Post by scotchpenicillin on Mar 25, 2011 13:39:22 GMT -5
While looking for some new stuff on the offical elverum website I've find what it looks like a top list for the year 2003 :
www.pwelverumandsun.com/2003/
here it is before it's gone :
www.pwelverumandsun.com/2003/
here it is before it's gone :
-Genevieve
-beginning the year alone in the arctic dark to faint fireworks from a distant village, alone and dark, clockless
-figuring out that snow is made of water and melting it to wash and drink, and tasks like that
-aurora
-the reindeer herder’s dog
-almost getting lost in dark real blizzards
-finding my way out
-the love in the people of Denmark
-the humility in the people of Japan
-the insanity in the people of the United States
-the eyes of the people of Canada
-Jason Anderson, “New England”
-the experience of recording Jason Anderson “New England” with Warren, Shredder, Adam, McCloud, all the people,
-My best friend Jason Wall playing music during study breaks
-ADRIAN ORANGE! yes.
-Kelp!
-the Department of Safety keeping on
-the Pizza thing and how it’s finally over almost
-Yes, Adam playing guitar solos over “the Crunge” and Bjork while moonwalking in Bellingham
-Adam and his cell phone
-Adam and saying “min” at the end of things
-Adrian and his cell phone and bacon
-getting to walk around in NY with nothing to do and realizing that I can love it
-Kyle disappearing into the waves
-the red eskimo coat
-the white sheepsmins coat
-cottage
-mornings
-playing steel drum and singing with a band
-the winter finally getting here
-Bjork and Bonny Billy 1st date
-”Let’s get out of the romance”
-”Magnolia Electric Company” CD
-Jason Anderson, Jason Wall, Izak Elvrum, and me taking a rowboat and canoe to Saddlebag Island and spending the night unprepared and loving it, Huck Finn style with painted toenails and scraped up legs, cold in the rain under a holey tarp and having Wall tell me my silvery toenails reminded him of Jonny Depp in Pirates of the Carrirlbelegben, seeing porpoises on the row home
-Steve Shroeder and our rare times together
-Dub Narcotic surviving that brutal fucking wreck
-kissing boobs
-candlelight Monopoly in cabin in deep woods
-Bram Stoker’s Dracula, especially opening “background” scene
-my parents’ hospitality
-suffering bad for a long time about heart/life tangles and becoming free and rich in 2003
-December trip to Montana with Genevieve and Calvin
-there is just way too much to be able to be satisfied. As I said, this year is the most important year ever for me
-summer 2003 sports: basketball, horseshoes, swimming, tennis, soccer, boogie jumping, skateboarding to the basketball
-early 2003 sports: spear throwing, log throwing, walking, ice climbing
-being at the prime of my life
-Adrian’s music and the feeling it gives me
-being around Adrian at all
-eating salmon fish
-coffee
-”Uncle Kyle’s” weird stuff on the K records internet shows page where he talks about his top 10 of the moment and other hilarious stuff
-Mirah “C’mon Miracle”
-’79 blue Toyota pickup
-aging
-pigtails to 2 braids to ceremonial haircut to finally using good shampoo and haircare products
-talking weird
-saying dumb jokes
-2002 tour with Little Wings
-2002 March show in Anacortes of Bonny Billy Band
-2002 tour with the Jasons
-seafood
-Jeremy repeatedly shooting a corpse in Grand Theft Auto over and over and over on my parents’ computer like 20 times
-Jeremy’s motherfucking printing press
-Kirsten’s art show
-Jeremy/Clarity’s art show
-Vancouver BC, Victoria Drive house
-Alex’s weird endless penis jokes, including the “wooden block” one that just happened
-the Sugar Refinery and their sad end
-Elf
-Zion
-eating at a Ruby Tuesday’s in southern Utah with 2 Japanese guests and having the uncomfortable waiter guy act like the people at the restaurant in Office Space, seriously saying stuff like “Can I start you off with some extreme pizza slammers?” and having my Japanese guests be so confused about what he was even saying.
