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my brother's apartment caught fire last weekend. :(
(PHOTOS AND STORY BY MY BROTHER JEFF, CHICAGO, IL).
My apartment burned up late Saturday night. Luckily I was out drinking while it went a blaze because my room was pretty much completely ravaged by flame and then subsequently destroyed by the firemen with axes and hoses. I lost a lot of stuff, but I was able to salvage my musical equipment and my photographs. Half of my clothes were destroyed along with all of my furniture and kitchen stuff. It has been a crazy few days, hence why I haven't posted anything since it happened. I'm back in Cleveland right now for a few days to unwind but I'll be back in Chicago starting Monday. I'll be moving into my new place, cleaning the smoke and water off my belongings and slowly starting to rebuild my life. I didn't have renters insurance (who does?) so when I get back to Chicago I'll be setting up some kind of benefit show/dance party to try and ease the financial pain that I'm going through right now. Another bummer about the fire was that about 200 copies of our 7" were under my bed during the fire. We were able to find most of them but they suffered severe water damage to the jackets which we had to discard but i would say that we were able to salvage about 95% of the vinyl (the most important part). So if you've already got your hands on one with the original cover art, hold on to it because the only others that exist are only available through the internet or physical distro and there aren't many of them. So that's all the info I have right now... The most important thing though is that I'm ok and having this happen really puts things into perspective so I just wanted to let everyone how much I look forward to seeing you again, alive and healthy, all that fucking matters...
Keep on keepin on...
Jeff T.
my brother's apartment caught fire last weekend. :(
(PHOTOS AND STORY BY MY BROTHER JEFF, CHICAGO, IL).
My apartment burned up late Saturday night. Luckily I was out drinking while it went a blaze because my room was pretty much completely ravaged by flame and then subsequently destroyed by the firemen with axes and hoses. I lost a lot of stuff, but I was able to salvage my musical equipment and my photographs. Half of my clothes were destroyed along with all of my furniture and kitchen stuff. It has been a crazy few days, hence why I haven't posted anything since it happened. I'm back in Cleveland right now for a few days to unwind but I'll be back in Chicago starting Monday. I'll be moving into my new place, cleaning the smoke and water off my belongings and slowly starting to rebuild my life. I didn't have renters insurance (who does?) so when I get back to Chicago I'll be setting up some kind of benefit show/dance party to try and ease the financial pain that I'm going through right now. Another bummer about the fire was that about 200 copies of our 7" were under my bed during the fire. We were able to find most of them but they suffered severe water damage to the jackets which we had to discard but i would say that we were able to salvage about 95% of the vinyl (the most important part). So if you've already got your hands on one with the original cover art, hold on to it because the only others that exist are only available through the internet or physical distro and there aren't many of them. So that's all the info I have right now... The most important thing though is that I'm ok and having this happen really puts things into perspective so I just wanted to let everyone how much I look forward to seeing you again, alive and healthy, all that fucking matters...
Keep on keepin on...
Jeff T.