Wesley Eisold's Blog, page 6

IT JUST CAME OUT ALL WRONG. ANSWER TO YOUR DEPRESSION LETTER.

Hello from halfway through the first month of the new year. It’s 4:44 am and I’ve made coffee, lit my graphite candle, and am sitting down to write while waking up earlier than I have been. If you recall last year, the majority of my writing was done by 6am and I was waking in some strange, panicked, pre-dawn, directionless urgency that had its pros - I wrote to you - and the city was still at peace… I’m listening to Current 93 in headphones, Earth Covers Earth, an old friend of a record known b...

SHOPLIFTING IN A GHOST TOWN - PART 6 - LOS ANGELES

LOS ANGELES - FEBRUARY 2 2022

I’m going to share a draft of a book I’ve been working on called Shoplifting In A Ghost Town over a series of posts. It’s formatted as a journal from American Nightmare’s January 2022 “Background Music” 20th year anniversary tour which naturally coincided with peak Coronavirus Omicron breakout… but that format was just an ea…

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END OF A TEAR

It’s the last day of the year 2023. And how has it been for you? Here in Los Angeles it still feels like a semblance of how it used to be. There is an air of defeat and indifference hovering around almost everyone I see or talk to. If there is a narrative to subdue… it’s working. And even if there isn’t, the apathy must be trashed for the future. I see some of you trying… That takes so much strength. And so you know there is still beauty everywhere under the veil of the world we’ve created atop ...

TO THE NEXT WORLD

6:08 am and have been half-alive since some minute in the late fourth hour. Drinking hot black coffee… burning my new Mad et Len Graphite candle and listening to Ulver against the pitter patter of the Los Angeles rain… some newer alarm clock that springs me from the mattress in some opportune dash to take advantage of some nature’s decor. May it wash away the year. I don’t know where I’m sending this letter to. I’ve been thinking of a 2024 manifesto and then dancing around that in wonder if I be...

HAPPY NEW TEARS VOL. 6 - HOLIDAY EDITION

Hello Fine People,

Here is a holiday edition of the Happy New Tears playlist. Hope you’ll enjoy it as I do. I actually found making this harder to compile than I anticipated. Some obvious & some necessary & some aren’t holiday songs at all but feel like ‘em. I was also repulsed several times over by the shameless covers I regrettably discovered this morning. I must say, your traditional Christmas songs made me violent. All my love to everyone else…

Hermine - Happy Holidays

Psychic TV - White Nights...

CRIME & OCEAN BLUE - THE FLORIDA TO PA HOLIDAY EXPRESSWAY

Could tune in you know but every time I do it’s mostly more of the same. People dying and people lying. Life is so beautiful and short and I’m a desperate loner but somehow have found myself sleeping next to three warm loving bodies. So you can sympathize with me changing the channel here and there or just shutting it off all together. My emails read like: Attention - Every band has gotten back together or They’re back with another song about nothing! I’m trying to type with a puppy in my lap an...

DIVINE AND BRIGHT

4:40 am and sitting down to write by lamp & candle light with no direction or destination in mind. Listening to Heavenly in headphones over first sips of coffee. On the desk is a broken Peter Criss toy that belongs to Rainer, purchased from a second hand store in San Antonio in 2018, somewhere near the Paper Tiger, a favorite venue in a favorite city to visit. Next to the toy is my 2024 car registration sticker that I keep forgetting to put on my license plate. Text me at 10 and remind me please...

ONYX, DRONE METAL AND BLACK DIAMONDS

HELLO because there are a lot of new subscribers and also because it’s been a little bit. I’m officially off of tour now that the Darker Waves festival is over with, meaning that the only things I have to do is show up to a couple festivals next year and go to Australia in March. So for now I’m back in Hollywood and trying to act like an adjusted human instead of a manic highway pirate vagabond slinging my shit from town to town. This is both good and bad. Good because it’s healthy to not run yo...

AMERICAN HARDCORE AND OTHER POEMS

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedFrom my out of print Thieves Of Youth collection.AMERICAN HARDCORECount the bones broken hereDon’t tell me our youth was wastedBack then we destroyed everything that moved You can see it in my faceIt’s trueWhat we felt then we feel nowWhat we predicted then is happening nowMy heart is a buried capsule of incomparable fearIf this was a phaseThen why do we walk aimlessly at midnight Outside on the hills to fil...

HAPPY NEW TEARS VOL. 5

Don’t wake up and give in to the day. Each one gets a little shorter. Here are some more songs revolving from the fore and background. Your not-so-secret admirer.

Bedhead - Disorder

Wire - Take It (For Greedy)

Christiane F. - Wunderbar (House Edit)

SRSQ - Someday I Will Bask in the Sun

Drop Nineteens - Winona

The Cult - Spiritwalker

Scott Walker - Track Three

SPELLING - Under the Sun

Solid Space - Please Don’t Fade Away

Zanias - Tryptamine Palace

Second Layer - Courts or Wars

Anita Lane - Bella Ciao

Modern E...