-X Games 2003 winter and summer
-trying to figure out how to play “Go”
-Dirty Dave’s Gay 90s Pizza Spaghetti Parlor
-Ciel Blau and her dancing
-Karl Blau and his endless blossoming
-playing Aerobie with Skron down by Rosario that one time
-Blaus on 4th of July, as usual
-Trafton
-rousing “Jeneeevienneoo”
-driving everywhere
-rollerblades
-watching kids iceskating in Oslo
-flip flops and socks in the winter
-watching kindergarteners in a museum in Oslo
-Andreas and his obsession with wrestling
-speaking French
-getting sincerely into tabloid TV guide photos for hours
-Will Oldham rolling around in blankets farting before going on stage, to “get in the mood”
-yellow Peter Pan style hat from Pt. Alberni
-”Shrimpy and Paul” by Marc Bell
-collecting mugs
-Japanese Thanksgiving
-wind chill
-Calvin handing the towtruck guy his new album through the broken window of the van in response to the question “What kind of music you guys play?”
-pizza
-gummi pizza
-postcards
-love postcards
-having a PO box of my own
-not having a cell phone
-the doll in my pocket
-the Coconutcracker Suite
-relistening to Julie Doiron and the Wooden Stars
-Jason Anderson, “New England” some more
-gourmet oatmeal
-gourmet ketchup
-the dream of the years first 3 or 4 months
-sauna
-eggnog lattes
-gum
-spelling “donut” with a k before the n-o-t.
-playing world music hand drums
-getting into Brigitte Fontaine
-the US postal service
-that time 750 people stayed here this summer
-Anna Oxygen and her family’s cabin in Oregon and also getting to walk down the street with her in NYC
-double peace signs
-death metal hoodie
-rubber boots
-not getting to go to Driggs with those guys that one time
-seeing my friends while on tour, also on tour, everywhere
-Lollapalooza 2003 at Caffe Gelato Vero in San Diego with the huge jam band with horns
-Khaela’s laryngitis period
-Mirah
-Amber getting a Kindergarten class at Lincoln, the good school
-Anacortes
-Anacortes
-Goodtime John from Ireland visiting and when we went out on a rowboat at night in Gig Harbor, and joking with friends
-when Adam and Dave came up to the cottage for gourmet oatmeal and music and morning
-watching the mole decay
-figuring out how to route water down the hill
-building a deck and roof with the Jasons
-climbing a tree to investigate a reported forest fire
-sharpening my tools on my dad’s grinder
-the guy at the ferry from Denmark to England looking at me with my acoustic guitar case and yelling “Jimi Hendrix! Haahahaha!”
-walking around in Leeds with the guitar case and gesturing “what’s up?” to every other passing student with a guitar case and making them uncomfortable
-the year’s best graffiti: “Lice is macho”
-Music
-learning some real piano playing
-not being such a dick anymore
-watching TV
-trying to explain Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to Japanese people
-pizza
-chili dogs
-king size Reese’s cups 4 pack
-Uhaul
-the sound Calvin makes when he drinks tea
-eating terrible mexican food in San Diego
-having Brian Malloy take me to the good mexican food place the next day and eating it on the beach and calling my family on his cell phone from the beach to tell my dad about the warm waves
-Finnegan’s restaurant in Missoula, Montana, and their “the” Hot Apple Dumpling and “Awesome Mud Pie!!” sign where they mis spelled “flakey” and wrote “flsky”... super funny.
