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Some decades ago I interviewed Matt Johnson. Don't remember much about it, but as a gift the publicist sent me a cool autographed promo photo. I always meant to get it framed, but kept forgetting, and every time I remembered I meant to do it I for the life of me could not find it. On multiple occasions I more or less went through every single place in the house, every closet, every receptacle for accumulated clutter or stuff I'd collected (I found six old issues of Slash magazine!), every shelf, every storage bin, everything, everywhere, I just couldn't find it. I was so stumped I started to suspect I *did* bring it somewhere to be framed but then forgot to pick it up, but that's not like me.
I had resigned myself to never seeing it again for so long that I once again forgot it ever existed. But yesterday, putting away some plates ... I found it! After 20 years!! Like, hanging with some plates and a couple of candle holders in this dining room dresser thing we have. But why was it there? Matt Johnson, why were you hiding with some plates and a pizza serving platter and some seldom used candlesticks? What were you thinking, you jerk?
Anyway. Now I've found it, and it was like this latent psychic burden I'd just gotten used to carrying suddenly lifted. Have you ever wanted something so badly that it possessed your body and your soul, through the night and through the day?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 21:43 (four months ago) link
Yes, my mom told me years ago that when she was a young 'un she and a friend went to Sun Valley ski resort and were lounging in the outdoor pool when who should saunter by but Farley Granger, matinee idol of the day, whose PR person saw a good photo op and took a picture of him and his adoring "fans." I scoured the internet for years, looking for images from those old movie magazines (it wound up getting printed in one of them) to no avail. And then! When I was clearing out my parents attic to move them into their retirement community I opened a box and lo and behold, a perfectly preserved 8x10 glossy of the pic which I of course had framed forthwith, and post to social media every Mother's Day.
― henry s, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 23:53 (four months ago) link
three months pass...
"The album also marks the return of co-producer and engineer Warne Livesey, who previously worked on landmark THE THE albums Infected (1986) and Mind Bomb (1989)."
This is great news. In addition to being Johnson's two most brilliant collections of songs, those are two of my favourite *sounding* albums.
― Vast Halo, Friday, 17 May 2024 18:43 (three weeks ago) link
The dates 404’d from the home page this morning (but I got them from his email, and they’re playing six blocks from me, whee)
― bae (sic), Saturday, 18 May 2024 00:13 (three weeks ago) link