everybody, let's twitch!
Liner notes and information about The Pleasures Pale and their 4-song Twitch EP, releasing in January 2022.
on instant karma cannot get me
For some human expressions there is no divine time, no appointment with the zeitgeist, no cozy alignment with destiny. Most acquiesce to...
suffering the sadist
Growing up introverted and of slight stature, I had my share of childhood encounters with malicious intimidation, perpetually on the...
on the edge of night
Collected Liner Notes from Darke County's Edge of Night LP & Associated Singles Darke County in 1990 as photographed in San Francisco by...
skinny arms ache to hold you
In the middle of 1991, shortly after Darke County re-ID'd into Myself a Living Torch, now-Harlan Bobo, Chris Green, Christopher Fisher...
the beautiful inside the obscene
1992 and 1993 were prolific years for Myself a Living Torch. In early ’92 we entered San Francisco’s Brilliant Studio as a curious...
the curious case of myself a living torch
Somewhere around 1990 or 1991 we got woke.* That is, sometime in the early 1990’s, guitarist Eric Schulz (aka Harlan T Bobo), bassist...
a train track rusted
“A smokestack grey is laughter in the rain / A train track rusted won't carry me away” Dayton's post-industrial ghost haunted my early...
for the love of a girl in black
Inherently, The Pleasures Pale was a band for misfits. Whether consciously or simply in the course of our individual habits and...
aren't you playing with me?
The cruelness and savagery of children can be astounding. Growing up in small-town Ohio, I was a firsthand witness. For a period of...