-I love this thread listing thing very much
-free association
-being in the dark on some couches at Halloween, for no reason… as a weak excuse for a costume
-bursting into tears
-how surreal it was that people like Candice or Franz for example were at Trafton this summer
-Genevieve at What the Heck fest, as a person, especially at the Watery Graves lie down on the floor show
-all the death that happened this year
-Bronwyn and Brian getting married
-Curtis getting married to someone I don’t know who
-the weird baseball park clubhouse on Hornby Island, BC and the 13 year old girl who was out of control
-having one painted toenail
-Bret
-getting lost in the Anacortes Community Forest Lands with Jason Wall trying to find a cross-island route in the rain and having to call my sister from Lake Erie Grocery to ask her to come pick us up
-Deception Cafe and the fly in the chutney
-Ice cream sandwiches, all kinds
-ink on hands
-being licked
-werewolves
-Kyle Field, video artist
-finally getting to meet Luce
-the Mooooooooooooooooooooooooooools
-General Tso’s Chicken
-the Weeds, Emily Zeitlyn
-how nice Flint is
-pine needles/rosemary
-having a girl in the afternoon back of my truck sleeping next to horses
-Courtenay, BC and the spirit of the kids from there
-the ferry from Sidney to Tsawassen and how it goes through a narrow passage between 2 islands
-Genevieve’s silk screening bravery
-her biker pot smoking dad
-Adam and others adopting the “all white” thing with me
-Adam’s white hooded thing
-Adam’s little Adam
-pizza
-the awesome sourdough pancakes I ate at Zachary’s in Santa Cruz
-Adrian’s Megan
-white out pens
-(dirty secrets)
-soup
-squash and the time I had Alex Adrian and Kirsten over for soup at the hut and Genedialladfav called right as we were sitting down to eat on Adrian’s cell phone
-oatmeal
-”the Collected Songs of Cold Mountain” translated and compiled by Red Pine, published by Copper Canyon Press of Pt. Townsend, WA
-Tintin au Tibet
-reading “Spring Snow” by Yukio Mishima and tearing out each page as I finished it and littering it wherever, everywhere from NY to WA to Portugal
-pretending to be a normal person in the mirror in the bathroom with my hair slicked back pretending to be in a hotel lobby
-buying groceries
-”pizza”
-getting sweaty at Yarn Lazer What the Heck 2003
-this is my top 2003 of 2003, serious
-Bjork, “Vespertine”
-the Getty Address performed with the laptop choir
-being honest
-Bobby Birdman and how attractive he was at What the Dude Time, especially playing bass in Little Wings
-dancing at Little Wings
-hairy legs on us all
-seeing Jake Longstreth briefly by surprise in SF because I forgot he moved there
-the 24 hour donut places everywhere
-”What About Bob?”
-Jake writing down scenes from Ghostbusters at my parents’ breakfast table during the Fort Elvrum thing
-June 15th, 2003
-not living in Olympia anymore
-cashew pizza
-fire escapes
-playing with Explosions in the Sky in a weird theater by accident
-walking down the freeway until I couldn’t take it anymore and then sitting on the rocks looking out to sea and trying to walk back
-skim boarders
-my grandparents and how excited they are to see me always
-Ritchey’s emails
-that one weird place in Tokyo where all the kids who like Marilyn Manson hang out and act “scary”
-new email address
-writing to the author of “the Last American Man”, a biography of some guy I read, and getting long wonderful responses
-drawing comics of myself and my life as a way to remember moments
-saying “Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice!” while sawing wood in Norway and then looking around to see if anything happened, sincerely
-stealing skis from underneath the neighbors’ cabin and duck taping them to my feet
-the moose
-walking to shows instead of driving
-War and Peace
-Uncle Harry’s hair oil
-Little Wings Field Tryppp
-Lee Baggett set at SLO open mic and his new amp
-Bigfoot Celebration 2003
-the coffee place near Candice’s house, the Downbeat or something
-typing on this forever
-the thunderstorm in Ames, Iowa
-Canada. 2003 is the year of Canada.
