:13am on July 23, 2008,
2$ said… - Jane: Al Jarvis here... How are you? I lived 3 blocks away near Marie Silberstien- and you lived near Kris Brauner- and hunter House.. Andy Mayer (chelsea) was our paper boy... weird...
- At 10:04pm on July 21, 2008,
Ian Brewer said… - Hi Jane,
Sorry for my belated response. Hope all is well with you. I'll always remember first meeting you at a party, drawing Anarchy glyphs on your knee with a marker and thinking to myself: "This girl is smarter than your average, she has potential." I haven't ever been disappointed.
- At 6:32pm on July 10, 2008,
Glenn Hicks said… - Jane,
OMG!! Thanks so much, that picture completely took me by surprise. Sure I'd love to see some of the other ones. How are you? How's life? How's Karen doing?
- At 2:23pm on July 4, 2008,
John Terrill said… - Hi Jane, it is nice to hear from you. You are the second person to ask about the "cross", Mike Wybark being the first, so here goes...
One afternoon the Dancing Cigarettes, Gordon, Michael, Tim, Emily and myself (Jaclyn may have been there too) were walking back to town from the IU library. I'm not really sure why we were all congregated into a group but that is neither here nor there. As we walked past the loading dock out behind the Radio and TV building I spied the cross leaning up against one of the dumpsters for trash collection. When I went over to take a closer look I discovered that it was actually hollow on the inside and quite light to carry. It also had a triangular cheat seat that flipped down so you could climb up onto it and reenact your own crucifixion. In fact I'm sure that is what it was designed for, an Easter Holiday Passion Play. So anyway, it was just too cool to resist. We took turns dragging it down the street over our shoulders while the others taunted and followed behind. We played this scenario out all the way through campus and down Kirkwood and as we approached the courthouse square we noticed that there was a demonstration going on. It was the Young Socialists or something like that demonstrating against the Contras. So we drug the cross into the group of people and heaved it up against the war statue on the southeast corner. Then we, and some of the demonstrators, took turns climbing up on the cheat seat and aping crucifixion. It was quite an unholy scene and everyone was having a lot of fun yelling obscenities at the would-be Christs. Maybe we were having a little too much fun because a short time later one of the organizers politely asked us to leave. It was obviously distracting everybody from the real issues. So we carried the cross over to the Dancing Cigarettes practice space, which was located on the south side of the square. The room had a window to a lower roof so we stuck the cross out there for safekeeping. Subsequently, the cross appeared in Gordon’s Subgenius movie, “Don of the Dead,” (where he is lounging on it smoking cigarettes while "The Old Rugged Cross" plays in the background) and I have heard that later it played a roll in the Rooftop Writers Conference, but I was out of town during that time. The last I saw of the cross was when I returned to town from New York in 1986. At that time everyone had been kicked out of the Southside Square apartments and construction on the new shopping mall had begun. However, The Tovy's Shoes building down at the east end was scheduled last for demolition so I took up a squatter’s residence there for about two months. I discovered the cross, intact out on the back roof of that building. I had every intention of carrying it off to a safer location but one morning I awoke to the sound of chainsaw. Now, I had to be really careful not to let any of the workers see that I was living the front two apartments. I had even rigged the door to look like it was padlocked from the outside. So after the sawing stopped I ventured out to find what the commotion had been all about. There I saw the cross, strewn out in small pieces all over the rooftop. It had been chain-sawed into oblivion.
That is my story of the cross.
One last thing I want to mention. At one point early on local artist David Ebbinhouse and I were planning an art show called The Museum of Hate. It was going to take place in Ricky's Cantina’s basement. Now, I don't know how many of you ever saw that basement but it was scary as hell and reminded me of being inside a concentration camp gas chamber. David had the idea of a bed of hot coals with red-hot swastika branding irons and there was also an old creepy life size metal fetish dummy that had been found out in the woods and was scarred from usage for some kind of lynching practice. A few other artists had equally disturbing installations planned but I can't remember all of the details. My idea was to have the cross set up with a Polaroid camera. A few props would be available like a Roman helmet and spear, loin cloth, crown of thorns, robes, veils, etc. and the idea was that anybody could get up on the cross and have their picture taken being crucified. Their friends could then play out the various other rolls, Centurion spearing Christ's side, wailing apostles, etc. I was also planning on having a movie camera set up to take a few frames of each crucifixion. The people taking part would then get the Polaroid shot and I would be left with a stop action movie that I intuitively pre-titled "Writhing Christ." Unfortunately Ricky's was closed before we could get the art show off the ground and the concept died before it began. Looking back, I have to say that the cross was one of the best free toys I have ever found. Every warm-blooded atheist kid should have one.
- At 9:55am on July 3, 2008,
Jbarge said… - Hey Jane - nice one! I do believe that is a photo of the famous Johnny ESAD hat that I used to wear whenever a gig would happen. Thanks for posting!
- At 3:29pm on June 28, 2008,
David Alexander said… - Well hey. Knew you were out there...I was in NYC a couple years ago & didn't see you. You must have been out of town.
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