-Bad Santa previews
-wearing proper clothing for the weather
-”Punch Drunk Love”
-buying the CD soundtrack of Bram Stoker’s Dracula at a Best Buy in Hollywood and driving around blasting it out of the rental car with the windows down, low in the seat, craning neck at people on the sidewalk. The music is really weird for this kind of cruising… very dramatic and big. A fond 2003 memory
-beginning the year alone in the arctic dark to faint fireworks from a distant village, alone and dark, clockless
-figuring out that snow is made of water and melting it to wash and drink, and tasks like that
-aurora
-the reindeer herder’s dog
-almost getting lost in dark real blizzards
-finding my way out
-the love in the people of Denmark
-the humility in the people of Japan
-the insanity in the people of the United States
-the eyes of the people of Canada
-Jason Anderson, “New England”
-the experience of recording Jason Anderson “New England” with Warren, Shredder, Adam, McCloud, all the people,
-My best friend Jason Wall playing music during study breaks
-ADRIAN ORANGE! yes.
-Kelp!
-the Department of Safety keeping on
-the Pizza thing and how it’s finally over almost
-Yes, Adam playing guitar solos over “the Crunge” and Bjork while moonwalking in Bellingham
-Adam and his cell phone
-Adam and saying “min” at the end of things
-Adrian and his cell phone and bacon
-getting to walk around in NY with nothing to do and realizing that I can love it
-Kyle disappearing into the waves
-the red eskimo coat
-the white sheepsmins coat
-cottage
-mornings
-playing steel drum and singing with a band
-the winter finally getting here
-Bjork and Bonny Billy 1st date
-”Let’s get out of the romance”
-”Magnolia Electric Company” CD
-Jason Anderson, Jason Wall, Izak Elvrum, and me taking a rowboat and canoe to Saddlebag Island and spending the night unprepared and loving it, Huck Finn style with painted toenails and scraped up legs, cold in the rain under a holey tarp and having Wall tell me my silvery toenails reminded him of Jonny Depp in Pirates of the Carrirlbelegben, seeing porpoises on the row home
-Steve Shroeder and our rare times together
-Dub Narcotic surviving that brutal fucking wreck
-kissing boobs
-candlelight Monopoly in cabin in deep woods
-Bram Stoker’s Dracula, especially opening “background” scene
-my parents’ hospitality
-suffering bad for a long time about heart/life tangles and becoming free and rich in 2003
-December trip to Montana with Genevieve and Calvin
-there is just way too much to be able to be satisfied. As I said, this year is the most important year ever for me
-summer 2003 sports: basketball, horseshoes, swimming, tennis, soccer, boogie jumping, skateboarding to the basketball
-early 2003 sports: spear throwing, log throwing, walking, ice climbing
-being at the prime of my life
-Adrian’s music and the feeling it gives me
-being around Adrian at all
-eating salmon fish
-coffee
-”Uncle Kyle’s” weird stuff on the K records internet shows page where he talks about his top 10 of the moment and other hilarious stuff
-Mirah “C’mon Miracle”
-’79 blue Toyota pickup
-aging
-pigtails to 2 braids to ceremonial haircut to finally using good shampoo and haircare products
-talking weird
-saying dumb jokes
-2002 tour with Little Wings
-2002 March show in Anacortes of Bonny Billy Band
-2002 tour with the Jasons
-seafood
-Jeremy repeatedly shooting a corpse in Grand Theft Auto over and over and over on my parents’ computer like 20 times
-Jeremy’s motherfucking printing press
-Kirsten’s art show
-Jeremy/Clarity’s art show
-Vancouver BC, Victoria Drive house
-Alex’s weird endless penis jokes, including the “wooden block” one that just happened
-the Sugar Refinery and their sad end
-Elf
-Zion
-eating at a Ruby Tuesday’s in southern Utah with 2 Japanese guests and having the uncomfortable waiter guy act like the people at the restaurant in Office Space, seriously saying stuff like “Can I start you off with some extreme pizza slammers?” and having my Japanese guests be so confused about what he was even saying.
-X Games 2003 winter and summer
-trying to figure out how to play “Go”
-Dirty Dave’s Gay 90s Pizza Spaghetti Parlor
-Ciel Blau and her dancing
-Karl Blau and his endless blossoming
-playing Aerobie with Skron down by Rosario that one time
-Blaus on 4th of July, as usual
-Trafton
-rousing “Jeneeevienneoo”
-driving everywhere
-rollerblades
-watching kids iceskating in Oslo
-flip flops and socks in the winter
-watching kindergarteners in a museum in Oslo
-Andreas and his obsession with wrestling
-speaking French
-getting sincerely into tabloid TV guide photos for hours
-Will Oldham rolling around in blankets farting before going on stage, to “get in the mood”
-yellow Peter Pan style hat from Pt. Alberni
-”Shrimpy and Paul” by Marc Bell
-collecting mugs
-Japanese Thanksgiving
-wind chill
-Calvin handing the towtruck guy his new album through the broken window of the van in response to the question “What kind of music you guys play?”
-pizza
-gummi pizza
-postcards
-love postcards
-having a PO box of my own
-not having a cell phone
-the doll in my pocket
-the Coconutcracker Suite
-relistening to Julie Doiron and the Wooden Stars
-Jason Anderson, “New England” some more
-gourmet oatmeal
-gourmet ketchup
-the dream of the years first 3 or 4 months
-sauna
-eggnog lattes
-gum
-spelling “donut” with a k before the n-o-t.
-playing world music hand drums
-getting into Brigitte Fontaine
-the US postal service
-that time 750 people stayed here this summer
-Anna Oxygen and her family’s cabin in Oregon and also getting to walk down the street with her in NYC
-double peace signs
-death metal hoodie
-rubber boots
-not getting to go to Driggs with those guys that one time
-seeing my friends while on tour, also on tour, everywhere
-Lollapalooza 2003 at Caffe Gelato Vero in San Diego with the huge jam band with horns
-Khaela’s laryngitis period
-Mirah
-Amber getting a Kindergarten class at Lincoln, the good school
-Anacortes
-Anacortes
-Goodtime John from Ireland visiting and when we went out on a rowboat at night in Gig Harbor, and joking with friends
-when Adam and Dave came up to the cottage for gourmet oatmeal and music and morning
-watching the mole decay
-figuring out how to route water down the hill
-building a deck and roof with the Jasons
-climbing a tree to investigate a reported forest fire
-sharpening my tools on my dad’s grinder
-the guy at the ferry from Denmark to England looking at me with my acoustic guitar case and yelling “Jimi Hendrix! Haahahaha!”
-walking around in Leeds with the guitar case and gesturing “what’s up?” to every other passing student with a guitar case and making them uncomfortable
-the year’s best graffiti: “Lice is macho”
-Music
-learning some real piano playing
-not being such a dick anymore
-watching TV
-trying to explain Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to Japanese people
-pizza
-chili dogs
-king size Reese’s cups 4 pack
-Uhaul
-the sound Calvin makes when he drinks tea
-eating terrible mexican food in San Diego
-having Brian Malloy take me to the good mexican food place the next day and eating it on the beach and calling my family on his cell phone from the beach to tell my dad about the warm waves
-Finnegan’s restaurant in Missoula, Montana, and their “the” Hot Apple Dumpling and “Awesome Mud Pie!!” sign where they mis spelled “flakey” and wrote “flsky”... super funny.
-I love this thread listing thing very much
-free association
-being in the dark on some couches at Halloween, for no reason… as a weak excuse for a costume
-bursting into tears
-how surreal it was that people like Candice or Franz for example were at Trafton this summer
-Genevieve at What the Heck fest, as a person, especially at the Watery Graves lie down on the floor show
-all the death that happened this year
-Bronwyn and Brian getting married
-Curtis getting married to someone I don’t know who
-the weird baseball park clubhouse on Hornby Island, BC and the 13 year old girl who was out of control
-having one painted toenail
-Bret
-getting lost in the Anacortes Community Forest Lands with Jason Wall trying to find a cross-island route in the rain and having to call my sister from Lake Erie Grocery to ask her to come pick us up
-Deception Cafe and the fly in the chutney
-Ice cream sandwiches, all kinds
-ink on hands
-being licked
-werewolves
-Kyle Field, video artist
-finally getting to meet Luce
-the Mooooooooooooooooooooooooooools
-General Tso’s Chicken
-the Weeds, Emily Zeitlyn
-how nice Flint is
-pine needles/rosemary
-having a girl in the afternoon back of my truck sleeping next to horses
-Courtenay, BC and the spirit of the kids from there
-the ferry from Sidney to Tsawassen and how it goes through a narrow passage between 2 islands
-Genevieve’s silk screening bravery
-her biker pot smoking dad
-Adam and others adopting the “all white” thing with me
-Adam’s white hooded thing
-Adam’s little Adam
-pizza
-the awesome sourdough pancakes I ate at Zachary’s in Santa Cruz
-Adrian’s Megan
-white out pens
-(dirty secrets)
-soup
-squash and the time I had Alex Adrian and Kirsten over for soup at the hut and Genedialladfav called right as we were sitting down to eat on Adrian’s cell phone
-oatmeal
-”the Collected Songs of Cold Mountain” translated and compiled by Red Pine, published by Copper Canyon Press of Pt. Townsend, WA
-Tintin au Tibet
-reading “Spring Snow” by Yukio Mishima and tearing out each page as I finished it and littering it wherever, everywhere from NY to WA to Portugal
-pretending to be a normal person in the mirror in the bathroom with my hair slicked back pretending to be in a hotel lobby
-buying groceries
-”pizza”
-getting sweaty at Yarn Lazer What the Heck 2003
-this is my top 2003 of 2003, serious
-Bjork, “Vespertine”
-the Getty Address performed with the laptop choir
-being honest
-Bobby Birdman and how attractive he was at What the Dude Time, especially playing bass in Little Wings
-dancing at Little Wings
-hairy legs on us all
-seeing Jake Longstreth briefly by surprise in SF because I forgot he moved there
-the 24 hour donut places everywhere
-”What About Bob?”
-Jake writing down scenes from Ghostbusters at my parents’ breakfast table during the Fort Elvrum thing
-June 15th, 2003
-not living in Olympia anymore
-cashew pizza
-fire escapes
-playing with Explosions in the Sky in a weird theater by accident
-walking down the freeway until I couldn’t take it anymore and then sitting on the rocks looking out to sea and trying to walk back
-skim boarders
-my grandparents and how excited they are to see me always
-Ritchey’s emails
-that one weird place in Tokyo where all the kids who like Marilyn Manson hang out and act “scary”
-new email address
-writing to the author of “the Last American Man”, a biography of some guy I read, and getting long wonderful responses
-drawing comics of myself and my life as a way to remember moments
-saying “Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice!” while sawing wood in Norway and then looking around to see if anything happened, sincerely
-stealing skis from underneath the neighbors’ cabin and duck taping them to my feet
-the moose
-walking to shows instead of driving
-War and Peace
-Uncle Harry’s hair oil
-Little Wings Field Tryppp
-Lee Baggett set at SLO open mic and his new amp
-Bigfoot Celebration 2003
-the coffee place near Candice’s house, the Downbeat or something
-typing on this forever
-the thunderstorm in Ames, Iowa
-Canada. 2003 is the year of Canada.
-Bad Santa previews
-wearing proper clothing for the weather
-”Punch Drunk Love”
-buying the CD soundtrack of Bram Stoker’s Dracula at a Best Buy in Hollywood and driving around blasting it out of the rental car with the windows down, low in the seat, craning neck at people on the sidewalk. The music is really weird for this kind of cruising… very dramatic and big. A fond 2003 memory
